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Calendar of Events:6/6/00 Garage Sale Flyer Pass-Out6/9/00 Sleepover6/10/00 Garage Sale6/13/00 Membership Open-House6/24/00 Wyandot Lake6/27/00 Book Making Meeting #17/2-8/00 Summer Camp7/4/00 No Meeting7/11/00 Book Making Meeting #27/27-30/00 Gettysburg Trip $50.009/10/00 Court-of-Honor at Park9/12/00 Open House Dress Rehearsal9/19/00 Open House [First Nighter]10/8/00 Bike Hike, Granville10/13-15/00 Book Binding Campout [Exchange Lodge]10/24/00 Pizza Party11/3-5/00 Deer Creek Campout11/12/00 Church Dinner [We Cook]12/15/00 Silver Beaver Apps Due12/19/00 Christmas Party12/26/00 No Meeting

Computer CompetitionJames D. Corder

Dave Foran of Charles Schwab donatedVenturing Crew 369 28 hard drives, 3monitors, 6 modems, cables galore, acomplete UNIX manual set, 2-3B2/500,2-3B2/600 and 1-3B2/1000 computers...

Thank you Mr. Foran!

I must admit that I was not looking for-ward to getting the systems up-an-run-ning. There would be between 5 and 8hours per system. Not how I would wantto spend a sunny afternoon. But we can’tlet such marvelous donations go to waist.Ok, we are a Christian Educational

Group. By-the-way, we do Computerstoo:-) Hence a computer competition!

We allowed the Crew to choose up twosides. It became the OSU vs. UA teams.Each were given a 3B2/600 computer,hard drive, boot tape, hardware manual,and the race was on. The youth could notask the adults for help, not even a ques-tion! They had to find the answer out forthemselves. Face it, a good SystemsAdministrator knows how to use theirresources. They were given only 6 hints:

1. comp.sys.att2. FAQ3. MCP4. Magic Mode5. Network Termination6. SCSI Termination

Mr. Drake, the chief technologist ofNationwide Insurances’ InternationalDivision, will be the contest judge. Theteam that builds a system that wouldoperate as the best server, most userfriendly, most professionally loaded willwin a pizza party paid for by the Crew.

Now, what to do with the systems?

Computer Competition!

Venturering Crew 369P.O. Box 307218

Gahanna, Ohio 43230United States of America

We are looking for a newsponsor for The Adventure,Can you help?

Our Principals:1) Honor before all else.2) The difference between a

winner and a loser is thatthe winner tried one moretime.

3) K.I.S.M.I.F.4) Y.C.D.B.S.O.Y.A.

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Venture Crew 369:Venturing Crew369 was char-tered on December 31, 1994 tothe Reformation LutheranChurch.

Venturing Crew369 specializesin UNIX for Programmers whileemphasizing a deep theme ofEngineering Computer Informa-tion & Science through an Entre-preneurial Spirit. Membership inVenturing Crew 369 is open toyoung men and women betweenthe ages of 14 [and in highschool] and not yet 20. AnnualMembership fees are $25

Our Web Page:http://post369.columbus.oh.us

Our E-Mail Addr essesAdults Members:James D. Corder(E) www.corder .comDon Corder Sr. Committee MemberDavid J. Alden ConsultantHerb Docken Institutional RepresentativeAndy Drake drakea@nationwide.comRick Gauger Committee MemberJoe Harvey(E) joharve4@vt.eduTerry Jones Committee Member

Ralph Maurer(E) Committee Chairman

Roy Niedzielski(E) Associate Advisor

Tom Niedzielski(E) Committee MemberErika Orrick ConsultantLee Orrick Associate AdvisorStephen Potter spp@colltech.comJim Power James.Power@qwest.com

Youth Members:Suhasini Aswath Aswath.2@osu.eduNicholas R. Carter gamespymonkey@copper.netVP-Neil A. Coplin coplin.7@osu.eduAaron M. Croyle Croyle.6@osu.eduIan B. Cunnyngham kriegman@columbus.rr.comJason B. Cunnyngham toten@columbus.rr.comBryan P. Fierst -Nathaniel P. Graham ngraham@iwaynet.comMark C. Hamilton(E) Hamilton.385@osu.eduS/T-Ho-Sheng Hsiao hsiao.39@osu.eduNathan C. Lee Lee.1570@osu.eduJesse Kass jeskas@apexmail.comStepan K. Kazakov kazakov_s@yahoo.comNathan C. Lee NateReflects@hotmail.comThomas R. Lowers tom@wclcorp.comDavid McIlroy(E) davidmac@mit.eduEthan E. Metsger Metsger.2@osu.eduDaniel Morris -James J. Scherer(E) Skyshark44@aol.comJon Schlegel jschlege@vt.eduBill Schwanitz type_O-@columbus.rr.comDave Scruby -Jack Trout witmore@netzero.comHeather Ward Ward.336@osu.eduNabeel A. Yousef -

