Selden Ball's Home Page

• Professional WorryWart
• Computer Jock at Wilson Lab
• System Manager for various DEC (now HP) VMS and Unix computers.
• Acting LEPP Computer Center Director when Ray Helmke is on vacation
• Creator of EPICS/EDM control screens for Phase 1A developent of the ERL
• Tru64 UNIX Librarian for Cornell's TEI CSLG/ESL members

• UnOfficial Cornell job summary: Prog/Analyst Spec
  (Wow. Don't it sound important! :-) )

Selden at work:

Where Selden can be reached:

• Cornell Unit network security recommendations
• Network security event reporting procedure
• Network security event reporting procedure for sensitive data

• NUBB: Network Usage Based Billing
• Campus Backbone (html)
• Old campus backbone (jpeg)
• LEPP WAN connections (images only)
• Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (at SLAC)
• Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (at FNAL)
  • Participants
• Internet2,etc.
  • Internet2
  • UCAID
    UCAID's Abilene Project
  • NextGenerationInternet (US gov)
• VRVS VideoConferencing

• Youth Support services (Covenant House, Boys' Town, NCMEC, etc.)
  • Guide to Online Resources for Youth and Youth Workers
  • Addendum to the Guide
  • Other editions of the Guide
• Childreach (PLAN International)
• A Prayer for Responsibility for Children

• Scouting
• Philmont Scout Ranch links

• Bat rescues [updated url!]

• Colossal Cave Adventure Page
  (Includes a detailed history of the program.)

• Celestia

• Search topical Internet databases
• Internet Search Services

• The Society
• All I Need to Know...
• With Friends Like These...
• Around the Corner by Charles Hanson Towne
• A Good Friend Is...
• A Slow Dance

• You Know You're Addicted to the Internet When...
• LEPP computer notes (Restricted access. Sorry.)

• National Infrastructure Protection Center
• "When I go to..." Responsible use parody at the University of Virgina.
• U.K. JANET-CERT Systems Administrators' Charter (only the details are slightly different in the U.S.)
• Incident Response Tools for Unix (by Holt Sorensen)
  • Part One: System Tools
• Digest of Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
  http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks

• I.T. Rights and Responsibilities
• Cornell University IT Policy drafts
• Current Cornell University Policies

• Cornell's Technology Support Professionals
• Authorization and Directory Services (CIT)
• Cornell Computing Directors
• Report Electronic Fraud (for Cornellians only. Sorry.)

in the Project Bartleby Archive

I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.

I was quiet because I was innocent.

I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.

and I can say nothing about it.

The full text of U.S. Constitution's " Bill of Rights" can be read on the Web server of Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

See also: Pastor Martin Niemoeller's statement, although there are other versions.

Loyal and honest, you work well with others. Generous yet stubborn and often selfish. Look to the Horse or Tiger. Watch out for Dragons.

Well, maybe.

This Web page is maintained by Selden Ball at Wilson Lab.
Please send any comments or corrections to seb@lepp.cornell.edu

Also, please see Selden's Disclaimer.