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Taken from here but it answers your question. If the person seeding removes the file, it would disapear in the cache as well. Maybe they check the original file link still exists and functions every few hits to the cache?

Also only works for large files unless this FAQ is out of date:

What files are being served by FreeCache?
FreeCache can only serve files that are on a web site. If the link to a file on that web site goes away, so will the file in the FreeCaches. Also, there is a minimum size requirement. We don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those cases.

What files are being served by FreeCache?

FreeCache can only serve files that are on a web site. If the link to a file on that web site goes away, so will the file in the FreeCaches. Also, there is a minimum size requirement. We don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those cases.

As their status page explains...

As their status page explains...

As I understand the setup, the ideal would be for ISPs to install this system on their networks like AOL's infernal content caching, except that it would only cache what the site owner wants cached. It seems like anyone with a static IP could join in the fun, too.

But would they? I saw this on the new service's message forum
I was perusing the content in my cache and checking the detailed status page and I noticed illegal content containing videos in one of the caches I run. What is freecache.org doing to stop people from mirroring illegal content. I currently run 2 fairly heavily used caches and it looks like only one of them had illegal content. I cleared the cache to purge the problem, but the user just abused the service again by uploading the content again. I know freecache.org cannot be responsible for uploaded content, but there has to be some sort of content management system to make sure freecache doesn't turn into just another way to hide illegal content.

Whether you believe this guy's story or not, it seems like this could subject small ISPs to the sort of problems that P2P has brought to regular users. It's not going to matter who's right -- just the idea of having to go to court over content physically residing on your server is a risk I don't see a marginal ISP being willing to take.

So we're left with the folks with static IP addresses. They're in even more trouble if John Ashcroft decides to send his boyz over to check for "enemy combatants" at your IP address.

With the current state of affairs in the US, and the personal risk involved, I'd have to pass on this cool concept.

The Internet Archive Petabox seems to use ReiserFS. Interesting, to say the least. Even more interesting would be if one of the developers that helped make the call shares some insight.

From the forum:

Rack materials cost is currently estimated to be $121K for 96TB. Node materials are a just under $1450. This price does not include markup, assembly or burn-in from the system integrator and thus will increase by another 5-7% to approximately $130K/rack.

So, about $1.3M (10 racks)

cLive ;-)

"Rack materials cost is currently estimated to be $121K for 96TB"

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 13509

This mentions $130k/rack.

He wouldn't be the first fictional character to do so

To bad Duke didn't win in 2000. If he wanted to get Saddam, for instance, he would have taken him out personally without starting a world war.

To bad Duke didn't win in 2000. Of he wanted to get Saddam, he wold have takne him oput personally without starting a world war.

The problem is that our educational system doesn't teach basic critical thinking skills - those aren't developed until college (if then). The problem is that our educational system is a garbage-in, garbage-out system with a watered-down politically correct curriculum that warps context and is rife with inaccuracies and some outright lies. They're designed to increase "self-esteem" for some, at the expense of actually being able to be a productive and informed citizen.

There is an excellent article that was online a while back called Sesame Street, Epistemology, and Freedom that gives a good background into some of the problems, causes, and solutions in terms of our educational system's woeful lack of critical thinking skill-building. Thankfully the Internet Archive still has a copy since I've not been able to find it online. A sample:

It is simply assumed, pedagogically, in both public and private schools, that after about the grade 5 level, the student's abilities to abstract, and then to think about the abstractions, will take care of themselves, as some collateral result of all the other teaching and learning that goes on in math, language, social studies, science, and so on. Attention is never paid to abstraction as such, even though it wouldn't have been put on a toddler's educational TV show (as in this game), if it were not understood to be a foundation skill.

In other words, "philosophy" (i.e., "thinking about thinking"), which is to say, the most abstract, complex and comprehensive task any human being has to learn, is not expressly taught at all in the, let us say, rather significant educational interval between Grover on Sesame Street, and Graduate Study Seminar. From my point of view as an educational professional, I find this, to put it mildly, to be mind-boggling, in several senses of that expression.

If we can't teach children to think abstractly and learning how to quantify and qualify the streams of information that blast them every day, we can't expect to maintain an informed and reasonable democracy. Unfortunately we have an education system build by people like Horace Mann that were designed for the Industrial Age and are wholly inadequate for the intellectual demands of the Information Age.

