#archiveteam 2014-08-27,Wed

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00:48 πŸ”— raylee given #aohell seems dead,
00:48 πŸ”— raylee i'll just say it here
00:48 πŸ”— raylee I just found startools aol / master aol / the debugging tools for AOL
00:48 πŸ”— raylee http://www.aciddr0p.net/aolunorgd/
00:48 πŸ”— raylee maol*.zip
00:55 πŸ”— raylee the master.tol / master.aol file goes into the tools dir.. then dbinvokes work PERFECTLY...
01:24 πŸ”— the_freak twitch project isnt gonna make it
01:24 πŸ”— the_freak someone needs to reset the pending tasks
01:32 πŸ”— chfoo aol is still online?
01:37 πŸ”— raylee yes. i found that out today, and then found the archiveteam wiki page about it
01:40 πŸ”— chfoo raylee: is it ok if i copy and paste what you just said into the wiki?
01:40 πŸ”— chfoo i mean the debugging tools
01:43 πŸ”— chfoo too late, i added it to the wiki already
01:47 πŸ”— raylee it's fine
01:47 πŸ”— raylee I would have added it myself
01:47 πŸ”— raylee but I cba to register
01:49 πŸ”— raylee note to self, mirror everything on aciddr0p.net, when time permits
01:51 πŸ”— raylee you know what would be really nice
01:51 πŸ”— raylee is if aol doesn't freeze up every 5 seconds when trying to get something that obviously causes an error
01:51 πŸ”— raylee and this happens on every version.
01:53 πŸ”— DFJustin I added aciddr0p to the archivebot queue
01:53 πŸ”— raylee great
01:54 πŸ”— DFJustin it would be really nice if someone could mirror the aol file areas, I was in #aohell for a while but I just don't have time to take on another archiving project
02:09 πŸ”— dashcloud raylee: is there one for beyond aol 4/5?
02:11 πŸ”— dashcloud raylee: I'd love to work on the aol project again, but I ran into two big problems- discovering all the content (which involves checking hundreds or thousands of links), and then actually downloading all the content- if you've got a solution or part of a solution to either one, please share
02:12 πŸ”— raylee dashcloud, yeah, there's ones up to aol 8
02:12 πŸ”— raylee however I don't think the aol 8 one works, so the highest working one is aol 7
02:14 πŸ”— dashcloud if you've read the wiki, you've seen that we've only done AOL through Wine- which works reasonably well for version 4 at least
02:15 πŸ”— raylee yeah, I have a bunch of versions from 2.5 installed on my windows XP vm
02:15 πŸ”— raylee people still use the fucking chatrooms there
02:16 πŸ”— raylee albeit only 20 or so
02:16 πŸ”— chfoo writing an aol client can't be that hard, can it?
02:17 πŸ”— raylee well, it does use a custom protocol.. parts have been figured out though it seems
02:18 πŸ”— dashcloud if you could write a custom form to grab everything from AOL, that's all you need- there's enough tools and basic documentation to build it client-side and then run it, and use AOL to do the work for you
02:19 πŸ”— raylee true
02:20 πŸ”— dashcloud unfortunately, you need to write in a scripting language you've never used before and will never use again, and there's really no one to ask when you have a question- only Google and staring at a debugger
02:21 πŸ”— dashcloud not insurmountable by any means
02:21 πŸ”— raylee ^
02:21 πŸ”— raylee at least we *have* the proper debuggers now
02:21 πŸ”— dashcloud I've got probably all the tools you need, and hopefully I've either got a copy or archived enough documentation to help someone out
02:22 πŸ”— dashcloud you'll use AOL's debugger- the Star tool lets you access that
02:22 πŸ”— raylee yeah
02:22 πŸ”— dashcloud you can break apart and step through the forms
02:22 πŸ”— dashcloud (which is what AOL is made of)
02:23 πŸ”— dashcloud wireshark can understand part of AOL packet captures
02:23 πŸ”— raylee yeah
02:23 πŸ”— raylee I know
02:24 πŸ”— chfoo so if i understand correctly, it's not a network protocol that needs a client, it's a querying protocol?
02:25 πŸ”— raylee heh
02:28 πŸ”— raylee I love that there are still people in AOL chat rooms
02:28 πŸ”— dashcloud I'm not sure- what would you need to know?
02:32 πŸ”— chfoo i guess i really don't know what aol is. the first time i heard of aol was when i was 9 and i thought it was just dial up service and a search engine.
