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Nov 1994 Roderick Hudson, by Henry James [James #1] [rhudsxxx.xxx] 176
Oct 1994 The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux [phantxxx.xxx] 175
Oct 1994 The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde [#1] [dgrayxxx.xxx] 174
Oct 1994 The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, by Sax Rohmer [fumanxxx.xxx] 173
Oct 1994 The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley [hbookxxx.xxx] 172
Oct 1994 Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson [chtemxxx.xxx] 171
Oct 1994 The Haunted Hotel, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #2] [hhotlxxx.xxx] 170
Oct 1994 The Well At The World's End, by William Morris #1 [wwendxxx.xxx] 169
Oct 1994 History and Practice of the Art of Photography [hiphoxxx.xxx] 168
Sep 1994 Handbook of American Daguerrotype, by Humphrey [amdagxxx.xxx] 167
Sep 1994 Summer, by Edith Wharton [Wharton #1] [summrxxx.xxx] 166
Sep 1994 McTeague, by Frank Norris [#1 by Frank Norris] [mctegxxx.xxx] 165
Sep 1994 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne [Verne3][20000xxx.xxx] 164
Sep 1994 Flower Fables, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #1] [ffablxxx.xxx] 163
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Sep 1994 Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen [Austen #5] [sensexxx.xxx] 161
Sep 1994 The Awakening & Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin[awaknxxx.xxx] 160
Aug 1994 The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells[hgw#3][dmoroxxx.xxx] 159
Aug 1994 Emma, by Jane Austen [Fourth Jane Austen eBook] [emmaxxxx.xxx] 158
Aug 1994 Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster [Twain Grandniece][dllegxxx.xxx] 157
Aug 1994 Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, New Version in Stereo [lvb5sxxx.zip] 156C
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Aug 1994 The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #1] [mstonxxx.xxx] 155
Aug 1994 Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells [#1] [silapxxx.xxx] 154
Aug 1994 Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy [Hardy #5] [judexxxx.xxx] 153
Aug 1994 Wild Justice, by Ruth M. Sprague [wildjxxx.xxx] 152C
Jul 1994 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Coleridge [rimexxxx.xxx] 151
Jul 1994 The Republic by Plato, Jowett, Wiretap [repubxxx.xxx] 150
Jul 1994 The Lost Continent, by Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#2][lcontxxx.xxx] 149
Jul 1994 The Autobiography of Ben Franklin [bfautxxx.xxx] 148
Jul 1994 Common Sense, by Thomas Paine [Paine #1] [comsnxxx.xxx] 147
Jul 1994 A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett[#3] [lprssxxx.xxx] 146
Jul 1994 Middlemarch, by George Eliot[#1] [per PBS series] [mdmarxxx.xxx] 145
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Oct 2004 Love and Intrigue, (play) by Frederich Schiller, [fs24wxxx.xxx]6784
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Mar 2005 Zicci, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book 2 [BL#35][b035wxxx.xxx]7607
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Oct 2004 Wallenstein's Camp, (play) by F. Schiller, [fs25wxxx.xxx]6785
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Oct 2004 The Hawaiian Archipelago, Isabella L. Bird [Bird#5][hwapxxx.xxx]6750
[Author AKA: Mrs. Bishop]
Oct 2004 Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 2,Champlain [?vcv2xxx.xxx]6749
[Author's Full Name: Samuel de Champlain]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7vcv210.txt and 7vcv210.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8vcv210.txt and 8vcv210.zip]
[UTF-8 version with accented characters in 8vcv210u.txt and 8vcv210u.zip]
Oct 2004 Fulco de Minstreel, by Cornelis Johannes Kieviet [?flcdxxx.xxx]6748
[Subtitle: Een historisch verhaal uit den tijd van Graaf Jan I voor
jongelieden] [Language: Dutch]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7flcd10.txt and 7flcd10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8flcd10.txt and 8flcd10.zip]
Oct 2004 The Log of the Empire State, Geneve L.A. Shaffer [logesxxx.xxx]6747
Oct 2004 The Grey Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, Ed. [greyfxxx.xxx]6746
Oct 2004 Miss Parloa's New Cook Book, by Maria Parloa [?mpcbxxx.xxx]6745
[Also posted HTML as 8mpcb10h.zip - zipped only]
Oct 2004 Apology of the Augsburg Confession, by Melanchthon[plgscxxx.xxx]6744
[Full author: Philip Melanchthon]
Oct 2004 Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by F. H. Smith[#8][ccctrxxx.xxx]6743
[Full author: F. Hopkinson Smith]
Oct 2004 The School for Husbands, by Moliere [#16][schsbxxx.xxx]6742
Oct 2004 Life of Sheridan, V1, by Thomas Moore [mrbs1xxx.xxx]6741
[Title: Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1]
Oct 2004 Don Garcia of Navarre, by Moliere [#15][grnvrxxx.xxx]6740
Oct 2004 Les Caves du Vatican, by Andre Gide [?cvvtxxx.xxx]6739
[Also posted HTML - 8cvvt10h.zip and 8cvvt10h.htm]
