PG Monthly Newsletter (2000-03-07)

by Michael Cook on March 7, 2000
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Subject: Extra Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 05:46:43 -0600 (CST)


This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for: Wednesday, March 8, 2000
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We are in the process of jumping another month ahead of our schedule--
so this may actually be an extra issue of the Newsletter, or may be an
April issue, in disguise. . .we shall see. . . .


This Is The Birthday Of Michael S. Hart, Founder of Project Gutenberg!

[As you read this, he is most likely in the air, destination Romania!]
[A "new" computer is now hitched up to the Net at home in Bucharest so
we should be in quite good touch with him.  However, editing eTexts is
not likely to be easy at such long distances, at least until he gets a
lot of things set up on the new computer, some of which he says should
not be ever expected to work.  So. . .if you possibly can, get the new
header from one of our Directors, and paste it on top of the files you
send, and "fill in the blanks" as best you can.]  [Thanks!!!  Michael]

[This is a preliminary edition, but I wanted to get it out right now.]

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Table of Contents:

Headline News

Requests For Assistance

Comments About Our New Files

Index Listings for the New Files


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Headline News

This Newsletter contains the listings for the first month of
the year 2001.  You will note it now contains 40 listings, as
we have once again accelerated our production schedule, and
we have even gained to being nearly 11 months ahead of schedule.

***

The Internet Archive, of which I am a Fellow for the year 2000,
has announced a 400 Terabyte hard drive system, apparently this
signals a change from tape drives, which should significantly
speed up searches from their backup "snapshots" of the Web and
other information sources.  This is obviously only on step away
from everyone's "Dream Storage Unit" of a Petabyte.  Everyone
thought I was just being silly when I said we might have to
make up a new unit of storage for 1,000 Petabytes, which I
nicknames a Whamabyte many years ago when everyone said we
would never even have a Petabyte of storage in one place.
The truth is that this is now almost a certainty in my
life expectancy.  You can get details at:

http://www.archive.org/content/submit.html
http://www.archive.org/content/events.html

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The first 1 Gigahertz home computers are being produced.

It seem ridiculous to say so, but these computers will SOON be:

1,000 times as fast as the original Apples and PCs, and the
NEXT generation after that will be 1,000 times as fast as an AT.

The benchmarks listed below are REAL for the 800 MHz Intel Pentium III
but are merely extraplolations for the AMD Athlon chip.

800 MHz Intel Pentium III     1Ghz Athlon

Benched with program:  Landmark Speed 2.00
CPU Clock 1682.3 MHz           2102.875Ghz   clocks appear doubled
Computer performs like                       due to wide bus words
5160 MHz AT Computer           6450 MHz AT
With a 13600 MHz 80287        17000 MHz 80287

***

In the last week or two we have posted:

Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 20[20frdxxx.xxx]2120
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 19[19frdxxx.xxx]2119
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 18[18frdxxx.xxx]2118
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 17[17frdxxx.xxx]2117

This leaves only Volume 21 to go!!!  Congratulations Derek!!!!!!!

***

Pietro Di Miceli, our webmaster, has revamped the main PG website at
http://promo.net/pg or http://www.gutenberg.net to make it faster,
easier to use and more up-to-date. We get about three quarters of a
million visitors (not just hits or page impressions!) per month, most of
whom are looking for books by a particular author, so we've added a
simple search to the home page.

Our catalogers can create new entries online using a new database
editing program, and all of the search and browse pages are created on
the fly from that database. The files linked from the homepage
containing Authors, Titles and the whole list are recreated hourly to
ensure that all of the contents are up to date with the database
changes.

Visitors can also select their preferred FTP site at any stage of the
search process.

In addition, we've added a new, expanded site FAQ, subscription info
page and contacts page.

Feedback and comments to Pietro at <webmaster@promo.net>.

***

We also have a new FTP site in Spain.

ftp://dafi2.dif.um.es

Our server is in the Students Representative Office of the
Computer Sciences Faculty in the University of Murcia (Spain).

