Hello, all, I am about six-thousand messages behind on the cypherpunks list, but I just wanted to tell everyone that I *finally* got a reliable kernel last night. The patch to my hard drive driver has been installed and verified to be avoiding the hang problems that chaos had. The system maintenance schedule has likewise been modified. It now reboots only at 5 am daily. If it holds up this week, I will change the reboot schedule to once a week (probably Sunday or Monday morning at 5 am CST). If anyone is interested in an account on chaos, they are freely available granted you have a good reason (i.e., intend to write code, be a productive user, etc.) by request. Telnet to chaos.bsu.edu (147.226.53.28) and login as guest (all lowercase). It will direct you through the account request procedure. **IMPORTANT** Chaos has very limited disk space (200 MB) right now. The planning committee has decided that once a reliable kernel has been installed (which I believe was yesterday), we would begin to solicit donations for an additional 500+ MB of storage. The deal is (and I think this is pretty fair), once the users have raised enough to pay for half of the new hard drive, I will chip in the rest. Anyone who donates money toward the acquisition of a new hard drive will be given extra space on the new drive (we haven't quite decided how it will be done, but two plans are: give donated users write access to an additional partition OR move their home directory to the new partition). Either way, all non-donated users will be the recipients of a brand-spanking-new QUOTA! I'm sorry, there just isn't the space. Oh, another thing, when the new drive arrives, it will supplement what is already there. The old hard drive will not be removed. Any comments? Reply in e-mail, this is not particularly relevant to cypherpunks. BTW, what does everyone think of the gopher site? I'm going to work on the FTP/NFS site some more one of these days. Chael Hall -- nowhere@chaos.bsu.edu nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu chall@bsu.edu 00CCHALL@bsuvc.bsu.edu