The Low End Mac Link Archive, September
2000
External news links are listed below by the date of publication
with the most recent articles listed at the top, older ones below
them. Other monthly archive indexes are linked on the right. Links
were correct when originally posted. However, we cannot guarantee
that these links are still active.
- Opinion: Apple now
a delicious buy?, Michelle Delio, Wired, 9/29. "The Cube should
have appeared to those who wanted a little something more than the
iMac, but Apple set the price too high. It's priced for Power users
but doesn't have the features they want."
- Opinion: The sky's
not falling, Dennis Sellers & Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral,
9/29. "Apple isn't losing money this quarter, it's just not making
as much money as expected."
- Opinion: Perspective on
Apple's fall, Motley Fool, 9/29. "While some investors are
licking their wounds today, others are licking their chops and
thinking 'buy.'"
- Web: EarthLink
issues $30,000 bill to Halo fan, Inside Mac Games, 9/29.
Popularity can kill your bank account; "excessive bandwidth usage"
leads to $30k in ISP fees.
- AAPL: AAPL cut in
half by yesterday's profit warning, Wes George , Mac Observer,
9/29. "This is the first time Apple has missed earnings in over a
dozen quarters and the biggest one day drop in Apple's stock price
ever."
- AAPL: Apple to
report lower than expected fourth quarter earnings, Apple,
9/28. Slow retail sales, education sales, Cube sales. Didn't we all
say the Cube was a bit overpriced?
- Software: FileMaker
FMP Reverter, A FileMaker Affliction. Reverter creates
FileMaker 4 files from FileMaker 5 files.
- Low End: Get your
compact Mac on the Web, Jag's House. Seminal article on getting
a Mac Plus, SE, Classic, Portable, or PowerBook 100 on the
Internet.
- OS X: Road to
OS X: Things to fix, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 9/28. The beta
is promising, but missing some very helpful features Mac users are
used to.
- Opinion: Failings of the
PowerPC collaboration, Bob Snow, Go2Mac.com, 9/28. "The life
cycle of a personal computer is just too short to include
technology for which their is not full utilization."
- Anticipation: PowerPC
G4 Plus in Macs by "mid-summer" 2001, Brad Gibson, MacCentral,
9/28. We may see 750 MHz G4s next summer - as Intel and Athlon
approach 2 GHz.
- News: Newer announces OS X
drivers available soon, Newer Technology, 9/27.
- Web:
Interview with iCab's Alexander Clauss, MacSlash, 9/27. Yes,
iCab is being Carbonized for Mac OS X.
- Promises, promises: Motorola G5
chip will achieve 2 GHz, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 9/27. And
the G4 will hit 1 GHz. Question is, why can't they get past 500 MHz
today?
- Here today, gone tomorrow:
Motorola removes 550 MHz chip, MacSlash, 9/27. Motorola has
removed all mention of a 550 MHz PPC 7410 from the press release
that announced it a day earlier. :-(
- OS X: Road to
Mac OS X: Stability and speed (or lack of it), Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 9/27. "As for stability, well, it's everything Apple
promised. I've yet to freeze the entire system."
- Spam:
Microsoft's new spamming technique, Slashdot, 9/27. "Microsoft
is now testing a beta version of their MSN Explorer that sends
e-mails to everyone in your Outlook Address, informing them that
your e-mail address has changed and invites them to to try
MSN."
- SETIonMac:
SuperMacs Team launched.
- Low End: Why I think a Mac
Plus is still a cool computer, Paul D. Sprague. "The Mac Plus
has the soul that got many of us hooked on the Macintosh
platform."
- Consumer: Alternatives to Apple's
optical mouse, Bare Feats, 9/27. I'm intrigued with the $24
Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse....
- MacInSchool: Superior
students get new computers, Duluth News Tribune, 9/26. New lab
includes 25 iMacs.
- Analysis: OS X on
upgraded Macs?, David Read, MacWeek, 9/26. "Upgrade vendors
face several obstacles in getting their products to work with Mac
OS X."
