MacGUI Downloads gone

[MrFahrenheit]

Charlie Sheen is the modern software developer, and the other pitcher is a vintage software developer, I guess.

I don’t follow the reasoning behind old software preventing new software development. Perhaps there’s a lot more to it than just that statement. Like he couldn’t express himself properly and chose a poor analogy or words.

 

[tt]

My interpretation of Dog Cow's writing is we would need to go over to his forum and start regularly participating there. (But it is probably already too late for that.) The software he is hosting is not bringing value to the site where he was hoping to build a community, so he took it down. The vulnerability of silos of information mentioned here also applies to communities if there are only a couple of them that most people go to.

 

[joshc]

If people mainly found the availability of vintage development tools at Mac GUI of the most value, I’d be happy to host those at Mac Hut instead, for those who don’t want to download 16GB of files just to grab a few tools.

I haven’t had time yet to properly sift through the Mac GUI files but I imagine there’s at least a few which haven’t found their way to the Mac Garden or other sites yet.

 

[jkheiser]

1. MacGUI is a great site, his articles have always been great, his knowledge of very early (1984-ish) Mac systems architecture and assembly programming is truly impressive, I hope he updates the Blog soon (because 100% of the Blog articles are excellent and include substantial original research), and I’m sorry that he’s taken the (again, excellent) MacGUI Downloads section offline.

Here-here, aye-aye on all of this. The Mac 512k Blog is scholarly and valuable.

Curiously, downloads from the MacGUI Vault are available again.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

It is indeed back. Huh.

 

[volvo242gt]

He must be lurking and reading this thread.

 

[Phipli]

He must be lurking and reading this thread.

Nah, he'd be far more upset if he'd read this thread.

 

[Snial]

Here-here, aye-aye on all of this. The Mac 512k Blog is scholarly and valuable.

I'd third that. I'm sad he took it down for a while - maybe he felt undervalued. It's easy to get discouraged, I mean, think about what happened to Paul ... who wrote and maintained mini vMac!

 

[Phipli]

I mean, think about what happened to Paul

What did happen, I never saw an update beyond people not being able to get in touch.

 

[Iesca]

I was just thinking, did we ever find out?

 

[cheesestraws]

as far as I know, no

 

[Skate323k137]

I'd third that. I'm sad he took it down for a while - maybe he felt undervalued. It's easy to get discouraged, I mean, think about what happened to Paul ... who wrote and maintained mini vMac!

I have never felt worse for someone who gave away code than the kid who wrote timthumb.php

 

[jkheiser]

Paul’s personal site at gryphel.net went dark in the last 30 days. It was hosted with Lightlink, which has been winding down since its operator, Homer Wilson Smith, died last December.

Mini vMac’s site at www.gryphel.com, however, is hosted at DigitalOcean, which supports auto-pay via PayPal. Maybe Paul configured it to draw from his PayPal account, which is probably still accepting donations. Maybe that is what’s keeping the lights on for Mini vMac.

 

[joshc]

https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=543

In my opinion, a user deciding to scrape the site shouldn't mean the whole site has to come down. There are good ways of dealing with this, and how they are dealing with it is not it. If every site admin acted in this way, many websites wouldn't exist anymore.

 

[joshc]

Dog Cow has been talking about shutting down parts of the site, and removing the downloads, since 2015... so none of this should come as a surprise. But their reasoning and the way in which they are approaching it does seem odd.

The 2015 closure post:

https://macgui.com/news/article.php?t=414

 

[jkheiser]

Now the entire MacGUI site is down. I hope it’s just a temporary problem. A recent blog post from David said he was dealing with an aggressive scraper/crawler.

 

[joshc]

Now the entire MacGUI site is down. I hope it’s just a temporary problem. A recent blog post from David said he was dealing with an aggressive scraper/crawler.

It's very much online and working for me?

 

[Iesca]

Works for me as well, although I did have to turn off my VPN

 

[jkheiser]

It's very much online and working for me?

For about 12 hours I was unable to reach it from home network on CenturyLink DSL or my cloud box on DigitalOcean. Also, isitdownorjust.me said it was not available.

But now I can reach it from my home connection. Still down from my cloud box. Oh well!

Is this a new blog post? It is dated almost two years ago, but the post identifier is sequentially the newest.

 

[joshc]

The site does seem to go up and down like a yo yo. I wonder if its hosted on a home connection or something.