joe@hanauma (Joe Dellinger) (08/29/89)
Arg! I didn't know what I was letting myself in for on this one. I posted on Sunday around noon, and got a steady stream of connections from the US and Canada all afternoon. Then as Europe got up on their Monday morning we started to get mostly connections from the UK, France, and the Netherlands. No problem so far. But Monday morning! Yow! We got absolutely inundated with anonymous ftp connections, all grabbing the Neptune pictures. The ftp-load kept increasing and increasing, until it reached the point where we had at least 10 ftpd processes running all the time. Needless to say, while I was thrilled to see how popular Voyager was, the other users of the computer were NOT pleased with me. I was ordered to pull the plug... But all is not lost! The Voyager pictures which were formerly available on hanauma.stanford.edu are now available on mazama.stanford.edu (IP address 36.51.0.8) ^^^^^^ ^ The people who normally use this machine are on vacation, so they aren't here to complain! Hah! To keep the Stanford Network people from complaining, you might want to also limit your ftping to outside normal work hours, Pacific Daylight Time (7 hours behind GMT). Since I'm getting a flood of questions "we tried to connect to Hanauma but were refused, what are we doing wrong" please excuse me for not answering such questions. I'm also going to have to stop answering questions from people who want to plot the pictures but think it is easier to send me mail asking about the format than reading the README file provided. If you want me to actually MAIL you the pictures, you are going to have to convince me you want them so much you will be permanently emotionally scarred if you don't get them. :-) Alternatively, send me a useful public-domain generic graphics utility subroutine for my collection. I'm really busy these days, and this has turned out to be much more of a time sink than I counted on already. I'll turn on Hanauma's anon ftp account again in a week or so, once the floodwaters have receded. (Hanauma has some other nice things available besides the Neptune pictures.) Share and Enjoy. \ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ \ / \ / \ /Dept of Geophysics, Stanford University \/\/\.-.-....___ \/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger joe@hanauma.stanford.edu apple!hanauma!joe\/\.-._