This neat little prop was done in 2002, as the wayback machine will tell you. Seems /. is loosing its edge as far as up to date news go :-)

On a redeeming note, I am sure I saw this on /. before...

Blatant karma whoring ahead. See what The Spot was like Wayback When.

that site went down quickly, good thing someone saved it

thanks to the wayback machine we will always have the website: techtv wayback

It's also quite easy to convert plain text to the superior Newton book format; converters to do so are available here and there. There are also utilities out there to pull plain text back out of Newton books; locally Saugus.net uses such a utility to incorporate the text of Newton books into the site's search engine.

There are also still hundreds (actually probably over a thousand) Newton books freely available on the Internet. These days though they're somewhat scattered waiting for the return of Newton's Library (some of the original site can still be found on the Internet Archive) and other similar sites.

"Clearly on one side of the battle" you say, well lets see what side that is, shall we? A little trip through the WayBack machine is in order, I think...

IronPort's original product

Hmm, what is that? Oh yes, it's the first product IronPort Systems ever sold. What does it do? Why, it sends up to 500,000 messages an hour and opens up to 10,000 simultaneous connections! Yes, those certainly look like "anti-spam" measures to me.

Let's take another snapshot from the Internet Archive, this time look at the news items at the bottom of the page: Interesting marketing tips from IronPort

Wow, most of them talk about "maximizing your e-marketing dollars" and "are you emails getting through?". Yep, looks like fighting against spam to me...

Here's another snippet, notice how they make mention of how well they deal with spam filters on the recipient's end. Also notice the words about multiple "campaigns" happening simultaneously and being able to assign 256 IPs to one device, hmm, why would you need 256 IPs to send e-mail? buy our servers because we try to evade spam filters!

In fact, while the first archive of www.IronPort.com is from Aug 26, 2001 it wasn't until Apr 02, 2003 that their "C series" was displayed. For close to 2 years they exclusively sold and marketed "marketing" servers before they ever came out with e-mail "protection" servers.

Even today, the bulk of the anti-spam functionality in their products comes from an OEM agreement with Brightmail, so that shows you how many of their own resources they been dedicating to "fighting" spam.

Now, I have some friends at IronPort and they're actually nice people (no sarcasm this time). One of them actually works in the Bonded Sender program and the people working in that program aren't exactly tolerating spam, so it's not like the company is pure evil.

If you look at the company history, though, it should be apparent which side they're on. Actually, just look at the featured customers on their website. Nearly all of them are customers of the e-mail sending servers, not the e-mail receiving models. I'm sure everyone is familiar with what an upstanding corporate citizen click.doubleclick is... featured IronPort customer.

All right, that's about enough. Hopefully I don't get k-lined tomorr... er, today :-\

P.S. Nothing personal, I'm just setting the record straight.

"Clearly on one side of the battle" you say, well lets see what side that is, shall we? A little trip through the WayBack machine is in order, I think...

IronPort's original product

Hmm, what is that? Oh yes, it's the first product IronPort Systems ever sold. What does it do? Why, it sends up to 500,000 messages an hour and opens up to 10,000 simultaneous connections! Yes, those certainly look like "anti-spam" measures to me.

Let's take another snapshot from the Internet Archive, this time look at the news items at the bottom of the page: Interesting marketing tips from IronPort

Wow, most of them talk about "maximizing your e-marketing dollars" and "are you emails getting through?". Yep, looks like fighting against spam to me...

Here's another snippet, notice how they make mention of how well they deal with spam filters on the recipient's end. Also notice the words about multiple "campaigns" happening simultaneously and being able to assign 256 IPs to one device, hmm, why would you need 256 IPs to send e-mail? buy our servers because we try to evade spam filters!

In fact, while the first archive of www.IronPort.com is from Aug 26, 2001 it wasn't until Apr 02, 2003 that their "C series" was displayed. For close to 2 years they exclusively sold and marketed "marketing" servers before they ever came out with e-mail "protection" servers.

Even today, the bulk of the anti-spam functionality in their products comes from an OEM agreement with Brightmail, so that shows you how many of their own resources they been dedicating to "fighting" spam.

Now, I have some friends at IronPort and they're actually nice people (no sarcasm this time). One of them actually works in the Bonded Sender program and the people working in that program aren't exactly tolerating spam, so it's not like the company is pure evil.

