News and commentary from the cross-platform scripting community.
	Mail Starting 7/3/97

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From: wesf@mail.utexas.edu (Wesley Felter);
Sent at 7/3/97; 10:55:12 AM;
MS PWS 4.0b1 is cool

You should really check out Microsoft's PWS 4.0b1 for Mac OS. (I wonder where versions 2.0 and 3.0 went...) Not only does it include support for MOS and W*API plug-ins, an FTP server, auto-binhexing, directory browsing and access control, but it also has ASP support so users can embed server-side VBScript in HTML pages. Apple should have licensed this one instead of Maxum's. I'm ready to lobby Microsoft to produce a full-speed version and call it IIS. It does have a tendency to crash.

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/mac/features/pws.htm

We have it on a PowerBook at the office: http://empty69.binarycompass.com/

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From: lori@eff.org (Lori Fena);
Sent at 7/3/97; 8:49:09 AM;
Re:Bill Gates's Money

Thank you for asking BIG questions! It promotes BIG discussions, BIG debate, and hopefully BIG action. Not just from Bill, but from all of us.

(Lori is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.)

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From: peter@stairways.com.au (Peter N Lewis);
Sent at 7/23/97; 11:52:53 AM;
Re:Bill Gates's Money

>He could send a Pentium box with NT 4.0 and MSIE to Alpha Centauri.

Oh sure, declare war on them when we haven't even made contact yet!

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From: sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (Edward J. Sabol);
Sent at 7/3/97; 11:09:21 AM;
Re:Jimmy Stewart

My favorite Jimmy Stewart movie quote:

"What is it you want, Mary? You want the moon? If you do, just say the word; I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down for you." George Bailey (James Stewart), "It's a Wonderful Life", 1946

Thanks, Jimmy.

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From: jamess@java.coffeehaus.net (Jamie);
Sent at 7/2/97; 10:07:25 PM;
Webpluck.

Check out http://strobe.weeg.uiowa.edu/~edhill/public/webpluck/

It's NewsTracker for the masses written in perl.

Do it in Frontier!

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From: kcompton@attmail.com (Kevin F Compton);
Sent at 7/2/97; 10:07:25 PM;
Re:Jimmy Stewart

Thanks, Dave, a nice note on the right things. And right on the heels of his contemporary Robert Mitchum (of lung cancer/emphysema in his sleep Tuesday at 79). Media made more comments on Mitchum's politics (if punk/anarchy can be called that), what with his late 40s pot bust and "I don't care" lasting line.

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From: markman@batnet.com (Markman);
Sent at 7/3/97; 1:23:21 AM;
Re:Jimmy Stewart

Thanks for taking the time to mark Jimmy Stewart's passing.

You said he wasn't subtle. I'm not sure what you meant by that. I believe his work was amongst the most subtle ever recorded by a film camera. ("so slight as to be difficult to detect or analyze; elusive" -- American Heritage Dictionary).

Stewart's acting so good that it was all but undetectable as "acting." Whatever he was doing, all the audience saw was just him up there being that guy. The art was so powerful it turned invisible. If you want an idea of how difficult it is to be natural in front of a camera, think back to the last time you had your picture taken.