vra> Scout Report, September 23, 1994 (fwd)
VLADIMIR VRABEC
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Mon Sep 26 11:35:55 CET 1994
*---------------------------------
Scout Report: September 23, 1994
---------------------------------*
The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
Services to assist InterNauts in their ongoing quest to know what's new
on and about the Internet. It focuses on those resources thought to be of
interest to the InterNIC's primary audience, researchers and educators,
however everyone is welcome to subscribe and there are no associated
fees.
The Scout Report is posted on the InterNIC InfoGuide's gopher and
WorldWideWeb servers where you can easily follow links to resources
of interest. Past issues are stored on the InfoGuide for quick
reference, and you can search the InfoGuide contents to find the items
reported in all previous issues. The Scout Report is also distributed in
an HTML version for use on your own host, providing fast local access for
yourself and other users at your site.
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
gopher is.internic.net choose Information Services/Scout Report
Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net.
See the end of the report for additional information, detailed access
and subscription instructions, and a correction from last week:
Newbie Newz subscription instructions corrected at bottom.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
* Several great Web sites, including the Oneida Indian Nation of New
York, Salzburg's Sommerszene Festival, and Filmmaker magazine.
* Tidbits of 'Net stats in 'NetBytes
* Glass Wings
World Wide Web
---------------
AgriGator is a WWW server at the Institute of Food and Agricultural
Sciences (IFAS). The Institute is part of the University of Florida and
serves the agricultural, human, and natural resources needs for the State
of Florida through on-campus instruction, at 20 Research and Education
Centers, and at Cooperative Extension Service offices in 67 counties.
This WWW is provided as a resource to support the many and varied
agricultural and related activities of the Institute and other interested
individuals. IFAS welcomes you to the SWAMP, home of the AgriGator. Visit
the different areas within the swamp but be careful where you step, it has
not been completely explored and there are many hidden gators in the
water.
http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/WWW/AGATOR_HOME.HTM
The Andy Warhol Museum Home Page includes a tour of the museum, samples
of various works by the artist as well as directions, times, admission
fees, and other information.
http://www.warhol.org/warhol
The first Aviation/Aerospace Newspaper to be available on the Internet
via the World Wide Web is The Avion Online. Produced at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, this weekly college newspaper specializes in
coverage of aerospace activity, such as the space shuttle, and aviation
topics like the Lockheed/Martin merger. Get weekly reports from students
who are studying the very stories they are reporting.
http://avion.db.erau.edu
The Cascades Volcano Observatory of the U.S. Geological Survey has
announced a WWW server offering information on volcanically-induced
geologic and hydrologic hazards as well as images of volcanoes and
volcanic phenomena. Includes links to ther components of the USGS Volcano
Hazards Program such as the Alaska and Hawaii Volcano Observatory and
the international Volcano Disaster Assistance Program.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less: 1994 Status
Report is a full hyper-media release from Vice President Al Gore's
National Performance Review. The 1994 report summarizes reinvention
efforts across federal agenices during the last year. The report
includes several hundred links to pictures, audio clips, as well as the
NPR's extensive library of reinvention reference materials. The report
is a complement part of the National Performance Review's recently
released ToolKit, an interactive World Wide Web Home Page.
http://www.npr.gov/NPR/html_NPR/Repts_of_NPR.html
http://www.npr.gov
Florida Tech School of Aeronautics.
http://sci-ed.fit.edu/soa/soa.html
Fractal Geometry, Feedback and Chaos are the themes of Contours of the
Mind, An exhibition of Sonic and Visual Art at the Australian National
University in Canberra. The event has brought together a unique blend of
visual art, science and music from Australia and abroad. An online
catalogue of submitted works is now available.
http://acat.anu.edu.au/contours.html
Geographical Names Section of Canada Centre for Mapping, Geomatics
Canada, Natural Resources Canada, has announced the opening of a
bilingual Web site offering a variety of selections including information
about the CPCGN, publications, digital products and the Canadian
Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB). A popular selection will be the
"query" of Canada's official geographical names, a limited search of the
CGNDB, displaying such fields as province, latitude, longitude, NTS map,
etc. At this moment, "Geo-Names Canada" is a stand-alone site, but the
National Atlas Information Service (NAIS) web site is soon to be released
and these two resources will then be integrated.
http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/cgndb/geonames.html
To query the Oracle database directly:
http://alert.ccm.emr.ca/cgndb/cgndb_lookup.html
NASA Public Affairs HomePage: Do you know why Congress created the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958? NASA's directives
are to conduct aeronautical and space "activities; create a science
program using aeronautical and space vehicles, and inform the public as
widely as possible about agency activities and their benefits. The homepage
contains images, sound and text to explain what NASA does and why, and has
links to many other NASA pages.
