Perhaps we should set up a "maps" subdomain here?
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jon B. - Jul 16, 2004 8:05:19 am PDT #8038 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
amych - Jul 16, 2004 8:09:27 am PDT #8039 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Congrats, Gus, even though we'll miss your maps something awful.
Gus - Jul 16, 2004 8:30:55 am PDT #8040 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
amych, I think we'll be able make it so you don't have to pine for the maps.
There was some thought at one point of hooking the username from a Buffistas session, so it does not have to be sent separately. I did some refactoring after that discussion that probably needs revisiting, with that in mind. Also, the data is very different from the last archive, so here is the latest: zip
If we don't want to hook into the Buffistas identity system, that zip can just be unzipped into a directory './map' off the document root, preserving file structure. The "./map/data" subdirectory should be chmod'ed for the doc-server having 'write', as the mapping stuff writes/updates files in there.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 16, 2004 8:33:32 am PDT #8041 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is there a specific Mac web browser that's required to open the archived thread files? I previously thought it was just my archaic system and software at home that was keeping me from accessing the files, but they're freezing up my work computer too.
I'm running Internet Explorer 5.2.3 (the most recent Mac version I could find) on a 1.4 GHz G4 with system 10.2.5, which theoretically should be plenty to handle any html files. Should I install Opera or Safari, or is there some tweak I can make to IE to fix this?
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 8:36:37 am PDT #8042 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, they're zip files, aren't they? You need an unzipping utility. I don't see what your browser has to do with anything.
Dana - Jul 16, 2004 8:37:36 am PDT #8043 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yes, but once you unzip it, it's a very large HTML file.
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2004 8:37:50 am PDT #8044 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How much memory do you have on your system?
My 900 Mhz G3 iBook has 640 Meg of RAM. It takes a while, but Mozilla eventually gets it open.
I don't think I ever used IE to open an archived thread. I've de-installed it so I can't test it now.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2004 8:38:18 am PDT #8045 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, there's the rub.
Aims - Jul 16, 2004 8:38:49 am PDT #8046 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
And if there anything Matt knows how to do, it's unzip something to get something large.
Tip yer waitresses.
DXMachina - Jul 16, 2004 9:50:18 am PDT #8047 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If you can threadsuck an entire thread, you should be able to open one of the HTML files in the archives, because all they are are saved threadsucks. On a Mac, you may need some software to open the zip file to get at the HTML file, but Stuffit will do it, and I'm sure there are other utilities that can. FWIW, I've been able to open the HTML files in Netscape 4.78 on a PII-266 machine with Win 95 installed with no problem other than it taking a couple of minutes to load. I realize it's now a Mac, but it's hardly state of the art.