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Great interview with Brewster Kahle and a look inside the archive building. Pretty neat!Thankyou! I hadn't spotted that. Very interesting.
http://vimeo.com/59207751
(see attachment in previous post)-Edvard (May 22, 2013, 08:13 PM)
..I now belive HP is the most incompetent company I know...In defence of HP, I would suggest that it probably only looks that way to you because of your (this) bad experience.-urlwolf (May 15, 2013, 09:41 AM)
Hundreds of thousands of TV news broadcasts on one website
May 21, 2013, 9:01 a.m.
The following blog post is written by Roger Macdonald, director, Television Archive; Brewster Kahle, digital librarian, Internet
We are seeing more and more public benefits arising from applying digital search and analysis to news from our most pervasive and persuasive medium— television. That’s why, we are thrilled to announce that the Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, is expanding our television news research library to make readily available hundreds of thousands of hours of U.S. television news programs for users to search, quote and borrow.
The expansion plan is being supported by $1 million in funding from Knight Foundation. With this support, we will grow our TV News Search & Borrow service, which currently includes more than 400,000 broadcasts dating back to June 2009, to add hundreds of thousands of new broadcasts. This means helping inform and engage communities by strengthening the work of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, documentarians, civic organizations and others dedicated to public benefit.With TV News Search & Borrow, these folks can use closed captioning that accompany news programs to search for information. They can then browse short-streamed video clips and share links to specific ones. The research library does not facilitate downloading, but individuals can watch whole programs at Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., or borrow them on DVD-ROMs.
Along with ramping up our current offerings, Knight funding will help us add new features and website enhancements to improve user experience, strengthen audience engagement and integrate with media partner collections...
Read more (here).
Sorry, nice post, but anything at all from 2007 is meaningless in 2013!Yes, quite so. The apparently unintentional irony and implicit potential hypocrisy were amongst the things that made the post interesting for me.
Basicially, they can/will-try to tap anything.-TaoPhoenix (May 20, 2013, 08:55 PM)
National Security Agency ❤ ❤ ❤ Internet Archive?
Posted on May 18, 2013 by brewster
An unclassified document from the National Security Agency from 2007 has some nice words to say about the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, and the Wayback Machine.
“The Wayback Machine is, very simply, one of the greatest deep web tools ever created.” -National Security Agency (2007)
https://www.nsa.gov/...tangling_the_Web.pdf
A searchable version, and a searchable PDF version.
Main section on us:
The Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine
You have to give Brewster Kahle credit for thinking big. The founder of the Internet Archive has a clear, if not easy, mission: to make all human knowledge universally accessible. And, who knows, he might just succeed. What has made Kahle’s dream seem possible is extremely inexpensive storage technology. As of now, the Internet Archive houses “approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world’s largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don’t recommend this!) and laid them end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to Hawaii.” 102 In December 2006 the Archive announced it had indexed over 85 billion “web objects” and that its database contained over 1.5 petabytes of information. 103
But that’s not all that Kahle and company have archived. The Archive also now contains about 2 million audio works; over 10,000 music concerts; thousands of “moving images,” including 300 feature films; its own and links to others’ digitized texts, including printable and downloadable books; and 3 million hours of television shows (enough to satisfy even the most sedulous couch potato!). Kahle’s long term dream includes scanning and digitizing the entire Library of Congress collection of about 28 million books (something that is technically within reach), but there are UNCLASSIFIED some nasty impediments such as copyrights and, of course, money. None of this deters Kahle, whose commitment to the preservation of the digital artifacts of our time drives the Internet Archive. As Kahle puts it, “If you don’t have access to the past, you live in a very Orwellian world.”
In general I disagree with your comment...Eh? You disagree that I suspect that the probability that these GOTD or other "giveaway" special offers ever really gave anything away which didn't seem to be obsolete, twisted or sans hooks would be very small?-pilgrim (May 20, 2013, 04:38 AM)
"The law is an ass."
- Mr. Bumble, in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
EDIT 2013-05-20: Quite a lot of people have been downloading this file recently. Could you post a comment in the discussion thread below as to why you got the file and what you thought of BumpTop? It would be interesting to know what use people might be putting it to and what problems it may have or help overcome. (Thanks.)
