From astroweb-request Mon Jun 5 14:57:59 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA05031; Mon, 5 Jun 95 14:57:59 EDT Return-Path: X-Sender: hmadorf@ns3.hq.eso.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:02:19 +0200 To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU From: (by way of adorf@eso.org (Hans-Martin Adorf)) Subject: GNN/AOL Announcement Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu A Letter to Our Subscribers By now, many of you may have heard that we recently made a decision to sell GNN to America Online's Internet Services Company, and to form a new company in partnership with them, called Songline Studios, that will be a creative studio for the design and development of innovative online applications, inventing new forms as well as developing original content on the Internet. As you can imagine, this was a momentous decision for us. We are very proud of what we've created in GNN; we feel it is one of the pre-eminent online guides to what's up on the Internet, and a prototype for a kind of navigational framework that will become increasingly important as the number of servers on the Internet continues to grow. At the same time, we came to feel that in order to really do justice to the information problem GNN was created to solve, GNN would have to be scaled up beyond our ability to fund it on our own. With many large players entering the Internet information services market, the best way to keep our lead was to team up with one of them. We talked with a lot of possible partners. Why did we choose AOL? At bottom, many of the large players are entering the Internet market reluctantly, for fear that if they don't move, they'll get left behind. At worst, they are trying to "co opt" the Internet enthusiasm and divert it into a proprietary service that they can control. In our estimation, AOL shares our enthusiasm for the truly amazing possibilities represented by the Internet. They are eager to continue the work we began with GNN, of creating businesses and business models that don't try to control or limit the freewheeling nature of the Internet, but instead build on it. We're very excited about the possibilities going forward. We'll be creating new online publications that will be hosted within the GNN framework, as well as on other Internet services. We believe that we'll be able to make these new publications even more widely accessible and useful because of AOL's ability to fund a broader online publishing infrastructure that hosts not only our new publications but those of many other new Internet publishers. And that, in essence, has been the GNN dream all along. Tim O'Reilly and the GNN team From astroweb-request Tue Jun 6 03:25:49 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA06312; Tue, 6 Jun 95 03:25:49 EDT Return-Path: X-Sender: hmadorf@ns3.hq.eso.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:25:38 +0200 To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU, gvanmoor@aoc.nrao.edu (Gustaaf van Moorsel) From: adorf@eso.org (Hans-Martin Adorf) Subject: AOL Buys Everyone (from TidBITs) Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu AOL Buys Everyone ----------------- by Adam C. Engst Actually AOL hasn't bought everyone just yet, but at the rate they are acquiring companies, they'll put even acquisition-hungry Symantec to shame. There have been a number of purchases, so sit down, catch your breath, and pay attention to the new list of AOL's wholly-owned subsidiaries. The first purchase in recent history was AOL's acquisition of WAIS, Inc., the firm that spun off from Thinking Machines after the development of the WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) technology. WAIS servers provide fast, full-text searching of massive databases and are widely used throughout the Internet as search engines. More recently, WAIS provided custom online services for publishers such as Encyclopedia Brittanica and Dow Jones. AOL paid for WAIS with 400,000 shares of AOL stock, which at the current price of about $37 per share works out to around $15 million. Not too shabby. But wait, it gets better. Last week, AOL announced that it has purchased GNN (Global Network Navigator) from O'Reilly & Associates for $11 million ($9 million in stock, $2 million in cash). And then, since GNN doesn't include any serious searching tools, AOL bought WebCrawler, one of the better Web full text search engines. Developed by Brian Pinkerton of the University of Washington, WebCrawler is used by more than 250,000 people each week, and it adds more than 2,000 new sites each month to its current 29,000 site index. AOL didn't say how much they paid Brian for WebCrawler, but I hope he made out well. Now, to look back, AOL has also purchased BookLink Technologies (makers of Internet client software for Windows) and NaviSoft, a company that's coming out with some interesting tools for creating Web pages. And of course, AOL's most important acquisition was ANS (Advanced Network & Services) in November of 1994, which has one of the largest and fastest public data networks (see TidBITS-254_). So let's put this together. AOL has a heavy-duty network from ANS, and alliances with Sprint greatly supplement that connectivity. AOL has its own client software (and version 2.6 - with Web access provided by code from InterCon's TCP/Connect II - is in testing; check the FTP URL below), and thanks to BookLink and NaviSoft, AOL