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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by NineBerry » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:44 pm

Have you tried the alternative links mentioned in http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 15#p376615 ?

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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by Hermit » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:49 pm

Thanks, Kevin. I'll try Mozilla next, I suppose. Need to download it first, but it'll be worth the effort (provided it solves the problem, whatever it is).

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NineBerry wrote:Have you tried the alternative links mentioned in http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 15#p376615 ?
Whoops. Missed that post somehow. Still mystified why the downloads terminate prematurely, though.
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by NineBerry » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:57 pm

Seraph wrote:Still mystified why the downloads terminate prematurely, though.
Not enough disk space?

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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by Hermit » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:17 pm

NineBerry wrote:
Seraph wrote:Still mystified why the downloads terminate prematurely, though.
Not enough disk space?
New computer with nothing on it and a 1TB HD.

I just downloaded Firefox and am about to have another tilt at downloading your fantastic effort.
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by johnawlock » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:37 pm

Charlou wrote:I can't tell you how much I appreciate this NineBerry. You've undertaken to do for the RDF community something Josh Timonen couldn't be arsed to do for months, and that is give the membership ready access to the post history of their forum.
That's really very true...

Moreover the Amazing Nineberry just got me back my own posts. And its not even gobbledegook (apart from the Robert Byers bits :lol: ). Completely readable. Je suis un lapin tres content.. :clap: :clap: Many thanks!

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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you!

Post by Pappa » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:56 pm

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lordpasternack wrote:I cannot express in words my debt of gratitude to the hard work of all you guys who are working to archive that forum. I think we should club together and maybe get some small gifts for those concerned. You really are gems. :cheers: :hugs:
Yeah. Well done NineB. You should get a key to the Rationalia executive mini-bar now! :td:
He gets access to the stash-pile too. :flowerboy:
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by NineBerry » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:42 pm

I don't do drugs. Or alcohol.

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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by klr » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:50 pm

johnawlock wrote:
Charlou wrote:I can't tell you how much I appreciate this NineBerry. You've undertaken to do for the RDF community something Josh Timonen couldn't be arsed to do for months, and that is give the membership ready access to the post history of their forum.
That's really very true...

Moreover the Amazing Nineberry just got me back my own posts. And its not even gobbledegook (apart from the Robert Byers bits :lol: ). Completely readable. Je suis un lapin tres content.. :clap: :clap: Many thanks!
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Post by Pappa » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:58 pm

NineBerry wrote:I don't do drugs. Or alcohol.
Sugar?
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by NineBerry » Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:00 am

Pappa wrote:
NineBerry wrote:I don't do drugs. Or alcohol.
Sugar?
I am sugar!

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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

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Pappa wrote:
NineBerry wrote:I don't do drugs. Or alcohol.
Sugar?
I am sugar!
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by Hermit » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:35 am

WOW! :woot:

Finally got the download completed on the fourth attempt, installed 7-zip, extracted the files to a folder I named 'RDF archive' with a shortcut to the index file on the desktop. Works as advertised. You guys did a fucking fantastic job.

Thank you so much NineBerry and fuck you!*

Now I'll just have to explore ways of searching by keyword, author/keyword combination and so on.


*Sorry, I just could not resist to make use of the ambiguity that can be created with your aliases.
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by charlou » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:39 am

NineBerry wrote:
Pappa wrote:
NineBerry wrote:I don't do drugs. Or alcohol.
Sugar?
I am sugar!
Indeed, you are :flowers:


Many thanks again, to all the people who have worked to save the content of the former RDF forum and make it available to us. :cheers: :huggeroo:
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by Hermit » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:43 am

Looks like there were more deletions since you archived what was available of the site. You preserved 4434 of Topsy's posts. Now Stalin Timonen has turned her into Nikolai Yezhov, People's Kommissar for Internal Affairs,
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which is particularly ironic from my point of view, considering that I was awarded a board warning for calling her a Commissar.
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Re: Saved RDF threads - thank you

Post by fuck you & fuck your god » Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:06 am

Seraph wrote:WOW! :woot:

Finally got the download completed on the fourth attempt, installed 7-zip, extracted the files to a folder I named 'RDF archive' with a shortcut to the index file on the desktop. Works as advertised. You guys did a fucking fantastic job.

Thank you so much NineBerry and fuck you!*

Now I'll just have to explore ways of searching by keyword, author/keyword combination and so on.


*Sorry, I just could not resist to make use of the ambiguity that can be created with your aliases.
It has such marvelous possibilities, here it looks like you are saying to NineBerry "Thanks and fuck you", that isn't very nice!!! Especially considering he did all the work, I just 'caddied' a bit for him.

Alas, my fit of pique dwindled to an indolent crankiness and upon entering our new home, I once again changed my name to 'crank'. Thank you for helping me get some good mileage out of that one :td:
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