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...better times, college life was filled with endearing letters home for doting Mrs. Smiths to stow away for posterity. And even the most brutish dolt could string together a few paragraphs of mannerly prose. Now, the FAS server crashes and chaos ensues. The inconvenience caused by these infrequent lapses is not the most serious consequence of Harvard's electronic fetish--students' writing, manners, and thinking suffer as well. Would that every day were like last Friday...
According to Steen, FAS Network Operations have been upgrading the server regularly over the last six months. Friday morning, however, Network Operations encountered unexpected difficulties...
...Music aren't willing to go to work for the New New Man. "There are a lot of people offering us deals along the old studio model," says Dahlgren. "Which is insane, because the Internet is a full-on democratized distribution medium. All you need is a $3,000 server...
...millennial college trend: live chat and MP3 indexing combined with fast, clean file sharing that bypasses your computer's sluggish send-mail program. It wasn't revolutionary so much as ingenious, linking existing concepts rather than breaking new programming ground. The day Fanning put the software online via a server at his uncle's office, he knew he had a huge hit: "As soon as we were up we were getting blasted with traffic." The company claims its user base growth rate has been between...
Napster destroys option value, letting you listen for free to whatever you want right now. That's one reason the RIAA filed suit last December, charging that Napster "is operating a haven for music piracy on an unprecedented scale." Yet no pirated files ever sit on the Napster server--Fanning considered legal liability when he wrote the software--so those charges may not stick. Meanwhile, college campuses, claiming that Napster is sucking up too much bandwidth, have begun blocking access to the site. Gnutella, which doesn't require a centralized server, will be harder to shut down. But even...