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it only goes back to Dec 20, 1997

http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/http://s lashdot.org/

Notice that already then people were complaining about MS :)

Here is a link to the first posting available on the Wayback Machine. Wayback

It is from Dec 21st, 1997 and talks about how Netscape may be in danger from Internet Explorer. Can CmdrTaco pick 'em or what?

Here is the oldest archived one

Happy Birthday Slashdot!

this is exactly what the archive is doing. the link provided above is to project gutenberg, which is available as a collection from within the archive. they have other collections as well including a cool open source one where people can contribute public domain books already digitized. http://www.archive.org/texts/texts.php

Have they realized yet that they could respond to the Scientology barratry as gracefully and fairly as Google did?

I hope their stance has changed, and I simply haven't heard about it. I have become so disappointed in the Internet Archive, and the people associated with it who claim to be motivated by a dedication to intellectual freedom.

Have they realized yet that they could respond to the Scientology barratry as gracefully and fairly as Google did?

I hope their stance has changed, and I simply haven't heard about it. I have become so disappointed in the Internet Archive, and the people associated with it who claim to be motivated by a dedication to intellectual freedom.

Have they realized yet that they could respond to the Scientology barratry as gracefully and fairly as Google did?

I hope their stance has changed, and I simply haven't heard about it. I have become so disappointed in the Internet Archive, and the people associated with it who claim to be motivated by a dedication to intellectual freedom.

If you click on that image, you get a close up. At that level, you can see the word "soon" in parentheses.

Also, if look to their menu at the top of the page, and follow the Million Book Project link, they mention how they're hoping to achieve one million books (mua ha ha) by 2005.

If you click on that image, you get a close up. At that level, you can see the word "soon" in parentheses.

Also, if look to their menu at the top of the page, and follow the Million Book Project link, they mention how they're hoping to achieve one million books (mua ha ha) by 2005.

Another great place for downloading legal music is the Etree Internet Archive. You can download live sets from a good number of bands who allow taping and trading of their shows...(see list here)

And yeah, the concerts are huge, but since they are in .shn format, it is lossless compression (unlike mp3s, which are a lossy compression) and can only get a .wav file down to about 60% of its original size, but the quality is worth it.

As far as the concerts not being as good as many live CDs...you would be surprised. The majority of taper-friendly concerts are recorded by people with well over $2,000-$3,000 worth of equipment who tape 50+ concerts a year and are often, in my opinion, better than a lot of the shit put out by the labels.
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Build a man a fire and you'll keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

Another great place for downloading legal music is the Etree Internet Archive. You can download live sets from a good number of bands who allow taping and trading of their shows...(see list here)

And yeah, the concerts are huge, but since they are in .shn format, it is lossless compression (unlike mp3s, which are a lossy compression) and can only get a .wav file down to about 60% of its original size, but the quality is worth it.

As far as the concerts not being as good as many live CDs...you would be surprised. The majority of taper-friendly concerts are recorded by people with well over $2,000-$3,000 worth of equipment who tape 50+ concerts a year and are often, in my opinion, better than a lot of the shit put out by the labels.
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Build a man a fire and you'll keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

My source is found right here.

An easy 38th with this - the only OS written in QBasic !
As enthusiastically reviewed by NTK

I thought that they were working on movies instead.

After all, chimps have been writing books, and coding for a long time. They need to move on to something new...

If Co$ claims they own my writing I'll have to go sue them for plagarism :-) .....

Want to get your own back against Co$ientology for their continuing censorship of the net? This thanksgiving when you're with your family (or whoever) bring up the subject ... tell them:

• Scientology believes people are haunted by space aliens
• They don't tell new recruits until they are well inside the cult and have spent more than $300,000 with them
• They are abusive to their members and run prison labor camps in some of their facilities
• Some people have died
• If they know anyone who's getting interested in Scientology bthere's a place of the net where you can find this stuff out - just search on Google

Read all about it over in their forums in this thread.

