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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsWarning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://www.theveggielady.com/links/rsssource.php?item=Chats (HTTP Response: ) in /home/veggie/public_html/links/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc on line 238 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/veggie/public_html/links/index.php on line 145 On hold - Could the admins please put these two texts on hold http://www.archive.org/details/LuxembourgYesterdayAndToday http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOfTheConstitutionalConference On one of them, I go ... Feed Source: www.archive.org Re: Problem with DjVu links - The link /stream/ is the streaming link and is supposed to open the file in the DJVU viewer; it doesn't always work. The download link is /download/
I use FlashGet and when the download ... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Does it block some PD books internationally, the way Google does? I would doubt it.
... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Works in the UK. ... Re: Please remove - You know, of course, that it's a joke-- it's making fun of that mentality .
Copyrighted, naturally, and now gone.
Does this-- and his companion piece about, em, African Americans, really go over p ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - I'm surprised these major publications got past the first eye down there. They're pretty famous. ... A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - In case anyone's interested, somebody worked up a clever new search engine for the University of Michigan's copies of its Google book and journal scans.
http://roytennant.com/proto/hathi/
The advant ... http://www.archive.org/details/sharhelmakoudi - thanks for this im very happy caus im serching in all site but i cant fiend it im verry glad ... Brewster is onTED - I have just spotted Brewster's inspiring lecture on TED.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html
It is outstanding. ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Think about it like this: a few generations ago our forebares disregarded prohibition even though it was written into the constitution. When the British put a tax on tea, the colonist started smugglin ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Laws are meant to be broken, this is a digital revolution. I violate my own copyrighted material all the time! ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - they may be too busy checking if some GD show is a SB or Aud source a happy rhino is a good rhino ... Many copyrighted books on IA - I just came across a whole bunch of scanned books that are copyrighted. For three of them, I did a "Report Errors", but too many to report them all manually. They are scienceofculture00whit, ... Problem with DjVu links - The DjVu link on Details pages doesn't seem to work -- Here's an example
http://www.archive.org/details/atlasofdiseaseso00mraciala
When I click the link on the Details page, it doesn't go to the ... Microsoft License Update on E-texts - In the announcement on Public Funding posted here at the archive, it was stated that Microsoft "said they wer ... Re: Albert Deutsch, CRAZYIER then NOT, NOW more MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC - Hello!I am mike from phoniex.There are lot of hospitals in Arizona for recover the patients from mental illness.Thanks for giving this information for recover mental illness people.
================= ... Re: Albert Deutsch, The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC - Hello!I am mike from phoniex.There are lot of hospitals in Arizona for recover the patients from mental illness.Thanks for giving this information for recover mental illness people.
================= ... Re: 500,000 books online! - Whoo Hoo! Major mile-stone. Congrats IA! ... 500,000 books online! - We just passed a milestone of 500,000 books online. Fantastic to see.
The Internet Archive is scanning at about 1000 books a day at this point from 80 great libraries.
As we cross this milestone, p ... Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - sorry about all of that distracting stuff. I think we have gotten a pile of it. As it turns out the culprits are doing it now, so we will see some more, unfortunately.
-brewster
... Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - That why I've been advocating a banning policy on the IPs that upload this crap ... Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - What can we do to get rid of tons of spam advertisements that are being uploaded here? I even see today the actual advertisement WAS the description and is on the listing page. It's bad enough to wa ... More removals - I thought I did this last night, but apparently didn't press the right button; we need a policy on here that people who continually post stuff like the below thread should be banned, at least temporar ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Thanks LockerGnome. Have you worked on the IA planetary scanner? ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bounce the lighting off matte white reflectors.
Shape the reflectors to even the lighting.
The lights and reflectors need to be out of the view of the cameras reflected off the glass plate.
