opus4: fixing typos and reorder the content - tgtimes - The Gopher Times HTML git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Tags DIR README --- DIR commit 020fa6ad1bbce32db32fbaf9a2f06c37e2d304ae DIR parent 6af3e24c4b5e54a33ad442faafdb720e054dfab0 HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 17:19:42 +0200 opus4: fixing typos and reorder the content Diffstat: M opus4/article-20h-interview.mw | 9 ++------- A opus4/article-announce-open-admin-… | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T… | 2 +- M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T… | 2 +- M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T… | 2 +- M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T… | 4 ++-- M opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving… | 8 ++++---- M opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.… | 7 ++++--- M opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the… | 4 ++-- M opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-lo… | 37 +++++++++++++++---------------- M opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars… | 6 +++--- M opus4/tgtimes4.mw | 5 +++-- M opus4/tgtimes4.pdf | 0 M opus4/tgtimes4.txt | 365 +++++++++++++++++-------------- 14 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 212 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-20h-interview.mw b/opus4/article-20h-interview.mw @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ For example in the spirometry description, they say, that only some bluetooth printers are compatible. . .PP -This is due to the bluetooth standard not having defined, *what* +This is due to the bluetooth standard not having defined, \fBwhat\fR is sent to bluetooth printers. . .PP @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ I, as doctor, only see the printed out results and explain them to patients. . .QP -Do she does not have to use command line interface for that? +Does she have to use command line interface for that? . .PP No, it's all practical. @@ -201,11 +201,6 @@ data for further research. I am using a 25 yr old ECG and some 10 yr old spirometer. . .QP -What could have motivated the designers to use something this-much -cumbersome? -[not asked, already answered] -. -.QP Are there any similarities in other devices to reuse the existing work you just did? . DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-announce-open-admin-position-in-france.mw b/opus4/article-announce-open-admin-position-in-france.mw @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +.SH announce +Linux Sysadmin Job Offer +. +.PP +The web is hiring over and over. +A lot of professions were converted from something, +to something with online web tools and a lot of computer systems +are using a webinterfaces that are just skins for a database. +. +.PP +If you feel like giving a good sweep in all the dust of webservers, +and transform fragile, complex, buggy ecosystems onto leaner, more +stable systems, and are currently looking for a job as an Admin, we +might have an offer for you. +. +.PP +The offer is located in France, within a warm and horsing team in +a 20-sized company powering a little part of the Internet (not only +the Web), dealing with clients from local shops to international +groups. +. +.PP +Come and discover the culture of Lille, in North of France, one of +the only places where you can taste both Carbonnade (Belgian, meat +cooked onto Belgian beer) and Welsh (Great Britain, quality melted +cheddar served on a dish). +. +.PP +Contact \fIjosuah\fR on ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en to know +more about it. DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.SH +.SH 20h FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27 .PP In comemoration of the beginning summer time in central Europe, we will celebrate FreeDOOMDay! On 2022-03-27 20:00 CEST (be careful!), we will play chocolate-doom DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.SH +.SH 20h Memecache atom feed .PP Thanks to the innovation from the Netherlands, DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.SH +.SH 20h FreeDOOMDay results .PP Thanks to everyone participating in our first tryout to play doom over our bitreich infrastructure. DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -.SH -Bitreich migrating to Windows Server 2022 +.SH 20h +Bitreich migrating to Windows Server . .PP Yesterday the last SSH.com license we had expired. DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ can be in comparison to fragile, high-tech interdependent ecosystems. . .PP Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any person with -access to a source of information and an analog emitter may start -reading a daily digest of news read from web newspapers. +access to an analog emitter may start reading a daily digest of +news read from forbidden newspapers. . .PP Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to build with @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ signal, that after demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed to a speaker. . .PP -It also shows the benefits of putting all the technically difficult -parts onto the side of the content producer helps with adoption of +It also shows benefits of putting all the technically difficult +parts onto the side of the content producer. It helps with adoption of a new technology: Making the client device/software trivial and safe to build, setup and use. . DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw @@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ Beerware: Hardware for Beer . .PP -Old hardware power-recycled into a bartender. Such is the project of -the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now visiting countries abroad. +Retreated industrial robot hardware recycled into a bartender. +Such is the project of the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now +visiting countries abroad. . .PP A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but while still working, @@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ the curious crowd passing by. . .PP And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a treat, it can also -prepare some \fIcrepes\fR, the Bretons's favorite dessert. +prepare some \fIcrepes\fR, the Bretons' favorite dessert. . .DS https://bistromatik.com/ DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ wooden