Well, they’ve just all been stolen – during my sleep like a proper robbery – by the FBI, who effectively took them away when they decided to shut down MegaUpload. Although I did have a backup of my most important files, I didn’t have a backup of most of the files, which were rather there for storage or archiving. They claim they did that to fight copyright infringement, well at least copying isn’t stealing. But taking away the files is. The FBI robbed my files, should I call the police? … or maybe I should call al-Qaeda?

Anyway, for you visitors, it means that at the moment, all the files I link to on Megaupload are sadly unavailable. For a few of them, a FileSonic mirror is available. I’ll try to upload some of the others there, too. But I don’t really have the time to browse all the site looking for every missing file, so in case you need specific files, drop a comment and I’ll give them priority for the re-up, if I have a backup of them.

Update (2012-01-23)

Well, this seemed to have scared the hell out of other hosts. FileSonic, the alternate mirror where I put some of the files, also SILENTLY (as usual when they do a crappy move) disabled file-sharing (since they delete uploaded files after 30 days with no downloads I really wonder what kind of a business model they can have now…). Good thing I hadn’t moved more files to them…
Since it seems that most file hosts are (or will be) chickening out too (which I guess is understandable since they get treated worse than terrorists), I’m left with the only option to host the files on this very server. This means that there won’t be big files anymore (bye bye Pioneer One…), and also probably I won’t keep an archive of old versions apart from a few exceptions.

Update (2012-01-28)

Looks like legal action is indeed on its way, see Joint complaint of those affected by the closure of Megaupload service. Of course, Megaupload’s Terms of Service said something along the line “we reserve the right to delete your hosted files at any time”, but it didn’t reserve the right for a third party such as the FBI to do so.

Anyway. As I don’t like to trash pieces of codes, I thought I’d be a good idea to store here the former lines we’ve had for years to display Google stuff…

The search box (hopefully I’ll be placing a Scroogle search box soon!):

<form action=”http://www.google.com/custom” method=”get”>
<div style=”text-align:center;width:170px;background-color:#bdf;border:1px solid #555″>
<label for=”q”><img width=”75″ alt=”Google search” src=”http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif” height=”32″/></label><br/>
<input value=”notepad.patheticcockroach.com” name=”domains” type=”hidden”/>
<input id=”q” maxlength=”255″ value=”DRM” name=”q” size=”20″ type=”text”/>

<div style=”text-align:left;”>
<input id=”but_web1″ value=”" name=”sitesearch” type=”radio”/><label for=”but_web1″>Web</label><br/>
<input id=”but_web2″ checked=”checked” value=”notepad.patheticcockroach.com” name=”sitesearch” type=”radio”/><label for=”but_web2″>This blog</label><br/>
</div>
<input value=”Search” name=”sa” type=”submit”/>
<input value=”pub-9471398824076666″ name=”client” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”1″ name=”forid” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”ISO-8859-1″ name=”ie” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”ISO-8859-1″ name=”oe” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;” name=”cof” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”en” name=”hl” type=”hidden”/>
</div>
</form>

The Adsense (not really sure it’s worth keeping, actually…):

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-9471398824076666″;
google_ad_host = “pub-1556223355139109″;
/* 120×600, created 4/18/08 */
google_ad_slot = “1026798805″;
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 600;
//–>
</script>
<script
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>

Nice picture: Google Earth 3D vs reality real link/digg
Windows Media Player new DRM – worse than ever real link/digg
GPL-violations.org project wins in court case on GPL violation by D-Link
Is Dell joking with us? (haha, I remember now, their praise us website ^^) digg
Top 9 Apps To Help You Avoid The CIA real link
Norton unhappy with performace tests, don’t do much better on second chance (aka the ever-lame Norton…)
Worried about the airline losing your luggage? No problem. Just pack a gun.
Colour graphics inventor hauls Dell and Gateway back into court (The Inquirer)
Lime Wire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations
Wikipedia tells naked girl to get lost. Epic, but this turned out to be a fake.
Possible specs for nVidia’s G80 leak out link
MPAA campaign makes piracy seem totally badass digg (original link is dead)
Car accident on Google Earth (I guess this was fun by that time…) digg
Top 10 things to do with Google Earth
OpenOffice.org : breaking Microsoft’s dominance digg

This will be enough for today (it’s so boring…)

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