
on Sprott's Gateway
Periodic Updates
A new Fractal
of the Day is produced every day at midnight and added to Sprott's
Fractal Gallery.
Statistics
on server usage are updated early every Sunday morning.
The Madison
Contra Dance Schedule is updated at least monthly.
Major Recent Changes and Additions
5/28/13 The
Website server was upgraded to Apache 2.2.22
1/11/11 Sprott's
Gateway is being mirrored at thor.physics.wisc.edu
10/29/10 The
Fractal of the Day is now
chosen
randomly from the 5000 of the past 14
years.
6/9/10 The
Website server was upgraded to Apache 2.2.15
5/24/10 - RAM
was upgraded from 1 GB to 4 GB
5/5/06 - The
Website server was upgraded to Apache 2.2.2
4/14/06 - A survey for the Wonders of Physics was
added.
12/21/05 -
The
Website server was replaced by Apache
2.0.55
12/21/05 -
The
computer was changed to a 3
GHz
Dell
PowerEdge
1800 with quad Xeon processors
11/1/05 - The
seewho.exe CGI program was removed for security reasons
9/20/05 - The
IP
address was changed to 128.104.165.254
9/20/05 - The
RAM was upgraded from 256 kB to 1 MB
7/28/05 - The
IP
address was changed to 128.104.223.199
(may have happened earlier)
7/26/05 - A
directory of fractals for sale was
added
4/19/05 - The
uploader has been disabled for security reasons
4/15/05 - A
firewall has been installed
4/1/05 - Saunders Physics Demonstrations video has
been
added
3/28/05 - The Wonders
of
Physics videos have been added
1/4/04 - The
links
page has been removed because of abuse.
5/15/02 -
Server
software upgraded to Deerfield WebSite 2.0
5/15/02 -
Sprott's
Gateway upgraded to Dell 4400 (1800 MHz P-5) running Windows 2000
3/10/01 - A gallery
of publication quality fractals was added.
3/20/00 - A Sprott
family history page was added.
3/10/00 - A
popular
lecture on Radio Communications was
added.
3/7/00 - A Sprott
family tree was added.
2/2/00 - A slide
viewing
program was added.
1/12/00 - A
collection
of sound effects from The
Wonders
of
Physics was added.
12/26/99 - Photographs
from a 1963 summer in Brazil were added.
10/22/99 - A
popular
lecture on Seasons, Tides, and Phases
of
the
Moon was added.
10/4/99 - A tribute
to Ragnar Oswald Rollefson was added.
9/7/99 - A
popular
lecture on Simple Chaotic Systems and
Circuits
was added.
3/29/99 - Sprott's
home page can be dialectized
in Jive
or Pig
Latin.
11/20/98 -
The
IP
address of Sprott's Gateway was changed to 128.104.222.103.
7/22/98 - A
home
page for the Chaos and Complex Systems
Seminar
was added.
7/8/98 - The
server
is now running under Windows NT 4.0.
1/7/98 - Sprott's
home page can now be viewed in 6 different languages.
12/21/97 - A
collection
of natural fractal photos was
added.
11/30/97 - A
list
of Web kudos has been added.
11/26/97 - A
directory
was set up for MST posters and documents.
11/5/97 - A
list
of Sprott's Spots Awards has been
added.
11/1/97 -
Visitors
can now add links to their home pages or
favorite
sites.
10/3/97 - A calendar
of Sprott's special presentations and
commitments
was added.
7/12/97 - Sprott's
home page can now be viewed backwards.
7/5/97 - A viewer
test page was added.
6/18/97 - A
list
of technical notes was added.
6/16/97 - A random
HTML document on the server can now be accessed.
6/9/97 - A
new
server
log
analysis program was added.
6/2/97 - A
page
was added for the Fall 1997 Plasma Seminar
(Physics
922).
4/6/97 -
Lists
of
client referrers and browsers
are now available.
4/4/97 - A survey
form was set up to collect answers to questions about the
future.
3/3/97 - A
home
page was set up for Physics 505.
2/23/97 - A collection
of MIDI music files was added.
2/19/97 - A
directory
was set up for Cary Forest.
2/14/97 - Sprott's
Gateway can now be accessed by anonymous
FTP.
2/14/97 - The
server
software was upgraded to WebSite
Pro
version
1.1h.
1/24/97 - A
page
was added for the Madison English Country
Dance
Society.
12/05/96 - A
page
was added for Madison Scandinavian Dance
Schedule.
12/05/96 - A
form
was created to order tickets for The Wonders of
Physics.
11/26/96 -
The
server
software was upgraded to WebSite
Pro
version
1.1g.
11/18/96 - Sprott's
home page now has a map
of
where
he
lives and works.
11/2/96 - A
cgi
program that writes random contra
dances
was added.
11/1/96 - A
list
of Contra Dances by Marilee Standifer was
added.
10/4/96 - The
Future Project was established to collect people's predictions
of
the
future.
10/2/96 - The
Wishing Project was established to collect people's wishes.
9/9/96 - The
server
log can be searched for all
accesses
to a document in the week ending last Saturday.
7/26/96 - The
server
software was upgraded to WebSite
Pro version 1.1f.
7/14/96 - A
new
search
engine is now being used to speed word searches.
7/5/96 - MIDI
fractal backround music was added to Sprott's
Fractal
Gallery.
7/4/96 -
Twenty-two
new fractal images were added to Carlson's
Fractal
Gallery.
7/2/96 -
Several
VRML (Virtual Reality) files were
added
to Cliff Pickover's home page.
6/28/96 - An
HTML
version of the manuscript of the book Strange
Attractors
was added.
6/17/96 - A Java
applet that searches for new strange attractors was added.
6/12/96 - Animated
GIF images were added for 19 of the simplest
known
chaotic
flows.
6/3/96 - A
collection
of animated GIF images were added
to Sprott's
Fractal Gallery.
5/28/96 -
Several
server
administration features have been consolidated.
5/24/96 - You
can
now upload a file to the server.
5/20/96 - The
operating
system was changed to Windows 95 and the server to WebSite
1.1e.
4/26/96 - The
manuscript
of an unpublished book Physics
Demonstrations
was put online.
4/5/96 - The
manuscript
and programs from the book Strange
Attractors were put online.
3/30/96 - A Java
applet was added to Pickover's
home
page.
3/19/96 - A
JavaScript
scrolling marquee was added to Sprott's home
page.
1/19/96 - A Gallery
of Photographs in JPEG format was added.
12/15/95 - A
new
Server
Statistics program is now being used.
11/29/95 -
The Server
Home Page now includes a word search
of
all HTML documents.
11/27/95 - An
Index
of screen captures from the Chaos
Demonstrations
program was added.
11/25/95 -
Figures
were added to recent abstracts of Sprott's
publications.
11/20/95 - What's
New on Sprott's Gateway (this document) was added.
11/16/95 - An
Index
of Images and Icons collected from the net was added.
10/11/95 - Carlson's
Fractal Gallery was established to display the artwork of Paul
Carlson.
10/7/95 - A RealAudio
welcome message was added to Sprott's
Home
Page.
9/25/95 - A
home
page for Ted Biewer was added.
8/23/95 - A
home
page for the Plasma Physics Theory Group
was added.
7/26/95 - A
home
page for the Madison Scottish Country
Dancers
was added.
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