- News: Motorola
announces new G4 chip, MacWeek, 9/26. Next generation G4
available now at speeds to - hold your breath - 550 MHz! (Discuss
on
MacSlash)
- Low End: CD on
CC, Stuart Bell, Colour Classic Compendium. Not one, not two,
but three different Colour Classics beautifully modified with
internal CD-ROM drives.
- Opinion: iBook in high school:
Newbies, Dave Egger, MacMonkey. "The style of the iBook seems
to have been the biggest hit of all. How can it not be?"
- Opinion: If Microsoft owned
OS X, they woulda shipped it long ago, Rodney O. Lain,
Applelinks, 9/26. Microsoft would have called OS X Beta a golden
master and started working on Service Pack 1.
- Dark Side: Dell announces
two wireless laptops, Go2Mac.com, 9/26. Unfortunately, the
wireless part won't be available for two months....
- Dark Side:
MAPI: Why Linux may never win the desktop, Tom Adelstein,
osOpinion, 9/26. Insidious use of technology keeps Windows
dominant.
- News: HP downsizes
workspace, The Register, 9/26 [Win98 Central]. "In a move
straight out of Dilbert, HP
is trying to save money by making its staff work in more cramped
conditions."
- Low End:
SE/30 with internal CD-ROM, Fantastic Things. They said it
couldn't be done. Here's how you can do it. (Tomorrow: Colour
Classics with internal CD-ROM drives!)
- Humor:
Letter i found dead, Stephen Van Esch, Segfault.org. "The
letter i was found floating in a river just outside Palo Alto,
California early yesterday morning...."
- Review:
Sony Spressa 10x CD-RW SCSI drive, Michael Munger, Mac
Observer, 9/25. Puzzling software, excellent drive.
- Opinion: The
iBook as a desktop replacement, Professional Mac, 9/25. "Mac
users now have a viable, true desktop replacement for only
$1499."
- Humor: iWatch2: News from
Apple cyborg technology section, Eolake Stobblehouse,
MacCreator.
- Humor: Key
lime iBooks are a hoax!, Dave Egger, MacMonkey, 9/25. Photos
demonstrate that the Key Lime is not the same color as the
key lime iBook.
- Virus: First
Palm virus spreads, killing programs, Yahoo/Reuters, 9/24
- Hands on:
Dual processor Power Mac G4, Michel Munger, Mac Observer,
9/22.
- Web: Best &
worst of the Web, Mac Observer, 9/22. Especially Kyle's
comments on "Web publisher says banners have proved a
disaster."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 9/22.
- MacInSchool: Macs
creeping back into Grand Rapids (MI) Public Schools, Dennis
Sellers, MacCentral, 9/22. Purchases still mostly Wintel, but there
are Macs in the mix.
- Opinion:
Web publisher says banners have proved a disaster, Rick Perera,
IDG.Net, 9/21. Of course, at the top of the page is an animated
banner ad - and another at the bottom. ;-)
- Dark Side: Data
loss threatens fast Windows systems, PC World, 9/21 [Win98 Central]. "Systems
running at 933 MHz and faster with Windows 98 or Me risk data loss
at shutdown." Maybe 500 MHz isn't so bad.
- Analysis: OS X: A merging of
various decades-old technologies, Paul Bayley, Xappeal. A
history of the Mac OS and a good look at the state of Mac OS
X.
- Opinion: Changing
the world, one Mac disser at a time, Mac Observer, 9/21. When a
Denver TV station hyped Wintel machines as the only computers to
buy, one Mac user educated them.
- Virus: UBS warns of new
virus, CNNfn, 9/21. Subject "Funny Story" or "When did you
die?" could mean trouble for Outlook and Outlook Express users as
virus steals PIN number - only on Windows, of course. (Also see
our virus page.)
- OS: Mac OS
Runtime for Java 2.2.3 released, Apple, 9/21. Oracle certified,
better performance, fewer bugs.
