Here's something fun to try: some of you have already heard about our custom "build a CD/DVD" program. This was developed primarily by Craig Stephenson, a student and ARSC employee where I work (the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks). It lets you make your own custom collection of Project Gutenberg content, and build an ISO file (suitable for burning a CD or DVD) for download. This week, through Thursday afternoon at 4:00 pm (PST), you can try this CD/DVD maker on a much faster system & network than I'm able to offer at the regular site. Visit this URL to try it: http://a163.112.sc05.org/pgiso This is basically the same software as is at the regular place, http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso But, it's on a much faster network, called "SciNet," the network at the annual Supercomputing conference (http://sc05.supercomputing.org). For these next few days, I'm running some experiments at the Supercomputing conference in the ARSC booth (#112), including this ISO maker. Please note that this is a temporary installation, so any ISOs or collections you make will not be incorporated back into the "main" site on snowy.arsc.alaska.edu. In other words, anything you make will need to be downloaded by 4:00 pm PST Thursday November 17. Feedback, as always, is welcome. -- Greg
Hello all and especially Greg. Sorry for the off topic post but I was shocked to see this in the header of your message to the list. X-FTN-Sender: Greg Newby <Greg.Newby@p999.f83.n421.z2.fidonet.org> Having grown up on Fidonet, I can't help but ask how things are. I see the network is still limping along, even though zone 1 is basically dead as of a couple years ago. I've read that Europe is still fairly active in Fidonet so I'm curious. Also, if you don't mind my asking, how do you happen to be using a Fidonet point to send out at the supercomputing conference? In a feeble attempt to keep on topic, I would like to say that one of my earliest exposures to PG was via BBSs, many of which were on Fidonet. At one time, many new PG posts went through the various file networks and showed up on BBSs all over the world. I wonder how many people knew about PG just because of that. It was still a luxury to get Internet access in those days unless you were at a university. Although I often grow nostalgic for the old days of the BBS, I've long since realized that those days are past. That's too bad since Fidonet was much friendlier and more personal than the Internet. Ah well, sorry for my nostalgia trip.
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hello all and especially Greg. Sorry for the off topic post but I was shocked to see this in the header of your message to the list.
X-FTN-Sender: Greg Newby <Greg.Newby@p999.f83.n421.z2.fidonet.org>
Having grown up on Fidonet, I can't help but ask how things are. I see the network is still limping along, even though zone 1 is basically dead as of a couple years ago. I've read that Europe is still fairly active in Fidonet so I'm curious. Also, if you don't mind my asking, how do you happen to be using a Fidonet point to send out at the supercomputing conference?
In a feeble attempt to keep on topic, I would like to say that one of my earliest exposures to PG was via BBSs, many of which were on Fidonet. At one time, many new PG posts went through the various file networks and showed up on BBSs all over the world. I wonder how many people knew about PG just because of that. It was still a luxury to get Internet access in those days unless you were at a university. Although I often grow nostalgic for the old days of the BBS, I've long since realized that those days are past. That's too bad since Fidonet was much friendlier and more personal than the Internet. Ah well, sorry for my nostalgia trip.
When I was a BBS sysop 20 years ago, we posted the early Project Gutenberg efforts on various BBSs, including some FidoNet sites, and they propated there quite well, thanks for asking. I also recall FidoNet as being very friendly, much moreso than PLATO, NOVANet, etc., though I suppose we should also think about uunet. Speaking of uunet, was there something else with a similar name in Europe? eunet, or something? Thanks! Michael
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