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Google Archive in HTML
Powerpoint format
Steve Atkins presentation to the ASRG: Google cache as HTML

Same as powerpoint

A graph of a random minute at a large email provider.
Each point is one host.

Those numbers are all very very real.

Google Archive in HTML
Powerpoint format
Steve Atkins presentation to the ASRG: Google cache as HTML

Same as powerpoint

A graph of a random minute at a large email provider.
Each point is one host.

Those numbers are all very very real.

You mean the google cache or the coral cache?

The text is white on white, so it's probably really secret.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:X7e-egvZJeoJ: curmudgeongamer.com/article.php%3Fstory%3D20040904 215153278+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Catching it as it falls from orbit is a tried and tested technique too.

It was used to catch film from spy satellites back in the days when they still used wet film. Theres a description of the first satellites to use it (Corona) here, and the google cache for good measure.

So catching payloads in mid air has a longer history and more successful reoveries than a couple of mars landers. They did use military pilots though ;o)

So here is some caches...

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:f9Bdhed8_h8J: www.mises.org/+&hl=en

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:8-dfbA5SWVwJ: www.tvtome.com/GilligansIsland/+&hl=en

Also i have to say this is a rather strange artical. I've taken a quick look at it and if im honest, im totally lost!.

P.S. Sorry for the untidy formatting, its late at night.

So here is some caches...

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:f9Bdhed8_h8J: www.mises.org/+&hl=en

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:8-dfbA5SWVwJ: www.tvtome.com/GilligansIsland/+&hl=en

Also i have to say this is a rather strange artical. I've taken a quick look at it and if im honest, im totally lost!.

P.S. Sorry for the untidy formatting, its late at night.

However, I am Australian, and Qantas DID resort to advertising/marketing tricks. They didn't include "Olympics" in their advertisements (which would be against the rules), but they certainly implied that they were associated with the Olympics. Most marketers thought it was a stroke of advertising genius - they managed to get themselves associated with the Olympics (and all the goodwill that brings) without spending anywhere near as much as Ansett. Or sponsoring the games.

In particular, they bought a lot of television advertising so that when Aussies were winning medals, you'd be likely to hear the Qantas theme song immediately afterwards.

See: ABC
IP Rights
some other site

Qantas is an organisation like any other, they'll certainly stoop to tricks when it's in their best interest.

well, M$ says it's OK to run multiple PFs, but I was told that it is basically a bad idea because "The conflicts happen as they both need kernel drivers to intercept tcp/ip traffic, and they are fighting over the same resource. One firewall will be the 'big dog', and the other firewall will basically get what the first one allows."

same goes for AV software...

Seems like me posting that link, has resulted in it exceeding its allowed bandwidth. Here's the Google Cache.

Microsoft, when licensing Windows OS to personal computer manufacturers (hereinafter "PC manufacturers"), has concluded agreements with PC manufacturers containing certain provisions that a licensee covenants not to sue, bring, prosecute, assist or participate in any judicial, administrative or other proceedings of any kind against Microsoft, its subsidiaries, or other licensees for infringement of the licensee's patents. Such conduct by Microsoft shall be construed as dealing with PC manufacturers on conditions which unjustly restrict their business activities, which the JFTC concluded correspond to the Subsection 13 of the Unfair Trade Practices, violating the section 19 of the Antimonopoly Act.

fallwell.com cache (I'd never heard of him or the site).

It was always about the money. Zeus was raking it in.

(Zeus is a little out of fashion right now but the spirit has been retained)

Please don't slashdot this site (mikeage is mine).
I have low bandwidth, and if this takes up too much space, I will have to take it down. Instead, try the google cache.

Note that Marques is wrong here... it's now 12 projectors, 4x3 (so we have a net effect of a widescreen) of 4096x2304. And yes, it does run Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, though I don't have any good pics handy.

On another note, it's mikeage, or Mikeage, not Mike Age. Goes back to high school... thanks Elie Klein.

cache

compare it to how it looked year ago

Thanks for the link to Google.

Does anyone have a mirror just in case?