cross, tall as three persons, painted in blue, a recognisable cross shaped as an 'f', the 'f' of facebook. . .PP -This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting any watching the unrealistic -scene to question themself on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated +This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting anyone to watch the unrealistic +scene, and question themself on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated with technology. . .QP DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw @@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ High-Tech, Low-Life . .IP "High-Tech" Refers to the ability to use complex tools created by engineering, -or in the absence of a large corporation to build them, hacking -things together. +or hacking things together. . -.PP "Low-Life" +.IP "Low-Life" Refers to those put aside by society, such as criminal or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or hobos and beggars, pushed to the edge by more or less everyone. @@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ edge by more or less everyone. .PP One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life would be a criminal using modern tools such to empower its crimes. -A transaction giving the bad guys the big guns. Not helpful. +A transaction giving the bad guys the big guns. Not good. . .PP But another way to portray it is someone rejected by its surroundings, @@ -25,22 +24,22 @@ revolts in China. . .PP The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us that it is -not an alternate science-fiction plot, but a phenomenon happenning -today. +not a science-fiction plot, but a phenomenon happenning today. . .PP Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more like a GAFAM +(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) plan to rule over the thirld-world while looking like a humanitarian -hero saving the world, but a bit of honesty would reveal that it is -closer to offering the Low-Life people to the High-Tech corps, by -extending further the frontiers of ad-tech. +hero saving the world. But another way to see it is surrending the +Low-Life people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending further +the frontiers of ad-tech. . .PP Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most urgent kind of technology people without a meal a day is going to need. What about a tractor though? In its simplest form, in China again, a 55 -years-old lady farmer started to use a hoverboard (board onto which -to stand, with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of daily +years-old lady farmer started to use a hoverboard (board to stand on +with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of daily walk to carry the vegetables harvested, into 40 minutes riding this board. . @@ -51,24 +50,24 @@ https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml . .PP Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point wireless links -in west Africa to circumvent the poor power and inexistant cable -infrastructure, as well as escape the lobby and regulations that -take over the few IT resources of that country? +in west Africa to circumvent the poor cable infrastructure? This +would help escaping the lobby and regulations that take over the +few IT resources of that country? . .DS http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf +https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/ .DE . .PP -Or even trying to figure out how to make small solar or wind-power -stations that are affordable enough for the budget of a small -off-grid village (with a few subventions)? Or an on-street display +Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power stations for +the tights budgets of off-grid villages? Or an on-street display continuously showing live job offers? . .QP -Open-sourced a driver for the community? +Did you open-source a driver for the community as part of your job? Installed Linux on an old laptop for someone in need? Convincing the boss to make the project open-source? Attended a surprising situation of that kind? Tell us your story of High-Tech given to Low-Life on #bitreich-en -IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org server +IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org server. DIR diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790/papers/mars_pathfinder_long_versi At its core, most operating systems are built around a scheduler that orchestrates execution of many tasks onto one or several CPUs. It is a critical piece of software in the case of real-time operating -systems, that must ensure to deliver some actions right on time. +systems, that must ensure to trigger some actions right on time. . .PP Complex systems may be unfit for such purposes, and software @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ simplicity has found its way through experimenting how complex systems may end-up in difficult-to-debug situations. . .PP -Picturing oneself in charge of reproducing a bug on earth for +Imagine yourself in charge of reproducing a bug on earth for something that went wrong on another planet, with a patch expected -for next Monday is a strong pressure toward keeping systems simple +for next Monday. A strong argument toward keeping systems simple and easier to debug. . .PP DIR diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.mw b/opus4/tgtimes4.mw @@ -13,14 +13,15 @@ Opus 4 - Gopher news and more - Apr. 2022 .so opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw .so opus4/article-ganssle-fortran-compiler.mw .so opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw -.so opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw .so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw -.so opus4/article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw +.so opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw .so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw .so opus4/article-tgtimes-st-lazare-transforms.mw .so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw .so opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw +.so opus4/article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw .so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-29T17-17-55-362953.mw .so opus4/article-tmpout-2.mw .so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw +.so opus4/article-announce-open-admin-position-in-france.mw .so opus4/footer.mw DIR diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.pdf b/opus4/tgtimes4.pdf Binary files differ. DIR diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.txt b/opus4/tgtimes4.txt @@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________ high-tech interdependent ecosystems. Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any - person with access to a source of information and an - analog emitter may start reading a daily digest of - news read from web newspapers. + person with access to an analog emitter may start + reading a daily digest of news read from forbidden + newspapers. Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to build with scavenged parts. An antenna is simply a @@ -153,11 +153,11 @@ ____________________________________________________________ demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed to a speaker. - It also shows the benefits of putting all the - technically difficult parts onto the side of the - content producer helps with adoption of a new - technology: Making the client device/software trivial - and safe to build, setup and use. + It also shows benefits of putting all the technically + difficult parts onto the side of the content producer. + It helps with adoption of a new technology: Making the + client device/software trivial and safe to build, + setup and use. https://hackaday.com/2022/03/17/owning-a-shortwave-radio @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ that only some bluetooth printers are compatible. This is due to the bluetooth standard not having - defined, *what* is sent to bluetooth printers. + defined, what is sent to bluetooth printers. It should be the minimum, to define this, as it is in the USB printing standard. @@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________ I, as doctor, only see the printed out results and explain them to patients. - >> Do she does not have to use command line interface - for that? + >> Does she have to use command line interface for + that? No, it's all practical. The spirometer starts its bluetooth client for rfcommd and rfcommd runs the @@ -394,10 +394,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________ for further research. I am using a 25 yr old ECG and some 10 yr old spirometer. - >> What could have motivated the designers to use - something this-much cumbersome? [not asked, already - answered] - >> Are there any similarities in other devices to reuse the existing work you just did? @@ -464,9 +460,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________ painted in blue, a recognisable cross shaped as an 'f', the 'f' of facebook. - This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting any - watching the unrealistic scene to question themself on - the weight of social media, and beliefs associated + This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting anyone + to watch the unrealistic scene, and question themself + on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated with technology. >> investigating global interconnection utopia, @@ -516,17 +512,17 @@ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ High-Tech Refers to the ability to use complex tools - created by engineering, or in the absence of a large - corporation to build them, hacking things together. + created by engineering, or hacking things together. - Refers to those put aside by society, such as criminal - or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or hobos and - beggars, pushed to the edge by more or less everyone. + Low-Life Refers to those put aside by society, such as + criminal or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or + hobos and beggars, pushed to the edge by more or + less everyone. One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life would be a criminal using modern tools such to empower its crimes. A transaction giving the bad guys the big - guns. Not helpful. + guns. Not good. But another way to portray it is someone rejected by its surroundings, seeking support through @@ -536,85 +532,54 @@ ____________________________________________________________ happen with the late revolts in China. The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us - that it is not an alternate science-fiction plot, but - a phenomenon happenning today. + that it is not a science-fiction plot, but a + phenomenon happenning today. Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more - like a GAFAM plan to rule over the thirld-world while - looking like a humanitarian hero saving the world, but - a bit of honesty would reveal that it is closer to - offering the Low-Life people to the High-Tech corps, - by extending further the frontiers of ad-tech. + like a GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, + Microsoft) plan to rule over the thirld-world while + looking like a humanitarian hero saving the world. But + another way to see it is surrending the Low-Life + people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending + further the frontiers of ad-tech. Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most urgent kind of technology people without a meal a day is going to need. What about a tractor though? In its simplest form, in China again, a 55 years-old lady - farmer started to use a hoverboard (board onto which - to stand, with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 - hours of daily walk to carry the vegetables harvested, - into 40 minutes riding this board. + farmer started to use a hoverboard (board to stand on + with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of + daily walk to carry the vegetables harvested, into 40 + minutes riding this board. https://nextshark.com/chinese-farmer-hoverboard-life/ https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point wireless links in west Africa to circumvent the poor - power and inexistant cable infrastructure, as well as - escape the lobby and regulations that take over the - few IT resources of that country? + cable infrastructure? This would help escaping the + lobby and regulations that take over the few IT + resources of that country? http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf + https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/ - Or even trying to figure out how to make small solar - or wind-power stations that are affordable enough for - the budget of a small