Fluid fluidly flowed--
quoted 2 lines } Sounds like a great idea. Im not, however, familiar with Mosaic - can> } Sounds like a great idea. Im not, however, familiar with Mosaic - can
> } someone explain it?
And Brian B blatantly belched--
quoted 8 lines I don't have a FAQ handy, but basically, it's a graphical tool to view> I don't have a FAQ handy, but basically, it's a graphical tool to view
> multimedia hypertext documents distributed over the internet - imagine
> gopher on acid :) It seemlessly integrated inlined or external images,
> sound files, even movies.
>
> How do you access it? The best way is to have direct access to a
> machine running X windows, a Mac, or a PC running Windows directly
> connected to the net.
Let's not confuse folks, here.
WWW is the World Wide Web. Mosaic is one of several "browsers" or
"WWW clients" you use to access information on the Web. Using the word
Mosaic to describe all such browsers is akin to using Xerox to describe
all photocopiers or Coke to describe all colas.
(Heh, not more than 3 weeks ago I was asking Brian for help on this stuff,
now I gotta teach it to him.. :-)
Anyway, Mosaic is made by the good folks at NCSA. (you can read that any
way you like). If you're using a PC and Windows, you'll need to be using
Winsock (Trumpet WinSock is the free version) which provides a standard
interface for Windows-based internet communication packages. Your computer
has to be directly on the net *or* operating through a SLIP connection.
I know of at least one IDM subscriber who has successfully run an emacs-based
WWW client through a SLIP connection on an Amiga, but he didn't have enough
memory to display all the graphics that are on the techno.stanford.edu
home page. At 9600 baud it took a while to load, also. :( Anyway, on the
PC a much better, but not as pretty, client is Cello, available from
fatty.law.cornell.edu.
I would describe WWW as a graphical version of Gopher. It integrates
with Gopher, actually, so when you access techno.stanford.edu via WWW,
you are effectively using Gopher as you go through the menus that we
haven't made up home pages for.
quoted 1 line For more info, and probably the FAQ, read comp.infosystems.www.> For more info, and probably the FAQ, read comp.infosystems.www.
I put the FAQ up in pub/raves at techno last week.
quoted 1 line If you have any other questions, read the FAQ first, then mail me> If you have any other questions, read the FAQ first, then mail me
To reiterate, be redundant, and repeat what was said-- replies on this
topic should be kept on private email. To redeem myself, I'm providing
this ObIDMtidbit: I believe someone mentioned the Golden Palominoes new
single. I got a promo of the CD-5 and was rather impressed that this
was coming from the drummer on David Letterman. I have to totally agree,
though, about the overuse of the "panting woman" in the Enigma/Madonna/
Chavez/LordsOfAcid style. The 16 minute Bill Laswell ambient dub mix is
really gerat musically, alternating between heavy dub and spacey ambient
several times, but the moans, sighs, and squeals are too much. The PWOG
mix thankfully eliminates most of the noises, but for some reason they
chose to use played out breakbeats as the basis of the song, far less
innovative than the Warriors usually are. Summary: If you get off on
sexist dance music, or you can fool yourself into believing that the
sex noises are crucial to the artwork, it's for you. Otherwise, steer
clear.
Mike