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Low End PC Archive. September 2002

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• Replacing a totally messed up Windows install when you need to keep your work files, Gregg Eshelman, Tales From the Trailing Edge, 09.25. Installing over the broken version of Windows doesn't work, but you can't afford to wipe the drive and lose all your files.
• WinXP ruins useful file sharing, Mark Lim, Thinking From the Box, 09.16. Windows XP takes a huge step backwards on the network, losing the ability to control file sharing for different users.
• Building up Buttercup, Michelle Klein-Häss, Geek Speak, 09.12. "My goal was a computer that I could take places without breaking my back or my wallet."
• Picking a low end system, Chad Page, Thinking From the Box, 09.10. "There are many different ways of buying an inexpensive PC, especially if one is willing to use Linux, BSD, or older versions of Windows."
• This old Compaq sings, Jeff Garrison, Thinking From the Box, 09.09. "He left impressed, and I added another notch in my belt in the war against obsolescence for these older PCs."
• more in the August 2002 archive

Around the Web

• Web: How to create pop-up windows, Youngpup.net, 09.19. "This is a demand for my right as a web citizen to be able to click on hyperlinks without receiving javascript errors."
• Huh?: Blondes are an endangered species, Fox News, 09.30. German study concludes blondes will be extinct in 200 years. No, it's not a survival of the brightest thing.
• Review: Lapvantage Dome laptop stand, O'Grady's PowerPage, 09.30. "This is the ultimate desk accessory for anyone with a mobile machine as their primary machine."
• Analysis: How much computing power does it really take?, Jay Lyman, NewsFactor Network, 09.27. "...processors running at 500 MHz to 750 MHz - only a fraction of the newest chip speeds - are sufficient for running typical applications."
• Tech: The BSDs: Sophisticated, powerful, and (mostly) free, Brett Glass, Extreme Tech, 09.27. "The five best known BSDs are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Darwin."
• Rights: File swapping services find new ways to leech off others, Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 09.27. "...file swapping services have found yet another way of achieving new lows in leeching revenues."
• Forum: Stealware: Kazaa et al stealing link commissions, Slashdot, 09.27. "...if you buy a CD from an affiliate of Amazon.com, say some charity, the software fools Amazon into crediting the commission to Morpheus, not the charity!"
• Opinion: HTML mail, Brent Simmons, Brent Simmons' Weblog, 09.26. "I am, like, two seconds away from filtering all HTML email to the trash."
• Dark Side: Microsoft warns of FrontPage flaw, Robert Lemos, ZDNet, 09.26. "...a flaw in its FrontPage extensions could allow an attacker to take control of their servers or cause the computers to seize up."
• Web: User-centered URL design, Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path, 09.24. "The advent of content management systems has been a boon in many ways, but the readability of URLs is not one of them." Dark Side: History of Visual BASIC, David K. Every, iGeek, 09.23. "If Apple didn't drop MacBASIC immediately, then MS would pull all MS products from the Mac market for good...."
• Deal: Western Digital 100 gigabyte IDE hard drives: $99.99, Deals on the Web, 09.23. These 7200 RPM drives are fast, big, and very affordable.
• Rights: Hollywood vs. the Internet, Mike Godwin, The Age, 09.21. "The Tech Faction believes people should be able to do whatever they want with their digital tools...."
• Analysis: Is Bill Gates a genius?, David K. Every, iGeek, 09.20. "...the ethics were a little shaky, but then ethics never got in the way of Microsoft's business."
• Culture: Nu shortcuts in school r 2 much 4 teachers, Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times, 09.19. Messaging shorthand creeps into schoolwork. What's a teacher to do?
• Dark Side: Microsoft baits the trap, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 09.19. "...the manufacturer of the least secure software in the world has opened a $25 million showpiece 'Innovation & Technology Conference Center' in Reston, Virginia."
• Opinion: Free features: Choice isn't always good, David K. Every, iGeek, 09.17. "Every feature added increases complexity, documentation costs, potential bugs, support costs, testing time, training time and so on."
• Opinion: I hate Windows; I am afraid of Linux, Robert Gering, OSNews, 09.17. Author has lost time and work to Windows, finds Linux an endless stream of updates.
• Rights: Thinking about deep linking, Steve Outing, E-Media Tidbits, 09.17. "My position: if a publisher doesn't want others to link to its 'inside' content, it should use technical - not legal - means to prevent it."
• OS: LindowsOS info page, Alan Gilman. "...if you are using Windows and thinking about switching to Linux, LindowsOS makes the job real easy."
• Virus: Linux worm hits the network, Michelle Delio, Wired, 09.16. "A worm that attacks Linux servers is being used to create a peer-to-peer network of infected computers...."
• Tech: BIOS Arcana: description and translation, Wayne Hardman, ars technica, 09.12. "Everything in BIOS alters something to do with the chipset's behaviour." Hardware: USB cell phone cables found, Chris G, O'Grady's PowerPage, 09.09. Finally, a resource for USB-to-phone cables - so hard to find.
• Opinion: Why Windows makes mobility so hard, Larry Seltzer, ZDNet, 09.06. "...the number of settings on a Windows notebook that might be different for two different locations is huge."
• Rights: Judge rules PayPal unfair, Tim Richardson, The Register, 09.09. "...there are approx. 100,000 complaints outstanding at PayPal." Opinion: Microsoft: Just Say No, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac, Low End Mac, 09.10. Alternatives to Microsoft Office XP abound, and giving PC users choices helps break the Microsoft monopoly.
• OS: MicroBSD, MicroBSD.net. Release candidate version 0.6 of compact, secure BSD weighs in at under 32 MB. more in the August 2002 archive

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