Our huge thanks to them!!!

***

Please note:

Jan 2001 The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch's "Lives", by White [tbagpxxx.xxx]2484

In some previous editions of our Newsletter this was "Dec 2000's Etext #2445"


Requests For Assistance

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We need someone good with Word Perfect to convert a file of
a new translation of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea from WP61
to Plain DOS Text With Hard Returns.  I am currently working
on this, but might not finish in the next 36 hours. . .I am
on the road again. . . .

Please email Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>, and cc:me
and Alev Akman <aka@telepath.com>

***

We could use some help with getting Moby Dick into a good format.

***

Comments About Our New Files

Index Listings for the New Files

Mon Year    Title and Author                               [filename.ext]####
*****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright****

Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 8-bit German]     [8siddxxx.xxx]2499
Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [In 7-bit German]     [7siddxxx.xxx]2499


Jan 2001 Lamia, by John Keats [Poetry/Poem] [John Keats #1][lamiaxxx.xxx]2490

Jan 2001 Moby Dick [Chapter 72+]   Herman Melville   HM #3][mobydxxx.xxx]2489

[We are going to need help with this one, see request above. . .we have 135
or so individual files, one for each chapter [122 may be missing] and many
of them are in different formats. . .this could be a labor of love. . .mh]

This is a perfect example of how much effort we put into copyright research!
We have received many versions of Chapter 72 over the years, but none of them
were ones we would PROVE were in the Public Domain under our copyright laws.
[Please note:  We originally received Moby Dick from Online Book Initiative,
10 years ago and it was released as our Etext #15, a very important milestone.
However, it did not include Chapter 72, which we are releasing now, and I am
asking our Directors of Production to create a new edition of Moby Dick, all
in one file [our past edition, which will not be changed, was a zip file with
about 135 files in it. . .please understand how unzipping 135 files might have
affected a drive from 10 years ago.]  This new file currently contains ONLY a
copy of Chapter 72, and will hopefully contain the entire book very shortly.]


Jan 2001 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne[#13][2000010a.xxx]2488*
This is a brand new original critical translation based on several editions.]
*RESERVED*  At this very moment we are still converting from WordPerfect 6.1.
If you are a WP Wizard, we could certainly use your assistance. . . . . . .!]
Also see our first edition, to see just how much difference there can be....
Sep 1994 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne[Verne#3][2000010x.xxx] 164


Jan 2001 Cross Roads, by Margaret E. Sangster              [crsrdxxx.xxx]2487

Jan 2001 Queer Little Folks, by Harriet Beecher Stowe[HBS2][qltfkxxx.xxx]2486
Jan 2001 Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, by Darwin[cplntxxx.xxx]2485
Jan 2001 The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch's "Lives", by White [tbagpxxx.xxx]2484
Jan 2001 Janice Day, Young Homemaker, by Helen Beecher Long[jncdyxxx.xxx]2483

Jan 2001 New York, by James Fenimore Cooper[J.F. Cooper #6][nwyrkxxx.xxx]2482
Jan 2001 The Civilization of Illiteracy (C)Mihai Nadin 1997[cviltxxx.xxx]2481C
Jan 2001 Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad[Joseph Conrad25][wstysxxx.xxx]2480
Jan 2001 The Friendly Road, by David Grayson [Ray S. Baker][frnrdxxx.xxx]2479

The following are from "The Circus Boys" series:
Each title starts with "The Cirucs Boys" = TCB here
We are presenting the first 2 now, 3 more reserved.

Jan 2001 TCB On The Plains, by Edgar B.P. Darlington [CB#5][05tcbxxx.xxx]2478
Jan 2001 TCB On The Mississippi, by Edgar Darlington [CB#4][04tcbxxx.xxx]2477
Jan 2001 TCB in Dixie Land, by Edgar B.P. Darlington [CB#3][03tcbxxx.xxx]2476
Jan 2001 TCB Across The Continent, by Edg. Darlington[CB#2][02tcbxxx.xxx]2475
[At this moment only the first 3 are posted, let me know if you have margin
problems with #2, we have another version we could try.]

