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This site
is physically located on the
Graphic Omniscient Device
server in
Halifax,
Nova Scotia,
Canada.
Detailed Site Traffic Statistics
for this virtual server and
Site News
for all servers at this site are available online. We even have a
connectivity monitor
on the web and a
catalogue
of all the
images
stored on this site.
This site
was literally thrown up overnight at a cost of less than 24 personhours.
Many thanks to
Digitalis Data Services for their remarkable
Knotwork Site
offering, which provides a complete Online Site solution. Thanks to
Knotwork Site
technology we have not only a web site with
restricted access areas, but also a mailing list,
email accounts for our members, a CU-SeeMe reflector and the ability to
deploy multi-user interactive environments.
Particularly exciting is the fact that this site is powered by
Linux,
and thus everything that it does, YOU TOO can do at home if you have a 586
or better x86 type computer! That's right, the entire site, from
operating system and webserver down to the scripts for
chat cafes
and online forums, is all FREE SOFTWARE, available for
download!
(Note,
Linux
also runs on several other platforms besides x86.)
Yes, we are
Linux
advocates. We feel that rather than allowing humanity's
software endowment to be controlled by multinational corporations, the
species will be better served by making sure its software stays freely
available to all. It seems foolish to us to come out of school demanding
that a prospective employer purchase some particular brand of software in
order for us to work, when we COULD come out of school already owning the
latest and greatest software in our fields. Each province's computer
science department could focus development on one suite of applications,
giving programmers-in-training direct experience working on the actual
applications that their peers will be using in the workplace. The
potential is just too great to be ignored.
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