#archiveteam-bs 2014-01-22,Wed

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00:17 🔗 SketchCow https://archive.org/details/MacrovisionAnalysisOfRecentDVDDeCSSHackNovember151999 is pure gold.
00:25 🔗 mistym "standard 56kb modem"
00:27 🔗 DFJustin it's pretty accurate as far as the time goes, just woefully non-forward-looking
00:27 🔗 DFJustin in 1999 I had a 4.2gb hard drive and dial-up, in a major us city
00:29 🔗 DFJustin when divx stuff first started coming out I had to use this super optimized DOS player to play at full framerate
00:31 🔗 DFJustin http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/
00:32 🔗 mistym Yeah, very true! I knew people in similar positions. Their wording of "2-3 years" as an eternity really makes it seem they had no plan though
00:32 🔗 mistym " No Windows required!"
00:32 🔗 mistym Wait, they take PayPal? This site is a going concern, not just a 90s relic?
00:34 🔗 Baljem Last updated 8th July 2010 - why?
00:35 🔗 Baljem and I say that as a relic myself!
00:35 🔗 mistym Most recent Pro version for DOS released 7 years ago.
00:36 🔗 mistym "QuickView Pro is a 32 bit protected mode program and therefore needs at least a 80386 processor and a VGA card."
00:36 🔗 Baljem well, at least it's honest. I was not impressed a couple of years ago to discover that memtest86 needs at least a 386
00:37 🔗 Baljem I was trying to run it on an 8086, I figured the '86' meant I was onto a winner!
00:37 🔗 DFJustin developing countries, impoverished school districts, you'd be surprised
00:39 🔗 DFJustin http://www.macworld.com.au/features/if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it-ancient-computers-still-in-use-45073/
05:09 🔗 godane so i think my glenn beck archiving may have to be put on hold
05:09 🔗 godane i'm not getting any of video today or yesterdays
05:09 🔗 godane rtmpdump keeps erroring
05:18 🔗 godane finally getting wilkow
05:33 🔗 kyan Letting you know, my archivebot computer overheated and died prematurely. :(
05:46 🔗 SketchCow Bill yahoo!
08:23 🔗 joepie91 wow, so archivebot now officially killed a server? heh
08:41 🔗 midas ?
08:42 🔗 midas lol :p
08:42 🔗 midas can someone archive that? dont use the bot, it might burn down ;-)
10:57 🔗 godane so i should be able to get most of night line 2013 now
10:57 🔗 godane i think they had the encoding or time to file name
11:04 🔗 godane i got a good afternoon america episode
11:18 🔗 Smiley midas: archive what?
11:19 🔗 Smiley i'm currently upgrading my kernel so I can run a archivebot in a lxc
11:19 🔗 Smiley going to try and build on gentoo, if no worky then I'll build on debian
11:22 🔗 midas Smiley: "06:33:15 kyan | Letting you know, my archivebot computer overheated and died prematurely. :( "
11:22 🔗 midas archiveteam, breaking all your servers
11:23 🔗 Smiley :D
11:23 🔗 Smiley if you melt mine, I'll cry.
11:23 🔗 midas he joined, said it broke down, and quit :p
11:25 🔗 Smiley :D
13:47 🔗 EpsilonRe Archiving USENET
13:47 🔗 EpsilonRe dashcloud: Early... pre Deja USENET can possibly be recovered from CD produced in the Mid 1990's
13:48 🔗 EpsilonRe Deja material is still technically on Google albiet buried
13:48 🔗 EpsilonRe Post Google ( ie post 2002 material) is trickier...
13:49 🔗 EpsilonRe The first issue is technical, It's not as if you can just pull a torrent of USENET from Google....
13:50 🔗 EpsilonRe I would strongly suggest requesting someone with access to a high volume NNTP feed and 'cheap' storage begin to archive 'new' content on USENET in parrallel with google...
13:50 🔗 dashcloud there was speculation earlier this morning that Google Groups uses a custom JavaScript protocol
13:50 🔗 EpsilonRe Internally yes...
13:50 🔗 EpsilonRe Content posted to USENET more wdiely will be over NNTP and UUCP as it always has been
13:51 🔗 EpsilonRe I.E USENET groups, of alt.* comp.* etc design will still appear on NNTP style feeds with NNTP style headers
13:52 🔗 EpsilonRe Proprietary groups are not something I am concerned with myself..)
