The Low End Mac Link Archive, March 2001
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- Analysis: Is
the free Internet dead?, John Farr, Applelinks, 03.30. "...more
and more sites are actively soliciting funds from readers...."
- Benchmarks: FireWire RAID + Granite
Digital bridge = nose bleed speed, Bare Feats, 03.30.
- AAPL: Good
news abounds, but AAPL closes lower, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 03.30.
- Hands on: Titanium
PowerBook Report #5, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 03.30. Word for
the day: fast.
- Opinion:
I hate OS X, Ceolaf, Applelust, 03.30. "There are simply too
many things which I find objectively bad, in addition to the
departures from 9 which are very difficult to get used to."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 03.30.
- OS X: New
XLR8 OS X cache enabler for upgraded Macs, Applelinks, 03.30.
Software enables backside cache on Macs with XLR8 upgrades.
- Low End: Mac Plus/Syquest
hybrid. Betcha didn't know you could put a Syquest drive inside
a Mac Plus!
- Software: QuicKeys
X to be Cocoa, MacCentral, 03.29. CE Software developing
invaluable Mac utility for OS X.
- Hands on: Titanium
PowerBook Report #4, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 03.29. "...the
first step to customizing my laptop was to completely erase the
hard drive and partition it."
- AAPL: Value
investors start to go Apple (Computer) picking, Pui-Wing Tam,
Wall Street Journal, 03.29.
- Advice:
Insurance for your laptop, PowerBook Central, 03.28. After my
wife's PowerBook met a Diet Coke (and lost), I'm sold on the
idea.
- Opinion: Looking
at OS X through bifocals, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac Observer,
03.28. "...the bottom line is if you like to experiment and play
around with your computer, you may want to install OS X."
- Analysis: Mac
OS X is only for programmers - not!, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion,
03.28. "Apple released Mac OS X as it is - unfinished - because
they had to."
- Opinion: A BSD for your
PHB, Joseph Mallett, osOpinion, 03.28. Mac OS X is built
on BSD Unix.
- Virus: Virus
hits both Linux and Windows, Reuters/ZDNet, 03.28. "W32.Winux"
a world's first, but still ignores the Mac OS.
- Firmware: Apple
(informally) acknowledges RAM problem with firmware update, Mac
Observer, 03.28. Still no official word from Apple.
- Oops: OS X,
"Classic," and newest Macs, Macworld UK, 03.28. OS 9.1 CD
included with OS X will not install on PB G4, G4 (133 MHz bus), or
2001 iMacs.
- OS X: TurboMax ATA/33
card not compatible with OS X, Accelerate Your Mac, 03.28. Card
must be replaced; it cannot be upgraded.
- Hands on: Titanium
PowerBook Report #3, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 03.28. "Within
minutes of booting I'm already sighing with contentment at how
enjoyable writing is going to be on this system."
- Opinion: Not
everything peachy in Apple land: OS X alienates one Mac
faithful, Alan R. Houtzer, Daily Mac, 03.27. "I am still
running MacOS 9.1, but disappointedly resigning myself to an
eventual move to Windows."
- AAPL: Apple
investors ebullient, stock rises 5%, Bryan Chaffin, Apple Stock
Watch, Mac Observer, 03.27
- Opinion: OS X
converts Linux, Unix, Windows users to "the church," Rodney O.
Lain, Mac Observer, 03.27. "OS X will ultimately do for Apple
software what the iMac did for Apple hardware."
- Tech: IBM
announces world's largest mobile hard disk: 48GB, PowerBook
Zone, 03.27. 5400 rpm drive moves data at up to 30 MB/sec.
- Consumer: Outpost.com to change
shipping policy, MacNN, 03.27. No more free overnight shipping
effective 03.28.
- OS: How does
Unix = Mac OS X? The Unix family tree, Mac Observer, 03.27. The
linked chart is positively mind-boggling.
- Opinion: Titanium
PowerBook report, #2, Marc Zeedar, Applelinks, 03.27.
- Opinion: More
on the RAM-sabotaging Apple firmware upgrades, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 03.27. "...sometimes it seems like Apple has a
corporate death with, or a perverse desire to test the patience of
its loyal fans to the limit."
