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1. MISC> [netsites] AC6V Amateur Radio Site 2. K12> Re: D-Day 3. K12> Re: PBS Series Frontier House 4. K12> Re: GEN: Align K-12 and academic info lit standards? 5. MISC> Re: [H-N] Reporting Spam 6. BOOK> "Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly 7. K12> Wise Science--Network Nuggets 8. Last: posting for Tuesday, April 23, 2002 ***************************************** For individual postings, send the message: set net-happenings mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-happenings mailing list is a service of Classroom Connect - http://www.classroom.com Archives for Net-happenings can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=NET-HAPPENINGS Newsgroups: news:comp.internet.net-happenings http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&GROUP;=comp.internet.net-happenings ******************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:30:42 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MISC> [netsites] AC6V Amateur Radio Site From: "Frits Westra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:47:02 -0700 Subject: [netsites] AC6V Amateur Radio Site Rod Dinkins' (AC6V) Amateur Radio Site http://www.ac6v.com Featuring over 700 amateur radio topics, over 6,000 links, 125 pages, this is one of the most complete HAM radio websites around. Regards, Frits --------------------------------------------- Frits Westra -- PE2ATC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:31:56 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> Re: D-Day From: "Toni Koontz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:29:40 -0400 Subject: Re: D-Day This site has a lot of information including what D-Day means: http://www.dday.org/ "The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. They designate day and hour for an operation when the actual day and hour have not yet been determined or announced. The letters are derived from the words for which they stand, "D" for the day of the invasion and "H" for the hour the operation actually begins. " Toni Koontz Media Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] St. Charles Preparatory School Columbus OH Carpe Diem =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:33:50 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> Re: PBS Series Frontier House From: "Blythe Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:40:01 -0400 Subject: Re: PBS Series Frontier House The TeacherSource site has some books and links to accompany the show: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/index.shtm There are interdisciplinary activity ideas and related resources to accompany the Frontier House show. The web site is pretty cool too: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/ Blythe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Blythe Allison Bennett Virtual Reference Desk Network Coordinator Information Institute of Syracuse Syracuse University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:16:02 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> Re: GEN: Align K-12 and academic info lit standards? From: "Monica Kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:41:07 -0500 Subject: Re: GEN: Align K-12 and academic info lit standards? The March/April issue of Knowledge Quest has an article "Will Your Students Be Ready for College?' that addresses the K-12 and ACRL information literacy standards. There is a chart comparing the basic tenets of both. -- Monica Eischens Kemp Library/Media Department Head Breck School 123 Ottawa Ave N. Minneapolis, MN 55422 763-381-8231 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:30:27 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MISC> Re: [H-N] Reporting Spam From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:22:43 -0700 Subject: Re: [H-N] Reporting Spam At 02:14 PM 4/23/02 +0200, Kailash N. Srivastava wrote the following: >Here is a typical header: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 23 Apr 2002 04:39:57 -0700 >Received: from [61.131.36.126] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailBE8E92DA0036400438D03D83247E12E20; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 >04:39:08 -0700 >Received: from mx14.hotmail.com [164.77.202.106] by smez.net with ESMTP > (SMTPD32-7.05) id A0BF6010A; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:00:31 +0800 >Message-ID: <000007de5794$00006920$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >While reporting to abuse.net, one has to address email as follows: > >If spam is from email@domain, it is to be addressed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Most of the time, email along with domain is wrong and the message is >returned by abuse.net. > >Is it possible to do so by IP address? Can we do so as follows: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Please enlighten. Can't send e-mail to a name field that is an IP address. What you need to to is to convert the IP address to a domain name. You do this with a program called nslookup. However in this case, nslookup fails to return a domain name. So we must use another trick. Let's find out who owns the IP block, that is, what ISP owns the block of IP addresses that contain the one you are looking for. We do this by doing a search at ARIN (http://www.arin.net/whois/). Searching on 164.77.202.106 turns up that entelchile.net owns 164.77.32.0 - 164.77.255.255. So use entelchile.net as the domain name. Note that the received header has been forged. mx14.hotmail.com is NOT 164.77.202.106 but actually 65.54.232.7 Likewise, a check on 61.131.36.126 at ARIN shows that this block of IP address is owned by APNIC, which is the IP registrar for the Asia-Pacific Region. So to find out what ISP uses this IP address is we need to use a whois search at Apnic (http://cgi.