#archiveteam-bs 2013-04-14,Sun

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02:54 🔗 godane Duke Nukem Forever Demo Gameplay Video: https://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video53255
03:35 🔗 omf_ godane, I assume the flash version is the original?
11:25 🔗 SketchCow So, I wrote that blog entry to end all blog entries, about how much crap I and archiveteam have been uploading to archive.org in the realm of software.
11:25 🔗 SketchCow And I get, in no time, two librarians up in my ass about mentioning holding things back before they get good metadata as "twee"
11:25 🔗 SketchCow TWO
11:40 🔗 chronomex there are always people willing to ruin the good with the spectre of not being perfect
11:58 🔗 SketchCow That they are
12:11 🔗 chronomex hey man, imma shit on your lawn, cos you put in the wrong kind of turf
12:41 🔗 godane so looks like i have past 30k videos in g4video-web
12:47 🔗 dashcloud so you're going to add even more CDs/floppies in the near future?
13:12 🔗 SketchCow Tons.
13:12 🔗 SketchCow There's a hard drive that was waiting for FOS to come back, for example. So Monday that loads in.
13:12 🔗 SketchCow Wish I hadn't spent the cash for 2-day shipping but oh well
13:13 🔗 godane i know meta data is a problem
13:14 🔗 godane i try my best to make sure that there is enought to describe the item though
13:58 🔗 Cameron_D have 38 weeks of Australian satellite images from last year http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8372100
14:58 🔗 SketchCow Excellent.
15:32 🔗 godane so looks like g4 is just giving 500 server error
15:32 🔗 godane not its back
15:33 🔗 godane will have to look at my image dump log later to grab all the 500 error links
16:17 🔗 Aranje Interesting, I just found a bitcoin miner on taobao which I take to be essentially chinese ebay
16:18 🔗 Aranje english link: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.1000774.8.3ddBHm&id=21616280250 chinese one: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.19.cjikZd&id=14590459436
16:22 🔗 chazchaz The English on that page as way more coherent than I expected.
16:24 🔗 chazchaz *is
16:33 🔗 Aranje yeah. A few spelling errors and the standard sort of grammar fuckups, but also really rather readable
16:47 🔗 joepie92 Aranje: actually, taobao is not quite ebay
16:47 🔗 joepie92 it's suppliers selling goods
16:47 🔗 joepie92 pretty much exclusively
16:47 🔗 joepie92 no individual traders
16:48 🔗 Aranje ahh okay
16:48 🔗 joepie92 also, wat, taobao is english now?
16:48 🔗 Aranje no
16:48 🔗 joepie92 oh nvm
16:48 🔗 Aranje click the link
16:48 🔗 Aranje the description is in english :P
16:48 🔗 joepie92 aha :P
16:48 🔗 joepie92 but yeah, taobao is *generally* pretty safe to buy stuff off
16:48 🔗 Aranje rest of the site is still mandarin :P
16:48 🔗 joepie92 but it's usually a pain as a non-Chinese person
16:48 🔗 joepie92 because most suppliers only accept alipay and such
16:48 🔗 joepie92 so you'll want to use a middleman
16:49 🔗 Aranje ye
16:49 🔗 joepie92 I can dig up a few trusted ones for you if you want :P
16:49 🔗 Aranje that seller takes more than alipay, if you read the chinese one
16:49 🔗 joepie92 there's a thread on a dutch forum keeping track of this stuff
16:49 🔗 Aranje there's a note in english on the chinese version's page
16:50 🔗 * joepie92 overlooked that
16:50 🔗 joepie92 whoa, they take bitcoin? heh
16:50 🔗 joepie92 also, T/T is afaik a chinese bank wire
16:50 🔗 joepie92 possible from outside China, but hefty fees and tricky
16:51 🔗 * Aranje nods
16:51 🔗 Aranje I've never done a bank transfer so probably not my gig
16:52 🔗 joepie92 right
16:52 🔗 joepie92 Aranje, if you want to order something from taobao with non-Chinese payment methods
16:52 🔗 joepie92 http://www.mistertao.com/
16:52 🔗 joepie92 and http://www.zarmark.com/English/default.aspx
16:53 🔗 joepie92 both, afaik, do middle man stuff for taobao and accept things like paypal
16:53 🔗 joepie92 and both are trustable :P
16:53 🔗 Aranje heh
