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Archive.org Deploys Macromedia Software Titles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rip-mix-burn dept.

Jon-Erik Hexum writes "Now at the internet archive, the new software section contains over 10,000 CD-ROM titles donated by Macromedia. In an interesting discussion, the Software Archive is struggling with deciding on the best method for preserving CD-ROM images for the long term."

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  1. This prompts for a name change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Macromedia Software.... "Macrosoft" maybe?

  2. Best CD-Rom backup system by br0ck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Punch cards!

    1. Re:Best CD-Rom backup system by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, text printout of binaries is the best backup method. After all, OCR is getting better, right?

      Hey it worked for PGP...

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    2. Re:Best CD-Rom backup system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, too few people have punchcard readers.

      The real answer to backing up 10,000 CDs....

      555,556 Floppies!

      Everyone has a floppy drive.

  3. How best to store these things... by KimiDalamori · · Score: 3, Funny

    they have these little, thin Plastic things called 'Compact Disks'...

    Oh, wait...

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  4. best method for preserving CD-ROM images by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Have sex with them. Then they'll never leave you alone!

  5. The obvious solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should burn the CD images to CDs.

  6. Re:wow, already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And this time no one is suggesting that Slashdot should mirror the sites it links to. Strange.

  7. Famous last words.. by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hey! I have 10.000 CDs with software to share!"

  8. Introducing Slashdot Server Benchmarks by KoolDude · · Score: 5, Funny

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  9. Keep it simple and anticipate future needs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rip CDROM contents to bin or iso files. Store on hard drive in AmigaDOS format. Image hard drive using Drive Image. Split Image with rar and store rar files on series of Bernoulli drives. Backup Bernoulli drives to CDs.

    - Rube G.

  10. Macromedia ? by BESTouff · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope he didn't mixed Macromedia and Macrovision once again ... coz a Macrovision CD would be rather useless IMHO

  11. Pyramids! by Stonehand · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, it worked for the Egyptians for thousands of years. Just include some redundancy for errosion-correction, and...

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  12. The preserving machine... by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... was a tale from Philip K. Dick where music was encoded to animals or dna or something like that.

    If you want to preserve something forever, encode it in a DNA form (I think that most of DNA code is inactive, so there are plenty of space), grow an live thing from it, and while descendents last, your software will survive.

    A word of caution: don't try this with Microsoft software, the world have enough bugs already.

  13. Re:wow, already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdotted? that's ok.. we'll just look up the page on archive.org..

    oh, wait.

  14. OCR and CPIP by intermodal · · Score: 2, Funny

    OCR also worked for RFC1149 (carrier pigeon internet protocol)...well...sort of

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  15. Re:I'm obviously out of the loop here.... by Cruciform · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interactive Jenna!

    (Sorry, no link, too many porn popups) ;)

  16. Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh great. First Google archives all my stupid posts from yesteryear, now all the stupid software I wrote will resurface and embarass me forever!

  17. Re:Distributed Data by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Funny

    > or interface with Borg computers?

    Samba?