Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:44:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Libretto Archives?
> The archives at libretto.basiclink.com are updated when I get time these
> days. Sorry for the delay on the latest update. As far as I know the
> searchable archive is not longer around. If anyone knows where it has gone
> let me know and I will once again add it to he footer.
Actually, it's a bigger problem than that.
The ol' searchable archives apparently run off some Unix box that's still/was
linked from my web site (below) is now inactive/dead/gone. Apparently,
G.Taylor (?) who had maintained it isn't anymore.
However, luckily, I had asked him to sent a TAR-ball of the entire thing
before it had gone down (maybe a few months missing at the end at most), and
I've still got it here on my Libretto CD.
Now, in order to make the archives searchable once more, someone has to host
the archives, interface it with a web search page and backend engine, etc. I
wish I could, but the uncompressed archives take dozens of MB more than I've
got on my own account.
Maybe a free web site has CGI search capabilities, but I haven't had a chance
yet to look for one that does that'll handle the size of the archives, and
allow some custom scripting to archive new ones.
The ol' archives simply archived each email posting as a unique number
counting up from 1 as individual 'unix mail' files, so luckily, it's quite
simply to throw back onto any unix/linux box. Something on the order of over
20K messages...
Of course, later this year (hopefully by Xmas), I'll have had scanned in all
of my Libertto articles/clippings/paper stuff that I've collected over the
years onto CD so everyone can buy a copy for reference. This CD currently
includes lots of stuff that is gone from the web, from Japanese magazines
unavailable elsewhere, all the downloads, drivers, etc.
Again, sadly, my account doesn't come with 650MB of storage space ;) so there
won't be an online version of the entire CD when it's finished. It's too bad
I'm in no-man's-land over here -- the local companies say I'm out of DSL and
Cable Modem reach -- otherwise, I'd just setup my own local server at home.
d =)
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