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- If you're a member of the MIT community, you should read André
DeHon's security
assessment for the MIT Card.
- If you administer a Unix system at MIT (even if it's a PC that
only occasionally runs a Unix system such as Linux or NetBSD) you
should read some new information about
maintaining
security so that your system isn't compromised by intruders.
- The MIT FL&L
Foreign News and Magazines Page contains over 600 links to news sources
in 8 foreign languages.
- The MIT Hack
Gallery. Your favorite hacks are here, from the CP Car on the Dome, to
the Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool.
- LSC has movie schedules and other
information online.
- The MIT Events Calendar.
- MIT is currently helping to establish a
Boston Area gigaPoP.
As of October 1997, Internet traffic from MIT to
Harvard is using part of the
new facility.
- The MIT Media Lab
- Useful info for Cambridge
people:
- Companies started by MIT people. The
list is too short, so if you are MIT-community and own a company, submit
the URL!
- XEvil, a blood-n-guts game for
UNIX boxes, is available here. Hey, the more UNIX games in the world, the
better.
- Hey, rei's good old html
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-like game "The CyberMUD". Give it a shot
sometime. It's well over a year old. It must be a classic!
- Matthew Gray and various SIPB members present: StoryFun!
- Playbill On-Line's Theatre
Central page, originally developed by
Andrew Q. Kraft.
"Anything and everything that you could ever imagine in
the world of theatre on the Web is here," says enthusiastic creator.
- The
Tech Classics Archive. Hey, classics can be fun (like when you're
punting your 8.05 problem set). Everything from the Iliad to Herodotus'
History.
- Some people want to make science fun... These people want to make
science silly.
- Edupage, a column on
information technology provided by a consortium of leading colleges and
universities.
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