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Barrows said that if a user has the Kerberos program when he or she logs on to the network, his or her computer receives a "ticket." Were a student to use Eudora with Kerberos, his or her password would be sent to the network in Kerberos' cryptographic code. As such, it cannot be read by unintended viewers...
...building has to be brought up to code and it needs additional wiring for computer use," said Amalie Kass, chair of the library's fundraising committee since its creation...
...suppose I first noticed this profusion when first I inscribed a six-digit post-office box number into my book, at almost exactly the same time as ZIP codes (which arrived on our shores only in 1963, to cries of "governmental harassment" from Hunter S. Thompson) began more insistently including four extra digits and a dash. Suddenly, the 213 area code for Los Angeles had sprouted seven alternatives, and French phone numbers were 10 digits long, and my friends were stockpiling spouses' names upon their own. Here in Japan, my three-digit postal code spawned two extra digits, and even...
This explosion of numbers has, of course, dramatically increased the cachet of living number-free; one of the luxuries of having a house in the English countryside is that, omitting the postal code, you can have an address made up entirely of words (viz. "Mr. Toad, Toad Hall, nr. Rat's Hole, Grahame's Head, Oxfordshire, England"). Yet somehow the figures always catch up with you in the end: villages in the Cotswolds have local phone codes five digits long--as long, in fact, as the numbers themselves. And it must be confessed that one of the only "analog" addresses...
...mother's fax number, his office's fax number in London, his E-mail address--and the toll-free number for calling his voice mail from Japan. Since that happy day, Tokyo numbers have expanded to eight digits, Hong Kong numbers have acquired an extra 2, and the city code for central London has actually tripled in size, gaining first a 7 and then a 1. And the R section in my address book? It's all used...