Slashdot Mirror

hmm.. Slashdot seems to trap archive.org and change it to yro.slashdot.org/archive.org (which 404s). Perhaps to prevent goatse archives? Let's try www.archive.org

having a Ministry of Truth to make previous statements into unhistory is _not_ a good thing.

Except they didn't do that. They requested their copies of the history be removed from the immediate search capabilities of external search engines. That's not quite the same thing, although it may not necessarily iteself be good either.

If they'd removed these pages from the white house website search engine as well, maybe i'd be a bit worried.

But there would still be this. And the Bush Administration can't do anything about that.

From the book of truly desperate measures to "silence" a PC (without killing it), take a look at this interesting episode (only some images archived - anyone got a mirror?): An entire mainboard was submerged into pure mineral oil, to work silently below the surface of this unconventional computer coolant - which it actually did, and survived...

I am very excited by this news. I swear by my 48gx, which has the most useful calculatlor I have ever used. RPN input is very fast, the stack is very useful, and it was really ahead of its time with features. However, it can be a bit pokey at times, making certain features less useful. However, it is also very good on the computer. In mid-2000, HP actually made the laudable move of releasing the HP48 ROM images to the public, so various emulators that work exactly like the real thing can be found for various platforms. For OS X, I would suggest using x48, which is even featured on Apple's website! You can find the original page here. Worth checking out. Also, HP48gx enthusiasts should check out metakernal, which, while it requires you to have an add-on memory card, can make the 48gx a lot more usable. It rewrites a lot of the core functions in assembly, making them far faster, as well as adding new features. It is also free now (minus the cost of the required card, obviously).

In fact, here you go, S&M outfit, whip, breasts, green hair and all, when she was doing S&M for TheGates.

"...he sent in a huge binder of IBM mainframe documentation..."
Nope. A link to a complete online book was provided with the submission (see BountyQuest confirmation screen below). The link provided was also used by BountyQuest (#25) on its website.

"...without any comment about what part of it he considered prior art. When pressed for details, he gave some section numbers..."
Wrong-o. Both narrative and direct links to pertinent sections for each of the twelve requirements to match were provided as required at the time of submission (see BountyQuest confirmation screen below). No "pressing" was required.

"...for the life of me I couldn't see its relevance, and neither could any of the bountyquest patent attorneys...it seemed to me to be one of the most useless and irrelevant of all the submissions..."
Funny, BountyQuest singled it out as one of four "terrific submissions" (#25) on its website (the other three were the "runner-ups").

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Bounty ID: 1025
Author: IBM Corporation
Title: Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) User\'s Guide
Journal: IBM Corporation
Publication Date: 10/09/95
ISBN:
Edition: Version 4 Release 2 for MVS
URL: http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/CCONTENTS

Description/Comment: This is an IBM mainframe software product that\'s been around since the mid-70\'s! The model used by programmers to order, bill, accumulate, and deliver file listings, reports, etc. is virtually identical to Amazon\'s patented \"one-click\" model that\'s used to order, accumulate, and deliver books. In the IBM system, one prespecifies names, delivery destinations (global), chargeback account numbers (for automated billing systems), etc. that\'s store on a mainframe (server). Subsequently, individuals can list files and select one or more of them for delivery in one step by clicking a mouse, function key, light pen, or ENTER key that\'s attached to a PC or dumb terminal (client). These client-initiated selections are merged together with the prespecified server-based information to bundle (fulfill) the ordered information together on the server and deliver it to the specified individual at the indicated destination. Individuals can view the status of their orders at any time and cancel them if desired. If delivery problems are encountered (e.g., printer problems, no paper), a partial delivery is made. Sound similar to Amazon\'s \"innovations\"? Sure does! The more things change, the more they stay the same... SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

Answers:
(0) Selection Fields (Print) - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/1%2e1%2e2%2e6.
(1) Selection Lists - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/1%2e1%2e2%2e6.
(2) Function Keys, Light Pen, Cursor Select - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO

"...he sent in a huge binder of IBM mainframe documentation..."
Nope. A link to a complete online book was provided with the submission (see BountyQuest confirmation screen below). The link provided was also used by BountyQuest (#25) on its website.

"...without any comment about what part of it he considered prior art. When pressed for details, he gave some section numbers..."
Wrong-o. Both narrative and direct links to pertinent sections for each of the twelve requirements to match were provided as required at the time of submission (see BountyQuest confirmation screen below). No "pressing" was required.

