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Results: First Internet Hunt, Pt. 2 of 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Thu Sep 10 09:16:24 1992
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:04:40 CDT
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From: lb05gate@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Rick Gates)
Subject: RESULTS: First Internet Hunt, Pt. 2 of 2
THE ANSWERS
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1. (4) I'm leaving for Japan tomorrow. Approximately how many
yen can I get for my dollar, give or take a few yen ?
Winner's Answer:
(4) 126.23 (an end of August figure)
Via Gopher access to Hermes.Merit.Edu
to UM-Ulibrary and
to the menu soc-sci, then
ec bulletin board, then
monetary stats.
Other Answers:
(3) 123.01 on 9/1/92, according to "USA TODAY: Headline
Business News" on the Cleveland Freenet
(telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, then
access "The Business and Industrial Park.")
(Rick: USA Today on Cleveland Freenet does not always carry
exchange rates.)
(3) CIA World Factbook
telnet info.cern.ch
Search under Japan
(Rick: Need to do a large text search)
(2) Usenet group soc.culture.japan
(Rick: This info is infrequent.)
2. (7) A hurricane just blew in! Where can I find satellite
photos of it's progress?
Winner's Answer:
(6) For satellite photos,
ftp to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.
The files are .gif files.
(Rick: The directory for these files /wx, needs to be
specified for maximum points.)
Other Answers:
(6) ftp unidata.ucar.edu
(Rick: Not as current.)
(Rick: Not what I was asking for, but several users gave me
information on a Quick-Time movie that was specific to Hurricane
Andrew. Check out ftp to:
sumex-aim.stanford.edu:
/info-mac/art/qt/hurricane-andrew.hqx
or
nic.switch.ch
/mirror/info-mac/art/qt/hurricane-andrew.hqx
)
3. (6) I'm taking a job as a social studies teacher at a high
school in Denver, Co. Where can I find a list of local
environmental organizations that could come speak to my classes?
Winner's Answer:
(6) Access CARL (pac.carl.org). The Directory of Environmental
Education Resources (DEER) is a joint project of Colorado
Alliance for Environmental Education (CAEE) and Colorado
Dept. of Education, as a service from Pikes Peak Library
District. At Pikes Peak Lib. District menu go to #3 for
Encyclopedias, Business and Reference (sources including
DEER). DEER is 26. If you browse by title you will see an
alphabetical list of programs focused on environmental ed.
Other Answers:
(2) Suggested asking at various Usenet groups such as
K12.net
talk.environment
4. (4) My wife just got a job at the University of North
Carolina. My specialty is computer/data processing work. Where
can I find a list of jobs in that area of the state?
Winner's answer:
(4) North Carolina State University's CWIS, "Happenings," has a
menu item, "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs," which contains the listings of
vacancies posted by the North Carolina Office of State
Personnel Vacancies. Category #5 is entitled "Data
Processing." Beyond that, the CWISes of the University of
North Carolina at Asheville, at Chapel Hill, at Greensboro,
and at Wilmington also provide job listings. One of my
difficulties for this question is that I haven't a clue at
which University of North Carolina site your wife got a job.
That's why I decided to give you all the possible UNC sites.
For the state listings the NCSU's Happenings is the best
source.
Other Answers
(4) telnet to info.acs.unc.edu,
login: info, and
select #6 "Human Resources (faculty/staff)"
5. (2) How many copies of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" does
the University of Nevada at Las Vegas hold?
Winner's Answer:
(1) There are two copies in special collections at the Univ. of
Nevada at Las Vegas. I couldn't get in through UNLV but did
get in through Reno and found access to Southern Nevada which
enabled me to look up Las Vegas.
(Rick: We need the telnet address (IP) for full points here.)
6. (6) Bill Clinton made a speech somewhere on Earth day this
year. Where can I find the text of it?
Winner's Answer:
(6) Via WAIS (quake.think.com), I searched Clinton
speeches at sunsite.unc.edu. - clinton-speechess.
Bill Clinton spoke at Drexel University in Philadelphia,
PA on Earth Day in April 22, 1992.
Other Answers:
(Rick: There were many good answers. Here are a few...)
(6) Cleveland Free-Net.
go campaign.
Select 3.
Article 48
(6) ftp sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/docs/speeches
(6) ftp to ftp.uu.net
cd doc/papers/democrats/clinton
get enviro.text
(6) The text of the speech can also be found on
cobalt.cco.caltech.edu in
/pub/bjmccall/Clinton2/enviro.txt
(6) FTP to nptn.org (192.55.234.52)
under /pub/campaign.92.
The filename is called c46.txt.
(6) ftp from ftp.uu.net in directory
/doc/literary/obi/USElection/President/Clinton
as enviro.txt.Z.
(5) LDBASE search of the archives at CLINTON@MARIST
(Rick: need to subscribe to search these archives.)
7. (7) I just read an interesting paper by a Bradley Smith in
the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Australia.
Is it possible to get an email address for him?
Winner's Answer
(7) Yes, his address is: bjs@crystal.uwa.oz.au
Using the Internet Gopher X500 gateway, phonebooks
directory, you can narrow to country, to Australia, to
university, and then to Chemistry department.
Other Answers
(7) Netfind at the University of Colorado.
(Telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu and
login as netfind.
Search for Smith Western Australia)
(7) whois -h uniwa.uwa.oz.au smith
(7) I found his address by first anonymous FTP-ing the
whois-servers.list from sipb.mit.edu (cd /pub/whois). The
list told me that there is a whois server at uwa.edu.au, so I
used Fetch to FTP to the site. I got the file "directories"
from the server (cd /pub/aarnet/resource-guide/directories),
which told me that the University of Western Australia's
whois information could be retrieved with the command "whois
-h uwa.oz.au name", which was Smith. I got a list of
everyone named Smith who was associated with the University
of Western Australia.
(7) whois -h uwa.edu.au smith
8. (2) Someone told me that there's a collection of software
specifically for libraries stored somewhere in Canada called
libsoft. How do I get ahold of this software?
Winner's Answer:
(2) You can FTP to hydra.uwo.edu, directory libsoft. [I know this
because a file of mine is in this directory.]
(Rick: Most people suggesting searching archie or doing an
archive search of pacs-l at uhupvm1.)
9. (4) Where can I find news, discussions, and perhaps
eyewitness reports out of what used to be Yugoslavia?
Winner's Answer:
(4) A good mailing list is the listserv SOC.CULTURE.YUGOSLAVIA.
Other Answers:
(3) The e-conference MidEur-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (subscribe by
sending mail to listserv@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU with the
contents "SUB MIDEUR-L yourfirstname yourlastname"), or
Slovak-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU, subscribeable in the same
fashion.
(Rick: Might provide better information in the long run. I'm
looking for information right now. See above.)
10. (6) Could you tell me how I can find the Washington address
for the congressman from my district?
Winner's Answer
(6) Via WAIS I identified the Congress file from pit.mit.edu,
and identified Robert J. Lagomarsino as the
Rep from District including Santa Barbara.
His Washington address is:
2332 Rayburn
Washington DC 20515
Other Answers:
(6) telnet to info.umd.edu
/Government/US/Congress/sens+reps-detail
(5) ftp pit-manager.mit.edu
cd pub/activism/congress
get the two letter code for your state.
(Rick: this involves downloading and searching text)
(4) ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu:
pub/wais-indices/congress.doc
(Rick: This involves downloading and searching even more text)
That's all folks!
End of Part 2 of 2
