I use it because that’s the one I’m most familiar with. Using it since 15 years and counting. And since it doesn’t the job for me, I never had the urge to look into alternatives.
Caching is already enabled, but this doesn’t work for the highly dynamic parts of the site like version history and looking for recent changes.
And yes, it doesn’t work for volumetric attacks with tens of gbps. At this point I don’t think it is a targeted attack, probably a crawler gone really wild. But for this pattern, it simply works.
There's a theory they didn't get through, because it's a new protection method and the bots don't run javascript. It could be as simple as <script>setCookie("letmein=1");reload();</script>
That's my current theory as well. IMHO that's the reason why an upgrade from 98 to XP failed while it ran successfully by using Windows 2000 as the base installation.
Note that I was totally skipping the text-based installation stage when upgrading from Windows 2000 while I got it when starting the installation from Windows 98 - that's where the "NT conversion, stupid!"-theory came from.
Yes, this was purely a "why not?!" project, it doesn't really make sense and using VMware or true low-level emulation like 86Box is a way better option than using completely unsupported software.
A No-CD patch would likely work, but I want to keep things as close to the original as possible. I want to be able to play a game or run an application without any third-party software required, just using a perfect backup/image.
Would software that more accurately emulates a CD drive be preferable?
Virtual CloneDrive will run The Sims (and other early SafeDisc titles) without issue. By contrast I don't believe that any emulator (QEMU/Virtualbox/DOSbox/etc) handle the weird I/O calls that DRM makes
