>>Nothing sinister at all - an admiration for a job well done by Steve in the past where an error slipped through here that I'd have expected Steve to have caught before the magazine went out the door. A simple statement of thanks for a job well done by him in the past is all that was meant here, at least in my case.
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>All well and good, but do keep in mind that Steve always regarded the column as something of a workshop. There were plenty of corrections and expansions while he was Tips editor, too. (I remember one column that started with a whole series of mea culpas.) How about giving Ceil and Ed a chance to hit their stride.
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Tamar, I wish them well in the effort; they've got a big pair of shoes to fill though, and this is where a bit of assistance in basic verification would catch issues before they got out the door. When you wrote "Hacker's Guide", did you make sure that things behaved with different platforms? One reason I own a copy of "Hacker's Guide" is it tells me about what something does rahter than what made it into the product documentation. I'd hope that in supervisoring the production of FPA you'd strive for the same level of excellence achieved in your previous works.

If this teaches us nothing else, we all learned that we need to make sure that things will work in the same fashion under at least 9x, NT 4 and 2K, and mu personal experience is that there are other base setup issues that require separate testing to ensure that generic, cross-platform behaviors are consistent.