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From - Fri Jan 17 11:06:47 2003 Return-path: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:52:55 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Hart Subject: [gweekly] RESEND: Proper Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter Sender: [email protected] To: Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Id: List-Owner: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> X-List-Host: The UNC List Server PGWeekly_January_15.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 15, 2003* ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Over 31 Years****** *** Last Week We Said: "This is rather an *emergency* edition of the newsletter, as a LOT of email has been lost, and many functions of my mainframe are not back online so I am VERY limited in what and how I can do things right now." We ended up with one less than we thought, so last week's total was 26 and the grand total was 6,769. Also reported 105 new eBooks, there were 115 ! My apologies for the errors, it was a challenge just doing the Newsletter. *** Also, you may note we are working up a slightly new Newsletter format, and your suggestions and comments are important to us; let us now how you feel. We have combined most of the statistical information into one section, and thus reduced much of the redundancy. *** Over Our 31 1/2 Year History, We Have Now Averaged About 200 Ebooks/Year-And This Year Averaged About That Same 200 eBook Level. . .PER MONTH!!!!! Current Progress:
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.6 Per Day At 101 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged 7 eBooks Per Day 50 eBooks Per Week ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS OFFER ONLINE COURSES Elite schools like Harvard University, which largely have avoided the "distance-learning" boom, are bowing to the popularity of online education and are beginning to offer a few courses via the Internet. Harvard's fledgling effort is a master's degree program in public health set to start in 2004. Brown University is participating in a consortium of schools developing an online medical-school curriculum, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has a small master's program in engineering offered partly online, is exploring degree-granting distance learning in a joint venture with Cambridge University in England. The University of California at Berkeley offered its first all-online undergraduate course on gemology last semester, and Stanford University is expanding its online engineering master's program to include a fourth discipline -bioinformatics. "The No. 1 reason people take this way of learning is convenience," says Michael Lambert, executive director of the Distance Education and Training Coucil. He estimates that 2.5 million U.S. students took online courses for credit last year. (Wall Street Journal 15 Jan 2003) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042594341876820384.djm,00.html (sub req'd) SUN AND MICROSOFT GET SET FOR JAVA LEGAL BATTLE Sun and Microsoft are appearing in federal court to argue their positions before U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, who will be ruling on Sun's request for an injunction requiring Windows to include Sun's latest Java software immediately, pending resolution of the larger Sun lawsuit against Microsoft. Sun claims Microsoft has gained an unfair advantage by shipping Windows with a version of Java that is both outdated and strongly biased toward Windows, even though Java is meant to make it possible for programs to run on all computers, regardless of the operating system. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 15 Jan 2003) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4951742.htm [You might have heard this here first, only we weren't quite as tough on Mr. Case as was the New York Times, though he may have deserved it.] AOL TIME WARNER: SYNERGY/SHMINERGY The resignation of supersalesman and high-tech "visionary" Steve Case as chairman of AOL Time Warner marks an obvious admission of the failure of that company's merger, which was intended to create synergy between an "old economy" publishing and media empire and a "new economy" Internet venture. New York Times journalist Steve Lohr says the idea was for AOL to give Time Warner "sex" and Time Warner to give AOL "class." Industry analysts are now suggesting that the company will succeed only if it undergoes a serious attitude adjustment; Jordan Rohan of Soundview Technology Group says:
"If AOL continues to tilt at windmills in terms of trying to generate spectacular growth, I think it will be a waste of shareholders' capital. If they begin to treat AOL as a mature business and focus on consistent returns, I think they can succeed. Case's departure could accelerate that shift." (New York Times 14 Jan 2003) http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/business/media/14AOL.html MUSIC, TECH GROUPS REACH COMPROMISE ON COPYRIGHT ISSUES The Recording Industry Association of America, the Business Software Alliance and the Computer Systems Policy Project have hammered out a compromise agreement that they say will protect copyrights on music and movies without the need for further government intervention. The pact is intended to head off efforts by Congress to legislate the inclusion of government-approved copy restriction technology in all new "digital media devices." This latest agreement, described by participants as a "landmark consensus," politically isolates the powerful Motion Picture Association of America, which was noticeably absent