"...for the life of me I couldn't see its relevance, and neither could any of the bountyquest patent attorneys...it seemed to me to be one of the most useless and irrelevant of all the submissions..."
Funny, BountyQuest singled it out as one of four "terrific submissions" (#25) on its website (the other three were the "runner-ups").

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Bounty ID: 1025
Author: IBM Corporation
Title: Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) User\'s Guide
Journal: IBM Corporation
Publication Date: 10/09/95
ISBN:
Edition: Version 4 Release 2 for MVS
URL: http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/CCONTENTS

Description/Comment: This is an IBM mainframe software product that\'s been around since the mid-70\'s! The model used by programmers to order, bill, accumulate, and deliver file listings, reports, etc. is virtually identical to Amazon\'s patented \"one-click\" model that\'s used to order, accumulate, and deliver books. In the IBM system, one prespecifies names, delivery destinations (global), chargeback account numbers (for automated billing systems), etc. that\'s store on a mainframe (server). Subsequently, individuals can list files and select one or more of them for delivery in one step by clicking a mouse, function key, light pen, or ENTER key that\'s attached to a PC or dumb terminal (client). These client-initiated selections are merged together with the prespecified server-based information to bundle (fulfill) the ordered information together on the server and deliver it to the specified individual at the indicated destination. Individuals can view the status of their orders at any time and cancel them if desired. If delivery problems are encountered (e.g., printer problems, no paper), a partial delivery is made. Sound similar to Amazon\'s \"innovations\"? Sure does! The more things change, the more they stay the same... SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

Answers:
(0) Selection Fields (Print) - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/1%2e1%2e2%2e6.
(1) Selection Lists - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/1%2e1%2e2%2e6.
(2) Function Keys, Light Pen, Cursor Select - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO

"...he sent in a huge binder of IBM mainframe documentation..."
Nope. A link to a complete online book was provided with the submission (see BountyQuest confirmation screen below). The link provided was also used by BountyQuest (#25) on its website.

"...without any comment about what part of it he considered prior art. When pressed for details, he gave some section numbers..."
Wrong-o. Both narrative and direct links to pertinent sections for each of the twelve requirements to match were provided as required at the time of submission (see BountyQuest confirmation screen below). No "pressing" was required.

"...for the life of me I couldn't see its relevance, and neither could any of the bountyquest patent attorneys...it seemed to me to be one of the most useless and irrelevant of all the submissions..."
Funny, BountyQuest singled it out as one of four "terrific submissions" (#25) on its website (the other three were the "runner-ups").

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Bounty ID: 1025
Author: IBM Corporation
Title: Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) User\'s Guide
Journal: IBM Corporation
Publication Date: 10/09/95
ISBN:
Edition: Version 4 Release 2 for MVS
URL: http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/CCONTENTS

Description/Comment: This is an IBM mainframe software product that\'s been around since the mid-70\'s! The model used by programmers to order, bill, accumulate, and deliver file listings, reports, etc. is virtually identical to Amazon\'s patented \"one-click\" model that\'s used to order, accumulate, and deliver books. In the IBM system, one prespecifies names, delivery destinations (global), chargeback account numbers (for automated billing systems), etc. that\'s store on a mainframe (server). Subsequently, individuals can list files and select one or more of them for delivery in one step by clicking a mouse, function key, light pen, or ENTER key that\'s attached to a PC or dumb terminal (client). These client-initiated selections are merged together with the prespecified server-based information to bundle (fulfill) the ordered information together on the server and deliver it to the specified individual at the indicated destination. Individuals can view the status of their orders at any time and cancel them if desired. If delivery problems are encountered (e.g., printer problems, no paper), a partial delivery is made. Sound similar to Amazon\'s \"innovations\"? Sure does! The more things change, the more they stay the same... SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

Answers:
(0) Selection Fields (Print) - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/1%2e1%2e2%2e6.
(1) Selection Lists - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO OKS/ISPUGD02/1%2e1%2e2%2e6.
(2) Function Keys, Light Pen, Cursor Select - http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.exe/BO

And unlike Florida, these votes (which were counted) had no effect on the electoral college results of the ultimate election. The uncounted Florida votes and the SC interference with the state mandated process obviously DID.

try using some FACTS
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Absentee ballot count completed in California

California Secretary of State Bill Jones announced this week that all absentee ballots have now been counted. Jones' news release in part addresses misleading reports circulating in the media recently that have resulted in many California voters' fearing that their absentee ballots might not be counted. Here at CVF we have also received numerous inquiries from voters about whether all absentee ballots are counted. To help set the record straight, Jones wrote in his release:

"There have been several erroneous reports on talk radio, the Internet and elsewhere that California does not count all absentee ballots or that absentee ballots are only counted in races where they would make a difference in the outcome.

