major advertising campaign to convince teenagers to choose a
career in information technology. The marketing campaign is
intended to help ease the shortage of high-tech workers by
convincing teenagers that computers are "cool" and to dispel the
"negative 'geek' or 'nerd' stereotype of technical workers,"
according to Commerce Secretary William Daley. Analysts estimate
that the U.S. tech industry will need more than 1.3 million tech
workers between 1996 and 2000, with California, Texas, and
Virginia being areas that will need workers the most. Among the
steps the Department advises to ease the shortage are forging
closer links between schools and tech companies, improving
methods of teaching math and science in high schools, and
increasing pay for teachers in those fields, and giving tech
workers incentives to fill teaching positions and train older
workers. (Washington Post 07/01/99)
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AUGUST 1999
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Requests
Would anyone like to do any of these? Just let me know.
We have the books already.
Grey, Zane.
The Man of the Forest. New York: Harper, 1920.
Ken Ward in the Jungle. New York: Harper, 1912.
Wells, H. G.
The Passionate Friends. New York: A. L. Burt, 1913.
In the Fourth Year. New York: Macmillan, 1918.
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New Files
We have a very interesting collection of Etext for you this August.
First, two new languages are introduced, Swedish and Danish, and an
introduction to Etext from Project Runeberg, the very first Project
Project Gutenberg spin-off, which started 7 years ago. Why did the
introduction take so long, as with the Gutenberg Projekt-DE [we are
also going to introduce you to them] many Etext projects wanted the
opportunity to make it on their own. . .which we were glad to have,
until things had gotten strongly underway. So we decided to wait a
while, at least until our own Project Gutenberg effort had made the
leap to one or two thousand Etexts of our own. So, now, in efforts
to create a wider availability of languages on the Internet, we are
cooperating with Project Runeberg, the Gutenberg Projekt-DE and the
other Etext operations working in the public domain, to bring wider
language selections to a wider audience around the world. I didn't
realize that it was not obvious that downloading from European site
locations was very difficult for persons in South Africa, and South
America, Australia, New Zealand, etc. . .or I would have made a big
effort to make this more obvious to everyone sooner. This fact was
a big part in securing the cooperation of the other projects, along
with the fact that we are happy give full credit, list URLs and all
other contact information for those who create these Etexts. We do
not have this information for the Danish Bible, if you can help....
[Yes, there is a double negative three sentences up. . .mh]
In addition to Swedish and Danish, we are also continuing with some
German Etexts, including those from our own volunteers. . .Goethe's
Egmont is available this month, and hopefully at least one Etext in
German each month to come, perhaps two. . .one of our own, plus one
from Projekt Gutenberg-DE.
We also continue our series of Human Genome Project chromosomes, to
include 6 more. . .for a total of 12 of the 24 human chromosomes; I
should add that we have chosen the shortest of the 24 files, to get
things going as easily as possible. The last one is 50 megabytes!!
And these only add up to about 11% of the whole thing, so if you do
want these, the total will eventually be 3.3G.
In addition, we have two more volumes of our Friedrich series; that
now brings our total to 10 of the 21 volumes by Carlyle.
To bring the introduction to a close, we have Thomas More's Utopia,
along with a few dozen other Etexts you will see listed below.
Due to the way we have indexed these for future convenience, we are
including [all from the year 2000] 6 Etexts from June, 25 of April,
and 12 from March. . .yes, we usually do post a few more than 36 as
the Newsletter comes out on the first Wednesday of the month, so we
have a few days of work from the next month, which I feel we should
include, rather than make you wait an additional month.
I should add a few comments about using http ["The Web"] versus ftp
["The Net"]. . .if you use http, then you have to wait for a "human
being" to index the files for that Web Site. . .unless they have an
automated indexing system, which is usually not the case. . .but if
you use ftp [which you can now do from most Web Browsers, you don't
have to wait for such an index to be built. However, these indices
are often very valuable in searching for what you want, so I should
strongly recommend you use them when, other then when searching for
the very latest Etexts. . .the indices usually contain everything I
have posted, other than from the most recent Newsletter. If you do
want to use ftp, keep this Newsletter's contents on file so you can
recognize which filenames you want to get.
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And now, here are 43? Etexts from March, April and June, of year 2000.
