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Not exactly. Archive.org doesn't store large binary files. I found this out when downloading tools for an obscure processor - they had the smaller tools, but not the larger ones.

Try to download it from archive.org -- http://www.oldversion.com/downloadx/itunes41.exe"> http://web.archive.org/web/20060307125009/http://w ww.oldversion.com/downloadx/itunes41.exe -- it won't work. But, if you strip off the beginning of the URL, you can find out where oldversion.com used to store it -- in /dowloadx/itunes41.exe. It turns out oldversion.com still has it at this location and you can still download it from them.

iTunes is now "unavailable" but the old versions are still on archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/20041012014729/http://w ww.oldversion.com/program.php?n=itunes

16... I used that site years ago to download... what... I don't even remember what program. Stumbled over it a couple of times since that time too. Same guy running it then? In that case he was pretty young when he started it. Archive.org's oldest copy is from 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/20010709021341/http://w ww.oldversion.com/

Remember, the idea of a honest executive branch that will got to a court to get a permission to spy on you, or that you will get a speedy trial, or even a lawyer is history. Through fear we have allowed the government to become what it is now, blame the neo-conservatives for that if you want. Watch the "Power Of Nightmares" movie, I just saw it two days ago, quite enlightening, not totally objective but nevertheless it was worth my time (3 hours).

...If you're climbing a garden fence they grab you, you tell them it is a mistake, you just locked yourself out, they don't listen. They throw you in prison, label you a member of a terrorist sleeper cell and fly you to Egypt for some harsh CIA interrogation.

If you have some time watch the "Power Of Nightmares" documentary film. I just saw it yesterday. There is an interview in the 3rd chapter that talks about how there is a fundamental shift in the government's approach. Now they will detain and hold people for very long time just because they "think" the person will commit a crime in the future. It is nice and comforting at first to know that you government is there to protect you against the evil al Qaeda, until one day, they detain you for paying off a large dept with you mastercard.

Exactly, today the Government can detain you without evidence of a crime, they just have to think that you might commit a crime in the future. Watch the "Power Of Nightmares" movie -- free download, if you have some time. I just saw it yesterday , it is quite enlightening and educational. Warning: it is a 3 hour thing!

Woo, mod parent up! Open-source routers have been around since the late eighties transition of the BSD codebase away from its license-encumbered AT&T history.

Any posix-compliant geek can and will shove a few NICs into a box with BSD or Linux on it, and turn it into a router. "Sure", you say, "but what about the user interface?", a valid point! XORP has been working on this for http://www.xorp.org/">years, and as far back as 2004, XORP was seen to be making some trouble for Cisco.

Imagestream has been touting their Rebel routers for a few years too, and they, like Digium, have an impressive array of interface hardware to support your box's position within the network. It's a fine market position to be in, and it's certainly not news. That being said, perhaps poking it back into people's brains is a good idea, and anything that helps dilute Cisco's software monoculture in the enterprise routing market can only be a good thing.

You might find some public domain old classics on http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Netflix might also be an option...

Are you?

Conspiracy Theories? The Official response from Microsoft may interest you...

Oh my God people, plz mod parent up and grand parent Troll. Carpetshark is absolutely right about Slashdot being targetted by Microsoft in a PR offensive, It's more than obvious...

My definition of "sell out" does not include what happened to Napster or MP3.com. Both companies were destroyed in court, with their investors loosing everything and then some. After essentially stealing the companies, the RIAA and friends went after the investors to punish them for putting their money forward, a first in copyright law abuse.

The new owners obviously have different dreams for Napster, which mostly end badly. A few months after the purchase, the new owners of MP3.com threw away terrabytes worth of wonderful content that had been built over the years.

I can envision a new industry, where artists sign with small labels or produce their own music, and sell DRM free music on the web, and have small batches of CDs pressed at reasonable prices to be sold at reasonable prices in stores of the brick and mortor and online varieties.

That was essentially MP3.com's model if you take out the brick and mortar. Anyone could put their music up to be found by preference matching. "People who like X also like Y1-Y10" was a powerful sales tool that matched musical tastes. Anyone could download DRM free mp3s. MP3.com would make and mail CD player compatible CD's on demand that also contained mp3s and could be ripped to any format. The price was much more reasonable than either Itunes or the New Napsters of the world. The MP3's were convenient and the physical archive was reassuring.

Today, you have Magnatunes, the Internet Archive and many others stepping into the void.

Interesting.... sounds a lot like this vehicle by San Diego State University Department of Mechanical Engineering HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) Team.

