======== Subject: Requests & Revised Gutenberg Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg mailing list" <gutnberg@listserv.unc.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:18:58 -0500 (CDT) ***This is The Final Version of Last Week's Preliminary Newsletter***] There are many requests in this one: we hope you can offer some help. [For those of you who already received the listings see Bret Harte 18] ***An EXTRA Project Gutenberg Newsletter of Wednesday, April 5, 2001** [We already posted an April Newsletter just before I left, on March 7] Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet [Usually sent the first Wednesday of each month, delayed if by relay.] Main URL is promo.net Webmaster is Pietro di Miceli, of Rome, Italy *Check out our Websites at promo.net, and ask me for our FTP servers.* Table of Contents: Headline News Requests For Assistance Comments About Our New Files Index Listings for the New Files Notes from Edupage and News Scan ***** Headline News Just a note from me about hard drives being down to under: $10 per Gigabyte = $.01 per Megabyte There are several in the 20-30G range for about $200-$300. Since I wrote this, several of our Geek Lunchers mentioned having recently purchased drives for as low as $7 per Gig. My first 5M drive cost $3,000 new. . .I still have it. . . Also, 128M of RAM is now down to under $100. *** Requests For Assistance Please contact me if you know about the following: I would like to hear from Simone Fluter about Quo Vadis, from Grant Macandrew, and a few others I emailed about copyright clearances, but whose mail bounced, or I have been otherwise unable to contact, including, but not limited to: Lan Wang [Marco Polo]; someone who was interested in Ben Hur; Redgauntlet. We have had several volunteers to design Web Pages, and I need someone to help set up one that will contain poems and stories from Romania. No, you won't have to know any Romanian, just created the places where we can insert the poems and stories, help with the fonts, layout, etc. Thanks! Michael We need someone to assemble a single file of a Zane Grey story from 23 chapter files. There are a few other files that you may or may not want to include. . .all are in one zip file. Just let me know. *******Beta testers wanted for Text::Reflow, a Perl module for reflowing paragraphs of text using Knuth's paragraphing algorithm. The program looks for "optimal" places to insert line breaks in order to avoid breaking up phrases. This results in more ragged, but more readable paragraphs. Email Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk or download from: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs0mpw/martin/software/ Jim Meadows, a reporter with public radio station WILL-AM in Urbana, IL, is working on a feature story on Project Gutenberg and e-books in general. He's interested in interviewing one or two Gutenberg volunteers, to find out why they work for the project. If you're interested, contact him at meadows@uiuc.edu <mailto:meadows@uiuc.edu> , or by phone at 217-333-0850. Can anyone find us a pre-1923 copy of Machiavelli's La Mandrangola. . .in Italian, published pre-1923? I have now completed all the copyright research that everyone sent in, so if you haven't heard from me on any of these, please let me know; or if you emailed, and have not yet received an answer, as I have done all the email I have seen, and all the snail mail. If you have sent me a book I have not posted yet, please give me another week, and then remind me next Friday or Saturday. . . . I plan on posting about 20 of them this week. *** Comments About Our New Files Congratulaions to Derek Thompson, from the Antipodes, for the completion of Carlyle's 21 volume history of Frederick The Great. The final volumes are: Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 21[21frdxxx.xxx]2121 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 and #2122 is an appendix of the entire collection. . .this file is currenty appended at the end of #2121, and I will divide the two files shortly. This was NOT Derek's fault. . .he sent two separate files. . . . :-) Index Listings for the New Files This part has not changed, but parts below it have been added. *** Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]#### *****A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg Etext Number Indicates Copyright**** Feb 2001 The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace [1malayxx.xxx]2530 Feb 2001 The Analysis of Mind, by Bertrand Russell [anlmdxxx.xxx]2529 Feb 2001 The Women