#archiveteam 2011-08-31,Wed

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00:46 🔗 underscor http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm
00:52 🔗 Wyatt Who's extending their Unicode coverage today!? OOOOH YOU BET I AM!
00:55 🔗 db48xOthe hah
00:55 🔗 db48xOthe that's one I hadn't seen
01:01 🔗 underscor Anyone in here have a fitbit?
01:01 🔗 underscor I'm considering getting one, as it seems like it would actually get me off my ass
01:13 🔗 Jofo underscor: for the nerdy types, stuff like that are p.cool
01:13 🔗 underscor :D
01:13 🔗 Jofo I don't have a fitbit, but I've used runkeeper on my phone for my various run attempts.. kind of neat graphing that sort of stuff
01:13 🔗 underscor yeah
01:14 🔗 Jofo I also have a Zeo sleep tracker, chart my sleep patterns online
01:14 🔗 underscor that's cool
01:15 🔗 Jofo I've been using sites like sparkpeople (which gives you points for logging food tracking and logging in), and dailyburn (which integrates with the sleep tracking stuff)
01:15 🔗 Jofo but I've also just started messing with fitocracy, which is an exercise tracker that gives you levels and achievements
01:15 🔗 underscor Woah!
01:15 🔗 underscor Zeo looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01:15 🔗 Morbus|sh hey, i just got invited to that site too.
01:15 🔗 underscor haha
01:15 🔗 Morbus|sh what the hell...
01:15 🔗 underscor You need an invite? >:(
01:15 🔗 MorbusIff bizarre
01:16 🔗 Jofo underscor: yeah, still beta. I can send you one if you want
01:16 🔗 MorbusIff yeah, you want one?
01:16 🔗 underscor <3
01:16 🔗 Jofo or MorbusIff can
01:16 🔗 underscor abuie@kwdservices.com
01:16 🔗 Jofo I don't know either of you, but yuo can join my.. fit.. team.. thing
01:16 🔗 MorbusIff i need your credit car... dammit.
01:16 🔗 Jofo friends? fit friends? idkwtf it's called
01:16 🔗 Jofo Jofo on there
01:16 🔗 underscor lol
01:16 🔗 Jofo MorbusIff: you gonna send it or should I?
01:16 🔗 MorbusIff i will. it's up.
01:16 🔗 Jofo k
01:16 🔗 underscor This zeo thing has got to be expensive
01:16 🔗 * underscor checks
01:17 🔗 MorbusIff sent
01:17 🔗 underscor thx
01:17 🔗 Jofo underscor: $200 / $300
01:17 🔗 underscor Aw man
01:17 🔗 underscor haha
01:17 🔗 Jofo underscor: $300 comes with "coaching" that's supposed to help identify what you're doing wrong with the sleeping
01:17 🔗 underscor There's always christmas!
01:18 🔗 underscor Oh cool, I have to be 18 for fitocracy
01:18 🔗 Lowtekk i swear, this is the last time im rebuilding this damn website
01:18 🔗 underscor I love lying about my age :D
01:18 🔗 Lowtekk if it fails again, im sending a fat stack of DVDs to you archive guys :)
01:18 🔗 Lowtekk hardware docs, ITT
01:20 🔗 Lowtekk the site being thehardwareproject.org (beware of it's infancy, this iteration is a day old)
01:20 🔗 MorbusIff I HAVE A NEW FITNESS FRIEND.
01:20 🔗 MorbusIff heh.
01:20 🔗 Aranje :3
01:20 🔗 DFJustin you wouldn't happen to be stiletto would you lowtekk
01:21 🔗 underscor MorbusIff: :3
01:21 🔗 Lowtekk negative
01:21 🔗 Jofo underscor: so you lied about your age, how old are you? heh
01:21 🔗 Lowtekk docs are being merged into the system as we speak
01:21 🔗 underscor 17
01:21 🔗 Jofo word
01:21 🔗 Jofo (I'm old)
01:22 🔗 Jofo also: followed
01:22 🔗 underscor haha
01:22 🔗 DFJustin I can hook you up with some docs
01:23 🔗 Lowtekk DFJustin: the doors are always open, although the upload bit of the site has yet to be resurrected
01:23 🔗 Lowtekk should be up in a day or two :)
01:24 🔗 underscor Yay, I'm level 3 with the mountain biking I did earlier!
