Re: [gopher] Gopher Archive Torrent Now Available (incl. hal3000.cx)
On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:20 PM 4/27/10, John Goerzen wrote:
It's live! Download your .torrent here:
http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/Full%20Gopher%20Archive%20from%202007.torrent
Or, for a short URL:
http://bit.ly/cyY0Sv
Please start downloading ASAP; I won't be able to seed forever.
I don't know how to get these things indexed on the search engines,
so if any of you would like to add it to them, that would be great.
I am presently seeding off my home DSL, which is capped at about
20-40KB/s upstream, alas. Tomorrow I will bring some better
bandwidth to bear on it as well.
I am downloading as fast as I can!! ;-) Seriously though I have a
1.5M down/768k up so I should finish sometime tomorrow hopefully. And
since I have a business Speakeasy connection it should seed as well.
Not the fastest but definitely stable.
This torrent includes the tar.bz2 file that was on the 4-DVD set.
Also on that set was a rare video interview with two Gopher
founders, Mark McCahill and Farhad Anklesaria. That video is also
included in the torrent. Finally, the source code to the gopher
spidering bot I used, a dump of the PostgreSQL table behind the
spider, and a dump of the file list of the tar file is included.
All told, this is a 15GB download, and all but about 500M of that is
the main tar.bz2.
The tar.bz2 itself contains 780238 files or directories and unpacks
to roughly 40GB of data. It was made in June 2007. If you just
want to see what's in the archive, you can start by downloading only
tar-filelist.bz2 from inside this torrent. README.TXT also contains
an index to the contents.
Of note to recent discussions:
1503 files/directories exist from hal3000.cx
Finally, it should be noted that this thing saved directories
in .gophermap format, and as such this archive should be able to be
served directly by both Pygopherd and Bucktooth.
I'm definitely looking forward to digging through all this. Is there
any policy on putting any of it up on my server with a disclaimer or
something? (I could easily dedicate a Cobalt box to the task of
running gophernicus/pygopherd/etc. to serve this stuff up.)
--
Mike
"All we wanna do is eat your brains! We're not unreasonable, I mean no
one's gonna eat your eyes." - Re: Brains, Jonathan Coultan
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