- Firmware glitch: MacFixIt reports (3:27) that slower
3-2-2 RAM seems to always work with the recent firmware updates,
but faster 2-2-2 RAM is the problem.
- Tech: IBM
announces 48 GB laptop drive, 03.27 [MacNN]. 5400 rpm drive
is sound dampened, will be available second quarter.
- OS: Installing
Mac OS X on PCI Power Macs, Ryan Rempel, 03.24. Hack
appears reliable, requires two spare partitions.
- Ezine: Mac OS
Journal, March 2001.
- Alert: Latest
firmware upgrades disable some RAM, Dave Hamilton, Mac
Observer, 03.24. Some non-Apple RAM will not work after firmware
upgrade installed.
- Alert:
Recent firmware updates: Proceed with caution, MacCentral,
03.24. Some Macs using third party RAM are no longer able to
recognize the installed RAM.
- Alert: New Apple firmware
released: memory disappears; firmware less tolerant of some
third-party RAM modules, MacFixIt, 03.24. "...no foolproof way
for users to test RAM modules before applying the update."
- News: Next
generation Oxford FireWire bridge chip to hit 45MB/s, FireWire
World, 03.23. That's 360 Mbps, almost enough to saturate
FireWire.
- AAPL: Mac OS X
hype helps push Apple 7.4% higher, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
03.22.
- Web: MacFixIt's 5th
anniversary. Congratulations to one of the Web's finest Mac
sites.
- Opinion:
Mac OS X: The power to be my best, Bryan Chaffin, Back Page,
Mac Observer, 03.23. "As much as I like the original Mac, I love
Mac OS X all that much more."
- Web: Mac OS X beta list
becomes Mac OS X user list, The Macintosh Guy, 03.23.
- History: Remembering
1990 with Classic, LC, IIsi brochure, Mac Observer, 03.23.
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 03.23.
- Opinion: OS X:
It's easy as, well, a Mac, Leander Kahney, Wired News, 03.22.
"This contrasts favorably to Windows 2000, Microsoft's
next-generation operating system...."
- Opinion: Why
I invested in titanium, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 03.22. "When
the Titanium PowerBook was unveiled at MacWorld I tried to be
cautious, but I knew I wanted one."
- Analysis: Apple
creating its own version of MCSE, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer,
03.22. What's an MCSE? A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
- Advice: iTunes: Making
your digital hub work for you, Daniel J. Lyons, MacBC,
03.22.
- OS X: Jobs
confirms no CD-RW for OS X, says updates on the way, Mac
Observer, 03.21. Oops.
- Opinion: Mac
users need to support the Cube, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
03.21. "...it's past time that the Mac community got behind the
Cube and started enthusiastically evangelizing it, or even buying
it."
- Opinion: Anti-spam
hysteria could ruin email, Charles W. Moore, Applelnks, 03.21.
"Email is the best thing about the Internet. However, scum-sucking,
bottom-feeding spammers are threatening to ruin it."
- Opinion: How fast can
you close a window?, Steve Sobek, The Daily Rant, 03.20.
Steve hates popup ads. Do you?
- News: Intel
switches to 802.11b for wireless, MacNN, 03.20. Intel ditches
HomeRF for IEEE standard we know as AirPort.
- Hands on:
XLR8 MPe Dual G4/500 upgrade for beige G3, Accelerate Your Mac,
03.19. CPUs can be upgraded, and you can even start with a single
CPU and add a second later. Clever.
- Advocacy: Should our schools
have Macs or PCs?, John Droz. In the face of this, how can any
school choose Windows?
- Benchmarks: Dual
G4/500 upgrade rocks, Bare Feats, 03.20. Old beige G3 breathes
fire with XLR8's latest upgrade.
-
WallStreet hotrodding project: Phase V, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 03.20. The old WallStreet gets FireWire.
- AAPL: Techs
up, Apple rallies 4.7%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
03.19.
- Benchmarks: How
fast is the new 16x Que! Fire CD-RW?, Bare Feats, 03.19. In a
syllable, very - nearly twice as fast as Apple's internal CD-RW for
burning.
- OS X: Native OS X
applications, HyperJeff.net. Site lists 558 applications as of
03.19/01.
