Slashdot Mirror

It isn't?

User directive
Special note: Use of this directive in <VirtualHost> requires a properly configured suEXEC wrapper. When used inside a in this manner, only the user that CGIs are run as is affected . Non-CGI requests are still processed with the user specified in the main User directive.

You have taken the diagnostics tools to the next level at TIA, keeping the human in the loop, but expanding both the complexity of the diagnostic data, and the tools to process that data. So both the senses and manipulators of the human are bionic :). Maybe that's why TIA is so cool, and reliable. Thanks a lot - with your content, you are keeping the computers as tools in the service of human intercommunication, instead of descending into communications primarily with the machine, as they appear to prefer at Sun. On both sides of the Archive, which winds up a medium for humans to communicate with each other, and ourselves, transcending time and space in every way (except perhaps actually sending a stream of me back to 1970-23-01::Honolulu-Civic-Center ;).

That is more or less how things have evolved here at The Internet Archive.

Unixes and the services that run on them can be configured to be very verbose in their errors and warnings, and error messages can be used as triggers to check various logs and system states for additional information, but in a nontrivial cluster there are major problems with humans trying to digest this flow of information and make sense of it all.

Better tools help, but beyond a point it just makes sense to try and make the tools themselves react correctly to the symptoms and correct the problems.

This Sun guy's article overlooks the existing mechanisms and methods already available for implementing self-healing systems (though, he's spot-on regarding the need for better abstraction). Hmmm, I write these kinds of tools at The Archive, maybe I should write my own article?

Regarding the "how do you know the monitor is healthy?" issue: you never really know, but you can have the monitor monitor itself and fairly reliably diagnose many of its own problems, and/or have pools of monitoring peers (qv keepalived), and start with "gentle" solutions which won't hurt anything (much) in the case of a misdiagnosis, and ramp up from there.

-- TTK

The wayback shows a different page, check the keywords at the bottom (site in spanish for the most part) Internet Wayback machine

I suspect this is the gang that is doing some of the exploits, they had tried to hit us and we've already upgraded, before this attack.

this japanese article shows the MOD,to burn some image or text.

Bzzz. 2001 actually. But thank you for playing.

FTP dump? Isn't that a site on a box that people FTP to and upload/download warez? So if you aren't being infected from that, it is because SOMEONE ELSE is following the appropriate security procedures. Not because of your cool criminal knowledge.

Are you truly so stupid as this makes you out to be? How could you possibly miss the point? I'll spell it out for you. The point is: trusted sources. That's what everything's about. You should know that.

Doing a .sfv check is meaningless unless you have a trusted .sfv source. Since the app is cracked anyway, the original CRC's won't apply.

Yes? Of course you have to a trusted .sfv source. See previous answer.

But Outlook didn't allow that. Which means you must be using something other than the default Windows email client.

Of course I am! Once again: I'm not stupid, I just don't think firewalls and running AV is needed. Just some precautions and common sense. Don't have javascript active in your mail-client. Don't run services you don't need. Et cetera. And note, as some seem completly to miss this, I'm talking about my personal machine. Not your Fortune 500 company's 10000 machines. Yes, then you have to have AV and firewall since there will be users without common sense and there will be people without even that little time that's needed to keep a box secure.

For further discussion please see this.

have a look at it http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.donkax.com /

Well, the problem with DRM is that it removes copyright regulations and replaces them with never copy regulations. I would suggest contacting you local representitive and pointing out that DRM breaks copyright laws by abolishing them.

It's not like I can't get hold of all this stuff..
And if you do a bit of searching there are a lot of companies who sell broadcast quality public domain footage. It's very hard to argue that their taking money from the studios, since thet studios could easly under cut them. ($250 for DVCAM Bettie Boop cartoons!, It may be worth buying some of thease and setting up a public and free archive!)

And Elvis has just started to come out of copyright in the UK, beatles will start to be out of copyright in about 5 years?

What happens when they put DRM(including CSS) on something that's already public domain, like Charlie Chaplin?