It also uses a AC Propulsions electric motor (200hp) (which is what the kids used) and a Volkswagon turbo-charged direct-injection diesel engine.

The SDSU site goes into great detail about other engine considerations and why they decided on what they chose based on scientific data and research.

The Internet Archive shows the site has been http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/~hev/index.htm">ma inly unchanged since 2000, long before the kids started their project in 2003.

Did the kids give any credit to San Diego State University for pretty much stealing their entire concept?

Interesting.... sounds a lot like this vehicle by San Diego State University Department of Mechanical Engineering HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) Team.

It also uses a AC Propulsions electric motor (200hp) (which is what the kids used) and a Volkswagon turbo-charged direct-injection diesel engine.

The SDSU site goes into great detail about other engine considerations and why they decided on what they chose based on scientific data and research.

The Internet Archive shows the site has been http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/~hev/index.htm">ma inly unchanged since 2000, long before the kids started their project in 2003.

Did the kids give any credit to San Diego State University for pretty much stealing their entire concept?

Looking over Apple's specs for both versions here is a comparison of the old PPC Mac Mini specs http://web.archive.org/web/20050401063720/www.appl e.com/macmini/specs.html and the new Intel Mac Mini specs http://www.apple.com/macmini/whatsinside.html

Things That Are Changed:

An Intel Core Solo at 1.5GHz with 2MB of L2 Cache onboard and a 667 Mhz Frontside Bus. (was a PowerPC G4 processor at 1.25GHz with 512K of L2 Cache onboard and a 167 Mhz Frontside Bus.)

A larger hard disk 60GB (was 40GB)

Bluetooth 2.0 built in (was optional)

WiFi G built in (was optional)

Gigabit Ethernet (was 100Mbit)

512 Meg RAM (was 256 Megs)

4 USB 2 ports (was 2)

Digital Audio Out(was headphone jack)

Digital Audio In (Was totally missing)

Remote Control

Support for up to 2 Gigs of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300) instead of 1 Gig of 333MHz DDR SDRAM (PC2700)

Things You give up:

ATI's Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM for Intel's GMA950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory

A built in 56K V.92 modem

Things You Keep:

400 Mbps Firewire

Slot Loading Combo Drive DVD-ROM/CD-RW

VGA adapter

Check out http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://billgates.com

Hi Dale :)

In the begining there was http://web.archive.org/web/19960511013133/http://w ww.altavista.digital.com/ .. :) .. The first GOD of Search Engines. Eventually all Gods die, and of course Google will too. I am allready looking for alternatives. One that seems as a potential sucessor is clusty.com.

Cheers...

Will/can archive.org mirror the videos?

I intend to at least take a look at it. They'd make a nice addition to our movies collection (currently hosting about 30,000 moving image items). Our deriver software (which generates those Mpeg4's et al) doesn't currently grok flash, but that might change.

-- TTK, Archive Engineer

Not my life. I'm not handing control of my computers over to anyone for entertainment. I'm also not going to be buying any dissapearing files or renting music from pigopolists.

Given that people can download and upload any file free of charge, etc, it needs to be done, otherwise files get swapped around etc.

Electronic networks are the real fact of life. The phonograph and it's industry are obsolete. Those who cling to the old model will be outsold by those who move on. There's more ways to make money than selling physical coppies of crap hyped on ancient, and equally obsolete, broadcast networks.

The less money going to pigopolist, the more money there will be for content creators. Witness Magnatune and recording friendly bands on the internet archive. More money will make more content and everyone will win.

People with bad attitudes make bad product. The alternative publishers are already just as good or better than the pigopolists. The difference is going to become more obvious.

Isn't that what archive.org is doing?

http://www.archive.org/

They already have a huge repository, are supported by the National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, HP and others.

I don't think this is about providing information to the public, I think this is about Google being the gateway to all information..... seems if they wanted to be altruistic they'd support the efforts already underway rather than duplicate them.

Bullshit, it's my decision. When the "music industry" makes something I don't want, I don't buy it. It's easy enough to get good quality music from artists and publishers who are not pigs. See Magnatune and Internet Archive Live Music.

Microsoft, Apple and others who make hardware that sucks will see similar results. OK, Apple sucks less but it's not good enough to only be a small pain in the ass. My next music player will have random playlists, ogg playback and standard data exchange so that free software can write to it. Here that? It's the sound my wallet makes when I keep it in my pocket.

DRM is stupid. Treating your customers like criminals is bad business. It won't work and no one's going to buy it.

