The Law Centre WWW is now powered by SUN!

The Faculty of Law has maintained a WWW site on the Internet since May of 1994, the first law school in Canada to do so. From these early days and up until this point, the Law Centre Web was both stored and served to the world on a machine called "GPU." GPU is the "General Purpose Unix" server that is operated and maintained by Computing and Network Services at the University of Alberta (special thanks to George Carmichael of CNS for his help while we were on that system).

As we recognize the increasing use of the Internet as a communications and information tool, we knew that we had to expand to remain on the leading edge of providing our education, research, and information services in this new digital age. The result of this recognition was the purchase and installation of a high-power SUN Sparc20 telecommunications server in our own building with enough bandwidth to provide our clients with prompt, efficient service.

As of January 26, 1996, Law's new server is "alive" and on-line and we look forward to providing you with the best of Internet services in the future. Watch our site as we continue to expand and provide new services.

Here's the "techie" stuff...

We have the following Internet services running on our Sun SparcStation 20:

  World Wide Web Site
  www.law.ualberta.ca     Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP)

  Anonymous FTP
  ftp.law.ualberta.ca     File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

  Internet Mail
  pop.law.ualberta.ca     Post Office Protocol (POP3)

To start with, we have a total of 32MB RAM, 3GB total disk space, and one 50 Mhz SuperSparc Processor.

We are running Sun's Solaris operating system, version 2.4.

The server sits off a deidcated 10 Mbps line connected to the University of Alberta's high-speed FDDI fiber-optic network.

Please browse around and tell us what you think. You can sign our guestbook if you like.