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Crew FinancesTopic Need On-HandThe Adventure$95,000 $150.00General Fund $3,000 $688.62Floor Fund $2,500 $2,500.00Electrical Fund $2,500 $2,500.00Flag Fund $1,000 -$532.35Room Fund $3,800 $0.00Grand Total $6,063.62In the Bank $5,500.00Cash on Hand $188.6

Up-an-Coming Crew Expenses12/01/01 Crew Charter $30.0012/01/01 Crew Insurance$375.0012/31/01 Registration $1,875.00Monthly The Adventure $75.00

Up-an-Coming MemberExpenses09/05/00 Registration $25.0009/26/00 Book $25.0006/06/00 Summer Camp $175.00

Quote of the MonthTruth

But men do not seek the truth. It is truth that pursesmen who run away and will not look around.

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PHP: My Latest DiscoveryIan Cunnynghamkriegman@columbus.rr.com

About 3 months I became vaguely inter-ested in HTML code, found a book, andmastered all I needed to know to make a(in my opinion) awesome web site. Thatcoupled with my growing interest inUNIX moved my interest to web script-ing. Just the idea of not copying and past-ing over and over again changing minutedetails was enough to drive a passinginterest to great heights. I had been usingsome CGI scripts and playing aroundwith the ideas when I was shown PHP(thanks to Ho-Sheng Hsiao). PHP is aweb scripting language that has a syntaxvery close to C++ and is embedded in theHTML code. The link between the two issimple: “<?php” indicates the start ofPHP code and “?>” ends it, variables aredefined on use, and the loops are thesame. “$VAR” is a variable,“$VAR[FOO]” is value “FOO” in array“$VAR”, etc. Your web server takes thecode, processes it, then creates HTML.PHP can handle everything from formsto authorization to page creation.

A feature that’s very helpful is the abilityto include code from other files to theone you’re currently using. For exampleif you had another PHP script thathoused the look and any universal

HTML called code.inc and it had a blockof code defined as a function namedInsertHTMLHead, to include into a PHPscript you would do this:

include(‘code.inc’) ;

InsertHTMLHead defined like this:

function InsertHTMLHead($title,$subject) // Defines functionnamed InsertHTMLHead with 2internal variables that aredefined when the function iscalled{$metaname[0] = “Author” ; //assigns a value of Author to thefirst value of $metaname$metaname[1] = “Keywords” ;$metacontent[0] = “Ian Cunnyng-ham” ;$metacontent[1] = $title . “, “ .$subject . “, “ . $metacontent[0]; // This combines variables andtext and would produce “CoolTitle, Cool Subject, Ian Cunnyn-gham”?> // Breaks into HTML<HEAD>

<TITLE><?php echo $title; ?> - <?php echo $subject ; ?></TITLE> // Resulting HTML wouldbe “<TITLE>Cool Title - Cool Sub-ject</TITLE>”<?php // Breaks out of HTML

for ($i = “0” ; $i <= “1”; $i++) // Standard for loop

{?>

<METANAME=”<?php echo $metaname[$i] ;?>” CONTENT=”<?php echo $meta-content[$i] ; ?>”>

<?php} // Ends for loop

?></HEAD><?php}// Ends function code

produces this:

<HEAD><TITLE>Cool Title -

Cool Subject</TITLE><META NAME=”Author”

CONTENT=”Ian Cunnyngham”><META NAME=”Key-

words” CONTET=”Cool Title,Cool Subject, Ian Cunnyngham”></HEAD>

and used like this:

<HTML><?phpInsertHTMLHead(‘Cool Title’,‘Cool Subject’) ;?>...

