The Low End Mac Link Archive, June 2001
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- Opinion: Needed for
July 4th: Freedom from Microsoft, Dan Gillmor, MercuryCenter,
06.30. "I'm increasingly pessimistic that the cops on the antitrust
beat can keep up with this particular monopolist...."
- Opinion: Cube
to Apple: Please don't cancel me, Samuel Sharp, MacSoldiers,
06.29. "One of my advantages is that I can be positioned as a
Corvette 'for the price of a typical Chevrolet.'"
- Opinion: So you
wanna work for Apple?, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 06.29. "If
I criticize Apple, I am speaking to you, not to Apple, for I know
that Apple doesn't care."
- Opinion: Don't
count Web ads out!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.29. "The main
effect of Web advertising seems to lie in the 'branding'
arena...."
- Opinion:
Things to come, Joe C. Carson, Applelust, 06.29. Macworld
predictions.
- Opinion:
A plea for real journalism and thinking on the Web, David
Schultz & Michel Munger, Applelust, 06.29.
- Hands on: Cube diary,
first week, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.29. "The Cube is
the first computer I've owned that is a pleasure just to sit and
look at."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 06.29.
- Review: Willow Design
Cube Carry Case, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.29. "...being
able to pack an entire desktop computer setup complete with monitor
into a single carry case is quite remarkable...."
- Opinion: Beware:
MacIdiot at work, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 06.29. "Ric
[Ford] still seems to be the only one posting iBook reports that
give both the good and the bad about the new iBook 2001."
- Opinion: Apple OS X: Enemy
of my enemy, John Holmes, osOpinion, 06.28. "The Windows world
does not understand the dedication that has allowed the Mac and
Linux platforms to survive...."
- Digicams: Profiles of Sony
digicams, Digigraphica, 06.28. Cyber-shots and Mavicas, oh
my!
- News: Appeals
court says no to MS breakup order but largely upholds verdict,
John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.28. Guilty, but off the hook until
another judge sets penalty.
- Deal: Used blue &
white G3/350, $699, details at DealMac, 06.28. Includes 128 MB
RAM, DVD, and 6 GB hard drive.
- Deal: iMaxpowr G3/466 upgrade for
Rev. A-D iMacs, $125, details at DealMac, 06.28.
- Analysis: TiBook vs.
iBook: Half the 'Book or half the price?, Remy Davison,
Insanely Great Mac, 06.28. Several TiBook advantages that may be
important to you.
- Dark Side: MS kills off
WinXP smart tag plans, John Lettice, The Register, 06.28. But
is this just a temporary victory?
- Analysis: Online
content audience growing, investors behind the curve, John H.
Farr, Applelinks, 06.27. "...experienced Internet users are relying
more and more on the Internet, not less...."
- Opinion:
A tip from Apple's branches, Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek,
06.27. "The new Mac stores get it right, from savvy salespeople to
machines you can take for a test drive. Smart PC retailers should
follow suit."
- Hands on: Marc
buys a Linux box, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion,
06.27. No, not that kind of Linux box - a Tivo
PowerPC-based, Linux-running, intelligent video recorder.
- Analysis:
Why Apple is going direct, David Rosen, Canada Computes, 06.26
[Applesurf].
"The second reason why a manufacturer such as Apple would want to
sell direct is that it keeps control of the customer
experience."
- Digicams: Canon PowerShot Digital
Cameras, Digigraphica, 06.26. Profiles of the Canon Powershot
lineup.
- OS X: Macs Only! has
more positive reports on Ryan Rempel's "Unsupported UtilityX" for
installing OS X on unsupported hardware.
- Advice: Shareware Mac
troubleshooting tools, AppleTechs.com, 06.26. Better yet, some
are freeware.
- Opinion:
Assimilating the Web, Scott Rosenberg, Salon, 06.26. "Has the
entire Web really come down to America Online, Microsoft, Yahoo and
Napster?"
