The Low End Mac Link Archive, March 2000
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- Opinion: Apple should count the cost before alienating its
friends, Charles W. Moore, MacOS Daily, 3/31. "...Apple has been on
a binge of alienating friends right and left lately."
- Review: Kinesis MPC
Switchable Ergonomic Keyboard, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
3/31. Unconventional keyboard design is a winner.
- Analysis: Can PowerPC
keep up with Intel?, MacWeek, 3/30. "Mac users can be forgiven
for feeling some processor envy these days."
- News: Upgrades
put some beige G3s in jeopardy, Macworld, 3/30. Macs with Royal
Technology voltage regulator must replace that component
first.
- Web:
A plague on all your mouses, Telegraph, 3/30 [Mac Surfer]. The story of David
Smith and the Melissa virus he unleashed a year ago.
- Interview: Rodney O.
Lain, Real Life Macs, MacAddict, 3/29. His columns appear
almost everywhere; learn more about him here.
- Web: Judge OKs deep
links, USA Today, 3/29. "[U.S. District Judge Harry] Hupp said
hyperlinking was not illegal as long as consumers understand whose
site they are on...." Low End Mac has long supported open links.
- Opinion: Goldilocks, Aristotlte and the three PowerBook form
factors, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, 3/29. "Should Apple make a
smaller (and maybe even a bigger) 'Book? "
- Opinion: Do
"rumor sites" really hurt Apple or you?, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 3/29. "I would suggest that a perusal of Apple's stock
price chart over the past three months blows the theory to
smithereens."
- Web: mac2400, the leading
PowerBook 2400 site (in English) has moved [Macs Only!].
- Fun: April
Fool's practical jokes, Inspired Logic [Apple's Orchard].
- Media: X-Men: The Movie
trailer now available in small, medium, large, and full screen
formats.
- Opinion: Geek
profiling: The next W.A.V.E., Jon Katz, Slashdot, 3/29. "It's a
carbon copy of the Hitler Youth program used so successfully in
World War II Germany to root out dissidents and oddballs."
- News: 800 MHz Macs on
the way this year, MacUser UK, 3/29. Enhanced G4 will include
on-chip 256 KB level 2 cache running at full CPU speed and a second
AltiVec unit.
- Review: Presto
Plus, The Review, MacNN, 3/29. US$299-399 upgrade adds 33 MHz
'040, ethernet, and 32 MB RAM to pre-6804 Macs with LC PDS
slots.
- Opinion: John
Dvorak proclaims death of FireWire, FireWire World, 3/29.
Considering his track record, this bodes well for FireWire.
- Advice: How
to make IE 5 work right, David Nagel, Creative Mac, 3/29. Ah,
someone knows how to change the annoying tab behavior!
- Huh? Mini iMac,
No Beige, 3/29. I want one before Apple sues whoever made it out of
business.
- Opinion: Apple
legal dumps cold water on yet another flame of Mac enthusiasm,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/28. "Apple Legal has worked its 900
pound gorilla magic on another Website...."
- Advice: Dealing with IE 5's
font and resolution settings, iMac NewsPage. Visual guide to
how point-size and pixel-size text appears in Microsoft's new
browser.
- Web: The
Web is wonderful for kids, ZDNet, 3/28. "Children (and parents)
use e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging, for example, to
connect with other people, not avoid them," the report says.
- Opinion: Why does my
refrigerator need an ISP?, Daniel J. Lyons, MacBC, 3/28. "It
would be silly to have Internet connections for every device in
your house."
- Web: Jag's
House launches System 6 email list
- Opinion: Why
rumor sites hurt you and Apple, Michael Munger, Mac Observer,
3/28. "A good dose of common sense."
- News: Apple
goes postal on Mac Cards, Macworld UK, 3/28. "Apple claimed
that visitors would confuse the site with its own."
- Opnion:
Isn't it time Apple got some perspective?, MacUser UK, 3/28.
"It's difficult to see what Apple has to gain by this heavy-handed
approach."
- Opinion: Are any Mac
sites safe?, Macinstein, 3/28. "It kind of has a 'Big Brother'
feel to it and had us thinking about all the effort we put into
promoting the Mac."
- Opinion: Apple: Big
Brother 2000?, NoBeige.com, 3/28. "Apple is acting like the Big
Brother that it mocked in 1984."
