Lately I have been learning about Karnaugh-Maps, I wanted to know if they resulted in the most simplified expression. A StackOverflow post lead me to Mastascu's eLessons on logic. I then noticed that is part of a website that features much more information than K-Maps, namely full courses on electrical engineering with exercises and more... But the problem is that browsing it from archive.org is very slow. Every page takes multiple SECONDS to load.
So my first idea was to download this website recursively so that I could have a complete copy on my local machine or server that would be way faster to browse. I could use wget, but if I do this I will quickly get my IP soft-banned, this is because there are bandwidth limitations. So eventually I found wayback-machine-downloader, a ruby gem that is capable of downloading the entire website. There still is a problem though: it will get rate limited as well. But this fork does not! :).
I quickly cloned the ShiftaDeband's fork, ran
gem build wayback_machine_downloader.gemspecLuckily I can solve that with ruffle (An open source Flash Player emulator). All I had to do was download the Firefox extension and now I was ready to go!
Web browsers actually block the playing of local flash files because of "security reasons". So I guess I kind of have to serve this files over a web server, but this does not trouble me as I was planning to do that anyways. If need be, I could run them against an installed ruffle executable.
One of the reasons I really wanted to access that website is because I love its layout and planned to steal some of it for my own. If you opened it, you will probably spot it immediately ;).
I plan to make my "unarchived" websites publicly available, but in the meantime: Goodbye!