Monday, September 08, 1997

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Apple Labs: SharedInfoServer provides a simple object database model designed to contain dynamic, emphemeral information.

PC WEEK's Spencer F. Katt has a 10-step recovery plan for Apple.

NY Times: Infoseek gets a patent on searching technology.

BusinessWeek's Steve Wildstrom responds to Mac zealots.

ZDNet: Is Be on the PowerPC another casualty?

InteleNet is a Frontier site.

From today's MacInTouch. Dori Smith notes a compatibility issue with Apple's latest Power Macs: "I recently bought two 9600/350's to upgrade my web servers. Unfortunately, Userland's Frontier hangs every time it is launched. According to the Frontier support list, I'm the first person to try it on a Mach 5 machine. According to Apple, the hang is due an incompatibility between Frontier and Mach 5 Macs."

If anyone from Apple is tuned in, can you help us get to the bottom of this? We don't have a 9600/350 here to test with. Can you reproduce the problem? What is Frontier doing when it hangs? Help would be much appreciated.

More on Mach 5, from Steve Riggins, geek@geeksrus.com: "There may be a bug but I can run Frontier 4.1 on my 8600/300 (A Mach 5 machine) with no visible problems so far. I am running 8.0, not many extensions. I am not using the OSA Menu extension."

A stirring open letter from Robert J Moriarty of MacCPU to Apple's board of directors.