- News: Apple shuts
down Mac Cards for trademark violation, MacNN, 3/27. In what is
becoming increasingly common Apple practice, they sent in the
lawyers before contacting the webmaster. Why ask for cooperation
when you can coerce it?
- News:
Jobs intervenes as Mac Cards gets pulled, MacUser UK, 3/27.
"...the action was triggered when Jobs sent a card from the site to
another senior Apple employee questioning its use of Apple branding
materials and images."
- Web: Where has the
Mac Cards website gone?, Mac Cards. "...my enthusiasm to
promote the Mac or any Apple product . . . has been completely
destroyed."
- Opinion: Does Darwin
open the door to Intel?, Tony Smith, MacWeek, 3/27. "Look at it
this way: what sells the iMac? Is it the processor...?"
- Opinion: IE 5
brings good and bad to Mac users and web authors, W3Nation.
"...the most fully featured, best rendering, and fastest browser
available on the Mac today."
- Review: Internet
Explorer 5.0, The Review, MacNN, 3/27
- Analysis: IE 5
changes how Mac users see the Web, MacWeek, 3/27. "...a default
installation of IE 5 for the Mac will display Web pages pretty much
the same way that Windows users see them."
- News: Macs Only! has
some screen shots, comments on Internet Explorer 5.0, 3/27.
- Opinion: The
unfortunate truths, Jack Shedd, osOpinion. "...this is what
happens when a nerd and a businessman meet."
- Opinion: The
not-so-sorry state of Mac gaming, Holy Mac, 3/27. "...most of
the worthy games do make it to the Macintosh."
- Web: Why the Mac
Is So Great, a new Mac-centric multilingual site.
- AAPL:
Apple hits 150, closes down in last hour, Wes George, Mac
Observer, 3/23. "Apple set a new intraday high of 150 5/16 before
the profit takers, unable to resist AAPL's 44 dollar gain since
last Thursday, shaved the stock price back."
- News: Accelerate Your
Mac! has downloadable color profiles for the iBook and recent
PowerBooks that really improve on-screen color.
- Web: MyAppleMenu has a new
look and a new ULR, 3/23.
- Opinion: Giving
your iMac a brain transplant, Gene Steinberg, Arizona Central,
3/23. You can upgrade an old iMac to 466 MHz, but is it worth the
cost?
- News: Orange
Micro cures G4/G3 port envy, Applelinks, 3/23. US$99 card adds
fast SCSI-2 and two serial ports via PCI slot.
- News: The
rack-mount iMac, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/23. ISP
repacks $1,000 iMac (less monitor) for a small, inexpensive,
powerful server.
- Opinion: Two
great Mac success stories, Nancy Gravely, Mac Observer, 3/22.
"Both are about men who, because of their age or life experiences,
approached the whole computer concept with great trepidation."
- Review: PowerBook
(FireWire) 500, Accelerate Your Mac!, 3/22. "If you've never
owned a PowerBook, there's never been a better time to buy."
- AAPL:
Second record high in as many days!, Wes George, Mac Observer,
3/22. Apple stock is soaring.
- News: AirPort
software may damage WaveLAN card, MacCentral, 3/22. "If you
choose the Apple Airport driver, the included automatic firmware
update may cause irreparable damage to Lucent's card."
- Poll: What's
your favorite pre-Quadra Mac?, Jag's House.
- Opinion: Pismo's progress, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
3/22. "How has it been faring in its first month in the real
world?"
- Review:
JamC@m, MacUser UK. Inexpensive digicam lowers digital
photography entry fee.
- Gaming: There's
a new RPG in town, Mac Observer, 3/22. Avernum uses 3D graphics
in a game reminiscent of Ultima, Wizardry.
- AAPL:
Apple surges 9.7% to new record high, Wes George, Mac Observer,
3/21.
- Gaming: Top 10
gaming resources, Inside Mac Games.
- Opinion: What makes a
Mac a Mac?, Bob Allis, MacBC, 3/21. It's the OS - this article
explains why.
- Web: Why Windows web
pages have tiny text, Geoff Duncan, TidBITS #467. Very helpful
explanation of differences between Mac and Windows displays.
- Opinion: Train wreck journalism, Tim Hillman, MacOS Daily,
3/20. The Mac OS is dead. Long live OS X?
- Review:
PowerBook 500, MacUser UK.
