Past DEF CON Conference Content

[jur1st]

Re: Past DEF CON Conference Content

that's odd...i had another person try it from a different location and they got a 404 too.

edit: just to be clear...it's a 404 for the content itself. the feed looks good.

[DaKahuna]

Re: Past DEF CON Conference Content

Worked just fine for me.

[Dark Tangent]

Re: Past DEF CON Conference Content

I'm getting a file not found error for the DC13 audio, video, and the DC12 videos.

Works for me and the feed validator.. Anyone else have problems?

[jur1st]

Re: Past DEF CON Conference Content

I'm getting a file not found error for the DC13 audio, video, and the DC12 videos.

[Dark Tangent]

DEF CON 12 Videos on-line

DC-12 Audio coming soon, but you can find the videos here:

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-12-video.rss

Now audio is up as well..

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-12-audio.rss

[Dark Tangent]

DEF CON 13 music up

OK, check out:

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-13-music.rss
http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-13-musicvideos.rss

For music from the B&W Ball last year!

[Dark Tangent]

DC 12 DJs and Bands now on-line

The .mp3 format of the DC-12 DJs and Bands is here:

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/dc-12-music.rss

[Dark Tangent]

Re: Past DEF CON Conference Content

First off, thanks for the video DT. It realy is nice to see the con after not making it last year.

I started off downloading these on the 7th June. I've noticed that a number of them have poor audio, hissing etc. I was wondering if I should reget the ones that have problems, it sounds like some have been updated, although my feed say nothing but Dan Kaminskis talk has been changed since the 1st.

Can I assume that the missing talks from track 1 and 2 on day 1 and 2 will appear some time in the future?

edit: wasn't overly clear, but I'm refering to DefCon and not the Blackhat video

Unfortunately, if the audio is bad, that's from poor recording, and nothing we can do about it. This year I'll put more pressue on the recording company to make sure their stuff is working properly!

[ctx]

Re: Past DEF CON Conference Content

First off, thanks for the video DT. It realy is nice to see the con after not making it last year.

I started off downloading these on the 7th June. I've noticed that a number of them have poor audio, hissing etc. I was wondering if I should reget the ones that have problems, it sounds like some have been updated, although my feed say nothing but Dan Kaminskis talk has been changed since the 1st.

Can I assume that the missing talks from track 1 and 2 on day 1 and 2 will appear some time in the future?

edit: wasn't overly clear, but I'm refering to DefCon and not the Blackhat video

[converge]

..and with that said, here are the current torrents for Blackhat 2005. Audio should be good for the most part, a patch and re-release will be issued for the video torrent when the missing content is recovered.

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/b....06.16.torrent - audio

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/b....06.16.torrent - video

[converge]

So far 2005 audio and video is totalling 14.1GB, give or take.. with the handful of files leftover, I would guestimate 14.5 for the 2005 archive, maybe 15 if additional videos are 'found' and added as new entries to the existing RSS feed(s).

I've had to expand to a second torrent box, since my primary torrent box only has a 10GB drive. I can only guess that previous years of content will consistantly decrease in size as DT encodes backwards in time.. so the total collection should be well under 150GB. This will be spread out over time, since the project as a whole is quite tremendous for DT to be taking on.. then of course, the DC14 content will eventually come into play as a decent sized set, but that is considerably down the road <insert something about a horse and wagon here>.

[Deviant Ollam]

what does the overall size look to be for all content in total?

[converge]

converge... are you simply testing all the feeds and links or are you actually also going through

I'm downloading it all.

1) adding to my data server for internal pleasures
2) adding to my DVD archive for the future survival of knowledge after the fires die and radiation levels become tolerable ... or until a better optical storage comes along at workable price
3) torrenting to help distribution

I originally started by brute forcing the feeds manually one by one, performing all testing steps. This meant taking longer to actually have the files on hand. Then TheCotMan shared his brilliant idea of scripting the pull.. so I took it a step further.

The current testing process goes a little something like this.. 1 script tests a directory to see if content exists, if it doesn't then initial pull is assumed and all available files are downloaded from the feed. If previous files do exist, then the pulled RSS is diff'd to the existing list and previously non-existent files are pulled. The error logs generated from this compile my first line of issues, since a simple grep for 404's will start the ball rolling. This process is 99% automated.. so I run it and check back some other time of day.

Then when I get a 30-60 minute interval, I tear through the RSS feed manually to further test. For each entry, I copy/paste the speaker info into an open vi session for the torrent nfo (scanning for description truncation/glitches/etc), I click the link to make sure it starts download for the file, verify it starts downloading a file named similarly to the presenter, rename the cached file to conform the filenaming a little more, cycle. For missing video files, I create an empty shell named appropriately but similarly as a placeholder until resolved. Once done I close the nfo and copy it into the dir. Then I move on to the counterpart [audio|video] feed, but instead of manually renaming the filenames I simply copy/paste the previously worked names, keeping the appropriate extension. Once done, I proceed to annoy DT with another round of RSS gripes.

When enough of the issues are resolved, I create the torrent, begin seeding it, transfer the torrent to my webserver and post for others to hop on board.

[Deviant Ollam]

converge... are you simply testing all the feeds and links or are you actually also going through the process of downloading everything? you might be a candidate for helping us with the Traveling TeraByte project, since i'd love to have all the defcon content on there. i suppose we could also send the drives to nikita or someone similar in the DC inner circle where the content resides formally. either way, i'm looking forward to kicking things off soon. woot!

[converge]

I'm showing success on that one.

odd... well, I test good now too. shrug

The elusive V7..

the filenames appear verbatim.. maybe it was something in the path? at any rate, audio for V7 appears to be fine now.