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If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.

Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.

If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.

Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.

If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.

Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.

If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.

Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.

If you want to compare the new site design to the old one check out the archived copy provided by Archive.org Wayback Machine.

Or why not check out some of the previous designs... Nov 17, 1999 or why not go right back to Dec 23, 1996.

Me!

But then, I voted for Russ Feingold which helped him to win the primary and get into Senate the first time. Here's what he had to say about this bill.

1. You're a moron
2. The person who posted the comment above (listing the phone number) probably used an online telephone directory, which means that if someone indeed has that same name and city and the scumbag is unlisted, then you will be calling an innocent person .

According to Netcraft, Solaris, and I looked on Archive.org and the earliest site is Nov 11, 1999 and its the same blank parent directory page. Check for yourself

You seem to have forgotten the ugly step-child, the NV1 - the first chipset produced by nVidia. I had it in the form of the Diamond Edge 3D 3400 XL.

It was the strangest video card that I've seen to date. It had 2 ports for Sega Saturn controllers, and an onboard sound card for wavetable MIDI. The 3D rendering was proprietary and it only supported a few games like Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Fighter. Only years later did they come out with drivers that actually did DirectX, and then it was sort of a DirectX wrapper and hardly worked at all. That card, was BUTT UGLY!

If you want to see an example of it's wonderful graphics, BYTE still has a report up.

That's not it, although I do enjoy that piece you linked to (aside from the Galaxative, I'm hoping that was a typo...)

This is the article I was thinking of, it's not quite what I remembered, but I still enjoy it.

Who needs their crappy britney spears anyway?

Free Music via Legal p2p

Free Music via HTTP/FTP download

Regarding downloading freely-available music:

A while ago, I got into Pearl Jam when I discovered the Pearl Jam 2003 Tour Bit Torrent page. Once I got BT working properly (what with NAT and all), it's really nice. Pearl Jam actually record their own concerts and release them on CDs you can buy on their site. They also allow free trading between fans. So, people get these CDs, and then share the SHorteN files using BitTorrent.

More recently, I've been listening to Howie Day after someone played a bit of his stuff for me. After some searching online, I found that he's in the etree stuff at archive.org (here). So, I've been downloading those as well. Quite an amazing artist. [*]

I've not yet purchased an actual, "real" Howie Day CD, but I did stop by a local used records store (Used Kids on High for those in Columbus) and picked up a couple live PJ sets from Australia and Japan. So, while it was used, and so PJ saw nothing from my purchase, their free trading policy did make someone some money.

So, don't just take what you're given. Also, always look for a band's taping policy -- it may just exist and allow free trading. Sometimes, artists actually sound better in the live format. Howie Day and Pearl Jam(sometimes) in particular.

[*] The really interesting thing about Howie Day is the way he plays. His instrument is just an acoustic guitar. However, he also has these "pedals" or buttons that he can control with his feet. When he presses on one of them, it will loop a bit of what he just played. So, by doing this enough, he can actually jam and harmonize with himself. It's a really nice melding of a classic instrument and some technology that may just interest some Slashdot'ters.

I don't like this idea one bit. If someone wants to copy my series of unproduced anime scripts about an orphan whose trying to prevent the armageddon, they have my blessings to do so! If congress disallows people from copying vast databases of information which people translate into online content, it'll destroy not only the dreams and ambitions of authors whose soul purpose in life is to have their stuff get read, but it'll also slow down internet surfing by making temporary caches illegal, because they're copies of vast amounts of information, some of which could be considered information from databases. It'd also make the internet archive illegal, and that would EXTREMELY tick me off, because I refer to that archive frequently for tidbits from my old sites; it's nice to know that I can go to their database for my files which have been erased by hosts with whom my accounts have expired.