Doing your own case mods is something that requires time, patience, and some money, but there's nothing that you buy that compares the final product.

My favorite is my Fossil computer, which is a Victorian beauty of brass and wood. I've also done the "all black" computer before black became the new beige. I also dallied with a Lego computer, though the innards finally died.

This simply isn't true. You are a shortsighted and uninformed person with latent luddite tendencies. Please stop spreading FUD about computers.

In fact, most of the Japanese I learned I learned using computers. Now, please don't misunderstand, I don't speak Japanese, but I learned a few phrases and learned Katakana.

The most effective language learning tool I ever saw or used was an online Flash application for learning Japanese alphabet. It used a very simple approach - it taught you something, then tested you and if you did ok, your digital female anime tutor removed an item of clothing. You made a mistake, she put something back on.

I just found the link, but it no longer works. Still, you can use Internet Archive to have a look, and may be you can trackback the site admins.

That site was remarkably effective. It was engaging, the learning was fun, and there was some very basic stimulation of the student. A well-programmer computer can easily replace a teacher. Especially, when teaching something as simple as language. Sure, a human teacher is still needed, but a computer can handle a lot of repetition, and repetition is the mother of learning.

I learned a lot of English using computers too, this time for real. Playing Civilization helped my vocabulary immensely. But ask an average non-native English speaker what a "granary" is and you're likely to get a blank stare in return. :)

Computers can help a lot. I can promise that there are many effective programs (and many crap ones), but you need to test them all yourself.

Mirror here

---
When all you have are lemons... -- Unknown stardate.

Google should use DjVu to distribute the documents, just like the Million Books Project at the Internet Archive.

Not all mp3s cost money. Thanks to http://www.archive.org/audio/ I have about 60GB of mp3s at no cost to me.

It was just a matter of time before a project of this scope got off the ground. I would like to see them team up with Project Gutenberg (and perhaps archive.org) to provide images of the material. Throw in the little transcoder and perhaps wikipedia and we will soon have a killer information resource that can be cross-referenced to silly proportions. This is a boon for research. Projects like this and the public library of science will add much to collective knowledge. It would also be nice to see them team up with the newspaper project! Next stop--public domain LOC!!!

It's been done before

okay, I used the Wayback machine to search Microsoft for IE that you can download. Unfortunetly, they don't have the actual page, but they do have the top downloads page, and it shows IE version 6

http://web.archive.org/web/20020802081348/www.micr osoft.com/downloads/searchdl.asp

Other creations from Kildall's companies include Concurrent DOS (multitasking OS for PCs in the early 1980's), GEM graphical user interface (1984), and the first encyclopedia on a CD-ROM (1985).

The PBS show Computer Chronicles (which Kildall co-hosted from 1983-1988) devoted an entire show to him after his death in 1994. They even explain what "really happened" on that infamous day when IBM came calling. You can download it here: Gary Kildall Special (1995).

I highly recommend the Computer Chronicles video archive for amusing nostalgia like "Intel 386 - The Fast Lane" (1987) and "The Macintosh Computer" (1985).

Other creations from Kildall's companies include Concurrent DOS (multitasking OS for PCs in the early 1980's), GEM graphical user interface (1984), and the first encyclopedia on a CD-ROM (1985).

The PBS show Computer Chronicles (which Kildall co-hosted from 1983-1988) devoted an entire show to him after his death in 1994. They even explain what "really happened" on that infamous day when IBM came calling. You can download it here: Gary Kildall Special (1995).

I highly recommend the Computer Chronicles video archive for amusing nostalgia like "Intel 386 - The Fast Lane" (1987) and "The Macintosh Computer" (1985).

Other creations from Kildall's companies include Concurrent DOS (multitasking OS for PCs in the early 1980's), GEM graphical user interface (1984), and the first encyclopedia on a CD-ROM (1985).

The PBS show Computer Chronicles (which Kildall co-hosted from 1983-1988) devoted an entire show to him after his death in 1994. They even explain what "really happened" on that infamous day when IBM came calling. You can download it here: Gary Kildall Special (1995).