While this is example is more of awaste then not it gives you an idea ofthe syntax of PHP. For me I use PHP asa page development tool. Instead ofgenerating the HTML on the fly I havemy web server generate it once. I useWGET to retrieve it with the com-mand “wget -r http://localhost/ “. Thisway there is one file with all theHTML and the rest are pure content.Therefore there is only one file tochange to for HTML and the content isa lot more accessible. Plus wget turnsthem into HTML files with the rightdirectory structure and all so It’s notsuch a server burden. I have used PHPfor many things so far and I think thatit is a great code learning tool. To getthe full manual for PHP go to http://www.php.net/.

http://post369.columbus.oh.usJames D. Corder

Our web page has:

• 5,124,683 hits• 3,177 Images• 919 Web Pages• 5,186 Files

In the Past Year we have had:

• 1,409.007 hits• We served 13.3Gbs• We had 54,341 unique hosts visit

our page. Therefore, the averagevisitor viewed 27+ pages.

Not bad for a Boy Scout Web Page:-)

Bob’s Kingdom By: Daniel Morris

To Be Continued

Suddenly...What’s

happening!?

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but they did not achieve their goals, orthey changed them. But we can say thatboth 369 and 891 are successful for theyare achieving “their” goals:-)

TeleconferencingJack Trout Witmore@netzero.com

The PC world has many choices forusing the World Wide Web to shareaudio and video. Some companies havebeen taking advantage of this technol-ogy, by targeting it like the RealAudio*Web cast of the Victoria Ssecret’s Fash-ion show, they can swarm viewers totheir site. RealAudio requires servingsoftware to send data, but the client soft-ware can be downloaded as free-ware, orshare-ware for more features, on all plat-forms.

Microsoft distributes free to all Windowsusers program called Net-Meeting whichallows anyone to look people up viadirectory services or just direct TCP-IPconnections to share program views,white boards, audio, and video on con-nections as low as 28.8.

CU-See-Me is another software packagethat is available and cross platform com-patible. This program offers similar fea-tures to Net-Meeting, but is morefocused as an alternative to telephone

communications. It also offers a com-plete package solution for video confer-encing.

Picture Tel, Live Lan, and Live 200 areBusiness scale alternatives for telecon-ferencing. This package is proprietaryand requires both machines to have thesoftware. To share audio and video youmust install a PictureTel video card anddrivers. This is mainly focused on ISDNas a medium for communications butprovides High quality connections andaudio. Curently, Picture Tel is only forPC, and normally is used in a dedicatedteleconferencing station.

These are a few of the options to commu-nicate with people around the world; andare going to influence how we see andhear each other in the future.

some sites of interest include

• http://www.real.com/• http://www.microsoft.com/netmeet-

ing/• http://www.cuseeme.com/• http://www.picturetel.com/• (not listed or talked about)• http://www.tribal.com/• http://www.dialpad.com/ (ip to

phone)• http://www.vistatalk.com/

MembershipJames D. Corder

We have 16 adults: 50% active1

• 3 active Advisors• 4 active Committee• 8 inactive

We have 25 youth: 52% active• 13 active• 5 away at college• 7 inactive

About 3 out of every 100 youth inAmerica join Scouting. About 1 outof 3 stay in. About 1 out of every200 makes Eagle. There-fore,.000002 make Eagle [1 in20,000 makes Eagle] Not to men-tion 0 in 250,000,000 made it toRanger.

Such numbers seem minuscule butthey will hold true for just about anygroup in the world. I just went to aGREAT concert at OSU. Our Aaronwas in it. However, there was onlyabout 60 young men in the group.OSU has over 57,000 students.Therefore, only.0000105% of OSUhad what it takes to succeed. I guessthat OSU is not extremely success-ful and those going there shoulddrop out. None of you are on thefoot ball team. None of you haveearned a Nobel Peace Prize yet. Infact the number of OSU graduatesthat have is so small I don’t think mycalculator goes that small. I heardthat about a third of freshmen dropout of OSU. Another third will dropout before their Senior year. I bet thenumber is extremely small that goon for their PHD.

We have always said that 5% of thepopulation does 95% of the work,and 95% of the population does99% of the complaining. Whywould this be any different in ourprogram. I have seen thousands gothrough our program [369 & 891]. Ihave only seen 2 or 3 succeed. Mostare extremely happy in their lives

1.Active on a weekly basis.

http://post369.columbus.oh.us/crew.d/2000.calendar.d/000506.muirfield.html

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The Cost of doing business on theweb!James D. Corder

I have been a long time UUCP user. Ofthe past 1000 times that I have contactedmy provider 25% have resulted in a busysignal. This has driven me to find a newway to connect to the InterNet.

