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Offline Sandwich

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Reply #40 on: July 12, 2004, 03:54:01 pm
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Not likely.

IIRC the NW database drops by just under a half.


Ok, just looked at it. It's 800mb, 150mb of which is the attachments table.

I tested compression with the "word" table, which is at 27.5mb. It downloaded as a 3.14mb gzipped file, at a constant 70kbps for me. So the compression is not too shabby (for that table, at leasst) at all, but it did take a while for the server to compress the file before sending it - around 90 secs or so.
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Reply #41 on: July 12, 2004, 04:26:13 pm
DAAAMN!!!!!! :(

How much survived?!
I wanted to get every mission, every campaign, every mod that has ever been put on VW before it went under!

The thought of all that hard work just going BLAT hurts like hell!

I began slowly pulling down the archives, but most of the files I've pulled so far are so corrupted that I can barely salvage the zip file!
 

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Reply #42 on: July 12, 2004, 04:58:20 pm
I only got the first four top rated missions, and one campaign...:(
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Reply #43 on: July 12, 2004, 05:55:47 pm
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Ok, just looked at it. It's 800mb, 150mb of which is the attachments table.

I tested compression with the "word" table, which is at 27.5mb. It downloaded as a 3.14mb gzipped file, at a constant 70kbps for me. So the compression is not too shabby (for that table, at leasst) at all, but it did take a while for the server to compress the file before sending it - around 90 secs or so.

That seems......odd.
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Reply #44 on: July 12, 2004, 07:49:46 pm
yeah it doesn't seem right :-/

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How much survived?!
I wanted to get every mission, every campaign, every mod that has ever been put on VW before it went under!


the archives are still working... well most of them ;) :D
only the forums got 'hacked'
 

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Reply #45 on: July 12, 2004, 07:57:08 pm
Just the forums that were deleted...the Archives is intact although none of us have FTP access (been that way for a while).
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Reply #46 on: July 12, 2004, 10:09:00 pm
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the guy posted with Remora's screenname explaining how to fix the problem... no one saw it but me and Snipes i don't think.  it was posted in the announcement forum.


I missed this before. But we were the only ones who saw it? Too bad there was nothing I could have done.

Does anyone know if it was the same person?
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Reply #47 on: July 12, 2004, 11:15:01 pm
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Originally posted by Raa


I missed this before. But we were the only ones who saw it? Too bad there was nothing I could have done.

Does anyone know if it was the same person?


That who posted that thread in announcement forum
was not Remora someone was using his Screen name that I knew

when VWBB was hacked I was before that there then REmora or someone using Remora's Screen name did come there after few minutes there was pic and nothing else
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Reply #48 on: July 13, 2004, 12:26:30 am
I saw the "Remora" post as well... about the calendar being a vulnerability.

Oh, and I just unzipped the 3.1Mb gzip of the "words" table - it's a 16.6Mb file, as opposed to a 27Mb MySQL table.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #49 on: July 13, 2004, 05:52:44 am
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yeah it doesn't seem right :-/


Out of curiosity, what about it doesn't seem right?
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Reply #50 on: July 13, 2004, 09:24:21 pm
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Out of curiosity, what about it doesn't seem right?


i overestimated the file sizes.  no biggie ;)
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