Oct 2004 Four Canadian Highwaymen,Joseph Edmund Collins[#2][fhwmnxxx.xxx]6738
Oct 2004 The Social Cancer, by Jose Rizal [?sccnxxx.xxx]6737
[Spanish Title: Noli Me Tangere]
Oct 2004 Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen, by Kuno Fischer [?shbnxxx.xxx]6736
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Over the Border: Acadia, by Eliza Chase [vrbdrxxx.xxx]6735
Oct 2004 Drusilla with a Million, by Elizabeth Cooper [dsmlnxxx.xxx]6734
Oct 2004 Memoir, by Fr. Vincent de Paul [mvdplxxx.xxx]6733
Oct 2004 Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba, Mrs. Cecil Hall[llfmtxxx.xxx]6732
Oct 2004 The Duenna, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan [#10][thdnnxxx.xxx]6731
Oct 2004 Observations of a Retired Veteran,Henry C. Tinsley[bsrvtxxx.xxx]6730
Oct 2004 Wissenschaft der Logik V1, by Hegel [#2][?wsl1xxx.xxx]6729
[Full author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Rede zum Schuljahresabschluss, by Hegel [?rdslxxx.xxx]6728
[Full author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Lichtenstein, by Wilhelm Hauff [#5][?lchtxxx.xxx]6726
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Othello, by Wilhelm Hauff [#4][?thllxxx.xxx]6725
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Kater Martinchen, by Ernst Moritz Arndt [#2][?ktmcxxx.xxx]6724
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Prinz Friedrich von Homburg,Heinrich von Kleist[5][?pzfhxxx.xxx]6723
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 The Seven who were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev [sevehxxx.xxx]6722
Oct 2004 The Wentworth Letter, by Joseph Smith [wlettxxx.xxx]6720
Oct 2004 The Earth Trembled, by E.P. Roe [etremxxx.xxx]6719
Oct 2004 Cap'n Dan's Daughter, Joseph C. Lincoln [#13][cpdanxxx.xxx]6718
Oct 2004 Through Space to Mars, by Roy Rockwood [spmrsxxx.xxx]6717
[Subtitle: Or the Longest Journey on Record]
Oct 2004 The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks [s1906xxx.xxx]6716
Oct 2004 Isobel, by James Oliver Curwood [Curwood#11][isobexxx.xxx]6715
[Subtitle: A Romance of the Northern Trail]
Oct 2004 Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane, by Roy Rockwood [davedxxx.xxx]6714
[Subtitle: Or Daring Adventures over the Great Lake]
Oct 2004 God's Answers, by Clara M. S. Lowe [godsaxxx.xxx]6713
Oct 2004 Akbar,by Petrus Abraham Samuel van Limburg Brouwer[?akbaxxx.xxx]6712
[Subtitle: Een Oostersche roman]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7akba10.txt and 7akba10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8akba10.txt and 8akba10.zip]
[Language: Dutch]
Oct 2004 Philip Dru: Administrator, by Edward Mandell House[?phlpxxx.xxx]6711
[Subtitle: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7phlp10.txt and 7phlp10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8phlp10.txt and 8phlp10.zip]
[HTML version in 8phlp10h.htm and 8phlp10h.zip]
Oct 2004 The Evolution of Man, V.2, by Ernst Haeckel [EH#2][vlmn2xxx.xxx]6710
Oct 2004 Manuscript in a Copper Cylinder,James De Mille[#2][mssccxxx.xxx]6709
[Full title: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder]
(HTML also posted)
Oct 2004 China, by Demetrius Charles Boulger [chnblxxx.xxx]6708
Oct 2004 St. Patrick's Day,by Richard Brinsley Sheridan[#2][stptdxxx.xxx]6707
Oct 2004 The Emancipation of Massachusetts, by Brooks Adams[?mncmxxx.xxx]6706
Oct 2004 Mrs. Shelley, by Lucy M. Rossetti [?mshlxxx.xxx]6705
Oct 2004 A Domestic Problem, by Abby Morton Diaz [dmprbxxx.xxx]6704
Oct 2004 Favorite Dishes, by Carrie V. Shuman [fvdshxxx.xxx]6703
Oct 2004 Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe,Charles Edward Stowe[hbstwxxx.xxx]6702
Oct 2004 Sidonia The Sorceress V2, by William Mienhold [?sds1xxx.xxx]6701
Oct 2004 Sidonia The Sorceress V1, by William Mienhold [?sds1xxx.xxx]6700
Oct 2004 Inns and Taverns of Old London,by Henry C. Shelley[nntvlxxx.xxx]6699
Oct 2004 Phaenomenologie des Geistes, by G. Hegel [?phnmxxx.xxx]6698
[Author's Full Name: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7phnm10.txt and 7phnm10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8phnm10.txt and 8phnm10.zip]
[Language: German]
Oct 2004 Once Upon A Time In Connecticut, by C. Newton [ouatixxx.xxx]6697
[Author's Full Name: Caroline Clifford Newton]
[HTML also posted in ouati10h.htm/.zip; only the .zip contains images]
Oct 2004 Die Leute von Seldwyla, Vol. 1,by Gottfried Keller[?dls1xxx.xxx]6696
[Language: German]
Contains:
Pankraz der Schmoller
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
Frau Regel Amrain und ihr Jungster
Die drei gerechten Kammacher
Spiegel das K_tzchen: Ein M_rchen
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7dls110.txt and 7dls110.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8dls110.txt and 8dls110.zip]
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***Headline News***
[My Comments In Brackets]
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[Is This "The Thought Police?"]