- News: Program
matches equipment donors with schools in need, Paul Shields,
Applelinks, 3/18. "MacTreasures started a program a few weeks ago
to match those individuals and businesses with excess Macintosh
equipment with schools in need."
- Deal:
Cyberdog 2000 + Mac OS 9, $49 extended through 3/17/00,
Xeosoft [MacSurfer]. Even if you don't care
about Cyberdog, it's a great price for OS 9.
- Opinion: Should technology make everything easier?, David K.
Schultz, MacOS Daily, 3/15. Provocative.
- News: Mac
servers withstand hacker attack on Army site, MacCentral, 3/15.
Brazilian "Crime Boys" unable to break into Army's WebStar
servers.
- News:
Motorola denies IBM G4 ban, MacUser UK, 3/14. "Motorola has
placed no restrictions on IBM that will prevent it from
manufacturing and selling the MPC7400, at any clock speed, to
Apple."
- News: Mac OS 09.
Temporary Items not deleted at startup, Apple TIL 25134, 3/13.
OS 9 neglects cleanup after a crash. TIL includes a flawed
Applescript to perform cleanup on restart. MacInTouch has a
functional script.
- Opinion: AppleWorks
6: A step backward?, Julie Lewis, The Round Peg, 3/13. Based on
field reports, users may be better of with AppleWorks 5.
- Analysis: Why Web
traffic counts are not quite right, ZDNet, 3/13. About 18% of
visitors are seeing site via proxy server, causing log data to
undercount traffic.
- Opinion: Does
Apple offer too many different products?, Micheal Munger, Mac
Observer, 3/13. "Apple manufactures so many different Macs that
there is something for everyone."
- Opinion: On
our own terms, Mark Newhouse, Keeper of the iBook, 3/13. "Apple
still makes the best hardware and software for getting things done
on our terms - even before we know what our terms are."
- Review: Promax Turbomax
PCI, MacNerds.com. "For less than $250 I had 18 gigs of space
that outperformed the old 2gig drive I was using."
- Review: G4 ZIF
socket upgrades, Macworld. For non-AltiVec tests, "performance
gains were minimal." (Also see our Guide to G4 ZIF Upgrades.)
- Opinion: Does
Maytag equal Apple?, Samuel Sharp, MacSoldiers, 3/13. "Maytag's
stock has fallen precipitously. Analysts say that its products are
too well made: Since they don't break down too often, there is no
need for them to be replaced."
- Analysis:
The futility of an internet sales tax, Alan Reynolds, American
Outlook [Slashdot]. "Internet
commerce is and will continue to be overwhelmingly dominated by
goods and services that would not be subject to state sales taxes
even if the Internet did not exist."
- Web: MacOS Daily returns. "Once upon a time, MacOS daily (MOSD)
was one of the premiere Apple and Macintosh websites for commentary
and reviews."
- Web: Mac Gorilla, new
site covers "best platforms on the planet," which they list as Mac
OS, Linux, and Amiga. No, they don't do Windows.
- Opinion: Mac
users unite!, Julie Lewis, The Round Peg, 3/13. New columnist
at Mac Junkie comes from a non-power user perspective. Looking
forward to future articles, as this one is excellent.
- Advice: Sharing
printers, The Business Mac, Applelinks.
- News: 666 MHz
iBook, Go2Mac, 3/13. No, you can't drop in a 666 MHz G3 today,
but the motherboard could support one. (Overclocking your CPU will
void your warranty.)
- Advice:
Building an ATX G3, Timothy A. Seufert, Accelerate Your Mac!,
3/13. How to drop a Beige G3 motherboard into a standard ATX case.
(Not for the faint of heart.)
- OS: BSD's big
break?, Wide Open News, 3/12. BSD Unix is older than Linux,
should benefit from merger of FreeBSD and BSD/OS as Open
Source.
- News: Some
voters shut out from online election, Southern Arizona Online,
3/11. "Frustrated after repeated attempts to participate in the
nation's first binding Internet election, Wing and Harris . . .
were told that Mac-using Democrats from around the state
experienced similar difficulties."
- Opinion:
Of megahertz, man, and processor woes, Dan Willis, Daily iMac,
3/10. "...if Apple isn't already looking beyond Motorola for a new
source of processors, it's quite possible that they will in the
very near future."
- Deal: DealMac is reporting
$1,299 Power Mac G4/350s may be available at your local CompUSA.
Supply is limited.