from the negotiations. MPAA has aggressively advocated new government requirements for built-in locking controls on new devices, such as DVD players. (AP 14 Jan 2003) http://shorl.com/hydidrostobubri VCR TO GET NEW INITIALS: R.I.P. [You definitely heard this one here first!] The VCR is dead (or dying), long live the DVD (at least for a little while, for crying out loud). Stores like Circuit City and Barnes & Noble's either are sharply reducing their inventories of VHS tapes or no longer carrying them at all. (The video category of Best Buy's offerings is already more than 80% DVD.) And the storyline is the same out in Hollywood: MGM Entertainment's VHS library now numbers only 200 films (compared to 1,800 at one previous point), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is phasing out certain VHS catalog titles once they are released on DVD. Industry analyst Tom Adams says, "The issue was always will VHS have the stink of death of the eight-track tape. By now it's pretty clear that it will." (USA Today 14 Jan 2003) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-13-vcr_x.htm U.S. TECH COMPANIES RANK LOW IN RECYCLING EFFORTS The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) has released its annual Computer Report Card comparing the environmental records of 28 high-tech firms, and reports that most U.S. companies lag behind their Japanese competitors when it comes to recycling equipment and safe disposal of hazardous substances used in the manufacturing process. Of the companies surveyed, only Fujitsu received a passing grade. It's one of a handful of Japanese companies that has sought to eliminate toxic chemicals by developing and using lead-free products. "The leadership continues to be by and large the Japanese companies, and the U.S. companies tend to be far behind," says SVTC founder Ted Smith. "A lot of (U.S. manufacturers') initiatives are piecemeal and not really designed to address the vast majority of consumer concerns. There is still an enormous amount of computer waste being exported to China." The Computer Report Card notes that some U.S. companies use a double standard when it comes to recycling. Divisions located in Europe and Japan, where safe recycling is mandated by law, have implemented programs but their U.S. operations have not. Meanwhile, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that would require the EPA to create grants for private and governmental organizations to develop computer recycling programs and the National Electronics Product Stewardship
Initiative is working on a nationwide plan for recycling obsolete electronic devices. (Wired.com 10 Jan 2003) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57151,00.html IBM RENTS OUT SUPERCOMPUTING POWER [The Return of Timesharing!] IBM has launched a new program to rent out processing power on its supercomputers, and has signed up Petroleum Geo-Services, a petrochemical company, as its first customer. PGS has about 1,000 of its own dual-processor Linux computers clustered into a single computing resource, but it's renting another 400 from Big Blue, says a company spokesman. The new service reflects IBM's push toward "utility computing," which enables companies with fluctuating needs for computing power to pay for it as they use it. An e-commerce operation, for instance, may need to beef up its processing power during the busy holiday shopping season, but that demand drops off in January. IBM also expects to find many of its customers in the petrochemical and life sciences industries. (CNet News.com 8 Jan 2003) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-979780.html?tag=fd_top RETINAL SCANNING AT U.K. SCHOOL The Venerable Bede school in London will use advanced eye-recognition software to determine which students are to be billed for their lunches and which may eat for free because they are poor. The school decided to use the technology to protect poor children from being ridiculed by the more well-off children. [As an historical aside, it might be noted that the concern for poor would probably please the school's namesake. Venerable Bede, the 8th century monk best known for his history of ecclesiastical history, said on his deathbed: "I have a few treasures in my box, some pepper and napkins and incense. Run quickly and fetch the priests of our monastery, and I will share among them such little presents as God has given me."] The school's headmaster said that the software will also be used in the library for book check-out and return but added: "This is not a James Bond school for spies... This is not science fiction. This is technology that exists." (USA Today 9 Jan 2003) www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-01-08-retina-school_xhtm You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to [email protected] Html version: Send mail to [email protected] NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html >From Edupage WRITER OF In a blow was found violating
DECSS PROGRAM ACQUITTED to the U.S. film industry, Norwegian teen Jon Lech Johansen innocent on all counts in a complaint filed against him for computer break-in laws by the U.S. Motion Picture Association
