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Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:32 pm
by Scott of Hyperborea
Three or four years ago, SHINE was working on a way to easily back up all the threads in the EZBoard Shireroth forum, and Ari taught me a way to do it using something called wget.

According to legend EZBoard is now in the process of deleting most of their old forums. A few places are already destroyed by them or by the great EZBoard hacking of whenever that was or by something else, but some others, like Menelmacar, seem pretty intact and I'd like to keep them.

Does Ari or anyone else still remember how we did Operation Ruby Trout?

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:37 pm
by Kaiser Mors V
You should be able to google how to use wget. it's a basic(ish) unix program.

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:32 pm
by Jacobus Loki
EZboard is in the process of converting boards to Yuku, which in my not so humble opinion, sucketh worse than ezBoard did, which takes some work.

It seems as if they are aspiring to become a myspace wannabe.

If there is a way to back-up ezboards, I'd love to know. I've got a couple worth archiving.

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:44 pm
by Maksym Hadjimehmetov
Yes. EzBoards were always extremely difficult to use or indeed do anything with, ironically. Maybe we ought to back up some of the oldest EzBoard mns, like Angsax and Menelmacar- just so the deletions don't cause even more pointless external links on microwiki and shirewiki.

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:39 pm
by osmose1000

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:03 am
by Jacobus Loki
:moose :moose :moose :)

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:19 pm
by Kaiser Mors V
Where is Ari these days anyways? I haven't seen much of him.

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:29 pm
by Jess
he had cancer, I thinketh

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:52 pm
by Andreas the Wise
Jess, don't say such horrible things ... :angry
Unless he joined Uantir ... they have a King named Ari ...

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:13 am
by Scott of Hyperborea
I'm pleased to report Menelmacar is downloading onto my computer now.

Re: Operation Ruby Trout

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:15 am
by Kaiser Mors V
Go Scott go...