has access to more code for both client applications and publishing programs. WAIS provides both server software and publishing deals. ftp://ftp.aol.com//mac/Preview/ http://www.booklink.com/ http://www.navisoft.com/index.htm http://www.wais.com/ There's no question that AOL has a lot of content, much of which hasn't been available on the Internet. I'm curious to see how, or if, AOL merges its content with GNN, since although AOL talks up GNN pretty heavily, I'm not a big fan. Nonetheless, content isn't the issue for AOL right now - what's important to them is attention, and that's where GNN and WebCrawler stand to help. http://www.gnn.com/ http://webcrawler.com/ Overall, I can't think of any other company that's in such a strong position to compete directly with the impending (and well- funded) juggernaut of Microsoft Network. Although financial dealings aren't my strong point, I also wonder if AOL might be putting themselves in a weakened financial position through these acquisitions. Still, my bet is that in a few years it will be far more costly to assemble this sort of collection. As for how this will all shake out, only time will tell, being incapable of keeping a secret. One minor peeve: With all this Internet activity, why hasn't AOL put up a Web server with at least all of these press releases on it? Homilies about practicing what you preach come to mind. From www_server Wed Jun 7 10:39:24 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA11832; Wed, 7 Jun 95 10:39:24 EDT Return-Path: Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 10:39:17 EDT From: www_server@fits.cv.nrao.edu (httpd@fits.cv.nrao.edu) Message-Id: <9506071439.AA11823@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU, jbloch@lanl.gov Subject: ALEXIS Entry Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Message entered by: Jeffrey J. Bloch @ alexis.lanl.gov [128.165.207.140] Hello, I'm the project leader for the ALEXIS satellite effort at Los Alamos. On my first perusal of the AstroWeb page, I was very pleased to see a listing of our project's home page. I would like to request a modification to your short description of the project to include Los Alamos and the DOE in the description: Current Listing: Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors ( ALEXIS ) ALEXIS' X-ray telescopes feature curved mirrors whose multilayer coatings reflect and focus low-energy X-rays the way optical telescopes focus visible light. The detectors that record the arrival of X-ray photons were built by a team at the University of California, Berkeley Requested Changes: Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors ( ALEXIS, LANL, SNL, UCB-SSL ) ALEXIS' X-ray telescopes feature curved mirrors whose multilayer coatings reflect and focus low-energy X-rays or extreme ultraviolet light the way optical telescopes focus visible light. The satellite and payloads were funded by the Department of Energy and built by Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratory and the University of California-Space Sciences Lab. The Launch was provided by the Air Force Space Test Program on a Pegasus Booster on April 25, 1993. The mission is entirely controlled from a small groundstation at LANL. LANL has a main web page at http://www.lanl.gov/ From www_server Thu Jun 8 14:11:40 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA03425; Thu, 8 Jun 95 14:11:40 EDT Return-Path: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 14:11:35 EDT From: www_server@fits.cv.nrao.edu (httpd@fits.cv.nrao.edu) Message-Id: <9506081811.AA03416@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU, kgb@ast.cam.ac.uk Subject: correction to my pgperl description show now read: Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Message entered by: kgb @ cass33.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.68.141] pgperl is a version of the Perl language which has been combined with the PGPLOT FORTRAN library, a very popular package for plotting astronomical data. (As a glance through any issue of ApJ or MNRAS will confirm.) The details of this involve some complicated C glue routines but are transparent to the user. perl is a real C-like language with full control structures, and is very fast and efficient. All the power of perl (and believe me that is a lot) is available to extract data to plot from multitudes of files in complicated free formats. pgperl is available for both perl4 and the new perl5 version of the language. From astroweb-request Thu Jun 8 19:37:10 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA05120; Thu, 8 Jun 95 19:37:10 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9506082335.AA13526@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar> From: spaoli@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar (Sergio Paoli) Subject: Addition of our home page to WWW telescopes and institutes (fwd) To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:35:48 SAT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu > > Browsing through the WWW page on astronomical telescopes, I realized > that our site at Calar Alto (Spain) ist not included. Could you please > add a line under the item "Telescopes" and a line under the item > "Astronomy departments" which reference our home page > > http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/welcome.html > > for "Calar Alto Observatory" and for "Max-Planck-Institut fuer > Astronomie, Heidelberg"? From