- Opinion: Vintage Macs
are a good buy, Macintosh Online User. "While these machines
may not fit the bill for everyday web surfing or intensive number
crunching, they can still perform 90 percent of the tasks people
purchase computers."
- News: iBook,
PowerBook data corruption on sleep, Apple TIL 25130. Apple
recommends against using "preserve memory contents on sleep" until
they can release a patch.
- Opinion: Snake
oil, Marc Zeedar, MacOpinion, 3/10. All about rebates.
- Web: The history and
basics of HTML, David K. Every, MacWeek, 3/9. "This simple
concept was so hot - and so needed - that everyone jumped on the
bandwagon."
- Opinion: Power printing for the
people, Eolake Stobblehouse, MacCreator. Epson Stylus Photo 870
not only offers quality, but improved archival stability.
- News:
Apple #1 in education with 30.6% market share, Mac Observer,
3/9. "Apple has seemingly held the #1 position in education since
Jimmy Carter was president"
- Opinion: Dan
Knight takes an honest look at the struggles within the AIM
(Apple/IBM/Motorola) PowerPC alliance, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 3/9.
- Opinion: The platform
wars, David Bailie, MacBC, 3/9.
- Opinion: MP3s
now more popular than sex?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/9.
With that headline, how could we avoid linking. ;-)
- Opinion: Windows
2000, fact and fiction, John Deke, Mac Traitor, 3/9. "Perhaps
the greatest irony in the Mac vs. PC debate is the fact that the
difference in ease of use between the Mac and PC is actually
greater for the "power user" than for the novice."
- Advice: How to share your
Internet connection, MacMilitia, 3/8. "Apple never lost
a platform war. The so-called war is an illusion."
- Opinion: Apple's OS X
is a Unix-Mac attack, Oliver Rist, TechWeb, 3/6. Labels OS X
and Aqua "amazing."
- News: Apple
issues warning that Pismo PowerBook not compatible with OS 8.6
password security, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/8.
- Opinion: Motorola
acting like "spoiled brat" says Register's Tony Smith, Charles
W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/8.
- Advice: A
must have application for anyone who uses images, Nancy
Gravley, Mac Observer, 3/8. Program uses tabbed folder metaphor to
organize images.
- Low End: Mac-Gyver's
Mac Page. It's even more low-end friendly than Low End
Mac.
- Opinion:
The art of war, David Schultz, osOpinion. "The Mac is back and
Wintel users have their backs to the wall - they are fighting
back."
- Advice: The $800
iMac system, Brent Hecht, Applelinks, 3/8. That price includes
a color printer.
- News: Motorola slammed with
PPC G4 supply limitation allegations, Tony Smith, The Register,
3/7. "IBM . . . is now able to churn out not only 500MHZ G4s, but
600 and 650MHz parts in decent volumes too."
- Analysis: Can IBM and
Motorola get along, Tony Smith, MacWeek, 3/7. "We're solidly in
rumorland here, but such is the importance of the PowerPC alliance
to Apple that it's worth taking a closer look at the
allegation."
- Opinion: Should iReview
be Mac only, Macinstein, 3/7. "...there's a lot more out there
. . . and they're not listed on iReview. "
- Low End: Apple's
site no longer accessible via MacTCP, Jag's House, 3/7. Mac
users must have Open Transport installed to visit Apple's
site.
- Web: Comprehensive
list of G4 accelerated software, Mac Speed Zone. Mostly
graphics, video, and sound applications.
- Opinion:
Apple's advanced hardware and crippled mouse, Mark Guertin,
MacDiscussion. "Let's make these 3 buttons a valuable and
indespensible part of the user experience."
- Opinion: My review
of iReview: It sucks, Victor Rhee, MacChat, 3/6. The title says
it all.
- Huh? Is your computer
possessed by a demon?, Weekly World News [Apple's Orchard]. "'Any
PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil
spirit,' the minister confirmed."
- Web: Low
Bandwidth Website Design Contest Announced, Charles Moore,
Applelinks, 3/6. (See Low End Mac's
entry, a mini home page.)
- Web: Microsoft owns
the web, osOpinion. Why you shouldn't use Internet Explorer
5.
- Web: CompUSA Mac Employee
Forum, Rodney O. Lain and David K. Schultz, Applelust, 3/7. A
place for CompUSA Mac specialists to interact online.
- Digicams:
Canon PowerShot S20 review, Digital Camera Resource Page, 3/6.