and the DVD Copy Control Association in January 2000. Now 19, "DVD-Jon" was 15 when he wrote and posted on the Internet the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scrambling System (CSS) used by the film industry to prevent illegal copying of DVD films. CSS also prevents consumers from playing DVDs on certain devices, however, and from making legal copies of DVDs. Head Judge Irene Sogn ruled that there was no proof that Johansen or others had used the program for illegal purposes and that consumers have rights to DVDs obtained legally "even if the films are played in a different way than the makers had foreseen." No decision has been made about an appeal in the case. Washington Post, 7 January 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20997-2003Jan7.html MICROSOFT BACKS AWAY FROM .NET BRANDING STRATEGY [Could this also be due to backlash from the "real" .net community?"] Less than six months after Microsoft announced that its next major operating system would be called "Windows .NET Server 2003," the company has decided to call the product simply "Windows Server 2003." The change is part of Microsoft's revised approach to marketing its NET technology, which is designed to support Web services. After several months of attaching the .NET tag to most of its products, Microsoft now will simply refer to those products as ".NET connected," indicated with a logo. Ted Schadler of Forrester Research said Microsoft's strategy should never have been to lump everything under the .NET umbrella, which many consumers did not understand and found mysterious. The .NET technology included in Microsoft's products will not change, but the ".NET connected" logo can be applied to independent software vendors' products based on the technology, according to an official from Microsoft. Wall Street Journal, 10 January 2003 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042210597413487704,00.html IBM TO PROVIDE SUPERCOMPUTING ON DEMAND More about "The New Timesharing"] IBM recently announced its supercomputing-on-demand service, targeted to businesses whose computing needs are cyclical, that offers an alternative to the costly practice of building and maintaining computer infrastructure used only during busy periods. The service uses a Linux cluster of rack servers based on Intel's Xeon processor or a network of UNIX servers running IBM's Power4 processors. Customers sign a contract with IBM detailing the project length and resources required, with price contingent on these factors. PGS Data Processing, an energy company, has signed up for the Linux-Intel service. The clusters are currently located at IBM's facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., with plans to roll the technology out to IBM data centers worldwide. IBM hopes to evolve the technology to the point where clients could access computer resources like "flipping a light switch." IDG, 9 January 2003 http://www.idg.net/ic_1018994_9677_1-5044.html REPORT CHARGES E-RATE PROGRAM RIDDLED WITH FRAUD A report from the Center for Public Integrity says that the federal government's E-Rate program is rife with "fraud and financial
shenanigans." The E-Rate program gives subsidies for telecommunications projects and is credited with bringing Internet access to thousands of schools and libraries that would otherwise have difficulty affording them. The report is based largely on information collected by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, according to the author of the report, "found problems everywhere they've looked, and they haven't looked very hard." A review by Arthur Anderson uncovered several million dollars' worth of "inappropriate" payments under the program, and recently the first criminal charges were filed against a New York company for attempting to steal millions of dollars from the program through misrepresentation. The inspector general of the FCC said the program is "subject to unacceptably high risk of malfeasance." Representatives from the Universal Service Administrative Company, which administers E-Rate for the FCC, and from the American Library Association defended the program, arguing that although some abuse is likely, the problem is not excessive and may turn out to be less than indicated by the Center for Public Integrity's report. New York Times, 10 January 2003 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/education/10FRAU.html PUBLISHER ACCEPTING DISSERTATIONS AND THESES ONLINE Developers of a new online-submission tool for dissertations and master's theses hope the system will make the submission process--required by most institutions--easier for students and will speed availability of the papers. ProQuest Information and Learning receives about 55,000 dissertations and theses each year, but only about 3,000 are submitted online. The $55 fee for submissions is the same for online and paper submissions, and some observers predicted that the ability to submit papers electronically will encourage students to include less traditional features in their work, such as embedded databases or audio and video files. The University of Texas at Austin, which has one of the nation's largest populations of graduate students, will begin testing the system this month, and it will be available to other institutions later this year. Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 January 2003 http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003011001t.htm NEW PLAGIARISM SERVICE FOR BRITISH UNIVERSITIES The Plagiarism Advisory Service, based at the University of Northumbria, is a new electronic plagiarism-detection service available to all British colleges and universities. Papers are returned four hours after being submitted to the service and are color-coded to indicate the level of matching to documents available on the Internet. Red indicates that more than 75 percent of the text has been copied, blue means less than 10 percent, and other colors are spread in between. Instructors also see which Web site(s) the copied content comes from. Because of the ease with which students can cut and paste content from the Web, plagiarism is a growing problem in the United Kingdom, as well as in many other parts of the world. Ananova, 8 January 2003 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_737513.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: [email protected]
