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Subject: May Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 10:00:06 -0500 (CDT)
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May, 1998
For the first time in years we are two months ahead of schedule,
having completed the first releases of all the June Etexts. The
list is appended below, with the first 6 July Etexts, since this
is being prepared on May 6th.
My thanks to all who have helped us get this far!
I would also like to thank Peter Graham for pointing out that in
the last Newsletter there may have been some errors. . .I forgot
to put in how to send us donations. . .so that is appended below
the list of the 43 Etexts recently completed.
We have a new site at:
ftp://ftp.muc.muohio.edu/pub/gutenberg
This site will also soon be accessible via the Web.
Requested:
From: Mike Menzel <menzelm@cadvision.com>
Subject: Ludendorff's War Memoirs
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Here is the index of the 42 new Etexts:
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext]####
This file has just been added retroactively
Feb 1998 North American Species of Cactus, by John Coulter [nasocxxx.xxx]1221
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
Jun 1998 When the World Shook, by H. Rider Haggard [HRH #3][wtwshxxx.xxx]1368
Jun 1998 Findelkind, by Louise de la Ramee ["Ouida"] [fndkdxxx.xxx]1367
Jun 1998 The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade [chrthxxx.xxx]1366
Jun 1998 The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [cphwlxxx.xxx]1365
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive, by Appleton[25tomxxx.xxx]1364
Jun 1998 Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters, Victor Appleton[24tomxxx.xxx]1363
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Undersea Search, Victor Appleton[23tomxxx.xxx]1362
Jun 1998 Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon, by Victor Appleton[16tomxxx.xxx]1361
Jun 1998 Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley[hstlexxx.xxx]1360
Jun 1998 Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield[bhnatxxx.xxx]1359
Jun 1998 Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson [Tennyson #3][enchrxxx.xxx]1358
Jun 1998 Madame Firmiani, by Honore de Balzac[de Balzac#19][frmnixxx.xxx]1357
Jun 1998 The Cruise of the Cachalot, by Frank T. Bullen [cchltxxx.xxx]1356
Jun 1998 The Underground City by Jules Verne[Jules Verne#7][ucityxxx.xxx]1355
Jun 1998 Chronicles of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery #6][avnlexxx.xxx]1354
Jun 1998 Off on a Comet, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #7][cometxxx.xxx]1353
Jun 1998 An Old Maid, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #18][omaidxxx.xxx]1352
Jun 1998 Chignecto Isthmus; First Settlers, Howard Trueman [chgntxxx.xxx]1351
Jun 1998 The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #17][ctrdrxxx.xxx]1350
Jun 1998 Russia, by Donald Mackenzie Wallace [rsdmwxxx.xxx]1349
Jun 1998 A Master's Degree, by Margaret Hill McCarter [amsdgxxx.xxx]1348
Jun 1998 A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson, by Edouard le Roy[anphbxxx.xxx]1347
Jun 1998 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx [mar18xxx.xxx]1346
Jun 1998 The Vicar of Tours, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#16][vcrtrxxx.xxx]1345
Jun 1998 Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan, Balzac [#15][sdpdcxxx.xxx]1344
Jun 1998 Bureaucracy, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #14][brcrcxxx.xxx]1343
Jun 1998 Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen [Austen #8][pandpxxx.xxx]1342
Jun 1998 The Altruist in Politics, by Benjamin Cardozo [ltpltxxx.xxx]1341
Jun 1998 Salome, by Oscar Wilde [Accents] [Oscar Wilde #21]salmexxh.xxx]1340
Not done!
Jun 1998 Salome, by Oscar Wilde[No Accents][Oscar Wilde #21]salmexxx.xxx]1339
Jun 1998 Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde [Oscar Wilde #20]slpwlxxx.xxx]1338
Jun 1998 Shelley, by Sydney Waterlow [Percy Bysshe Shelley][wshlyxxx.xxx]1337
Jun 1998 Shelley, by Francis Thompson[Percy Bysshe Shelley][tshlyxxx.xxx]1336
Jun 1998 The Ancien Regime, by Charles Kingsley[Kingsley#5][anrgmxxx.xxx]1335
Jun 1998 Paul Kelver by Jerome K. Jerome [JeromeKJerome#13][pklvrxxx.xxx]1334
Jun 1998 R F Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang[rfmurxxx.xxx]1333
And since you will probably receive this around the 6th, here are 6 more. . .