this page you have access to our > institute's home page (MPIA) and the home page of Calar Alto > Observatory. Also the observing time schedules at Calar Alto can be > accessed via that page. They may also be provided directly under > > http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/CAHA/Schedules/general.html > > With best regards > > > > Hermann-Josef Roeser > > ========================================================================== > > __ __ > MPI fuer Astronomie / | _ | \ Telefon: 06221-528-(0)209 (office) > | |/ \| | > Koenigstuhl 17 |___|\_/|___| Telefax: 06221-528-246 > _____________ > D69117 Heidelberg | | Telex: 461 789 mpia d > | M P I A | > Germany |___________| Telefon: 06262-4938 (home) > > WWW access: http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/welcome.html > ========================================================================== > -- +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ : Sergio A. Paoli (Student of Astronomy) : Paseo del Bosque s/n : : Department of Spectroscopy : (1900) La Plata : : Astronomical Observatory : Argentina : +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ : Phones +54 21 21-7308 : : +54 21 3-8810 : : Fax +54 21 21-1761 : : e-mail: spaoli@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar : : WWW: http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/~spaoli/ : +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ From astroweb-request Thu Jun 8 20:01:36 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA05156; Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:01:36 EDT Return-Path: Message-Id: <9506090000.AA13694@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar> From: spaoli@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar (Sergio Paoli) Subject: AstroWeb listing... (fwd) To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 21:00:28 SAT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu > > Dear Sergio: > > I was looking through the Whole Internet Catalog, and saw your > WWW AstroWeb site, which I thought looked great! > > I work for a company called Jandel Scientific that has been selling > PC -based software for scientific research for over a decade. We have > about 100, 000 individual researchers using our products. One of our > core areas has always been astronomy and aerospace research > (for example, NASA is one of our largest customers), and we are > widely referenced in the literature. > > Anyway, I noticed that we were not listed in the Astro Web, and I > thought you might want to consider us for the Software section. > Although we are a commercial enterprize, many of the WWW virtual > libraries have a listing of commercial sources which serve scientific > disciplines and are respected members of the scientific community. > > In any case, we have a nice Home Page set up, which you are welcome > to check out (www.jandel.com). > > Though I'm no HTML expert, I've included a listing below which might > be helpful. Let me know if you have all the info you need or need > further material. > > Thanks in advance for your help. Congratulations again on the > AstroWeb site! > > Joe Osborn > President > Jandel Scientific > JOEO@JANDEL.COM > ------------------------------------- >

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  • Jandel Scientific
    > > Jandel Scientific offers PC-based software to aid researchers in > many areas of astronomy and astrophysics. Jandel products include > SigmaPlot graphics software, SigmaStat statistical software, > TableCurve 2D and 3D curvefitting software, and SigmaScan image > measurement and analysis software. In business since 1982, > Jandel serves nearly 100,000 customers, many in astronomy and > related disciplines. > >

    > -- +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ : Sergio A. Paoli (Student of Astronomy) : Paseo del Bosque s/n : : Department of Spectroscopy : (1900) La Plata : : Astronomical Observatory : Argentina : +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ : Phones +54 21 21-7308 : : +54 21 3-8810 : : Fax +54 21 21-1761 : : e-mail: spaoli@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar : : WWW: http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/~spaoli/ : +-----------------------------------------+------------------------------+ From www_server Thu Jun 8 20:49:42 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA05212; Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:49:42 EDT Return-Path: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 20:49:38 EDT From: www_server@fits.cv.nrao.edu (httpd@fits.cv.nrao.edu) Message-Id: <9506090049.AA05203@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Message entered by: @ lynx.hipecs.hokudai.ac.jp [133.50.65.20] From www_server Fri Jun 9 11:52:49 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA07779; Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:52:49 EDT Return-Path: Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 11:52:42 EDT From: www_server@fits.cv.nrao.edu (httpd@fits.cv.nrao.edu) Message-Id: <9506091552.AA07770@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU, tomek@mpa-garching.mpg.de Subject: Personal page moved Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Message entered by: Tomasz Plewa @ ibm-1.mpa-garching.mpg.de [130.183.9.4] Dear Webmaster, I've moved my personal www page from Warsaw http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~plewa/personal.html