- Opinion: The
great, cross-border freight ripoff, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 06.26. Yep, $117.44 to ship Low End Mac's Cube to Nova
Scotia. Ouch.
- News:
Matsushita unveils rugged-use portable PC, Yahoo/Reuters,
06.26. Small footprint, detachable wireless touch-screen, $2,785 -
definitely not an iMac price.
- Review:
Found: the iMac's missing link, Roger Ridey, The Independent,
06.26. iMovie is great, but how do you output your movie to analog
video? Formac Studio.
- News: NY Assembly
votes to hang up cell phones, Fox News, 06.26. New law makes
"New York the first state to ban of the use of hand-held cell
phones while driving."
- Opinion:
iCheap, John Scheeser, Mac Mind, 06.26. "...owning a Macintosh
can be just as inexpensive as owning any bargain basement PC."
- Dark Side:
MSDN subscriber forced to use Passport, Slashdot, 06.25.
Microsoft developers will have no choice but to use
draconian, insecure Passport system.
- Consumer:
Top 10 digital cameras for under $500, CNN/PC World, 06.25. I'm
still fond of my 18-month-old Canon PowerShot
A50, but these new models are attractive.
- Analysis:
Change your life, not your keyboard, BBC News, 06.25. "But as
ergonomists admit, there is no hard evidence that these keyboards
help at all...."
- Opinion: Another
pernicious assault on freedom and dignity by the jackbooters of
political correctness, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.25.
"The proposed Hague treaty would require participants to agree to
enforce each others' laws on a variety of topics even if they
prohibit actions that are legal under local laws."
- Opinion: Warm
fuzzy = Joy of being a Mac salesman, Rodney O. Lain, Mac
Observer, 06.25. "I am often amazed how customers are when they
find out that, not only do I understand and know a good bit about
Macs, but I also like and use them."
- Dark Side: Banish those
WinXP, IE6 Smart Tags blues!, The Register, 06.25. Just add
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> to
all your pages.
- Dark Side: Intel takes
Alpha from Compaq's hands, The Register, 06.25. Compaq
transfers Alpha division to Intel, will standardize on Itanium.
(Alpha is a powerful RISC chip that never really caught on.)
- USB: Iomega announces
bus-powered USB Zip 100 drive, Iomega, 06.25. No more need for
a power brick!
- Opinion: Great
classroom computer buys, Steev Wood, View From the Classroom,
06.25. The place of low-end Macs in the classroom.
- Opinion: Information
$uper highway, R. P. Phillips, Family-Mac.com."The need to
survive (get advertisers) has led to the major need for
consolidation, affiliation and/or recommendations from industry
leaders to inch in on the ever diminishing advertising
dollar."
- Dark Side: MS preparing
license audit blitzkrieg?, The Register, 06.24. MS "has
targeted 5,000 businesses for the royal treatment" and demanded a
software audit within 30 days - all in hopes of signing them up for
an Enterprise License Agreement. More
on ZDNet.
- Rights: Tool
feeds ads to your emails, Andrew Colley, ZDnet Australia,
06.22. Admail intercepts email - any email - and adds
advertisements.
- Bad news: Global treaty
could transform Web, Lisa M. Bowman, CNET, 06.22 [
Slashdot]. Hague Treaty would require participants to enforce
laws of other nations, "even if they prohibit actions that are
legal under local laws."
- Analysis: Now
that Napster is lobotomized...., Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
06.22. CD sales down. "Once Napster was ordered to police its music
files, the record industry lost a powerful marketing device."
- Opinion: The
greatest computer ever, Chris Seibold, MacWrite.com, 06.22.
"They didn't love it, they didn't hate it, they just wanted it to
work like a lawn mower. A lawn mower either cuts grass or it
doesn't."
- OS X: Speed increase
due to Mac OS X 10.0.4, Apple Dumplings, 06.22.
- OS X: New utility
allows OS X install on unsupported machines, Mac Observer,
06.22. Kudos to Other World Computing for posting this
information!