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V5[Raven Edition][10][poe5vxxx.xxx]2151
1Contest
Philosophy of Furniture
A Tale of Jerusalem
The Sphinx
Hop Frog
The Man of the Crowd
Never Bet the Devill Your Head
Thou Art the Man
Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
Bon-Bon
Some words with a Mummy
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry
and other poems including
The Raven, Lenore, and many others.
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V4[Raven Edition][#9][poe4vxxx.xxx]2150
1Contest
The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragrab
Metzengerstein
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.
How to Write a Blackwood article
A Predicament
Mystification
Diddling
The Angel of the Odd
Mellonia Tauta
The Duc de l'Omlette
The Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man That Was Used Up
The Business Man
The Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess-Player
The Power of Words
The Colloquy of Monas and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Shadow.--A Parable
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V3[Raven Edition][#8][poe3vxxx.xxx]2149
1Contest
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V2[Raven Edition][#7][poe2vxxx.xxx]2148
1Contest
The Purloined Letter
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade
A Descent into the Maelstrvm
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
Silence -- a Fable
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Assignation
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Domain of Arnheim
Landor's Cottage
William Wilson
The Tell-Tale Heart
Berenice
Eleonora
Apr 2000 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V1[Raven Edition][#6][poe1vxxx.xxx]2147
1Contest
Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation
Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell
Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis
The Unparalled Adventures of One Hans Pfall
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in One
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogjt
The Balloon Hoax
MS. Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait
Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][8gmntxxx.xxx]2146
Apr 2000 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[German] [#5][7gmntxxx.xxx]2146
We produce two versions of each of our Etexts that have diacritic accents, an
8 bit version with the accents included, and a 7 bit version without them, so
all our readers can download a version they can read on whatever programs. mh
[The 8 bit version filenames begin with 8xxxx, and the 7 bit ones with 7xxxx]
Apr 2000 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace [benhrxxx.xxx]2145
Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, Old Testament, Copyrighted [bbldoxxx.xxx]2144C
Apr 2000 The Bible, in Danish, New Testament, Public Domain[bbldnxxx.xxx]2143
Apr 2000 Childhood, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi [Leo Tolstoy #7][chldhxxx.xxx]2142
Apr 2000 Strictly Business[More 4 Million] by O Henry[OH#7][stbusxxx.xxx]2141
Contains:
STRICTLY BUSINESS
THE GOLD THAT GLITTERED
BABES IN THE JUNGLE
THE DAY RESURGENT
THE FIFTH WHEEL
THE POET AND THE PEASANT
THE ROBE OF PEACE
THE GIRL AND THE GRAFT
THE CALL OF THE TAME
THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY
THE THING'S THE PLAY
A RAMBLE IN APHASIA
A MUNICIPAL REPORT
PSYCHE AND THE PSKYSCRAPER
A BIRD OF BAGDAD
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
A NIGHT IN NEW ARABIA
THE GIRL AND THE HABIT
PROOF OF THE PUDDING
PAST ONE AT RODNEY'S
THE VENTURERS
THE DUEL
"WHAT YOU WANT"
Apr 2000 Extracts from the Diary of William Bray, by Bray [drbryxxx.xxx]2140
Apr 2000 Alvira, Heroine of Vesuvius, by A. J. O'Reilly [alvraxxx.xxx]2139
Apr 2000 The Day's Work - Part I, by Rudyard Kipling [RK#7][dywrkxxx.xxx]2138
Apr 2000 Rosamund, by Algernon Charles Swinburne [ACS #2][rsmndxxx.xxx]2137
Apr 2000 The Tale of Balen, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1[balenxxx.xxx]2136
Apr 2000 Stories by English Authors in London, Scribners [sbealxxx.xxx]2135
Apr 2000 Utopia of Usurers, et al, by G. K. Chesterton[#14][uusryxxx.xxx]2134
Apr 2000 Chinese Sketches, by Herbert A. Giles [Giles #2][chnskxxx.xxx]2133
Apr 2000 The Daughter of an Empress, by Louise Muhlbach [dmprsxxx.xxx]2132
Apr 2000 An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Tr. by Macaulay[agyptxxx.xxx]2131
Apr 2000 Utopia, by Thomas More[Banned in his time][More#2][utopixxx.xxx]2130
Apr 2000 Murad the Unlucky, etc., by Maria Edgeworth[ME #3][muradxxx.xxx]2129