01:25 🔗 Jofo beat me with my hurried bodyweight exercise, only lev2
01:25 🔗 DFJustin anyway stiletto is the main doc hunting guy for mamedev/messdev and it might be worth getting in touch with him at some point http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showprofile.php?Cat=&User=2148
01:26 🔗 Lowtekk ahh, thanks for the tip, i'll have to do that
01:26 🔗 underscor Man, I reallllllly want one of these now
01:26 🔗 DFJustin I think he was starting a website but the url escapes me at the moment
01:26 🔗 Lowtekk do you know what the scope of his doc hunting is? types of docs/companies/etc i mean?
01:27 🔗 DFJustin mainly datasheets for chips (cpu, sound, ...) used in arcade hardware, but there is a lot of crossover with computers of the same era
01:27 🔗 Jofo underscor: what's that, fitbit?
01:27 🔗 underscor A zeo
01:27 🔗 Jofo oh, haha
01:28 🔗 Jofo yeah. it's p.cool. I mostly use it for the "wake me during a light sleep cycle" thing vs. a normal alarm
01:28 🔗 underscor I've wanted something like that since I was like 10
01:28 🔗 DFJustin he uploaded some stuff to our wiki at http://mess.redump.net/datasheets
01:28 🔗 underscor no joke
01:28 🔗 underscor Jofo: WAIT, IT DOES THAT?!?!?!?
01:28 🔗 underscor omfgt
01:28 🔗 underscor omfg*
01:29 🔗 DFJustin but there's a lot more on the project ftps
01:29 🔗 underscor I love it when I wake up at a light cycle
01:29 🔗 Jofo underscor: quite. you set a window and a wakeup time. It tries to wake you up prior to the wakuptime during your window, else it just wakes you up @ time
01:29 🔗 Jofo there's other, cheaper products that do it.. I think
01:29 🔗 underscor But probably not as effective
01:29 🔗 Lowtekk DFJustin: cool, im having a look right now
01:30 🔗 DFJustin underscor is living in the tron mainframe
01:30 🔗 Lowtekk my site keeps exploding on the backend, i wish i had more to show
01:30 🔗 underscor Because the reading-the-brain-waves thing is pretty advanced
01:31 🔗 Lowtekk DFJustin: definately some overlap
01:31 🔗 Lowtekk stiletto may get a kick out of THP when it's back up
01:34 🔗 Jofo underscor: well, there's a watch that does it, but it uses an accelerometer to measure your stages
01:34 🔗 Jofo movement = light
01:34 🔗 underscor oic
01:35 🔗 Jofo standard is $100
01:35 🔗 Jofo "elite" is $150
01:35 🔗 Lowtekk DFJustin: is stiletto in here much?
01:35 🔗 Jofo http://www.sleeptracker.com/buy_sleeptracker_s/42.htm
01:35 🔗 chronomex war5102_: I've only ever used public transit in los angeles twice. I've been there fewer than 30 days total. I'm a general believer in mass transit.
01:35 🔗 underscor Jofo: Not as cool as something that reads your brain :D
01:35 🔗 DFJustin I haven't seen him in here but he did mention sketchcow recently so he may be hiding
01:36 🔗 Jofo underscor: quite.
01:36 🔗 Wyatt My roommate has a Zeo. Uses it to track his polyphasic stuff.
01:36 🔗 DFJustin we've got schematics and things for obscure european computers too, I gotta run out the door now though
01:36 🔗 SketchCow Ah, Stiletto.
