[Nukey]

I have a backup of the latest online version of the InfoSuite on my hard-drive, but TerminX has already saved me the trouble.

I attempted to contact Kim through multiple e-mail addresses before, no luck. Presumably they all forward to the same account.

[TerminX]

Bleh, my mirroring of DN-R failed so I have to re-do it. I tried to leech the site too quickly and it looks like I overran the CPU usage quota on whatever hosting Kim was using so a bunch of the pages came out with ridiculous 2 minute long generation times and interrupted content. Running it again now with a 2 second delay between each request to prevent the CPU usage from building up again... going to take quite a bit longer this way, though.

Edit: Nukey, do you want a Duke4.net hosting account? The copy I put up is of course just a static copy of the output of whatever php you were running so it would be a lot better to actually have the site up again, especially if you plan on updating it at any point.

[Gambini]

Great work you´re doing TX no matter how small is what you can recover. It´s better than lossing the site at all.

And the good thing is: We finally rid of sanek

[Shawneth]

Oh, I bet he will find his way here you know...

[TerminX]

Okay, here's the result of my latest recovery attempt: http://wiki.eduke32....repository.com/

It's not perfect but it does the job of preserving the content.

[Gambini]

Great! The maps listing seems to be intact! at least from what i could see

[Shawneth]

Thank goodness that we saved this site, probably one of the good saves of the Duke community.

[HellFire]

yeah thanks for saving duke repository.
BTW why not create an subdomain like for example repository.duke4.net and move the entire thing to that place? Then we could keep it alive, more reviews could be posted, more maps and etcetera. If nothing is planned to be added to duke4.net itself then i think this is a good idea.

[TerminX]

Extra content can't be added to the mirrored version because it's just a static copy of the output of the php that ran the real site.

[RazorZ]

I would also suggest to move the content somewhere else. Who knows what will happen to the content, if it stays there too long. Probably we will totally lost it or partly or luckily nothing at all, but it still is a big question mark. Too bad that Duke4.net hasn´t page for map reviews outside the forums. Mikko´s site is great for reviews and other stuff, at least it works properly, but because it consists of his own reviews, we can´t push him to review every single unreviewed map on the Repository.

Constructive ideas are welcome.

[TerminX]

Well, some sort of actual CMS could be installed onto dukeworld.duke4.net and the reviews and whatnot that I salvaged from DNR could be added in. Then, whoever wants to actually spend time reviewing maps could have an account with which to post them.

[t800]

Thank you TX for great work with saving data from Duke Repository.

[TerminX]

No problem. It's always worth my time to help the Duke community, even if it's trying to save the "competition."

[High Treason]

I also wish to thank you for saving that. It seems to work well enough anyway.

[t800]

Somebody should replace the 1.0 version of Nuclear showdown on that site with the actual one (1.1) with included fix for latest EDuke32.
Sorry, I know this is stupid idea. You just recovered that site, you dont aim to keep it actual, right?

[Shawneth]

Hold up, will we be able to access the forums and still post like before?

[TerminX]

No, of course not.

[Shawneth]

...Well looks like the repository is gone for me then .

[Gambini]

Although ¨oporix¨´s question was stupid, I´m having this idea:

- You can make a subforum and put it inside the Repository

- Preferably, and only if it´s barely possible, including the old content of it.

- You give admin powers to this guy Forge, so he can moderate that subforum, keep doing reviews and upload these reviews in this recovered front page.

It may sound crazy and i know it would require a lot of work, but you´d be the guy that brought to life again The Repository almost as it was before and i know Forge would love to manage this site as his taste. He were doing it already somehow since most reviews there were submitted by him.

[TerminX]

Nah dude, even if it was possible (it's not), I wouldn't be interested in the forum aspect of that. I was never a fan of the fragmentation in Duke forums, and not just because I want to control everything. I always thought it was stupid to have this forum plus AMC plus DNR, and I felt the same way before this community moved here instead of 3DR and before AMC lost whatever it lost that cast it into irrelevancy. There's just not much point trying to breathe life into a dead site after even its creator has long since gotten bored and moved on, especially when there are active sites that aren't in any danger of having that happen.

