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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

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Windows Does Not Start Normally With Bootgui=1 in the Msdos.sys

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Symptoms

You may encounter one of the following symptoms with Windows:

After you make a change to your Windows environment your computer boots to a command prompt rather than into Windows.
Changes you make to entries in the Msdos.sys file may not seem to take effect.
When you perform a step-by-step boot and press either Y or N when you are prompted "Process your startup command file (AUTOEXEC.BAT)," you receive a message stating "Too many parameters" followed by the prompt "AUTOEXEC [Enter=Y,Esc=N]." No matter how you answer these prompts, Windows boots to a command prompt and does not prompt you to load the graphical user interface (GUI).
When you start your computer, it boots to the Windows boot menu instead of booting into Windows, even though the Msdos.sys file contains "bootmenu=0" or the Enable Startup Menu box is not checked on the General tab of the Advanced options for the System Configuration Utility (MSConfig).

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Cause

There is a Winboot.ini file in the root folder of the boot drive that contains "BootGUI=0" in the [Options] section.

If the Winboot.ini file exists, it is processed instead of the Msdos.sys file. The Winboot.ini file is created by Windows Setup to ensure restartability or to display a warning when there is an operation that needs to be manually restarted. When the operation is complete, the Winboot.ini file is normally deleted, and the Io.sys configuration settings are read from Msdos.sys.

NOTE: The Winboot.ini file is a hidden file.

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Resolution

If your computer boots to a command prompt only and no error messages are displayed, you can safely delete the Winboot.ini file and restart your computer.

To delete the Winboot.ini file, follow these steps:

At an MS-DOS prompt, type the following command in the root directory
deltree drive:\winboot.ini
where drive is the drive where the Winboot.ini file is located.
Answer yes by typing y when you receive a prompt "Delete file 'winboot.ini'?"
Restart your computer.

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