01:36 🔗 underscor I want to become a bi- or tri-phasic sleeper
01:36 🔗 Lowtekk DFJustin: cool, later
01:36 🔗 SketchCow OK, so how much of this ongoing conversation is archiveteam related.
01:36 🔗 underscor 100%
01:37 🔗 Wyatt Well my roommate has an archive of sleep data...
01:37 🔗 underscor They need to invent a way to archive dreams
01:37 🔗 chronomex woop woop woop off-topic siren
01:37 🔗 Wyatt And if people are awake for more of the day, more archiving can get done!
01:38 🔗 SketchCow I disagree.
01:38 🔗 SketchCow Most of that phasic bullshit turns you into an 80% functioning zombie
01:39 🔗 SketchCow And miss one of your little dream naps and you're fucked for 3 days.
01:39 🔗 underscor What if you're already an 80% functioning zombie?
01:39 🔗 SketchCow Also, and don't cry a little tear, you're kind of committing suicide
01:39 🔗 SketchCow Studies show not getting full rest kills you
01:39 🔗 SketchCow And all this phasic stuff is like taping down the door jamb so the door seems locked but you're going in and out.
01:39 🔗 SketchCow Total hack.
01:39 🔗 * underscor whispers, "SketchCow should go to bed earlier then"
01:40 🔗 SketchCow I go to bed late, and wake up late.
01:40 🔗 SketchCow Usually noon or 1pm.
01:40 🔗 underscor oic
01:40 🔗 underscor I go to bed late and wake up early
01:40 🔗 underscor :(
01:40 🔗 SketchCow I don't get up at 9am after bedding at 5am
01:40 🔗 underscor I tried that
01:40 🔗 SketchCow I don't have jobs that require that. They're all achievement based now.
01:40 🔗 underscor Didn't work very well
01:40 🔗 SketchCow Oh, you can do it in an emergency.
01:41 🔗 underscor Not for a week straight
01:41 🔗 SketchCow No.
01:41 🔗 chronomex changing phase the stupid way
01:41 🔗 DFJustin anyway Lowtekk feel free to lurk in #messdev since it's kinda off-topic
01:41 🔗 SketchCow NONE OF THIS IS ABOUT ARCHIVETEAM
01:41 🔗 * underscor hides
01:41 🔗 dashcloud I've got something somewhat archive related- I've stumbled onto an old DOS BBS-hacking game, and hoping someone can tell me more about it- it appears you really need to hack it in order to get anywhere
01:41 🔗 underscor SketchCow: Here, have a deepfried oreo
01:41 🔗 SketchCow That's not archive related.
01:41 🔗 SketchCow That's just finding something and needing tech support
01:41 🔗 dashcloud oh well
01:41 🔗 SketchCow I'm in the process of moving the data off flophouse and blindtiger wholesale.
01:42 🔗 SketchCow We have a lot of data.
01:42 🔗 SketchCow I am about to start uploading friendster fun-paks to the archive, too.
01:42 🔗 SketchCow http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Ablip-magazine&sort=-publicdate
01:42 🔗 underscor Ooh, those will be a good stress test
01:42 🔗 SketchCow here.
01:43 🔗 SketchCow Every one a gem.
01:43 🔗 SketchCow If someone felt like sending me the table of contents for each issue, they'd be my hero.
01:43 🔗 SketchCow There's only 8 issues.
01:43 🔗 SketchCow Wait, 7.
01:44 🔗 underscor SketchCow's got a lovely bunch of data... http://i.imgur.com/8Z59f.png
01:44 🔗 underscor I'd volunteer, but I'm busy with my Linux Magazine and Linux Format metadata :(
01:45 🔗 SketchCow You do enough as it is.
01:45 🔗 underscor :D
01:45 🔗 underscor Besides, I'm already your hero!
01:45 🔗 SketchCow Where's jch, he's always whining about nothing to do.
