On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Andy Kunz wrote:

> >http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
>
> The links off this page are down - it appears the PIC is off-line!

from Slashdot:

> I'll be dipped... (Score:4, Informative)
> by Wee (wrhodes1[at]san.rr.com) on Wednesday July 14, @04:01PM EDT (#21)
> (User Info)
> I got in before the poor guy met an unseemly /. fate:
>
>   [wrhodes@lazlo wrhodes]$ telnet eternity.cs.umass.edu 9080
>   Trying 128.119.41.46...
>   Connected to eternity.cs.umass.edu.
>   Escape character is '^]'.
>   HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
>   Date: Wed Jul 14 15:50:36 EDT 1999
>   Server: iPic Redirect+Log Hack/1.0
>   MIME-Version: 1.0
>   Content-Length: 0
>   Location: http://sprung.cs.umass.edu:4176
>   Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> There you have it: The smallest server redirect in the world.
>
> -B

:)


The general concensus was "it's a bunch of hooey!  If it isnt, show me the
code."  There was also one reference to this month's Circuit Cellar
magazine, which looks like it a has a bunch of good articles, including
this one (http://www.circuitcellar.com/):

> Internet Appliance Interface-Myron Loewen
>  Internet appliances still aren't the most
>  reasonable things out there. (Why pay hundreds
>  more for a $20 toaster?) But, Myron uses a PIC
>  and a 2400-bps modem to make an Internet
>  interface that leads the way to less-expensive
>  Internet appliances. pg. 24


I'm going to get me copy in a few minutes, any other DC PICLISTer's wait
till tomorrow, Reiter's only had two copies.


- j