of the French Salons, Amelia Gere Mason [frsalxxx.xxx]2528 Feb 2001 The Sorrows of Young Werther, by J.W. Goethe [#31][sywerxxx.xxx]2527 Feb 2001 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Charles Johnston [patanxxx.xxx]2526 Feb 2001 John Ingerfield etc by Jerome K. Jerome [#25][jhnngxxx.xxx]2525 Feb 2001 My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell [Gaskell #7][ldyldxxx.xxx]2524 Feb 2001 The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, by Victor Hugo[Hugo#2][vhugoxxx.xxx]2523 Feb 2001 A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell [EG #6][drknwxxx.xxx]2522 Feb 2001 Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#EG 5][lzlghxxx.xxx]2521 Feb 2001 The Man, by Bram Stoker [Bram Stoker #3][thmanxxx.xxx]2520 Feb 2001 Zambesi Expedition, by David Livingstone [#2][zambsxxx.xxx]2519 Feb 2001 History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Ross[impjnxxx.xxx]2518 Feb 2001 Lincoln's Yarns and Stories, Alexander McClure [lioysxxx.xxx]2517 Feb 2001 Redgauntlet, by Sir Walter Scott [Scott #11][ redgxxx.xxx]2516 Feb 2001 Stepping Heavenward, by Mrs. E. Prentiss [stphwxxx.xxx]2515 Feb 2001 God the Known and God the Unknown, Samuel Butler [godkuxxx.xxx]2513 Feb 2001 The Cruise of the Snark, Jack London [London #97][crsnkxxx.xxx]2512 Feb 2001 The History of Henry Esmond, by Thackeray[WMT #12][hnryexxx.xxx]2511 [This may be updated when further proofreading is completed:] Feb 2001 The Invention of a New Religion, B.H. Chamberlain [invnrxxx.xxx]2510 Feb 2001 The Lani People, by J. F. Bone [ lanixxx.xxx]2509 [Also available as lani10.htm, an HTML version:. . .will revise name, I hope] [Possibly other changes. . .in these Lani files] Feb 2001 Stories in Light and Shadow, by Bret Harte [#20][slgtsxxx.xxx]2508 Feb 2001 Complete Poetical Works, by Bret Harte [Harte #19][cpwbhxxx.xxx]2507 Feb 2001 The Sleeping-Car by William D. Howells[Howells #6][slpcrxxx.xxx]2506 Feb 2001 The Heir of Redclyffe, by Charlotte M. Younge [redclxxx.xxx]2505 Feb 2001 Some Cities & San Fran. & Resurgam, H. H. Bancroft[sfresxxx.xxx]2504 Feb 2001 Myths and Legends of Calif. and the Old Southwest [mlcalxxx.xxx]2503 Feb 2001 Chitra, a Play in One Act, by Rabindranath Tagore [chitrxxx.xxx]2502 Feb 2001 A Face Illumined, by E. P. Roe [afacexxx.xxx]2501 Feb 2001 Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse [Our English Edition] [8siddxxx.xxx]2500 [[And I hope to have at least the opening section posted soon. . . . Michael] 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 Feb 2001 Addresses, by Henry Drummond [addrexxx.xxx]2498 Feb 2001 Put Yourself in His Place, by Charles Reade [#4][phyipxxx.xxx]2497 Feb 2001 Our Village, by Mary Russell Mitford [ vllgxxx.xxx]2496 Feb 2001 Susy, A Story of the Plains, by Bret Harte [#12][ susyxxx.xxx]2495 Feb 2001 The story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka, by W.T. Kane[stanixxx.xxx]2494 Feb 2001 Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, Thornton W.Burgess[paddyxxx.xxx]2493 Feb 2001 Orpheus in Mayfair & Other Stories, Maurice Baring[orphexxx.xxx]2492 Feb 2001 Love or Fame; et. al., by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick[lvrfmxxx.xxx]2491 and: These were posted for March 2001: Mar 2001 Eugene Pickering, by Henry James [James #29][eugpkxxx.xxx]2534 Mar 2001 Round the Sofa, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#8][rndsfxxx.xxx]2533 Mar 2001 The Half-Brothers, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#7][hlfbrxxx.xxx]2532 Mar 2001 An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#6][accrcxxx.xxx]2531 The following files were updated: in /etext00: 21frd10.txt 21frd10.zip 7malt12.txt 7malt12.zip 8malt12.txt 8malt12.zip cbtls11.txt cbtls11.zip in /etext99: zdbsn11.txt zdbsn11.zip in /etext94: persu11.txt persu11.zip Feb 2001 Susy, A Story of the Plains, by Bret Harte[BH #18][ susyxxx.xxx]2495 [This was listed as BH #16 previously, changed to BH #18:] *** Notes from Edupage and News Scan [over a longer period than usual, sorry, I forgot to include them in last month's Newsletter. mh From Newsscan NSA DENIES BEING INFO VACUUM CLEANER The head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the secretive agency that has been accused by some civil liberties groups and some foreign countries of using a satellite communications system code-named "Echelon" to spy on huge numbers of private phone calls, e-mail messages, and faxes, says that all such accusations are unfounded. In an appearance before a House subcommittee NSA