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl). The results show that 61.131.36.112 - 61.131.36.127 belongs to the SANMING NO.2 MIDDLE SCHOOL FUJIAN in the Peoples Republic of China. So it looks like a Chinese spammer (at some middle school in Fujian, China) is using a relay (probably open) via entelchile.net to send spam to your Hotmail account. -- Gerry Boyd ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:37:31 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: BOOK> "Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly From: "Kathryn Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:32:09 -0700 (PDT) For Immediate Release April 23, 2002 For more information, a review copy, cover art, or an interview with the author, contact: Kathryn Barrett (707) 827-7094 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] GET THE BEST POSSIBLE PERFORMANCE FROM THE WEB: "WEB PERFORMANCE TUNING, SECOND EDITION" RELEASED BY O'REILLY Sebastopol, CA--Unlike the speed of light, which is constant in all frames of reference (remember Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity), the speed with which your browser loads a web page can vary dramatically owing to a number of performance issues. Any reduction in speed can be further aggravated by your own perception of speed: as most of us know, a red light in heavy traffic is perhaps the only thing slower than a slowly loading web page. In the second edition of "Web Performance Tuning" (O'Reilly, US $44.95), author Patrick Killelea tackles performance issues on the web, focusing on the end user's perception of speed, or how quickly the Web satisfies a user's request. In the four years since Killelea wrote the first edition of "Web Performance Tuning," sweeping changes have taken place on the Web. Killelea points out that the most significant change is that the Web has moved from novelty to an essential utility for the distribution of information. With the Web now taken for granted, making it easier, faster, and cheaper to communicate than ever, web performance has become a bigger problem than it was four years ago. "The Web continues to grow quickly," says Killelea, "and now billing is moving to the Web. Web performance will only continue to become more important in the future as new applications are released, such as web-based voting in elections. One of the most important things a business can keep in mind is that people don't buy what you're selling if your site is too slow." Fortunately, Killelea assures us, we know much more about web performance, what works and what does not, how to watch for problems, and how to fix them. Written for anyone responsible for a web site, from an individual running a personal site on a Linux PC at home to large corporate sites, "Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition" offers practical advice on getting the best possible performance from the Web. It covers more than just tuning web server software; it is also about streamlining web content, getting optimal performance from a browser, tuning both client and server hardware, and maximizing the capacity of the network itself. The book begins with concrete advice for quick results. Killelea then shifts gears to provide a conceptual background of the principles in computing performance. The latter half of "Web Performance Tuning" examines each element of a web transaction--from client to network to server--to find the weak links in the chain and how to strengthen them. This new edition has been significantly expanded to include new chapters on web site architecture, security, and reliability, and their impact on performance. Killelea includes detailed discussion of the scalability of Java on microprocessor servers, Perl scripts for writing web performance spiders, instructions on how to use the Perl DBI and the open source program gnuplot to generate performance graphs. He also covers the use of rstat, a Unix-based open source utility for gathering performance statistics remotely. Essential subject matter for anyone involved in web performance, "Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition" is about making the Web more usable for everyone. What the critics said about the first edition: "'Web Performance Tuning' doesn't make the reader wait until the middle of the book before it starts providing real world solutions. As with most O'Reilly books, 'Web Performance Tuning' is a book that all conscientious developers should read."--David Fiedler, webdeveloper.com "...a handy book for the web professional."--Freelance Informer "It seems that the longer we remain in the web development business the more we are required to read and know. If you value your visitors, it's your job to make their visit as enjoyable, or at least as memorable, as possible. By tuning the performance of your web pages, web server, and if possible, the client's web browser, you ensure that you've done everything possible to make their visit a good one." --Scott Clark, webdeveloper.com Additional resources: Chapter 4, "Performance Monitoring," is available free online at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/chapter/ch04.html For more information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, author bio, and samples, see: http://oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/ For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to: ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/059600172x.jpg Web Performance Tuning, Second Edition By Patrick Killelea ISBN 0-596-00172-X, 456 pages, $44.95 (US), $69.95 (CAN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-800-998-9938 1-707-827-7000 http://www.oreilly.com About O'Reilly O'Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. 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All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:48:23 -0500 From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: K12> Wise Science--Network Nuggets From: "nuggets ola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:10:01 -0700 Subject: Wise Science--Network Nuggets *** [[[ WISE SCIENCE ]]] *** http://wise.berkeley.edu/ "WISE" is for science teachers, grades 4-12. It stands for "Web-based Inquiry Science Environment" and is funded by the National Science Foundation. You won't be able to use WISE right away, but take a look at it for use in your classroom next year. "In WISE, students work on exciting inquiry projects on topics such as genetically modified foods, earthquake prediction, and the deformed frogs mystery. Students learn about and respond to contemporary scientific controversies through designing, debating, and critiquing solutions - all on the Web!" You can click on the Learn about Wise button to view a slide show about how WISE works. One could say that WISE does three things for students: - Makes science active and accessible - Makes required thinking visible - Promotes autonomy (scientist-style thinking on one's own) Hosted by the University of California at Berkeley, the site carries no advertising and charges no fees. At the moment, there are twelve WISE classroom projects. The WISE Website provides a considerable amount of teacher explanation and assistance, and there are external training workshops. Thanks to Dave Rogers for contributing this nugget. ---------------------- Network Nuggets is a free service of the Community Learning Network Website (http://www.cln.org/) and the Open Learning Agency of British Columbia (http://www.openschool.bc.ca/). We send these announcements to subscribers of CLN's Network Nuggets, to inform them about potentially useful educational resources on the Internet. 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