- Opinion:
What makes a good Mac site?, David Schultz, Applelust, 03.19.
While we disagree with parts of this article, it is an excellent
thought piece looking at the Mac web.
- Review:
Apple's PowerBook G4, Dorian Barrett, CNN.com, 03.19. "Sleek,
stylish and stuffed full of supercomputing power - Apple's new
PowerBook G4 just may reshape the laptop."
- Opinion: Mac
OS X on Intel: Let's give it a spin, Michael Munger, 03.19.
"...Mac OS X should never be available for Intel-based
machines."
- Review: Z-Write
1.2, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.19. "Z-Write 1.2 is an
evolutionary upgrade, and has a more polished, developed, look and
feel...."
- SETI: Why
SETI@Home 3.0.3 is so much slower, Go2Mac.com, 03.17. New
client does twice the work, takes twice as long to complete a work
unit.
- Spam: Goodlatte,
Boucher want to fry Web spam, Todd Jackson, Roanoke Times,
03.17 [Slashdot].
Anti-Spamming Act of 2001 seeks to punish senders of unwanted and
unsolicited emails at $15k or $10/email plus up to 12 months in
jail.
- Opinion:
Second (and third) thoughts about TiBook, Charles W. Moore,
MacJunkie, 3/16. "...beyond the wide screen, the G4 chips, and the
pretty case, the TiBook is essentially everything that Pismo was
and a bit less."
- Opinion: I
will be vindicated. Apple retail store, revisited, Rodney O.
Lain, Mac Observer, 3/16. Some good arguments for a stronger Apple
retail presence.
- Opinion: Great Mac sites,
Tim Robertson, MyMac.com, 3/16. A humorously abortive list of the
five best Mac sites. Kinda glad LEM didn't make #5.
- Ezine: Family Mac
March ezine available.
- Low end: Kaleidoscope
on an SE/30, The MacArchaeologist. Yes, as these screen shots
demonstrate, it does work on an SE/30!
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 3/16.
- Rights: Scientologists
force comment off Slashdot, Slashdot, 3/16. DMCA used to have
first comment removed in Slashdot history. Unlike most religions,
Scientology does not want itst teachings out in the open.
- Opinion: The secret Mac
burial grounds, Tristam Perry, osOpinion, 3/16. "...as legend
has it, somewhere in the Utah desert there is a pit filled with
tens of thousands of Apple Lisa computers."
- Opinion: Is
Apple giving up on the Cube?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
3/15. "...the Cube is the most interesting desktop computer that
Apple makes, and ... it represents the future much more than do the
iMac or the G4 Power Mac towers."
- News: Spammers face
felony charges, The Register, 3/15. I wish they'd hunt down all
spammers and do the same to them.
- Analysis: What
exactly is PowerSchool and why did Apple buy them?, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 3/15. "PowerSchool offers Apple the
opportunity to not only make money from sales of the software,
Apple can sell schools complete data management solutions."
- News: Apple kills AppleCare
on refurbished products, PowerBook Zone, 3/15. "According to
our sources, Apple has removed the option of purchasing any
AppleCare plan for a refurbished unit."
- News: Apple and
Sears terminate reseller agreement, MacNN, 3/15. Sources
indicate business relationship will end on May 31.
- Deal: Refurbished Cubes, $1,099, The Apple Store, click on
"Special Deals." Also Pismo/400 for $1,799, Ruby iMacs for $749,
indigo iBooks for $1,249, and more.
- AAPL: Dow
below $10K, but Apple up 4% to close over 20, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer, 3/14.
- News: Apple to
acquire PowerSchool, Apple, 3/14. PowerSchool is "the leading
provider of web-based student information systems for K-12 schools
and school districts."
- Opinion: Apple
must increase market share, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
3/14.
- Opinion: Helpful
REALbasic, Marc Zeedar, REALbasic University, Applelinks, 3/14.
"...even if you've never programmed ... you'll find learning RB
isn't difficult."
- News: Indigo
selected as "colour of the year," Macworld UK, 3/14. Can Steve
call 'em or what?
- Advice: More
on CD-RW and some browser tips, Nancy Caroll Gravley, Mac
Observer, 3/14.