- Opinion: Top 10 coolest
PowerBook accessories, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 9/21.
You might quibble about importance, but some very good
suggestions.
- Analysis: iBook SE vs. PC
laptops comparison, Dave Egger, MacMonkey, 9/21. "I would
compare the 466 MHz iBook to a desktop Pentium III 700."
- Hands On: iMAXpowr G3 and G4,
MyMac, 9/00. In many real-world tests, the G3/466 "felt quicker"
than the G4/433 - something LEM has maintained for some
time.
- Advice: Tape drives
for backup: You get what you pay for, Stephan Somogyi,
Macworld. Backup is a must, especially with today's huge hard
drives. We agree with Somogyi: the Ecrix VXA drive is a real winner
(it's what we use at Low End Mac).
- Opinion:
How big is your hard drive?, Ceolaf, MacinThoughts, Applelust,
9/20. Why would anyone need 80 GB of storage?
- Privacy:
"Cat" scanning device may track users online, Cnet, 9/20. Free
CueCat bar code scanner can track everything you use it for.
- Spam: e-Mail Preference
Service, Direct Marketing Association. Register to have your
email address removed from member mailing lists.
- Connectivity: Problem
with iBook ethernet, Go2Mac.com, 9/20. Recommended solution to
network problems is
Duplex Tool.
- News: Apple
agency: no pressure applied, Matthew Rothenberg, ZDNet, 9/20.
Chiat/Day claims rumor inquiries "strictly routine."
- Analysis: Surf
and be happy, PC World, 9/20 [Win98 Central]. "People who
use the Web at work are more productive, do better work, and feel
happier and less stressed."
- Opinion: Apple
and Chiat/Day's intolerable media relations, Michel Munger, Mac
Observer, 9/20. "Apple's arrogance raises questions about its
future reputation with the media and its customers."
- OS X: The big
compromise, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 9/20. "The first
rule of engineering is that everything is about tradeoffs."
- OS X:
More on the Mac and Unix, Slashdot, 9/20. Many Unix/Linux folk
very impressed with OS X.
- Opinion:
Paris iBooks: iBook vs. PowerBook value equation shifts
dramatically, Charles W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 9/19. "Apple has
addressed most of the objections I previously had with the iBook,
added a lot of value, and held the price point."
- News: Pismo revision
blocks some memory modules, Go2Mac.com, 9/19. Change in RAM
slot configuration prevents some modules from fitting.
- Opinion:
Discuss software piracy and the Mac, MacSlash, 9/19. "Low End
Mac has the first discussion I've seen of 'warez' in the Mac
world."
- OS X: Inside the
public beta, Stephen Beale, MacWeek, 9/19. "...you won't
appreciate how much you've relied on the Apple menu and Application
Switcher until you run Mac OS X."
- Connectivity: Why IM matters
so much, UpsideToday, 9/19. The issues behind the Instant
Messenger war.
- Advice:
Spam, spam, spam, Joe Carson, All Mac Considered, Applelust,
9/19. "Interestingly enough, no major corporation is stupid enough
to engage in this sort of useless time and money wasting nonsense."
(Also see our Spam Filtering
Guide.)
- Opinion: Apple's
controlling desires, Matthew Rothenberg, ZDNet, 9/18. "I'm
going to suggest that what Apple defines as a rumor is far broader
than what most of its supporters seem to believe."
- Opinion: ZDNet,
Chiat/Day, and journalistic bias, David Schultz, Applelust,
9/18. "Speculation is not a rumor, and neither is a guess or
educated guess based in history..."
- OS X: At 80,000
and counting, Apple unundated with OS X orders, Brad Gibson,
MacCentral, 9/18. At $30 a pop, that's nearly a quarter million
dollars!
- Opinion:
Road Warrior Mailbag, Charles W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 9/18.
Especially see comments by David W. Murray on Newer Tech 466 MHz
WallStreet upgrade.