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/hqpao/hqpao_home.html
NYU's Center for Digital Multimedia welcomes the first of its affiliates
onto their World Wide Web server: FILMMAKER, an informative and
irreverent magazine that focuses on independent movie-making. It is a
joint publication of the Independent Feature Project and the Independent
Feature Project/West.
http://found.cs.nyu.edu/
http://found.cs.nyu.edu/CAT/affiliates/filmmaker/filmmaker.html
The Oneida Indian Nation of New York WWW site provides historical and
cultural information about the "Onyota'a:ka:"- "The People of the
Standing Stone". Read the Introduction to Oneida Indian Nation by Ray
Halbritter, the federally recognized Nation Representative. Look into
such topics as Economic Sovereignty, Cultural Rebirth, and Mind, Body,
and Spirit. http://nysernet.org/oneida/
Sommerszene Festival 1994 in Salzburg, Austria is celebrating the 25th
anniversary of its international festival of contempory performing arts.
"An Inquiry into the Art of Survival Part I: A Season in Hell" offers
Theater, Dance, Text, Music and Film. Over the years renowned artists
from all over the world have met an open audience here to give the town
the reputation of being more than just the upper-class meeting point for
traditional culture.
http://hirsch.cosy.sbg.ac.at/kultur/eszene.html
Gopher
------
Commutative Algebra Gopher Server
gopher to: hazlett.math.ndsu.NoDak.edu
Department of Housing and Urban Development Gopher Server
gopher to: gopher.hud.gov
Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague
gopher to: gopher.vscht.cz
Los Angeles County Office of Education
gopher to: nic.lacoe.edu
Minnesota E-Democracy (Election and Campaign Information)
gopher to: free-net.mpls-stpaul.mn.us 8001
Mount Saint Vincent University
gopher to: gopher.msvu.ca
NASA Spacelink Project (Marshall Space Flight Center)
gopher to: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
Nijenrode University -- The Netherlands Business School
gopher to: gopher.nijenrode.nl
Northwestern University's American Politics Gopher
gopher to: toby.scott.nwu.edu
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
gopher to: gopher.nsac.ns.ca
Radiocarbon Gopher
gopher to: packrat.aml.arizona.edu
University of Haifa
gopher to: uvm.haifa.ac.il
National Information Infrastructure
-----------------------------------
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Japan has begun providing
information on the Web, including the MPT News(press releases), white
papers, and reports of the telecommunications council.
http://www.mpt.go.jp/
New documents on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications
Information Administration (NTIA) gopher.
gopher to: ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
choose: Hot Off the Press
* Technology Policy Working Group Charter
* Technology Policy Working Group Minutes 08/18/94
* Global Information Infrastructure Update
* IITF September Report
* Calendar of Public Events
* Irving Testimony on S. 1822, given 09/20/94
* Health Information and Applications Working Group Charter
* IITF Factsheet, Revised 09/12/94
* America Speaks Out, Universal Service Hearings Summary
* NTIA Universal Service NOI, Comments Requested
* IITF Meeting Minutes from meeting held on 07/26/94
NetBytes
--------
A new issue of the The Internet Index has been released, with a nice
collection of trivia numbers related to the Internet. For instance,
"Percentage of US public libraries offering Internet searches by staff:
21" Sources of the stats are also available.
http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current.html
http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html
email: send a message to:
internet-index-request at OpenMarket.com
in the body of the message type:
subscribe internet-index
The University of Twente (UT), The Netherlands, maintains a WWW server
with information on network management protocols. Contains links to a
large number of free SNMP software packages, including documentation and
source code of UT-SNMPv2. It also includes lists of network management
standards, articles, the Simple Times, CMIP-RUN etc.
http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl
The growth of WWW and Mosaic use seems unabated. Overall WWW traffic
in August hit 1.3 Terabytes or 8 % of the total NSFNet backbone traffic.
NCSA has become the second biggest Internet site in the world in terms
of traffic from its site - 406 Gbytes per month. The biggest is still MIT
(site for distribution of X-windows). [From the Internet Society.]
The Sept 15th snapshot of the commercial domains registered with
InterNIC shows 20,242 unique commercial domains compared with 18,403 as
of Aug 15, 1994. The net increase of 1,839 domains represents and 10.0%
month gain. [From the folks at Internet Info. Additional details
forthcoming.]