to Garching http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~tomek/index.html Please update my entry in "Personal pages". Thank you. Best regards, Tomek From www_server Thu Jun 15 07:51:16 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA14198; Thu, 15 Jun 95 07:51:16 EDT Return-Path: Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 07:51:11 EDT From: www_server@fits.cv.nrao.edu (httpd@fits.cv.nrao.edu) Message-Id: <9506151151.AA14189@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: Page@fits.cv.nrao.edu, Personal@fits.cv.nrao.edu, Web@fits.cv.nrao.edu, astroweb@NRAO.EDU, vassilis@iastate.edu Subject: Mistake in the name of an astronomers Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Message entered by: Vassilis Charmandaris @ pv7458.vincent.iastate.edu [129.186.116.88] Dear Sir There is a mistake in one entry of the Personal Web Pages. Specifically the link to "Lavery Russell J" has his first name typed as "Russel" with one 'l". The correct spelling is with two "ll". He would appreciate if you could correct it. Sincerely, Vassilis Charmandaris From astroweb-request Fri Jun 23 12:30:47 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA04287; Fri, 23 Jun 95 12:30:47 EDT Return-Path: <@lepus.astro.utoronto.ca:astlibr@astro.utoronto.ca> From: Library Cummins Diamond To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: AstroWeb, Canada, and you Cc: astlibr@astro.utoronto.ca Message-Id: <95Jun23.123035edt.10591@lepus.astro.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:30:33 -0400 Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Hi: I have a favour to ask. I would like someone to insert, if possible (I mean, if it would not create problems in terms of updating etc.) the following in the yp_topzone.html file, at Canada The reason--- I do not believe in reinventing the wheel. On our department home page, (http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/home.html) I have used as my sole criterion for other Canadian astronomy links, that they be national organizations. I have added a note saying .. to find other Canadian institutions, search AstroWeb by domain or keyword." For the former link (i.e. domain), I would like to go directly to ca, rather than to the top of the file, by including #ca. Hoping this is a fulfillable and not burdensome request, I am, yours truly... Marlene Cummins U of Toronto Astronomy Library library@astro.utoronto.ca (keeper of the UofT Astronomy Dept. home page) From www_server Mon Jun 26 04:55:22 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA12975; Mon, 26 Jun 95 04:55:22 EDT Return-Path: Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 04:55:17 EDT From: www_server@fits.cv.nrao.edu (httpd@fits.cv.nrao.edu) Message-Id: <9506260855.AA12966@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU, mnaumann@eso.org Subject: AstroWeb Database Correction for some ESO/ST-ECF entries Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Message entered by: Michael Naumann @ serv2.hq.eso.org [134.171.40.2] Dear AstroWebber, would you please change the following ESO/ST-ECF Archive entries images/bfrasmus.html images/bpirenne.html images/malbrech.html images/shill.html to staff/bfrasmus.html staff/bpirenne.html staff/malbrech.html staff/shill.html Would you also please include staff/mnaumann.html to the list of ESO/ST-ECF archive members. Best regards, Michael Naumann From dwells Tue Jun 27 14:45:56 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.8) id AA20497; Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:45:56 EDT Return-Path: Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 14:45:53 EDT From: dwells (Don Wells) Message-Id: <9506271845.AA20491@fits.cv.nrao.edu> To: wfc, iaufwg, astroweb Subject: OS change scheduled Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu Machine fits.cv.nrao.edu will be changed from SunOS_4 to the Solaris operating system on the morning of Thursday June 29. The machine is scheduled to be taken offline about 0930 EDT (1330 UT). The FITS FTP/Web/WAIS archive, the AstroWeb services and the Email exploders hosted on this machine will be unavailable for at least one hour, and probably for several hours on that day. -- Donald C. Wells Associate Scientist dwells@nrao.edu http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/~dwells National Radio Astronomy Observatory +1-804-296-0277 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2475 USA From astroweb-request Fri Jun 30 09:32:47 1995 Received: by fits.cv.nrao.edu (5.x/S2.3/NRAO-CV/2.3) id AA05659; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:32:47 -0400 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 09:32:36 EDT From: Bob Jackson Message-Id: <9506301332.AA25655@MARIAN.STSCI.EDU> To: astroweb@NRAO.EDU Subject: WARNING - anarky.stsci.edu is vanishing Reply-To: jackson@stsci.edu Sender: astroweb-request@fits.cv.nrao.edu content-length: 436 from sight, i.e., it is moving behind a firewall. Sometime soon you will have to change http://anarky.stsci.edu/astroweb/* http://lor.stsci.edu/astroweb/* to http://www.stsci.edu/astroweb/* and change http://anarky.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/* http://lor.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/* to http://www.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/* This is just a warning. Don't change anything yet. I am still moving and testing the stuff on www.stsci.edu. Bob