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[gd_barnes]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

The Internet Archive site crawled the entire thread on Nov 6, 2010. Google crawled the last page of it on Jul 10, 2011 (by googling for page=1...30, you should be able to find all of it; the first page was crawled Jul 3, the last Jul 10, I'd expect most fall somewhere near that range). There might be better mirrors, but not at a glance.

Great. I'm not sure how you did that though. I tried googling "Bases 101-250" and just got the original URL that I put in my last post. I'm also not sure how to copy it all over here. It certainly can't be cut-pasted. I'd be perfectly happy with a thread through July 10th and updating it with the most recent posts. That would only be a loss of about 10 days data, which is likely only to be 5 or 6 posts during that time.

I wonder if Mike (xyzzy) could/would take your July 10th link and copy it all over here.

Edit: I also wasn't able to figure out how to get page 29, 28, etc. I tried changing the URL in the cache where there was a "30" and that didn't work. I also tried clicking on page 29, 28, etc. on cached page 30 and that didn't work. I'm completely unfamiliar with this cacheing process at Google.

Thanks!

[mdettweiler]

Originally Posted by gd_barnes

Great. I'm not sure how you did that though. I tried googling "Bases 101-250" and just got the original URL that I put in my last post. I'm also not sure how to copy it all over here. It certainly can't be cut-pasted. I'd be perfectly happen with a thread through July 10th and updating it with the most recent posts. That would only be a loss of about 10 days data, which is likely only to be 5 or 6 posts during that time.

I wonder if Mike (xyzzy) could/would take your July 10th link and copy it all over here.

Edit: I also wasn't able to figure out how to get page 29, 28, etc. I tried changing the URL in the cache where there was a "30" and that didn't work. I also tried clicking on page 29, 28, etc. on cached page 30 and that didn't work. I'm completely unfamiliar with this cacheing process at Google.

Thanks!

I managed to save them all off to my computer just now--all except pages 1, 12, and 29, which are for whatever reason missing from Google's index. Some of those may be able to be filled in from the Internet Archive (the other link Tim gave).

Based on what I picked up of the inner workings of vBulletin forums from the erstwhile noprimeleftbehind.net forum, it would unfortunately not be possible to re-import the cached data into the mersenneforum--not without creating a new thread and manually re-posting each message (by copying and pasting the text from the archive). What might be a better solution is for me to take the archive pages that I saved off and upload them to the noprimeleftbehind.net/crus site--we could then put a link to the backed-up copy in the first post of this thread, instructing readers to head there for prior posts.

I'll see if I can get that rigged up ASAP--I saved the pages off just now in .mht format, which keeps them nicely self-contained into a single file for each page, but may not be viewable in all browsers (they work in IE and Opera, but not anything else AFAIK). I may be able, however, to get them converted somehow to .html format so that they're universally viewable.

[gd_barnes]

Sounds great to me Max.

[Xyzzy]

We have been evaluating this issue deeply and we think we know what happened. It is pretty complicated and we barely understand it, so typing it all out would be pointless. Gary has our phone number and he is welcome to call and we can try to explain what happened and how to avoid it in the future.

We hope this abnormal event has not soured you all against the forum.

[gd_barnes]

I had a long phone conversation with Mike about the situation. With some work, we could probably recover the entire thread up through July 1st and then using cached pages as previously discussed, we could bring it up to date through about a week ago. At this point, I believe what Max is working on should be sufficient for our needs. The bottom line is that we will upload what he has (which appears to be everything minus about 3 pages out of 800+ posts through about a week ago) to the noprimeleftbehind pages and provide a link to it in the first post of the new bases 101-250 thread.

Mike was forthright and apologetic about the situation. Without going into great detail, it appeared related to the system somehow interpreting that I wanted to delete the first post in a thread (I was actually copying the last post in a thread), which can cause a soft delete of the entire thread. Unfortunately just a few seconds after that happened, a supermod just happened to be running a housekeeping process that permanently deletes any soft deleted threads. The chances of such a thing happening are very slim.


Gary

[MyDogBuster]

Due to health reasons, I'm cutting back on my CRUS work.

I will not be testing anything over n=100K (it's to much to manage and very boring).

I will instead concentrate on stuff < n=100K and bases < 300. I will be doing very long reservations. I still will have about 40 cores available so I'm asking for suggestions.

I will be canceling some reservations.

[rogue]

Originally Posted by MyDogBuster

Due to health reasons, I'm cutting back on my CRUS work.

I will not be testing anything over n=100K (it's to much to manage and very boring).

I will instead concentrate on stuff < n=100K and bases < 300. I will be doing very long reservations. I still will have about 40 cores available so I'm asking for suggestions.

That is unfortunate about your health. I hope that it is a temporary condition.

My suggestions to you are R51 and R79.

[gd_barnes]

Originally Posted by rogue

That is unfortunate about your health. I hope that it is a temporary condition.

My suggestions to you are R51 and R79.

What Mark said to n=25K plus S31 to n=50K or 100K.

[Puzzle-Peter]

Originally Posted by MyDogBuster

Due to health reasons, I'm cutting back on my CRUS work.

I will not be testing anything over n=100K (it's to much to manage and very boring).

I will instead concentrate on stuff < n=100K and bases < 300. I will be doing very long reservations. I still will have about 40 cores available so I'm asking for suggestions.

I will be canceling some reservations.

Ouch! I hope you will get better soon.

Wouldn't it be the easiest thing to set those cores on the new various bases drive and just have a look now and then to see if they're still running?

[MyDogBuster]

Wouldn't it be the easiest thing to set those cores on the new various bases drive and just have a look now and then to see if they're still running?

That would be the easiest but not the funnest(is that a word?). I really enjoy the low end stuff and just watching the new drive would bore me to tears.

[Puzzle-Peter]

Originally Posted by MyDogBuster

That would be the easiest but not the funnest(is that a word?). I really enjoy the low end stuff and just watching the new drive would bore me to tears.

Good point. So let me add R19 to the list of suggestions.