01:45 🔗 underscor ;_
01:45 🔗 underscor ;)
01:48 🔗 underscor grazie
01:48 🔗 chronomex y'welcom
01:48 🔗 underscor Yay, only 18 hours left on the first file in this rsync
01:48 🔗 underscor I should have2TB with m to the archive
01:49 🔗 underscor lol
01:49 🔗 underscor should have brought a*
01:56 🔗 SketchCow Adding in Commodore DiskUser now.
02:02 🔗 SketchCow It's amazing how many commdodore magazines survived into the 1990s
02:02 🔗 Jofo SketchCow: I actually had a thought that may be answered elsewhere, but: if someone's friendster page was archived, would you delete it upon their request?
02:02 🔗 SketchCow No
02:03 🔗 SketchCow Do you need me to sugarcoat that?
02:03 🔗 SketchCow Man, you look great today.
02:03 🔗 SketchCow No
02:03 🔗 Jofo not even the pictures, which if taken by them, are copyrighted?
02:04 🔗 Jofo not trying to start shit, just curious
02:04 🔗 SketchCow Nope.
02:04 🔗 SketchCow Want to walk through a dozen scenarios?
02:04 🔗 SketchCow Pictures of abusive husband
02:04 🔗 SketchCow Notes in which they give their home address
02:04 🔗 SketchCow Political leanings revealed in shout outs
02:04 🔗 SketchCow Checking...
02:04 🔗 SketchCow ...no
02:06 🔗 Jofo well, generally on sites like this, agreements are signed that generally forfeit copyright claims against the site itself.. but how would that hold up for a third party?
02:06 🔗 Jofo <- not a lawyer, just curious.
02:06 🔗 SketchCow Yeah, here's the thing.
02:06 🔗 SketchCow There's really no point in discussing this.
02:06 🔗 SketchCow There's no benefit.
02:07 🔗 SketchCow So let me go back to the original answer.
02:07 🔗 SketchCow Man, you look great today.
02:07 🔗 SketchCow No.
02:07 🔗 Jofo I do, thank you :)
02:07 🔗 Lowtekk no amount of sugar coating can fix you, Jofo
02:08 🔗 Jofo and the benefit could be just thinking about what could happen if someone intent on having their content removed decides to raise hell
02:08 🔗 Lowtekk although you missed the donuts sitting on your desk this morning
02:08 🔗 SketchCow So, are you here to help archive team, Jofo, or are you just hanging around?
02:08 🔗 SketchCow Because otherwise, get the fuck out. Now.
02:09 🔗 Jofo I plan on helping once I get through my basic python self study I'm doing, and/or there's something I notice in here that I could help with
02:09 🔗 SketchCow Then take my delicious, helpful advice.
02:09 🔗 SketchCow Shut the fuck up
02:09 🔗 SketchCow Don't walk through 'scenarios"
02:09 🔗 SketchCow Help the people who can't be helped
02:10 🔗 SketchCow 407GB 1:32:20 [75.2MB/s] [ <=> ]
02:10 🔗 SketchCow Now that's a tarfile
02:15 🔗 SketchCow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI&feature=related
02:15 🔗 SketchCow Instead of "Closing", imagine "Archiving"
04:12 🔗 SketchCow Nightmarish metadata adding now. My own fault
04:52 🔗 SketchCow Ops, please.
05:25 🔗 DFJustin are you aware of this SketchCow http://www.retromags.com/
05:34 🔗 SketchCow Yes
05:45 🔗 SketchCow OK, who has a megaupload account.
05:46 🔗 underscor I had one, but I think it expired or whatever
05:47 🔗 underscor yeah
05:48 🔗 Coderjoe i do
05:50 🔗 Coderjoe need stuff downloaded?
05:53 🔗 SketchCow Well, yes.
05:53 🔗 SketchCow retromags.com has some stuff.
05:53 🔗 SketchCow But now that I'm doing stuff, I am worried about sending someone to piecemeal download
05:53 🔗 SketchCow When I might have full archives from elsewhere.