off-grid village (with a few - subventions)? Or an on-street display continuously - showing live job offers? - - >> Open-sourced a driver for the community? Installed - Linux on an old laptop for someone in need? - Convincing the boss to make the project open-source? - Attended a surprising situation of that kind? Tell - us your story of High-Tech given to Low-Life on - #bitreich-en IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org - server - - - - Beerware: Hardware for Beer tgtimes -____________________________________________________________ - - Old hardware power-recycled into a bartender. Such is - the project of the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now - visiting countries abroad. - - A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but - while still working, was removed from production, and - collected dust in a warehouse. - - Jean-Marie Ollivier took this bored machine that he - named "Nestor", got it to move again, and rather than - servicing the industry, was programmed it to serve - beers. - - >> It is not rare to see Jean-Marie make Nestor dance - on a violin melody. - - Moving from town to town, this iron giant, taller than - any human, goes on display grabbing gobelets, filling - them at the tap, and offering them to the curious - crowd passing by. - - And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a - treat, it can also prepare some crepes, the Bretons's - favorite dessert. + Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power + stations for the tights budgets of off-grid villages? + Or an on-street display continuously showing live job + offers? - https://bistromatik.com/ + >> Did you open-source a driver for the community as + part of your job? Installed Linux on an old laptop + for someone in need? Convincing the boss to make the + project open-source? Attended a surprising situation + of that kind? Tell us your story of High-Tech given + to Low-Life on #bitreich-en IRC channel on the + irc.bitreich.org server. - FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27 + FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27 20h ____________________________________________________________ In comemoration of the beginning summer time in @@ -643,94 +608,39 @@ ____________________________________________________________ - Gopher for Medical Research tgtimes + Beerware: Hardware for Beer tgtimes ____________________________________________________________ - The National Institute of Health is well used to the - Gopher protocol, for it used it as a way to publish - medical documentation. You named it: PubMed itself - have been delivering documents through Gopher: - - Phone books with name, phone number and e-mail - addresses of those willing to submit it, - - Images like weathermaps, - - Audio such as 1992 presidential debates, - - Books and all kind of publcations, also proposed to - users as a way to publish their own content, - - Videos short ones, but also on-demand movies! - - Telnet interfaces with login and password, - - Search engines For browsing this entire content. - - The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as - much. While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted - with nowadays unlimited technology, equivalents to - modern tools, with less bells and less whistles, were - already widespread among providers, but much less used - as they are today: - - Spotify were files through Gopher. - - Netflix were files through Gopher. - - PubMed, ResearchGate were files through Gopher. - - Instagram were files through Gopher. - - Facebook were publication as files through Gopher. - - Amazon Kindle were text files through Gopher. - - Office365 were telnet interactive session, or - WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII files through - Gopher. - - Google was either gopher search, or interactive telnet - sessions, with sometimes powerful query languages, - permitting to filter the result held in the - databases: Searching for references about Italians - with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH) - - This showcases that a lot of thing declared as - possible today thank to the advances of technology - were available since as early as 1994. With much less - bells and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth - for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as - well. + Retreated industrial robot hardware recycled into a + bartender. Such is the project of the Bistromatik, + born in Brittany, now visiting countries abroad. - Interactive database querying languages would look a - bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the - document) has not all the font, layout, media - integration features of modern day web browsers. + A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but + while still working, was removed from production, and + collected dust in a warehouse. - Under that perspective, the race to technology looks - like not a quest for new use-cases, but taking what - was possible in the early days to in a crude format - and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an - inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that - fit on a mere pocket. + Jean-Marie Ollivier took this bored machine that he + named "Nestor", got it to move again, and rather than + servicing the industry, was programmed it to serve + beers. - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_april_1994.pdf + >> It is not rare to see Jean-Marie make Nestor dance + on a violin melody. - One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine - project still is blown at full steam, as the National - Library of Medecine publishes a bibliography for - setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on - specific medical topics. + Moving from town to town, this iron giant, taller than + any human, goes on display grabbing gobelets, filling + them at the tap, and offering them to the curious + crowd passing by. - >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the - National Library of Medicine + And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a + treat, it can also prepare some crepes, the Bretons' + favorite dessert. - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/ + https://bistromatik.com/ - Memecache atom feed + Memecache atom feed 20h ____________________________________________________________ Thanks to the