- Opinion:
Why Mac zealots need to chill, Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek,
3/14. "The true believers among us are too quick to hunt down
dissenters and then extinguish them with the blowtorch of
righteousness."
- Opinion: Let Mac users join
in by trading up, John Holmes, osOpinion, 3/14. "It's time to
let go. Introducing The Great Mac Trade-In Offer: send us your old
Mac and we'll send you a new one."
- Advice: Should you buy
an extended warranty? Probably, Rodney O. Lain, MacSpirit,
Applelinks, 3/14. "Murphy's Law often proves that when you do need
it, you will not have purchased it."
- Opinion: Enough with themes
already, Adam Barr, osOpinion, 3/14. Too much interface
tweaking destroys years of learning - whether skins or Aqua.
- AAPL: Markets
rebound, sky doesn't fall, Apple gains 5%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 3/13.
- Opinion:
Design matters, Joel Davies, iMaculate Conception, Applelust,
3/13. "What is design? Unfortunately, I don't have a cute little
answer to this question."
- Review:
Three FireWire adapters, Charles W. Moore, Applelust, 3/13. A
look at cards for PCI slots and CardBus slots.
- Huh? Pig
Latin encoding may defeat Napster filters, Charles W. Moore,
3/13. Anyone for a cut by Etallicamay? Octorday Edray? :-)
- Opinion: Now that
MacWeek is gone, wanna be a Mac columnist?, Rodney O. Lain, Mac
Observer, 3/13. "There is just no way that the standard news
operation can transfer itself over to a Web presence...."
- OS X: Mac
OS X is really shipping, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac
Observer, 3/13. "Now that we have preemptive multitasking,
multithreading, superior virtual memory and symmetric
multiprocessing, can we also get small interface changes that would
make the difference?"
- Interview
with Dan Knight, Ian Sidle, MacWrite.com, 3/13. The history of
Low End Mac, favorite Macs, and ideas on computers in
education.
- Consumer: Time
for a new Mac?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 3/12.
- Deal: Apple
Store drops iSub 40% to US$59, MacCentral, 3/12. Give your
slot-loading iMac or G4 some sonic oompf.
- Review: Back
to the Future trilogy on VCD, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
3/12. Movies available on video CD for $7.88 each plus shipping
from
CoolVCD.
News: PowerBook
5300 trade-in extended to Canada, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
3/12. March, 11.30 a.m.- News: Next
OS X Server due "shortly after" OS X, MacCentral, 3/12. Next
version of OS X Server apparently abandons pre-G3 processors
supported by older OS X Server.
- Benchmarks: Does
the Flower Power iMac have more graphics power, or is it just a
deeper snow job?, Bare Feats, 3/9. New CPU, more video memory -
but better performance?
- Advice: Weeding
your System Folder, Tristan Moore, Applelinks, 3/9.
- Advice:
Why do I get "out of memory" errors after installing lots and lots
of memory?, Ask Al, Alsoft, 3/9.
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 3/9.
- Opinion: Where can the iMac
go from here?, Anne Onymus, osOpinion, 3/8. "If Apple thought
there really was a market for a 17" iMac, you can believe they
would have introduced it sometime in the past few years."
- AAPL: Markets
rally, Yahoo warns, Apple closes lower, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 3/7.
- Dark side: Intel vulnerable to
competitors, MacNN, 3/7. Vulnerable? Shoot, AMD is taking them
to the cleaners with Athlon and Duron.
- Advice: The
ins & outs and does & don'ts of CD-R media, Nancy
Carroll Gravely, Mac Observer, 3/7. CDs may not be archival as
you'd think.
- Low End: Review:
Macintosh 128K, Tim Robertson, MyMac. "What is amazing, really,
is how similar everything is on the 128k compared to the latest
Macintosh."
- Opinion: Apple
launches best TV commercial since 1984, seriously, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 3/6. Musicians demonstrate how easy it is to
burn a custom CD with iTunes.
- Advocacy: Sell
your iMac-edited movies to HBO, Apple. "Brad Schaffer, a
14-year-old from the small town of Benton City, WA, just sold his
first movie - to HBO."
- AAPL: Apple
adds another 5%, stock closes over 21, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 3/6.