05:54 🔗 SketchCow Because to be honest, I am POURING in magazines
05:56 🔗 Aranje You are raining magazines?
05:56 🔗 SketchCow I mean, I am not sure where I am now, but it's going to be a thousand before long.
05:56 🔗 SketchCow issues, not individual runs.
06:00 🔗 underscor damn
06:00 🔗 underscor That's awesome!
06:01 🔗 SketchCow I've been given allowance to blow most of the week on this.
06:02 🔗 SketchCow I an do an awful lot in a week
06:02 🔗 underscor Allowance?
06:02 🔗 underscor oh
06:02 🔗 SketchCow I got a job, kid
06:02 🔗 underscor I thought your job was to do stuff like this
06:25 🔗 SketchCow Uh oh, addiction has set in
06:25 🔗 SketchCow Now I'm adding magazines like a junkie
06:25 🔗 SketchCow The most nerdy, bookish junkie ever
06:33 🔗 inv what's your recommended solution for scraping asp.net sites?
06:34 🔗 inv Right now I'm using a hacky solution with a mix of php, powershell and Burp Suite
06:34 🔗 inv but it's pretty tiresome :(
06:34 🔗 SketchCow I can't answer. Can someone answer?
06:34 🔗 SketchCow Bear in mind it is late, not everyone's here.
06:43 🔗 chronomex inv: lib-www-mechanize, in your favorite language, + random shit to make the posts happen
06:44 🔗 chronomex asp.net is assballs to scrape
06:44 🔗 chronomex I feel your pain
06:46 🔗 Coderjoe another possibility might be selenium driving a browser
06:47 🔗 inv Yeah I'm using internet explorer + powershell to manually click on things now
06:47 🔗 inv that's working pretty well
06:47 🔗 inv (controlling it via COM, using internetexplorer.application)
06:47 🔗 inv so it's not visible on screen etc
06:47 🔗 inv but I'm having some issues reading the DOM of iframes from powershell for some reason.
06:49 🔗 inv semi-related question: does anybody know about an http library that supports pipelining AND multiple concurrent connections? I've found one for erlang called ibrowse, but erlang is not exactly easy to use :)
06:53 🔗 underscor There's a ruby one called typheous or something that does that, iirc
06:54 🔗 underscor http://www.pauldix.net/2009/05/breath-fire-over-http-in-ruby-with-typhoeus.html
07:29 🔗 Wyatts Speaking of annoying mandatory interactivity, is there a way to make mediafire bleed files without a captcha getting in the way occasionally?
07:34 🔗 Wyatts I mean, I guess it's not too much to pay for a month as long as I make a plan of attack in advance.
07:39 🔗 ersi Jofo: We don't care a shitflying fuck about copyfuckyrightandwrong, just so you know
07:40 🔗 ersi SketchCow: That's an amazing clip, I should watch that movie again
10:34 🔗 chronomex anyone have experience with scanning microfiche?
11:05 🔗 Schbirid SketchCow: megaupload is easily downloaded with jdownloader
13:02 🔗 underscor chronomex: SketchCow might know someone at the archive
13:02 🔗 underscor There's a whole team of people
13:02 🔗 underscor just for microfiche
15:01 🔗 swebb1 Last day to download Google Groups stuff!!!!
15:02 🔗 alard Is there any groups stuff left?
15:02 🔗 swebb1 I'm getting errors from the tracker, but a few days ago when it was working, I was pulling stuff down.
15:06 🔗 alard I'm getting error 444 from the download tracker too. The discovery tracker still has work left. (The second or third round, I guess.) I'm running a few of those now.
15:06 🔗 swebb1 Same here.
15:12 🔗 swebb1 alard: approx how much stuff do you have on-disk from the ggroups attack?
15:13 🔗 alard Here: 12GB. The rest is with SketchCow.
15:14 🔗 alard That's probably more, but I don't know how much it is. I've rsynced that during downloading, when I had a vps with unlimited bandwidth but very little disk space.