innovation from the Netherlands, we can @@ -747,6 +657,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ + St-Lazare's Paris Train Station tgtimes ____________________________________________________________ @@ -791,7 +702,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ - FreeDOOMDay results + FreeDOOMDay results 20h ____________________________________________________________ Thanks to everyone participating in our first tryout @@ -859,7 +770,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ scheduler that orchestrates execution of many tasks onto one or several CPUs. It is a critical piece of software in the case of real-time operating systems, - that must ensure to deliver some actions right on + that must ensure to trigger some actions right on time. Complex systems may be unfit for such purposes, and @@ -867,10 +778,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________ experimenting how complex systems may end-up in difficult-to-debug situations. - Picturing oneself in charge of reproducing a bug on + Imagine yourself in charge of reproducing a bug on earth for something that went wrong on another planet, - with a patch expected for next Monday is a strong - pressure toward keeping systems simple and easier to + with a patch expected for next Monday. A strong + argument toward keeping systems simple and easier to debug. Although, the Mars operating system landscape is not @@ -895,6 +806,94 @@ ____________________________________________________________ + Gopher for Medical Research tgtimes +____________________________________________________________ + + The National Institute of Health is well used to the + Gopher protocol, for it used it as a way to publish + medical documentation. You named it: PubMed itself + have been delivering documents through Gopher: + + Phone books with name, phone number and e-mail + addresses of those willing to submit it, + + Images like weathermaps, + + Audio such as 1992 presidential debates, + + Books and all kind of publcations, also proposed to + users as a way to publish their own content, + + Videos short ones, but also on-demand movies! + + Telnet interfaces with login and password, + + Search engines For browsing this entire content. + + The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as + much. While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted + with nowadays unlimited technology, equivalents to + modern tools, with less bells and less whistles, were + already widespread among providers, but much less used + as they are today: + + Spotify were files through Gopher. + + Netflix were files through Gopher. + + PubMed, ResearchGate were files through Gopher. + + Instagram were files through Gopher. + + Facebook were publication as files through Gopher. + + Amazon Kindle were text files through Gopher. + + Office365 were telnet interactive session, or + WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII files through + Gopher. + + Google was either gopher search, or interactive telnet + sessions, with sometimes powerful query languages, + permitting to filter the result held in the + databases: Searching for references about Italians + with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH) + + This showcases that a lot of thing declared as + possible today thank to the advances of technology + were available since as early as 1994. With much less + bells and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth + for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as + well. + + Interactive database querying languages would look a + bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the + document) has not all the font, layout, media + integration features of modern day web browsers. + + Under that perspective, the race to technology looks + like not a quest for new use-cases, but taking what + was possible in the early days to in a crude format + and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an + inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that + fit on a mere pocket. + + https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_april_1994.pdf + + One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine + project still is blown at full steam, as the National + Library of Medecine publishes a bibliography for + setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on + specific medical topics. + + >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the + National Library of Medicine + + https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/ + + + + Secret voting for Bitreich Council 20h ____________________________________________________________ @@ -927,7 +926,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________ - TMP.0UT Volume 2 is Out tmpout ____________________________________________________________ @@ -957,7 +955,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________ - Bitreich migrating to Windows Server 2022 + + Bitreich migrating to Windows Server 20h ____________________________________________________________ Yesterday the last SSH.com license we had expired. We @@ -991,6 +990,38 @@ ____________________________________________________________ + Linux Sysadmin Job Offer announce +____________________________________________________________ + + The web is hiring over and over. A lot of professions + were converted from something, to something with + online web tools and a lot of computer systems are + using a webinterfaces that are just skins for a + database. + + If you feel like giving a good sweep in all the dust + of webservers, and transform fragile, complex, buggy + ecosystems onto leaner, more stable systems, and are + currently looking for a job as an Admin, we might have + an offer for you. + + The offer is located in France, within a warm and + horsing team in a 20-sized company powering a little + part of the Internet (not only the Web), dealing with + clients from local shops to international groups. + + Come and discover the culture of Lille, in North of + France, one of the only places where you can taste + both Carbonnade (Belgian, meat cooked onto Belgian + beer) and Welsh (Great Britain, quality melted cheddar + served on a dish). + + Contact josuah on ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en + to know more about it. + + + + Publishing in The Gopher Times you ____________________________________________________________