- iBook: Japanese
site shows PPC 750CX at heart of new iBook, something we noted
the day Apple announced the next generation iBook. [Accelerate Your Mac!]
- Connectivity: DSL users
can't get no satisfaction, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 9/18.
"Telecommunications industry estimates of the percentage of phone
lines that are technically fit for DSL range from 30 to 60."
- Opinion:
Does USB cause system slowdown?, MacSlash, 9/18. The writer may
be on to something. I can't quantify it, but suspect adding USB to
an older Mac may slow it down.
- Analysis: Mac OS X:
What you should really know and why there is no reason to worry
today, Roger Kasten Jr., NewerTech. "If we expect too much from
it, we will end up being disappointed and we will only have
ourselves to blame."
- OS: OS X
Server gets perfect score, MacNN, 9/16. OS X Server (not to be
confused with OS X) scores 5 out of 5, surpassing Windows NT
Server.
- OS: OS X
Server gets perfect score, MacNN, 9/16. OS X Server (not to be
confused with OS X) scores 5 out of 5, surpassing Windows NT
Server.
- Virus:
A guide to nasty worms and viruses, Montreal Gazette, 9/15.
Excactly what is a Trojan horse, a virus, a worm?
- Benchmarks: Upgrade G4/Sawtooth to 500
MHz or buy new dual processor G4?, Bare Feats, 9/15.
Considering resale value of a slower G4, which gives more bang for
the buck?
- Analysis: The new
iBook: Just right or too little, too late?, Oliver Dueck, Mac
Observer, 9/15. "All in all, the latest iBook is a big improvement
over the old model, without a premium price."
- OS X: No
printer drivers in sight for OS X, MacWeek, 9/15. Sorry, but
you just won't be able to print to those Epson, HP, Canon, and
other USB ink-jet printers for a while.
- OS X:
How good a Unix is Mac OS X?, Slashdot, 9/15.
- Web: Amateur Radio
Resources for Mac users. Links for Mac-centric software and
email lists.
- Analysis: Notebooks to
take quarter of PC market in 2000, Tony Smith, The Register,
9/14. PowerBooks were just 10% of Apple's unit sales in FY1999.
AAPL Investors puts that figure at about 21% for Q3 2000.
- Deal: Refurb Power Mac G3/350
"Sawtooth" only US$1,095, see DealMac for details. Offer ends
Sunday, Sept. 17.
- Hands on: SweetMail
1.9.3, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 9/15. "I have been trying
to think of something I dislike about SweetMail, and not coming up
with much."
- Rumor? Mac OS X on
68k Macs, Jag's House. How to run Mac OS X on a Quadra. Really.
;-)
- Rumor: Mac
Sphere? (IE users, choose QuickTime plugin to see this PNG
image)
- Opinion: Apple's
strong-arm gambit: It's all about control, Charles Cooper,
ZDNet, 9/15. Source says, "...Chiat/Day wouldn't have dared make
this sort of move without Apple's approval."
- Opinion: Regarding
your Mac site: You are free!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 9/15.
"Corporate suppression of unfavorable news is an ongoing 21st
century scandal."
- OS X: Reader impressions of
public beta, Xappeal, 9/14. "Overall impression: while there
are still a few rough edges that make it obvious that this is a
beta, the quality is astonishing overall."
- Web: Ad
agency threatens Mac media, ZDNet, 9/14. "Apple Computer Inc.'s
advertising agency is offering Mac publications a choice: Get out
of the rumors business or lose Apple's business." Last I knew,
Apple didn't run ads on any of the Mac sites.... (Discuss on MacSlash)
- Hardware: In
depth: FireWire iBook, MacNN, 9/14. Thoughtful overview of
Apple's newest computers. Question: Just what are we going to
call the new models?
- Software: Eradicator
1.5, Searchware Solutions, 9/14. Freeware utility for OS 9
users deletes temporary files the Mac OS leaves behind.