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Dotcom granted leave for Crown appeal
KIRSTY JOHNSTON
Last updated 14:25 16/05/20
Kim Dotcom has been granted leave to appeal his case against the Crown in the Supreme Court.
The MegaUpload mogul's legal team applied in March to be heard in the country's highest court after a decision about disclosure made in the Court of Appeal went against him.
Dotcom's lawyers want to be able to view the documents that make up the basis of the US Government's case against him.
US authorities are seeking to extradite the German-born internet entrepreneur to stand trial on criminal charges alleging copyright piracy and racketeering.
The Crown, on behalf of the US, argue he should not be allowed to see the documents..
Judges in the District Court and High Court ruled in favour of disclosure, but the Court of Appeal ruling made in March said extradition hearings were not trials and the full protections and procedures for criminal trials did not apply.
So far, US authorities have filed a 109-page record of the case against Dotcom, the contents of which are suppressed.
Dotcom denies his MegaUpload internet storage facility encouraged copyright breaches and wants to use the extradition hearing to challenge the assumptions made against him.
A date is yet to be set for the Supreme Court hearing.
Dotcom's extradition hearing is due to get under way in August, however it looks likely to be delayed again, as several strands of the case continued to be appealed.
The 39-year-old, a New Zealand resident, was arrested in a dramatic raid on his rented Coatesville mansion, north of Auckland, on January 20 last year.
Computers and assets were seized as New Zealand police co-operated with US authorities.
- © Fairfax NZ News
@OP: OMG, I haven't thought about REXX since early 2000's.
It was "cooler" than perl because it was less obfuscated.
That's cool as hell you got it working with CHS.
You're not running eCom Station are u?
That would be way too funny.
-Rover (May 17, 2013, 10:38 PM)
FWIW, I think it's a killer app.
A pity the forums, and the rest of the site, is not in EN.
There seem to be many plugins.
I could run the android app on my 2.3 phone, but on my 4.2 tablet it doesn't seem to even be listed on the app store.
How this flew under the radar, I have no idea. It does many things right.-urlwolf (May 17, 2013, 03:13 PM)
VIP restore the original price notification
Posted on May 6, 2013 by admin
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From known notes (Wiz)
...I've found a killer notetaker: wiznote. Chinesse-only website, but chrome does a decent work translating it.
It does many things right:
- Security. Notes encrypted locally before sending it to server-
- Multiplatform
- Very flexible interface (2/3 columns)
- Plugins
- Android app that beats even onenote
- Tables
- good paste from web, with url included next to the paste (like onenote)
- Can publish to blog straight (!)
- Very clean Html. Beats word, gdocs. No inline css.
- Word count. Press 'i' icon, then details
- Tagging
- Very flexible tree, you can disable showing notes in subfolders (Apple-styple only one level deep)
- Export is not an afterthought.
- Live search, highlights matches, shows small window of context (like rightnote, evernote). Beats onenote
- Web access (www.wiz.cn), in chinesse
- Autolink urls
- Beats any local wiki, no silly formatting, all wysiwyg
- Can add a note without opening main app (like cintanotes)
- Saves version history, for free (only in paid evernote)
- Can set paragraph line height (1.5x improves readability)
- Multi-search match highlights
And many things wrong:...
- No autocapitalization of sentences
- Fonts kind of suck; no cleartype, no smoothing whatsoever. As horrible as office 2013.
- Have to get out of edit mode to search
- Changing from one note to another is slow (subsecond, but slow)
- Not easy to move with kb on the right side tree
- No spellcheck
_____________________________-urlwolf (May 16, 2013, 02:45 AM)
[..]that looks nice - have you tried it on more recent OS's?
Microsoft remapkey.exe
I have used remapkey for years.-IainB (May 15, 2013, 10:05 PM)
I see on the MS dowload page they say-
Note: The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are not supported on 64-bit platforms.
http://www.microsoft...etails.aspx?id=17657-tomos (May 16, 2013, 04:37 AM)
Example:
You might have a program which normally triggers on Alt+Ctrl+F5, but you want to configure it to trigger with a double tap of the right control key. You can use TapTap to detect Right Control Doubletap events, and send a Ctrl+Alt+F5 when it does. In this way, you can control your programs the way you want to, and they never know the difference.
Windows 8 has as much chance of appearing on a computer of mine as Vista did, NONE!-pilgrim (May 13, 2013, 05:20 AM)