I highly recommend the Computer Chronicles video archive for amusing nostalgia like "Intel 386 - The Fast Lane" (1987) and "The Macintosh Computer" (1985).

Other creations from Kildall's companies include Concurrent DOS (multitasking OS for PCs in the early 1980's), GEM graphical user interface (1984), and the first encyclopedia on a CD-ROM (1985).

The PBS show Computer Chronicles (which Kildall co-hosted from 1983-1988) devoted an entire show to him after his death in 1994. They even explain what "really happened" on that infamous day when IBM came calling. You can download it here: Gary Kildall Special (1995).

I highly recommend the Computer Chronicles video archive for amusing nostalgia like "Intel 386 - The Fast Lane" (1987) and "The Macintosh Computer" (1985).

Here it is. However it seems down for now but you can still grab it from archive.org.

Anyone interested in marketing his products directly to the CEO of Dash.com and chairman of Direct Revenue, Mr Daniel L. Kaufman, should consult the following information:

The Mr. Kaufman listed in the article holds this office for his scams

The Internet Archive version of Dash.com from 1999 has a nice little bio of Mr Kaufman.

According to that bio, he has significant real estate holdings in Boston, MA. According to the City of Boston, indeed he does:

Home Address:
20 ROWES WHARF, APT #306
BOSTON, MA 02110
Building value: $819,400.00
Residential Exemption: YES
("Since 1983, the City of Boston has elected to apply a residential exemption to residential property that serves as a principal residence of its owner.")

I will leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.

But I do
http://web.archive.org/web/20040308085913/http://w ww.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/landscape.html

pof.

Another place to look for media about the quake/fire is the Internet Archive. If you go to the Prelinger Archives of the video section and search for "San Francisco Fire" the first two entries are videos of Market Street before and after it happened. Or, since the average Slashdotter and Slashdaughter are lazy, here are the search results.

I think they should make the front page look cleaner like it used to.

Old Google I miss the tabs.

Or how about this one? Really Old Google j/k

I think they should make the front page look cleaner like it used to.

Old Google I miss the tabs.

Or how about this one? Really Old Google j/k

What's wrong with steampunk Victorians fighting off a Martian invasion?

You'll get them. There are two War of the Worlds movies coming out. The other one from Pendragon Pictures will be set in the original book's setting.

I know what I'll be doing this weekend: retooling and reorganizing my War of the Worlds website. Interesting that this Spielburg version is depicting the alien hand holding the Earth in a manner very reminiscent of the 1988-1989 season of the TV series.

I just wish I had a complete working copy of the old waroftheworlds.com Radio Classics website, especially their story, "The Last Chat Room". Lost my copy to hard drive corruption. Random two-byte errors in the image files. Anyone who can help, drop me a line at my site, either having an archived version or can repair damaged GIF and/or JPEG files. (The Way-Back Machine sadly doesn't have a copy.)

You mean, like this?

pretty rare part

From my hall of mirrors:

Corel Cache

Internet Archive

Google cache Note - images may not be cached.

In 2000 I tried to invent a spam-proof usenet. The result of my efforts was Miski. The idea of Miski was that users would have addresses on servers representing what are effectively RSS channels, and other users would subscribe to these channels through their servers. There would be a DNS extension for the naming of servers. Channels would have names like username@example.com/"Java Programming". The system would be spam-proof because your server would only send you what you had subscribed to. It would be "push", because as soon as you posted something to a channel, your server would pass the message on to the servers of those who had subscribed to your channel. Only the notifications would be push: ordinary http would be used to retrieve the actual content.

Miski also had the important concept of "reposting", whereby if you saw something you liked, you could press a single button in your client to repost the notification, so that any subscribers to you could know about the item being reposted, if they had not already heard about it from somewhere else. The presumption was that the client (or the reader's server) would trim out duplicates, so that people posting would have no inhibitions about reposting stuff that maybe many of their subscribers already knew about.

