Grabbing just the original files from Internet Archive objects

Time for another little magic spell that I need to jot down before I forget it. And this time for the Internet Archive’s command line tools.

Occasionally you’ll want to grab an object but you won’t want any of the Internet Archive-derived products. This can be done via…

ia download --source=original <object name>

And there you go – a whole bunch of bandwidth and disk saved!

WhoPlayer

WHOniverse is such an ugly term…

As has been more than adequately commented on elsewhere, almost* all of the existent Doctor Who library has hit iPlayer – with the classic episodes, when queried by get_iplayer, reporting an expiry date of 2028-11-01T05:59:00+00:00. So that’s plenty of time to be thoroughly overwhelmed by choice!

*except for An Unearthly Child as – apparently – the writer’s son has issues….

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HMS St. Vincent Takes In Sail

An interesting little bit of history today; one of the few surviving bits of film of a British warship under sail to be taken while she was still part of the Royal Navy.

First laid down in Devonport in 1810 and launched just before Waterloo in 1815, HMS St. Vincent – a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line – managed to hang on as an armed training vessel until she was scrapped in 1906.

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Crashing Installers with Ubuntu Server for ARM.

Whilst playing about with the latest release of the ESXi for ARM Fling on a handy Raspberry Pi, I managed to waste a good few hours before I discovered that both the 22.04 and 23.10 releases of Ubuntu Server for ARM now require more than 1GB of memory to install without the installer crashing.

First we hang…
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