Michael Polák ( )
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Hello all. I am alive and back from India,working on new Arachne release.

Clarence Verge published his numerous \'Arachne Minimalist\' columns while I was trying to recover from excessive internet addiction in India. I don\'t know if I should consider myself being \'Arachne Maximalist\', but the fact is that in his weekly columns, Clarence revealed so many details and hidden (or rather forgotten) Arachne features, that even being Arachne\'s author, I was surprised how meany features were built-in and kept partly forgotten, partly undocomented, and partly obvious only to those who use 800x600 or higher resolution ;-)

If you feel like you may have something to say and like it to be published on Arachne News column, don\'t hesitate and let us know. You can write about re-using obsolete computers, or you can just publish links to cool websites (if they are Arachne compatible), comment latest news from world, or simply publish anything which may be interesting to large Arachne user group.

Anyway, I am back in Prague and I am working on new Arachne release. I wouldn\'t really call my visit to India \'vacation\', although I was definitely not speding my time programming there. It is nice co-incidence that according to Indian press, Bill Gates visited India in the same time as me - but of course, he came as saviour of poor children, and as investor reviving weak Indian industry. At least newspaper descibed his visit in this way ;-) How can humble tourist from Central Europe meassure with this ;-) But anyway, I decided to add support for Tibetan alphabet (and of course Devanagari, Hindi alphabet) to Arachne. While adding support fo Tibetan language will be probably only political message, adding Devanagari may help some people in India to get connected - but of course, only if corresponding low-end web browsing devices running Arachne are available. But I am not afraid that Indian industry is not capable of doing this - if TATA can produce buses and trucks climbing up to 5300 m high mountain passes, and solar colectors bringing light to poor Ladakhi villages, I think someone in India will definitely manage to produce web browsing terminals sooner or later ;-) There is already growing Arachne user group in India, with its population of 1 billion, but of course, competition of PCs running Windows is very strong even there - partly because connection costs are probably worse problem, than cost of new hardware. This is typical for all countries suffering from communication monopoly.

Note: Our system administrator has upgraded Arachne Labs web server while I was away - by now, most problems related to upgrade to our own \'distribution\' or rather \'mutation\' of Linux should be solved. Please report all persisting problems to root@arachne.cz ...