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Oct 2004 Tales of the Jazz Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald [?tjzzxxx.xxx]6695 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7tjzz10.txt and 7tjzz10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8tjzz10.txt and 8tjzz10.zip] [UTF-8 version with accented characters in 8tjzz10u.txt and 8tjzz10u.zip] Oct 2004 In Midsummer Days and Other Tales,by A. Strindberg[?mdotxxx.xxx]6694 [Author's Full Name: August Strindberg] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mdot10.txt and 7mdot10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8mdot10.txt and 8mdot10.zip] Oct 2004 People of Africa, by Edith A. How [pplffxxx.xxx]6693 Oct 2004 Swiss Family Robinson/One Syllable, by Godolphin [sfrosxxx.xxx]6692 [Full Title: The Swiss Family Robinson Told in Words of One Syllable] [Author's Full Name: Mary Godolphin] Oct 2004 Discours civiques de Danton,Georges Jacques Danton[?dscsxxx.xxx]6691 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7dscs10.txt and 7dscs10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8dscs10.txt and 8dscs10.zip] [UTF-8 version with accented characters in 8dscs10u.txt and 8dscs10u.zip] [Language: French] Oct 2004 The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,by M. Rutherford[6][rvtnxxx.xxx]6690 [Author's Full Name: Mark Rutherford] [XHTML in rvtn10h.htm/.zip, text in rvtn10.txt/.zip] Oct 2004 Fielding, by Austin Dobson [fldngxxx.xxx]6689 Oct 2004 The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot [Eliot#6][mlflsxxx.xxx]6688 [Plain text in mlfls10.txt/.zip, Unicode UTF-8 in mlfls10u.txt/.zip] [HTML in mlfls10h.zip - zipped-file only] Oct 2004 From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan, Blavatsky[cavesxxx.xxx]6687 [Author's Full Name: Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky] Oct 2004 The Gardener, by Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore#9][thgnrxxx.xxx]6686 Oct 2004 Story Hour Readers Book Three, by Coe & Christie [sthr3xxx.xxx]6685 [Full author: Ida Coe and Alice J. Christie] [HTML also posted in sthr310h.htm/.zip] Oct 2004 Uneasy Money, by P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse#9][nsmnyxxx.xxx]6684 Oct 2004 The Little Nugget, by P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse#8][ltnggxxx.xxx]6683 Oct 2004 Nets to Catch the Wind, by Elinor Wylie [ntctwxxx.xxx]6682 Oct 2004 Sganarelle, by Moliere [Moliere#14][?sgnlxxx.xxx]6681
Oct 2004 The Bores, by Moliere [Moliere#13][?thbrxxx.xxx]6680 Oct 2004 The Old Stone House, by Anne March [tldshxxx.xxx]6679 Oct 2004 Nonsenseorship, by G. G. Putnam [nsnssxxx.xxx]6678 Oct 2004 Seventy-Five Receipts, by Miss Leslie [svfvrxxx.xxx]6677 [Full title: Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats] Oct 2004 Rosy, by Mrs. Molesworth [rsymlxxx.xxx]6676 Oct 2004 The Loss of the SS. Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley [lsttnxxx.xxx]6675 Oct 2004 Umbrellas and their History, by William Sangster [mbrllxxx.xxx]6674 Oct 2004 Young Knights of the Empire,by Robert Baden-Powell[ynkgtxxx.xxx]6673 [Full author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell] Oct 2004 The Caesars, by Thomas de Quincey [#12][?csrsxxx.xxx]6672 Oct 2004 Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2,by Henry Craik[dwclrxxx.xxx]6671 Oct 2004 Christmas Eve, by Robert Browning [Browning#4][chmsvxxx.xxx]6670 Oct 2004 Godliness, by Catherine Booth [gdlnsxxx.xxx]6669 Oct 2004 Annette, The Metis Spy, by Joseph Edmund Collins [nnmtsxxx.xxx]6668 Oct 2004 Poems of Power, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [Wilcox#12][ppowxxx.xxx]6667 [XHTML in ppow10h.htm/.zip, text in ppow10.txt/.zip] Oct 2004 Hello, Boys!, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [Wilcox#11][helbxxx.xxx]6666 [XHTML in helb10h.htm/.zip, text in helb10.txt/.zip] Oct 2004 The United States of America Part I, by E. Sparks [?usa1xxx.xxx]6665 [Author's Full Name: Ediwn Erle Sparks] [Subtitle: 1783-1830] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7usa110.txt and 7usa110.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8usa110.txt and 8usa110.zip] Oct 2004 The Story of a Child, by Pierre Loti [Loti#9][fchldxxx.xxx]6664 Oct 2004 Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago, by Canniff Haight [lcfyaxxx.xxx]6663 [Subtitle: Personal Recollections and Reminiscences of a Sexagenarian] Oct 2004 Little Citizens, by Myra Kelly [lttlcxxx.xxx]6662 [Subtitle: The Humours of School Life] Oct 2004 The Waverley Novels, Vol. XII, by W. Scott [#29][wvr12xxx.xxx]6661 [Author's Full Name: Sir Walter Scott] [Note: Abbotsford Edition] Contents: Tales Of My Landlord Count Robert Of Paris Castle Dangerous My Aunt Margaret's Mirror The Mirror The Tapestried Chamber; Or, The Lady In The Sacque Oct 2004 Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 [TQ#9][teop2xxx.xxx]6660 [Author's Full Name: Thomas de Quincey] Oct 2004 History of King Charles II of England,by J. Abbott[hkciixxx.xxx]6659 [Author's Full Name: Jacob Abbott] Oct 2004 Owindia, by Charlotte Selina Bompas [owindxxx.xxx]6658 [Subtitle: A True Tale of the MacKenzie River Indians, North-West America] Oct 2004 The Theology of Holiness, by Dougan Clark [?thssxxx.xxx]6657 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7thss10.txt and 7thss10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8thss10.txt and 8thss10.zip] [HTML version in 8thss10h.htm and 8thss10h.zip] Oct 2004 The Kiltartan Poetry Book, by Lady Gregory [tkpboxxx.xxx]6656 [Subtitle: Prose Translations From the Irish] [HTML also posted in tkpbo10h.htm and tkpbo10h.zip] Oct 2004 Tom Slade, by Percy K. Fitzhugh [Subtitle: Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures]