NEW WAY TO FOIL DATA THIEVES
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo are
developing software that tracks and analyzes how each computer user
performs his or her routine tasks, such as opening files, sending e-mail
or searching archives, to create individual profiles. The "user-level
anomaly detection" software then alerts network administrators if a
worker's behavior deviates from his or her profile so that they can
monitor that employee's activities more aggressively. "The ultimate goal
is to detect intrusions or violations occurring on the fly," says head
researcher Shambhu Upadhyaya. "There are systems that try to do this in
real time, but the problem is it results in too many false alarms." Some
rival computer-security products also feature user profiling, but it's
based on huge amounts of data flowing through entire networks. Upadhyaya
says such detection systems are usually 60% to 80% reliable, whereas
simulation tests indicate the new software would be up to 94% accurate.
One information specialist says, "Other intrusion techniques require
something like looking at audit logs after the damage has already
occurred. The advantages offered by this approach is an intruder with
malicious intent can be identified very early and a system operator can
contain the damage, repair it in real time and shut out the intruder.
This means that systems that have been attacked by an intruder
maliciously might not necessarily be brought down."
(Wired.com 20 Jan 2003)
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57302,00.h...
PENTAGON TO SUPPLY COMBAT VIDEOPHONES
In an effort to counter hostile propaganda, the Pentagon plans to equip
public-affairs officers with two-way videophones, enabling them to set up
on-the-spot video interviews with frontline military commanders. The
$27,000 Austrian-made Scotty Tele-Transport videophones come in a rugged
briefcase that cradles a laptop computer with video-editing and recording
capability and includes a built-in camera, a keyboard and a pair of
collapsible satellite dish antennas. Television networks have begun using
such equipment extensively in the past year, and the Department of Defense
and U.S. intelligence agencies already own similar devices. "They have
these systems, but they hadn't thought about using it in this kind of way,"
says Lt. Col. David Lamp, a spokesman for the U.S. Joint Forces Command.
"We're finally getting a realization in the world that information is
power." Instead of sitting quietly while enemy forces broadcast claims that
U.S. forces have bombed a hospital or distributed poisoned emergency food
rations to refugees, as happened in Afghanistan, "the best thing to do is
to try to manage it, to use it. Commanders who don't do that, or leaders
who don't do that, they usually end up learning the hard way."
(AP 22 Jan 2003) http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030122/D7ON6ET00.html
["Scotty Tele-Transport". . .is this a pun on "Beam Me Up, Scotty" ???]
REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE WITH YOUR CELL PHONE
Within a year, scientists at Immersion say you'll be able to "touch"
someone over your mobile phone. The company has adapted the sensory
technology used in video game joysticks to send physical sensations via
wireless networks to the phone call recipient. The force feedback
technology works by making the phone vibrate in a number of ways. "The
vibration in mobile phones today all feels the same," says an Immersion
spokesman. "It is like a single note on a piano. What we can do is play
multiple notes or combine the notes to make them feel like chords."
Applications currently are focused on enhancing games that can be played
on wireless phones (on a driving game, for instance, you could feel the
engine vibrations and the shifting of the gears), and the development of
"vibe-tones," which are similar to ring tones and play a unique
vibration pattern linked to a specific caller. Immersion has also
produced a series of vibrations designed to express emotion, which could
accompany a text message. The company says the technology would add
about a dollar to the cost of manufacturing a phone and could, in the
future, be adapted for handheld computers.(BBC News 21 Jan 2003)
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