SIPB WWW Gateways and Services List
Useful Gateways and Services
- Locate Athena users using the
zlocate
program.
- Zephyr is a distributing messaging system developed at MIT
available from
athena-dist. This gateway allows you to locate where on the
Athena distributed network a user is logged in. For example, you can
see if any of the
webmasters are currently logged in.
- Get current weather information and
Boston forecast
- This is a point and click map of the US which will then retrieve current weather conditions and forecasts for that location.
- Athena and SIPB
AFS cells
- AFS is a the Andrew File System, a distributed file system used at MIT and dozens of other sites. The SIPB maintains an AFS cell of its own and exports the SIPB and Athena cells to the web.
- Interface to Amateur Radio Callsigns database
- Interface to the University of Buffalo ham radio callsign database, written by N1DPU, aka Mark Eichin
- Interface to the
cview
program
- Cview displays information on free Athena workstations broken down by location
- A brand-new Discuss gateway
- Newly redone, with lots of cool icons and stuff.
- Geographic Nameserver database
- This gateway allows you to look up geographic information about US locations, such as lat/long, population, zip code, county and lots more.
- Some logs and statistics for this server.
- At the moment, just usage growth over time.
- The MITSFS Pinkdex
- An on-line index of the MIT
Science Fiction Society library, the largest science fiction collection in the world.
-
The Freshman Fishwrap
- Fishwrap is a personalized newspaper project
provided by the News in the Future group at the MIT Media
Laboratory. (MIT only)
- OLC Stock Answers
to Common Questions
- The Online Consultants answers to common questions. Includes answers to many questions about using Athena.
- The Virtual Tourist.
- A map of maps of web resources
- MIT Student and Staff Directory.
- A gateway to the MIT PhoneBook server, with information on MIT
staff and students.
- Eric Richard's Sports Information Service
- Contains thorough up to date information about sports scores, rosters and standings. Currently only contains basketball information.
- MIT floorplans.
- Eytan Adar presents MIT floorplans available for viewing. MIT community only.
- A finger gateway
- This gateway will return useful finger information for as many places as
possible. If you know of a place where it isn't as useful as it could be, let
us know. Right now, querying
athena.dialup.mit.edu
is a way to demonstrate one of the nifty features.
- A machine information gateway
- This gateway provides DNS information about hostnames, and can handle
queries for hostnames which involve odd DNS hacks, like
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
- SIPB documents
- Information on everything from AFS, to Linux, to Zephyr, to SIPB itself.
webmaster@mit.edu