Let's keep the chain going by sending your emails of disapproval here.

If you want your site removed from the archive, their FAQ refers you to their removing documents page... which comes back with a "page not found" error.

If you want your site removed from the archive, their FAQ refers you to their removing documents page... which comes back with a "page not found" error.

Darn slashcode killed my link.

They may have had the rights, but the announcement on the website didn't happen until sometime between February 4th and June 1st, 2001.

They may have had the rights, but the announcement on the website didn't happen until sometime between February 4th and June 1st, 2001.

Have you tried the Google Cache to find what your looking for? Or, alternatively, the Wayback Machine? I'm sure you'll be able to find what you're looking for between those two sites.

The contest announcement can still be seen here.

This notice is to notify you that your post on slashdot.org has been submitted to the TIPS archive. Please report immediately to the nearest police station to expedite your punishment.

The article has a few excellent screenshots of this obviously wide-ranging technology. Another excellent example of integrating C# into OpenGL.

This story is old news, see here

Yes, I know what you mean. Six months ago i bought this laptop, and last week i see this ad for the same laptop. Can you believe that shit? Moor's law triumphs again.

Yes, I know what you mean. Six months ago i bought this laptop, and last week i see this ad for the same laptop. Can you believe that shit? Moor's law triumphs again.

The Internet Archive's first crawl of the site was May 08, 1999, if that helps.

I used to code robots for RoboWar (for the Mac) in the early 90's. It was great fun. It's so old you need the wayback machine to see a page:
RoboWar

• 2 1/2 miles from 20 megaton blast
• 1000 Miles per hour wind
• 40 G shock wave
• high velocity debris
• Intense radiation, heat and electromagnetic effects

Here's the archive of Apple's official Hotsauce (aka Project X) homepage, which is what you're thinking of. Yeah, even Yahoo was up on the Meta-Content Framework deal.

V-Twin was the basis for the summarize feature, I think there's still an SDK up for it.

Personally, I liked PowerTalk. A system-wide, integrated mail and collaboration framework with a standardized mailing interface.

Even if the implementation is done with LDAP, PGP, and Sendmail now, I really wish they'd bring back those APIs for application code. The "digital signing" concept integrated into the API was better integrated than Apple File Security in Mac OS 9, and better than anything in OS X right now. Remember being able to verify a document's signiature from the Get Info window? The Keychain is the only concept that survived.

QuickDraw GX ( here or here) was WAY ahead of its time. Although a lot of its features found their way into ATSUI with Unicode, QDGX still had soul. I still don't know of any program that can do all the really really fancy and obscure ligatures properly.

Probably my FAVORITE technology was/is Apple Guide. There's nothing quite like a help system that draws coach marks on the screen when telling you how to perform a step. That plus hilighting proper menu options in red, and the fact that it wasn't glacially slow once it became PowerPC native, made it a really amazing conversion tool.

Balloon Help was quirky and fun. I don't really understand why they replaced something so cool with something as lame as Tooltips. =(

QuickDraw 3D and Apple Data Detectors had some cool concepts too. Maybe we should get them to re-write Data Detectors using Perl regexps :)

Arrgh.. the OS that Could Have Been... Try the old Apple Advanced Technology Research Group website for more stuff.

Here's the archive of Apple's official Hotsauce (aka Project X) homepage, which is what you're thinking of. Yeah, even Yahoo was up on the Meta-Content Framework deal.

V-Twin was the basis for the summarize feature, I think there's still an SDK up for it.

Personally, I liked PowerTalk. A system-wide, integrated mail and collaboration framework with a standardized mailing interface.

Even if the implementation is done with LDAP, PGP, and Sendmail now, I really wish they'd bring back those APIs for application code. The "digital signing" concept integrated into the API was better integrated than Apple File Security in Mac OS 9, and better than anything in OS X right now. Remember being able to verify a document's signiature from the Get Info window? The Keychain is the only concept that survived.