15:15 🔗 swebb1 I've got about 600GB sitting on my drobo at home.
15:15 🔗 ndurner_o That's totally amazing! Thanks!
15:15 🔗 alard That's a lot.
15:16 🔗 swebb1 Ok, then I'm shutting down all of my ggroups crawlers.
15:17 🔗 swebb1 What's next on the list? :)
15:18 🔗 ndurner_o Well, you could do laps of honor ;-)
15:18 🔗 ndurner_o The next thing would be to pull the info from the about pages and compile an index for files out of it
15:19 🔗 ndurner_o ... preferably in TXT and HTML format
15:19 🔗 swebb1 ha ha
15:19 🔗 ndurner_o I'm just too busy ATM
15:19 🔗 swebb1 I'll check out the indexing.
15:20 🔗 ndurner_o :-)
15:21 🔗 alard Hurray, I just downloaded a few more groups!
15:21 🔗 alard Apparently there are still a few left.
15:23 🔗 ndurner_o Yes, new ones that have been founded since we have started.
15:26 🔗 DFJustin I thought google had immediately turned off new file uploads though?
15:27 🔗 Schbirid nice http://netlabelism.com/hosting-netlabel-releases-at-the-internet-archive
15:36 🔗 * ndurner_o shrugs
15:42 🔗 db48x2 swebb1: someone mentioned Drobo to me just the other day
15:43 🔗 swebb1 db48x2: Yea, I like the ability to raid using mixed-size drives.
15:44 🔗 swebb1 db48x2: also, I run an rsync server on it, so I just rsync to/from it most of the time.
15:44 🔗 db48x2 I've been looking for a way to do iSCSI (or something similar)
15:44 🔗 swebb1 db48x2: The larger models do iSCSI, but not the 4 or 5-bay versions.
15:46 🔗 db48x2 swebb1: do you know if you can turn off the RAID that they advertise?
15:46 🔗 db48x2 I would want to use ZFS, which wants to access the disks directly, not a slice of a RAID
15:48 🔗 SketchCow chronomex: People scan microfiche at the archive.
16:33 🔗 swebb1 db48x2: ZFS is neat and all, but doesn't allow for mixed-size drives, but you can roll your own solution with opensolaris and ZFS that's very capable.
16:36 🔗 db48x2 true, but I don't really mind that
16:37 🔗 db48x2 it can do mixed-size vdevs which is good enough for me
16:39 🔗 db48x2 what I really want is the smallest possible setup that can expose a set of drives as iSCSI targets
16:57 🔗 swebb1 Yea, I use vmware's ESXi server for my crawler VMs (and other stuff) and have 600GB of storage per VM host, but it would be nice to just grab a pool of storage over iSCSI for them.
16:57 🔗 swebb1 I don't have iSCSI set up at my place at all at the moment.
16:57 🔗 swebb1 Just NFS. :)
16:58 🔗 Lowtekk swebb1: what kind of space are you looking to end up with?
16:59 🔗 Lowtekk and do you prefer an appliance or would a small/cheap box with a bunch of drives suffice?
17:00 🔗 Lowtekk err, db48x2 i mean
17:02 🔗 swebb1 I've got 600GB on both of my vmware ESXi hosts. I've got about 2.7TB usable (4TB raw) on my drobo. I've got a few more linux machines with 40GB-ish each that I use for misc purposes and a web host with good bandwidth. Also, amazon is offering free incoming bandwidth, so I'm figuring that for the next big pull, I'll just spin up a couple of spot instances on AWS and be done with it.
17:30 🔗 db48x2 Lowtekk: I want to end up with lots of space that I can expand forever
17:30 🔗 db48x2 Lowtekk: ZFS lets me add vdevs to an existing pool whenever I want, and all the filesystems in the pool can then expand to use the new vdevs
17:31 🔗 db48x2 I've been looking at fiber channel and iscsi because they both would let me add new drives without taking the others offline to change the wiring
17:32 🔗 swebb1 iSCSI and linux's volume groups can make storage management really nice and flexible. I agree.
