The Low End Mac Link Archive, September
2001
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- Benchmarks: How fast is
10.1?, Macs Only!, 09.28. Definitely an improvement over
10.0.4.
- Opinion: The
Macintosh is still the "repressed minority" of the computer
industry - so what?, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, Mac Observer,
09.28. "The Macintosh was, is, and will always be a minority in the
computer industry."
- News: Aqua
project has been shut down by Apple legal, Eric Yang, 09.27.
Project was developing Aqua "skin" for Mozilla/Netscape.
- Advice: Setting up
home network gets easier, cheaper, David Hoye, Sacramento Bee,
09.27.
- Benchmarks:
OS X 10.1 vs 10.0.4 performance, Accelerate Your Mac, 09.27.
Yes, it's faster, but by how much?
- Opinion:
Can "abandonware" revive forgotten programs?, Kevin Savetz,
Byte, 09.17. "...access to old software is essential for people who
still use older computers...."
- History: Personal computer
history, Dan Knight, Low End PC, 09.27. A brief look at over 25
years of PC history, 1975-2001.
- Advice: How
do I do that on a Mac/PC?, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac Observer,
09.27. Help in going cross platform.
- Dark Side: Cost
of Microsoft upgrades increase, Michell Kessler, USA Today,
09.26. Businesses can choose no upgrades or mandatory upgrades - no
other options.
- Benchmarks: Is the
10.1 OS X upgrade really faster?, MacSpeedZone, 09.26.
Mostly.
- Opinion: Small town
newspaper editor: "Does Anyone Actually Keep Up With Apple
Anymore?" Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 09.26. "...doesn't seem
to have noticed that Apple consistently leads the way for the
entire PC industry both technologically and aesthetically."
- Opinion: Unix raises the
bar, Michael Reynolds, osOpinion, 09.26. "In reality, using
Windows is a very high-risk practice from a security
standpoint."
- Opinion: Pint-size
power, Walter S. Mossberg, Smart Money. "...the iBook is the
best all-around home or college laptop I've seen."
- Connectivity: Double Talk
v1.1, Kirk Hiner, Applelinks, 09.26. Easy to use, but
incomplete.
- OS X:
Welcome to Mac OS X 10.1! A visual tour with commentary, Mike
Vannorsdel, Applelust, 09.25. Before you install, see if you need a
firmware update....
- OS X: Mac OS X
10.1 released, free in Apple Stores this Saturday, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 09.25.
- OS X: Mac OS X
Server also revved to version 10.1, Dennis Sellers, 09.25.
- Virus: Attacks
computer virus identified, Fox News, 09.25. New virus spreads
by email, deletes files on Windows computers.
- Advice: How to
eject your optical drive without the Apple keyboard, Right On
Mac, 09.25. Boy, I could have used this tip last week!
- OS X:
Unsupported UtilityX 2.0b1 available, Ryan Rempel. New version
designed to be more compatible with future versions of OS X.
No multiprocessor support yet.
- News: Apple's
entire product line makes PC Magazine's list of "forward thinking"
computers, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 09.25.
- Virus: Virus exploits
fears over war on terror, John Leyden, The Register, 09.25.
Email virus can infect Windows PCs, attack antivirus software.
- Advice:
PowerBook and iBook battery management, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 09.24.
- Tech: AppleSpec Download
Page. Apple hasn't updated their downloadable AppleSpec in well
over a year, so Jeff Gordon has posted his updated version in
FileMaker 5 format.
- Dark Side:
Gartner Group suggests dumping IIS for now, Slashdot, 09.24.
"Gartner remains concerned that viruses and worms will continue to
attack IIS until Microsoft has released a completely rewritten,
thoroughly and publicly tested, new release of IIS."
- Dark Side: MS shows
toppling towers in ZDNet advert, The Register, 09.24. Bad
taste, Microsoft. Appallingly bad taste.
- Opinion: Apple's 10
best (and worst) business decisions, Insanely Great Mac, 09.24.
Yes, buying NeXT makes the list.
- Opinion: Microsoft
working hard to help Apple make inroads in corporate America,
Paul Shields, Business Mac, 09.24. "...MS is proposing to raise
software licensing fees by 30 - 107%, an increase that is
infuriating many IT managers."
- Advice:
Vigilance against viruses, Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle,
09.24. "If you're on a Mac, Linux or Unix machine, don't be
complacent."
- Web:
Going proactive against viruses, ars technica, 09.23. "ISPs are
finally getting off their bum and cutting off service to machines
that may be infected with a worm or virus."
- Analysis:
Mac users aren't immune to viruses, Glenn Fleishman, Seattle
Times, 09.23. "The Mac is enjoying the longest stretch in its
history without a serious form of attack against its
innards...."
