Project Numenor was an eight-day experiment (March 3–11) to explore the use of a renegade Kerberos realm for no good reason at all. The Project focused on developing computers as useless toys, rather than as objects of study, for the amusement of Tim Abbott and his co-conspirators Anders Kaseorg and Reid Barton at Random Hall.
The Numenor system, one of the fruits of Project Numenor, is a room-wide distributed computer service consisting of a single networked workstation and related facilities (such as Zephyr and file servers) available to Numenor users to help them achieve their procrastination goals and learn about computers while at the Institute.
Your Numenor account provides access to the following services:
Please refer to Setting up Numenor for directions on enabling your computer to access these services.
Accounts at Numenor are currently available by request only. To request an account, email the Accounts staff at numenor-request@mit.edu.
If you are interested in joining the Project Numenor development team, tell the staff about your plans for improving and extending our services. See our request tracker for a list of current project ideas.
Project Numenor, July 30, 2005