Miski was more than just an attempt to create scalable-push RSS, or a spam-proof equivalent of Usenet: it was a vision of the "global brain". Using posting and reposting, notification of a new "interesting" idea could spread very quickly from the inventor of the idea to almost anyone in the world likely to be interested in that idea, even if the inventor was not well known. We would all be like neurons in the brain, with signals passing from one person to the next as fast as possible. It was an attempt to solve the dual problems of "How can I tell the world what I have to say when I have to compete against the efforts of all those other people trying to tell the world stuff?" and "How can I find out new stuff that's really interesting to me from among all this junk that I am getting from all these people trying to tell stuff to the world?".

I asked the question How fast is the Internet?. Although packets can travel from one computer to another in seconds, or even less, information can still take days, weeks, months or even years to travel from the person who created it to another person who is interested in it. One way to measure this is to consider how often you find a document on the web which is interesting, but which you did not know about, and which has nevertheless been available for months or years, and which would have been interesting to you even when it was originally posted on the web.

Sadly Miski was never implemented, and I reduced my ambitions to write Womcat Bookmarks, which attempted to be a less dynamic version of Miski, but has ended up being just another RSS reader.

I don't know what the UKs stance on mineral rights is, but it's been exceedingly well established by porecedent here in North American that the mineral rights under your land do not belong to you.

That varies from state to state. Where I live what is under me is mine because the mineral rights are sold with the land. In Texas, the mineral rights are basicly never sold with the land because of all that oil. Of course one could just say we don't own our land because we pay taxes to the gub-r-nent. (In that case, you probobly have already watched Michael Badnarik's videos or read his book, Good To Be King.)

According to the Wayback Machine, itunes.com wasn't used by Apple until mid 2003.

Anyone with a brain should have read "fraud" from every bit of this. Their website has a web page (thanks to Zen Punk for the archive.org link) about their "accreditation". It's full of buzzwords, and says that they've been accredited by the "National Association of Prior Learning Assessment Colleges". Oddly enough, a Google search for this only produces the page in question, a link to a message board saying that this "university" has been spammed heavily - and a website for the supposed association, which is now off-line. Thankfully, the Way-Back Machine never forgets. Same buzzword bingo on that page, no contact information other than an e-mail address. How anyone could conceivably look at these websites and decide that this was legit is beyond me. Ah, well. They'll get what they deserve.
N.B. There's also a CNN article about this as well, which seems to be a carbon copy of the local story linked in the blurb.

Anyone with a brain should have read "fraud" from every bit of this. Their website has a web page (thanks to Zen Punk for the archive.org link) about their "accreditation". It's full of buzzwords, and says that they've been accredited by the "National Association of Prior Learning Assessment Colleges". Oddly enough, a Google search for this only produces the page in question, a link to a message board saying that this "university" has been spammed heavily - and a website for the supposed association, which is now off-line. Thankfully, the Way-Back Machine never forgets. Same buzzword bingo on that page, no contact information other than an e-mail address. How anyone could conceivably look at these websites and decide that this was legit is beyond me. Ah, well. They'll get what they deserve.
N.B. There's also a CNN article about this as well, which seems to be a carbon copy of the local story linked in the blurb.

You can actually look at the pictures, too.

archive.org is your buddy. (The ZIP is apparently something nonstandard maybe PKware proprietary?) but the EXE works.) Get it before they pull it.

From archive.org, we have the original story. It looks like the voting machine part was added to bring this back into the newspapers. This wouldn't be hard, considering his original job was programming for the FDOT ... *and* Yang, his *prior* employer.

Thank you, archive.org:

Sunday, June 09, 2002
---

Feeney's role in FDOT contract dispute questioned
By LAURA ZUCKERMAN (laura.zuckerman@news-jrnl.com)
Staff Writer

TALLAHASSEE -- Clint Curtis thought he was doing the state a favor last May when he alerted investigators at the Florida Department of Transportation about what he claimed was fraudulent billing by an Oviedo computer firm represented by House Speaker Tom Feeney.