- Opinion: iBook narrows
consumer-pro gap, Jason O'Grady, ZDNet, 9/14. The title really
says it all. Unless you need a bigger screen, go for the
iBook.
- Web: Windows Me
Central, keep track of the dark side. From the folks who run
Win98Central. It's
nice to see a Win site with the same kind of feel we're used to on
the Mac side.
- History: In
1985, who was pushing Apple to license the Mac OS?, Owen W.
Lanzmayer, Apple Confidential, MacSpeedZone.
- MacInSchool: NC
school system abandoning the Mac?, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
9/14. Director of Technology Services cites limited staffing, cost
of repair parts, cross-platform integration, and networking
difficulties as reasons to stop buying Macs. (In the real world,
Macs need less support, rarely need repairs, work well with PCs,
and network nicely.)
- Opinion: Anticipation and key
lime, Dave Egger, MacMonkey. The new iBooks are great, but that
new color....
- Analysis: New iBook
vs. PowerBook: The real deal, Ben Apple, Mac Junkie, 9/14.
"What we have here is a genuine knockout, and iBook is the
champ."
- Opinion: Why buy a $2499
PowerBook 400 MHz over a $1799 iBook 466 MHz?, PowerBook Zone,
9/14. There is no compelling reason - well, just one.
- Opinion:
Retrospective: The PowerBook 500 Series, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 9/13. The first PowerBook that was a viable
alternative to a desktop Mac.
- OS X: OS X Public Beta available for order from Apple Store for
US$29.95 shipped - or add $10 for 3-day shipping via FedEx. (I've
got mine on order!)
- Web: MacOSX.com
launched.
- Hardware: G3 upgrade for
7200, 8200, Sonnet, 9/13. Generally considered beyond hope of
an upgrade, these Power Macs can soon be accelerated with a 400 MHz
G3 for US$500.
- Hardware: Radeon
comes to G4, Cube, MacCentral, 9/13. ATI's hot new video card
now a build-to-order option from the Apple Store.
- Review: Logitech
Optical Wheel Mouse, Everything iMac & iBook, 9/13
[Macs Only!]. "...the
Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse is a steal and comes with a 5 year
warranty." $34.95 shipped from Outpost.com
- Low End: The MacAttic,
old Macs repaired, old Macs for sale.
- Low End: Salvaged Mac
Pluses, Matt Waters. These two abused Macs go beyond the old
Timex slogan, "Takes a licking, keeps on ticking."
- OS X: Mac OS X: The
full story, Macworld, 9/12.
- Opinion: The
Megahertz can of worns, Michel Munger, 9/12. "The bottom line
is that if megahertz hurt Apple's image for speed, something has to
happen."
- Opinion: Simply
Web, Rob Stevenson, Mac OS Journal. Did you know the first
publicly available graphical browser, Mosaic, was introduced in
Sept. 1993? That makes the Web as we know it seven years old -
twice as old as Low End Mac.
- OS X:
Inside Mac OS X Public Beta, ZDNet, 9/11. Requires 128 MB RAM,
1.5 GB drive space. List of unsupported things is vast: most
third-party video cards, AirPort, multiple monitors, second ATA
drives, more. :-(
- OS X: Mac
OS X beta's grab bag of apps, ZDNet, 9/11. OS X expected to
ship with browser, email, QuickTime, and much more.
- OS X: Inside
the public beta of Mac OS X, ZDNet, 9/11. "...Mac OS X public
beta retains a strong flavor of NeXTstep...."
- Web: World's
most popular Web site lowers ad rates, loses revenue, John H.
Farr, Applelinks, 9/11. Kinda, "well, duh."
- MacInSchool: One becomes many: The
Kittridge School story, Fred Showker, UGAcademy, 9/00. School
purchases 185 iMacs, community works to improve facility.
- Web: Macfreewares, where all the
software is free.