I take issue with the premise, especially with quality microphones, preamps, AD converters and recording gear. It also makes you independent of venue issues, so that when the power goes out or there's a dead channel in the board, you just keep rolling tape [ or hard drive ]. I was proud to record just such a show on June 8th 2003 of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, available for free download in shorten format over at Archive.org's Audio site. please avail yourself of the chance to download a few of the thousands of hours of quality live recordings, most of which are recorded on good quality mic's, and the recordings DON'T suck. then let your ears tell you whether or not the 4 kHz, and consequently additional frequencies guaranteed by the Nyquist theorem add anything to your listening. Otherwise, why would professional recordists use it for years, hmm? Enjoy!

They may be able to change the the present and the future, but they can't change the past. The Wayback Machine captured the original page...or at least the original image.

They may be able to change the the present and the future, but they can't change the past. The Wayback Machine captured the original page...or at least the original image.

Check out this old SecurityFocus page :

http://web.archive.org/web/20020923120924/http://s ecurityfocus.com/

Trust me. There's plenty of content, especially free music.

I'm lucky, because I listen to that silly hippy music where the bands allow people to download concerts thanks to ppl like this. Also, the quality of audience (microphones on stands) recordings are amazing with good mics and a preamp.

Back on topic. However, I have a $15/month dialup connection because, as others have already pointed out, the broadband connections are asymetrical. I refuse to pay more for any connection unless I get full upload speeds. Yes, those are available. No, I cannot justify the price. I have incredibly fat pipes at work and a laptop. I can download whatever I want and transfer it at home easily.

I was going to post EXACTLY the same reply. The landscape is covered with the decaying remains of many others.

If you do want to continue, find a niche, a niche that no one has thought of (unlike Real Estate, which everyone has thought of). Maybe plumbers. Maybe sanitation engineers. It's a very competitive business, and no one could fault you for failure in this market (unless you're like Razorfish or Sapient or Verbindand just blow superbucks on luxury accomodations, then you're just retarded).

Pretty, much.

Then again, there's a sizable portion of the population today that's never been inside a factory of any kind.

There used to be thousands of "industrial films", (many of which are online here), intended for instruction and used for advertising. Watching some of those will give you a good sense of how things were really made.

What??

You mean you've never noticed obvious differences between studio recordings and live recordings? Some groups sound decent in the studio and awful live (take Gin Blossoms for example archive.org). These things are used all the time.

Gah... I had dhtml copper bars in 1998 :)

the wayback machine knows all of course it's ie only (hey it was 98, NS sucked balls), and the images are long dead as net-effect has been out of business for years.... but there my trumpet is blown :-)

They have absolutely no validity. Ignore them. Please.

They have absolutely no validity. Ignore them. Please.

Can SCO really do anything about people running Caldera? Perhaps the Linux community could um use the Caldera Distro. I smell a download link ... http://web.archive.org/web/20010603104324/www.cald era.com/support/download/

I remember that while AOL was continuously trying to block AOL, Microsoft was kind enough (archived site) to notify the Trillian authors a change in the MSN server protocol.
Although, it could have easily been either/all of the following:

1. For Microsoft's benefit, like preventing Trillian from flooding their servers or something.

2. To piss AOL off, and get people to use the .NET service

Pictures. We want pictures, not one paragraph of text.

Here's the entire history of the website. For whatever good that does anyone.

Alternatively, the Wayback Machine has it with some images, but much older:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020219202626/www.waka yamanet.or.jp/jun/fs/glareshield-main-e.html

I was looking at this website. it makes the point that the code in question if from the "SCO Ancient Unix" which has sense been released under the BSD liscence. I found an interesting, post that makes sense:

(Posted Aug 19, 2003 23:58 UTC (Tue) by Arker) (Post reply)

Call me a paranoid, but it has saved my life at least once.

I won't say there's no worry here. Please someone archive this stuff on your personal machine. And don't tell anyone it's there. Just keep it until it's needed, or this mess is over.