"For the record, ALL ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE COUNTED IN CALIFORNIA. All absentee ballots must be received by the county elections official by the time the polls close at 8 p.m. on Election Day. All absentee ballot envelopes must be signed by the voter and that signature must be verified by the county elections official against the signature of the registered voter that is on file in the county elections office.

"Following the November 7th election, more than 1.1 million absentee ballots needed to be verified and counted. The rare instances an absentee ballot would not be counted are specified in statute and include: no signature on the envelope; the ballot was received after the 8 p.m. Election Day deadline; or the signature on the envelope did not match the signature of the registered voter on file with the county elections official."

The entire release is available online at: http://www.ss.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2000 /00-127.htm

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release not there anymore but get it from the wayback machine

So why was prior art submitted by others ruled out for not being specific to the web (e.g., "Unfortunately it doesn't say anything about the use of HTML, the Web, and such, so it wasn't a winner.")? Didn't anyone inform you or the BountyQuest lawyers that a Federal Court had rejected a similar argument made by Amazon just a month earlier?

Hopefull this will be the first step. ....or we could tell Bush there is oil on Mars =)

Oil on Mars.

waybackmachine mirror of slashdotted site

mirror

The mirror mostly works. Some of the images are broken.

The best chip "easter egg" I've seen was on the Intel P3 die which said something like "Microsoft Sucks" on it. The engineer responsible was fired if I remember correctly.

Not personally, but my good friend Mr. Wayback does here.

Geeze, at least give 'em a bloody link!

The Prelinger archive there is a wonderful treasury of historical material. And the free license means you can cut n paste any of it into your own video projects.

This seems pretty silly. Kahane.net is registered by what appears to be pretty prestigious Philadelpia patent law firm, Dann, Dorfman, Herrell, and Skillman and the administrative and billing contact is one of their partners, John Berryhill. Some people might not like patents (or at least those of the software variety) but somehow I doubt these guys are radical terrorists. Based on the registration date below and the last available page on the wayback machine being before that date I'm guessing they probably bought it up to shut it down (unless the later pages were pulled from archive.org and Google's cache). Of course, at any rate, I assume it's illegal for US citizens to give this firm any business until this is cleared up.

" Registrar: MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC.
Whois Server: whois.moniker.com
Referral URL: http://www.moniker.com
Name Server: NS3.MONIKER.COM
Name Server: NS4.MONIKER.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 11-oct-2003
Creation Date: 27-apr-2002
Expiration Date: 27-apr-2004 ...

Domain Name: KAHANE.NET

Registrant:
Dann, Dorfman, Herrell, and Skillman
1601 Market St.
Suite 2400
Philadelphia
PA
US
19103

Administrative Contact:
Berryhill, John (NIC-6305) jberryhill@ddhs.com
Dann, Dorfman, Herrell, and Skillman
1601 Market St.
Suite 2400
Philadelphia
PA, US
19103
Phone: 2155634100 Fax: 2155634044"

cache with pictures

Try Waybackmachine instead; it's a little older but at least they archive the pics too.

And from the Way Back Machine: Link

I think there might be potential health risks to radio frequency radiation. But not enough to be concerned about.

I would ask each of those parents if they heard anything about the Plowshares project. Back in the 1960s the US government allowed this project to explore the economic potential of nuclear excavation on Nevada soil, among other places. Who knows how many other toxic or radioactive projects have existed or been in direct contact with the public. Anyone who thinks that WiFi, cell phone, TV and radio signals are harmful needs to look around them. I'm sure they can find something far more dangerous to their children than a little RF. How about each of those SUVs passing them by at 30 mph only 5 feet away as they stroll down the sidewalk.

Courtesy of Thickliquid and the Internet Wayback Machine: Napster Of Puppets

On the internet today
Profits crumbling away
Through high speed internet connections
Our new CD wont even sell
Yet you know the lyrics well
Our fans are dubbed the Unforgiven
If you use it you will see
I'll bring you to your knees
We're dedicated to
How we're banning you.....

