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Preface 92
Atmosphere
  

                             It was quite nice to hear from Henk van de Kamer — the man that handles the technical details behind the server on the Aktu site — that our new MCCW site was visited quite well on the first few days after the release! The 30th of March we had more visitors than the site of Linkonline, which means it was the most popular site on the webserver of Aktu that day! That day we had 100 visitors. Let’s see what the statistics are for a longer period, as soon as I get those from Henk.

                             I am telling you this because it really encourages us to continue with MCCW. I’m already receiving quite some articles, but still not as much as I would like. So if you are interested in writing some nice interesting articles: please be my guest and contact me! As you noticed, we released this issue quite late, which was mainly caused by a lack of articles...

                             It was April again, so there was also a MSX fair in Tilburg again, as always. The fair was on April the 15th — as you can read in our previous issue — and it was the first fair where MCCW also had a booth. I was very happy with the positive reactions we received via e-mail, so I expected also a lot of response on the fair. But unfortunately there were only a few people that said it was a very nice thing, our MCCW. Actually, there was hardly any interest in our booth. This can mean two things: either everyone had already seen it, or it was totally unknown, looking like a pc-thingie and therefore uninteresting. It can even be a mixture of those things also. But, it could also have been caused by the fact that our booth was not manned all the time, we were quite busy talking to other people at the various booths...

                            Ah well, I look at it on a positive way anyway: we had no — absolutely none! — negative reactions at all, except for one person that remarked that the magazine is a bit too short. The reasons for that were mentioned in the preface of the first issue. Anyway, in this new issue we continue with the thread we started in our first issue. So expect second parts of our courses and some other interesting articles. We even have some reviews now, a category which was missing in the previous issue. Next time we hope to have more reviews.

                            There is one other thing I should say here: from half of June until the end of September, I will be in Japan. This is an internship for the work I’m doing to graduate in Physics here at the University of Nijmegen. This means I will be a little bit harder to reach, but I hope I will be able to read e-mail as normal and use ssh — secure shell, a way of logging in with encryption on remote computers — to generate the magazine. If I would get into trouble with this — maybe my Japanese boss won’t let me do it... —, Maarten ter Huurne will generate the HTML, he promised me. Actually he is now the co-editor-in-chief. Thanks Maarten! Without you we would never have MCCW as it is now!

                             The fact that I will be on the other side of the world for three months does not mean you shouldn’t hand in new articles! So please help us keeping MCCW up for at least one year and send mail to our — hopefully — well-known address mccw@aktu.nl!

                            Okay, this leaves me wishing you a lot of fun/entertainment/education with this second issue!

                             A short note from Maarten ter Huurne:

                             Manuel arrived safely in Japan and established an e-mail connection from there. However, he doesn’t have much time for MCCW now and he can’t access his university Unix account. So I finished the last bits of this issue and I’ll be doing most of the editorial work for issue 93.

                             Feedback about MCCW is welcome at mccw@aktu.nl. If you tell us you like it, it will motivate us. If you tell us why you don’t like certain parts, it will help us improve MCCW. So don’t be shy, write us what you think!

  
Manuel Bilderbeek
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