Today, Curtis is still adding up the personal and professional costs for doing what he calls "the right thing" and what Florida law requires of anyone who suspects mismanagement or the waste of public funds.

"I can't believe this is how it's supposed to work," says the veteran computer programmer who worked as a technology consultant for FDOT. "I thought I was doing my duty; now I wonder if I was just stupid."

Last May, Curtis "blew the whistle" on what he believed were violations of state law by Yang Enterprises of Oviedo in an $8 million technology contract with FDOT. Curtis worked for Yang prior to being hired by FDOT, and based some of his allegations on his involvement with the state contract while at Yang.

In the filing with FDOT's inspector general, who is charged with investigating suspected misdeeds, Curtis said Yang engaged "in a practice of false billing" and employed an illegal alien, a violation of state law and cause for the immediate cancellation of the contract.

More than a year after they were lodged, the allegations only now are being fully investigated by FDOT. The delay stems in part from the fact that FDOT shifted the focus of its investigation from Yang to Curtis and the FDOT manager who approved his hiring, Mavis Georgalis.

Curtis says the shift was prompted by Yang and its allies, including Feeney, to quiet Yang's critics.

Yang's attorneys say that's not true. They deny any instances of overbilling and say the character and conduct of Curtis and Georgalis are suspect.

The charges and countercharges have touched off a series of events and repercussions that are still being felt.

The tale stretches from Seminole County to the state capital, encompassing everything from lawsuits over intellectual property to claims of influence peddling by Feeney and culminating in the firing of Curtis and the resignation of Georgalis, who was in charge of the Yang contract.

It is the kind of drama best viewed through the high-powered lens of politics, for on its fringes stands Feeney, one of the state's most well-connected players, and at its center are questions raised by Yang and its defenders about the motives of Curtis and Georgalis.

The story is laced with conspiracy theories and conflicting commentaries, much of which is spelled out in court documents and other public records examined by The News-Journal during the course of a weeks-long investigation.

ALLEGATIONS ALL AROUND

Curtis says he now believes Feeney used his position as House speaker to stifle any investigation of Yang by FDOT, which, if true, would be a violation of state ethics laws.

But Feeney, an attorney whose clients include Yang Enterprises, denies he used his influence to benefit Yang and says he played no role when the firm secured an eight-year contract with FDOT in 1999 -- with a price tag not to exceed $8 million -- to provide a computer program to manage large volumes of information.

The relationship between Feeney and Yang predates the Oviedo Republican's rise to power two years ago as House speaker, with its origins traced as far back as the 1980s, when Tyng-Lin Yang, the company's co-owner, wor

(Posting as AC for privacy reasons.)

1) Jay Patel is an alias for Sanjay Amin. (More on this in a bit)
2) Sanjay Amin started out a company called Entropy Systems, which offered a perpetual motion machine to paying customers. This was after he defaulted from school loans at the University of Minnesota. (He left the university and the state due to some disagreements with the university about his engine)
3) Using the millions of dollars he bilked out of various people and organizations primarily in the Youngstown area, Entropy Systems disappeared and became www.abika.com, a site that offered free eBooks. See the Wired article for details about the transition.
4) After deciding that free eBooks weren't very profitable, Abika.com went through various transformations until it made it to its current state of being a background investigation website.
5) To avoid connections with his questionable past, Mr. Amin now goes by the name Jay Patel.
6) Abika.com sells a combination of reports from an astrology CD-ROM that Mr. Amin has, plus actual reports from private investigators that he re-sells (without a license).

So how about that, Sanjay? How do you like your privacy now?

I can name 778 exceptions easily.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.p hp

Those that are already famous want to wring every cent out of the fame they've worked hard to get and therefore loathe the Internet's ease of file sharing.

Nah, most of them care about maintaining status quo. Being that most music artists do nothing significant after their 30th birthday as far a new material goes, any rational artist over 30 that has a nice place to stay and can eat and do regular stuff should be pretty content for being able to retire at such a young age.

So a TiVo for the Internet would be ... a buffer? That's it?

