PsychoSync Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Hi This is a question wich i hope is ok to ask, there it goes: I want to bring InsanelyMac to a computer without an internet connection and browse it online. How much space does this forum take? Could someone refer me to a link (there must be backups made my the owner?) that i can download the entire site or maybe just enlighten my on a good way to download the site with an application? Many thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dies Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=w...mp;aq=f&oq= Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-936637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoSync Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 I know how to search on google and i already did, if i ask here for help it is because i hope someone has: 1 - A direct link to a compressed or uncompressed backup of the forum (like wikipedia does, they provide backups that can be downloaded) 2 - An app that does the job well and that this someone know exactly what settings the app should be set to to only rip the entire forum and not anything unrelated. So thank you for the awesome advice of searching google but i'm hoping to save time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-936665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Uh, that wouldn't be possible. The admins would have to send you the database and you have to pay for a version of VB and install it on a Apache or other httpd webserver with PHP installed. No one will send you the database, because it contains our passwords and usernames and other various sensitive data. Don't bother. Not going to happen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-936679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroke Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 The post/topic database is separate from the user/password hash database. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-936682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 The post/topic database is separate from the user/password hash database. He didn't specify. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-936860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComplexMind Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi This is a question wich i hope is ok to ask, there it goes: I want to bring InsanelyMac to a computer without an internet connection and browse it online. How much space does this forum take? Could someone refer me to a link (there must be backups made my the owner?) that i can download the entire site or maybe just enlighten my on a good way to download the site with an application? Many thanks. Hi PsychoSync! Feel free to ask any questions... The site uses a fair few GB of space... And yes we do have backups... Unfortunately for you there is lots of sensitive and valuable information in there so there's no way we would ever make it available in that manner for general download. I understand your reasons for wanting it, but its simply not practical and isn't going to happen... Sorry. It's theoretically impossible. You could do a siterip of the Lo-Fi Version, and save each and every individual pages as static .html files, then linking them all together. ...Presumably using "PsychoSync" application Erm hopefully not, ripping the whole site is very quick way to get a permanent entry in my firewalls... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-937592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekahsm Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 honestly i would love to be able to do that as well. Of course obviously we do not want to know other users' names/nicknames/pwd as well but the information contained here is valuable indeed. I can honestly say unless you have direct access to the database, we can do it manually, save each thread (which is what I have been doing for important threads that i want to refer to like the guides/etc) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-938511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 You guys could try one of those nifty offline browsers like WebSnapper or WebDevil. Sure, it'll take a while, but it will work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-938516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekahsm Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 You guys could try one of those nifty offline browsers like WebSnapper or WebDevil. Sure, it'll take a while, but it will work. Now will that endure me permanently to the admin's firewall ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-938521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Now will that endure me permanently to the admin's firewall ? You can configure the app to download only a number of links at a time and at a certain speed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-938529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 or just use an exploit like those russians did to make a backup of the site Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-938702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoSync Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 Well even having the lo-fi version would be ok, i just want the treads and post. But i understand that this isn't as simple as it seems. Would have been nice to have the osx86 encyclopedia on a usb key. The english-only Wikipedia takes 14G compressed so this forum must not be bigger than something like 3-4G compressed? How much is it? Thanks anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132121-can-i-download-insanelymac/#findComment-938740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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