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It's good for them, they bring together in that book some good stuff ! But we often forget some old folks too, let remember good old days of Smalltalk-80 form Xerox ( and of course Smalltalk 72 ) the real first metaclasse based OO language where you can find alot of those (new) paterns. ( no Bill didn't invent OO ! ) http://www.archive.org/details/DanIngal1989 All of other languages have some interest patern too, let just think at CSP-Occam, Scheme(kindof lisp) ... :-)

It helps that Cohen never cast himself as an anarchist who bragged that his technology would vanquish the old entertainment industry. He has gone out of his way to castigate those who use BitTorrent for piracy.

Or not...

I build systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes.

Diebold makes voting machines that print receipts.

Reviewer: hart noecker - 5 out of 5 stars - January 30, 2005
Subject: Fucking insanity...
So, like, NOW Diebold has to make voting machines that print a piece of paper. Now! How has the lives of billions of people been subject to the wims of a fucking printer? Paper and ink have been forced together for THOUSANDS of years. Why, after cloning animals and traveling to other objects in space, have we just figured out how to print a ballot after a computer records our vote? How many tens of thousands have or will die because of this?

More info here

...shame the facts don't agree with it.

From the Wayback Machine archive of May 2000:

Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship.

Another page from the Wayback Machine:

Freenet implements free speech, nothing more. It won't encourage or enable criminal behavior that wouldn't have happened without it, and it might actually help us better understand and deal with criminals. While our hope is that people under oppressive governments can use Freenet to describe their plight without retribution, it is also possible for a terrorist to publish on Freenet why he chose to bomb a building or hijack a plane.

Freenet's political goal isn't revisionist history. Implying that it's intended for copyright infringement is.

...shame the facts don't agree with it.

From the Wayback Machine archive of May 2000:

Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship.

Another page from the Wayback Machine:

Freenet implements free speech, nothing more. It won't encourage or enable criminal behavior that wouldn't have happened without it, and it might actually help us better understand and deal with criminals. While our hope is that people under oppressive governments can use Freenet to describe their plight without retribution, it is also possible for a terrorist to publish on Freenet why he chose to bomb a building or hijack a plane.

Freenet's political goal isn't revisionist history. Implying that it's intended for copyright infringement is.

FYI you can download this award-winning documentary for free on archive.org. Essential viewing to understand another side to the debate.

"How about having the offending sites removed from the Wayback Machine?"

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:B60L67QmhdcJ: www.mojahedun.com/+&hl=en&client=firefox-a

I wouldn't be surprised if the http://www.google.com/ cache or http://www.archive.org/ internet resources were banned next...

> wow....someone who managed to get working Wayback Machine links in a /. post. In the past few days i've seen a bunch of posts where people tried unsucessfully to link to them...whats the secret?

Simple: don't add any formating tags whatsoever...

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

MS has proved it's an "evil, monopolizing corporation" whereas google hasn't yet.

Give 'em time :-) The day is still young.

Yes, because Google is still a very young company: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://google.com

and is in clear and present danger of becomming evil incarnate: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://msn.com

MS has proved it's an "evil, monopolizing corporation" whereas google hasn't yet.

Give 'em time :-) The day is still young.

Yes, because Google is still a very young company: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://google.com

and is in clear and present danger of becomming evil incarnate: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://msn.com

I bet it hasn't been mentioned, so -

There are (spam) companies who check out (popular) web addresses to see if they're not in use anymore, after this they buy the adress and put in any of your run-of-the-mill "search-engines" in it, and ALSO a robots.txt that doesn't allow any archiving.

Meaning what? It kills whatever WBM has stored on the site.

Also, I've been thinking that there needs to be an Art-WBM, I really loved gameart.com, and trying to get what was on the site from the WBM is quite hopeless. Also just small sites - small artists - would be real nice to have their work stored for future generations, Steven Garofalo's I remember being questioned on sijun where it went - the site takes you to just the thing I said about "search-engines". ("rustedfaith.com What you need, when you need it | Popular Categories | Sex Art Music Rust Faith Blackjack")

In regards to law, I can't remember the tanglible address or website, but in the name of law, companies have gotten WBM to remove sites they didn't like. (Oh, could always try on "Really evil company")

Wow.

I think you've trolled me before, but anyone is welcome to look at my web page:

http://das.doit.wisc.edu/

There is nothing remotely having anything to do with Christianity, much less fundamentalist Christianity, anywhere in it. In fact, there's nothing even about politics or religion in it.

And since I know of troll of this nature would probably claim that I "just changed it", please feel free to look at the http://das.doit.wisc.edu/>wayback machine archives of my web page.

Further, this Google comment has nothing to do with Bush, right wing politics, religion, or anything asserted in this troll post. And yes, please do look at my posting history. You'll find that out of my over-1000 posts, probably 5 of them are along the lines of the "before anyone bashes Bush..." variety. They're all also typically highly moderated, meaning they're not trolls or flamebait in the opinion of mods and metamods (because they're generally not). Further, I have not said anything remotely related to evangelism or fundamentalist Christianity, or indeed really Christianity or religion at all except tangentially, in any of my posts, or anywhere else on the web.

