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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3932" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3932">Chan's article about the problems faced by international users struck a chord in numerous readers, many of whom passed on excellent comments and additional suggestions</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3938" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3938">Chris Ferino writes:I've created and uploaded 50, 100, and 200 issue archives of the back issues of TidBITS for folks on America Online. If you do a QUICKFIND search on the keywords "TIDBITS ARCHIVE", you can download them as an easy way of filling out your collection [which you can search through with Easy View for tidbits that you can't remember -Adam].</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3942" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3942">That's an accurate, though misleading title. Wired Magazine has indeed opened a section on America Online, but more what I wanted to note was America Online's increased Internet access (keyword = internet)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3946" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3946">RSI Network Newsletter subscribers might have had problems receiving issue 17. Craig O'Donnell writes: "Thanks to a full moon and an unfortunate series of slip-ups somewhere out in Net-Land, the 17th RSI Network Newsletter mailing went awry</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3948"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3948', 'show')">Internet Explorer Kit for Macintosh</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3948" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3948">Adam: You know, Bill, we should mention that Internet Explorer Kit for Macintosh (Hayden Books, ISBN# 1-56830-089-1) is now out and probably even in bookstores.Bill: That was less than subtle, Adam</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Bill%20Dickson">Bill Dickson</a> and <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3954"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3954', 'show')">CompuServe's Internet Plans</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3954" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3954">CompuServe's Internet Plans -- Pythaeus writes to tell us that CompuServe is testing a version of CompuServe Information Manager that enables users to telnet out of CompuServe and to use anonymous FTP to get files</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 May 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3956"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3956', 'show')">TidBITS Reaches the World-Wide Web</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3956" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3956">We've always been proud of the way TidBITS is distributed as widely as possible throughout the Internet, enabling readers to pick and choose how they wish to read each issue</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 May 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3964" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3964">Ron Davis of Datawatch writes in response to our query about the status of 911 Utilities:Datawatch's 911 Utilities product is only available in the SuperSet utilities package</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3965" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3965">Buy, Don't Build -- An ex-Symantec employee writes to tell us about how many programs Symantec has developed as opposed to acquiring:As a matter of fact, it's pretty easy to figure out</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3969" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3969">Brian Hall writes about General Magic's Magic Cap:A product using Magic Cap has been shown - the Motorola Envoy. Motorola had a large island booth at Mobile '94 recently, and they had seven or eight third-party developers showing off applications</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3972" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3972">The discussion that arose following our offhand question about how those mean time between failure (MTBF) numbers are arrived at continues to spawn interesting comments</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3975" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3975">Now that Tonya is writing more articles for TidBITS, we need a way to differentiate who has written what, particularly with MailBITS. From now on, appropriate initials will appear in brackets at the end of the MailBITS, and I'll include myself in bylines</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Apr 1994</div></div>
<a href="/article/3976"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('3976', 'show')">Our book signings</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3976" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3976">Our book signings will be this Thursday, April 21st, at Stacey's in San Francisco (581 Market Street) from 12:30 to 2:00 PM, and at Borders Books in San Rafael (588 Francisco Blvd</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3978" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3978">Chris Holmes of Dantz Development writes in response to the note concerning Retrospect on the Power Macintosh in TidBITS #218:DantzLab has tested Retrospect extensively on the Power Macintosh and found that Retrospect 2.0B can fail when running in a stressful Virtual Memory environment</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3981" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3981">Will this never stop? Symantec and Central Point, perhaps the two largest utility manufacturers, have announced that they plan to merge in a stock swap valued at $60 million</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3983" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3983">The first issue of TidBITS is dated 16-Apr-90. I sit here, four years later, working on our 222nd issue, and think about all that has changed and all that has remained the same</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 18 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3985" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3985">Our apologies if we haven't responded to email sent to us late last week. We were in Indianapolis days talking with the folks at Hayden about various books and explaining to the publishers of the different Prentice Hall Computer Publishing imprints about what the Internet is about</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3986" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3986">Jack Mello reported his frustrating experience after updating a Mac Plus from ARA 1.0 to 2.0 and attempting to configure the settings: "This caused the machine to give me a Finder error</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3987" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3987">We commented last week that we didn't know how that increasingly large mean time between failure (MTBF) number is calculated for hard drives. Luckily, the beauty of having so many knowledgeable readers (and a few comedians) is that we receive good answers to such questions.Luca Accomazzi suggests helpfully:I may have an answer about how to determine a MTBF of 500,000 hours</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Apr 1994</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_3992" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_3992">I'm extremely pleased to announce that Tonya has resigned from her position at Microsoft to devote more time to TidBITS and other projects, including books and Internet adventures</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Apr 1994</div></div>
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