Odds & Ends

BoardScan has been updated again It reports on a possible Location Manager bug and several new TIL articles.

Yet another SETI bug reported Continuing our coverage of SETI@home problems, two readers report the same symptom: An "Error -16" after the program/screen saver has been left running unattended for a period of time.

Update: The Error -16 happens during attempted data transfers if the program is unable to connect to the server, probably because the server is down or swamped. A work-around is to set preferences to "Ask me before connecting to the Internet" and retry the connection manually at a later time. SETI@Home is aware of the problem. Here is a quote from their web page: "Our servers are overloaded. You have probably seen 'can't connect to server' messages; the problem is at our end, not yours." (Thanks, Mike Lettini, Peter Dodge, Jeff Steel, Doug Williams, Bill Hengeveld, and others.)

Keyspan or MegaWolf? Regarding our report last time of problems with the Keyspan SX Pro Serial Card, Dale Sorenson suggests trying the MegaWolf Romulus/4 Serial Card. It has worked "great" for him.

Macromedia Director 7.0.2 is out. Get more Macromedia news at its new CreativePro portal site.

BBEdit 5.1 is out Check the release notes for a list of new features and bug fixes.

PowerForce G3 ZIF 466 price lowered PowerLogix today announced the lowest price ever, $699, on a 466 MHz G3 upgrade for PowerMac G3 owners.

AppleShare cost protested We have received several reports of users unhappy with the $499 upgrade price for AppleShare IP 6.2, given that this is mainly a bug-fix for the previous recent release that was similarly priced.

Pirates already shown? Jubel Chen claims that TNT showed the upcoming Pirates of Silicon Valley movie at 3 am the other night. Several other readers have now confirmed seeing it as well.

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