[Gambini]

Fair enough. However, sometimes a fragmentation is necessary. You don´t want all your eggs in the same basket. I know about a couple of members from DNR that would not come here just because this forum´s philosophy is different. The interests (while all them are about Duke at the end) are different. Here people likes to talk more about the HRP and Polymer, while in DNR for example it was more about vanilla user maps. The idea of giving ¨admin powers¨ to Forge wasnt properly expressed. What i mean is that it would be really cool if someone is still able to submit reviews into the DNR, and this guy was who was doing it (and doing well) lately. The subforum idea could have sorted the interests as it did before at least for the ¨in the works¨ and ¨releases¨ childboards.

With everything said, i just want to express my gratitude again for your work saving the DNR from the oblivion.

[Mikko]

oporix, on Jul 2 2010, 10:10 PM, said:

this may seem like a dumb request but since we just migreted here, can I/we have our old ranks back? I was once a mighty pig cop but now I am a got dang protozoid slimer...

Who cares?

[Shawneth]

Ok, because I have never used a forum in my life, so Duke Nukem seemed like an exellent forum to start, since I had my map Frozen Prospect. But now I don't care. I don't see how my question is stupid, I am not fully familiar with how this is working, if the site is getting hosted, so why wouldn't we be able to post again?

[Sangman]

holy shit terminx


what kind of evil wizard shit did you pull off to salvage that

Nice work!

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AMC lost whatever it lost that cast it into irrelevancy.

Probably the lack of a main page and the absence of the site's creator and all that. Or maybe because nowadays most posters are AMC are fairly casual mappers now preoccupied with different things, unlike the newer guys who just want to pump stuff out all the time

[TerminX]

Sangman, on Jul 4 2010, 10:30 AM, said:

holy shit terminx


what kind of evil wizard shit did you pull off to salvage that

Nice work!

Well, I looked at the domain and noticed the DNS servers had been changed to ns1.parklogic.com and ns2.parklogic.com, and that the registrar was a company called StartLogic. I theorized that DNS records pointing to the correct server may still exist on ns1.startlogic.com and ns2.startlogic.com (instead of parklogic).

My theory ended up being correct (I got a different IP back when I queried those DNS servers for the entry manually) so I just added some entries to the /etc/hosts file on the box and fired up wget as fast as I could before the actual web hosting DNR is on expired too like the domain itself did. In fact, it looks like the web hosting itself is provided by the same company (the correct IP for dukerepository.com is in the same block as those startlogic DNS servers) so we're pretty lucky they have some kind of grace period or outright forgot to kill the httpd when the hosting expired.

Maybe Kim will notice it expired and renew it and we can have this same run-around in a year when he forgets about it again.

[Sangman]

That's awesome

[TerminX]

Heh, I just realized that DNR is the same acronym as you'd use for "do not resuscitate." I guess that's kind of fitting. Oh well, I moved the content to http://dnr.duke4.net and I'll leave it there until either someone does something with it or the actual site comes back, if that happens. Since the info suite is now hosted at infosuite.duke4.net, I've also replaced all the dead links to infosuite.dukerepository.com with corrected ones.

[TerminX]

Oh, I also e-mailed Kim about moving the actual DNR site to duke4.net since he's obviously abandoned it at this point, but I don't really expect to get a reply. I hope he reads it and decides to go for it since I know a lot of you love DNR and are probably tired of this happening to it every year or so when he stops paying attention to it. I know it's not a good idea to put all of your eggs in one basket, but duke4.net is more like a titanium cup that holds Duke's balls of steel.

[Forge]

Excellent work Tx.

Went camping this weekend up by Flagstaff. Road ATVs around the mountain Saturday and went to see the Grand Canyon on Sunday.

My suggestion, if Kim fails to reply to you within a reasonable amount of time, is to give your site's map download page a facelift and add the DN-R maps and reviews to it. Assign one of your mods to manage it and to add new releases and old gems that weren't included. If you want to give it a "nostalgic" look you can combine/mix (whatever) the Dukeword and DN-R themes for your map page.

Good to hear that the Info Suite is still being looked after.

[Mike Norvak]

Gambini, on Jul 1 2010, 07:06 PM, said:

What would be a great idea. If somehow we can recover the information on that site and upload it at duke4.net, i mean there were a lot of reviews, a lot of maps and a good listing system. The forums are no longer necesary, I guess. But the site was a very important duke repository

Exactly

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Thank u very much TX!!! Great work