I'd just say I've done that myself, as I've done in past cases (I have an untouched copy of 2.4 source from Caldera for instance,) but it's almost 2am in my timezone and I've done enough for the day. I know there are thousands of geeks who haven't, and I know a lot of us have a little hard drive space to spare. Grab this stuff. If only one of us has it, it means nothing, but if a couple hundred have byte-identical copies with the same time and date and the same story on how it was obtained, we have a legal chain of evidence that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. So please, just in case, do it now. Burn it to a CD or something, along with a description of exactly when and how you obtained it. You'll almost certainly be wasting a CD, but they're cheap, and if it does become an issue, you'll be glad you did.

I'm going to bed now, I leave it up to you.

the wayback machine he refurs to is at http://web.archive.org/web/20010124100000/www.sco. com/offers/ancient001/

SCO has removed the V7 source from their website but the wayback machine has the original release. SCO's case is well and truly baseless.

Yay! Linux wins. World domination is one step closer today.

At SCO's annual reseller show, the company's executives put up a couple of slides as a way of demonstrating how Unix code had been "stolen" and put into Linux. The two slides were photographed and have since appeared on Heise Online; see them here and here. The escape of these slides has allowed the Linux community to do something it has been craving since the beginning of the SCO case: track down the real origins of the code that SCO claims as its own. The results, in this case, came quick and clear. They do not bode well for SCO.

The code in question is found in arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c in the 2.4 tree. It carries an SGI copyright. It seems that SGI was not entirely forthcoming in documenting the source of its source; some of the code in question was, indisputably, not written at SGI. So where does it really come from?

This code is from sys/sys/malloc.c in V7 Unix. It has been widely published; among other things, it can be found in Lion's Commentary on Unix (if you can get a copy). It featured in this 1984 Usenet posting. And, crucially, it has been circulated with the V7 Unix source, which was released by Caldera (now the SCO Group) under the BSD license. SCO would like the world to forget about that release now, but the Wayback Machine remembers.

So...SCO's code demonstration, the one that it put up to convince its resellers of its case, comes from a version of Unix which first came out in 1979. The code was publicly circulated in the 1980's, and explicitly released under the BSD license by [the company now known as] SCO at the beginning of 2002. SCO might well have a complaint that SGI did not properly give credit for the code it used. But there is no possible way the company can argue that this code's presence in Linux is an infringement of its copyrights.

And this, of course, is why SCO refuses to show the code that, it claims, is copied. These claims do not stand up to even a few hours' scrutiny on the net. SCO may yet have an interesting contract dispute with IBM, but, from what we have seen so far, its claims of direct copying of code are hollow.

(Many thanks to those who commented on an earlier LWN posting on this subject - those comments are the source for just about everything that appears in this article. Many thanks are due to LWN's readers; you have shown the best of what the community can do. Update: see also: this analysis of SCO's code by Bruce Perens.)

While I'm here, I have my own comments, that I really don't think that that chunk is copyrightable... It's far too direct an implementation of a simple algorithm to make it past copyright rules.

Dear Open Source Community.

Thank you for tipping your hand. I was wondering what method you would use to refute our bogus^Hs^Hu^Hg^Hu^Hb copyright case, and so I released a false bit of code to a group of people that wouldn't know any better (after all, they resell our code) so you could demonstrate to me how you will research the origin of the code.

Now, I know EXACTLY how to cover my trail.. First, I have to get an injunction against this 'Way back machine' for copyright infringement and you will no longer be able to use it as a source to discover when things were posted to the net. Then, I need to purge all of the places referenced by this 'Way back machine', and therefore I can claim that your proof is invalid long enough to sell my stock^Hk^Hc^Ho^Ht^Hs^H ^Hy^Hm^H ^Hl^Hl^He^Hs win my case.

You fools! (insert meniacle laugh here)

Look, if you're going to talk networking to a programmer, you gotta simplify it in terms they can understand.

