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| Posted by: joshc on 2023-08-13 08:44:08 No, the wayback machine doesn’t have the files. The only files/backup publicly available right now is the 2013 archive that I uploaded to archive.org. Is anyone in contact with the site owner to retrieve a more recent copy of the site? | |
| Posted by: slomacuser on 2023-08-14 00:32:58 Here  | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-08-14 07:32:57 Ah so that's what happened. Maybe @Cory5412 could sort out their account issues at some point? If they'd ever like to come back that is. | |
| Posted by: Crutch on 2023-08-14 08:00:53 I hope he comes back, he has made many useful contributions here. | |
| Posted by: Phipli on 2023-08-22 15:58:43 Looks like it's back! | |
Posted by: zigzagjoe on 2023-10-25 21:21:27 | |
| Posted by: Iesca on 2023-10-25 21:39:30 Well geez. | |
| Posted by: joshc on 2023-10-25 23:27:58 He went a step further and took the entire thing offline - the domain doesn't resolve to anything for me anymore. | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2023-10-25 23:52:00 All the more reason to hoard everything you want in your home RAID drive. I don’t trust the cloud or internet to store anything I care about. That includes my classic Mac software. | |
| Posted by: joshc on 2023-10-26 00:07:53 I would've scraped this site but the site admin put very strict rules in place to prevent that, to the extent of limiting downloads per IP per day and all sorts of other restrictions, which is a shame because if you're putting stuff on the Internet for people to download for free, that should also include them downloading the whole thing if they wish to. | |
Posted by: Iesca on 2023-10-26 00:19:43I would've scraped this site but the site admin put very strict rules in place to prevent that, to the extent of limiting downloads per IP per day and all sorts of other restrictions, which is a shame because if you're putting stuff on the Internet for people to download for free, that should also include them downloading the whole thing if they wish to.In Dogcow's defense, bandwidth isn't free. | |
Posted by: joshc on 2023-10-26 00:27:45In Dogcow's defense, bandwidth isn't free.There are good solutions to that problem, such as hosting a complete archive at archive.org, or on a different server. I don't think Dogcow ever exercised that. I'm the one who put the 2013 snapshot on archive.org so that people could access all the files more easily. | |
| Posted by: mmmlinux on 2023-10-26 09:55:37 no excuse for shutting this down with no alternative option. | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-10-26 10:11:39 How much has been added since 2013? | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-10-26 10:17:03no excuse for shutting this down with no alternative option.Well... they don't need an excuse. They pay for the server. | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-10-26 10:19:46 Maybe if someone were to kindly reach out, there might be a chance that they would upload the complete collection up to archive.org. If server hosting is the issue, I wouldn’t see why that wouldn’t be reasonable. | |
| Posted by: cheesestraws on 2023-10-26 10:25:19 I think avoiding poking that for a little while might be an excellent idea. | |
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-10-26 10:25:59I think avoiding poking that for a little while might be an excellent idea.That may indeed be for the best as well. | |
| Posted by: warmech on 2023-10-26 10:30:40 Wow. I actually learned a lot of good information on his site; he wrote a lot of good articles over the years about some of the inner-workings and history of the Mac. I respect his decision to do whatever he wants with his content but, damn, that's disappointing. | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-10-26 10:31:32 The entire site is down for me right now. | |
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