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I don't know anything about coding, and the work that it implied for you Hannah, but I truly believe it was enormous, and it's totally fine to be tired with that and want to do something else. The database is an amazing gift for the fans of Bukowski's work and I'm very grateful that you did it, and to all the people that helped you, to give us access to the unedited poems and other stuff. Also thank you, Trevor to maintain the forum. Nowadays, I read less of Bukowski, but I'm sure it will strike me again.
 
Question for @Hannah:

Technical question…

Little background. Remember Literary Mary? We used a very popular and mod heavy open source forum software. Something free, I can’t remember the name. AssHat, I think it was called…

My own beautiful mess. My first name dot com domain, fatherluke.

All my software is text pattern. Hopelessly years out of date.

That happened at Mary. New Php was introduced on the host.

We.
Got.
Fried.

In both cases, Mary and Luke, once the php goes ultra? I’m toast. No two ways of looking at it.

Or, wait, but… what…

What if I took an old war machine, some tower running windows 207, or whatever. Turn it into a Linux or UNIX box, take my software using the same php now powering the software, plug it into the wall, make a raid backup so there is an emergency backup. And hoast the fucker in a corner of my home.

Promised you a question. Would that work?

By the way…
I, well…

… i hope you missed me. Because I’ve missed you.
 
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What if I took an old war machine, some tower running windows 207, or whatever. Turn it into a Linux or UNIX box, take my software using the same php now powering the software, plug it into the wall, make a raid backup so there is an emergency backup. And hoast the fucker in a corner of my home.

Promised you a question. Would that work?

@Father Luke, yes, it would work.

But – old versions of PHP are open to exploit and don't get security patches anymore. So the likelihood is your war machine would eventually be taken hostage by some kids in Belrus or Xinjiang or somewhere and used for nefarious purposes.

I've missed you too, my friend.
 
@Father Luke, yes, it would work.

But – old versions of PHP are open to exploit and don't get security patches anymore…

Ah. Brilliant. Security patches. Thank you Sensei; the reason for the updates in the first place. Why it never occurred to me to ask WHY the updates, would be hindsight, but is a testament to your prowess.

I love that word: prowess

It can also mean bravery in battle. I still want you on my side in any fight…

Love ya’

And thanks…
 
Here are all the manuscript images from the site. 👈 @Trevor

Here are all the manuscript images I have. Many are unprocessed—meaning they are undated, and the images are uncropped and unprocessed—so many may be new to you.

I don't know if the manuscripts from the site are in the "all manuscripts" download, so if you want everything, download both.

These will only be available for download until tomorrow night (a little more than 24 hours). So if you want them, get them now.
 
Dear @Hannah,

I am a big fan of Bukowski. A couple of years ago, partly for the fun of it, I transcribed over 1,000 of Bukowski's poem manuscripts using the images on your website. I planned to make a website for all of Bukowski's work, but decided against it back then, due to fears about copyright infringement and the dominance of your website at the time.

I got quite a shock, when I saw the old site was no longer online. It was the best resource for Bukowski's stuff. I got so much from that website. So I find it to be a real shame that it no longer exists.

I am potentially interested in bringing the website back online. I am a website developer/programming with over a decade of experience working with PHP/MySQL. Plus I have a strong, intuitive interest in Bukowski.

A couple of questions, if I may:

What issues did the website have in regards to copyright? And what sort of issues would you envisage or expect for a potential owner? That is the one thing that I worry about - investing a lot of time into building something up, only to have to take it offline.

Would the old domain of Bukowski.net be available for the new website?

Best regards,

Darren
 
Sorry it's taking so long, I had a couple different platforms in mind but I've decided on building this out with mkdocs, which should make it possible for everyone in the community to edit, and for moderators to review those edits. I hope to begin work this spring. If anyone is impatient and would like the zipped php version of the database let me know and i'll pass it along.
 
should make it possible for everyone in the community to edit, and for moderators to review those edits
That's a good idea providing the edits have to be approved by someone who knows what he's doing* before actually coming into effect. Otherwise we'll have a Wikipedia instead of a Database.

*I'm not sure I'm one of those.
 
I hate to say this to those of you requesting copies of the database, but unless you know how databases work, a copy will be of little use to you. It's not a readable thing you can click through. I'd wait for Trevor's project to be finished.
 
I worked most of my life as a database analyst, but I'm not sure I would know what to do with it. The databases I worked with were legacy systems created in the 1970s and 80s. I'll wait for whatever gets posted here.
 

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