Sure, no problem. The mirror is here: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.google.com/+google&hl=en

Whether and to what extent the reasoning of the DVDCCA court will be followed by other courts and in other cases is unclear. Furthermore, some violations of trade secrets law might be characterized as "commercial speech" entitled to less protection than this case affords. Nonetheless, this decision should put businesses on notice that the First Amendment can curtail their ability to prevent dissemination of their trade secrets, at least in the absence of a non-disclosure agreement.

Prior restraints are not per se unconstitutional, U.S. v. Frandsen, but they are such an "extraordinary remedy" that they will only be upheld where the evil that would result from publication can be shown to be both "great and certain," and cannot be militated by less intrusive measures." Procter & Gamble Co. v. Bankers Trust Co.

So, in conclusion, you can apply your First Amendment rights but expect to have to take it to court, and in some cases the supreme court.

Here in London we don't have a constitionally protected freedom of speech, so it is possible to get a court order to prevent publication of information that is deemed harmful. But this is a straw man, we are discussing your rights in the USA, not the rights of Britons.

Also, the idea of selling a hard drive with linux preinstalled is really cool.

It is not a new idea. I read about Linux On A Disk back in 1999. But the site looks dead. Does LOAD still exist?

He certainly does get taken care of. There's a rather odd arrangement where they bought him a private jet and lease it back from him.. He gets about a million dollars a year from the arrangement.

I just think trying to hit refresh in hopes a new connectionslots open up isn't really going to up my chances of reading the article :p

Got the cache now.

Google cache

My fear is that Google is going to end up just like Altavista did!

Since three months the Dutch traditional sailing ship rental market has experienced very sophisticated "Google spam" from some large booking offices. This has lead to a serious decline in business of the so called "free ships" that do not work with those booking offices. Reporting this spam to Google has had no result at all... Could this non-response lead to the end of Google? Remember that Altavista was the number one search engine until the flood of "spam" rendered their search results useless. What can be done to stop Google spam if Google does not seem to react to a large number of submitted spam reports?

First some background information. My girlfriend's uncle has been a captain of a traditional sailing ship in the Netherlands for many years now. You can rent his crewed ship for a day, weekend, midweek or week. He is a so called "free captain" since he is not working for one of the booking offices, that in his opinion charge too much.

One of the ways he reaches potential customers is a website which looks quite professional and until this year received a reasonable number of visitors mostly via Google. The problem is that this number has dropped dramatically since some booking offices found a way to get high positions in Google in an "illegal" way: Not with real content but with fake pages that are there to fool Googlebot.

Some of the biggest players in the Dutch charter market (Zeilvaart.com and Zeilvloot.nl) probably hired an expert to enable them to get those high positions. I will try to explain what I found out about the method they are using.

Zeilvaart.com
If you search Google for: site:zeilvaart.com html you will find about 1300 html pages that are all fake pages since it is an ASP website without real html pages. The standard layout of the fake pages is:

Left column: menu with links to other fake pages
Middle column: some text about a random ship
Right column:
- "Verzekerd zeilen..." -> some text about insurance with a link
- "Zeilervaring niet nodig..." -> some text about sailing experience with a link
- "Over de Zeilvaart..." -> some text about the company Zeilvaart
Top menu: leads to the real website

All the fake pages have file names that contain words people might search for when planning a sailing trip. The pages are all the same except for the different links to other fake pages and random ship information.

Take for example this page that is aimed at the key phrase "zeilen IJsselmeer" ("sailing IJsselmeer" in Dutch):

http://zeilen.zeilvaart.com/zeilen_ijsselmeer.html (Google cache)

All the key words are in the URL and on the page are many links to other fake pages that contain other key words, both in content and in URL name: Personeelsuitje, Vergaderarrangement IJsselmeer, SAIL Amsterdam, Zeilen Batavia, Zeilen Teambuilding, etc.