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[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7slad10.txt and 7slad10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8slad10.txt and 8slad10.zip] [HTML version in 8slad10h.txt and 8slad10h.zip] Oct 2004 Der Verschwender, by Ferdinand Raimund [?rvrsxxx.xxx]6654 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rvrs10.txt and 7rvrs10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8rvrs10.txt and 8rvrs10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1,Champlain [?vcv1xxx.xxx]6653 [Author's Full Name: Samuel de Champlain] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7vcv110.txt and 7vcv110.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8vcv110.txt and 8vcv110.zip] [UTF-8 version with accented characters in 8vcv110u.txt and 8vcv110u.zip] Oct 2004 The Humourous Poetry of the English Language [thpelxxx.xxx]6652 [Subtitle: From Chaucer to Saxe] [Author's Full Name: James Parton] Oct 2004 Immensee, by Theodor W. Storm [?immgxxx.xxx]6651 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7immg10.txt and 7immg10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8immg10.txt and 8immg10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Immensee, by Theodore W. Storm [?immexxx.xxx]6650 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7imme10.txt and 7imme10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8imme10.txt and 8imme10.zip] Oct 2004 Einige Gedichte, by J. Schiller [?nggdxxx.xxx]6649 [Author's Full Name: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7nggd10.txt and 7nggd10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8nggd10.txt and 8nggd10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Penthesilea, by Heinrich von Kleist [?pnthxxx.xxx]6648 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7pnth10.txt and 7pnth10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8pnth10.txt and 8pnth10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Der zerbrochene Krug, by Heinrich von Kleist [?rzrbxxx.xxx]6647 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rzrb10.txt and 7rzrb10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8rzrb10.txt and 8rzrb10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Das Kaethchen von Heilbronn,by Heinrich von Kleist[?khnnxxx.xxx]6646 [Subtitle: Oder, die Feuerprobe] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7khnn10.txt and 7khnn10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8khnn10.txt and 8khnn10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Ausgewaehlte Schriften, by Heinrich von Kleist [?sgwhxxx.xxx]6645 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7sgwh10.txt and 7sgwh10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8sgwh10.txt and 8sgwh10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel,F. Raimund[?rbrmxxx.xxx]6644 [Author's Full Name: Ferdinand Raimund] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7rbrm10.txt and 7rbrm10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8rbrm10.txt and 8rbrm10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Das Maedchen aus der Feenwelt,by Ferdinand Raimund[?mfeexxx.xxx]6643 [Subtitle: Oder, Der Bauer als Millionaer] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7mfee10.txt and 7mfee10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8mfee10.txt and 8mfee10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Die gefesselte Phantasie, by Ferdinand Raimund [?gfssxxx.xxx]6642 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7gfss10.txt and 7gfss10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8gfss10.txt and 8gfss10.zip]
[Language: German] Oct 2004 Maerchen und Sagen, by Ernst Moritz Arndt [?maerxxx.xxx]6641 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7maer10.txt and 7maer10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8maer10.txt and 8maer10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Maerchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1828, Wilhelm Hauff[?alm3xxx.xxx]6640 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7alm310.txt and 7alm310.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8alm310.txt and 8alm310.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Maerchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1827, Wilhelm Hauff[?alm2xxx.xxx]6639 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7alm210.txt and 7alm210.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8alm210.txt and 8alm210.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Maerchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826, Wilhelm Hauff[?alm1xxx.xxx]6638 [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7alm110.txt and 7alm110.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8alm110.txt and 8alm110.