Up until Al Gore created the Internet, theInternet was free. In fact, it wasn’t untiltwo months ago I started paying for myInternet connectivity. Just a note in pass-ing, I have been on the Inter net since the‘70s.

My Connection Speed

• Year Modem Actual• 1980 300bds• 1984 1200bds• 1988 2400bds• 1990 9600bds• 1994 38kbds• 1996 56kbds 33kbds• 2000 1.4Mbs 4kbds

On March 11, 2000 I installed a cablemodem for $45.95 a month. Then thenightmare began! The technician arrivedand installed my cable, complaining thatthere wasn’t a cable to my house. Hmm.I don’t have cable TV... I was his last callfor the day and he was looking forwardto get home. I was going to do a selfinstall. Hay, I don’t want someone elseon my system as root! He saw greenlights on the modem and he left.

I stayed up the day before configuringmy second network card for DHCP. Ithought I had done everything. A quick“dhcp start”

ifconfig le0 uproute flushsnoop -d le0 [to find the router]route add default ##.##.##.##ifconfig le0 auto-dhcpifconfig le0 dhcp start

“and we are off” WRONG!

I called tech support, they said theywould not support me since I not wasrunning under the evil empire or Mac. SoI carried forth. Like a fool, I called someof the people that I new that used thesame cable modem and provider. Butthey too were overly influenced by thedark side of technology. I persisted.

When I called my provider and saidplease remove the modem from myhome, in emotional despair thinking thatI failed at beating those looking throughrose colored windows, they finally esca-lated me to level 2 support. This highlygifted youth proclaimed that he heard ofSolaris and knew nothing about it. But,he asked me if I had 3 little green lightslit on my modem. “No” I replied. ThePower and PC lights were lit but not theCable led.

All of the time that I spent attempting toget my system to work there was nothingwrong with it. I did everything correctly.They did not install the cable properly.There is a little “T” in the basement thatwas installed backwards! I flipped the“T” and it worked.

They were not happy that I messed withtheir cable, and they had to check out mywork. I am glad that I work out of my

house. Wow, if I had a job I wouldn’tbe able to afford the time off. The newtech that came out attached an oscillo-scope to the line and was not happywith the response but said it wasalmost in acceptable limits so that wasfine enough with him.

Several times I have turned off mycable modem and PPPed with my 56Kmodem where I average 33kbs to itsprovider, because it was faster than my1.4Mb cable modem:-( I was told notto expect full service in my neighbor-hood because the cable lines are satu-rated but sometime soon they willupgrade the area.

Since I refused to give my SocialSecurity number to the Cable Providerthey required me to pre-pay 3 months.It looks like as soon as that is gone, soam I!

I called my UUCP provider, and askedif they have SDSL in my neighbor-hood. They said no that you don’t wantADSL since it is a shared line withother ADSL users and that the uploadspeeds are only ~400kbs. They sug-gested that I use their new IBM equip-ment that would give me 56kbs with amodem or 128kbs with an ISDN line.Moreover the savings for 25% of thecapacity of an ADSL would only be 5times more than the cost of ADSL. Infact thier new services was morecostly than a full 700kbs SDSL line.

They went on to atempt to sell me a T1for $2,700.00 a month [1.4Mb] or anOC3 [64Mb] for $5,000.00 a month

So, to the InterNet I go for price com-parisons. Most DSL users don’t under-stand the difference between ADSLand SDSL. So, when they see the pricefor ADSL they think they are getting agreat deal. Ok, if you are not going toserve anything, that you are only goingto down load, no uploads, under 5 e-mail accounts are fine for you, and youare happy running some stupid canedsoftware to connect to your provider,then Cable Modems and ADSL arefine. In-other-words, the average

It is my pleasure to congratulate you onachieving the Award of On-line Excel-lence Our Judges have viewed your website, and they have decided, that your siteis a great example of upholding theScouting traditions, and ideals on theworld wide web. Proudly display the“Scouting Award of On-line Excellence”on your site, you deserve it!!!