So in short, I have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

For what it's worth, the Internet Archive has at least at one point in its history collected Usenet posts. This isn't in the Wayback machine, though.

http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#The_Wayback_ Machine

Do you archive email? Chat?

No, we do not collect or archive chat systems or personal email messages that have not been posted to Usenet bulletin boards or publicly accessible online message boards.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

that Joe Wilson outed his own wife in 2002.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030720060539/http://w ww.mideasti.org/html/bio-wilson.html

I never knew that such a thing (Wayback Machine) existed! I almost cried tears of joy to find that while I had to take down (when the hosts started charging) the sites I developed during my college years long back, almost all of it, including all changes, is there! Bwahaha!!! http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thomso.net />

OK, you may look at WBM as a library, but IS it?

Yes. It really is. It's a registered member of the American Library Association. Details on http://www.archive.org/about/about.php

It's an honest to God library, which also means that Section 108 of the USC on Copyright applies. Public libraries in the US (and here in the UK) have some pertinent exemptions to the copyright restrictions that bind us mere mortals.

--Ng

Why am I getting broken or gray images on a site? Broken images (when there is a small red "x" where the image should be) occur when the images are not available on our servers. Usually this means that we did not archive them. Gray images are the result of robots.txt exclusions. The site in question may have blocked robot access to their images directory.

They seemed to have captured Goatse just fine.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php How can the lawyers or the Judges can even say that the wayback scripts (php or perl or java) did NOT modify a website's content before committing them to their archive database ?

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sonicblue.com/ > before Dec 2, 2000. I miss that site! Slashdot totally messes up the url though.

http://sonicblue.com/>http://web.archive.org/web/* /http://sonicblue.com/

The first is by the url method, the second a href. Get them on it pronto.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sonicblue.com/ > before Dec 2, 2000. I miss that site! Slashdot totally messes up the url though.

http://sonicblue.com/>http://web.archive.org/web/* /http://sonicblue.com/

The first is by the url method, the second a href. Get them on it pronto.

There are other websites that like Magnatune allows free or low cost music downloads. Some of these are:

• Creative Commons
• DMusic
• Opsound
• Internet Archives
• Prelinger Archives'
• Common Content

Also there's Berklee Shares where you can find free music lessons.

You were gonna make a copy
Of a game without payin'?
Come on guys...
I thought you knew better!
Don't Copy That Floppy!

.wav: don't copy that floppy

The Jean Shepherd Archive has hundreds of hours of unrestricted downloadable audio collected by fans over the years:
http://shep-archives.com/

Some other sources of unrestricted material:

Transom public radio workshop/showcase:
http://www.transom.org/

Archive.org has some good audio.
http://www.archive.org/

Benjamin Walker's site:
http://toeradio.org/

Cook'd and Bomb'd - Chris Morris site. Hunt around for mirrors that have archived radio programs. (The Blue Jam series is my personal favorite.)
http://chilled.cream.org/

If you don't mind downloading material that's not supposed to be available for download (most easily done using mplayer, I find), then there are plenty of radio offerings. I'm a public radio junkie, and usually stock up on a few dozen shows before taking a long trip. Among my favorites:

Joe Frank. The greatest radio artist in the history of, well, radio artistry. (Subscription costs $10/mo, but is well worth it.)
http://joefrank.com/

This American Life. (free)
http://thislife.org/

Fresh Air. (free, but a pain in the ass to navigate)
http://freshair.npr.org/

The Internet Archive: Open Source Audio has a lot of free audio with staff picks, popularity stats, etc.

The Internet Audio Archive has lectures as well as music.

Actually, I'm a fan of listening to lugradio on my drive to work. If not that I usually just randomly switch through the Podcast Directory.
A couple more to wet your tongue would be to dig through archive and legal torrents.
Alternatively, I know you said you wish to save a bit of dough by doing it the freebie way, but I've gotta tell you Sirius is one hell of an offering.

Easy enough. Thats about 1 month of 1300 channels. So its roughly 10 times more storage space needed than the typical 100+ channels people have today.

Simply increase the storage system by 10 times and you have that capacity.

Grab a petabox and you can store many millions of hours.
http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php

this page was active in January of 1999, maybe google should stop copying other peoples ideas.

Ooo can ya hear me now?

Firefox in ya house

No more popups now

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Hey, Blake's in the House!

What up? Asa Now!

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

We ain't stoppin now

50 mill downloads how

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Awww we got tab browsin' yo

an' Mitchell in volcanoes

We spread firefox like a dirty ho

Don' f'get t' use protection, tho

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

Hollah!!! Stop.