If you look at the company history, though, it should be apparent which side they're on. Actually, just look at the featured customers on their website. Nearly all of them are customers of the e-mail sending servers, not the e-mail receiving models. I'm sure everyone is familiar with what an upstanding corporate citizen click.doubleclick is... featured IronPort customer.

All right, that's about enough. Hopefully I don't get k-lined tomorr... er, today :-\

P.S. Nothing personal, I'm just setting the record straight.

"Clearly on one side of the battle" you say, well lets see what side that is, shall we? A little trip through the WayBack machine is in order, I think...

IronPort's original product

Hmm, what is that? Oh yes, it's the first product IronPort Systems ever sold. What does it do? Why, it sends up to 500,000 messages an hour and opens up to 10,000 simultaneous connections! Yes, those certainly look like "anti-spam" measures to me.

Let's take another snapshot from the Internet Archive, this time look at the news items at the bottom of the page: Interesting marketing tips from IronPort

Wow, most of them talk about "maximizing your e-marketing dollars" and "are you emails getting through?". Yep, looks like fighting against spam to me...

Here's another snippet, notice how they make mention of how well they deal with spam filters on the recipient's end. Also notice the words about multiple "campaigns" happening simultaneously and being able to assign 256 IPs to one device, hmm, why would you need 256 IPs to send e-mail? buy our servers because we try to evade spam filters!

In fact, while the first archive of www.IronPort.com is from Aug 26, 2001 it wasn't until Apr 02, 2003 that their "C series" was displayed. For close to 2 years they exclusively sold and marketed "marketing" servers before they ever came out with e-mail "protection" servers.

Even today, the bulk of the anti-spam functionality in their products comes from an OEM agreement with Brightmail, so that shows you how many of their own resources they been dedicating to "fighting" spam.

Now, I have some friends at IronPort and they're actually nice people (no sarcasm this time). One of them actually works in the Bonded Sender program and the people working in that program aren't exactly tolerating spam, so it's not like the company is pure evil.

If you look at the company history, though, it should be apparent which side they're on. Actually, just look at the featured customers on their website. Nearly all of them are customers of the e-mail sending servers, not the e-mail receiving models. I'm sure everyone is familiar with what an upstanding corporate citizen click.doubleclick is... featured IronPort customer.

All right, that's about enough. Hopefully I don't get k-lined tomorr... er, today :-\

P.S. Nothing personal, I'm just setting the record straight.

I'm afraid that I don't understand what's new here.

The only thing new here is Novell. Lets take a trip on the way back machine shall we?

Actually, there's evidence to suggest otherwise: it appears that they're incrementing it at a rate of more than one per year.

If we look now, in 2004, they claim "Only remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!" However, if we use the wayback machine to look back three years ago to 2001, they then only claimed to have three years.

All the same, I find that OpenBSD is fantastic: well documented, simple, very paranoid about security, and very easy to update.

Where's the Client version of Mac OS X Server 1.0? (Hint: Apples consumer OS at the time was Mac OS 8.5)

Just like Microsoft with NT & Windows 3.1.1, Apple trickled the new archetecture of OS X from the top down. but it only took apple 3 years to do it. it took Microsoft... 15 years?

Heh, I guess I should have thought about this before I posted, but if you don't remember the site, or you want to take a stroll down memory lane, the wayback machine has some nice linkage for perusal.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/thedukeofurl.org

Someone mentioned that we over estimate the value of our data. That's probably true.

While I acknowledge this, I've thought of the archiving issue too. I've been working on my web site www.bearcave.com since 1995. The material published on this web site represents the largest work I've completed that does not belong to someone else. I intend to keep adding to it. In the long run it may represent the largest work I've accomplished in my life.

Egotist that I am, I'd like it to survive me. I have searched and I did not find any web repository except for the Internet Archive, which attempts to archive the Internet. The Internet Archive has archived bearcave.com, so there is some chance that my work will be around when I'm not. The way things are going there will probably come a time when you can carry around the current Internet Archive in your pocket, so the costs of archiving should drop, which also provides some hope that the Internet Archive data itself will survive.

Unfortunately, the Internet Archive is not an ideal solution. Given bandwidth issues, they cannot afford to update too frequently. Also, while the Internet Archive is locally searchable, I don't think that is is searchable by search engines like Google. So material on the Internet Archive is not as accessible as other material on the Web.