When someone searches Google for these exact words Zeilvaart.com always shows up as one of the first results..... This is big time Google spam! What makes it even worse is that they have started to use Google as their bill board because the title of the page is:

"Heb jij ook zin om te zeilen in het IJsselmeer? Kijk dan op de site van De Zeilvaart!" which translates to:
"Do you also feel like sailing the IJsselmeer? Have a look at the De Zeilvaart site!"

They have given all fake pages such commercial-like titles....

Only clicking an option from the top menu will lead to their real website.

The equivalent in German "segeln IJsselmeer" leads to:

Balmer's Memo

Google?

From the page which he pulled (thanks to bankman in parent post for the google cache) WARNING - ads on page NSFW!

Ride: Pimped out 2000 Oldmobile Alero GLS Sedan

I am just laughing my head off right now.

Also, I'm seeing ads that include prodigious boobies on the about page. Way to raise venture capital there, buddy, linking to titty sites.

Just priceless. Someone, please get a cluestick quickly and help this poor chap.

I really would like to now what the business part is he is talking about.

Google Cache

A google.com cache link.

Take care.
K3n.

XHTML is not hard. Just... different.

It took my a while to figure out the difference between HTML and XHTML. It was a struggle to remeber to add that closing slash in single tags. It was a bitch to mentally go from <b> to <span class="bold"> . Yet, I managed to pull it off.

It's not a magical mystery why your page doesn't render.. you're using XHTML

Gotta love the google cache:

Project David Overview

Project David Architecture

Project David Technology

Umm....THIS is what the 'furor' is over. If you're going to use open source software, it has to be, like, open. This does not in any way, shape or form mention WINE, that they use open source, but only states that they've found the magic elixir that gives +10 to windows emulation.

Of course it doesn't give them pointy horns either, but it does destroy their credibility. And what's up with 50 simultaneous developers? Can anyone verify if that number's at ALL realistic?

Gotta love the google cache:

Project David Overview

Project David Architecture

Project David Technology

Umm....THIS is what the 'furor' is over. If you're going to use open source software, it has to be, like, open. This does not in any way, shape or form mention WINE, that they use open source, but only states that they've found the magic elixir that gives +10 to windows emulation.

Of course it doesn't give them pointy horns either, but it does destroy their credibility. And what's up with 50 simultaneous developers? Can anyone verify if that number's at ALL realistic?

Gotta love the google cache:

Project David Overview

Project David Architecture

Project David Technology

Umm....THIS is what the 'furor' is over. If you're going to use open source software, it has to be, like, open. This does not in any way, shape or form mention WINE, that they use open source, but only states that they've found the magic elixir that gives +10 to windows emulation.

Of course it doesn't give them pointy horns either, but it does destroy their credibility. And what's up with 50 simultaneous developers? Can anyone verify if that number's at ALL realistic?

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:4haymSLdvzoJ: www.davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm+&hl= en For people who've been a little late

Google Cache

The google cache link is below

Google cache

PDF Critique

OReilly book page with sample chapter.

SoftMaker is dedicated to creating office productivity software for popular operating systems, including Windows, Windows CE, and Linux.

Our current English-language products comprise TextMaker and PlanMaker, a word processor and a spreadsheet for Windows, Linux, Pocket PCs, and Handheld PCs, and MegaFont XXL, a 10,000-fonts typeface library for Windows, Linux, and OS/2.

I'm part of the public beta program for the Linux versions and am a happy customer using the Linux version of Textmaker.

Also Softmaker are perfectly happy sticking to the English and European markets... they're obviously doing well as they're still in existence after several years.

Poor webserver is already bending over backwards. Find your mirror here.