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Der Alpenkonig und der Menschenfeind,by F. Raimund[?alpnxxx.xxx]6637 [Author's Full Name: Ferdinand Raimund] [7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7alpn10.txt and 7alpn10.zip] [8-bit version with accented characters in 8alpn10.txt and 8alpn10.zip] [Language: German] Oct 2004 Hold Up Your Heads, Girls!, by Annie H. Ryder [huyhgxxx.xxx]6636 [Subtitle: Helps for Girls, In School and Out.] *** Statistical Review In the 2 weeks of this year, we have produced 101 new eBooks. Note: it took us from 1971 to 1993 to produce our *FIRST* 101 eBooks!!! That's 2 WEEKS as Compared to 22 YEARS!!! The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks of production, each production-week starting/ending Wednesday noon, starting with the first Wednesday in January. January 1st was was the first Wednesday of 2003, and thus ended the production year of 2002 and began the production year of 2003. With 6,844 eBooks online as of January 15, 2003 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $1.46 from each book, for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000 [One Trillion Dollars] in books. 100,000,000 readers is only about 1.59 percent of the world's population! This "cost" is down from about $2.29 when we had 4376 eBooks A Year Ago Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing $.83 less a year later??? Or. . .would this say it better? Can you imagine 6,000 books each costing 1/3 less a year later??? At 6844 eBooks in 31 1/2 Years We Averaged 217 Per Year [About how many we do per month these days!] 18 Per Month
.6 Per Day At 101 eBooks Done In 2003 We Averaged 7 eBooks Per Day 50 eBooks Per Week ***Headline News*** [My Comments In Brackets] Headlines From Newsscan IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS OFFER ONLINE COURSES Elite schools like Harvard University, which largely have avoided the "distance-learning" boom, are bowing to the popularity of online education and are beginning to offer a few courses via the Internet. Harvard's fledgling effort is a master's degree program in public health set to start in 2004. Brown University is participating in a consortium of schools developing an online medical-school curriculum, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has a small master's program in engineering offered partly online, is exploring degree-granting distance learning in a joint venture with Cambridge University in England. The University of California at Berkeley offered its first all-online undergraduate course on gemology last semester, and Stanford University is expanding its online engineering master's program to include a fourth discipline -bioinformatics. "The No. 1 reason people take this way of learning is convenience," says Michael Lambert, executive director of the Distance Education and Training Coucil. He estimates that 2.5 million U.S. students took online courses for credit last year. (Wall Street Journal 15 Jan 2003) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042594341876820384.djm,00.html (sub req'd) SUN AND MICROSOFT GET SET FOR JAVA LEGAL BATTLE Sun and Microsoft are appearing in federal court to argue their positions before U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, who will be ruling on Sun's request for an injunction requiring Windows to include Sun's latest Java software immediately, pending resolution of the larger Sun lawsuit against Microsoft. Sun claims Microsoft has gained an unfair advantage by shipping Windows with a version of Java that is both outdated and strongly biased toward Windows, even though Java is meant to make it possible for programs to run on all computers, regardless of the operating system. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 15 Jan 2003) http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4951742.htm [You might have heard this here first, only we weren't quite as tough on Mr. Case as was the New York Times, though he may have deserved it.] AOL TIME WARNER: SYNERGY/SHMINERGY The resignation of supersalesman and high-tech "visionary" Steve Case as chairman of AOL Time Warner marks an obvious admission of the failure of that company's merger, which was intended to create synergy between an "old economy" publishing and media empire and a "new economy" Internet venture. New York Times journalist Steve Lohr says the idea was for AOL to give Time Warner "sex" and Time Warner to give AOL "class." Industry analysts are now suggesting that the company will succeed only if it undergoes a serious attitude adjustment; Jordan Rohan of Soundview Technology Group says:
"If AOL continues to tilt at windmills in terms of trying to generate spectacular growth, I think it will be a waste of shareholders' capital. If they begin to treat AOL as a mature business and focus on consistent returns, I think they can succeed. Case's departure could accelerate that shift." (New York Times 14 Jan 2003) http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/business/media/14AOL.html MUSIC, TECH GROUPS REACH COMPROMISE ON COPYRIGHT ISSUES The Recording Industry Association of America, the Business Software Alliance and the Computer Systems Policy Project have hammered out a compromise agreement that they say will protect copyrights on music and movies without the need for further government intervention. The pact is intended to head off efforts by Congress to legislate the inclusion of government-approved copy restriction technology in all new "digital media devices." This latest agreement, described by participants as a "landmark consensus," politically isolates the powerful Motion Picture Association of America, which was noticeably absent from the negotiations. MPAA has aggressively advocated new government requirements for built-in locking controls on new devices, such as DVD players. (AP 14 Jan 2003) http://shorl.com/hydidrostobubri VCR TO GET NEW INITIALS: R.I.P. [You definitely heard this one here first!] The VCR is dead (or dying), long live the DVD (at least for a little while, for