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 distributed 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 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: An engine for full-text searching of the IAP Guide was once 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 once allowed you to look up geographic information about US locations, such as lat/long, population, zip code, county and lots more. We think it was permanently discontinued in mid-October 1997, though.

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.
MIT floorplans: Eytan Adar presents MIT floorplans available for viewing. MIT community only.
MIT Workstation Cluster maps: nocturne and sepherke maintain a set of 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 newsgroup hierarchy.
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.
Free Software Foundation: MIT still hosts the official FTP site for the Free Software Foundation, even though much of the Free Software Foundation's work has recently moved off campus.
Unofficial MBTA bus schedules: A group at LCS maintains an unofficial listing of MBTA bus, subway, and commuter rail schedules and maps.
Growth of the Web and Internet: Matthew Gray's report documents the growth of the web since mid-1993. The early data was collected using Matthew's World Wide Web Wanderer, the first web spider.
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 Macintosh and Windows systems: This page is intended for folks who want to telnet to systems that offer a telnet service with Kerberos support, e.g., Athena's dialup servers. This is much safer than sending your password over the network to a system without Kerberos.

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