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why temporarily? why not permanently?
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dude what the hell is this site. this thing looks so questionable. why not upload to macgarden or internet archive?
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Having read your rationale for using this service I don't disagree outright- the site itself may be more than it appears, however. This request appeared immediately upon navigating to the page (Little Snitch, FWIW.)
plugin-container is a Firefox component I rarely see activity from when not browsing explicitly interactive webapps. I've needed to add a total of fifteen rules since 2023, and not one in the past year.
Perhaps it's nothing nefarious, but may be worth examining more closely. Denying the connection appears not to impede the download.
plugin-container is a Firefox component I rarely see activity from when not browsing explicitly interactive webapps. I've needed to add a total of fifteen rules since 2023, and not one in the past year.
Perhaps it's nothing nefarious, but may be worth examining more closely. Denying the connection appears not to impede the download.
why not just upload it to the IA to start with?
this.
Good call.
Public attension isn't for me, despite of that I could easily do just that.
But by the time spent, I'd have found dozens more not already archived.
My work consists not only in assisting the Maccers -but all communities of various platform users.
Archival is of essence -I just make better use of my time.
This should be seen only as an additional gesture, only a tiny fraction of time lost -away from preservation.
Public attension isn't for me, despite of that I could easily do just that.
But by the time spent, I'd have found dozens more not already archived.
My work consists not only in assisting the Maccers -but all communities of various platform users.
Archival is of essence -I just make better use of my time.
This should be seen only as an additional gesture, only a tiny fraction of time lost -away from preservation.
What attention?
You know that it's just as easy to upload to the IA as basically any other file upload site right
You know that it's just as easy to upload to the IA as basically any other file upload site right
OPs explanations are really evasive. They are not communicating in clear terms. Not sure what the agenda is, but it doesn’t sit right.
@jeremywork If you managed to download it, is it legit and could you upload it to Internet Archive? Thanks
file attached... it's a pdf.
inexplicably packaged in .sit.hqx??? why would you stuff a pdf? it doesn't even have a resource fork!
oh but wait... this file is already on the internet archive, the macintosh garden, etc... because it's part of the MPW documentation!
see discmaster search, this is included on most later developer toolchest ISOs
...so this is a PDF document from the widely available MPW documentation that was extracted, stuffed/binhexed, uploaded to a sketchy file locker, posted to sys7today forums, then THAT post was linked to this forum.
why. what exactly was "contributed" here? nothing new?
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Hey guys,
ReadMe Text, QuickDraw™ GX · Apple Computer, Inc. 1994
Excavated —d/l temporarily available ~for laccers who'd fancy it.
inexplicably packaged in .sit.hqx??? why would you stuff a pdf? it doesn't even have a resource fork!
oh but wait... this file is already on the internet archive, the macintosh garden, etc... because it's part of the MPW documentation!
see discmaster search, this is included on most later developer toolchest ISOs
...so this is a PDF document from the widely available MPW documentation that was extracted, stuffed/binhexed, uploaded to a sketchy file locker, posted to sys7today forums, then THAT post was linked to this forum.
why. what exactly was "contributed" here? nothing new?
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Hey guys,
ReadMe Text, QuickDraw™ GX · Apple Computer, Inc. 1994
Excavated —d/l temporarily available ~for laccers who'd fancy it.
Noting the cryptic nature of the posts, this being a publicly searchable forum, was there anytbing else hidden in the hqx files? Recall a similar issue some years back where sharing of files on 68KMLA and another unrelated vintage computer forum was a seemingly a front for other activity (I couldn’t tell you what though not inferring anything illegal just odd behaviour).
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@finkmac that sure sounds like one of these many old kind of "weirdos" that unfortunately seem to still be around today..especially the ones that prints out something several-pages-long single pdf from the intranet then scan it back to the same office desk computer at low res then emails the resultant several images out (like I mean seriously?? just download the pdf and email the pdf, period!! ughhhh meh)
Please fax the cover sheet to this message if you would please. If you would be also be so kind as to mail me the film negatives as well.
P.S. Little Snitch was pretty great, kind of miss it.
It's still available: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
But what does it mean
@Cashed, I appreciate your desire to archive this information, but linking to a post on an unaffiliated site instead of directly interacting with this forum can create confusion and give the wrong message.
I do encourage you to make a new thread to properly maintain a thread your your burgeoning archive, but you may want to consider the recommendations others here have made, specifically those around making the files more accessible by posting the plain PDF files, as well as recommendations to post them to sites like archive.org who have become the defacto standard for this kind of information in recent years in no small part to the accessibility the site affords, also allowing interested parties to share in keeping the information online by way of peer to peer sharing of the uploaded files as well.
Because many of the items in your archive appear to be unrelated to development, this would probably be best made in the "Software" subforum.
Closing this thread and removing first post link.
I do encourage you to make a new thread to properly maintain a thread your your burgeoning archive, but you may want to consider the recommendations others here have made, specifically those around making the files more accessible by posting the plain PDF files, as well as recommendations to post them to sites like archive.org who have become the defacto standard for this kind of information in recent years in no small part to the accessibility the site affords, also allowing interested parties to share in keeping the information online by way of peer to peer sharing of the uploaded files as well.
Because many of the items in your archive appear to be unrelated to development, this would probably be best made in the "Software" subforum.
Closing this thread and removing first post link.
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