The Low End Mac Link Archive, July 2001
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- Webmaster Alert:
Don't eat the yellow links, Slashdot, 07.31. Like MS Smart
Tags, KzZaA TopLinks may already add unwanted links to your site.
Here's how to opt out.
- Opinion: The
G4 Cube has died, so where are we going?, Tristan Moore,
Appleinks, 07.31. "After my experiences with the Cube, I want one
so badly I'm going to break my long standing tradition of buying
PowerBooks."
- Opinion: Dmitri
Sklyarov still rotting in a Las Vegas jail while feds dither,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 07.31. "Mr. Sklyarov still languishes
in jail, puzzled, no doubt, about how a free society can jail
someone for writing code that was legal where written, just because
he comes to the United States and gives a report on encryption
weaknesses."
- Opinion:
MacDonald's, John Scheeser, The Mac Mind, 07.31. "What if Apple
would franchise the Apple Stores?"
- Benchmarks: New
G4/867 vs. old G4/733, Bare Feats, 07.31. Of course it's
faster, but how much faster is it?
- Opinion:
Rare, offbeat, and maybe even collectible PowerBooks, Charles
W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 07.31.
- Opinion:
Licensing the Mac OS - again, MacSlash, 07.30. Why not license
Aqua or all of OS X to Sun, HP, and IBM for workstations and
servers?
- Opinion: The best
part of waking up, Andy Ihnatko, Macworld. Bluetooth as a
complement to AirPort, not a competitor.
- Advice: Put that Mac
back to work as an MP3 jukebox, Adam C. Engst, Macworld.
Recommended hardware and software.
- Web:
Yahoo testing pop-under advertising, Yahoo/News.com, 07.30
[
Slashdot]. "A report . . . found that the format
increases brand awareness, but at the cost of the company's
image."
- Hmm:
Lawless leaps from Xena to X-Files, Yahoo/Variety, 07.30. Hmm,
the Xena-Files? ;-)
- Low End: My
emailing Mac Plus, Jeff Garrison. A Mac Plus, a second floppy,
a modem, System 6, Eudora Lite - email on the cheap.
- Dark Side: Truce
or dare, Michael R. Zimmerman, eWeek, 07.30 [
Slashdot]. Business Software Alliance's campaign having
unintended results - many of the threatened are leaving for
alternative software, including open source.
- Analysis: Total
Cost of Ownership: Why the price of the computer means so
little, Paul Shields, 07.30. Purchase price is only a small
part of the total cost of running a computer.
- Opinion: Recommended
Web Sites & the further adventures of the little Performa that
could, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 07.30. "Understand, this
Mac is now about 8 years old and it has never broken down."
- Macinschool: Despite raves for
iBook, tide still turns against Apple, Chronicle of Higher
Education. "College technology officers . . . say most of
the big commercial software systems they use for payroll, course
scheduling, student record-keeping, and other operations work more
reliably on computers that use the Microsoft Windows operating
system." More reliably?!?
- Tech: The
HyperTransport revolution, David K. Every, iGeek, Working Mac,
07.30. "HyperTransport isn't just a new bus implementation that's a
little faster than its predecessors. It's a whole new bus
architecture, designed to grow over time."
- Virus: Government,
private officials sound alert over "code red" worm, Fox News,
07.30. Be very grateful if you're not using Microsoft's Internet
Information Services.
- News: Apple to
place full-time employees at CompUSA locations, MacMinute,
07.27. "Apple will be placing full-time employees in 70 to 90
CompUSA locations across the US...."
- Opinion: On being
a 1st-class citizen: Maybe Apple shouldn't buy DAVE & VirtualPC
after all, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 07.27. "OS X 10.1 will
have SMB (Samba) compatibility, which means that it will be able to
file share and printer share with any . . . modern
Windows network."
- Consumer: Week's best PowerBook,
iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 07.27.
- Consumer: Week's
best Power Mac deals, DealZone, 07.27.
- Web: Secondhand
Mac, online classifieds for used Macs and Mac-related gear.
Some attractive items listed [Mac
Observer].
- Analysis:
The great Cnet spam-off, Matt Lake, Cnet, 07.26 [
Slashdot]. Where do spammers get your email address? Read this
report and find out.
- AAPL: Morning
losses yield to 12¢ afternoon gain for Apple, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 07.26.
- Analysis: There
is a gap in Apple's product line..., Paul Shields, Business
Mac, 07.26. No, they don't need a PDA.
- Humor: Spammers
need help, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 07.26. "If there isn't a
support group for stressed-out spammers somewhere, perhaps we
should start one."
- Opinion: Would you want to
download a 650 MB Mac OS X upgrade file?, Gene Steinberg, Mac
Night Owl, 07.26. Imagine those with 56k modems spending days
downloading the file....
- Opinion: How to pirate
music and video without a computer, Wes, osOpinion, 07.26. You
don't need Napster or an Internet connection.
- Hardware: An
in-depth look at what's new in the new Power Macs, Alex
Summersby, MacUnlimited, 07.25.
- Opinion: Megahertz
madness, Del Miller, Difference Engine, Mac Opinion, 07.25.
"Multiprocessing is a completely legitimate and time honored
architecture for computing systems. Nobody ever claimed that Cray
made a slouchy computer...."
- Opinion:
Return to grace, part 2, Joel Davies, 07.25. 1998 - "I've been
fairly annoyed a these advertisements claiming how slow my Pentium
II computer is compared to these new fangled G3s."
- Advice: Upon launching,
Netscape crashes with Type 3 error, Damien, AppleTechs, 07.25.
Here's how to make it work again.
Ouch:
PC sales drop in Canada, Montreal Gazette, 07.25 [Applelinks].
Apple sales dropped 21.4% - I wonder if purchases from US sources
were included.- AAPL: Great
expectations, Wes George, AAPL Shares, WorkingMac, 07.25. Best
analysis of Apple's business and value I've ever seen.
- Hardware: Formac announces
24x FireWire CD-RW, Insanely Great Mac, 07.25. Gee, and I just
moved up to 12x....
- News: Macworld
Expo attendance a record, Macworld UK, 07.25. Biggest tech expo
in New York, outperforming PC Expo and Internet World.
- Virus: Spread of the
Code-Red worm, David Moore, CAIDA [
Slashdot]. "On July 19, 2001 more than 359,000 computers were
infected with the Code-Red (CRv2) worm in less than 14 hours."
- Web: Cnet reports Q2
loss, sets layoffs, Yahoo/Reuters, 07.24. Lost $218 million in
quarter, but remains confident in the power of Internet
advertising.
- AAPL: Apple
sheds another 45 cents, down 24% since July 17, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer, 07.24. Ouch.
- Rights: Protesters
prepare to lay siege to Adobe, Andrew Orlowski, The Register,
07.23. Cryptographer arrested for demonstrating weakeness of eBook
"security." Yes, in America.
- Rights: Hacker'
fury at Adobe's FBI snitch, Macworld UK, 07.23. "Hackers angry
about the FBI's arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have
spawned a campaign against Adobe...."
- Dark Side: Microsoft still
says kids' charity acting "illegally," Remy Davison, Insanely
Great Mac, 07.23. Not only that, but low-end PCs "really not
providing kids with the tools they need for the digital age."
- Dark Side: There's no
getting away from Microsoft Windows - even on our ATMs, Richard
Hoffman, Network Computing, 07.23. "I swear, it's almost as if
they're running Windows.... Of course, nobody would actually be
that stupid."
- Advocacy: The Megahertz
Myth, Apple Computer.
- Advice: Illustated
Power Mac 7500 tear down, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 07.23.
The ins and outs of the 7200, 7300, 7500, and 7600 case.
- Hmm:
Cyber-games make children brighter, Jonathan Leake, The Sunday
Times, 07.22 [
Slashdot]. Study shows "playing computer games regularly
greatly improves mental agility."
- Trivia: A brief
history of @, The Industry Standard. Where the @ symbol came
from and what it's called around the world.
- Dark Side: Never use caps
in a Hotmail email, The Register, 07.20. Email with all caps
subjects dumped as spam (hooray); URLs within email redirected
through MS server (boo).