- Dark Side: Microsoft
security: The dog that didn't bark, Geoff Lane, osOpinion,
09.21. "Although there is a need for Microsoft security software,
as we have seen time and time again, the vast numbers of Windows
users adopt the install-and-forget principle."
- Dark Side: Cnet
chronicles customer frustration with Microsoft's licensing
tactics, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 09.21. "The company
regularly changes the way it licenses its products to corporate
customers in order to get around the fact that those customers
don't upgrade as often as Microsoft would like."
- Dark Side:
MS FrontPage restricts free speech, Slashdot, 09.21. "You may
not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages
Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services,
infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these
parties, violate any state, federal or international law, or
promote racism, hatred or pornography."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook & iBook deals, PowerBook Central,
09.21.
- Advice: Using
virtual memory: Mac basics, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
09.21.
- Virus: Nimda worm
runs riot on IT sites, John Leyden, The Register, 09.20. Yes,
as usual, Microsoft's own servers got infected. ;-)
- Virus: Nimda worm and the
Mac, MacFixIt, 09.20. Amazing Nimda worm can put files on
Macs.
- Analysis: Radical Islam
at war with America, Fred Siegel, Fox News, 09.19. "Why is it
that everywhere in the world where Muslims are in the majority,
. . minorities are persecuted?"
- aVirus: Virulent
Nimda computer worm hits worldwide, Yahoo/Reuters, 09.18. As of
09.00 p.m. Tuesday, Low End Mac's Linux-based server had been hit
nearly 8,000 times.
- Virus: Nimda
worm strikes Net, e-mail, Cnet, 09.18. "It's all automated."
Nice graph shows impact of Nimda on Internet.
- W32.Nimda.A@mm,
Symantec Security Response, 09.18.
- W32/Nimda.A@mm,
McAfee Virus Alert, 09.18. "This threat can infect all unprotected
users of Win9x/NT/2000/ME."
- Virus: Code Red-based
email worm breaks out, The Register, 09.18. Nimda shows up with
random subject line, readme.exe attachment, HTML file, attacks IIS
servers. Macs, Unix, Linux immune.
- Virus: New virus
downloads itself from Web pages, ZDNet UK, 09.18. "The Nimda
virus uses every trick in the book to spread, say virus
experts...."
- Virus: Scary
hybrid Internet worm loose, Michelle Delio, Wired, 09.18. "A
new e-mail and server worm that appears to be a retooled
combination of several other successful worms...."
- Virus:
New (more) annoying Microsoft worm hits Net, Slashdot, 09.18.
Attacks each IP with 16 different requests.
- Opinion:
Down with Web ads; up with charities!, David Schultz,
Applelust, 09.18. We've added a badge for the Salvation Army - the
Red Cross site kept blowing up Netscape.
- Opinion:
Why no PowerBook books?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 09.18. Lots of good Mac titles, but nothing just for
PowerBook users.
- Marketing: AMD names next
Athlon after Windows XP, Tony Smith, The Register, 09.18. Would
you prefer to run Windows XP on a Pentium 4 or Athlon XP?
- Terror: Bin Laden
extradition possible, Fox News, 09.18. Taliban urges Afghans to
prepare for holy war, willing to discuss extradition - but not to
U.S.
- Benchmarks: Dual
G4/800 vs. other G4s, Bare Feats, 09.17. Wins all but one
test.
- Opinion: America
unites, but will we?, David Schultz, Applelust, 09.17. "It's
irresponsible in ways it wasn't before. It's offensive in ways it
wasn't before. It's now in bad taste."
- Macinschool: Nashville
school superintendant: No new Macs, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
09.17. Other than outside donations, school goes "Dell only."
System hiring 8 techs to support Wintel-only decision.
- Tech: Motorola
completes 1.6 GHz G5, The Register, 09.17. G5, a full 64-bit
CPU, "set to go into volume production real soon now." Mac
OS X 10.2 rumored to run as a 64-bit OS.
- News: Indian, Pakistani
murdered in Texas, Arizona, The Hindu, 09.17 [Scripting News]. Stop the madness.
More.
- Dark side: AnimalFarm.NET,
Morris Lewis, Windows2000, 08.31. "...after Windows programmers
learn what they can do with .NET, adoption will be
inevitable."
- Tech:
Faster wireless protocol delayed, InternetNews, 09.14 [Macs Only!]. 54 Mbps 802.11g
protocol will be five times faster than AirPort.
- Opinion: Does
hotrodding older Macs make sense?, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 09.14. Sometimes it does, sometimes not.