Note to Google: Put a bunch of These: http://web.archive.org/web/20030418044709/http://w ww.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powertower.html all over the place. Stop the world from relying on Oil for electricity. Cheap to maintain, cheap to build.

Just my two cents.

Timeline Inc has won a US Washington Court of Appeal judgment against Microsoft for the right to sue Microsoft's customers, and subsequently sued Cognos. On February 13, 2004, Cognos settled at cost to Cognos totaling $1.75 million

Argh, slashcode... this should work: Windows XP EULA.

As to your question: I guess it depends on whether you would win in a court battle.

Read the http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/eula.mspx"> EULA.

If more than ten computers connect to your computer for the purpose of file/print sharing, using IIS, or NetMeeting/Remote Desktop, then you violate the EULA. If any number of computers connect to your computer for any other purpose, then you violate the EULA.

I hope you don't run BitTorrent, Apache, Asterisk or any other illegal^Wnon-Microsoft server software!

I bet Tokyo Sexwale can't register either!

..in the late '90s, with a chain of stores called http://www.techam.com/">"Tech America" I believe they had 5 of them in a few major cities. I know that there was one in Atlanta, and recall that they also had stores in Phoenix, Denver, and Dallas. They were kind of like a Frys Electronics minus the movie & video section... computer components, electronic parts, a decent semi-professional DJ equipment selection, etc. They even had a wide range of assemble-it-yourself kits from companies like Velleman. I suppose it wasn't profitable, as they closed the stores after just a few years. Just before they shut their doors they http://www.techam.com/">renamed the stores from "Tech America" to "Radioshack.Com"

..in the late '90s, with a chain of stores called http://www.techam.com/">"Tech America" I believe they had 5 of them in a few major cities. I know that there was one in Atlanta, and recall that they also had stores in Phoenix, Denver, and Dallas. They were kind of like a Frys Electronics minus the movie & video section... computer components, electronic parts, a decent semi-professional DJ equipment selection, etc. They even had a wide range of assemble-it-yourself kits from companies like Velleman. I suppose it wasn't profitable, as they closed the stores after just a few years. Just before they shut their doors they http://www.techam.com/">renamed the stores from "Tech America" to "Radioshack.Com"

The core of the .NET Framework, and what has been patented by Microsoft falls under the ECMA/ISO submission. Jim Miller at Microsoft has made a statement on the patents covering ISO/ECMA, (he is one of the inventors listed in the patent): http://web.archive.org/web/20030609164123/ and http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-ssc li/msg00218.html.

Basically a grant is given to anyone who want to implement[sic] those components for free and for any purpose. [emphasis mine]

Check out government newscasts from the Middle East (translated to English). It's like watching the other side's version of Fox News. al-Jazeera is way ahead.

The US should be encouraging al-Jazeera, not complaining about it. The US has little to fear from an honest press. (Bush may, but that's a personal problem.)

To see where these folks are coming from.

Where do all these other top-level posters get their information?

AGP is a subset of PCI. The original AGP spec (1.0) defined a dedicated slot with a 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI connection directly to the Northbridge, plus the ability to directly access main memory more quickly than conventional DMA allowed. AGP 2x then increased speed by using a double data rate system, similar to DDR memory, transferring two data chunks per clock cycle.

AGP 4x then added a quad data rate connection, Fast Writes (the ability to write to main memory out of normal order,) and Direct Memory Execute (the ability for the AGP card to execute directly out of main memory, rather than having to load into on-board memory first.)

AGP 8x just oct-data rate'd it. It's still 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI, though.

But, either way, AGP *IS* a PCI connection. Fully compliant with PCI 2.1, with full bandwidth in each direction.

There are/were bridge chips that converted the AGP connection into one or more PCI slots, which would become fully-compliant PCI 32-bit, 66 MHz slots. These bridge chips were sometimes used on lower-end server motherboards with onboard PCI video, as a cheaper alternative to adding a separate 64-bit PCI controller. They could be found on products from Intel (L440GX,) and others.

BUT, since it is only 32-bit, you're limited to a 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI connection. PCI-X requires 64-bit for its faster bus speeds. That means that there are no bridge chips that will give you anything better than a 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI 2.1 connection. You can run multiple cards off this connection (As the Intel board listed above did,) but just as with 'regular' PCI, you are sharing the speed among all the cards.

But, any 66 MHz PCI card (or any correctly backwards-compatible PCI-X card,) would take advantage of the doubled speed over 33 MHz PCI, though.