The Well Connected Mac aims to be a single entry point to all Macintosh
resources on the Web. Check for software, online journals, product
reviews, full hypertext versions of several Macintosh FAQ lists and more.
http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html
Weekend Scouting
----------------
Glass Wings has now opened its doors onto the electronic frontier. This
Australian site covers a wide range of interests including news, games,
entertainment, humour, travel, books and magazines, the environment,
human rights, food, health, the educational, sexuality, the arts and a
writers forum. Glass Wings is a companion project of Xanadu Australia
http://www.aus.xanadu.com/GlassWings/welcome.htm
The first Vangelis Home Page is online. The page consists of many
pictures, digitized music and animations. Vangelis is a famous
synthisizer guru and he has made soundtracks for many movies. Also
included in this page is a section specific to Bladerunner, the most
discussed movie of the Internet.
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/perki/Vangelis.html
Over The Coffee is a new a World Wide Web site providing
coffee-related information to both coffee enthusiasts and coffee
professionals. Look for a glossary of coffee terminology and a list of
retail mail order coffee and tea vendors.
http://www.infonet.net/showcase/coffee
Errata:
The address for subscriptions to the NewbieNewz was incorrectly stated in
last week's Scout Report. The correct and complete instructions are
below. Apologies for any inconveniences.
send email to: NewbieNewz-request at IO.COM
leave the subject line blank
in the body of the message type: subscribe NewbieNewz
(note, you can only subscribe yourself)
for information about NewbieNewz,
in the body of the message type: info NewbieNewz
for Newbie Newz archives .zip files,
ftp//io.com:/pub/usr/zboray/4-newbies/NewbieNewz
About the Scout Report
---------------------
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC Information
Services to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay
informed about network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place
the highlights of new (and newly-discovered) online resources and other
announcements seen on the Internet during the preceding week.
A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on
resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience,
the research and education community. Each resource has been verified
for substantial content and accessibility within a day of the release of
the Report.
The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- electronic mail,
gopher, World Wide Web, and now HTML. The gopher and World Wide Web
versions of the Report include links to all listed resources. The report
is released every weekend.
In addition to the ascii version, the Scout Report is distributed in
HTML format via a separate mailing list. This allows sites to easily add
the Scout Report to their local WorldWideWeb servers each week, providing
fast access for local users. Subscription information for the
scout-report-html mailing list is included below. Note that permission
statements appear on both versions of the Scout Report, and we ask that
these be included in any re-posting or re-distributing of the report.
If you haven't yet subscribed or told your friends and colleagues, now
is the time. Spread the news by word-of-net. Join thousands of your
colleagues already using the Scout Report as a painless tool for tracking
what's new on the 'Net!
Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net
-- InterNIC Info Scout (SM)
Scout Report Access Methods
------------------------------
** To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
Friday, join the scout-report mailing list. You will receive one message
a week -- the Scout Report every weekend.
send email to: majordomo at is.internic.net
in the body of the message, type:
subscribe scout-report
to unsubscribe to the list, repeat this procedure substituting the word
"unsubscribe" for subscribe.
** To receive the Scout Report in HTML format for local posting,
subscribe to the scout-report-html mailing list, used exclusively to
distribute the Scout Report in HTML format once a week.
send mail to: majordomo at is.internic.net
in the body of the message, type:
subscribe scout-report-html
** To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client
to:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
>> Gopher users can tunnel to:
is.internic.net
select: Information Services/Scout Report.
Resource Addressing Conventions
--------------------------------
After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are
listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users recognize
the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those users
unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network
tool. A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.
The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.
After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available through multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:
World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS
A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two right
brackets. For example:
http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
To access the resource through the WWW you will need a WWW client
installed on your host computer. Clients are available for all major
computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. To use a WWW
client on your computer, you will need a TCP/IP connection to the
Internet, either through a dedicated line connection or a SLIP/PPP
connection. See the InfoGuide for additional information about the World
Wide Web and for sites which archive WWW clients. For more information
about SLIP/PPP, which can be used over a dial-up connection, see the
document listed in the NetBytes section above.
gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/using-internet/basic-resources/emai
l/
Gopher to: is.internic.net
Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/
Send email to: mailserv at is.internic.net
In the body of the message type: send INDEX
*----------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 1994 General Atomics.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout
Report provided the copyright notice, this permission notice, and the two
paragraphs below are preserved on all copies.
The InterNIC provides information about the Internet and the resources on
the Internet to the US research and education community under the
National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement No. NCR-9218749. The
Government has certain rights in this material.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, General Atomics,
AT&T, or Network Solutions, Inc.
-----------------------------------------------------------------*
More information about the net
mailing list