16:53 🔗 Aranje neat
16:53 🔗 joepie92 (you might have to contact them with a link to the taobao ad for specifics)
16:53 🔗 joepie92 but yeah, I helped my dad order some stuff from taobao a while ago via zarmark (before it was called zarmark)
16:53 🔗 joepie92 and it all arrived quite nicely
16:54 🔗 Aranje cool :>
16:54 🔗 joepie92 some stuff for his DSLR
16:54 🔗 joepie92 one of those umbrellas, a "remote flash" thing (you put the transmitter on top of the camera and the receiver under the flash, and you can put them like 30 meters away from each other and still have a perfectly synchronized flash)
16:54 🔗 joepie92 and something else I can't recall
16:54 🔗 joepie92 I think it cost him like 30-40 euro in total.. the same would've cost >100 euro here
16:55 🔗 joepie92 it's kind of awesome
16:55 🔗 Aranje woot
16:55 🔗 Aranje yeah from the supplier that makes them for $brandname probably
16:55 🔗 Aranje :P
16:55 🔗 joepie92 I have no idea
16:55 🔗 joepie92 but it was good quality
16:56 🔗 joepie92 also, a tip on the forum thread I was reading just now: if a seller has diamond or crown icons, that's considered a good rating
16:56 🔗 joepie92 (so probably good quality)
16:56 🔗 Aranje cools
16:56 🔗 Aranje yeah, good rep
16:56 🔗 Aranje same shit as looking at rep on ebay
16:57 🔗 Aranje votes/avg rating/%happy
16:57 🔗 joepie92 well yes, but the chinese seem to like using all kinds of fancy icons and gradients and everything
16:57 🔗 Aranje yeah
16:57 🔗 Aranje symbology is their thing
16:57 🔗 joepie92 (this is apparently actually part of most asian culture... making something look complex is considered a good thing)
16:57 🔗 joepie92 (iirc)
16:57 🔗 Aranje that must be why their websites are all like that
16:58 🔗 Aranje not complex, but very... packed
16:58 🔗 joepie92 yes
16:58 🔗 joepie92 lots of design elements everywhere
16:58 🔗 Aranje yeah
16:58 🔗 joepie92 dense
16:58 🔗 joepie92 small
16:58 🔗 joepie92 etc
16:58 🔗 Aranje yep
16:58 🔗 Aranje hmm
16:58 🔗 Aranje I should go hiking soon
16:58 🔗 joepie92 something that just popped up in my mind
16:59 🔗 joepie92 I was watching the top gear vietnam special last night
16:59 🔗 joepie92 and one thing that I noticed in particular
16:59 🔗 joepie92 was that everyone seemed so *happy* in vietnam
16:59 🔗 joepie92 as in, genuinely pleased with everything
16:59 🔗 joepie92 no grumpy faces, nothing
16:59 🔗 Aranje yeah
17:00 🔗 Aranje my gut feeling is to say "Their religions are not based on fear"
17:00 🔗 Aranje but I don't know what correlation that actually has
17:00 🔗 joepie92 wikipedia: Reportedly, 81% of Vietnamese people do not believe in God.
17:01 🔗 Aranje (bias in me because that's why I'm studying eastern philosophy and not western)
17:01 🔗 joepie92 but yeah, idk what causes it
17:01 🔗 joepie92 I just find it very remarkable
17:01 🔗 Aranje the very old texts, especially
17:01 🔗 Aranje I need to get a copy of the I-ching, that's one of the oldest surviving
17:02 🔗 Aranje things that came before the I-Ching were written in stone :P
17:02 🔗 Aranje wow, cbsnews is gorgeous now
17:03 🔗 Aranje wtf
17:08 🔗 joepie92 Aranje: the site you mean?
17:09 🔗 joepie92 I've noticed that US-based media outlets have started hiring the right designers lately
17:16 🔗 Aranje joepie92:) yeah
17:18 🔗 Aranje not sure if I had anything to do with it, but I'm happy
17:19 🔗 Aranje the only thing they changed was the font size and leading sooooo
17:19 🔗 Aranje :>
17:23 🔗 godane so i'm finding tons of interviews now
17:23 🔗 godane thanks to wayback maching
17:23 🔗 godane *machine
17:26 🔗 joepie92 Aranje: :P
17:27 🔗 Aranje joepie92:) I'll take credit for it if I can
17:27 🔗 Aranje :D
19:18 🔗 DFJustin https://archive.org/details/ColossalCaveRevisited1993AdventionsAdventureInteractiveFiction
20:06 🔗 SketchCow I'm now grabbing four CD-ROMs at once.
23:29 🔗 godane Catherine Voice Actor Video Interview: http://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video53902
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