---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts SunFLASH Vol 65 #20 May 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65.20 Non-Sun Information/Product Abstracts This article contains brief descriptions of several Non-Sun - that is, third Party, Articles. These articles have not been previously posted to SunFlash. They are available from flashadm@sun.com by email only. You may request the full text of any of these articles by sending mail to flashadm@sun.com with a list of 1 or more space separated article numbers (e.g. 63.87 62.32) in the Subject line. -johnj (8 articles, 171 Kb, 3715 - about 57 US pages) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Size In Title Number Kb/lines 65.12 4 76 O'Reilly's Free magazine-plus-catalog 65.13 13 208 HPCwire Table of Contents: May 6 65.14 48 916 Internet Services List (May-1-94) 65.15 33 690 THE INTERNET MALL (1 May 1994) 65.16 18 377 Aggregate Computing Newsletter 65.17 29 699 RISKS DIGEST 16.02 65.18 19 480 Public Release of X11R6 65.19 7 269 Internet Talk Radio FTP Archives How To Request An Article - Example ----------------------------------- %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 ^D % Place the list articles numbers on the same line as the Subject keyword. Separate article numbers with a space (e.g 63.39 63.40). If Articles Don't Arrive After a Reasonable Time ------------------------------------------------ I get a number of requests that come from sites that do not have their mail system set up properly. Some requests have their return path or the From: lines mangled as they travel through the net. If you suspect that your requested article is not getting to you because of an email address problem, then resubmit and add the keyword "email-to" in the body of the message: %mail flashadm@sun.com Subject: 63.39 63.40 email-to foo%bar@name.domain ^D % Replace foo%bar@name.domain with your email address. -johnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abstracts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65.12 O'Reilly releases ora.com (Free magazine-plus-catalog) From: Brian Erwin We have released the third issue of our free magazine-plus- catalog entitled "ora.com." It presents a behind-the-scenes look at issues we at O'Reilly & Associates found interesting. To receive a free copy of "ora.com," send mail to catalog@ora.com. (The previous editions of ora.com have been excellent both in content and presentation. Please mention SunFlash in your request. -johnj) (76 lines) 65.13 HPCwire Table of Contents: May 6 From news@hpcwire.ans.net HPCwire is a for-fee Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing. This article is the weekly Table of Contents. There are articles in this HPCwire Table of Contents that non-subscribers can retrieve, but you must be a subscriber to request the bulk of the articles. A free trial subscription is available. (208 lines) 65.14 Updated Internet Services List (May-1-94) From: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) Popular listing of services available on the Internet. More that 1000 SunFlash subscribers requested a copy of the March version of this list. Type "finger yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu" to find ways to receive this list! This list is now available via: ftp ftp.csd.uwm.edu (pub/inet.services.txt). An html version of this list is available by ftp (pub/inet.services.html). ftp this file and use mosaic ! new/changed entries: +Chat (Greenfield), +Econ Gopher, +Gophers, +Legal Directory, +LIBS, +Texas Info. Highway, +Weather (Kentucky). (916 lines) 65.15 THE INTERNET MALL (1 May 1994) From: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor) A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet There's no recession at the Internet Mall! We have 26 new cybershops appearing for the first time in this issue of the Internet Mall! The most growth is in the food mall: now you can get gourmet coffee, culinary herbs and even chocolate through the Internet. New sections too: Religious Books and Related annex on the first floor, an annex for Research and Information Providers. (690 lines) 65.16 Aggregate Computing Newsletter From: anne@aggregate.com (Anne Reinbold) Distributed Directions is a quarterly newsletter from Aggregate Computing, Inc. on distributed computing technologies. The first issue for 1994 is now available and includes information on: Cluster Computing in Commercial Environments, Distributed Applications in Commercial Cluster Environments, Development Issues for Distributed Applications - Naming, and News at Aggregate. (377 lines) 65.17 RISKS DIGEST 16.02 From: risks@CSL.SRI.COM (RISKS Forum) (I'm posting this edition of the RISKS DIGEST for three reasons. The 'New firewalls book' article will be of interest to many people as will (b) the 'Staying Informed of Security & Privacy Issues'. As 300+ people requested the last SunFlash/RISKs article I think that there is some interet! -johnj) RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Tuesday 3 May 1994 Volume 16 : Issue 02 FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator ***** See last item for information on RISKS (comp.risks) ***** Contents: NEW YORKER article on library automation (Jon Jacky) Information Warfare: GM vs VW (Mich Kabay) TechWar: Cell Phone Jamming (Mich Kabay) Green Card Con Artists Exposed! (Bonnie L. Mahon via D.R. Hilton) New firewalls book - a great risk reducer (Ray Kaplan) Re: Drunk in charge (John Simutis, Andy Ashworth, Dan Astoorian) Boot Prom commits Denial of Service Attack (Butch Deal) Staying Informed of Security & Privacy Issues (David Johnson) Info on RISKS (comp.risks), contributions, subscriptions, FTP, etc. (699 lines) 65.18 Public Release of X11R6 From: rgary@X.ORG ("R. Gary Cutbill") Release 6 of the X Window System, Version 11, will be made available world wide starting May 2 at 12:00pm EDT (16:00 GMT). The distribution sites are listed below. PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network. All products listed below will begin shipping on May 9, except for CDROM's which are expected begin shipping on May 16. (Order form enclosed) (480 lines) 65.19 Internet Talk Radio Anonymous FTP Archives From: Sites@Radio.Com (Automatic Reply Program) A list of archive sites that make the Internet Talk Radio sound files accessible via anonymous FTP. (269 lines) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 64.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. 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