Nature's Frequently Asked Questions Page
Answer: NO. Telnet suffers from many problems having to do with access security. Because of this, we have turned off access into nature using this method.
Instead, you should use one of the secure methods mentioned on the Accessing Nature page.
Answer: Nature used to be an old Sun© SparcServer 20. This hardware was placed under considerable stress serving ~1700 users (our recent estimates of active users on nature). Many of you are familiar with the problems of working on an overloaded server: slow response times and frequent system crashes.
Old nature looked like this...
Answer: The NEW Nature is a Sun© Ultra Enterprise E450.
Here is what the new nature looks like...
Answer: The upgrade was completed over Thanksgiving break, 1999.
Answer: The most significant change made on the new nature system will be the email system. The aspects of the email system that we changed center around access:
- Methods for accessing new Nature's email system
- APOP
Eudora (APOP) -> Current Eudora settings will continue to
work as before, but we anticipate folks
will gradually move to IMAP. (using your
current Eudora/email password)
Eudora (IMAP) -> Best for folks that access their email
from different locations. (using your
current Eudora "email" password)
MS Outlook (IMAP) -> Secure access from WWW (using your
Eudora/email password). (IMAPSSL for
Outlook 2K users as well!)
MS Outlook (IMAPSSL) -> Secure access from WWW
(IMAPSSL for Outlook 2K users only)
Netscape (IMAPSSL) -> Secure access from WWW using an SSL-tunnel
(using your "email" password, after an
authenticating key-exchange)
Direct ssh login -> access to "pine", "mail", "elm", and "mutt"
(using your UNIX password)
Additionally, old nature stored individual users in a variety of places on the numerous hard disk drives that make up the storage sub-system of nature. New nature houses all users in same place, on one very large volume. For many users, especially the users who only use nature to read/write email from Eudora (or Netscape/Outlook Express), this will not be a noticeable change. To users that log into the system, you will notice that you home directory path has been altered:
The general path of to a user's home directory will take the following form...
/n/division/grouping/username
For example,
/n/espm/grad/joeuser /n/pmb/faculty/drjill /n/es/staff/staffer
Answer: (Gleaned from the web...)
5 sources found ...
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Nature \Na"ture\, v. t.
To endow with natural qualities. [Obs.]
He [God] which natureth every kind. --Gower.
>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Nature \Na"ture\ (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. natura, fr. natus
born, produced, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Nation.]
1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of
matter and mind; the creation; the universe.
But looks through nature up to nature's God. --Pope.
Nature has caprices which art can not imitate.
--Macaulay.
2. The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the
powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the
total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the
processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of
as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of
all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a
creating or ordering intelligence.
I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could
commit Such disproportions. --Milton.
3. The established or regular course of things; usual order
of events; connection of cause and effect.
4. Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from
that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual
experience.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
--Shak.
5. The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or
thing what it is, as distinct from others; native
character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes;
peculiar constitution or quality of being.
Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem, Their
nature also to thy nature join, And be thyself man
among men on earth. --Milton.
6. Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality.
A dispute of this nature caused mischief. --Dryden.
7. Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the
natural life. ``My days of nature.'' --Shak.
Oppressed nature sleeps. --Shak.
8. Natural affection or reverence.
Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his
parent's bed, Through violated nature foce his way?
--Pope.
9. Constitution or quality of mind or character.
A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never
stick. --Shak.
That reverence which is due to a superior nature.
--Addison.
Good nature, Ill nature. see under Good and Ill.
In a state of nature.
(a) Naked as when born; nude.
(b) In a condition of sin; unregenerate.
(c) Untamed; uncvilized.
Nature printng, a process of printing from metallic or
other plates which have received an impression, as by
heavy pressure, of an object such as a leaf, lace, or the
like.
Nature worship, the worship of the personified powers of
nature.
To pay the debt of nature, to die.
>From WordNet (r) 1.6 :
nature
n 1: the essential qualities or characteristics by which
something is recognized; "it is the nature of fire to
burn"
2: a causal agent creating and controlling things in the
universe; "nature has seen to it that men are stronger
than women"
3: a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived
in the wild"; "they tried to preserve nature as they found
it" [syn: wild, natural state, state of nature]
4: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution
of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
[syn: universe, existence, creation, world,
cosmos, macrocosm]
5: the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that
determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions:
"it is his nature to help others"
6: all non-artificial phenomena [syn: natural phenomenon] |