Just a quick post that if anyone is having problems
anonymously logging into the FTP based CCP14
software mirrors via ftp://ftp.ccp14.ac.uk; could
they feel free to pass me an Email about this.
On the ftp logs, I am seeing entries that immediately
close the session a few seconds later. I am not sure
if this is the behavour of some browsers; a problem with
the FTP Deamon (ProFTPD), or maybe some problem with
too many connections (or just probes on the server).
If you are having difficulties (after Emailing me if possible),
a workaround is to browse around via HTTP as the FTP area
is accessible via HTTP:
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/ccp14/
Lachlan.
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PS: A trivia query as well. Does anyone know why/what is
being sold(?) in the Bell Telephone Laboratories advertisements
in 1960 vintage Acta Crystallographica's that have
the title banner "ASSIGNMENT: HIT A TARGERT 6000 MILES AWAY".
(Acta Cryst, 10 October 1960)
It seems a strange type of advert to find in an international
crystallographic journal? It doesn't even mention the word
"Crystallography"?
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Some of the starting text of the advertisement follows for
those who don't have easy access to old Acta Crysts.
"ASSIGNMENT: HIT A TARGERT 6000 MILES AWAY"
"Can you guide a 110-ton Air Force Titan
missle far up into the sky, to bring its
nuclear warhead down with pinpoint
accuracy on a target one-forth the way
around the globe - a target you not only
can't see but which continually moves with
the spinning earth?"
"This was the problem in missle guidance
the Air Force presented to Bell
Telephone Laboratories...."
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Lachlan M. D. Cranswick
Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction
Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K
Tel: +44-1925-603703 Fax: +44-1925-603124
E-mail: l.cranswick at dl.ac.uk Ext: 3703 Room C14
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk
