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MIT used it extensively for most of the campus file system for years. Does anyone know if they still do?
by jzl 3y ago
MIT used it extensively for most of the campus file system for years. Does anyone know if they still do?
- spencillian 3y agoAs far as I know yes. From personal experience you can just `cd ..` your way out to the top parent directory and see all the orgs which use the system. I could see MIT and JPL(?) users from my cmu account and you can view the other users for each org (at least for MIT and for some of the other unis, I could never get the JPL stuff to load.) You can view the usernames and their public folder but nothing else. There's also a lot of content from previous CMU classes. It was interesting to stumble upon some older 15151 course material which used some programming to prove certain theorems. They don't do this anymore (I'm not sure they even did this in the first place) and I'm assuming even for CMU CS students, expecting them to be able to programmatically prove theorems in a freshman class is a bit much. Cool stuff to root around in.
- somat 3y agoI only used it once, but you could almost see an alternate, different web. something that might have been if a different butterfly flapped it's wings. instead of HTML over HTTP we might of had HTML over AFS. Another interesting almost was is ipsec vs SSL. I think in that case ipsec was it's own worst enemy. It has too many config options and is nearly unusable because of it.