DOS $8,980__________Windows 3.1 $7,251
Windows 95 $6,530___Windows NT $6,516
Macintosh $5,075____UNIX $12,973

From Groklaw

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/


Old SCO Also Donated Code to Linux

Well, knock me over with a feather. It turns out that old SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, also donated code to Linux. There is an article dated June 12, 2000, that tells us all about their Linux distribution and their plans, which included scaling it to the enterprise, as marketroids like to call it:

"While SCO may be rolling out its Linux distribution long after Red Hat and Caldera hit the market with theirs, SCO is no open source Johnny-come-lately. The company offers support services to Caldera and TurboLinux customers. In addition, the company's Tarantella middleware supports Linux, as will Monterey, the Intel-based version of Unix that SCO is building with IBM.

"SCO is expected to announce 32- and 64-bit versions of Linux for Intel-based servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. In early 2001, SCO plans to deliver a 32-bit Internet Infrastructure Edition that will come bundled with a Web server and other IP applications. The company is also working on a 64-bit edition for service providers, including ISPs and application service providers, which will feature special billing and management tools.

"The company is also expected to explore the following areas:

"--Building the Linux clustering capacity to be in line with SCO's NonStop Clusters technology, which scales to 12 or more boxes with advanced reliability for data and applications. Current Linux clustering technology is generally limited to two or four nodes.
--Beefing up Linux's symmetric multiprocessing capabilities. Currently the number of CPUs per Linux server is usually limited to eight; UnixWare can run on servers with up to 32 CPUs.
-- Managing multiple Linux servers as well as applications from a single console as if they were a single system.
-- Improving security and the ability of Linux to handle applications such as e-mail, including instant messaging.
-- Adding online support services and documentation."

Wait a sec. Isn't that what paragraph 85 of SCO's original complaint was talking about, and didn't they say that without IBM entering the picture, Linux could never have scaled? The complaint said:

"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation."

That wasn't accurate, but it does give me an idea. Maybe New SCO needs to sue Old SCO and leave the rest of us in peace.

One year earlier, in 1999, a press release from Old SCO described itself like this:

"We have over twenty years of experience with UNIX, Intel, and Open Source technologies. In fact, we believe that SCO has the largest staff of Open Source experts of any commercial software vendor.

"As a founding sponsor of Linux International, SCO is a strong proponent of the Open Source movement, citing it as a driving force for innovation. Over the years, SCO has contributed source code to the movement, and currently offers a free Open License Software Supplement CD that includes many Open Source technologies. SCO UnixWare 7 operating system, the fastest growing UNIX server operating system for the past two years, supports Linux applications as part of its development platform."

All the Tarantella-Linux press releases from June 1999 to February 2000 are here.All Tarantella press releases from June of '99 to July of 2000 are

From Groklaw

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/


Old SCO Also Donated Code to Linux

Well, knock me over with a feather. It turns out that old SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, also donated code to Linux. There is an article dated June 12, 2000, that tells us all about their Linux distribution and their plans, which included scaling it to the enterprise, as marketroids like to call it:

"While SCO may be rolling out its Linux distribution long after Red Hat and Caldera hit the market with theirs, SCO is no open source Johnny-come-lately. The company offers support services to Caldera and TurboLinux customers. In addition, the company's Tarantella middleware supports Linux, as will Monterey, the Intel-based version of Unix that SCO is building with IBM.

"SCO is expected to announce 32- and 64-bit versions of Linux for Intel-based servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. In early 2001, SCO plans to deliver a 32-bit Internet Infrastructure Edition that will come bundled with a Web server and other IP applications. The company is also working on a 64-bit edition for service providers, including ISPs and application service providers, which will feature special billing and management tools.

"The company is also expected to explore the following areas:

"--Building the Linux clustering capacity to be in line with SCO's NonStop Clusters technology, which scales to 12 or more boxes with advanced reliability for data and applications. Current Linux clustering technology is generally limited to two or four nodes.
--Beefing up Linux's symmetric multiprocessing capabilities. Currently the number of CPUs per Linux server is usually limited to eight; UnixWare can run on servers with up to 32 CPUs.
-- Managing multiple Linux servers as well as applications from a single console as if they were a single system.
-- Improving security and the ability of Linux to handle applications such as e-mail, including instant messaging.
-- Adding online support services and documentation."

