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thumbup.gif posted on 9-4-2007 at 08:54
new backup available


The first new backup since December 2005 is now available. As usual, it comes in two parts:
sm_main.zip contains the essential elements (HTML and a few frequently used images) and occupies 69,672,886 bytes.

sm_media.zip contains copies of attachments and images that appeared inline within posts. It occupies 444,244,132 bytes.

Some threads appear to have a sort of display glitch at the end, probably because the HTML hasn't been cleanly manipulated. Please let me know if you encounter other problems.




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[*] posted on 9-4-2007 at 14:08


I can't download any of them.



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[*] posted on 9-4-2007 at 14:37


The downloads work fine for me. What error do you get, and what browser/OS are you using?



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[*] posted on 9-4-2007 at 17:20


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sm_media.zip contains copies of attachments and images that appeared inline within posts. It occupies 444,244,132 bytes.


.....does this means all the articles uploaded and posted are enclosed? .......solo

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[*] posted on 9-4-2007 at 17:38


Solo, only attachments that appear in the regular public forums are included. There are no posts or attachments from References, Whimsy, or Detritus included. I might be able to do a backup of References too, but that archive would be distributed separately, probably with a link within References.



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[*] posted on 11-4-2007 at 01:50


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What error do you get, and what browser/OS are you using?


I am using Internet explorer. It says: Internet explorer cannot download sm_media. zip (or sm_ain.zip if I click on it). An unexpected error has occurred.




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[*] posted on 11-4-2007 at 04:03


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What error do you get, and what browser/OS are you using?


I am using Internet explorer. It says: Internet explorer cannot download sm_media. zip (or sm_ain.zip if I click on it). An unexpected error has occurred.


Don't. Get Opera, or FireFox; both have no trouble downloading the files.
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[*] posted on 11-4-2007 at 10:36


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Don't. Get Opera, or FireFox; both have no trouble downloading the files.


Now it works.


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[*] posted on 1-3-2008 at 17:30


Any chance of getting a current backup ?
There has been a lot of useful information posted
since last years backup , and it should definitely
be archived and distributed as insurance against
data loss .
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[*] posted on 1-3-2008 at 23:49


Yes, so where are the new ones? No pressure or anything...

You know what would be great? A way to automatically update the archive every month or so... So people can update their archives every so often just in case. That would take up a lot of bandwidth though. I doubt whoever hosts this site gives unlimited bandwidth (ironically, I have unlimited bandwidth on my DSL account... That's a max of 60kb/s upstream though. So, at that speed my BW in a month would be... 160GB, not bad. Downspeed would be much better at a max of 350kb/s. That's nearly 1TB a month downstream). If I had a static IP I would be more than willing to host the archives and maybe even a few articles and whatnot. It would have to be limited to 20kb/s to 2 people at a time though. Anyway, just pipe dreams.


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[*] posted on 22-3-2008 at 08:49


The first new backup in almost a year is now available. As usual, it comes in two parts:
sm_main.zip contains the essential elements (HTML and a few frequently used images) and occupies 91,369,901 bytes.

sm_media.zip contains copies of attachments and images that appeared inline within posts. It occupies 721,167,841 bytes.




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