seeing as 68kmla, is a concept, I think it's just good to hear that there will once again be 68kmla presence upon the net.

Why aren't the actual administrators or moderators of 68kMLA coming forth and saying any of this?

I don't actually mind the prospect of a new forum system though, phpBB2 is definitely a bit of a "heavy" system, even here at the PPC it feels a bit heavy considering what the topic is.

Vanilla, as an example, seems to be a system that can retain organization, but that is really elegant and I think represents what we're about as a community. Plus - the forum I've got set up at http://134.114.127.122/forum/ even shows up in NT4's IE2, even though it looks odd, everything is functional.

NOOOOOoooooooOOoOoOOO!!!

I mean good but ah cr@p about the backups.

As proposed elsewhere I say get the hard drive from the host server and take up a collection for data recovery - maybe in conjunction with other clients on the same machine

we should start a collection to get the data recovered professionally. If the hosting company still has the hard drive, then they should release it, and we can all donate something like 10 or 20 dollars (american), as PDR costs almost 1k.

-digital

Do none of the clever people here (ie anyone except me as I'm dumb and don't know anything about programming! ) know how to write some script/program etc that gathers all the posts from Google Cache (as I've suggested before), and reform that into a forum, or at least some kind of archive?

Actually, I just poked at google's cache again, and it looks like a lot of the stuff is gone.

You can find what I was able to grab here: http://lisa.sunder.net/68kmla-gcache.tar.bz2 That archive is only 672K. Uncompressed it's about 15mb. The data's in the HTML pages.

The query I originally used to pass to google no longer returns any data, so it's been purged and this is likely the only copy there is. Searching for 68kmla and a few other terms does return some pages, but very few...

If you know of a way to conver those html pages back into something useable by the PHP board, that would be very helpful. You'd probably also want to remove the color highlighting of the terms that google's search introduced and clean up the html a bit too.

But there it is.

wat about a search in archive.org?

They haven't got anything since April 2006, and even then they seem to have caught only the index page

http://web.archive.org/web/*/68kmla.net/viewtopic.php*

Don't click it, copy and paste the whole line.

It seems to be pretty much all from November 2005 though I think they have their own backup that goes up to about February 2006; doesn't look like there's much there that's newer than that.

So I was able to grab all the pages from archive.org based on the search criteria found here.

I've not yet looked at the HTML, but you can download it here:

http://lisaem.sunder.net/68kmla-archive.tar.bz2

So the final step is to write something to extract the posts from the HTML, etc.

I suspect between google and archive.org we should have most of the old posts.