- Benchmarks: Fastest, newest Macs
including Dual G4, Cube, Bare Feats, 9/11. The G4 MP isn't
twice as fast - but they are faster on some tests.
- Opinion: Get a
Compaq and put the old Mac to rest, Frank Ruffel, Right On
Mac!, 9/11. What do you say when the person who hooked you on the
Mac decides to go Windows?
- Software: Eudora
upgrade gets flame retardant, MacWeek, 9/11. Eudora 5 can
analyze incoming and outgoing email "for potentially offensive
language." Interesting.
- News: Group
claims Apple protest cancelled, Kyle D'Addario, Mac Observer,
9/11. "Instead of a protest, members of the group have a
closed-door meeting planned with Apple Europe executives next
week." Cool!
- OS: Countdown to
OS X public beta, MacWeek, 9/11. Coming Wednesday - one way or
another.
- Preview: Office
2001, Carson Baker, Holy Mac, 9/10. Take a close look at
Entourage, the email and information management side of Office
2001. Looks too much like Outlook Express for this Emailer user,
but sounds very impressive.
- Advice: A free board for
surfing the Internet, Macinterpreter.com. Where Mac users can
get free Web access, free email, and other free Internet
services.
- Opinion:
A new Mac: Not only has Apple recovered, but it's thriving,
Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times, 9/10.
- Advice:
Budget laptop hunting, David Grimmer, MacSlash, 9/9. "Since a
lot of older laptops max out at 12 or 16 MB of memory, even a
fully-loaded system is going to be pushed to the limits by your
software."
- Connectivity: High-speed
Web access goes rural, Des Moines Register, 9/7. Slower than
AirPort, but with a 6- to 8-mile range, wireless Internet access
looks like a winner.
- Opinion:
Forget Circuit City. I'm working at Micro Center, Rodney O.
Lain, Mac Observer, 9/8. "...there wasn't just a Mac section in the
back corner, á la CompUSA, there was actually a
respectable-looking, immaculate Mac Department."
- Technology: Serial ATA
waits in the wings, MacWeek, 9/8. Every major hard drive
manufacturer and most major PC makers, except Apple, are involved
in 150 MBps protocol.
- Review:
Six great things about Photoshop 6, Derrick Stgory,
Webreview.com, 9/8. "Adobe has fixed the one thing that Photoshop
was really lousy at: text handling."
- Low End: DV's
PowerBook 5300 Info Page. Includes tips on repairing the power
connector on the PB 5300 and PB 190.
- MacInSchool: Virtual
lessons a reality for laptop students, Eugene Hogan, Irish
Independent, 9/8. Goal is to replace textbooks with
PowerBooks.
- Advocacy: Ten
reasons for using the Mac, MacCentral, 9/8. Total cost of
ownership is just the first reason.
- Opinion: An open
letter to Seiko-Epson, Bruce Fraser, MacWeek, 9/8. Problem with
Stylus Photo 870/1270 and Premium Glossy Paper. (I just got my 870
yesterday. I'm looking forward to testing it over the
weekend.)
- Review: Windows Me,
Windows98Central, 9/8. Due for release the day after OS X Beta, new
Windows takes 25-40 minutes to install.
- Rights: Downtime by law, Suck,
9/8 [Slashdot]. "Millions use
the Internet without the slightest idea that their rights are being
stripped away...."
- Advice: Turn off
your modem's sound, MacInstruct. If you hate the screeeeeching
as much as I do, read this article.
- Deal: Quickeys 5.0 only US$50
(upgrade just US$36), details at DealMac, 9/7.
- Advice: Branded
monitors and ink: Are you getting screwed?, Michel Munger, Mac
Observer, 9/7. Inexpensive inkjet printers are like giving away the
razor so you can sell blades.
- Low End: Vintage computers have
their groupies, Richard Louv, Union-Tribune. Vintage article
about Mac lovers who really do use those old Macs.
- Connectivity:
IBM, Dell trail Apple in wireless laptop push, Joe Wilcox,
Cnet, 9/7. So nice of the Wintel world to give Apple a one-year
head start.
