Center for Internet Studies brings in top names

Next week, Yale's Center for Internet Studies will be holding a conference. Yes, the world-famous Center for Internet Studies. Okay, it's nothing ground-breaking yet, but they're working on it. We'll overlook the irony that the center's presence on the web consists of an aesthetically thrilling program of speakers. "Yale's traditional strength in public policy and American culture combined with its top law school and strong computer science department make it a natural center for Internet Studies, which will certainly emerge over the next decade as a focus of academic attention and research of all sorts," explains the promotional material. The Center, co-directed by David Gelernter and Robert Dunne of the computer science department, has already brought speakers in on e-commerce every week this semester as well as Bill Joy, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Systems. Next week's conference on broadband consists of speeches by Gelertner and other less famous people in the field.

—By Kushal Dave

Yale away from home

One is to have your mail forwarded to you. You can configure this by using this tool or by creating a file called .forward in your pantheon directory that tells the new address to go to. You can erase the file or revisit this page to stop forwarding.

Alternatively, you can set up your Eudora (or whatever) at home to use your mail account at Yale. Do this by setting your POP server to netid.mail.yale.edu and setting your POP login to netid. Use the same SMTP server you use with your home account, or, if you're using AOL, you can't use this option, though you can set up Hotmail to check your POP account.

Last and least, you can use telnet to use pine. Just telnet into eli.yale.edu using any telnet client. If you don't have one on your home computer, find one at shareware.com or Yale's download site. Alternatively, use Yale's web-based telnet

And if you're missing your CS class web page or Lexis-Nexis access, perhaps craving that Encyclopedia Britannica fix (see GroundZero), you can use the remote proxy server to make it look like you're still at Yale to other web pages. Find out more here.

Does it turn out that your friend you used to leech mp3s from is taking summer school? You can connect to their computer remotely by doing Start->Find->Computer and entering the person's IP address. They can find out their IP address by doing Start->Run->winipcfg.

Don't forget to drop by at the end of summer for the updated blue book search.

—By Kushal Dave

Periodic Ponderous Page Pick

The long narrow, counter. The friendly face at the gril. The taste of a delicious, mouth-watering burger drenched in cheese or the sausage wrapped in bacon and cheese. You know what I'm talking about—it's the Yale/New Haven landmark The Yankee Doodle. It started with Mr. Lew beckwith and now Rick runs the place of many burgers. Now the Doodle has branched out—onto the web. The Doodle website has the history of the landamrk, the menu, hours, and an order from for Doodle memorabilia (the word on the streets is that Doodle hats are the next new fad.

Go there and you can almost smell your next Doodle burger.

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