- Opinion: The
perils of subscription-based Web sites, David Schultz,
Applelust, 06.22. "These editors see themselves as providing a
valuable service (and most do), and they have the strong desire to
offer the service for free."
- Low End: Compacts, chimneys,
and venturi, Adam. Convection, cooling, and compact Macs.
- Opinion: The
future of Web advertising & the Mac Web, Michel Munger, On
the Flip Side, Mac Observer, 06.22. The case for bigger, glitzier,
more intrusive ads.
- Tech: The
ultimate limits of computers, Geon, Ars Technica. Quantum
computing has the potential to go so far beyond terabytes and
teraFLOPs it isn't funny.
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 06.21.
- Opinion:
You've got a virus, Steve Sobek, Macrimination, Applelust,
06.20. "The MacSimpsons virus is another barrier of Mac
discrimination broken down."
- Advice: Put that Mac
back to work as a Web server, Adam C. Engst, Macworld. Another
way to put an old retired Mac back into service.
- Analysis:
Why is OS X slow?, Andrew, Ambrosia Software, 06.20. "The truth
of the matter is that there is no single thing that is causing OS X
to be slow.."
- Connectivity: Nothing
but air, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 06.20.
Excellent piece on networking, sharing an Internet connection, and
wireless connections.
- Opinion:
The conversion of an OS X skeptic and Wintel heretic, Joel
Davies, Applelust, 06.20. "I want to trade in my PCs. Permanently.
I'm done with them: If my cute little Pismo can dust a dual Xeon
machine . . . with a still under construction OS, I want
no part of that Wintel box."
- Virus: Macintosh
malware database, Security Portal [TMO].
Including renamed viruses, but excluding macro viruses, the Mac has
passed the 100 mark.
- Dark Side: GPL Pacman will
eat your business, warns Gates, The Register, 06.20. Timely
warning from "The Great Engulfer" himself.
- Opinion: A surplus
auction, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 06.20. Six Macs
for $60.
- Macinschool: Educators News, Steve
Wood, MathDittos2.com. Issues of importance to educators - not just
Macs in the classroom.
- Opinion:
iBook vs. TiBook: Which is the better value?, Charles W. Moore,
Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.19. Except for the wider display, the
"half-the-price" iBook is an easy choice.
- Low End:
Old Mac project, chapter 3, Jason Nieckar, Mac Mind, 06.19.
Yes, you can put a pre-OS 8 Mac on the Internet.
- Opinion: Defector returns
to the Mac, Dave Ficks, osOpinion, 06.19. "If you were going to
abandon the Mac, 1996 was the year to do it. And I did - for a
while."
- Opinion:
Dellraiser, Joel Davies, Applelust.com, 06.19. "Dell no longer
supplies Wintel machines to my school simply because their hardware
failed often, and their support was abysmal."
- Oops: WSJ takes rap
for MSNBC snafu, The Register, 06.19. MSNBC quoted early
version of article. Wall Street Journal made revisions in "four
star" edition.
Consumer: Tiscali/LineOne
shafts its customers, The Register, 06.19. Customers can
"online as much as you like in the evenings, and all weekend" -
unless they like it too much.- Web:
Tux: Built for speed, ZDNet, 06.18 [
Slashdot]. Web server software built especially for Linux
trounces Apache, Microsoft IIS. (More on Tux.)
- Opinion: The OS X
Files, Larry Loeb, Internet Week, 06.18. "OS X just might be
the OS to get Wintel users on a Mac."
- News:
Calif. warns of blackout threats, Yahoo/Reuters, 06.18. State
warned Sunday that rolling blackouts were possible Monday and
Tuesday.
- Dark Side: BSOD,
Daimyo. A whole page dedicated to public Blue Screen of Death
displays.
- Opinion: Monetizing
Web content, or What's a webmaster to do?, Scott McCarty,
Graphic Power, 06.18. "We may actually be on the cusp of the Web by
subscription."
- Dark Side: MSNBC doctors
anti-MS WSJ story, The Register, 06.18 [
Slashdot]. "MSNBC has been caught doctoring copy originating
from the Wall Street Journal to make it more favourable to the news
channel's co-owner Microsoft."
