What's New?

• It had to happen, sooner or later: The Duracell Alkaline Battery now has Web Presence.
• CNN Interactive

• Operation Home Front is announced.

• Alta Vista, Digital's new search engine.

• Communications Resource Corporation is now online.
• The Goldinc prices page encites a comment from an anonymous user of infobahnos.com

• Southwind lowers their unlimited Internet Access price.

• Huntingdon College, in Montgomery Alabama, has Web Presence.

• Do you need a Computer Service Professional? You need Lee Wilson
• Coast Sees Boom in Companies Providing Internet Access

• Growing pains, we've got the cutest little growing pains. Ok, ok, ... growing trauma. The support staff was flooded with email and phone calls. Please be patient. We'll eventually catch up.

• WebMaster Magazine Online

• All the new bandwidth has gone to our heads, obviously, as goldinc announces its Mississippi Gulfcoast Home Page Meta-Page
• Goldinc publishes GOLD INK #1, the Monthly Newsletter devoted to on-line happenings on the Gulfcoast. This first issues discusses the disparity among coastal ISPs.
• Datasync lowers their prices.

• The www.goldinc.com, domain moves to much faster W3 Server on a much faster Network
• Goldinc begins to offer Internet Access as well as Web Presence, becoming the low price leader in both categories among providers on the coast.

• Mississippi On-Line, www.msonline.net, is serving up a list of New Web Sites in Mississippi.

• Another new customer: Laser Electronics Distribution

• Casino Magic has Web Presence.

• WLOX has Web Presence.
• Picayune, Mississippi, now has an Internet Service Provider: DataStar

• Panama City Beach has Web Presence.

• The GraphicConverter is recognized by MacUser Magazine as one of the year's 30 best Macintosh Shareware products.

• Someone representing www.naughtycom.net spams America Online.

• another new customer: Lemke Software

• The Internet Adapter (TIA) (tm)
• The Winword-Concept virus has mutated into something more malicious: Winword-Nuclear

• sendmail 8.7 is released

• Christmas in September: images from the 20th Annual Sand Sculpture Contest

• The "ms.*" usenet News feed is spanning the state of Mississippi -- from Starkville to datasync; the cry goes out: "Subscribe, or be left out". As you may have noticed, there are currently only two groups: ms.test and ms.general. There will almost certainly be additional groups as the heirarchy matures; watch ms.general for details.

  Participants currently include:

  • The Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center
  • Mississippi State University
  • The University of Mississippi
  • Mississippi College
  • Mississippi University for Women
  • datasync.com
  • ebicom.net

  The University of Southern Mississippi, teclink.net, and misnet.com have been contacted, but have not yet responded.

• Yet another claimant to a Mississippi Gulf Coast Home Page
• Southwind's whois entry got updated today. Those embarassing .nrlssc.navy.mil email addresses are now gone.
• Strangely, Datasync's whois entry got updated today, as well.

• Martin Booda's home page on Datasync receives its 20,000th hit (since June). The lucky browser is sent a copy of the outer_limits.au file -- WHETHER THEY WANTED IT OR NOT!

• The Mobile Press Registerer now has Web Presence. See What's New at the Mobile Area Freenet.

• For the color challenged, we are now providing a Color Gateway.
  Warning: It's pretty silly.

• The beginning of a virtual tour of the Gulf South has been put into place. Contact goldinc@goldinc.com about how we can put you on the map.

• Another new customer: Warren Coward of Bell Realty, Long Beach, MS
• Another new customer: Betsy Nolan of Century 21, Diamondhead, MS.

• Another potential customer: Gerald Savner of Veterans Realty, Long Beach, MS

• Another new customer: Candidate Dirk Dedeaux

• Netscape goes public. Get those limit orders ready!
  See also the write-up in the Sun Herald
• gulf-coast.com got registered today.

• slidell.com got registered today.

• The UKERNA Technology Group PGP Home Page is available.
• ssh-1.1.0 is now available at ftp.cs.hut.fi, and will probably appear on the other ftp sites in a few days.
  • ftp.funet.fi
  • ftp.net.ohio-state.edu
  • coombs.anu.edu.au
  • ftp.unit.no
  • ftp.kiae.su
  • odyssey.ucc.ie
  • ftp.exweb.com
  • ftp.cs.hut.fi

• Greg Roelofs' PNG Home Page, which includes a reference to Richard Rauch's dissenting PNG Page.

• David Banks gives a briefing on Tracktur: Immersive visualization of Turbulent Flow at Navoceano.

• Another new customer: Aurora Systems Research

• Eric Blake announces his Tropical Weather page.

• Another new customer: Top Drawer Clocks & Collectibles

• Northshore Internet, Inc. got registered today.