- Analysis: Taking a breath at
Macworld Expo, Stephen Beale, WorkingMac, 07.19. "...Apple is
doing pretty well at a time when the PC industry as a whole is
mired in a serious downturn."
- Analysis: Special
report for education, Steve Wood, Educators' News, 07.18. Apple
retains 400 MHz iMac, 533 MHz Power Mac for education market.
- Opinion: The more
things change, the more iMacs look the same, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 07.18. "This marks the second rev of the iMac line where
the lowest priced model has actually gone up by US$100."
- Survey: Internet
use holding steady, Cnet, 07.17. More than half surveyed
report same level of Internet use.
- AAPL: Apple is
back in the black, posts $61 million profit, Mac Observer,
07.17.
- OS: Macs Only! has an
interesting comparison of Mac OS X vs. Windows XP. You don't
want to hear how the Celeron 633 beat the dual processor G4/533 -
but you should.
- Low End: SE/30
grayscale screenshots, Gamba, 07.16. Homemade clone of Xceed
card provides 8-bit internal video.
- News: Apple
Stores to stream Jobs' Expo keynote, MacCentral, 07.16. Another
clever way to use the space for more than just retailing.
- Web: MacGamez is
back.
- MWNY: Fujitu
expands magneto-optical line, MacCentral, 07.16. New drive
mechanism can write 2.3 GB to $30 3.5" magneto-optical disk - and
it's fast.
- Opinion: Microsoft's .NET:
Bill's gate to the cyber toll bridge, Noah F. San Tsorbutz,
osOpinion, 07.16. "There will be cyber-tollgates built right into
.NET, and just like the Golden Gate Bridge, unless you pay, no San
Francisco."
- Benchmarks:
OS X vs. 9.1 FireWire performance, Accelerate Your Mac, 07.15.
Some wins for each OS.
- Low end: New Color Classic 640
x 480 screen mod, Chris Lawson, 07.13. Modification
requires 520, 550, or 575 motherboard.
Dark Side: MS chases
Windows license fee from kids charity, Kieren McCarthy, The
Register, 07.13. MS wants Au$200 for each second-hand computer PCs
for Kids gives away.- Benchmarks: How
fast is IBM's 48 GB Travelstar 2.5" drive in an Oxford 911 FireWire
case?, Bare Feats, 07.12. Fast and quiet, but 3.5" drives still
outperform it.
- Advice: Should you always
buy the latest and greatest?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
07.13. "It doesn't matter if its just off the production lines, or
a closeout deal, so long as the price is right."
- Humor: Put
through the (rumor) mill, MacToolbox.com, 07.13. "By working
with the rumor sites, that also means we don't have to think for
ourselves so much anymore...."
- Consumer: Week's best PowerBook,
iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 07.13.
- AAPL: Market
rally helps boost Apple 8%, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
07.12.
- Tech: Hitting the
wall at 150 GB/in2, John
William Toigo, Enterprise Systems. Hard drives expected to hit
capacity ceiling in 3-5 years. Still, that could get us into the
half-terabyte range for a 3.5" hard drive.
- AAPL: Apple's
stock shoots up another 6.9% in morning trading, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer.
- News: "Cold"
Cube suddenly a hot item, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 07.11.
"If you discontinue it, they will come."
- Opinion: The
marketshare expo, Del Miller, Difference Engine, Mac Opinion,
07.11. "The most important message from Macworld New York will be
Apple's all-out attack on marketshare."
- Opinion:
Return to grace: Seduction to the dark side, Joel Davies,
Applelust, 07.11. "I grew up with Apple computers in my household,
but in college I was slowly converted to the Wintel world."
- Analysis: Dell denies new
stats showing Apple education lead, Kelly McNeill, osOpinion,
07.11. "We believe Dell is extremely well positioned to retain our
No. 1 position in the education market."
- Opinion: Great
classroom computer buys: When the worst can turn out to be the
best, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 07.11. "...there are
some truly incredible deals out there on used Power Macs."
- Low-end: Early Mac 400KB drive
repeating click of death (and its solution), A. Daniel King.