See http://web.archive.org/web/20040205095311/http://w ww.gcsextreme.com/agpfaq.htm for more info. (Sorry, Slashdot's code doesn't want to let me make that into a proper link, it breaks it into 'archive.org' and 'gcsextreme.com' segments, you'll have to copy and paste, then remove the space yourself.)

Along those lines, anyone interested in this subject may enjoy this short film.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ati.com

Much more satisfying and stable than Google caches..

The Internet Archive Way Back Machine

Their site as of April 1, 2005

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401031619/http://w ww.hdmi.org/

Although, that may not be the best date. Here's their front page where
you can enter (HDMI.org) and select how far back you wish to go back.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

The Internet Archive Way Back Machine

Their site as of April 1, 2005

http://web.archive.org/web/20050401031619/http://w ww.hdmi.org/

Although, that may not be the best date. Here's their front page where
you can enter (HDMI.org) and select how far back you wish to go back.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Yeah, it was 1998. Here's his page at qnx.com mentioning his death. I remember finding it out on IRC when I saw someone from qnx.com on one of the distributed.net channels. I asked about how H was and he said he died a few days before.

Dang that was a sad day.

This article reports him the president of "AdsCPM Network." http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/the-ski-dream- funded-by-a-spam-fortune/2006/02/13/1139679533728. html Which is mysteriously under construction right now. Handy archive.org has a copy from last month: http://web.archive.org/web/20050125100919/http://a dscpm.com/

Well, its still up on their website [...] http://www.riaa.com/issues/ask/default.asp#stand

And if they remove it from their site, don't forget that the Internet Archive is your friend.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.riaa.com/i ssues/ask/default.asp

A skeptical Hatch then turned to the Recording Industry Association of America president, Hilary Rosen, a surprise addition to the roster of witnesses. Wedging herself into a space next to MP3.com head Michael Robertson, whom the RIAA recently helped to sue, Rosen found herself subjected to the kind of puzzled questions about fair use -- a notorious legal morass -- that millions of music owners have been asking themselves for the last few months.

"Can I make a copy of a CD that I buy and put it into a car?" asked Hatch. When Rosen hemmed and hawed, Hatch muttered, "The answer is yes."

"Is it fair use to give the copy to my wife for her car?" Hatch continued. "Is it fair use for me to rip a CD? Is it fair use if (a computer network) decides for efficiency reasons that one copy is sufficient to serve for storage, instead of keeping 200 separate copies, is that fair use?"

"None of these is fair use," Rosen eventually replied. She argued that musicians' willingness to "tolerate" people making copies was an instance of "no good deed goes unpunished."

http://web.archive.org/web/20041125025650/http://c ookingwithcum.com/

>self actualization

Well said! As Maslow put it in A Theory of Human Motivation:

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization....The specific form that these needs will take will of course vary greatly from person to person. In one individual it may take the form of the desire to be an ideal mother, in another it may be expressed athletically, and in still another it may be expressed in painting pictures or in inventions.

Technology facilitates these needs in two ways.

Technology lowers the transaction costs. It's easier for me to write with a keyboard (and, ahem, spellcheck) than with a quill pen. Also to the degree that communicating with other people helps in the creative process (e.g. /. encourages me to think and to write about subjects like this, which might otherwise pass me by.)

Technology makes it easier to more broadly disseminate the products of creativity, both in space and time. The near-annihilation of geographical limits is obvious, but what may be of greater interest to persons seeking self-actualization is the knowledge that once something goes into the Internet Archive and its various commercial analogues, e.g. Google's database, the creation may last longer than humanity itself. That's not immortality, but perhaps as close as we can get with current technology!

I believe Mozilla needed cross-platform widgets around the 1999 timeframe (where it had already been under development for a year or two before I started using it). WayBack says:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508065645/www.gtk. org/announce.html

"""GTK+ is also being ported to Win32. For further information see: http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/.""" ...which theoretically shows that Gimp was working on Win32 at the time although probably not landed in the existing GTK Branches. (http://web.archive.org/web/19990202104158/user.sg ic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/)

But keep in mind a few other requirements:

    1- Browser Theming / Skinning (see if you can find that recent slashdot link about Mozilla / FireFox history and marketing requirements).

    2- Cross-Platform UI (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc)

    3- CSS / Web styling on HTML buttons (http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/100601-1.sh tml) ... probably would have been difficult with stock GTK (I think GTK uses system-wide themes rather than arbitrary themes generated on the fly from CSS per control per page

Once you've got to render buttons on web-pages with CSS 100% reliably anyway, and you add in that cross platform and themeable UI requirement, it's not that much of a stretch to add a Tab, Listbox, and Menu elements that can hook into your user interface. Yeah, it's kindof strange but it's helpful to remember the context of the time.