Jan 2001 TCB On The Flying Rings, by Edg. Darlington [CB#1][01tcbxxx.xxx]2474
Jan 2001 Mary-'Gusta by Joseph C. Lincoln [J.C. Lincoln #4][mrygtxxx.xxx]2473
Jan 2001 White Lies, by Charles Reade    [Charles Reade #3][whtlsxxx.xxx]2472
Jan 2001 The Crusade of the Excelsior, Bret Harte[Harte#17][tcotexxx.xxx]2471

Jan 2001 Samual Brohl & Company, by Victor Cherbuliez[CB#2][brohlxxx.xxx]2470
Also see:
Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels:   Scribners Ed.  [sbmfaxxx.xxx]2047

Jan 2001 Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 2 [Balzac#94][2rthcxxx.xxx]2469*
Jan 2001 Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 1 [Balzac#93][1rthcxxx.xxx]2468
[This is an index of Comedie Humaine characters and event, Pt 2 is not ready]
Jan 2001 Ghosts, A Domestic Tragedy, by Henrik Ibsen[HI #4][ghstsxxx.xxx]2467

Jan 2001 Virgin Soil, by Ivan S. Turgenev[Ivan Turgenev #1][vgnslxxx.xxx]2466
Jan 2001 Carmen, by Prosper Merimee [Basis of Carmen Opera][carmnxxx.xxx]2465
Jan 2001 History of Florence and...Italy, by Machiavelli #4[hflitxxx.xxx]2464
Jan 2001 The Prophet of Berkeley Square, by Robert Hichens [tpobsxxx.xxx]2463

Jan 2001 Dona Perfecta, by B. Perez Galdos/Trans by Serrano[donapxxx.xxx]2462
Jan 2001 The Lady of Lyons, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[EBL #6][ladylxxx.xxx]2461
Jan 2001 The Madonna of the Future, by Henry James [HJ #28][mdftrxxx.xxx]2460
Jan 2001 Trent's Trust & Other Stories, by Bret Harte [#16][ttaosxxx.xxx]2459

Jan 2001 Sermons on the Card, by Hugh Latimer              [srmcdxxx.xxx]2458
Jan 2001 Stories by English Authors in Italy, Scribners, Ed[sbeaixxx.xxx]2457
only on prairienet right now, can't get to metalab.unc.edu OR archive.org
dagny
Also see our Stories by Enlish Authors in France, Germany, Africa, etc, etc.]
CONTENTS
A FAITHFUL RETAINER, by James Payn
BIANCA, by W. E. Norris
GONERIL, by A. Mary F. Robinson
THE BRIGAND'S BRIDE, by Laurence Oliphant
MRS. GENERAL TALBOYS, by Anthony Trollope

Jan 2001 The History of Herodotus V2 by Herodotus/ Macauley[2hofhxxx.xxx]2456
[Note:  This is V2, we do NOT have V1, and this is G. C. Macaulay, not T. B.]
[We found V1 from John Ockerbloom, but it is copyrighted, so we need proofers
to set it back to the original uncopyright format.]

Jan 2001 History of the Catholic Church, V 2 by MacCaffrey [2hcthxxx.xxx]2455
Also see:
Nov 2000 History of the Catholic Church, by J. MacCaffrey  [hcathxxx.xxx]2396

Jan 2001 The Silent Bullet, by Arthur B. Reeve[AB Reeve #2][sblltxxx.xxx]2454
Jan 2001 Beyond, by John Galsworthy    [John Galsworthy #3][byondxxx.xxx]2453
Jan 2001 Shavings, by Joseph C. Lincoln                    [shavsxxx.xxx]2452
Jan 2001 Caught In The Net, by Emile Gaboriau [Gaboriau #5][cnnetxxx.xxx]2451



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