Apr 2000 Original Narratives of Early American History[var][mohwkxxx.xxx]2128
Apr 2000 Paul and Virginia, by Bernardin de Saint Pierre [pandvxxx.xxx]2127
Mar 2000 The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, by Sax Rohmer[#6][qotssxxx.xxx]2126
Mar 2000 The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Samuel W. Baker[niletxxx.xxx]2125
Mar 2000 Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Fa-Hien[Legge#1][rbddhxxx.xxx]2124
Mar 2000 The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France 3[tcosbxxx.xxx]2123
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 10[10frdxxx.xxx]2110
Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 9 [09frdxxx.xxx]2109
Mar 2000 The Bible, in Swedish, From Project Runeberg [biblsxxx.xxx]2100
Mar 2000 History of the Moravian Church, by J. E. Hutton [hotmcxxx.xxx]2099
Mar 2000 A Thief in the Night, by E. W. Hornung[Hornung #4][thfntxxx.xxx]2098
Mar 2000 The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle [#16][sign4xxx.xxx]2097
Mar 2000 A Smaller History of Greece, by William Smith [asmhgxxx.xxx]2096
Mar 2000 Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, by Brown [clotlxxb.xxx]2095
and
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 20 [20hgpxxx.xxx]2220
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 14 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2214
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 12 [14hgpxxx.xxx]2212
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 11 [11hgpxxx.xxx]2211
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 05 [05hgpxxx.xxx]2205
Jun 2000 Human Genome Project, Chromosome Number 04 [04hgpxxx.xxx]2204
Not all sites have the ??hgp10.txt file, due to size limitations.
Last month we failed to report properly the other characters in the
chromosome files besides ATGC. . .here they are:
? Meaning
a a; adenine
c c; cytosine
g g; guanine
t t; thymine in DNA; uracil in RNA
m a or c
r a or g
w a or t
s c or g
y c or t
k g or t
v a or c or g; not t
h a or c or t; not g
d a or g or t; not c
b c or g or t; not a
n a or c or g or t
AOL TO MICROSOFT: SORRY, BUT IT'S A PRIVATE PARTY
America Online is trying to block attempts by Microsoft's new MSN Messenger
Service to let Microsoft customers exchange messages instantly with AOL's
community of users. Charging Microsoft with trespassing on its system, AOL
has erected several software barriers to Microsoft's efforts, prompting
Microsoft to respond to each obstruction by developing an immediate
software workaround. Forrester Research analyst Tom Rhinelander sees the
argument as "kind of like a food fight, like a couple of juveniles saying
'You can't do this,' 'Yes I can,' 'You can't do this,' 'Yes I can.' ...
AOL will say 'we've got to be careful about security and scalability,' and
all these kinds of things. But they'll be forced to open up to the other
folks, there's no way around it." (San Jose Mercury News 27 Jul 99)
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/instan072799.htm
INTERNET FEVER SPREADS TO BRITAIN
With British ISP Freeserve PLC enjoying a 37% stock price increase on the
first day of public trading, Britain.is getting its first experience of the
wild Internet success stories now common in the U.S. Freeserve, which is
now the largest access provider in Britain, developed a business model that
gives customers free access -- and derives its revenue exclusively by
taking a share of phone revenue generated by the cost of the telephone
calls users place to Freeserve. Unlike the U.S., where phone customers in
most parts of the country can make unlimited local calls for a flat monthly
charge, European phone companies (at least for the present!) charge by
minutes of connect time. (New York Times 27 Jul 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/27net.html
RUSSIAN ISP SAYS "NYET" TO SPYING
Russian Internet service provider Bayard-Slavia is refusing to obey a
directive that gives the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) the right
to examine private e-mail messages without a warrant. The System of
Efficient Research Measures 2directive also requires ISPs to pay for
surveillance equipment in their servers and for a link to FSB headquarters.
In retaliation for Bayard-Slavia's recalcitrance, the FSB has withdrawn the
ISP's license, frozen its bank account, and is challenging its right to
frequencies for its satellite link to Moscow. "We will never help the FSB
implement illegal shadowing," says Bayard-Slavia's director general. "We're
the first ISP to struggle against illegal information collection.