... Re: Greek letters - It appears to be the sort of garbage output from an OCR
engine trained only in latin scripts. The same mess happens at the beginning of many books where there is a mixture of fonts, particularly the t ... Re: Another removal - Done. ... Another removal - The author has asked that this be taken off
http://www.archive.org/details/PartnersInHateNoamChomskyAndTheHolocaustDeniers ... Commentarii in Vergilii carmina - I am sure I have browsed a latin commentary to Virgil's Bucolics. It must have been from Archive.org. However I cannot find such a text anymore, neither on the site nor on my harddrive. Have I dreamt? ... Re: Please remove - Somewhere Crumb is laughing his head off ... Please remove - http://www.archive.org/details/WhenTheGoddamnJewsTakeOverAmerica
Uh people who are familiar with the things I post know I don't shy away from sensitive issues, and like to post controversial things ... building news and engineering journal - My grandfather recently gave me the Building News And Engineering Journal Vol 29 1875.
I am trying to find out some more info on this publication.
How many were there printed? etc.
Would appreciate an ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Librivox can report what the circumstances are at his end of the node, not what is happening at the host server. I'm not meaning to be an appoligist for anyone, simply an observer of realistic expecta ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Believe me, kiteman, I also am grateful to those who operate the site. It has given me access to books which I could never hope to read otherwise. But gratitude is not the issue. The aim of the arch ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Your post states all of the reasons the host simply cannot do as you would ask. When you log on from (whether from Scotland or New York) your local lines, networks and servers have far more impact on ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - This is a good idea (P2P solutions). Duplication is the best form of preservation.
The thought has occurred to me of downloading a copy of every book (half-million or so) but then I did the calculat ... Re: How do Microsoft digitize texts? - Are they still digitising?
I though Microsoft have wound their digitisation initiative down... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Greetings!
I'm also concerned with this issue, and in addition for donations which are truly useful for other areas of the IA project as well, I really urge the Archive to make use of ... Attention Framen - The guy that likes to review some of the stuff I uploaded and is apparently an Aussie - I thought you might get a kick out of this
http://www.archive.org/details/PocketGudieToAustralia
Maybe we can ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOnTheUsTrustTerritoryOfThePacificIslands_489
I keep getting a system slowness message, even though I haven't had the promblem with books of comparable size. Could ... Re: posting a new zine - =)
We feel like we've had a little car accident on the side of a motorway. So many passers by having a look, but no one stops!
Have we posted this question in the wrong place? or is it hard to answe ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Thanks for the info, stbalbach. I understand that the site relies largely on voluntary sources and things don't always run smoothly because everything's stretched to the limit, but that's no excuse f ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - One thing we can all do to help is send in yearly donations. In the states we have Public Television (in the UK it is the BBC) - IA needs that kind of broad base user support, in addition to the fundi ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - It seems that things can only get worse. I got a download speed of .9 kbps yesterday - yes, less than one kbps.
I happened to visit the Librivox website today, and they have an announcement that arc ... posting a new zine - Hello.
We had a bit of a look around, but couldn't find anything that obviously answered our question (so, sorry if we did miss something obvious).
We are about to start posting content for a new we ... Re: Copyright Question - I am just now working on a British author who died in 1934, whose copyright thus expired in 2004. A few of his books have been reissued in modern facsimile, i.e. not re-set by a publisher, so I don't ... Extremely slow download speeds - I've been collecting public domain ebooks for two or three years now, but only recently came across this truly fantastic site. I couldn't believe the range and quality of texts available - all for fre ... Re: Copyright Question - Correction-- it's late--- instead of Late 19th Century, read after 1911. Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K, but after 1911 many works are, because the authors lived past 1945.
Bert ... Re: Copyright Question - P.S. to get Google off the hook a little, there is an interesting legal copyright problem concerning British authors who died after about 1945 or so. It also applies to other online American archives . ... Re: Copyright Question - Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Few people have noticed this about Google.
Unlike the now-gone Microsoft Live Book Search, oftentimes Google will make their clearly pre-1923 works unavail ... Copyright © 2008, The Veggie Lady - Free Organic Gardening Advice. All Rights Reserved. |