Jul 1998 Vendetta, by Honore de Balzac[Honore de Balzac#22][vndtaxxx.xxx]1374
Jul 1998 Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #21][sowmnxxx.xxx]1373
Jul 1998 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Irving #4[taocbxxx.xxx]1372
Jul 1998 Astoria, by Washinton Irving[Washington Irving #3][striaxxx.xxx]1371
Jul 1998 Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II [2aadwxxx.xxx[1370
Jul 1998 Paz, by Honore de Balzac, #20 by Honore de Balzac [pzhdbxxx.xxx]1369
And a few clippings from Edupage:
13 STATES TO FILE ANTITRUST SUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT
Thirteen states are preparing to file a joint antitrust action against
Microsoft to prevent the company from shipping its new Windows 98 operating
system software. The attorneys general said they would rather have
coordinated a federal-state action against Microsoft, but that they were
concerned over the slower time frame within which federal government
operates. Microsoft plans to begin shipping Windows 98 to computer makers
next month and to release it to the general public in June, and the states
felt taking any action after the PC makers began installing it on their
machines would be significantly more complicated. Microsoft's VP for law
and corporate affairs says: "This case involves a fundamental principle for
us, the freedom of high-technology companies to continue to innovate on
behalf of our customers. Part of innovation has to be integration. We are
going to continue to integrate products." (New York Times 30 Apr 98)
DON'T BLOCK WINDOWS 98, SAY VENDORS
Twenty-six computer industry executives, including the chairmen of Intel
Corp., Micron Electronics, Dell Computer, Compaq Computer and
Hewlett-Packard, have signed a joint letter urging the Department of Justice
not to block the planned release of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system.
"Interfering with the release of Windows 98 would drag down the entire
industry's efforts to deliver value to customers and returns to
shareholders," said the letter. The executives were careful to point out
that they weren't expressing "any opinion on the merits of the investigation
of Microsoft." The upgrade is expected to be shipped to computer makers in
mid-May and hit retail shelves on June 25. "The bottom line is, no computer
manufacturer can afford to harm their relationship with Microsoft," says the
president of the Software Publishers Association. "When Microsoft calls and
asks them to write a letter to Justice, they're hard-pressed not to." (Los
Angeles Times 1 May 98)
U S WEST TO OFFER TV, INTERNET ACCESS OVER PHONE LINES
For a cost "comparable" to the monthly fees charged by Cox Communications
(the primary cable company in Phoenix), U S West plans to offer its Phoenix
customers a video and data services package via "variable digital subscriber
lines," or VDSL. U S West says its service will include some 120 TV
channels and Internet access. In the past year, cable companies have begun
to offer Internet access as part of their monthly service, and an analyst
with International Data says, "If you're a phone company, you're going to
want to roll out a package of services that will blunt the attack from the
cable companies, which are trying to take away phone customers." (Wall
Street Journal 20 Apr 98)
SCIENTISTS DEMO INTERNET EXPRESS LANE
Scientists at two national laboratories demonstrated a new "differentiated
service" technology that gives certain types of electronic data higher
priority for transmission over the Internet. In the demo, two
streaming-video signals were sent -- one with a high-priority mark and one
without -- over an especially busy Internet route. The video marked
high-priority arrived at a speed of eight frames per second, versus one
frame per second for the unmarked video. Within a year, it may be possible
for research labs and universities that need more dependable Internet
connections to pay a higher cost for prioritized delivery. (Chronicle of
Higher Education 1 May 98)
[This is something we have written about before. . .it basically is like
a railroad system in which efficiently sendable text files are held over
to sidings to wait for movies and sound files to pass on express lanes--
the idea is that it is more important to move huge audio/video files for
entertainment than to move books for education. Huh?? Michael S. Hart]
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