Unfortunately, we're also likely to become the first to be destroyed because
of insubordination." (Data Communications 26 Jul 99)
http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19990726S0003
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INTERNET RIVALS ATTEMPT TO OPEN UP AOL'S INSTANT MESSAGE SYSTEM
A number of Internet service providers aim to establish open
access to America Online's exclusive instant messaging programs.
Instant messaging notifies users when their friends are online
and allows them to type messages to each other. It is an
increasingly popular form of communication, and with three
services and a total 80 million users, AOL dominates the market.
Yet Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Prodigy each attempted to change this
recently by creating rival services that can communicate with
users of AOL's services. AOL responded to this threat by
changing its communications protocols, effectively eliminating
the rival programs' access to its service. While Microsoft has
been able to adjust its software to access AOL, Yahoo! and
Prodigy have not. The three contend that AOL should open its
technology to facilitate interaction between users of all
services. Yet AOL argues that because access to its services
was unauthorized, the rival services have breached accepted
security standards. (Wall Street Journal 07/26/99)
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SEPTEMBER 1999
This is Project Gutenberg's Newsletter of Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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We also have a new Etext in German. . .but like an American Western.
It looks like we will be able to make our goal of one Etext in German
each month. . .and more volunteers in German are more than welcome.
We would also like to post one Etext per month in other languages,
if you would care to help with those, please let me know.
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Table of 1Contest:
Requests
Comments on Our Schedule
New Files
Index Listings for the New Files
1Notess from Edupage and News Scan
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Requests
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We would like to complete the Tom Swift series, up to 1922,
if any of you would care to help with that, Mike said virtually .
Please contact:
Ron Benninghoff <rbenning@tampabay.rr.com>, please also cc:me
I am working on #2 [Motorboat]
I also have the following books that I will do:
Tom Swift and his Wireless Message
Tom Swift in Captivity
Tom Swift in the City of Gold
We need proofreaders for these.
**
We still need copies of Faust in German that say their text
is before 1923. . .we have the Etext, but we need to do the
proofreading and the copyright research. . . ! Contact me,
and please cc: Mike Pullen <globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com>
Also need Herman and Dorothea in German.
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We received no replies to our request for help on Romanian Etext.
**
Ben Bennett <fiji@ayup.limey.net> would like to continue with
the 11th Edition of the Britannica. . .please cc:me. . . .
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Comments on Our Schedule
A number of people have asked about our current schedule...
My apologies for jumping so far into the future for some of
the files we are currently working on, but putting them all
in a single block in the index really makes it much easier,
for us, and also for those using the raw index I produce in
the first week of each month, relating the postings, events
and other comments from the previous month.
The quick answers:
1. We are currently about 8 months ahead of our schedule.
2. We are currently just barely making our schedule of 36
Etexts per month. . .so we can't increase scheduling.
3. We reserved space in March, 2000 for a 21 volume set,
of which we have now completed 11 volumes. We also
reserved space in June, 2000, for Human Genome files,
of which we have now complete 18 chromosomes, but this
leaves some gaps still to be filled. . .we have just
finished all the April, 2000, Etexts, and started on
May. . .all of which you will see indexed below. If
possible, I will sneak in the last 6 chromosomes for
this Newsletter, but it will be very close. . .they
are big files, and the person who helps me with them
is unavailable at the moment.
The more detailed answers:
Our current official schedule is to do 36 Etext per month--
I am TRYING to do 40 per month--but it is a tough go at the
moment, with so many of our academic people having been out
for the summer, and not really back in the saddle yet. . .I
am therefore officially sticking to the 36 Etexts per month
schedule, but doing my best to really make it average 40.
If we CAN average 40, we will reach 3,333 Etexts by the end
of 2001. . . . We were going to try to double production--
every year--but without and serious Public Relations effort
or funding effort, we have still survived, but not expanded
our production much from the 32 Etexts per month we did for
several years. . .this is still more than anyone else but I
do hope can eventually move to 72 per month, and then more.
But this will take some serious PR and financial grant work
. . .if ANY of you are interested, please let me know.