crying out loud). Stores like Circuit City and Barnes & Noble's either are sharply reducing their inventories of VHS tapes or no longer carrying them at all. (The video category of Best Buy's offerings is already more than 80% DVD.) And the storyline is the same out in Hollywood: MGM Entertainment's VHS library now numbers only 200 films (compared to 1,800 at one previous point), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is phasing out certain VHS catalog titles once they are released on DVD. Industry analyst Tom Adams says, "The issue was always will VHS have the stink of death of the eight-track tape. By now it's pretty clear that it will." (USA Today 14 Jan 2003) http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-13-vcr_x.htm U.S. TECH COMPANIES RANK LOW IN RECYCLING EFFORTS The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) has released its annual Computer Report Card comparing the environmental records of 28 high-tech firms, and reports that most U.S. companies lag behind their Japanese competitors when it comes to recycling equipment and safe disposal of hazardous substances used in the manufacturing process. Of the companies surveyed, only Fujitsu received a passing grade. It's one of a handful of Japanese companies that has sought to eliminate toxic chemicals by developing and using lead-free products. "The leadership continues to be by and large the Japanese companies, and the U.S. companies tend to be far behind," says SVTC founder Ted Smith. "A lot of (U.S. manufacturers') initiatives are piecemeal and not really designed to address the vast majority of consumer concerns. There is still an enormous amount of computer waste being exported to China." The Computer Report Card notes that some U.S. companies use a double standard when it comes to recycling. Divisions located in Europe and Japan, where safe recycling is mandated by law, have implemented programs but their U.S. operations have not. Meanwhile, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that would require the EPA to create grants for private and governmental organizations to develop computer recycling programs and the National Electronics Product Stewardship
Initiative is working on a nationwide plan for recycling obsolete electronic devices. (Wired.com 10 Jan 2003) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57151,00.html IBM RENTS OUT SUPERCOMPUTING POWER [The Return of Timesharing!] IBM has launched a new program to rent out processing power on its supercomputers, and has signed up Petroleum Geo-Services, a petrochemical company, as its first customer. PGS has about 1,000 of its own dual-processor Linux computers clustered into a single computing resource, but it's renting another 400 from Big Blue, says a company spokesman. The new service reflects IBM's push toward "utility computing," which enables companies with fluctuating needs for computing power to pay for it as they use it. An e-commerce operation, for instance, may need to beef up its processing power during the busy holiday shopping season, but that demand drops off in January. IBM also expects to find many of its customers in the petrochemical and life sciences industries. (CNet News.com 8 Jan 2003) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-979780.html?tag=fd_top RETINAL SCANNING AT U.K. SCHOOL The Venerable Bede school in London will use advanced eye-recognition software to determine which students are to be billed for their lunches and which may eat for free because they are poor. The school decided to use the technology to protect poor children from being ridiculed by the more well-off children. [As an historical aside, it might be noted that the concern for poor would probably please the school's namesake. Venerable Bede, the 8th century monk best known for his history of ecclesiastical history, said on his deathbed: "I have a few treasures in my box, some pepper and napkins and incense. Run quickly and fetch the priests of our monastery, and I will share among them such little presents as God has given me."] The school's headmaster said that the software will also be used in the library for book check-out and return but added: "This is not a James Bond school for spies... This is not science fiction. This is technology that exists." (USA Today 9 Jan 2003) www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-01-08-retina-school_xhtm You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to [email protected] Html version: Send mail to [email protected] NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html >From Edupage WRITER OF In a blow was found violating
DECSS PROGRAM ACQUITTED to the U.S. film industry, Norwegian teen Jon Lech Johansen innocent on all counts in a complaint filed against him for computer break-in laws by the U.S. Motion Picture Association