13:53 🔗 dashcloud create a page on the archiveteam wiki with all the details and your ideas, and then point people to it
13:53 🔗 EpsilonRe I don't have an account there yet
13:53 🔗 EpsilonRe And because I'm UK based, what i can request differes...
13:55 🔗 dashcloud you might find this tool interesting: https://github.com/ZoeB/arcmesg
14:01 🔗 EpsilonRe dashcloud: Thanks
14:02 🔗 EpsilonRe dashcloud: USENET content on Google could also be retrived by brute force
14:03 🔗 EpsilonRe Although you'd need a rather sophistacted generator /scrapper to do that
14:03 🔗 dashcloud brute force and google isn't usually a hot idea- you certainly can't scrap search results like that
14:03 🔗 EpsilonRe dsahcloud: The URL's used to find original postings are at least stable...
14:04 🔗 EpsilonRe Is it worth starting a petition, calling on Google to liberate it's USENET archive to an appropriate archivist?
14:04 🔗 EpsilonRe There are times when I wonder if Google's forgotten it has groups
14:09 🔗 dashcloud peitition no- too easy for Google to say no
14:09 🔗 EpsilonRe and you've already stated a 'manual'extraction would get picked up by their load blancing schemes
14:10 🔗 EpsilonRe This leaves parrallel archving.... but the loss of pre 2014 material potentially :(
14:11 🔗 EpsilonRe (Of course it coudl be argued that EVERY Usent posting Google is holding is ptential copyright timebomb...)
14:11 🔗 EpsilonRe (Or could be in respect of the UK... as you don't give up copyright in letters you write here..)
14:50 🔗 godane S[h])[r]T: can you look at abcnews.go.com for me?
14:51 🔗 godane i'm looking for good xml data
14:51 🔗 godane the current method will need 19 million urls pulled to see which ones have a video link and description
14:58 🔗 EpsilonRe http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Sfan00_IMG/USENET
15:08 🔗 godane i'm uploading 4 xakep (hacker) russian dvds from 2004
15:09 🔗 EpsilonRe Hi - I have a request...
15:09 🔗 EpsilonRe Would it be possible to have a webform for requesting archivals?
15:10 🔗 EpsilonRe (Such as for sites that appear as Wikipedia citations?)
15:10 🔗 EpsilonRe Webcite isn't considered as stable...
15:19 🔗 EpsilonRe OK thanks people
15:20 🔗 DFJustin EpsilonRe: https://archive.org/web/ has a "save page now" form for individual pages
15:21 🔗 DFJustin whole sites can be crawled by our ArchiveBot on request
15:21 🔗 EpsilonRe OK...
15:21 🔗 EpsilonRe Do you have contacts within Wikipedia/
15:21 🔗 EpsilonRe ?
15:21 🔗 DFJustin yes, nemo_bis backs up material from the wikimedia foundation
15:22 🔗 EpsilonRe And finally this may be of use in respect of software archiving....
15:22 🔗 EpsilonRe ftp://bbc.nvg.org/pub/bbc/
15:22 🔗 EpsilonRe The supporting website died about a year ago, but the FTP is still up
15:22 🔗 EpsilonRe Most of it's 'grey' status abandonware sadly :(
15:22 🔗 DFJustin e-mail it to jason@textfiles.com
15:23 🔗 DFJustin he's doing most of our ftp grabs
16:01 🔗 EpsilonRe but it may be oSent
16:01 🔗 EpsilonRe Sent him a note
16:01 🔗 EpsilonRe I've also noted some that should be actively excluded
16:02 🔗 EpsilonRe And noted that efforts should be made to trace original publishers if possible
16:02 🔗 EpsilonRe Sometimes in approaching the original publishers more material has been uncovered ;)
16:04 🔗 EpsilonRe Another site worth archiving - http://www.6581-8580.com/soasc_copyright.php - :)
16:04 🔗 EpsilonRe I like the note at the end ;)
16:04 🔗 EpsilonRe Also http://www.paula8364.com/
16:52 🔗 EpsilonRe Hi
16:52 🔗 EpsilonRe I'd like an explanation
16:52 🔗 EpsilonRe http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Sfan00_IMG
16:53 🔗 EpsilonRe Why is this blocked?
17:18 🔗 chfoo why the hasty ban? or is that something not my business?
17:30 🔗 midas hm could be rather harsh, but there might be a reason
17:30 🔗 midas one does not know if the facts arent there
17:43 🔗 SketchCow If someone has an issue, msgme.
