Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes

Subject: Where's JC's Tune Finder?
From: Ship'scat
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 10:53 PM

OK folks, Where is JC's Tune finder? It normally (and reliably) resides at:

trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html

but is missing (since Sunday)?

There can't possible be a more referenced link or more useful site - imagine MIDI, ABC and dots for everything, on demand!

If this has gone down some copywrite or busines model rathole it needs to be raised and re-enstated.

Anybody got any facts?

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 11:10 PM

I discovered this too........John sometimes has troubles, let's hope that is all it is. The site has been down before and always come back. Actually, very little there is copyrighted.

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 11:26 PM

You can also try Chris Walshaw's Web Wide ABC Index, but you need an ABC program for it to really work. No gif/midi like JC's.

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 Oct 01 - 11:58 PM

I've had a lot of trouble connecting to anything at all since Sunday; never known the lines to be so poor.  With luck, that's all it is.

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 01:02 AM

If you can read French, there seems to be a mirror site here: http://perso.club-internet.fr/banwarth/finder.htm.

Hope the other is back up, soon.

kat

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 01:03 AM

Are these any help?

http://perso.club-internet.fr/banwarth/finder.htm

http://www.geocities.com/nacornett/tune.htm

~S~

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: vindelis
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 03:03 PM

I had the same trouble a couple of nights ago. I tried again tonight and got the 'Internal Server Error' message 'HTTP 500'. It's a wonderful resource, I hope it's back soon.

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: Ship'scat
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 07:10 PM

katlaughing, and folks,

Malheureusement, the French site seems to be just a front end and not a mirror. And John's site is still down.

There are things to do and tunes to play and print and such. Come on Tinker Bell. If the site were lost it would be catashtrophic - a true terrorista plot!

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 12:38 PM

I saw on a newsgroup that the server for the website has been down for several days. No indication of when it might be running again.

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 10:21 PM

It's ba-ackkk!

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: GUEST,Mikey joe (nae cookies)
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 05:00 AM

Date sent: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 01:58:16 UTC Send reply to: John Chambers From: John Chambers Subject: Re: SV: John Chambers Tune Finder? To: [e-mail]

| The server seems to be down. Prehaps a virus?

Nope; a breakin, apparently via telnet and a sniffed password. It was up and down for a bunch of days, as a gang of MIT hackers had fun analyzing the situation. FreeBSD is supposed to quite secure, y'know. But telnet sends passwords in the clear across the Net, and with tools like that, it doesn't much matter how secure the rest of the system is. Anyway, trillian is back up, they say, without telnetd, and we're all changing our passwords, so if you've sniffed any, you'd better get in fast ...

MIT does have a fairly firm policy of "no firewalls". Every machine is hooked up straight to the Internet, with no protection. The idea is that everyone at MIT is supposed to learn enough about computer security to take care of their own machine, dammit. It's a policy that's great for resumes, of course, but can at times lead to down time and the fun of diagnosing the latest exploits. ------- End of forwarded message -------

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: Ship'scat
Date: 13 Oct 01 - 04:30 AM

First the WTC and now a breakin at JC's Tune Finder? What an OUTRAGE!

Hacking is for corporate swine and Microsoft, not beautiful tunes. The trillian crew needs to know the civilized world, at least as I know it, is with them 1000%. Such things always go unappreciated until they've been brutally snatched away. It is a beautiful site.

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: alison
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 11:16 PM

well I got to the site today... I get the list of tunes but can't download anything.... is it down again?

pity if it is... it is a wonderful site....

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Day the Music Died - Where's JC's Tunes
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 11:30 PM

It is working for me but occasionally I get a page with a listing with no links.

As for pity if it went, I'd almost look at it as an equivilant of loosing the dt for lyrics (although there are a few other good ABC sites)!

Jon