- Dark Side: Microsoft
uses open-source code despite denying use of such software,
Wall Street Journal, 06.18 [
Slashdot]. "In recent statements, Microsoft executives have
argued that open-source software is dangerous to companies using
it...." ;-)
- Opinion:
Fortune attack Steve Jobs' salary using sloppy data, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 06.18.
- Ezine: Family-Mac's
June issue is available.
- Macinschool: Lake
City (MI) educators using Macs, MacCentral, 06.16. "For years
the Lake City Area School District in Lake City, Michigan had
nothing but PCs in its classrooms."
- Opinion: Coins
of the realm, Scott McCloud, The Comic Reader. The case for
micropayments.
- Review: Star Trek
V: The Final Frontier, Dan Knight, Digital-Views.com, 06.15.
Probably the weakest Star Trek movie ever.
- Opinion:
Dell continues campaign of innuendo; discounts Apple as 20th
century technology, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 06.15. "...if
Windows is the OS of the future, please let me die now."
- Opinion: Market
share mysteries, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion,
06.15. "The question we're really asking is: is Apple a consumer
computer company or a niche product?"
- Advice: Mac OS
X secrets, Damien Gallop, MacWrite.com, 06.15. "...a few tips
that might get you moving along a little better in OS X."
- News: Power Mac G4/533
End-of-lifed, Go2Mac.com, 06.15. "Apple is going to take all
the backorders on the books on Friday and do the final build of
this SKU."
- Web: NeoFX,
your guide to everything NeoPets, Stephen Knight. My son tells
me NeoPets is all the rage - and he's getting lots of
traffic to his new NeoPets site.
- Opinion:
The death of a thousand stings, Robert A. Jung, Electric
Escape, 1998.01.17. "Users of Windows computers are often confused
at the loyalty Mac users show their computers, and now I see
why."
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 06.15.
- Consumer: Apple
announces PowerBook promo: Free CD-RW, Mac Observer, 06.15. Buy
a TiBook, get an external VST CD-RW burner for free.
- Opinion:
Internet proxies & publishing freedom, David Schultz,
Applelust, 06.15. "Technology, since its inception, has been viewed
as a means to freedom of some sort." "Opinion pieces on the Mac Web
do not only speak to people, they speak for people as well."
- Opinion: Moore buys a
Cube, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.15. "So how come I, big
PowerBook advocate and fan that I am, settled on a Cube as my next
computer."
- Rights:
Censorship High, Daniel Silverman, Salon, 06.14. "Restriction
of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all
subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily
defeat us."
- Opinion:
My old flame: The Macintosh, Stewart Alsop, Fortune, 06.25
issue. "Unlike Windows, the Macintosh seems to work."
- Opinion:
A second life for your square-headed girlfriend, Joyce Slaton,
Computer Redux, SF Gate, 06.14.
- Dark Side: The campaign
against Linux is uphill battle for Microsoft, Wall Street
Journal, 06.14. Microsoft attack has united open source
advocates.
- Education: Show
me the power, Jillian N. Lederhouse, Education Week, 06.13.
Thoughts on "the best and the brightest" teaching in today's
classroom.
- Opinion: Mac
Web site funding debate, comments by Al Kimball, Applelinks,
06.13. Some interesting thoughts on online advertising.
- Dark Side: Linux server
share: Gartner goof-up or Microsoft meddling?, Kelly McNeill,
osOpinion, 06.13. Skewed survey ignores "white box" clones, only
counts OS installed at manufacture. (Yes, Microsoft really is
scared of Linux.)
- Dark Side: Early look
at new Pentium III, Tom's Hardware Guide. Preproduction
"Tualatin" CPU could give Athlon, Pentium 4 a run for the
money.
- Dark Side: The warped
perspective: Less is more with OS/2 servers, Tom Nadeau,
osOpinion, 06.13. Forgot all about OS/2 Warp? Microsoft sure hopes
so, since it's much more scalable than Win2k.