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Co-Location Charges as of 05/15/00

SDSL

ADSL

Corder Co-Locations Charges as of 05/15/00 [On an OC3]

Access Base Rate 1 year term - 5% 3 year term -10% 5 year term Setup

128Kbs $150/mo $140/mo $130/mo $150

256Kbs $250/mo $240/mo $230/mo $250

512Kbs $500/mo $450/mo $400/mo $600

1024Kbs $900/mo $810/mo $720/mo $600

10 Mbps Shared $1,800/mo $1,710/mo $1,620/mo $600

10 Mbps Switched $7,500/mo $7,125/mo $6,750/mo $600

DSL Speed Price Installation Equipment

DSL 144/160K $79 FREE* FREE*

DSL 200K $119 FREE* FREE*

DSL 416K $169 FREE* FREE*

DSL 784K $179 FREE* FREE*

DSL 1.0M $215 FREE* FREE*

DSL 1.5M $299 FREE* FREE*

DSL Speed Price (monthly) Installation Equipment

DSL (upto 784K/392K) $39.95 FREE* FREE*

DSL (upto 1.5M/384K) $79.95 FREE* FREE*

IP Address Contract Cost Install Charge Monthly Charge Disk Space

1 $3,050.00 $650.00 $100.00 1.0Gb

5 $3,700.00 $700.00 $125.00 1.0Gb

10 $4,350.00 $750.00 $150.00 1.5Gb

20 $5,000.00 $800.00 $175.00 2.0Gb

30 $5,650.00 $850.00 $200.00 2.5Gb

40 $6,300.00 $900.00 $225.00 3.0Gb

Windblows users will be more thanhappy with ADSL.

But, I would like to put up my owncommercial web page: corder.comand corder.org. I own the domainsand they are sitting there going towaist. So, I trudge along to find alocation. The questions thenbecomes, do I want:

• speed of connection• speed of serving

The 33kbs modem was fine enoughfor my personal use. But I want toput up a web page.

“Your” web page is more importantthan your resume or your corporateperspective. One never gets achance to make a second firstimpression. Therefore, if you areserving your web page from a 392kADSL modem and 10 people are onyour web page at the same time thenyou are slower than a 56k modem.Moreover, if you are serving from aCable Modem or a shared ASDLline then your speed is also divideby the numbers of users in yourneighborhood. Not-to-mention, howgood is your power? I loose powerat least once a week for under 3 sec-onds. Enough to crash the computerand at least once a quarter for anhour or more.

I am contemplating getting ADSLfor my home. It is $10.00 a monthcheaper than my cable modem andmost likely faster actual through putvs. maximum through put and put-ting one of my servers on an OC3line. To justify the cost I am going tosell web space on it. So for $650.00installation and $100.00 a month fortwo years you get a static [no dhcp]IP address, one gig of disk space,your own domain, on an OC3. OnceI find 5 takers, I am off:-)

I thought it would be easy to find 5takers. The cost is unbelievablyinexpensive. Currently the goingcost is about $25.00 a month for

5Mbs of disk space. Or about $5,000.00for a Gig. Not to mention the RU costs ofco-locating your own server. I thought Iwould give them ssh and scp so they canmaintain their own disk space withoutmy services. But, most people falselythink they can put up a commercial qual-ity web site for around $49.95 a month.Yea right! This system would be foretechie people only. I don’t want theaggravation of the dank smell of PCs. Iwant good UNIX people!

The dilemma is that there are so few ofthese people that the market is extremelysmall. Moreover, most of them think ofdownloading not uploading:-(

What is aggravating is that when youknow you are right and no one else caresthat they are wrong and they are happy togo floating down stream with all theother dead fish. It is not true that if youbuild a better mouse trap they will come.It is and always has been that the bestmarketing plan wins. Case in point: theMonopoly Microsoft.

It does not matter, if you want somethingbad enough you will find a way to makeit happen. Hay, look at Kernel Sanders!

All I want for Christmas is No-PCs!

• After rebate. Oneyear minimumrequired. Actualspeed may vary dueto distance limita-tions.

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Why Outlook Stinks theILOVEYOU virusJonathan Hogue jon@hogue.org

Microsoft Exchange administrators allover the world were combating anothervirus this month. You may be saying toyourself, “Geesh, I know Microsoftsucks, but even my dog moves when Ikick it twice.” This is the second virus insix months to attack Microsoft Outlookclients, and there doesn’t appear to be asolid fix in place yet.

