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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2544" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2544">Sigh. It turns out that the Post Office added another ZIP code to our area shortly before we moved. Of course, no one told us about this, and we didn't notice right away</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2545" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2545">Retrospect A/UX, which is almost identical to Retrospect 2.0 but includes full support for both Unix and Macintosh file systems, was announced recently by Dantz Development</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2546" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2546">The highlight of the annual Computer Bowl occurred when Bill Gates, who was a judge, posed the following question to the contestants:"What contest, held via Usenet, is dedicated to examples of weird, obscure, bizarre, and really bad programming?"After a moment of silence, Jean-Louis Gassee (ex-honcho at Apple) hit his buzzer and answered "Windows."Mr</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2547" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2547">Modem Follies -- A number of people wrote in about Mark Anbinder's article in TidBITS #176 concerning a strange line noise problem. It seems that this problem was big news in Australia some time back, as Ian MacColl reported, and some of the theories there included some phones drawing too much power from the line, a capacitor charging to maintain stored numbers, or the affected phones reporting to their superiors at Telecom Australia Headquarters (a popular choice, since the problem was cyclical).Ed Segall proposed an alternate theory based on a problem he had and solved</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2548" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2548">MacIntercomm and MacIntercomm Lite, originally developed by Mercury Computing, have been acquired by New World Computing (NWC). MacIntercomm is best known for its ability to transfer files at full speed in the background no matter what the foreground process</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2549" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2549">QuickTime 1.6 bugs are popping up all over. Jon Pugh reported on Info-Mac that he isolated a conflict between QuickTime 1.6 and Now Toolbox 4.0.1p that caused problems when resolving an alias that mounts a network volume</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2550"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2550', 'show')">The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2550" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2550">It's time to let the electronic cat out of the proverbial bag. I'm writing my first book, although after 4.3 MB of TidBITS I suppose it's not quite a novel concept</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2554"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2554', 'show')">Smoothie With A Capital SMOO</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2554" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2554">I'm beginning to like one-trick ponies. I like Toner Tuner, which lets you reduce the amount of toner or ink or ribbon you use when printing, and although I personally don't have much use for it, I think those of you who do presentations will like Smoothie, from Peirce Software</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> | 07 Jun 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2556" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2556">"Crash Course" Correction -- In my article in the Jun-93 MacUser, a mistake was made in copy editing that introduced a serious error. For the non-programmer, MacsBug has three, maybe four important commands</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> | 31 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2558" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2558">I've posted a couple of notes on the nets about upgrading my QMS-PS 410 laser printer to a new version of the firmware, and to judge from the email, I've hit a bit of a nerve</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> | 31 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2563" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2563">TidBITS is moving! Not far, about 25 miles south to near the shores of Lake Washington (well, OK, we can't see the lake from inside our house, but we can from the yard)</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> | 17 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2564" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2564">Easy View habitats -- It turned out that Easy View ended up on CompuServe in MACDVEN #5 as EV232.SIT rather than the MACAPP library that I mentioned last week</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> | 17 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2565" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2565">Performa Service -- Apple recently reminded dealers that Performa owners are welcome to bring their computers to "regular" Macintosh dealers should they need repair, in or out of warranty</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> | 17 May 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2567"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2567', 'show')">MIDI and the Macintosh - Part II</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2567" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2567">by Shekhar Govind -- govind@utxvm.cc.utexas.eduTechnical editing by Craig O'Donnell -- dadadata@world.std.com and Nick Rothwell -- cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.ukMIDI Software for the Mac: Application Software -- For simple purposes, MIDI application software can be considered to have two main elements - a recorder/player (sequencer) with tools for editing the MIDI performance data, and a music-notation editor to create printed scores, or "notation." (Other classes of MIDI software esoterica will be dealt with later.)Until a few years ago, the Amiga and the Atari ST, with their built-in MIDI capabilities, boasted some of the best MIDI software</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> | 17 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2569" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2569">If you're a student heading home for the summer and you subscribe to the TidBITS LISTSERV, please cancel your subscription before leaving. It's only polite, and you can hop back on when you have access again</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> | 10 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2570" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2570">Information Electronics followed up on their recent announcement of a new SMTP mail gateway for Microsoft Mail with word that a limited-time evaluation version of the gateway is available for download, free of charge, from their support bulletin board</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> | 10 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2571" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2571">Double-sided Printing -- Several people wrote to warn against printing on the back of already-printed sheets of paper, as recommended in TidBITS #175. Joe Gurman relayed information from a repair person who claimed that some high-speed printers (the one in question was an older Ricoh engine used in the Talaris 1590 printstation) were more likely to jam when using reused paper because of changes in the paper when it was exposed to the high heat in the laser engine the first time through.Another reader claimed that some laser printers contaminate the paper with small quantities of fuser oil, and reusing printed paper can cause this contaminant to migrate to places it doesn't belong, such as the rollers that grab the paper</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> | 10 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2572" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2572">A friend from Apple writes to clarify the LC III/FPU issue raised a while back in TidBITS #169.I understand the following to be the case:If there is no FPU on the motherboard, and none on the card, no problem.If there is no FPU on the motherboard, and there is one on the card, the system uses the one on the card, albeit at 16 MHz.If there is an FPU on the motherboard, and there is none on the card, the system uses the one on the motherboard, at 25 MHz.If there is an FPU on the motherboard, and there is one on the card, the system uses the one on the motherboard, at 25 MHz.The FPU on the motherboard, since it is physically linked to the CPU, takes priority, in a manner of speaking</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> | 10 May 1993</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2573" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2573">I recently uploaded Easy View 2.32, the latest version of Akif Eyler's free structured text file browser. Easy View recognizes the following formats:setext, including TidBITSInfo-Mac, comp.sys.mac.programmer, or similar digestsMail collections: Internet, Navigator, Notebook, etc.Text with "simple" formatDictionariesPlain textHowever, there's nothing new in that list - I just wanted to grab the interest of people who haven't yet come out from under their rocks to try Easy View</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> | 10 May 1993</div></div>
<a href="/article/2575"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('2575', 'show')">MIDI and the Macintosh - Part I</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_2575" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_2575">by Shekhar Govind -- govind@utxvm.cc.utexas.eduTechnical editing by Craig O'Donnell -- dadadata@world.std.com and Nick Rothwell -- cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.ukThis Mac-MIDI musical offering is organized in three movements, an introduction and discussion of MIDI, a look at MIDI software on the Macintosh, and finally, some information on MIDI hardware, some of it specific to the Mac</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> | 10 May 1993</div></div>
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