Useful Gateways and Services
- SIPB CGI Scripts
- SIPB Services
- Other Useful MIT related Services
SIPB Web Services
- Comment script
- Learn how to use the comment
script in your home page. Users will have a more friendly
interface to send you email.
- Web page usage counter
- Learn how to use our simple web page counter.
- 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.
- Zwrite gateway
- Contact MIT students from the web via the zephyr.
- 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.
- Interface to Amateur Radio Callsigns database
- Interface to the University of Buffalo ham radio callsign database,
written by N1DPU, aka Mark
Eichin
- 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.
SIPB Services
- Searchable IAP Guide
- Engine for full-text searching of the IAP Guide. Written by Toby Elliott.
Plus, here's a list of
SIPB IAP courses.
- 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.
Other Useful Services
- Computer virus
protection software
- The Information Security Office offers free virus protection
software. Web access is limited to the MIT Community.
- Nutrition
information
- Nutrition information specific to MIT students.
- 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.
- 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
- Search the 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.
- MIT
Workstation Cluster maps
- nocturne
maintains a set maps of various workstation clusters around MIT.
- An enhanced finger
gateway for MIT user information
- Christopher Vincent at the AI Lab has hacked up a finger
gateway tailored for searching through MIT user information.
- 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.
-
Usenet FAQ archive
- You can read the FAQs to many Usenet newsgroups on the Web, sorted by
subject or by
newsgroup heirarchy.
If you can't find a FAQ using the above link, you can also try to
retrieve it by anonymous ftp to rtfm.mit.edu,
the canonical Usenet FAQ site, sorted either by the particular usenet
group or by hierarchy.
However, rtfm.mit.edu is often very overloaded and slow, and so the only
reason to use it is if you can't find the FAQ elsewhere.
- Unofficial MBTA bus
schedules
- A group at LCS maintains an unofficial listing of MBTA bus, subway, and
commuter rail schedules and maps.
- Search the WWW Wandex
- Matthew Gray's WWW
Wanderer is an engine to determine the growth of the Web. You can
now search the Web-wide index it generates.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Encyclopedia Britannica is now available online to MIT. Licensing
restrictions require the following text: "by the terms of MIT's license
agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica, access to these materials is
limited to Authorized Users of the MIT community only".
- The
Oxford English Dictionary
- A monster dictionary -- available to MIT people on the Web.
- Kerberos
telnet for the Macintosh
- This page is intended for folks who have resnet connections and have a
web browser (or are on Athena) but who can't get NCSA Telnet to work
with a kerberos-encrypted login. It gives screenshots and fairly
explicit directions on how to get it all working together.
- Interactive
MIT map
- An aerial photo of MIT turned into an image map. Click on the picture
to get a description of what that building does. Lets you add
suggestions about buildings and locations that are not in the map.
webmaster@mit.edu