and the DVD Copy Control Association in January 2000. Now 19, "DVD-Jon" was 15 when he wrote and posted on the Internet the DeCSS software, which decodes the Content Scrambling System (CSS) used by the film industry to prevent illegal copying of DVD films. CSS also prevents consumers from playing DVDs on certain devices, however, and from making legal copies of DVDs. Head Judge Irene Sogn ruled that there was no proof that Johansen or others had used the program for illegal purposes and that consumers have rights to DVDs obtained legally "even if the films are played in a different way than the makers had foreseen." No decision has been made about an appeal in the case. Washington Post, 7 January 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20997-2003Jan7.html MICROSOFT BACKS AWAY FROM .NET BRANDING STRATEGY [Could this also be due to backlash from the "real" .net community?"] Less than six months after Microsoft announced that its next major operating system would be called "Windows .NET Server 2003," the company has decided to call the product simply "Windows Server 2003." The change is part of Microsoft's revised approach to marketing its NET technology, which is designed to support Web services. After several months of attaching the .NET tag to most of its products, Microsoft now will simply refer to those products as ".NET connected," indicated with a logo. Ted Schadler of Forrester Research said Microsoft's strategy should never have been to lump everything under the .NET umbrella, which many consumers did not understand and found mysterious. The .NET technology included in Microsoft's products will not change, but the ".NET connected" logo can be applied to independent software vendors' products based on the technology, according to an official from Microsoft. Wall Street Journal, 10 January 2003 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042210597413487704,00.html IBM TO PROVIDE SUPERCOMPUTING ON DEMAND More about "The New Timesharing"] IBM recently announced its supercomputing-on-demand service, targeted to businesses whose computing needs are cyclical, that offers an alternative to the costly practice of building and maintaining computer infrastructure used only during busy periods. The service uses a Linux cluster of rack servers based on Intel's Xeon processor or a network of UNIX servers running IBM's Power4 processors. Customers sign a contract with IBM detailing the project length and resources required, with price contingent on these factors. PGS Data Processing, an energy company, has signed up for the Linux-Intel service. The clusters are currently located at IBM's facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., with plans to roll the technology out to IBM data centers worldwide. IBM hopes to evolve the technology to the point where clients could access computer resources like "flipping a light switch." IDG, 9 January 2003 http://www.idg.net/ic_1018994_9677_1-5044.html REPORT CHARGES E-RATE PROGRAM RIDDLED WITH FRAUD A report from the Center for Public Integrity says that the federal government's E-Rate program is rife with "fraud and financial
shenanigans." The E-Rate program gives subsidies for telecommunications projects and is credited with bringing Internet access to thousands of schools and libraries that would otherwise have difficulty affording them. The report is based largely on information collected by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, according to the author of the report, "found problems everywhere they've looked, and they haven't looked very hard." A review by Arthur Anderson uncovered several million dollars' worth of "inappropriate" payments under the program, and recently the first criminal charges were filed against a New York company for attempting to steal millions of dollars from the program through misrepresentation. The inspector general of the FCC said the program is "subject to unacceptably high risk of malfeasance." Representatives from the Universal Service Administrative Company, which administers E-Rate for the FCC, and from the American Library Association defended the program, arguing that although some abuse is likely, the problem is not excessive and may turn out to be less than indicated by the Center for Public Integrity's report. New York Times, 10 January 2003 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/education/10FRAU.html PUBLISHER ACCEPTING DISSERTATIONS AND THESES ONLINE Developers of a new online-submission tool for dissertations and master's theses hope the system will make the submission process--required by most institutions--easier for students and will speed availability of the papers. ProQuest Information and Learning receives about 55,000 dissertations and theses each year, but only about 3,000 are submitted online. The $55 fee for submissions is the same for online and paper submissions, and some observers predicted that the ability to submit papers electronically will encourage students to include less traditional features in their work, such as embedded databases or audio and video files. The University of Texas at Austin, which has one of the nation's largest populations of graduate students, will begin testing the system this month, and it will be available to other institutions later this year. Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 January 2003 http://chronicle.com/free/2003/01/2003011001t.htm NEW PLAGIARISM SERVICE FOR BRITISH UNIVERSITIES The Plagiarism Advisory Service, based at the University of Northumbria, is a new electronic plagiarism-detection service available to all British colleges and universities. Papers are returned four hours after being submitted to the service and are color-coded to indicate the level of matching to documents available on the Internet. Red indicates that more than 75 percent of the text has been copied, blue means less than 10 percent, and other colors are spread in between. Instructors also see which Web site(s) the copied content comes from. Because of the ease with which students can cut and paste content from the Web, plagiarism is a growing problem in the United Kingdom, as well as in many other parts of the world. Ananova, 8 January 2003 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_737513.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or send e-mail to: [email protected]
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