- Duh: Net gamblers
believe casino sites are fixed, Computer User, 9/7. [Win98Central]. About 60
percent of Internet users who place bets online believe the games
they play are rigged. The rest of us should be savvy enough not to
gamble online. ;-)
- Community: Macintosh Guy
announces Business Macintosh (BusMac) email list, 9/7.
- Opinion: (Dawning
of a) new Mac era, Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet, 9/6. Best argument
yet for Apple supporting pre-G3 hardware.
- Web: Death
of the websafe color palette?, Webmonkey, 9/6. Across browsers,
operating systems, and bit-depth, only 22 of the 216 "websafe"
colors are completely safe. OTOH, Mac browsers are consistent. (See
discussion at
Slashdot.)
- News:
Microsoft jumps back into sub-notebooks, Stephanie Miles,
Cnet, 9/6. Smaller than a notebook computer, but larger than a
PDA, HPC 2000 includes keyboard, runs WinCE software.
- Advice: Reader
tips to help your Mac, Nancy Gravley, Computing With Bifocals,
Mac Observer, 9/6.
- Advice:
Which broadband connection is right for you?, Greg Holden,
Cnet, 9/5. An overview of cable vs. DSL Internet access.
- Advice:
How to design a bad Web site, Nancy O. Johnson, Applelust, 9/5.
"All the bells & whistles in the world won't help a bad
website... in fact, they will do just the opposite."
- MacInSchool:
Portable computers part of everyday classes at more schools,
Star Tribune, 9/5.
- Connectivity: Can
you escape "DSL Hell"?, ZDNet, 9/5. We've had ours on order
for, well, it seems like forever.
- Virus: "Donald Duck"
virus on the loose, Cnet, 9/5. Trojan horse proliferating
mainly in Philippines at present. Windows only, of course.
- Rumor? Return of the Compact
Mac, Anakin Onesimus. Apple to complete product matrix with
compact flat panelled Cube.
- News: Protest
planned for Apple Expo, aim to disrupt Jobs' keynote, Kyle
D'Addario, Mac Observer, 9/5. "Apple needs to adapt the way it
deals with these people [fans, webmasters] and find some other way
of dealing with them other than sending in the lawyers."
- Opinion:
What's happening at Motorola?, MacUser UK. "...three years ago
PowerPC 604's were clocked at 350MHz while the Pentium was a mere
150MHz. So what's gone wrong?"
- Opinion:
Apple, give us alternative processors, not just multiple ones,
Kelly McNeill, osOpinion, 9/5. "...approximately 1/3 [of surveyed
Windows users] said that they were so dissatisfied with their
current OS that they would eagerly dump it in exchange for OS
X."
- Opinion:
PowerBook 5300 exposed, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 9/5. The PowerBook 5300 gets fixed under Apple's repair
extension.
- Analysis: Internet
no longer US dominated, Macworld UK, 9/5. That may overstate
things a bit, but the Internet is becoming a truly international
medium.
- Advice: Networks
in-depth: Switches, hubs, and routers, Paul Shields, Business
Mac, 9/4. A good introduction to networking.
- Analysis: Macintosh
vs. PC: The DSL wars, Josh Munce, MacInterpreter. Macs have
been ready for ethernet, therefor DSL, for almost a decade. Windows
computers? That's another story.
- Community: Macobsoleti, an email list for Italian Mac
users. To subscribe, send email to <macobsoleti-on@mail.maclaunch.com>
- Privacy: Microsoft
sees no "Web bug" - privacy group disagrees, Brad Gibson,
MacCentral, 9/1. Word for Mac can track who is reading a document
and when.
- Consumer: Sonnet
drops price on PB 1400 upgrade, Mac Observer, 9/1. Already a
hot upgrade, price is now US$100 lower.
- Advice: Ready for Mac OS
X?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl. Are your computer and
peripherals ready for it?
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