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Downloading archives
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:12 pm
by TyVulpine
I recall that downloading the archives used to be possible. I bought a laptop yesterday and wanted to download O&M, but don't see the download option anymore...
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:18 pm
by Kojiro
It's probably to increase sales of originals and the books.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:22 pm
by TyVulpine
Hmmm, true....but not all the strips are in the books. Some of the guest strips for instance.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:10 am
by Dr. Doog
that doesn't make much sense, since all the strips are there for free there's no reason to withhold an archive of them.
DCS probably just didn't bother putting it there when he switched to Keenspot.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:47 am
by Mista_B
Not to mention the bandwidth usage and lost ad revenue from a big dl like that. Still, a script would be pretty easy to set up, if you don't have a problem with hammering the O&M servers. <.<
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:50 am
by VenM2
Good thing I got most of the archives before it was taken off. However I still buy the books.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:01 am
by Kyler Thatch
This looks like a job for the
Wayback Machine! I lost my copy of the archives to a blown-up motherboard, but I managed to get most of the zipped archives from there.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:19 am
by TyVulpine
I have the books up to Tofu Knights, but I'd still like to get the archives...
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:54 pm
by The MAZZTer
He was updating the archive ZIPs every day... that's tedious work (well, I suppose it could be relatively easy to automate but only if you know how to do such things).
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:56 pm
by CodeCat
Wait, so you mean there's no PHP at all in the whole O&M site? What happens if he ever decides to change the layout?
*shudders at the thought*
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:08 pm
by Kyler Thatch
So there's no problem with manually downloading the individual strips? I was worrying about that when the ZIP achives disappeared...
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:38 pm
by Dr. Doog
no, he used a script that his friend coded for him on the old website. I assume that means he used PHP.
Now, of course, he uses the Keenspot engine.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:16 pm
by Richard K Niner
I assume that means he used PHP.
Seems like an odd assumption, considering that PHP is meant to run as either a CGI interpreter or a module for the webserver (and is not a very good CLI).
Perl, Python, and Ruby, however...
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:56 pm
by TyVulpine
So there's no problem with manually downloading the individual strips? I was worrying about that when the ZIP achives disappeared...
I really don't feel like downloading strip-by-strip...
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:35 pm
by Dr. Doog
I assume that means he used PHP.
Seems like an odd assumption, considering that PHP is meant to run as either a CGI interpreter or a module for the webserver (and is not a very good CLI).
Perl, Python, and Ruby, however...
/me got nerdslapped