--Robert

I believe Mozilla needed cross-platform widgets around the 1999 timeframe (where it had already been under development for a year or two before I started using it). WayBack says:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508065645/www.gtk. org/announce.html

"""GTK+ is also being ported to Win32. For further information see: http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/.""" ...which theoretically shows that Gimp was working on Win32 at the time although probably not landed in the existing GTK Branches. (http://web.archive.org/web/19990202104158/user.sg ic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/)

But keep in mind a few other requirements:

    1- Browser Theming / Skinning (see if you can find that recent slashdot link about Mozilla / FireFox history and marketing requirements).

    2- Cross-Platform UI (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc)

    3- CSS / Web styling on HTML buttons (http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/100601-1.sh tml) ... probably would have been difficult with stock GTK (I think GTK uses system-wide themes rather than arbitrary themes generated on the fly from CSS per control per page

Once you've got to render buttons on web-pages with CSS 100% reliably anyway, and you add in that cross platform and themeable UI requirement, it's not that much of a stretch to add a Tab, Listbox, and Menu elements that can hook into your user interface. Yeah, it's kindof strange but it's helpful to remember the context of the time.

--Robert

Not all creationists believe that the earth is 6000 years old. That's what OEC is all about.

The proponents of ID deliberately took this into account as a tactical decision. Here's the basic reasoning:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010508032051/http://w ww.au.org/churchstate/cs4995.htm

""You must unify your own side and divide the other side," Johnson said. He added that he wants to temporarily suspend the debate between young-Earth creationists, who insist that the planet is only 6,000 years old, and old-Earth creationists, who accept that the Earth is ancient. This debate, he said, can be resumed once Darwinism is overthrown. (Johnson, himself an old-Earth creationist, did not explain how the two camps would reconcile this tremendous gap.)"

ID people are notoriously shifty on exactly what it is they actually believe about anything at all. They are known for saying one thing in public, and a very different thing to friendly audiences. ID doesn't require any particular beliefs about creationism, but historically, it's plain that the current movement is by and large its a movement creationists formed as they got more savvy about how they needed to act in order to hopefully overcome court rulings and the court of public opinion.

You don't know anything.

The 12 minute half life. It's a clear descent from 20 minutes the previous year and 40 the year before it and the minimum noted was four minutes.

Idiots like you Ack-Bartender, are easy to recognize too. John Marriot, if you are the loser responsible for anti-slash.org, I'm happy your plans to become a high school teacher failed. There would be less failure in your life if you quit wasting so much of your time http://cowboyneal.org/">hating slashdot. I second http://cowboyneal.org/">this thought.

You don't know anything.

The 12 minute half life. It's a clear descent from 20 minutes the previous year and 40 the year before it and the minimum noted was four minutes.

Idiots like you Ack-Bartender, are easy to recognize too. John Marriot, if you are the loser responsible for anti-slash.org, I'm happy your plans to become a high school teacher failed. There would be less failure in your life if you quit wasting so much of your time http://cowboyneal.org/">hating slashdot. I second http://cowboyneal.org/">this thought.

You don't know anything.

The 12 minute half life. It's a clear descent from 20 minutes the previous year and 40 the year before it and the minimum noted was four minutes.

Idiots like you Ack-Bartender, are easy to recognize too. John Marriot, if you are the loser responsible for anti-slash.org, I'm happy your plans to become a high school teacher failed. There would be less failure in your life if you quit wasting so much of your time http://cowboyneal.org/">hating slashdot. I second http://cowboyneal.org/">this thought.

Well, I tried this approach many years ago to deal with usenet and email spam: The Blacklist of Internet Advertisers. Painfully obvious to all of us, it was a spectacular failure.

One wonders where to find the Muslim mobs shouting "Down with Al-Qaeda! Down with terrorism! Stop killing innocent people in the name of Islam, because YOU are profaning the very name of Islam. Stop ridiculing the name of the Prophet in the eyes of the world by claiming that murder is part of Islam!"

They're all over the place and they happen all the time, but you don't hear about it because there is no money for foxabcnnbc in showing Muslims as opposing fundamentalism. If you want to hear and see thousands of Muslims protesting Zawahiri and the fundamentalists, go here:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmare s

S.

"I predict version 5 by that time, and Xgl will still be in an unstable apt repo.

And packages.debian.org will still be broken, as will search.debian.org. Seriously, they can't have been working very hard on it. It'll be two years in May.

Lazy asses.