- Humor: The Joy of
Tech, cartoon, 06.13. Steve Jobs vs. rumor sites.
- Analysis: 90%
Windows, 5% Mac, 5% Linux? Not true!, Robin "Roblimo" Miller,
NewsForge, 06.12. Let's look at what people use daily, not just
market share.
- Opinion:
The metaphysics of Web advertising, part 2, David Schultz,
Applelust.com, 06.12. "...the kind of support a webmaster decides
upon sets up certain states of affairs between him (or her) and his
readers."
- Review: Star Trek
IV: The Voyage Home, Dan Knight, Digital-Views.com, 06.12. The
Star Trek movie with a Mac Plus - and SETI@home?!?!
- Opinion: The
Mac Web site funding debate, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
06.12. "My own ideal vision is for the free professional Mac Web to
be able to support itself profitably with ad revenues...."
- Advice:
Compleat buyer's and user's guide to high-end (over $1,000)
PowerBooks, 2001 edition, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 06.12.
- Benchmarks: New
iBook FireWire blows away PB G4 FireWire, Bare Feats, 06.12.
Grr, inexpensive new iBook has up to twice the FireWire performance
of my TiBook.
- Analysis:
Apple padlocks UI decor, Ed Foster, The Gripe Line, InfoWorld,
06.11. The other "big brother" stomps all over OS X themes
developers.
- News:
U.S. judge to hear Yahoo! case of French Nazi ban, CNN.com,
06.11. "...a U.S. federal judge has agreed to consider whether
foreign courts may determine what Yahoo! Inc. sells on its auction
site."
- Hands on:
An iBook is the apple of my eye, Charles Arthur, The
Independent, 06.11. "...put a TiBook next to an iBook, and you find
yourself drawn to the smaller one...."
- Opinion: What
will the new iMac look like? Here are some ideas, Amy Hoy,
Daily Mac, 06.11.
- Opinion: iBook review and
philosophy, Eolake Stobblehouse, MacCreator. "It takes time and
effort to make such a beautiful integrated object."
- Opinion: Macs still
cost too much, Brian D. Lipscomb, Professional Mac, 06.11.
"...a "headless" iMac (that has been spoken of several times in the
past) would be a great introductory Mac for consumers."
- Opinion:
The metaphysics of Web advertising, David Schultz,
Applelust.com, 06.11. "My concern is with the messages that are
presented to us by three methods of supporting a Mac site: banners,
donations, and subscriptions."
- Ezine: June
issue of ATPM
- Opinion: Teachers
still love "free," Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 06.11.
Freeware for the classroom.
- Opinion: Brother
can you spare a dime? Click here!: A bad omen for the Mac Web,
David Schultz, Applelust, 06.08.
- Benchmarks: How
does GeForce3 compare to GeForce 2, Radeon?, Bare Feats, 06.08.
3D gamers will be especially tempted by this card.
- Virus: AppleScript based
worm making the rounds, MacInTouch. Simpsons Episodes" worm
appears similar to Visual Basic worms common on Windows, requires
MS Outlook or Entourage.
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 06.08.
- Spam:
Court upholds Washington anti-spam law, ZDNet, 06.08. State law
prohibits forged headers and using fake email addresses
- Low End: Don't
discard that rotten Apple - make it an Internet server, Richard
S. Sternberg, Washington Apple Pi. "The key to this miracle is
Apple's Open Transport 1.3, which is included as part of Mac OS 8."
Also read part
2 and part
3.
- Macinschool:
Quaker Valley teachers, students get an Apple, Post-Gazette,
06.07 [MacMinute]. School
district chooses Apple over Dell.
- Tech:
Caches, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 06.07.
"A cache is a relatively small high-speed memory, which helps to
bridge the gape between the processor and slower levels."
- News: Upgrades
International first to offer 48 GB 2.5" IDE drive for laptops -
and it isn't cheap [MacMinute].