- Opinion: Neighbors and
friends, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 09.14. Canada stands
with U.S., even flying flags at half mast.
- OS X: Apple
confirms free Mac OS X 10.1 update CDs from dealers, Mac Night
Owl, 09.14.
- Opinion: Five
"dirty words" that should be banned from Mac users' vocabulary,
Rodney O. Lain, 09.14. "I've come up with a list of words that we
should delete from the Mac lexicon."
- Rights: Palm gets
snotty with Palm-friendly Web sites, Tony Smith, The Register,
09.14. Company tells Palm-related sites to change name or
else.
- Web: PalmGuru.com becoming
PocketAnywhere.Com, will expand coverage to include Pocket PCs,
not just PalmOS handhelds.
- Terror: Five
firefighters pulled alive from rubble, Fox News, 09.13.
- Terror: A call for peace,
Andrew W. Hill, JMUG, 09.13. Why we need to look beyond vengeance
and retribution.
- Advice:
Processor speed isn't everything, Jim Heid, LA Times, 09.13.
Tips on choosing the right Mac.
- Analysis: Here we go
again: Jobs' compensation under scrutiny, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 09.13. "Bloomberg's Graef Crystal put Apple CEO Steve
Jobs on this year's list of Pay Anti-Heroes in Crystal's annual
nominations for the Executive Pay Hall of Shame and Fame."
- Terror: On
doomed flight, passengers vowed to perish fighting, New York
Times, 09.13. Martyrs showed "a spirit of defiance amid the
desperation."
- Terror: Fire
department's cruel toll: 350 comrades, New York Times,
09.13.
- More links in our archive.
- Terror: Almost all
hijackers identified, Fox News, 09.12. "...many Saudi and
Egyptian nationals and one known supporter of terror suspect Usama
bin Laden."
- Editorial Cartoons: Terrorist
Attack, Slate, 09.12.
- Terror:
Arrests reported in Boston and Providence, New York Times,
09.12.
- News:
Midway Airlines closes, USA Today, 09.12. Citing impact of
Tuesday's attack, already ailing airline throws in the towel.
- Web: Military design
sustains Internet during crisis, Eugene Liu, osOpinion, 09.12.
Landline and wireless phone systems overwhelmed, but Internet kept
working - although some servers were completely overwhelmed.
- Terror:
Arabic clue to attacks, BBC News, 09.12. "...authorities in
Massachusetts have identified at least five Arab men as
suspects...."
- Terror:
New York rubble dumfounds rescuers, BBC News, 09.12. Few
rescued from WTC debris.
- Opinion: A tought
test for the US, Micheal Munger, Mac Observer, 09.12. A
Canadian shares his thoughts.
- Opinion: The
day after - colloquy, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 09.12. "I
don't think there's going to be anything 'usual' for a very long
time."
- Opinion: Waking up
to the real world, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 09.12. "...we
need to reassess everything we know, everything we believe in, with
new eyes."
- Attack:
To peace-loving people, Dave Winer, DaveNet, 09.11. "In this
act of war, we're left groping for an enemy."
- Analysis: Dinosaur mating
rituals, Wes George, APPL Shares, Working Mac, 09.11. A look at
the H-Paq merger and the future of the Wintel industry.
- Opinion:
Timing system upgrades, and is this upgrade really necessary?,
Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 09.11. A look at
timing hardware updgrades.
- Opinion: Takin' care of
business, Evan Trent, ATPM, 09.11. "Get a Mac. Get a life. It's
that simple."
- Interview: Daniel Knight, Low End
Mac, Muzamil Akram, ATPM, 09.11. "If anything, the importance
of good writing . . . will be a stronger asset in the
21st century than it was in the last decades of the 20th
century."
- Analysis: Clock
speed is not output, Peter Coffee, eWeek, 09.10 [Macs Only!]. "Processor clock speed
measures how hard the CPU is being flogged, not how much work it
does."
- Rights: Draft bill aims
for pay-for-play Internet, Cnet, 09.10 [MrBarrett.com]. All "interactive
digital devices" would have to have "certified secure technology" -
even Gameboys and digital phones?
- Advice: Make
any Mac a Web server, Jag's House. Anything from a 4 MB Mac
Plus on up can do the job.
- Dark Side: Smart
Tags worse than you thought & not dead at all, John H.
Farr, Applelinks, 09.10. Don't tread on me.
- Opinion:
The "free" OS X 10.1 update: The implied contract & other
replies, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 09.10. Steve Jobs said it
was a free update. Failure to provide free access to 10.1 breaks
that promise.
