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Last month, I said we would have an interview with Alive Mediasoft. We didn't. It's here. That was easy enough!

The Lair! realises that Chris Hanretty's Arexx knowledge is even worse than he portrays here.

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Blimey! You've certainly been busy at the poling station! Every day I log on, and get new votes, which incidentally, are sent to me, and I have to count them. Which, when you're trying to keep track of all the different pollcount.txt that you have dotted around two machines (remember, my net access is through a PeeCee, and I have to keep the mailbox tidy!), is quite annoying.

I suppose I'll have to write an Arexx CGI to deal with it. If I did so, don't worry, I'll publish the code for it here, pointing out the special CGI stuff. It will probably start off as quite simple, maybe keeping the count as a text file on the Amigaworld server, and maybe then working up to writing a complete page, HTML tags included, that updates automatically.

One thing I must stress, though, is that you must not vote twice . At the moment, bar going through every single header info, I have no way of checking if someone has voted twice, and although I don't think anyone has, I'm just putting this here so that if anyone does, I can say that I warned them.

For those of you who are interested in my life(!), my Standard Grade Prelims are coming up, so I must revise. Or else I'll get beaten up by my Physics teacher. The worrying thing is, that's almost not a joke.

In my Computing class, though, I don't have enough time to implement my latest magnum opus. A Mandelbrot explorer for the BBC microcomputer. For those of you unfamiliar with this Brit-centric micro, which was born in the days when micros were called micros, has a 6502 processor, and was never as good as the Spectrum.

Anyway, my Mandelbrot explorer relies on source code from an Amos program, written by Jason Holborn, who has now departed for pastures greener. I tremble at the time a 6502 would take to draw the first Mandelbrot lake. Whether I will ever get to implement this program is uncertain. I definitely don't have time for it at the moment.

On a slightly different tack, I have been offered a motherboard and case from a PeeCee. This coupled with the soundcard and video card I have already scavenged, should build me a PeeCee contemptible. But don't worry, I won't install Windoze, I'm going to try and install Unix, under the guise of Linux.

Linux is the best flavour of Un*x for the PeeCee, but it seems to have departed very slightly from Unix. I don't know if differences between different Unices (?) are as great as they seem to be between Linux and others, but NetBSD isn't worth it on the PeeCee since I don't have a powerful enough Amiga to run it.

Before I go, I'd just like to mention that the archived editions of the Lair! have hit a few problems. Last issue the archive was uploaded to the right server, but in the wrong directory, since I didn't have the right user privileges to upload to the correct dir. Gerry Menzies, who has user privileges (it's his dir!) is on holiday. So, there may or may not be an archive. Sorry about that.

Mention: If anyone has a PPC board and considers themselves a wiz at C and has a copy of StormC or wants one, please contact me. It would help if you wanted to write for a brilliant Amiga e-zine. (Catch my drift?)