The “ILOVEYOU” or “Melissa” viruscomes in to your computer through anattachment from someone you know. Ifyou know nothing about computers ordon’t care about the integrity of your PC,you doubleclick on the attachment, andwonder why it doesn’t appear to do any-thing. If you’re running Windows, theprogram you just clicked runs in thebackground sending e-mails (with thevirus as an attachment) to everyone inyour address book. Why does this keephappening?

News alert, the typical Microsoft userdoesn’t know much about computers.They don’t understand that by openingan attachment that they weren’t expect-ing or didn’t ask for is dangerous. Fur-thermore, they don’t understand that bycompromising their computer, they maybe compromising the integrity of theentire network, or in this case, theExchange Server.

Knowing that the average Microsoft userdoesn’t know much about what goes onbehind the the mouse click, a logical stepwould be to make it easy for them to exe-cute foreign untrusted software, right?To execute an attachment in Outlook(also Netscape Messenger, Eudora, etc.),the end-user simply doubleclicks on theicon. The “ILOVEYOU” virus was just avisual basic script attachment, nothingfancy. (“Melissa” was a macro within aword document.) End-users didn’t thinktwice about running it. Microsoft needsto make it impossible for an end user toexecute an attachment simply be doubleclicking on it, or make the attachmentrun in a secure space (Run as a user who

has no write privelages, and cannotaccess mail components, or other vulner-able space.)

Microsoft has realised a security patchthat starts to address the issue, but itdoesn’t do nearly enough on someissues, and goes in the complete wrongdirection on others. The security patchchanges outlook so that certain attach-ments can’t be executed from withinOutlook (visual basic scripts and others.)It also makes it very difficult for codersto access Outlook functionality throughoutside code. For example, when some-one tries to access the address book fromcode, Outlook will display a five secondwarning. The disabling of attachmentexecution is certainly a step in the rightdirection, however, it needs to be an allor nothing fix. In the future, some exe-cutables will slip through, if only for awhile, and virus writers will take advan-tage. Also, the disabling and complica-tion of coding features will make twothings happen. First, people won’t installthe patch. Second, if they do, they willfigure out ways to get around the securityfeatures because they are so annoyingand inhibiting. Then, we’re back tosquare one.

Microsoft should take the inhibition ofcode execution within attachments to thenext step, and back off on the feature dis-abling. About 15 companies havealready announced their software willnot work with the patch because of itscoding restrictions. (Maybe this is inten-tional?)

If this is Microsoft’s final solution,expect to see another Outlook attackingvirus in 6 months to a year. Microsoftwill yelp like a kicked dog, not move,and disable more features and call it asecurity patch, andI will be writing‘Why Outlook Stinks A Lot’ article.

A Waste of Time?Ian Cunnynghamkriegman@columbus.rr.com

It seems now that more and more theinternet is growing to include everytype of people as users and web-mas-ters. So much so that when you entera site where there are people with yoursame interests, you become hooked.Especially if it has a chat room or BBSwhere you can talk to these people.When you find people just like you,that you can talk to and relate too youcan’t break away. I recently found aplace like this and LOVE it!

Now I have seen people spend hoursand hours on chat rooms, on instantmessaging services, or on e-mail doingnothing but telling stories or crackingjokes and it’s apparently the best timeof there life because they will go backevery day and do it again (like me).When I’d seen people doing it before Ididn’t understand it. Now that I’mdoing it I *really* don’t understand it.

Maybe I do it because These peopleseem incredibly interesting and seemto find me the same way. Maybe it’s asense of belonging. Maybe both orneither, I really don’t know, but what Iwonder more than this is: is this a badthing? I don’t think so. I think it givespeople an outlet for anger, a source forlaughter, and good place to makefriends.

Music SwappingJason CunnynghamToten@columbus.rr.com

In a cyber world virtually anything canbe exchanged on the internet and cur-rently the popular thing to trade isMP3’s. MP3’s have became the mostsought after thing on the internetreplacing sex as the number oneentered thing in search engines. MP3’sare so popular that Napster, a popularMP3 trading program, has a usergrowth of 5% - 25% a day. The prob-lem with something like MP3’s is that

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more often then not they are copy-right protected and millions of timesa day those copyrights are being vio-lated.