Wait a sec. Isn't that what paragraph 85 of SCO's original complaint was talking about, and didn't they say that without IBM entering the picture, Linux could never have scaled? The complaint said:

"For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation."

That wasn't accurate, but it does give me an idea. Maybe New SCO needs to sue Old SCO and leave the rest of us in peace.

One year earlier, in 1999, a press release from Old SCO described itself like this:

"We have over twenty years of experience with UNIX, Intel, and Open Source technologies. In fact, we believe that SCO has the largest staff of Open Source experts of any commercial software vendor.

"As a founding sponsor of Linux International, SCO is a strong proponent of the Open Source movement, citing it as a driving force for innovation. Over the years, SCO has contributed source code to the movement, and currently offers a free Open License Software Supplement CD that includes many Open Source technologies. SCO UnixWare 7 operating system, the fastest growing UNIX server operating system for the past two years, supports Linux applications as part of its development platform."

All the Tarantella-Linux press releases from June 1999 to February 2000 are here.All Tarantella press releases from June of '99 to July of 2000 are

This is a LCD projector shining onto a fog. There's not many new "features" you can add to fog, not to mention the pictures don't look any different than they did last year. Here's the archieve of the first version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020620143522/http://w ww.cs.tut.fi/~ira/wave.html

Like I said, not that different. Yes, it's clearer, but still looks like a projector on a fog to me.

Here is BPL_Trial-small.mpg, and here is how Freecache works.

reading through the the search warrant used for searching his house carefully leaves room for another story

FBI agent from the national infrastructure protection squad investigates defacements.

The agent (who specializes in weapons of mass distruction investigations like "the bombing of the United States Embassy in Tanzania, Atlantic Olympic bombing, and the latest New York City World Trade Center bombing" (When I grow up I wanna write my own history books to)) notes the defaced pages link to raisethefist.com, then he notes "On or about May 3, 2001, I conducted a review of publicly available information on the Internet website RAISETHEFIST.COM and learned that it was an anarchist website [No shit sherlock], This website contained numerous organized webpages, which contained anti-government (primarily the United States), anti-capitalism, and militant messages that promoted communism and advocated violence. This website had a section for the UNITED GRAFFITI FRONT, also known as UGF, which had the motto, "spraypaint as weaponry against the corporate lies."" No bombs and not even any weapons of mass destruction... but this officer kept searching not becouse of the contents of raisethefist scare him, but becouse of the defacements cracking and bragging on irc about of this kid.

Now note the order of the items to be seized part of the warrant, first all computers, exploits and crypto stuff, then the bomb making stuff

So the whole bomb making part of raisethefist.com was mostly a pretence for getting a search warrant to investigate the U.C.A defacements and the irc bragging of cracking DoD systems (for which simply wasnt enough proof even while the kid was stupid and made his troop.cgi script report back on its progress of messing with dod systems to his home dsl connection....) And then in court when no real evidence has been found linking this kid with the defacements and cracking (irc logs and hearsay as evidence...aparently good for a warrant, probably not for a conviction), they interview him claim they will just call him a terrorist and get it over with, the kid freakes out scared of the patriot act and goes for a plea bargain, which the judge doesn`t like and ignores end of story.

One sad paranoid script kiddie who may have needed help less for a year, After that if you got what it takes (like " Intelligence in alien based technology ( anti-matter ...etc.. ) ") just sign up for the u.c.a. And join the exciting life of using the time tested method of changing the world by copy-and-pasting bomb recipies and smashing star bucks windows.... or perhaps just redrawing that red star at the left side of the raiseyourfist.com so it doesn`t look like a childrens drawing..... reading up on politics before pretending you understand them and getting some fresh air.....

There are very different means of protest. Some choose violence, some choose non-violence or pasive resistance. I chose not to use violence of any sort, this included physical and verbal violence. Your post is actually more violent than my actions.