• DDN-Security 9526 warns of Malicous code in counterfeit PKZip program.

• Compuserv announces PNG-based graphics specification
• Recall that the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification is available

• gulfcoast.com got stolen, uhh -- I mean registered today.

• A list of on-line earth science journalsis provided by Lamont-Doherty.
• A Macintosh Application Environment Web Server is online.

• oasisnet.com got registered in the DNS today.

• Users of Netscape 1.1 will want to check out the Continously Refreshing Fishcam image

• A shareware W3 server for MS Windows is available.

• SGI Developers Forum
• Siggraph, 1996 will be in New Orleans

• The Good Times virus remains an urban legend, regardless of efforts to make it seem otherwise. See the Good Times Virus Hoax FAQ and Lorna Leong's web page entitled "Computer Viruses?"

• Usenet FAQs in HTML format are being served by the Department of Computer & Information Science of Ohio State University. This online collection includes Frequently Asked Questions about ISDN.
• Dan Kegel's ISDN Page

• Additional information on the Bomb Disaster at Fed. Building, Oklahoma City is being served from the University of Kansas.

• New Orleans (and several other cities) have been added to WeatherNet. Included are
  • Nexrad Radar
  • Regional Radar
  • Satellite
  • Forecast
  • Four Day Metro Area Forecast Graphic
  • Estimated Precipitation Totals
  • Radar Summary (cell movement)

• Oklahoma City blast
• Oklahoma City explosion: Terrorism in the American heartland

• The WebCrawler Top 25 list is available.
• The Center for Seismic Studies is on the Web.

• The February 1995 Issue of Internet World is available
• DefenseLINK
• AirForceLINK

• Help On Mosaic v2.6b1 is available.
• China Lake has a VISLab. Some sample images created for public viewing are available.

• Lockheed Martin is serving information about their REAL3D graphics engines.

• A W3 Servers Comparison Chart is available.

• Information on the Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP (MBONE) is being served by Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT).

• The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and Washington Headquarters Service (WHS) announce the online availability of the DoD Directives and Instructions (DoDDIs)
• An Overview of tkWWW is available.

• Sunergy #13 is broadcast.
• The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute has a W3 server.

• The University of New Orleans (UNO) has a WWW Site.

• The SunService SunSolve Online Server is available.

• The United States Department of Justice has a W3 server.
• The Fortran Market W3 Server is available. See their What's New page for many potentially useful Fortran related references.

• The Office of the Secretary of Defense has a Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence Home Page

• The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification

• GNU FORTRAN is scheduled for release late today or early tomorrow. Since the load on prep.ai.mit.edu is so great, you might want to try your favorite mirror site first.
• A patch is amost ready for the SGI FORTRAN compiler bug that causes -(10.0**2) to be calculated incorrectly under IRIX 5.2. Before reporting SGI problems to Usenet, be sure to check the comp.sys.sgi.bugs archive and the unofficial IRIX patch list unless, of course, you don't mind being flamed by a Canadian.

• The Software Support Laboratory has a home page.
• Taligent, Inc. has a home page.

• The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University is serving an interesting Data Catalog
• The Mathematics Department of Case Western Reserve University has a Home Page.
• The Applied Research Laboratory University of Texas has a Home Page.
• The University of Western Ontario has a Home Page

• DDN Management Bulletin 9504 is available.

• Headquarters U.S. Air Force has a W3 Server
• North Carolina State University has a Home Page

• Future Force, the Army's Home Page, is available.

• For those studying the North Atlantic region, the University of Rhode Island has made available a very nice data base of MCSST images

• The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Home Page is available
• The Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense/Public Affairs Office (OSD/PA) in cooperation with the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is providing a W3 information service.

A collection of hypertext versions of GNU texinfo manuals is available, and includes GNU Emacs.

1995.01.26

• The OpenGL WWW Center is available.

1995.01.25

• As the release date for GNU FORTRAN approaches, it might be a good idea to periodically check the g77 plan
• ISO Online

1995.01.19

• The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Home Page is available.
• The GhostScript Home Page is available.

1995.01.13

• datasync.com gets registered in the DNS.

1995.01.12

• The great GIF Licensing Controversy

1995.01.05

• Legislative Information on the Internet, from thomas.loc.gov (at the Library of Congress).
• A Local W3 advocate and HTML author gets World-Wide exposure as a correspondent to The Institute Network (TInet). See his article entitled Coastal experiment utilizes World-Wide Web for research in the January 95 TInet report.

1995.01.04

The MacUser Home Page is available.

1995.01.03

The Microsoft Windows 95 Home Page is available.

1994.12.29

All What's New entries priory to January 1, 1995 have been moved here. Well, almost all of them. :)

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