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You may want to edit this part of your initial post:
To reflect the current file size and hash tag.
I'm currently downloading the latest version and shall offer it up via my website as an alt. download.
All that glitters isn't gold.
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Latest now available.
http://criminally-inclined.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=58&a...
http://criminally-inclined.com/download/sm_offline.zip
All that glitters isn't gold.
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quicksilver
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Quote: Originally posted by Aqua_Fortis_100%  |
Yeah, it was difficult to find a decent torrent archive and yet was very frustrating compared with the good/old E&W board. The domain roguesci .
org is basically a live museum now, dead.
Many thanks to people here and adm himself (Polverone) initiatives to have an active backup on SMDB.
Now with pigs trying to pass this SOPA/PIPA threat, means of legitimate forum defense and the continuity of science discussion are (more than before)
vital. Backup is one of these ways.
This is my favourite forum and it cant be vanished in anyway. NEVER!
Long life to SMDB!
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Actually, there was an exceptionally in-depth backup of the E&W Forum that was surprisingly complete. If I am correct it was posted about two or
three months before the actual E&W Form really disappeared. It actually took up more space than the backup design for SciMad but that may have
been due to simply a different style of backup. but everything was there.
It was only on PirateBay for about sixty days then it was gone. Another one was posed but that was just the HTTP copy. I think even that's gone also.
The backup concept for SciMad was a good idea as it runs independently. The one I saw a couple months back was good.
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ethicalhacker
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After working with Polverone to resolve an issue I had with the official site backup, the following notes emerged.
1) Windows 7's integrated zip handler is unable to extract the site backup zip file (complains about needing 734PB of free disk space). Extracting
with a 3rd party program resolves this issue.
2) Most every VMDK reader/writer/converter that runs on Windows will not be able to use the VMDK file contained within the site backup. If one wishes
to use this VMDK in a non-prescribed manner, one must first import it into Virtual Box. The import process creates a mostly copied but slightly
modified VMDK. One can then use the imported VMDK for various non-standard purposes.
Polverone tells me that the VMDK is generated on a Linux box, so my theory is that the VMDK contained within the site backup has some Linux file
headers. Naturally, most Windows applications don't take that into account. Virtual Box, being a cross-platform application, probably makes the
necessary modifications during the import process.
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National Hazard
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I have no issues using W7's own zip tool (W7 Ultimate)
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Polverone
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Wizzard is now seeding the backup: http://www.sciencemadness.org/scipics/Science%20Madness%20Fo...
From now on backups will typically be distributed via bittorrent Note also that this backup, dating from early May, is in .ova Open Virtualization
Format. I appreciate any members who are willing to continue seeding.
PGP Key and corresponding e-mail address
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Rosco Bodine
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What is the tracker ? I get an error message on that.
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Wizzard
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No idea what's causing the issue, but the torrent seems fine.
Trackers are openbittorrent and publicbt... I have 2 other people downloading now 
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Rosco Bodine
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Everthting is working okay now. Upgraded old P2P client to Bit Torrent. I was using the old Bit Tornado and it wouldn't cooperate.
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madcedar
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Is it possible to do rsync style incremental backup every four or six months?
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woelen
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I tried to download the sciencemadness backup just to have another place where it can be stored, but I obtain the following error:
error: Problem connecting to tracker - ('url error', 'unknown url type', 'udp',
'udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce?info_hash=%E91r%9Ct%AC%D7%03%DB%FA%18%04%60s%F5%83%B5J%B3%88&peer_id=T03I-----khTYUeTo0ZU&supportcrypt
o=1&port=49181&uploaded=0&downloaded=0&left=4817457152&no_peer_id=1&compact=1&event=started&key=idEM3D')
I use torrentflux for downloading torrents and that program works fine with other torrents.
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AndersHoveland
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Is it possible to place a priority on some threads, so that not every last thread has to backed up?
You could make available two back up copies: one containing all the threads, and another that does not contain the not so important threads, to reduce
storage space.
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That would require a fair bit of time consuming work, and what you find to be a priority, someone else may not. It works just fine as it is.
All that glitters isn't gold.