DSL is faster
Download from Napster
Run searches faster
God Damn that Napster
Napster!

Napster can suck it, our music ain't free
Fork out some cash and buy my CD
Banned by me, can't download a thing

Just type our name and I'll hear you scream
Bastard Bastard

Just type our name and I'll hear you scream
Napster Napster

Napster Napster
Where's the users I've been after
Napster Napster
Pirating my files
Napster Napster
All I hear or see is Napster
Napster Napster
Lawsuits on my mind

DSL is Faster
Download from Napster
We'll sue you Bastards
God Damn That Napster
Napster!

Napster can suck it, our music ain't free
Fork out some cash and buy my CD
Banned by me, can't download a thing

Just type our name and I'll hear you scream
Bastard Bastard

Just type our name and I'll hear you scream
Napster Napster

this page's design proves it must have been there around 1996 :) It looks worse than my first members.aol.com webpage.

This fellow was hired.

Professor wins "genius" grant

Apparantly, he's not an ass, but certainly from a non-traditional background.

Slightly Offtopic, yet when the article referenced Opensource Biology I got the urge to post about Internet Archive.org's collection of opensourced education material. It has some excellent subjective matter for anyone looking for information to read between your own class books. It's Biology section only has one title "Uses of Waste Water", so anyone with material willing to contribute would indeed strengthen the freedom of information movement.

Slightly Offtopic, yet when the article referenced Opensource Biology I got the urge to post about Internet Archive.org's collection of opensourced education material. It has some excellent subjective matter for anyone looking for information to read between your own class books. It's Biology section only has one title "Uses of Waste Water", so anyone with material willing to contribute would indeed strengthen the freedom of information movement.

Secure, Untraceable Internet Communication -- Is it possible?

There's no library that can be assembled like the one that we assemble when we all put all our books together on the same set of shelves.

I Rest my Case

that said, i agree that etree is not a p2p model, instead point your browser here. It's Still beta, but its works damn well.

-D

Thats SILLY. PROVE I am linux? PROVE that I am not. Unless you get a court order good luck. And where I work we own IP lawyers that make IBM think twice...

We do this sort of thing ALL the time. Then just to rub it in we would sue them. For as much IP as we have they are probably breaking some of it somewhere.

Also that license is a waste of your companies money. In any medium sized company you probably already have a HP or IBM or a SGI or a SUN laying around. Looks like a licence to me. Also the very fact that SCO gives away a GPL licenced version of the very linux kernel they are bitching about just proves my point. You DO NOT NEED IT. They are giving it away for FREE. Also they did not acidently give it away either. They KNEW for a fact what was in that kernel. How do you think they suddenly found out about the code? They were patching the thing for 4 years. They were actually fixing bugs in the system. They were putting out their own fixes. Then suddenly they realize that somethings 'wrong'. They were working WITH IBM and SGI to put that very code in there. It was part of their 'openlinux' group. Go check em out at in a archived version of SCO's web page

Very interesting stuff there. Also take a look at their current support area. They are still giving away patches. Now are all those patches theirs? They want it both ways and that will not fly...

Um... yeah, what they said.
You're not less free because the item you purchased is the only thing they can track, not you. And if a transmitter is in your clothing then it won't last long after a few washing machine/dryer trips. They already use a sort-of GPS tracking system in shopping carts at many grocery stores world wide to track where shoppers go to in the store and where they spend most of their time while they're in the store.
If you're really that worried, don't go to the Dentist and get a filling. If you just can't stand the thought of being tracked everywhere you go, try making yourself an "AFDB" (unfortunately, the original AFDB site is dead and gone... *sniff*).
I think it'll be alot of fun for the fortunate few who actually find a "spiked" can or bottle or whatever it's going to attached to.

[ ... ]

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy
and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will
succumb in every battle.

quoted from Sun Tzu - The Art of War

Good luck - may your identification of the enemy be successful.

Global Anarcho-Syndicalist Party
-G*A*S*P-

Search for "Ginger" (development name of the Segway), then "Scooter"

This guy oughta edit his page and remove those comments since they look pretty silly nowdays.

Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20. these comments here also look rather silly nowadays... (scroll down to section 5 for the juicy bits...). Read carefully, or you'll miss one of the double negations, and you'll find the text absolutely trivial. The irony of the text is that the author didn't foresee (at the time he wrote it) the full irony of the very phrase containing the word irony... (And yes, IIRC, that page stayed up until October... more than one full month after the event, and after featuring on cruel.com)

I've noticed more activity from their spider (useragent ia_archiver) than I have from google on my domains recently; so I tend to believe they have a more up-to-date and possibly larger index.

Wish I'd made a mirror of the old site.

Normally I wouldn't bother, but I remember frequenting l0pht's old site back in 96/97, so I put it through the Way Back Machine. Turns out they had an archive from 1996 when l0pht was still offering "hard to find files from the computer underground and beyond" on their front page.

IMHO, firing such a senior guy in this fashion is usually done only when your cojones are in a vice being tightened at a rapid pace...

Whether or not Tom Adelstein started a company supporting Mandrake is the part you're going to specifically question? That's certainly the most independantly verifiable part of what I said. Feel free to check out the Wayback Machine:

Bynari.com, circa 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19991103003416/http://b ynari.com/

Bynari.net (the .ca version of the company site), circa 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19991128185323/http://w ww.bynari.net/

archive.org has plenty more.

Whether or not Tom Adelstein started a company supporting Mandrake is the part you're going to specifically question? That's certainly the most independantly verifiable part of what I said. Feel free to check out the Wayback Machine:

Bynari.com, circa 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19991103003416/http://b ynari.com/

Bynari.net (the .ca version of the company site), circa 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19991128185323/http://w ww.bynari.net/

archive.org has plenty more.

Here's an old mirror:

no wait, it's here

UPDATE: The Onion did have an article like this. Here is an example of what good bogus journalism is about. I got it from this post.

There was a story in The Onion about the RIAA suing radio stations for giving away free music last October. It's not on their site any more, but the text of it, minus pictures is on the Wayback Machine. Check it out!

The Way Back Machine has the answers:

It seems that it was first created in 1999. A modification seems to be the fact that the title changed from "Compaq FAQ: Where do I find the any key on my keyboard? (FAQ2859)" to quoting the "Any" key (along with the relevant change in the text).

The Way Back Machine has the answers:

It seems that it was first created in 1999. A modification seems to be the fact that the title changed from "Compaq FAQ: Where do I find the any key on my keyboard? (FAQ2859)" to quoting the "Any" key (along with the relevant change in the text).

You might find this interesting, then.

The other Pythons have become accustomed to this attitude over the last 30 years - and because they have continuing business interests in common - have to tolerate it. Living 6,000 miles away from him and seeing him only very occasionally helps.

But they are unsparing about him behind his back. "Eric Idle gives selfishness a bad name" is John Cleese's openly-expressed and widely-repeated description of his former colleague.

They already have a C64 web server for the serial line, now they need to adapt it for broadband. :-)
c64 web server
old slashdot reference to c64 webserver

Based on changelogs here, here and here , plus your dates, I've dug up all the release dates from 1.1.1 to 9.0 (and 7.1 is just off of their web site)

1.1.1 1993-10-12
1.1.2 1994-02-05
1.2 1994-03-19
1.2.0.2 1994-04-15
1.2.0.3 1994-04-21
2.0.0 1994-07-01
2.0.1 1994-09-18
2.0.2 1994-10-18
2.1 1994-10-31
2.2 1995-03-21
2.3 1995-05-10
3.0 1995-08-24
3.1 1996-07-03
3.2 1997-02-17 (the first distro I ever used)
3.3 1997-07-11
3.4 1997-10-14
3.5 1998-06-09
3.6 1998-10-28
3.9 1999-03-10
4.0 1999-03-17
7.0 1999-11-02
7.1 2000-06-22
8.0 2001-07-01
8.1 2002-06-18
9.0 2003-03-19

I remeber one game, Heart of Darkness. I was helping one of the developers write the install program, when, for some stupid reason, i asked him how to get passed a certain part. He asked how i played the game since it was not out of development yet! I told him that i'd ask the guy whose computer it was on, and found it to be a warez group. To this day i wonder how it leaked, and how the guy felt when i asked him that question.

Neat though. He sent us a complimentary copy at the end. The 3D movie was pretty kewl.

One of many problems is that web.archive.org will honor the /robots.txt of any host and remove that host from its archive. So, sooner or later, the archive of all formerly (and currently no longer) registered domains will be gone...