How to fix a 400K floppy drive gone bad.
- Analysis: Survey:
Apple to regain top spot in education, Cnet, 07.10. Sorry,
Michael Dell, but even IDC now says Apple is picking up education
sales.
- Dark Side:
Microsoft to schools: Give us your lunch money!, Damien Cave,
Salon, 07.10 [
Slashdot]. Microsoft loves schools - as a great source of
corporate revenue.
- AAPL: Tech
rally sends Apple higher by 67¢, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 07.09.
- Advice: Build
an MP3 jukebox, Pat St. Arnold, Applelust, 07.09. Turning an
old Power Mac into a music machine.
- Dark Side: Messaging woes
cloud Microsoft's .NET strategy, Daniel F. DeLong, osOpinion,
07.09. If they can't keep MSN Messenger running, how dependable
will .NET be?
- News: Apple
number one in education market, MacCentral, 07.09. Quality
Education Data says Apple, not Dell, has the top spot in the
education market, both the installed base and new purchases.
- OS X: At least 256 MB for
OS X, Bill Fox, Macs Only!, 07.09. Testing finds OS X
really benefits from at least 256 MB RAM, especially if running
Classic mode.
- Dark Side: "MS antipiracy"
hoax triggers paranoia attacks, John Lettice, The Register,
07.09. "Practically everybody in the world thinks that Microsoft
will get up to this kind of thing one day...."
- Opinion: Anywhere but
Bethlehem, I hope, John H. Farr, Grack!, Applelinks, 07.09.
"The company has been labeled guilty, not exonerated, and yet they
continue to ratchet up the pressure on all fronts, something I find
akin to donning a Nazi uniform and soliciting donations from
synagogues!"
- Recall: Apple recalls 570,000
G3 PowerBook AC adapters, PowerBook Zone, 07.06. Seems to be
just WallStreet and Lombard models. More on Apple's
site.
- Opinion: Here's
why you should not buy a G4 Cube, Rodney O. Lain,
iBrotha, Mac Observer, 07.06. "After all, not everyone is worthy of
such things."
- Consumer: Week's best iBook,
PowerBook deals, PowerBook Central, 07.06.
- Consumer: "Pop-under" ads
click off Web surfers, Fox News, 07.06. Includes a link for banishing the X-10
ad from your computer for 30 days!
- Dark Side: Microsoft
struggles to fix instant message glitch, Yahoo/Reuters, 07.06.
"Up to a third of Microsoft's 30 million worldwide MSN Messenger
users were unable to access the service" since Wednesday. I wonder
if the crashed server ran some version of Windows?
- Web: PowerBook Source has a nice new look.
- Digicams: Memory speed
matters, Dan Knight, Digigraphica, 07.06. Yes, faster
CompactFlash cards really can make a difference.
- Opinion: Journalistic
objectivity or journalistic discretion?, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 07.06. "I try to be fair, and reasonably evenhanded,
but ultimately, my biases, interests, and enthusiasms will play a
significant role in determining what appears...."
- Dark Side: Win2K becomes a
spam relay, Thomas C. Greene, The Register, 07.06. "A flaw in
the Win-2K SMTP authentication scheme allows unauthorized users to
access the system using bogus credentials and bounce spam and death
threats off unwitting users' machines with impunity." Microsoft has
already released a
patch for the problem - it's somehow dated July 9, 2001. That's
right, next Monday, although you can download it now. Go
figure.
-
News:
Free service proves to be short lived, Winnipeg Free Press,
07.03 [
Slashdot]. Last October, Canada Post offered "free Internet for
life" with a $10 CD. It appears all users have died....
- Dark Side: Iowa
family chained to MSN...., John H. Farr, Applelinks, 07.05.
Family unable to cancel MSN after 12 months required by
rebate.
- Advice: Reclaiming disk
space under Mac OS X, AppleTechs, 07.05. OS X plus
9.1 eats up a lot of drive space; here's how to get some of it
back.