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Polverone
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The first new backup in several months should be available in a few hours. It is now about 5.3 GB. U2U me if you can seed a torrent or host a copy on
web/ftp space. I can provide copies to a few people directly from the web site here, but it will take too much bandwidth to allow everyone direct http
download.
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As per the u2u, I can host the backup if required.
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Polverone
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This backup is current to the beginning of March. It is 5,221,074,432 bytes, md5 hash 44518ee04178bd2ba3ea4971d6473516.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This is a format designed for use with VirtualBox.
I don't actually need third party hosting, though I would still welcome it, since the provider I use for this site has just increased the monthly
bandwidth allocation by 10 times.
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Polverone
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This backup is current to May 15. It is 5,428,217,856 bytes, md5 hash 6c73f96175a56cd0938823a751b68fb7.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This is a format designed for use with VirtualBox.
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Polverone
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This backup is current to August 2. It is 5,635,886,080 bytes, md5 hash 1bc1d2f46cc9a28f3982dce3b8059fa4.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This is a format designed for use with VirtualBox.
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Polverone
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This backup is current to September 10. It is 5,726,903,808 bytes, md5 hash e71f082660c3ba27a246ced1d147540f.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This is a format designed for use with VirtualBox.
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bfesser
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Backup Torrent [Finally] Online
I've created a torrent of this backup and set up a
dedicated Raspberry Pi seed.
Attachment: SM-offline2.ova.torrent (14kB)
This file has been downloaded 1243 times
Trackers:
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
I hope this helps.
[update] I've since disconnected the RasPi to use for other tasks, as no activity was observed. If anyone wants it, U2U me, and I'll seed again for
a while.
[Edited on 14.10.13 by bfesser]
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Couldn't get the offline portion to function with VirtualBox but did get it to work with VMWare and one notice to lax hardware profile standards.
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Polverone
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This backup is current to February 7. It is 6,281,758,720 bytes, md5 hash 0da7ac78076d0c965c768139533806d6.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This is a format designed for use with VirtualBox.
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Polverone
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This backup is current to May 29. It is 6,509,149,184 bytes, md5 hash 9767d1240af4cce0659710c4c87fd475.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This is a format designed for use with VirtualBox.
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food
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improved drop-in search for vm archive
Hi. Firstly a big thanks to Polverone, and anyone else concerned, for making available the offline archive.
tl;dr The attached file contains everything needed to easily and greatly enhance the search in the offline archive.
I was looking at the search form and code in the offline archive. The search is very poor. While searchers of the live, online, site can be pointed at
google for site specific searches the offline nature of the archive rules this out. I was looking at trying to improve the existing sql when I came
across the Sphinx open source search server project and decided to give it a go. One thing led to another, and the result is the attached file. The
version of Sphinx that would be available through the vm package management software would be version 0.9.8, which is probably getting out of date.
I've compiled the current version of sphinx, 2.2.5, and made a .deb file for easy installation.
Unpacking the attached file in the vm and running the INSTALL_SPHINX.sh will install Sphinx, create a Sphinx index, add an alternate form page and
some associated database entries, and include Sphinx in the startup process.
If you use the vm at all I'd encourage you try this out. The addition of Sphinx in no way alters the existing functionality; the new search is
performed from an added php form. If the new search turns out to be buggy, and I'm not seeing that yet, then you need only revert to using the old
one. Those who are interested can easily tweak the added search via the code in the php form, and/or reindexing with new parameters.
Disclaimer: I had to resolve different bugs as I shoehorned this thing in. I think that it's good now, but perhaps it may be considered a beta
version.
Attachment: sphinx-2.2.5-scimad.tgz (7.5MB)
This file has been downloaded 1239 times
[Edited on 14-11-2014 by food]
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Polverone
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The archive has been updated. It is now current to 12 December 2014. This update was delayed longer than usual because the archive has grown in size
such that I had to resize the underlying virtual disk image before I could produce another release.
Food, that looks like an excellent contribution and I'm sorry I missed seeing it before I prepared this release. I will try it and include it in the
next release if it looks to be stable.
https://www.sciencemadness.org/archive/SM-offline2.ova
This release is 8,108,819,456 bytes in size, md5 hash a069264c7ca792f37054870a92061bec.
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