- Opinion:
An iMac never changes its spots, eh?, Garry Barker, Mac Man,
I.T., 3/6. Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian could open new markets
for Apple.
- OS X: The reality of
Mac OS X: A common sense perspective, Dave Schroeder,
Xappeal.org, 3/5. "No product will be perfect at ship time."
- Opinion: What price
Apples?, Stanislav Kelman, osOpinion, 3/5. A more realistic
comparison on Apple and Wintel prices.
- News: Apple
offers trade-up program for 190, 5300, MacCentral, 3/5. Send in
your old PB 190 or 5300, get a 400 MHz Pismo for US$1,599 (through
March 23).
- Advocacy: Consultant
offers tips to prevent schools going Wintel, MacCentral, 3/5.
"Assume that the school district's head MIS person is Windows
oriented, and not experienced with, or too interested in,
Macs."
- News: AirPort
v1.3 released, Apple, 3/5 [Macs Only!]. Supports PPPoE and
scripting, now WiFiô certified.
- AAPL: Retail
rumors send Apple up 5.8%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
3/5.
- News:
Apple owners most loyal, Business Wire, 3/5 [MacSurfer]. Survey shows 53% of Mac
owners stick with Apple. Windows brands lag behind.
- Opinion: Mac
user illusions exposed, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac
Observer, 3/5. Our initial assumptions as Mac users can lead us
astray. A very good read.
- Opinion: Opera's browser
rocks Mac, Macinstein, 3/5. Opera is fast - and it's just a
preview release.
- Analysis: What
good is a server OS without server hardware?, Paul Shields,
Business Mac, 3/5. OS X Server due 3/24, where's the server
hardware?
- OS X: What to expect
when you're expecting, Brett Larson, Macworld, 3/2. Old habits
will be replaced easily under Mac OS X.
- Low End: It's all about
the Macintosh TV
- Benchmarks: Which
is faster, G4/733 or dual G4/533?, Bare Feats, 3/5. Dual 533
looks like the better buy at $600 less with comparable
performance.
- Web: Mac Publishing
drops MacWeek, moves MacCentral.com to Macworld.com, Mac
Observer, 3/2. "...it no longer makes sense for us to spread our
resources among three news products."
- Web: Requiem for
a magazine, Andrew Gore, MacWeek, 3/2. Good-bye, MacWeek. We'll
miss you.
- Benchmarks: Which
is faster, G4/733 or dual G4/533?, Bare Feats, 3/2. Testing
still in progress, but some benchmarks are remarkably similar. Page
will be updated as more results are available.
- Opinion: Arrrgh!
Sabotged by MS Word again, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 3/2.
"I also don't accept the rationale that 'everybody uses Word, so
you might as well go with the flow.' If I agreed with that
philosophy, I would be using a Wintel box - are not a Mac."
- Consumer: Refurbished Cubes, US$1,099, Apple Store, click on
Special Deals button. Also, 400 MHz Ruby iMacs available.
- Web: MacCentral assimilated. <http://www.maccentral.com/>
now goes to <http://www.maccentral.com/>
- History: Looking
back at 1984 with an original Mac brochure, Mac Observer,
3/2.
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 3/2.
- Advice: Four popular
Mac email clients compared, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
3/2.
- Opinion: Belief
brands, Christian Science Monitor, 3/2. "When they buy an Apple
computer, they buy into the company's philosophy...."
- Software: DiskWarrior 2.1CD updated
for new Mac, MacNN, 3/1. Update supports Mac OS 9.1, TiBook,
new Power Macs.
- Software: MouseWorks 5.60
supports OS 9.1, Virtual PC 4, Kensington [MacInTouch].
- TiBook: ColorSync
profile for PowerBook G4, Berg Design. Try it - your PowerBook
G4's screen will look better.
- Low end: Macintosh
SE Support Pages, Chris Adams. Good info for SE, SE/30
owners.
- Rights: Privacy
at work? Be serious, Jeffrey Benner, Wired, 3/1. "Experts say
companies are under increasing pressure to monitor employees
electronically, and workers should assume they are being
watched."
- Benchmarks: Ripping with
iTunes, Macs Only, 3/1. Tests show iTunes 1.1 rips MP3s fast -
very fast.
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