- Tech: Pentium
4 and G4e: An architectural comparison, Jon "Hannibal" Stokes,
Ars Technica, 07.05. "...the successor to the most successful x86
microarchitecture of all time is a machine built from the ground up
for stratospheric clock speed."
- Opinion:
In the beginning was the command line, Neal Stephenson, ArtLung
[MrBarrett.com].
Fascinating discourse on computers, operating systems, sports cars,
HTML, the big difference between Macs and Windows PCs, Unix, Linux,
and much more. (Yes, it's also long.)
- Dark Side: It's 1984, so
happy new year, Mr. Gates, Mike Banks Valentine, osOpinion,
07.05. .NET is remarkably similar to Orwell's 1984.
- Web:
How MacMonkey survived the advertising recession, David Egger,
07.05. "If the website provides a service so valuable to people
that they are willing to donate money to keep it alive, then why
not?"
- Analysis:
Nutty processors, David Fanning, Macworld UK. Apple needs to
find more demanding applications to drive the market for faster
computers.
- Dark Side: Itanic prices
emerge, Tony Smith, The Register, 07.05. "The cheapest Itanium,
a 733MHz with 2MB of L2, costs $1177 in batches of 1000." (Be sure
to read Itanium or Itanic? for
our take on Intel's new CPU.)
- Opinion: Apple's
iPicture/iPhoto is "number-one" wish, Macworld UK, 07.05. Could
a free photo editor be Adobe's reason for abandoning Macworld
Expo?
- Dark Side: Magistr
continues three month reign as top virus, The Register, 07.04.
I'm still getting "Snow White" emails from the "hybris" virus (#5
on the list) first launched last September.
- Web: Canadian Tire
loses fight to call itself "crap," The Register, 07.04. Shoot,
we've been calling 'em "crappy tire" since at least the
1970s....
- Rights: Lawyers:
Keep Barneyô pure, Wired, 07.04 [
Slashdot]. Better not parody/satire the purplesaurus, let alone
post anti-Blarney content - the lawyers are
busy.
- Speculation:
Can Apple, Adobe take it to the bridge?, Matthew Rothenberg,
ZDNet, 07.03. Thoughts on Adobe's decision to skip Macworld
Expo.
- Rights: Copyrights and
copywrongs, Siva Vaidhyanathan, MSNBC, 07.04 [
Slashdot]. "Copyright was created as a policy that balanced the
interests of authors, publishers, and readers."
- News:
Women take over as top Internet surfers, Yahoo/Reuters, 07.04.
52% of Internet users in U.S. are women; 51% in Canada.
- Opinion: Comment
on Apple's termination of the Cube, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 07.04. A great little computer, poorly marketed,
suspended "indefinitely."
- Opinion: Switching teams,
Phonezilla.com [Applesurf]. "If you
told me just one year ago - heck, even just six months ago! - that
I'd be totally geeking over a Mac, I would have laughed you out of
the state."
- Consumer: Apple puts
Power Mac G4 Cube on ice, Apple, 07.03. "Cube owners love their
Cubes, but most customers decided to buy our powerful Power Mac G4
minitowers instead."
- Advice:
Dealing with the PowerBook G3 Series display hinge failure
defect, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion,
07.03.
- Virus:
Hackers may profit from spam, ZDNet, 07.03. "Spamming trojan"
sounds like another Windows/Outlook only problem, but with a new
twist.
- Opinion: HTML: The "M" is for
memo, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 07.02. "As a Web author who cares
about standards, few things irritate me more than seeing PDF
documents where HTML would be more appropriate."
- Opinion: Cube
diary, weekend edition, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 07.02.
"This is the first day that I'm using my new Cube as a production
machine, after spending much of the weekend getting it set
up."
- Advice: Making
a Power Mac 5200 useful, saintlupus. "The 5200, one of the
worst machines Apple ever put out, can actually be useful when
outfitted correctly for a particular purpose."
- Digicams: Profiles of Nikon
Coolpix cameras posted, Digigraphica, 07.02.
- Opinion: Mac
philosophy, part 01. Steve Jobs' philosophical background,
David Schultz, Applelust, 07.02. "I think Jobs has a philosophy of
life he brings to the Mac and Apple."
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