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.
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?
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.
Yes, but once you unzip it, it's a very large HTML file.
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.
And if there anything Matt knows how to do, it's unzip something to get something large.
Tip yer waitresses.
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.
The unzipping's not the problem, nor do I think it's a memory issue (I have 1024 MB RAM on my work computer, and a 1.4 GHz processor). Whatever the problem is, it's hitting me when I try to open the saved html file in IE. Large threadsucks tend to take a while to process, but they don't freeze the program up like the archived threads do.
This did motivate me to look into installing a newer version of Netscape, so maybe I'll have luck with that. (Hopefully it's not all buggy like 7.0 was...)
ETA: Netscape 7.1 seems to handle it just fine. I still have no idea why IE locks up trying to open the files, though.
There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.
Okay, where the $$&#&(@#& are the developers?
Posted in Movies. Post went through anyway. The problem's probably on my end, since I've been having Internet issues all day (pages not loading on the first try), but just notifying.