director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden testified: "There is a rich body of oversight that ensures that we stay within the law. Can you imagine the capacity that would be required if we in any way approached the allegations we're sweeping up everything in the universe? This ability to vacuum up -- that's badly misstated in the popular press. We don't have that capability and we don't want that capability. For both legal and operational reasons there is a requirement that we focus on the highest priority foreign intelligence targets that we have." (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 12 Apr 2000) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/420275l.htm "LORD OF THE RINGS" DOWNLOADS TOP 1.5 MILLION A Net-only preview of "The Lord of the Rings" was downloaded almost 1.7 million times in the first 24 hours it was available, says Apple Computer, one of the companies providing downloads. The number exceeds the record set by the trailer for "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace," which claimed 1 million downloads in its first day. The two-minute preview (found at http://www.lordoftherings.net ) features battle scenes, special effects footage and interviews wih some of the stars. Enthusiastic viewers will have to wait a while for the rest of the show, however: the first movie in the "Rings" trilogy -- "The Fellowship of the Ring" -- isn't due out until Christmas 2001, with the other two movies to follow later. (Variety 11 Apr 2000) http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117780448 Does anyone know the size of these two files??? mh IRIDIUM FLAMES OUT (LITERALLY) Iridium, the bankrupt global satellite telephone corporation that spent $5 billion on the creation of a communications system for "anyone, anytime, virtually anywhere in the world," will soon start sending 88 giant satellites hurtling from the skies and burning up before they reach Earth. Noting that the expensive Iridium phones could not even be used indoors, industry-watcher and financial analyst James Grant says, "It was a technology that didn't live up to its hype or its billing. People chose to overlook the risks because they were bedazzled by the technology and the promoters or sponsors." (New York Times 11 Apr 2000) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/11iridium.html GIRLS PUT OFF BY "TEDIOUS AND DULL" COMPUTER COURSES A study from an educational foundation affiliated with the American Association of University Women suggests that the reason that only one-fifth of high tech jobs are held by women is not that girls in middle school and high school are afraid of technology but that they're bored by it www.aauw.org/2000/techsavvy.html/. The report proposes making computer science courses less "tedious and dull," redesigning computer games for girls, and reshaping the image of computer workers: "When asked, girls and women describe a prevailing concern that computer science will stunt their diverse range of intellectual pursuits and interests. Girls tend to imagine that computer professionals live in a solitary, anti-social and sedentary world." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11 Apr 2000) http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/today/news_832f1c4 df11080f60043.htm TUVALU HITS THE INTERNET JACKPOT An IdeaLab startup called DotTV has agreed to pay the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu $50 million in royalties -- or about three times the country's gross domestic product -- for the right to sell Internet domain names ending in ".tv." IdeaLab figures DotTV can make millions selling such URLs as www.Law&Order.tv and www.ABC.tv. The company anticipates selling .tv names for several thousands of dollars each, although some may go for much more. "It's the most recognizable two-letter symbol on the planet," says DotTV CEO Lou Kerner. "When you marry 'dot' with 'TV,' you become something very meaningful [on] the Internet." Besides, "everybody knows the problems with dot-com -- it's cluttered, it has no cachet, and it's difficult or impossible to get the name you want." More than 8 million ".com" names have been registered, compared with 1 million ending in ".net" and ".org." (Los Angeles Times 7 Apr 2000) http://www.latimes.com/business/20000407/t000032588.html NYC SCHOOL SYSTEM PLANS TO SWAP ADS FOR LAPTOPS New York City school officials, working with executives of companies such as IBM, Cisco and Toshiba, have come up with a plan under which computer companies would distribute laptop computers to city school children