There appears to be a possible business here (perhaps at the non-profit level). I'd be willing to pay money into an escrow account and a monthly fee to have my web site scanned weekly. The when I die my web site would no longer be scanned and my data be available to the web on the new site.

The problem with such a business is that it would probably have to be set up as a non-profit. The concentration of an archiving business is to pay its bills and survive in the long term, not make lots of money for its founders or shareholders.

There are some technical complexities as well. Internal links between web site pages would have to be changed so that they worked at the new location. But it should not be too difficult to write conversion software.

Hey, remember the Canadian startup icravetv.com (archive link) and the fuss it stirred up. It was a good little service for its time, before getting squashed by legalities. Maybe it would be a good time for them to consider starting it up again.

Okay, maybe expecting the Internet Archive to take care of my online presence for me in the event of my demise is a bit much, but it's not like I'll be wanting to change my site after my death.

And if it so happens that I change my mind and do want to change it after I'm dead, let's see if their fancy-schmancy network security can stop a ghost.

The Frugal Living Tip File has some top notch advice. It disappeared from the net awhile back, but archive.org has a copy.

I think the parent is probably referring to some of the pictures on google's early hardware photos page, courtesy of the wayback machine. If so, the lego never necessarily went into `production', it was just when they were messing around.

Richter: "Well, that's simple. That's the easiest question there is. Because the US Postal service is saying 'Hey, we need help. We're getting killed here. This guy can send email. He's not wiping out the rain forest. So what are we gonna do with all these little white trucks? We either gotta get this guy to pay 37 cents and buy some stamps... or we're done.'"

Funny, I always thought it was Big Lumber, not the post office.

--
(Not) Member #236616 of The Lumber Cartel (There Is No Lumber Cartel)

Seriously. It's funny. ;-) I like the way Google has preserved the geek touch to business. All those theme logos, april jokes, lego cases... And LINUX. :-D And the success story is amazing.

Old Google servers (link found from ./) here

[W]hy, in every press release of companies who migrate to Linux, do they only mention licencing costs?

Because that's all they see to compete on; Microsoft makes their arguments from a similar framing of the issue when they compare OpenOffice.org to Microsoft Office or various GNU/Linux distributions to Microsoft Windows. They never discuss the value of the freedoms to share and modify software. The freedoms of free software are actually what is being leveraged in our community, but anyone who only knows to talk about price will never see software freedom as advantageous. This isn't unusual, economists are well known to not discriminate or evaluate based on things they cannot quantify. Freedom and ethical behavior are two of those things.

If you want to see more of the outcome of the myth of rational economic acting or various adverse outcomes which are not assigned economic value, I recommend "The Corporation"--a documentary which examines how corporations came to be and what kind of power they wield around the world. One of the most interesting questions the documentary asks is if a corporation is a legal person, what kind of a person it it? I recently came across a lower resolution version that aired on Canadian TV on archive.org but I the section where I found it has changed and I can't find the new location.

This is already possible for some bands. After going to a Primus show recently (Tour de Fromage). I was able to pay to download the entire show as either flac or mp3 from primuslive.com. Also, for truly free live shows of less popular and often more talented bands at the Live Music Archive over at archive.org.

etree furthurnet Live Music Archive

Yea, but what about OpenText... search.opentext.com used to give a stale, but workable search engine. The company has now since begun to sell their search engine to companies.

I found opentext's search results very relevant at the time...this may have changed with time, but it was still a good search engine...

Archive.org still has the old front page...

Most recent cached copy of Mark's site had no clearly marked permission requirements. Not that this makes it OK, but there is a difference between Linspire making poor assumptions and Linspire ignoring clearly-marked restrictions. Or more likely, a lone Linspire employee making poor assumptions/taking credit. The real test will be Linspire's official reaction. Can they safely offer reasonable compensation without admitting guilt and greatly increasing their liability?

I have written a couple of posts about allofmp3.com post 1 post2.

In a nutshell, if you don't care too much about what you download (quality, selection, completeness, ease of download, etc) and you feel better about paying some Russian for (mostly) American music than go through this service. Otherwise, you can get the same low quality, incomplete, mislabled stuff for free on p2p with a greater selection.