QuickDraw GX ( here or here) was WAY ahead of its time. Although a lot of its features found their way into ATSUI with Unicode, QDGX still had soul. I still don't know of any program that can do all the really really fancy and obscure ligatures properly.

Probably my FAVORITE technology was/is Apple Guide. There's nothing quite like a help system that draws coach marks on the screen when telling you how to perform a step. That plus hilighting proper menu options in red, and the fact that it wasn't glacially slow once it became PowerPC native, made it a really amazing conversion tool.

Balloon Help was quirky and fun. I don't really understand why they replaced something so cool with something as lame as Tooltips. =(

QuickDraw 3D and Apple Data Detectors had some cool concepts too. Maybe we should get them to re-write Data Detectors using Perl regexps :)

Arrgh.. the OS that Could Have Been... Try the old Apple Advanced Technology Research Group website for more stuff.

Compare the download page one year ago and now

or try The Archive here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011008042318/http://w ww.wetmachine.com/index.html

-SS

or try The Archive here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011008042318/http://w ww.wetmachine.com/index.html

-SS

Easy Debian installation is a nice idea, but I think Stormix did a wonderful job when they existed. It was my first Debian installation experience -- they did everything right. It wasn't just (X) eye candy either, they actually added some neat features like auto-detection of Windows partitions and lilo configuration for such things. I had a dual boot system without even so much as glancing at /etc/lilo.conf. I can't imagine this distro is doing anything better (technically, at least) than Stormix, but I wish them luck.

...and their hilarious "Mars Propaganda Project" in preparation of upcoming Mars missions:

The purpose of the Mars Project is to create and deploy fossils and/or ruins suggesting the prior existence of life and/or civilisation on the surface of Mars. Possibilities include artefacts which connect to various aspects of the Bible or other Earth mythology. It is intended that this is accomplished before NASA or some other agency sends amanned mission to Mars.

Link to archived site since original page is down.

(Their faq is still a classic of internet humour...)

...and their hilarious "Mars Propaganda Project" in preparation of upcoming Mars missions:

The purpose of the Mars Project is to create and deploy fossils and/or ruins suggesting the prior existence of life and/or civilisation on the surface of Mars. Possibilities include artefacts which connect to various aspects of the Bible or other Earth mythology. It is intended that this is accomplished before NASA or some other agency sends amanned mission to Mars.

Link to archived site since original page is down.

(Their faq is still a classic of internet humour...)

Archive.org.

Legal MPEG2/VCD/DiVX (take yer pick). Also, in the audio section, there are Shorten files from Etree.

Sure, it's not Spider-Man, LoTR, AoTC, or whatnot, but some of it is interesting and entertaining.

Ah well, at least it's not TOO popular! :-)

Medical Discoveries (otc:MLSC) uses this technology to destroy fungi, bacteria and viruses

RSCECAT is a technology transfer company, with US marketing rights to similar Russian technology. www.rscecat.com on the Way Back Machine

The Stark Draper Open Source Rocketry Award (3 oz of gold for reaching 200km.)

and

John Carmack's High Performance Propulsion Award, $1000 for designing a rocket motor better than a certain performance level
(Seems to be down, at the moment, try the Wayback Machine)

/August.

Only for commercial software, however. Since everything in and around Slashdot is all about "Free Software" -- there isn't a problem. Read the Register article.

The page you linked to states explicitly that MP3 decoders are not necessarily subject to per-unit royalties: either pay a per-unit fee ($0.75) or a one-time royalty of $50 000. Pay the latter, and you're covered for any number of decoders shipped.

Has China banned The Way Back Machine yet?

http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/http://s lashdot.org/

And no - this isn't tipping anyone off there... slashdot.org seems to be blocked too.

Just keep making web caches of the banned documents and they will have a "whack-a-mole" problem.

A mini cache with the most subversive web pages that could fit in 2MB could be automatically distributed to hundreds of web sites.

You can walk around the so-called "Great" Firewall right now by using existing web caches. Can you imagine how bad they'd lose if there were thousands of caches of subversive pages?