and in return receive advertising space on a Web site developed for school use. One task member who devised the plan called it "a major shift in the ways we think about teaching and learning and how we fund these activities," and another described it as "a means of bridging the digital divide." But an executive of the National PTA was skeptical of the plan: "We have a great deal of concern about the negative potential of using children to promote commercial concerns and using class time for things that could be considered as advertisements." (New York Times 7 Apr 2000) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/07portal.html ENCRYPTION CODE PROTECTED BY FIRST AMENDMENT A federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled that encryption software code is protected by the First Amendment because such code is a means of communication between computer programmers. The ruling represents the first time that a federal appellate court has decided software code is protected as free speech, says Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "This is a great day for programmers, computer scientists, and all Americans who believe that privacy and intellectual freedom should be free from government control." The court's decision means a lawsuit filed by Cleveland law professor Peter Junger will be reconsidered. Junger had claimed that the government violated his free-speech rights by requiring export licenses for encryption programs. (Wall Street Journal 5 Apr 2000) http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB954899134353800815.htm YET ANOTHER "MONOPOLY"? AOL SUED BY SMALL ISP Galaxy Internet Services Inc., a small Internet service provider in Massachusetts, is suing America Online, charging that it "attempted to eliminate competition in the Internet service market" when it introduced new software (AOL 5.0) that blocks AOL subscribers from using other Internet service providers. About 8% of America Online subscribers also use some other ISP, and Galaxy is hoping to be joined it its suit by other competitors of AOL. (Reuters/San Jose Mercury News 4 Apr 2000) http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/391482l.htm You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan Daily Underwritten by Arthur Andersen & IEEE Computer Society If you have questions or comments about NewsScan send e-mail to Editors@newsscan.com To subscribe or unsubscribe to NewsScan Daily, send an e-mail message to NewsScan@NewsScan.com with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. From Edupage: FCC ALLOTS $2.25 BILLION TO WIRE LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS The FCC announced that it will provide full funding--$2.25 billion--to the e-rate program this year. The e-rate program, now in its third year, wires U.S. schools, libraries, and communities for Internet access. The new funding means that about 1 million U.S. classrooms will be connected to the Internet, said Vice President Al Gore. The e-rate program generated more than 36,000 requests for funding this year, and FCC Chairman William Kennard says that although not all these requests will be met, the new funding will further the goal of eventually providing Internet access to every classroom in the nation. (Associated Press, 13 April 2000) MICROSOFT ACKNOWLEDGES ITS ENGINEERS PLACED SECURITY FLAW IN SOME SOFTWARE Microsoft engineers deliberately placed a file in some of the company's Internet-server software that could allow hackers to obtain Web site management files from thousands of sites, the software giant admitted yesterday after two security experts reported the flaw. The secret password violates Microsoft's policy and is a firing offense for the still unidentified programmers who wrote the code, said Microsoft security response center manager Steve Lipner. Microsoft will warn users through e-mail and on its Web site to delete the file named "dvwssr.dll" that is installed on the company's Internet server software with Frontpage 98 extensions. Many Web sites use the software, and hackers could use the password to access site management files, which could lead to the discovery of information such as credit card numbers. The three-year-old software was written at the height of the browser wars between Microsoft and Netscape, and the illicit code includes a slur referring to Netscape engineers as "weenies." Security experts say the file is a major security threat, especially to commercial Internet-hosting providers. (Wall Street Journal, 14 April 2000) REPORT URGES CHANGE IN