17:49 🔗 mistym Did the wiki switch away from spam account filtering during registration because it just wasn't working?
18:00 🔗 yipdw mistym: I think that filtering's still in place
18:00 🔗 yipdw the FORSOOTH, PRITHEE TELL ME THE SECRET WORD bit
18:00 🔗 yipdw were you referring to something else?
18:02 🔗 mistym yipdw: Before that - there were attempts to filter spam accounts
18:02 🔗 mistym I'm helping someone else who hasn't been able to open public registrations, was wondering what decent options there are. Seems like PRITHEE solution works okay though
18:03 🔗 SketchCow Ah
18:03 🔗 SketchCow On another wiki?
18:03 🔗 SketchCow We had a spam thing. Captcha.
18:03 🔗 SketchCow that worked for between 40 and 80 milliseconds
18:04 🔗 SketchCow We had to clean out, oh lord, a couple thousand spam accounts.
18:04 🔗 mistym Ha
18:04 🔗 SketchCow GLaDOS and my little australian buddy worked on that, hard.
18:04 🔗 SketchCow So, the PRITHEE solution is very helpful.
18:04 🔗 SketchCow (Although with the new guy we may need to change it.)
18:05 🔗 SketchCow 1. It makes them come to IRC and say hello
18:05 🔗 SketchCow 2. It makes them do something in public, i.e. a form of light hazing
18:05 🔗 SketchCow 3. it starts a conversation
18:23 🔗 Baljem what's up with the new guy?
18:23 🔗 Baljem (if we should be sizing people up before giving out the secret word, oops, sorry! although I didn't give it to that chap, I have a couple of others...)#
18:46 🔗 SketchCow You don't have to size people up.
18:47 🔗 SketchCow Someone who jumps the hurdle of coming to IRC to get the secret word is quite good enough.
18:47 🔗 SketchCow We're just getting rid of bots and spammers. We can deal with specific people issues down the road.
18:48 🔗 mistym SketchCow: Yeah, makes sense. No IRC channel for this other wiki, but maybe email is good enough
18:48 🔗 SketchCow Maybe.
18:48 🔗 SketchCow See, remember, the wikicultists are very much against any friction for signing on
18:48 🔗 SketchCow So they might not like something like "mail us"
18:49 🔗 SketchCow But you could have them text a number. :)
18:57 🔗 mistym The site admin is not a wikicultist :b She's *already* closed registration altogether because of spam problems. She wants to open it, just in a way that doesn't also open the spam floodgates
19:01 🔗 midas meh, lostprophets website is gone it seems, i know the singer was wrong but i'd love to grab that site anyway
19:48 🔗 Dud2 Can I get help with a python script I'm trying to do? (non archive purpose)
19:50 🔗 yipdw ask the question and I
19:50 🔗 yipdw oh
19:50 🔗 yipdw dman
19:50 🔗 yipdw I was going to say that someone might answer it, but ok
19:56 🔗 Dud2 Can I still ask?
19:58 🔗 Dud2 I want to scrape http://bit.ly/1c44Of2 , but I keep getting a 404 error when I try submit data. The code I am using is http://pastebin.com/PCMLyb1e
20:26 🔗 Dud2 Anyone :3
20:27 🔗 ivan` I hope you stick around while I look at it
20:29 🔗 Dud2 I don't plan on going anywhere (and if I do i look at the logs) :)
20:35 🔗 ivan` I didn't see anything obviously wrong
20:35 🔗 ivan` did you try copying and sending the exact POST data that a browser sends?
20:38 🔗 Dud2 Yes, All I am getting in the temp.htm file is "404 - File or directory not found."
20:40 🔗 ivan` I don't see you sending __EVENTTARGET __EVENTARGUMENT and maybe more
20:57 🔗 Dud2 Hmm k, http://pastebin.com/diff.php?i=8YRKUHYD that's updated now but the same
21:08 🔗 Dud2 I fixed, I was submitting __VIEWSTATEENCRYPTED, but there that isn't on the page at all. It works now.
21:08 🔗 Dud2 Thanks for your help :0
21:08 🔗 Dud2 * :)
21:12 🔗 xmc ah, fucking asp viewstate
22:52 🔗 SketchCow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeYCCOWfjQ
22:52 🔗 SketchCow BIORHYTHM IS JUST A THEORY.....
22:52 🔗 SketchCow ....FOR NOW
22:54 🔗 mistym_ Oh my goodness that music is charming as hell

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