Artists have begun to take notice aswell. Metallica, a rock group, wasthe first band to sue Napster for pro-viding there software, and then Dr.Dre, a popular rapper and Recordlabel owner, followed suit. Somelegal experts say that this is mostly astunt, they believe that there is noway to convict Napster inc. becauseall they due is provide a service andthey had no obligation to police thenetwork. But even if they did suc-cessfully sue Napster inc. and bank-rupt them there are still a handful ofother file trading software packages.It would be almost impossible tostop MP3 trading by suing everyonewho is doing it so the record compa-nies face a dilemma, people seem tohave no problem violating copyrightlaws. The citation is comparable to alooting at a mall, because are noconsequences and you can takewhatever you want.

So what is the solution? Well if therewas an easy one we would get toright this article. Either people needto develop a better respect for theartist work or there needs to be amore efficient system of policing theinternet. People have a tough timegiving 14-20 dollars to a artist for aCD that they could download forfree. Especially since that artistmight have three or four Ferraris inthere garage and they are paying forbreakfast with pocket change. Nowpolicing cyber space is a challengenone have been able to come up to.Since the internet has been basedaround anonymity and there are mil-lions of people committing crimesevery day, it would be a difficultchallenge. So in the end there is noclear solution and internet crime islikely continue on its exponentialcurve until either people realize themoral issues involved or someoneforces them to stop.

Quantum Computing -- True, False...and Maybe?Aaron M. Croyle croyle.6@osu.edu

Picture this, if you can, a new type ofcomputer, one that uses qubits, or quan-tum bits, instead of classical bits. Ok,now consider this: while the classical bitcan hold only 0 or 1 as values, the qubitcan hold these and a “superposition (1)”of the two. You can think of it as havethree values, True, False, and Maybe. Byusing these superpositions you can domath on all numbers at once, Huh? Thatis to say instead of computing 1 + 1 = 2and then doing 2 + 2 = 4, you could dothis (and many other calculations) at thesame time, in the same space think ofeach set of ()’s as being only one numberand you get (1,2) + (1,2) = (2,4). Each ()set contains a superposition of its integercomponents.

Wow! This sounds great, really fastmath, and we know that’s all computersreally do, so we just made and incrediblyfast computer. There’s only one problemwith all of these superpositions, youcan’t measure them. That’s right, cur-rently any interaction with the environ-ment, including attempts to measure,forces one of these quantum states to col-lapse back in to a classical state, a pro-cess known as “decoherence (2)”.

Here’s a way to see the performance gainof quantum computing: “Not long agoIBM researchers took a snapshot of theentire web, more than eight trillion bytesof data. Searching for the word using aconventional computer would take a fullmonth, Chuang said. However using asimple quantum computer would reducethe search time to 27 minutes. (3)”

Sources for this Article:

• http://qso.lanl.gov/~gottesma/QCom-puters.html

• http://qso.lanl.gov/~gottesma/QECC.html

• http://squint.stanford.edu/nytimes/• http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/

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A Helping Hand (with a GreenThumb)Neil Coplin coplin.7@osu.edu

The Crew has been keeping busy overthe last month. One of our projects thatstarted two years ago is going out toMurfield Golf Course and planting flow-ers for the tournament. Not only is itgood physically for the crew (since it isnice to get outside every now and then,computers aren’t everything), it helps usto build as a team. Other groups thatMurfield has hired in the past wouldspend hours arguing over where exactly(within the centimeter) to put a plant.Using teamwork, Crew 369 can cover anarea in a few hours that it would havetaken a gardening group an entire day. Sofar our best description of our work is thereverse locust effect.

Most importantly, this project is all aboutfun. You’re on a golf course, how canyou not have fun? (I’ll give you that hav-ing your ball go in the water isn’t muchfun, but we weren’t the ones golfing).This is one of the projects that the Crewtakes their toads (members of the troopthat want to join the crew after achievingthe rank of eagle) along. Just hanging outwith the 11 year olds makes you remem-ber your own youth, and usually youcan’t stop laughing when they’re around(which might not be a good thing whenon a golf course).

When it’s all over, it’s gratifying to sitback and look what you’ve accom-plished. These will be seen by millionsof people (Though people are really tun-ing in to see the golfers). All in all, Crew369 ended up planting about 17,000-18,000 flowers (my best estimate) duringour two weekend stay. It just shows youwhat you can accomplish with hardwork, teamwork, and cut the complain-ing out. I look forward to next year whenwe will be planting the flowers at Murf-ield again. I’ll also be looking forward toseeing them on TV. “Hey, I did that!”