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Postby TyVulpine » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:12 pm

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...
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Postby Kojiro » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:18 pm

It's probably to increase sales of originals and the books.
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Postby TyVulpine » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:22 pm

Hmmm, true....but not all the strips are in the books. Some of the guest strips for instance.
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Postby Dr. Doog » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:10 am

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.
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Postby Mista_B » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:47 am

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. <.<
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Postby VenM2 » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:50 am

Good thing I got most of the archives before it was taken off. However I still buy the books.
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Postby Kyler Thatch » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:01 am

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.
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Postby TyVulpine » Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:19 am

I have the books up to Tofu Knights, but I'd still like to get the archives...
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Postby The MAZZTer » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:54 pm

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).
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Postby CodeCat » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:56 pm

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?

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Postby Kyler Thatch » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:08 pm

So there's no problem with manually downloading the individual strips? I was worrying about that when the ZIP achives disappeared...
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Postby Dr. Doog » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:38 pm

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.
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Postby Richard K Niner » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:16 pm

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...
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Postby TyVulpine » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:56 pm

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...
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Postby Dr. Doog » Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:35 pm

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
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