"It's fast, well-designed, and really easy to use."
- Doh! France
bans "email," Applelinks, 3/6. "...French civil servants may no
longer say 'email' but must use 'courrier electronique' (electronic
letter)."
- AAPL: Apple's
big break out, Wes George, Mac Observer, 3/6. Apple to ship
over 1,000,000 computers this quarter.
- Web: MacLaunch
to acquire MacOpinion, Applelinks, 3/6. "Founded in December
1997 by Ben Garland, MacOpinion has grown to become one of the most
popular Mac sites on the web."
- Opinion: Power
Mac G4 over-priced, under-powered, Mac Traitor, Mac Junkie,
3/6. Athlon approaching G4 Photoshop performance, but much
cheaper.
- Opinion: Compaq's
iPaq: midget PC, not internet appliance, Mac Junkie, 3/6.
"...price it very cheaply and make everything else an option."
- Opinion: We don't
need rude software, John Martellaro, osOpinion, 3/3. "Asking
the user for his/her data file password just before the
registration program is going to spill its guts to the Internet is
absolutely the most stupid, alarming, inappropriate and thoughtless
thing one could possibly conceive of."
- Opinion: What's wrong
with older Macs?, Phil Shapiro, Jag's House. "No tool is ever
outdated if it serves the needs of the person using it."
- Contest: The 5k, an
award for excellence in web design and production. Can you
design a page measuring under 5k in size, graphics included?
I have!
- News: Team
Mac Observer passes Yahoo SETI Team, Mac Observer, 3/3. It's
been a long, hard climb to 18th place.
- Opinion: Should politics be taboo on Mac websites?, Charles
Moore, MacSimple, 3/3. "I don't think there is anything wrong with
advocacy, so long as you do your best to be scrupulously fair, and
don't try to pretend that you're merely an unbiased
fly-on-the-wall."
- Opinion: The great G4
debacle: Why it is Apple's fault, Sean Terrill, Mac Junkie,
3/3. Provocative, although I lay the blame elsewhere.
- Connectivity: @Home cable modem
service, Go2Mac.com, 3/3. I've put in for AT&T @Home and
hope it goes as well as this.
- News: SETI@home
must have update, Mac Observer, 3/3. Includes OS 9 multi-user
support. (Low End Mac supports Team Mac
Observer.)
- Opinion: Aqua:
I don't want to lick my computer, I just want to get my work
done, Charles Moore, Applelinks, 3/2.
- Advice: Networking
your Macs, iTeen, Mac Observer, 3/2.
- Obituary:
Floppy Disk, 48, dies of obsolescence, Stephen Lynch, Orange
County Register, 3/1. "It was a tragic end for a celebrity that
once rode in the pocket protectors of every Silicon Valley
programmer."
- Advice: Email, privacy, and the
law, Greg Knauss, Sendmail.net, 3/1 [Slashdot]. "It's a nightmare scenario:
You make someone mad, they sue, and suddenly your once private
email is delivered directly into their hands...."
- Opinion: The
OS wars are over and everybody won, Peter Olsen, osOpinion.
Thanks to the web and cross-platform applications, OS matters less
than ever.
- AAPL:
Apple shatters old record, closes over 130, Wes George, Mac
Observer, 3/1.
- Opinion: The
leaders and the followers, David Larson, MacinStart, 3/1. The
Easy PC Initiative shows who is following the leader.
- Humor:
Dr. !Seuss on Aqua, Mac Observer, 3/1. "I do not like it,
JOBS-I-am. I do not like The Aqua Dock."
- News: Newer Tech,
Tri-M announce partnership, Insanely Great Mac, 3/1. Newer will
remain in business with Tri-M's equity investment.
- Opinion: PowerBook speed: How much do you need?, Charles Moore,
Road Warrior, 3/1. "However, for most of us, the 500 MHz G3 should
be amply speedy - luxuriously speedy - for years to come...."
- Advice: Tips,
short cuts, and the occasional miracle, Computing With
Bifocals, 3/1.
- Opinion: Rumors
revisited: some that didn't come true, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie,
3/1. Where are the hand-cranked $1,200 lightweight iBook and the
17" iMac?
- Opinion: Does Steve
Jobs hate us evangelists?, Rodney Lain, Applelinks, 3/1. "If
anything, he probably wishes people like me would dry up and
die."
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