Protest against REAL injustice, you petty little powderpuff!

The malasian airways protest was protesting about malasians wholescale clearence of rain forrests and the desplacement of the tribes people there. The action was done in solidarity with 30 malasian tribes people who were being held by their govenment. Read the archive of raisethefist. Every item them is about an injustice.

This is why, from 1930-2003 not ONE problem has been solved by student activists.

But so much has been changed by law breaking protest.

Suffrigetts - Womans right to vote, Ganhdi - independence for india. Swords into ploughshare brought the whole East Timor situation too the public eye. Earth First protest in the UK caused the govenment to re think roads program (some roads were halted). GM activists - changed the publics perception of GM food.

Yes direct action is not the only tool for the job. That is why are now prefer to work by spreading information see Plants For A Future.

Sorry to A/C but I've been modding this story.

The Chilliware software boxes are visible here.

Slashdotters judge for yourself whether the content of his webpage was grounds for imprisonment:

archive.org mirrors back to September, 2000.

Please, please, please do links in html: <A HREF="http://www.thesite.com/somepage.html"> like this</A>

Otherwise, us poor pleebes have to clean up what slashdot does to long strings of text.

The problem with this is that the authorities are not hunting for neo-nazis, they're hunting for environmentalists, anti-globalization folks, anarchists, communists, in other words, political bodies which sometimes have valid concerns and challenges to the society.

Anyways, is knowledge on how to kill someone a danger in itself for that person? Is *knowing* how to make a nuke or how to kill the president a danger that should be neutralized? If so, then we're all potential murderers that must be put behind bars, because everyone knows how to kill a man, especially in the US: grab a gun, aim, pull the trigger. Pretty simple.

BTW, it's ironic that you mention neo-nazis, because the first article that you can read on raise the fist actually talks about neo-nazis being *protected* by the police when doing a demo at the capitol.

Naturally, raisethefist.com is pretty much devoid of content now. Fortunately for thos of us who like to know firsthand what the news is about, the Internet Archive has several backups of the site and what it's about.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.Raisethefi st.com

The internet archive has the site archived from many dates over the past several years.

I regarding the ability to use Google as a warez search machine. The article was about Google censorship and the one response to my post pinpointed almost exactly the point that I brought up, which is the point discussed in this article.

Google has a nice long list of directory lists containing warez (remember the days of l33t FTP searching for filenames? Google for something like, in my last article: "xwin32*.exe * * * * *" "listing of"), serial numbers (Oh, I've found XP's serial number several times in Google's cache) and other "sensitive" information. My question is if other commercial sites are being constantly shut down due to these links (intentional or not), why aren't people targeting Google as well?

In fact, if I'm *cough*too cheap to buy software*cough* or just want to evaluate some crippleware or such before I buy it, I often skip astalavista and cracks.am and just Google it up. Saves me the porn and pop ups, and I don't have to cripple my browser for this (yes I know it's possible to do in other ways, yes I enjoy javascript, no thanks, I don't want comments about how I'm retarded because I don't do it the right way).

This is similar for sites such as the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine that contains other sensitive information.

Because of the academic merit of both of these search mechanisms, I doubt either one will be shut down. Indeed, I highly doubt restrictions will be placed. They're valuable tools for finding more valuable tools. For more information about this sort of stuff, I suggest searching on Fravia+'s web-searching lore. Other information on there relates to "reality cracking", reverse engineering, and other taboo topics. Google's got it all cached. Interested? Just search for (insert topic here) site:searchlores.org.

Sometimes I don't think the comparison of Google to God is that far off. Pardon my heresy.

Anyway, check it out, maybe that's the beginning of something you dream of. Be sure to get a copy of Squeak to experiment too, it's a whole lot of fun (despite what some C/C++ people might say)

He has later retracted his statement, but it is not positive.

And this post sums up what Ruby thinks of Bruce :-)