Just woke up, I failed to wake up early to go to the lecture.
Had my coffee and nicotine dose!
Listening to Fairooz. Life is cool!
I'm leeching Al Warraq.
Alaa did it before but it looks like he forgot to do anything useful with the books.
I've started leeching the books before I sleep, When I woke up I discovered that it'll take ages to leech them from my DSL connection, So I decded to move the scripts to naboo "naboo is my new server and foolab should move there soon, It's just me being lazy".
The leeching should be faster on naboo.
What I'm going to do with the books ? The books are really valuable but they are somehow locked.
And they are not copyrighted, They are in the public domain.
I'll use them as a start for a new e-library. I don't have a final imagination, I need suggestions.
A wiki won't be fine.
I don't want to keep them on foolab as this is my personal place.
I guess I should register a new domain or create a new subdomain.
I'm also thinking about importing them as drupal book pages so people can read them, But what about downloading them ? I don't know yet.
I'm also afraid that my resources might not be able to handle the load so I was thinking about having them as static HTML but people should be able to search in them, I can depend on google ?
Now shold I write a tiny CMS that should have the books in a database or XML and is able to generate the static HTML ? By doing this we'll be hitting 2 points:
1) people can sill search
2) people can add comments to the books
I REALLY need ideas.
One thing is bothering me, For how long am I going to live ? 40 years ? 60 years ? More ? less ?
Who'll take care of such a library after me ?
I still need to find a way to clean the HTML and split the books per title or chapter or whatever.
Now I need help in 2 things.
1) How can I present such books
2) Suggestions for more books to add, Don't bother about leeching them as I'll probably handle this.
I'll put the scripts I'm using to leech in my CVS soon.
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