I have paper copies of the first few years of LJ, including issue #1. Does anyone want them?
send them to the Internet Archive, or the Computer History Museum.
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#32This is great news! I stopped reading Linux Journal once they went all digital.
I'm not sure I'd call it great news. But I too have stopped reading a few magazines that went all digital. There is just too much other digital competition when I've got a browser open. But when I'm sitting at breakfast and what to read something physical, there was very little competition (I don't like getting iPads sticky, so don't use them when eating!).
I subscribed for a couple of years but regrettably didn't have the time to read each episode because of competing digital distractions. Print has a cost but also a permanence that digital mediums can't compete with. Even though Linux Journal had really great DRM free access to all of their magazines while I was a subscriber after my subscription lapsed I didn't have access and hadn't bothered to download them.
If I tried I'm sure I could get them elsewhere, which is the odd state of media these days. Anyone can get it for free but it means something to actually participate in supporting it.
I've actually been thinking of buying physical copies of music albums partly for nostalgia but also because it would provide a greater sense of investment in the music and actually listening to it.
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#33I have paper copies of the first few years of LJ, including issue #1. Does anyone want them?
My recommendation would be to scan them, and then send them somewhere.
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#34PSA: I found an archive link amongst the comments ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pub... ) It's being sold for $11.99. Here's the purchase link: http://lj.mybigcommerce.com/linux-journal-archive-1994-2017/ Apparently it's HTML-format. No mention is made of whether it includes images or how big the download is. My suspicion is that it's pure-text, which is really sad. If anyone wants to look…
I made the mistake and never bought the Doctor Dobbs Developer DVD and it isn't available anywhere. I even wrote the new owners of Doctor Dobbs, they had no original. http://www.drdobbs.com/tools Luckily the Internet Archive has nice collection, but it isn't the same as the content of the DVD. If you are in Seattle, the living computer museum has a small nook sized library with some really old issues. https://archive…
Some quick poking around found
- http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Web...
- https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22ddj_dvd6%22
and
- https://www.mail-archive.com/cctech@classiccmp.org/msg02278....
I'm unsure if this is what you're referring to though.
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#35Can’t they donate their archives to archive.org?
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#36The publishing situation is so bleak, and the saddest part is that the higher the quality, the deeper the problems. Does anyone know how lwn [0] is doing? It's one of the latest very high profile publications remaining as of now. [0] https://lwn.net/
We need to start making lots of money so that we can pay a lot of money for these things that we like.
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#37PSA: I found an archive link amongst the comments ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pub... ) It's being sold for $11.99. Here's the purchase link: http://lj.mybigcommerce.com/linux-journal-archive-1994-2017/ Apparently it's HTML-format. No mention is made of whether it includes images or how big the download is. My suspicion is that it's pure-text, which is really sad. If anyone wants to look…
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#38The publishing situation is so bleak, and the saddest part is that the higher the quality, the deeper the problems. Does anyone know how lwn [0] is doing? It's one of the latest very high profile publications remaining as of now. [0] https://lwn.net/
> The publishing situation is so bleak ...
And yet we cheer at every progress made in Web technology.
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#39PSA: I found an archive link amongst the comments ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-pub... ) It's being sold for $11.99. Here's the purchase link: http://lj.mybigcommerce.com/linux-journal-archive-1994-2017/ Apparently it's HTML-format. No mention is made of whether it includes images or how big the download is. My suspicion is that it's pure-text, which is really sad. If anyone wants to look…
It's 700MB and has images (not always inline)
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#40Linux foundation could support them, they have big corporations and big money behind them. Big corporations also need good employees from this magazine's readership, so it wouldn't be wasted money even economically.