Note, I have _never_ used a p2p service, nor do I plan to. I bought about $20 of music from this service and I still think its easier/cheaper/higher quality to go to the used record store for studio albums and go to places like this for free live stuff to download. Unfortunately, most of the really free music is limited to non pop bands that tour and play music for a living instead of those that look good and rely on their producers and recording engineers to make the music for them, so that leaves out many consumers.

1. Usenet. Check out Google Groups. Search not only for the name of the company, but also names of key managers, even the company phone number. Be on the lookout for adverse commentary. Don't assume it's true, but look for trends and things that can be proven or disproven. You can't rely on Usenet any more than you can rely on Slashdot, but it sure helps you ask intelligent questions.

Thanks to the Google Groups, a Usenet posting can
act as the "atomic bomb" of employment relations. Web pages come and go, but a historical search engine never forgets. Imagine the possibilities.

2. Web stuff; same as above -- get creative with the search contents. Google, Dogpile, The wayback machine Be on the lookout for "protest pages". I have occasionally hit the jackpot with searches that revealed fact-filled protest pages. Well worth a look. Try finding previous employers of the key managers and investigate those companies as well.

3. In the US, you can check places like bbb.org for a history of business complaints. Also try state dept. of consumer protection. The secretary of state will generally have corporate registration data that can be of interest. In some states, you can visit the judicial department online and search for civil cases involving the employer in question. Are they suing anyone? Is anyone suing them?

Wayback Machine / Karma-Whoring link.

i urge all artists who are sick of being duped by corporate-sponsored free hosting to post their songs at archive.org. it is free, you get a static URL that you can point to from your band's website, and you can even easily designate a creative commons music sharing license.

"More interestingly, the story mentions that despite increases in funding for libraries, spending on books has sharply declined"

And the libraries probably don't know about Project Gutenberg, Baen WikiBooks or the Wikipedia. They're just using it to check their hotmail accounts.

Put a decent printer like in the Internet Bookmobile, and they could have a pretty big collection of books available. But no, it's 10p per sheet on an inket.

Libraries in the UK are even selling shareware, probably not even realising the quality of software that they could give away for free if they wished.

People interested in downloading music might also want to check out the Internet Archive's Live Audio Archive which offers both mp3 and lossless shn compressed audio for free.

But can someone explain what the huge appeal with Lindows still is? All of the hype building up to the release had to do with it's ability to run Windows apps.

This functionality was never above or beyond any other Linux distribution... so it's just another distro now... right or wrong? What else does it offer besides the click and play?

Yeah yeah, lotsa Karma to burn....

But can someone explain what the huge appeal with Lindows still is? All of the hype building up to the release had to do with it's ability to run Windows apps.

MICHAEL ROBERTSON, CEO OF LINDOWS.COM, TO OFFER A PC OPERATING SYSTEM TO RUN BOTH LINUX® AND WINDOWS® SOFTWARE

This functionality was never above or beyond any other Linux distribution... so it's just another distro now... right?

Where and when, precisely, did anyone at Apple say that mac.com email would be "free forever"?
The iTools Membership Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy certainly doesn't. In fact it says very clearly:

Apple may change, suspend or discontinue any (or all) aspects of iTools at any time, including the availability of any iTools feature or content. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain features or portions of iTools, including a charge for or imposition of a subscription or other fee for use of iTools or any part or feature of iTools, or restrict your access to any part or all of iTools, in all cases without notice or liability.

Nothing lasts forever, particularly when it's free.

Archive.org has the original website, albeit with some images missing from the early days.

Where's the photo? =)

There's also the free Nebula Device released under essentially a BSD-style license. It's created by Radon Labs in Germany. Their site appears to be down right now, so here's a link to the archived version. Check out the screenshots for their upcoming Schwarzenberg game. Looks like a nice engine.

There's also the free Nebula Device released under essentially a BSD-style license. It's created by Radon Labs in Germany. Their site appears to be down right now, so here's a link to the archived version. Check out the screenshots for their upcoming Schwarzenberg game. Looks like a nice engine.

Back before Bungie were owned by The Borg (cheap shot -- sue me), they had a April Fool's prank going by the name of Pimps At Sea. So between this and Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom, I claim to have seen this before.

One sort of interesting note:

sometime between May 6, 1999 and Oct. 9, 1999, WebCrawler stopped pitching the Netscape Now! and Microsoft Internet Explorer buttons at the bottom of the page.

an interesting milestone, to say the least