17:35 🔗 db48x2 In practice I might end up changing the topology of my hubs, or going from gigabit to 10 gigabit ethernet or whatever, but in theory I'd never have to change technologies because I ran out of pci slots or sata channels or room in the rack or got past the maximum length of a cable
17:39 🔗 Lowtekk amen
17:39 🔗 swebb1 iSCSI overview on youtube for those of you who don't know what know iSCSI is about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCDiz9C8Vvw&feature=related
17:40 🔗 Lowtekk my webserver on ESX pulling from a Dell Powervault, it's a couple years old but adequate for it's task
17:40 🔗 swebb1 FreeNAS might be an option for an iSCSI server.
17:41 🔗 Lowtekk cant beat the price
17:44 🔗 swebb1 FreeNAS offers ZFS, so you get snapshotting and all of the OpenSolaris goodness and don't have to figure out how to manage Solaris, instead you have a web gui for management of it all.
17:45 🔗 db48x2 meh, web guis are more pain than they're worth
17:48 🔗 db48x2 but yea
17:48 🔗 db48x2 now that opensolaris is dead, I'll be sticking with linux
18:05 🔗 SketchCow Hey
18:05 🔗 SketchCow Going to be spwnding some time out back in the info cube for the afternoon
18:09 🔗 ersi SketchCow: Have fun and don't get crushed
20:06 🔗 swebb1 FreeNAS is based on freeBSD, so might be easier to support, I'm not sure. Personally, I think that iSCSI config under linux is not that easy to do either, but on ESXi is way easy, then just mount in linux as a device.
20:14 🔗 SketchCow Wasn't crushed!!
20:18 🔗 SketchCow http://www.benpurdy.com/2011/08/minecraft-in-real-life/
20:40 🔗 swebb1 FreeNAS as an iSCSI server and VMware ESXi using it howto video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc20IT1msAk&feature=related
20:55 🔗 SketchCow Converting the month to a number.
20:55 🔗 SketchCow Here's what I plan to do.
20:55 🔗 SketchCow In the collection named ZX-spectrum-magazine...
20:55 🔗 SketchCow OK, then, ZXComputing_Apr_1986.pdf gets the love.
20:55 🔗 SketchCow root@teamarchive-0:/3/MAGS/ZXComputing# ./ingestor ZXComputing_Apr_1986.pdf
20:55 🔗 SketchCow I will add an item called ZX-spectrum-1986-04.
20:55 🔗 SketchCow I will say this dates to 1986-04.
20:55 🔗 SketchCow I will give it the title of ZX Spectrum Magazine (April 1986).
20:55 🔗 SketchCow Yes, I finally had to write a huge script with test cases, what-ifs and the rest.
20:55 🔗 SketchCow And a config area, don't forget the config area
20:56 🔗 SketchCow With the old classic, adding a string or no string for yes/no sets
20:56 🔗 db48x2 config area?
20:56 🔗 SketchCow # WHAT THE FUCK DO ALL THE COLUMNS MEAN
20:56 🔗 SketchCow COLLECTION=ZX-spectrum-magazine
20:56 🔗 SketchCow ITEMPREFIX=ZX-spectrum
20:56 🔗 SketchCow TITLEPREFIX="ZX Spectrum Magazine"
20:56 🔗 SketchCow YEARCOLUMN=3
20:56 🔗 SketchCow SEPARATOR=_
20:56 🔗 SketchCow MONTHCOLUMN=2
20:56 🔗 SketchCow WORDMONTH=1
20:56 🔗 SketchCow BYISSUE=
20:56 🔗 SketchCow ISSUECOLUMN=
20:56 🔗 SketchCow TEST=1
20:56 🔗 SketchCow Now I can just do stuff THERE, and set it for an entire range of magazine
20:57 🔗 db48x2 ah, you have a different file of that type for each collection
20:57 🔗 SketchCow The key is, I can now go through a pile of mags without any intervention.