MALE-DOMINATED CULTURE OF COMPUTING The American Association of University Women (AAUW) planned to release a study on Monday urging changes in high-tech culture to make the field more appealing to girls and women. Female high school students now represent just 17 percent of those taking the Advanced Placement test for college credit, the report says. Furthermore, the study says women account for only 28 percent of the bachelor's degrees in computer science, and just 20 percent of IT workers. Female students are not interested in the computer culture they associate with violent software games and adolescent males, says Sherry Turkle, MIT sociology professor and cochair of the commission that wrote the report. The commission suggests that girls should be encouraged to use technology at an early age through computer clubs and other activities. The study says boys are more likely than girls to have their own computers and to attend computer camps, and even the time boys spend playing computer games makes them more comfortable with technology. Increasing female interest in technology could help ease the shortage of high-tech workers and close the wage gap between men and women, the study says. (Knight Ridder, 10 April 2000) CROSSING AMAZON Fiercely independent bookseller Powell's Books has won a following by retaining its intimate feel while dealing online with a national audience. The company, which sells mainly used books, has managed to hold its own in the face of competition from slick corporate rivals such as Amazon.com. Powell's credits its success to an independent-minded, intellectual customer base and a bare-bones approach to business. While Amazon.com targets the general public with a range of best-sellers, Powell's caters to academic types with intellectual tomes such as Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and books by small publishers. Powell's keeps its Web operations at a minimum: 35 people fill orders, four develop site features, and four handle computer programming. Powell's low overhead has enabled it to make a profit--an accomplishment that even Amazon.com has yet to achieve. Powell's is currently expanding its business by selling textbooks online directly to students. While Powell's previously sold textbooks to university bookstores, it switched to direct sales when the model became popular. (Forbes, 17 April 2000) NORTEL HIRES READY-MADE TEAM OF 34 SCU STUDENTS Nortel Networks shocked many in business and academia when it offered jobs to each of the 38 Santa Clara University undergraduate engineering students who attended its November recruiting banquet. Thirty-four students accepted the job offers, which were made following dinner by Nortel Vice President Mario Bruketa. Each student received a Federal Express packet the next day containing the employment offer letters. Starting salaries reportedly ranged from $53,000 to $72,000. Students who accepted within the first week received a signing bonus and those who accepted during the second week received half of the bonus. Some students are believed to have received stock options as well. Some critics, including university officials and executives from other companies, believe such "blanket hiring" is not necessarily beneficial because it prevents students from examining options with other companies and limits their focus and subsequent experience. (SiliconValley.com, 5 April 2000) CLINTON ANNOUNCES PROGRAMS TO GIVE INTERNET ACCESS TO THE POOR Warning that the digital divide is a threat that will grow, President Clinton announced Tuesday he would discuss potential solutions to the problem during a two-day tour of several states this month. Clinton's third "New Market" tour, taking place April 17-18, will take him from Palo Alto, Calif., to Chicago, which is hosting the Comdex computer conference. A week later Clinton will be in North Carolina to focus attention on the broadband needs of rural areas. With effort, the Internet's explosive potential can be leveraged to combat the digital divide, Clinton said, as he announced several initiatives including $12.5 million in funding from the Corporation of National Service for the development of a 750-person volunteer force to provide technical assistance in schools and community centers; $1 million in advertising from Yahoo! to recruit these volunteers; a $3 million partnership between 3Com and the YWCA to train teenage girls about technology; and an "information literacy" program from the American Library Association. 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