- Dark Side: New Windows
XP feature can re-edit others' sites, Walter S. Mossberg, Wall
Street Journal, 06.07 [
Slashdot]. New feature "allows Microsoft's Internet Explorer
Web browser . . . to turn any word on any Web site into a
link to Microsoft's own Web sites and services, or to any other
sites Microsoft favors."
Connectivity: Down
under broadband users hit with usage caps, John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 06.07. Telstra & Optus@Home put limits on
"unlimited" service.- Opinion: Replace,
resale or refurbish?, Remy Davison, PowerBook Ownership 101,
Insanely Great Mac, 06.07. "Macs, by contrast, have always held
their value. Until recently."
- Dark Side: See
the horror! Windows error on Las Vegas Strip (QuickTime
movie).
- News: U.S. PC
shipments expected to fall 6% in 2001, The Register, 06.07.
Expect Apple to buck the trend and continue growing.
- Opinion: Laptops
for everyone, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 06.06. "I can only
imagine what students today, with the Internet at their fingertips,
could learn."
- Review: Star Trek
II: The Wrath of Khan, Digital-Views.com, 06.05. Kirk vs. Khan
in one of the most intense Star Trek movies.
- Opinion: Mac
Web economics, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.05. "The sticky
issue is of course how to continue offering a free service while
still being able to make a living from your work."
- Opinion:
For once, Apple should follow in Dell's footsteps, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 06.05. Apple has a huge opportunity in the
electronic voting market.
- Web: MacGameGirls.com,
because girls play games on Macs, too. (Requires Flash.)
- Opinion:
The perils of early adoption, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
Mac Opinion, 06.05. "...my policy on early adoption of a new model
is that it's wise to wait for the initial production bugs and
glitches to be ironed out...."
- Web: Applelust is back
after a brief hiatus - and has a new look.
- Advice: Lessons
learned from redesigning our site, David Schultz, Applelust,
06.05. "I think we could rid the world of most of its ills if we
rid the world of Netscape."
- Advice:
A simple 5-step recipe for cooking up a good Web site, Joel
Davies, Applelust, 06.05. "Practice safe design" and other good
advice.
- Web: Go2Mac.com has
completed their move to a new server and a site redesign.
- Review: Star Trek:
The Motion Picture, Dan Knight, Digital-Views.com, 06.04. This
is one of Low End Mac's sister sites.
- Duh:
Building quieter computers, Slashdot, 06.04. If the question is
silent computing, the answer is Macintosh.
- Opinion: Fixed layouts
doomed to fail, Code Bitch, MacEdition, 06.04. "The Web is not
the right media for such attempts at control. People will view our
content in many ways using many devices. It's time we let them do
that."
- Humor: If Microsoft had
a genius bar, Geek Culture.
- Deals: MediaGuide liquidation
sale. How about a $10,000 IIfx for $15? Or a IIci for just $5?
Lots of Quadras for under $40, Power Macs as low as $50.
- Opinion: Two weeks
with an iBook, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 06.04. "The
new rule was that students had to first wash their hands with soap
and pass a hand inspection before touching the hallowed new white
keyboard!"
- AAPL: Jobs
data pushed market higher, Apple jumps 4.7%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer.
- Oops:
Most embarrassing computer experiences, ZDNet, 06.01. "Well I
pressed the F1 button marked 'help' ages ago but nobody came."
- OS X: Using a
dedicated swapfile partition to speed up Mac OS X, Andy
Moriatis, ResExcellence, 06.01.
- Benchmarks: TiBook
vs. iceBook, Bare Feats, 06.01. New iBook holds its own against
PowerBook G4/400.
- Opinion: Mac
Web sites - who will survive?, Brian D. Lipscomb, Professional
Mac, 06.01.
- News: Mac users
wins national spelling bee, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
06.01.
- Opinion: Learning
Linux on the Mac, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 06.01. "...it
is a fair question to ask why one should consider running Linux on
a Mac at all."
- Consumer: Week's
best iBook, PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 06.01.
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