OK, so you could "go back in time" and see how a web page changes over time. To do that for every web page is going to take quite a bit of storage. And I think the folks at The Wayback Machine do a pretty good job.

You could also schedule web pages to be "recorded" so you won't miss them when you're out? Huh? I suppose if you wanted to read yesterday's edition of the online New York Times it might be handy, but online periodicals already have online archives.

TiVo makes sense for TV since it's a streamed medium. We don't need TiVo for blogs, webpages, Usenet, and so forth. (A TiVo plugin for iTunes would be nice, though!)

No, because that's purged every time they revisit a page. You only get a few months' history, if that. (Google Groups has a lot of usenet back to the 80s though.) Try the Wayback Machine for back to about 1996.

Nice link! But no need to include the sessionID on the end.
http://www.archive.org/texts/texts.php
will do just fine

PJ's work at debunking SCO's claims have little or nothing to do with her involvement with OSRM.

If I put on my tinfoil hat, I'd had to disagree -- SCO and OSRM seem to be two forks of the same "Linux IP FUD" strategy -- SCO focusing on the Unix roots, and OSRM focusing on patents.

I can't speak for bersl2, but I think you may have mistaken his point.

When Stallman originated (ie, named) the Free Software movement in '84, he did it for political reasons. Later, ESR and others said that if people want this stuff to be accepted in corporate society, they need to focus on practical and not political ideals. Political statements make suits nervous. (If you were on slashdot, certain Usenet groups, etc in '98 or so, you saw the discussions.)

One big sticking point was the name. "Free software" had two problems. First, ESR &co wanted to get away from the whole "Freedom!" issue, as I described.

Second, it's too easy to think "free" as in "free beer", not "free speech". (I first saw that meme at about the same time, I think.) When people think "free" in that sense, they may think of the plethora of stuff on Tucows etc that cost $0, but have no source. Since source access, modification, and distribution are a big part of what this new movement was about, they didn't want the free-as-in-beer association to be part of the new name either.

Hence, "open source" became the new term. So what bersl2 said has some merit: one big reason for coining the term "open source" is because ESR &co didn't want people to think that things like Spybot S&D were part of this new movement.

From a practical point of view, yes, the two movements generally support the same set of software. The guidelines are similar. But the philosophies are different, and those that care about the philosophy (such as Stallman) distinguish between the two, sometimes more subtly than others.

But the issue of unmodifiable source was one of the reasons that the name "Open Source" was formed: they wanted it, and felt that the term "free software" didn't emphasize that point enough.

Also, the best of the Internet's public domain releases at the Archive.

I agree with the general thrust of your post, but when has Apple been "unfriendly" to open source? Yes there was the FSF boycott, but that was because the FSF was angry at Apple over the Microsoft "look & feel" lawsuit rather than a specific issue with open source.

Apple was collaborating with open source software advocates years before open source was 'cool' (in the mainstream sense). I know the pre-Open Firmware bootloaders weren't easy to deal with, but hackers have gotten NetBSD and Linux running on several 68k era Macs without any grief from Apple.

To me, it seems their marketing campaign has gone the wrong way.

I don't see any problem with email offers as such as long as they are above board so to speak, for instance because I have signed up for a company, or expressed an interest in a product.

Up until recently they had an email signup form on the web, and its not difficult to signup anyone you want, the site is quirky enough to raise a laugh amongst friends (I went through a phase of signing up folks to knitting pattern newsletters!).
(Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20040202064714/www.arto fsense.com/signup.html)

On the signup page, they do state that they never sell emails or pass to others, which considering the whole look and feel of the site (small family art business) seems like a reasonable line.

Now, if one of those friends was on Lycos and marked it as spam its quite feasible that the Lycos engine has taken it onboard as spam.

This could mean Lycos makes no distinction between a reasonable prospective mailing from a small reputable company and the hardened multimillion hidden linkage spyware infested crap.

But then again, I'm possibly very wide of the mark.

Also see the history of modifications of the presspass/trial directory
--jeff++