02:33 πŸ”— dashcloud it is- but later they added the ability to reach it through tcp/ip (a.k.a bring your own internet)- you'd connect otherwise, and then hook into AOL's content once you were online
02:35 πŸ”— dashcloud not sure how useful this document is for you, but it covers the aol protocol about as well as anything that's available: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ricardo/misc/docs/theaolprotocol.txt
02:37 πŸ”— raylee dashcloud: actually, there's tcp/ip support in aol 2.5
02:37 πŸ”— raylee lol
02:37 πŸ”— raylee so, pretty early on
02:50 πŸ”— chfoo is the forms concept similar to x11's client-server concept?
02:51 πŸ”— dashcloud let me get you one
02:59 πŸ”— dashcloud here's a super-basic aol form: http://pastebin.com/gSizezVH
03:03 πŸ”— dashcloud here's two links that go over basic FDO forms: https://web.archive.org/web/20130525202943/http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/fdo91/tutorial_lesson02.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130525192737/http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/fdo91/tutorial_lesson03.html
03:08 πŸ”— dashcloud I've got a document called waol.doc that may be of use: https://web.archive.org/web/20130130023852/http://koin.org/files/aol.aim/aol/fdo/manuals/WAOL.doc it's described in the doc as: Rough Draft of WAOL Client Code Outline & Misc. Info.
03:26 πŸ”— chfoo i think i understand it a bit better now
03:26 πŸ”— chfoo i also found this http://freecode.com/projects/penggy
03:39 πŸ”— balrog "people use the aol chatrooms" Ҁ” that's because AIM was supported for way longer and people still use it
03:47 πŸ”— dashcloud I have to get going for the night- leave any questions you have, and I'll try to answer or get you answers
07:04 πŸ”— avuserow 8TB hard drives shipping apparently http://hothardware.com/News/Seagate-Ships-Worlds-First-8-Terabyte-Hard-Drive-More-Capacity-For-Your-Pr0-Umm-Critical-Files/
07:05 πŸ”— vantec OEM partners only. Ship to public in Q4.
07:06 πŸ”— vantec I find it funny that they won't specifications about it.
07:07 πŸ”— vantec On the other hand, Best Buy sold most of their 6TB stock in the last few hours too.
09:06 πŸ”— schbirid not sure why IA does not show me the option to add the live page but someone please archive http://www.zara.com/il/en/kids/baby-boy-(3-months---3-years)/t-shirts/striped-%22sheriff%22-t-shirt-c271048p2096022.html right now
09:10 πŸ”— midas product is gone here
09:12 πŸ”— midas what was it schbirid ?
09:12 πŸ”— schbirid shit, the redirect kills it then
09:12 πŸ”— schbirid http://i.imgur.com/Eha4yHS.jpg
09:13 πŸ”— schbirid probably hacked
09:26 πŸ”— midas i have http://dat.serveert.me.uk/~midas/zara/Item%20not%20available%20%20%20Suggestions%20-%20ZARA%20Italy.htm
09:27 πŸ”— midas pictures are stored also
14:58 πŸ”— Rotab tracker is broken?
14:58 πŸ”— Rotab http error 500
14:59 πŸ”— midas might be a full log
15:04 πŸ”— chfoo checking, seems like filesystem went read only
15:06 πŸ”— chfoo oh, redis oom'ed
15:07 πŸ”— midas damn you redis!
15:14 πŸ”— chfoo emergency maintenance complete
15:15 πŸ”— chfoo hmm, actually not...
15:18 πŸ”— chfoo emergency maintenance complete for real now
15:20 πŸ”— Rotab does the trackers need clearing? nothing seems to be happening & im getting no jobs
15:20 πŸ”— Rotab nvm :)
15:25 πŸ”— midas chfoo: could it be related to more and more sites linking to the tracker?
15:28 πŸ”— chfoo midas: i don't think so. i think once redis runs out of memory and gets killed, the scripts that drain out the logs also die. once redis recovers, items keep flooding back in and then redis runs out of memory again
15:28 πŸ”— midas ah
16:24 πŸ”— godane ffxii videos: http://stfcc.org/ffxi/?path=dmlkZW9zLw==
21:32 πŸ”— ndico Hi - what's the best way to preserve a website of a company that got bought recently and may thus vanish from the web in its current form?
21:32 πŸ”— ndico ... and make that backup available publicly, preferably on archive.org
21:32 πŸ”— ndico ?
21:35 πŸ”— xmc ndico: we can aim archivebot at it, how big/complex is the site?
21:35 πŸ”— ndico around 600 MB
21:36 πŸ”— xmc cool. what's the site?
21:36 πŸ”— ndico => private message
21:36 πŸ”— xmc why can't you say it in here?
21:37 πŸ”— ndico the merger hasn't been made public yet
21:37 πŸ”— xmc fine
21:41 πŸ”— ndico thanks a lot!
21:43 πŸ”— schbirid any stocks we should buy/short now? ;)
21:44 πŸ”— xmc heh
21:47 πŸ”— ndico ;-X

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