Have you ever wanted to attend a technology conference in Portland or Boston? Well this year, the travel is being taken away.

"The University of Maine at Presque Isle's Business, Accounting, and MIS club is pleased to present their Annual Technology Fair on March 12-13, 2001, as a service to businesses in Northern Maine and Western New Brunswick."

Together with The Electronic Commerce Forum of Maine, The Market Development Center, Northern Maine Development Commission, and The Aroostook Business Information Group and The UMPI Business, Accounting, and MIS Club is pleased to sponsor the Internet B2B Strategies Seminar.

Seminar Objectives:

• Introduce B2B Internet business models
• Learn about XML standards used to develop B2B models from Bill Harrelson, Chief Technology Officer of Canopy International
• Discover how other Maine businesses are successfully implementing B2B applications for simplified Finance for direct ordering for B2B deals
• Answer questions you may have about working with the government
• Network with peers and vendors

Here is a quick view of the two-day agenda:

Monday: 6:30p.m.-8p.m. Information Reception

Tuesday: 8a.m.-1p.m. Seminar (requires registration)
              12:30p.m.-4p.m. Open Vendor Floor (open to the public, no registration required)

For all the details and registration information, visit the Technology Fair 2001 webpage:

http://www.umpi.maine.edu/Techfair.htm

Sending a mailing to email lists gets a message out to many people quickly.
Some email lists (such as the Everyone email list) have hundreds or more users subscribed to them. However, there are always guidelines that senders should use, whether sending to a large group of people or to one person.

Appropriateness
Think about these points before sending out an email message to a large group.

• Has your audience already seen the message?
• Would you go through the effort to do a mailing like this on paper?
• The message being sent is important to the entire audience.

Alternatives
You should consider alternatives to a mass e-mailing in light of the nature and scope of your message, alternatives such as:

• Campus Publications
• Box Stuffers
• Posters/Flyers
• Verbal announcements at group meetings

Computer Services worked hard toward the end of February to correct some server problems. The work fixed the email problems many were experiencing. The problems resulted in non-delivery email messages, or email messages being queued and not sent.

In order to make the corrections, Tony Albert had to make changes to the server that managed the email list naming process.

Now when you send an email to the "Everyone" email list, type Everyone@whope.umpi.maine.edu.

Any of the past aliases you may have used will not longer work ( i.e. Everyone@bliss.umpi.maine.edu)

When you get the email you will see the following: Everyone@pickup.umpi.maine.edu,. This may seem a bit confusing, after everything just stated here, but that's the beauty of technology.

If you have questions about the "Everyone" email list or any other email related question, please call Jodi at ext. 601

Defining FTP:

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. A protocol is a language that enables computers to speak to one another. FTP is used to make files and folders available for transfer over the Internet. In some cases you may need to get permission from the network computer's administrator to log on and gain access to files on the computer.

The Internet address (URL) for an FTP server looks slightly different from the URL you use for a typical Web page. For example, Microsoft has an "anonymous" FTP server at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com, where you can download files ranging from product fixes, to Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and other documentation.

Why is FTP important to UMPI faculty and staff?

Computer Services has installed FTP service on polaris.umpi.maine.edu. This means that you now have electronic access to your files in the storage space (N:) via Internet standard FTP. Keep in mind, that if you are downloading or uploading a large file, it could take minutes to hours to do the transfer.

What is the N:\ drive?

• Everyone with a Polaris account has an N:\ drive on their office computer. This storage space can be used to save files to and then you can FTP to those files from an off campus site and download them onto a personal computer. Also you can reverse the process from your personal computer and upload edited or created files to the space also to be retrieved off your office N:\ drive.
• All faculty and staff have 25mb of storage space on the N:\drive. (Warning!! If N:\ drives gets filled, you will get errors when trying to FTP).
• There are a few folders that will already be present on the N:\drive. One of these folders is titled WWW. You can design an index page and place html files in this folder and use it as a place for a campus webpage (more about that next month).

What you do if you wish to use Netscape Navigator to get to your files:

ftp://(userid)@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
where (userid) is replaced with your userid on polaris, with no parentheses. You will then be asked for your Polaris password. Or, if you like, you can set up WS_FTP (offered by UNET) or any other FTP client to access Polaris.

What is Cache?
Your computer stores copies of frequently accessed pages in the memory cache or disk cache. This way, the computer doesn't have to retrieve the page from the network each time you view it.

And how to clear it!
Because the cache holds the contents of all the pages that you have visited, it can get full quickly. You need to clear the cache regularly to increase Navigator performance:

1. Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
2. Double-Click the Advanced category and select Cashe.
3. Click the Clear Disk Cashe button and the Clear Memory Cashe button.
4. Click OK.