20:57 🔗 SketchCow I can blast 108 issues Shitbox 2000 Magazine without touching them.
20:57 🔗 SketchCow I was already fast, now I'll open 10 parallel scripts and blast it.
20:57 🔗 SketchCow ls
20:57 🔗 SketchCow cat
20:57 🔗 SketchCow done
20:57 🔗 SketchCow ps -aux
20:57 🔗 db48x2 automation is the best
20:58 🔗 db48x2 so at what point do they hire your shell script?
20:59 🔗 SketchCow Don't hire the lemonade
20:59 🔗 SketchCow hire the guy who makes the lemonade
21:00 🔗 SketchCow The make him citrus manager
21:07 🔗 * SketchCow burns your house down. With the lemons!
21:08 🔗 SketchCow ZXComputing_Apr_1986.pdf ZXComputing_Aug-Sep_1982.pdf ZXComputing_Dec-Jan_1984.pdf ZXComputing_Feb-Mar_1985.pdf ZXComputing_Jun-Jul_1983.pdf ZXComputing_Nov_1986.pdf ZXComputing_Sep_1986.pdf
21:08 🔗 SketchCow IN THEORY, the script is going to deal with this.
21:15 🔗 db48x2 heh
21:16 🔗 SketchCow Here it goes
21:16 🔗 SketchCow I have it tracking time to see what it does.
21:17 🔗 SketchCow It's called "Ingestor: The Nerdiest War Robot"
21:21 🔗 SketchCow Ended Wed Aug 31 14:20:40 PDT 2011
21:21 🔗 SketchCow Started Wed Aug 31 14:15:20 PDT 2011
21:21 🔗 SketchCow So a little less than 5 minutes.
21:21 🔗 SketchCow It added 36 magazines.
21:21 🔗 SketchCow So I guess that works out.
21:21 🔗 SketchCow I watched it, but I didn't need to "do" anything.
21:24 🔗 db48x2 awesome
21:30 🔗 SketchCow OK, new one running.
21:30 🔗 SketchCow 76 issues.
21:30 🔗 SketchCow Adding a new one every 7 seconds.
21:31 🔗 db48x2 friendster.004300001-004399999.tar.bz2
21:31 🔗 db48x2 367420145664 98% 929.69kB/s 2:00:41
21:31 🔗 db48x2 looks like that file may eventually finish
22:20 🔗 dashcloud hi SketchCow, I'm hoping to convince my company to donate the old IT materials they're planning to throw out to the Internet Archive, but I don't see any info on physical donations
22:22 🔗 SketchCow I can take it
22:22 🔗 SketchCow I can give you an address
22:22 🔗 SketchCow how much is this
22:24 🔗 dashcloud gotta go take care of something real quick- tell you more when I get back
22:35 🔗 dashcloud okay- back
22:36 🔗 dashcloud right now, a box or so
22:39 🔗 chronomex SketchCow: I asked about microfiche more in respect to suggestions for image acquisition; I've got a few thousand film sheets of assembly listings that I'd love to have in digital form.
23:23 🔗 SketchCow OK
23:23 🔗 SketchCow Well, there's people and processes at archive.org.
23:27 🔗 underscor Is there an easy way to do an alpha shell expansion in bash?
23:27 🔗 underscor There has to be
23:27 🔗 underscor Something like "mkdir [a..z]"
23:27 🔗 underscor that makes "a" "b" "c" "d" etc
23:32 🔗 Ymgve python!
23:32 🔗 Ymgve (or perl)
23:32 🔗 underscor yeay
23:32 🔗 underscor yeah*
23:32 🔗 underscor That's what I ended up doing
23:33 🔗 underscor I was just surprised it's not a builtin
23:37 🔗 SketchCow Later forms like Bash or so on might have it
23:37 🔗 SketchCow Not sh
23:58 🔗 underscor I'm using zsh
23:58 🔗 underscor actually, bash for this script

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