Google Cache

[However, According to a Discover article:

"... people all over the world are amazingly similar. Some anthropologists believe that this genetic homogeneity is the result of a "population bottleneck"--that at some time in the past our ancestors went through an event that greatly reduced our numbers and thus our genetic variation. Based on estimates of mutation rates, Penn State geneticist Henry Harpending says the bottleneck happened sometime after ... 100,000 years ago and before a population increase ... around 50,000 years ago. Now archeologist Stan Ambrose of the University of Illinois has linked Harpending's theory with geologic evidence to explain what caused the bottleneck--a giant volcanic eruption. ... Mount Toba in Sumatra blew 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the air--4,000 times as much as Mount St. Helens--the largest volcanic eruption in more than 400 million years. Toba buried most of India under ash and must have darkened skies over a third of the hemisphere for weeks. ... a six-year global volcanic winter ensued, caused by light-reflecting sulfur particles lingering in the atmosphere. Average summer temperatures dropped by 21 degrees at high latitudes, and 75 percent of the Northern Hemisphere's plants may have died. ... A thousand-year ice age began ... caused perhaps by an increasing amount of snow that failed to melt over the summer. This snow cover would have reflected more sunlight off Earth's surface, making the world still colder. The effect on humans, who had been enjoying a relatively warm period, must have been devastating. ... Perhaps only a few thousand people ... survived. ...".]

Using googles cache

• 1998 Google prototype
  
• 1999 argh my eyes!
  
• 2000 offset logo
  
• 2000 language search Google
  
• 2001 minimalist
  
• 2002 modern (until today) Google
  

Disclaimer: maybe I'm very cynical and I am in a pissed off mood
No kidding...

also, I believe, at least three-quaters of software is licesed under the FSF's GNU GPL.
Figures?

If the are talking about the GNU GPL, the GPL does not "[prevent] it from being redistributed under a more restrictive licence" -- the author can distribute it under any license

Legally, thats distribution not redistribution as the author originates the material, and they are in fact correct as regards the GPL. But point taken, their executive-level introduction of what open source is is a bit inaccurate. But its just an introduction and not the policy.

So it seems that they are making another action plan as part of their previous action plan on which they haven't done anything yet but produce another action plan.

Bollocks. In fact, the 2005 plan was produced because it was felt many of the goals of the 2002 plan had been achieved.

Oh, and they are only doing it because the EU (who I think are more free-software friendly thanks to FSF Europe bringing them over) forced them.

Government depts are well aware that having access to the source prevents them being held to ransom by companies who need a big license payoff to stay afloat. At least 2 of the Pathfinder projects (50 x 1m local govt projects funded by central govt to kickstart development of online services) were fully open source. I say 'were' because AFAIK all the Pathfinders are now completed, they started back in 2000/2001.

Something I have been campagning for the UK government to do is to release all their laws[..]on request to citizens gratis. They do, at least, have some online now under a restrictive license that requires paying so much per click-through for some uses of the laws."

Eh??? Have you looked at HMSO recently? All the acts since 1991 are there, online, for free, and can be reproduced for free. The only clickthroughs the HMSO uses are for supplementary material, not the laws themselves.

My own complaint about those is that they only go back 'selectively' beyond 1991. That's a problem, because eg the laws relating to pollution since then (which it sounds like you're interested in) have been supplementary to the previous Acts. HMSO say the selection of pre-91 laws is just those that they had available already in some electronic form, but we live in a world of OCR, what's the problem?

thanks to the Google Cache

Yeah, cos we all know that 11.9% of $35.8 billion is next to nothing.

Hm. I sympathise with your line of thinking.

Nonetheless I think they'd be hard-pressed to use open source stuff on a widespread basis. Remember when they used to stream Radio One using ogg?

They refuse to do things free of commercial considerations because at the end of the day and notwithstanding their highblown language, they still have to think about the all-mighty pound.

'OK,' I hear you say, 'you sure about that?'
Yes, I'm sure.

Really sure.

Here's a link to the google cache of methlabs.org, in case it gets slashdotted (but then you wouldn't be able to access PeerGuardian_v1.99_pr14.zip from the server, now would you? :)


I know, it's a lame joke.

Google cache, for those who need it.

As mentioned here (pdf, google-converted, orriginal pdf here) the rovers use The ICER Progressive Wavelet Image Compressor, which according to JPL (googlified de-pdfing again, original here)
Both lossless and lossy compression will be used, depending on how critical or scientific the data is.
The 2nd pdf goes into depth about how the algorthims are used and is probably an interesting read for someone who has a greater understanding of maths and compression techniques ;)