Find topics in the old murga-linux forum

[fredx181]

Update 2020-08-06, see post by [mention]perdido[/mention] here for how to search cached pages with Yandex, a lot can be found.
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Hi all, not everything, but much can be found with "wayback machine" (https://archive.org/web/) and google webcache

EDIT: Outdated now:
With google webcache:
Go first to this url:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... com/puppy/

Then for example copy (right-click > copy link location) the url of "Puppy Projects", which is:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php? ... 8b78bcdcd9
Add it after "q=cache:", so: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... 8b78bcdcd9
Then again you can right click on any topic name > copy link location, to get the url (and add after cache:).

All depends on which pages are cached or not, of course. Often it's just the first page of a topic

EDIT: 17 juli, most of it is not kept in google webcache anymore now.

EDIT: Didn't try yet, but read about a google-chrome extension that probably could make this much easier.

Fred

[dancytron]

The problem with google webcache is that it will update sometime fairly soon and just show the "Under maintenance..." message, so if there is something important there to recover folks should do it as soon as they can.

[cobaka]

@dacytron

The problem with google webcache is that it will update sometime fairly soon ..... so if there is something important there to recover folks should do it as soon as they can.

I will definitely do that - and post the more interesting ones on the new forum.
Would you like to guess how long I have?

Leslie - aka 'cobako'

[Geoffrey]

Hi, I will be trying to retrieve some of my posted apps, I have added a couple so far, there a number of applications on my dropbox that I'll post at some point as they become relevant.

Hopefully some of the members can find their projects, I believe there are mirrors containing a vast majority of the software, so it's should be achievable.

It's times like this that hoarding is tolerated

[ally]

this is all I have of yours G apart from anything uploaded in the murga forum

http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux ... a_Vanguard

the forum pets are unsorted, the original idea was to use the file name from the forum then search the archive page, there are ~5500 forum items uploaded

http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Forum_Pets

otherwise for build specific stuff you need to search for the relevant ISO, for example 'precise' etc.

there is approx 2tb up at the archive and over 5600 ISOs

http://archive.org/details/puppylinux



edit:

http://archive.org/details/PuppyLinuxCarolinaPetFiles
http://archive.org/details/PuppyLinuxCarolina

[TiredPup]

fredx181 wrote:

With google webcache:
Go first to this url:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... com/puppy/

Then for example copy (right-click > copy link location) the url of "Puppy Projects", which is:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php? ... 8b78bcdcd9
Add it after "q=cache:", so: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... 8b78bcdcd9
Then again you can right click on any topic name > copy link location, to get the url (and add after cache:).

Clicking on the google web cache link results in "404 that's an error"

Hi all, not everything, but much can be found with "wayback machine" (https://archive.org/web/) and google webcache

This works well. I input the address for the old forum and pulled up a thread on printers by rcrsn51.

@ally;

Thank you for backing up all of that software!

[fredx181]

Clicking on the google web cache link results in "404 that's an error"

Yes, it was there for a while but not anymore, as dancytron said, it's kept only for a short period, pity.

Fred

[perdido]

Yandex has cached pages of some of the forum.
There are many pages not available at archive org.
It looks as if they -may- keep them for years?
I do not know officially how long they are kept so get them if you want them.

https://yandex.com/

Search Yandex using the following

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site:www.murga-linux.com "your-search-words-here" no quotation marks needed

To see the cached page - mouse click on the little green down-pointing triangle arrow on the right-side of the green URL - after you do the search of course.

This works great for single page topics or just the first page of the topic, it looks very complete.

For multi-page topics you can get the link for the next page from the Yandex cache page then go fishing over at archive org for the nested pages - archive org seems to have misplaced or removed many original topics but the 2nd/3rd/4th pages are still available and can be located (if you are lucky)

Have Fun!

[bigpup]

This seems to provide the old murga Puppy Linux forum home page.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200110191 ... com/puppy/
Seem to be able to navigate to different topics.

[ndujoe1]

A temporary creative solution. Also highlights that whatever is on the Internet never goes away. Always remember that.

[fredx181]

Yandex has cached pages of some of the forum.
There are many pages not available at archive org.
It looks as if they -may- keep them for years?
...........
https://yandex.com/
..........
Search Yandex using the following

Code: Select all

site:www.murga-linux.com "your-search-words-here"

To see the cached page - mouse click on the little green down-pointing triangle arrow on the right-side of the green URL - after you do the search of course.
.........

Thanks for the info, really not bad, a lot can be found that way.
EDIT: Added link to your post at first post of this thread.

Fred

[rockedge]

Getting closer to an improved version of the main murga forum database! Currently there are some pages in topic threads that after the conversion will not parse and show a blank white page. This is much improved in the 8th version of the main database. Once the last of the 50,000+ spam topics and posts along with those users are purged I will be uploading the v8 database and swapping it in to the old forum (murga forum).

We should see much improved results finding topics and posts on the murga forum we have running now, after a new search index is created once it is installed.