Oh, you got it now

Fox_E_Mama in the house

You know it ain't stoppin now

Spreadin Firefox with 'er mouth

Unh, Unh, Get Get GetFirefox.com

Get Get GetFirefox.com

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I submitted this as a story back on June 4. Since it was rejected (too verbose?), I posted it to my /. journal. My main question to other folks relates to how this would compare to using a regular ramdisk. The main deficiency with a ramdisk is that you'd have to reload the contents every time you reboot. Here's my article, with all its links:

Giga-byte Technology recently came out with a DRAM-based PC card that operates as a SATA hard drive. The product, iRAM, uses power from the motherboard to keep memory active when the system is shut down. During power outages, the product uses a on-board battery to retain memory for up to 90 minutes. The iRAM card is being talked about in the news (InfoWorld, itWorldCanada, engadget, PCWorld, multiplay forum) as a means of booting Windows faster. That is, you install Windows onto the iRAM drive to take advantage of the RAM's faster read-access time. Just hope that you don't lose power for more than 90 minutes.

Is boot time really that important, since many computers are on all the time? A ramdisk might have better uses, perhaps for caching frequently-accessed files such as databases and webservers. Or, if you insist on having faster bootup, instead of putting Windows on the iRAM disk, why not just store the hibernation file there?

I implemented a RAM-based database for an internet tool in 1998 to alleviate the read/write load on my local hard drive. It turned out to be a simple solution for the problem. At the time, it was just a matter of using a DOS-based ramdisk driver (ramdisk.sys). On application startup, it copied the database files to the ramdisk. During operation, everything was read/written to the ramdisk, and periodic backups were made to the physical disk. There are some inherent risks, such as loss of data during a crash since data isn't immediately written to a physical hard drive, so it may not be a great solution for a mission-critical production database. The iRAM product would make this type of database even more stable, in that the risk of loss of data is much less.

That was a while ago, so I thought I'd look into setting up a ramdisk in XP for some amusement. Follows are the results of that search. It seems that the options are relatively sparse beyond the DOS-based driver. A few freeware and commercial packages are available, though. One key factor beyond price is the size limit of ramdisk.

Microsoft's ramdisk offerings since Win2k are limited. Included with the XP OS is a ramdisk sample driver that "provides an example of a minimal driver. Neither the driver nor the sample programs are intended for use in a production environment. Rather, they are intended for educational purposes and as a skeletal version of a driver." Installation isn't simple enough for most users to benefit.

Alternatives include a shareware ramdisk, AR ramdisk (archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20041011170408/http:/ww w.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1) (freeware, 2GB limit, discontinued, available for download here), a freeware (64MB limit) and shareware (2GB limit) version here,

FYI, here is an old link to the K6-2 PCI cards for those who don't rememeber.

There seems to be some speculation now as to whether or not this site blocking was meant to protect the employees or just keep people from seeing this video.

The Terraserver stuff was around LONG before Google started offering satellit imagery. Microsoft most certainly did not copy that particular aspect from Google.

Specifically, Terraserver came online all the way back in 1998. At that time, it was the world's largest online database (accessible to the public at least) and it offered over a terabyte worth of data-- which was a pretty big database in 1998.

This is the earliest entry in the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111185028/http://t erraserver.microsoft.com/

The site doesn't work of course, but you can see that it existed.

However, Terraserver (and MSN Virtual Earth) appears to be using the same satellite imagery as it did in 1998, for the most part. For some locations, terraserver lets you choose which satellite database to use, and I can compare my area between the early 80's and late 90's and see the effects of urban sprawl.

On the internet, nothing is ever truly gone forever.

(For those of you who fear clicking on ln-s.net links off slashdot [and I don't blame you], that link goes to http://web.archive.org/web/20011108213243/http://s upport.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/1/09 .asp -- but slashcode makes that look truly ugly).

Watch this movie regardless of the parent poster.

Oh, what might have been...

Google beta launched! New search engine which promises to organized the world's information neatly. You can find it here.

here is a list of the Computer Chronicles references to the Amiga. For you young whipper snappers out there, Computer Chronicles was the way we got to see all the neat computer stuff we couldn't afford, provided we could pick up the PBS station with the antenna.

1 would the Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/
possibly have a copy of it ?

2 check out $1hosting - they claim "unlimited"
bandwidth http://www.1dollarhosting.com/

Did you try the wayback machine?

I recently used that to get my hands on an old service pack for Arcserve 2000.

Even if you do not agree with his conclusion, the historical background will give you a far clearer picture of the reality of the situation.

There are some excellent videos on archive.org of Alan Kay explaining some of the early GUI projects (including Xerox and the early laptop "prototype") http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2

There are some excellent videos on archive.org of Alan Kay explaining some of the early GUI projects (including Xerox and the early laptop "prototype") http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2

http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://w ww.google.com/

They're all copying me. In 2002 I designed a site with a clean design and all the menus and controls on the right hand side and all the content on the left..

argh... slashdot mangles links to archive.org. But strangely auto-clickies them if you set "Plain Old Text"

http://web.archive.org/web/20021129193219/http://r ecallthemall.ca/

http://web.archive.org/web/19990429045319/http://h ampsterdance.com/

Goatse