- Advice: Legacy Macs on
steroids, Macs Only!, 09.10. Hands on upgrade discussion for
early PCI Power Macs and clones.
- Opinion: The
buyer/seller dance: Apple's "exorbitant prices" & why Mac users
should gripe about them, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 09.10.
"Why does Apple keep those prices high? Because they can."
- Dark Side: Intel Pentium
III to die on 7 December, The Register, 09.10. That's one way
to get people to buy the less efficient, higher MHz, higher cost
Pentium 4 - or an AMD Athlon.
- Very Low End: Mac Plus Web server reached milestone. This
little old Mac Plus has served 50,000 visitors over 40 months of
service (server retired 2001.10.27).
- Opinion: Google
upgrades the Web, Dave Winder, DaveNet, 08.18. Google keeps
getting better. "The Google crawler notices that I update my site
every day, so it knows it should come back and re-index my site
every day."
- Virus:
Virus warning issued, San Jose Business Journal, 09.07.
W32/Magistr.b@mm has been rated a "medium risk" by
McAfee. Windows only, of course.
- News:
Black-and-white PDAs lose their luster, Yahoo/ZDNet, 09.07.
Higher end users skipping high end b&w models for color
displays.
- Tech: Happy 1e9
Day!, Schuyler Erle, O'Reilly Network Weblogs, 09.07. Unix
counts seconds from 1970.01.01 - and hits the 1 billion mark on
Sunday, Sept. 9.
- Opinion: Google 2.0, John
S. Rhodes, WebWord.com, 09.06. "People using Microsoft's Internet
Explorer are now being redirected to Microsoft's MSN when they make
certain kinds of mistakes." Although this seems to be a
Windows-only issue now, expect the next Mac version to work the
same way.
- Virus: Remote Shell Trojan
infects Linux, Security Alert, 09.05 [
Slashdot]. Trojan creates a backdoor on Linux servers (and
there are a lot of Linux servers).
- Virus: Code Blue worm reported, 9/07. Infects Windows
NT/2000 running IIS, works differently from Code Red. For more
details see
Yahoo/Reuters,
Symantec, Wired
News, McAfee.
- Analysis: Mac OS X
vs. Windows XP: Is this what it's come to?, Paul Thurrott's
SuperSite for Windows, 09.05. Some very interesting observations,
especially, that Apple doesn't "just 'get' digital media, they take
it and run with it in ways that Microsoft can only imagine."
Opinion:
Pyrrhic victories, Joe Carson, Applelust, 09.07. "...each and
every segment of the Wintel Hegemony is now suffering from their
own arrogance and overreaching goals of total market
domination."
- Discussion:
Record companies sued over Charley Pride CD, Slashdot, 09.07.
Protected CD cannot be played on a computer without divulging
personal information.
- Discussion:
Apple sued for patent infringement, Slashdot, 09.07.
- Rights:
eBay gets important court victory in copyright lawsuit,
Quicken/Excite, 09.06 [
Slashdot]. "...a federal judge ruled that the Internet auction
company was not liable for copyright infringement...."
- Web: Macs Only!, our
first stop on the Mac Web each day.
- Opinion: Mac OS 9.1.2 -
worth the trouble of upgrading?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
09.07.
- Opinion:
The government caves on Microsoft, Dan Gillmor,
SiliconValley.com, 09.06. "The government has caved in, giving
Microsoft all it needs to consolidate its chokehold over the
computer industry...."
- Advice: Using AirPort
with non-AirPort-equipped Macs, AppleTechs, 09.06.
- Tech:
Scripting for IE 5 Macintosh Edition, Danny Goodman, Apple
Developer Connection. Why and how Internet Explorer for Mac and
Windows differ. A good case for Web design for the broadest
base.
- Tech: New
cable standard may triple speeds, Corey Grice, Cnet,
09.06.
- Advice: More
business (and fun) uses for old Macs, Paul Shields, Business
Mac, 09.06. Lots of intriguing suggestions for keeping older Macs
in use.
- Huh?
U.S. says no longer pursuing Microsoft break-up, Yahoo/Reuters,
09.06. How about a multi-trillion dollar fine to help reduce the
national debt?
- Huh? Windows
site praises XP, says Mac OS X & Linux are but copycats of
Windows, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 09.06. Someone doesn't
know is OS history.
- Consumer: Aftermath Technologies.
We're looking at incredible quantities of surplus - some of it
Mac.
- Analysis: The
"wow" factor is gone from personal computers, Mark Sappenfield,
Nando Times, 09.05. Well, not quite. There's still Apple.
- Analysis: Mac OS X
vs. Windows XP: Is this what it's come to?, Paul Thurrott's
SuperSite for Windows, 09.05. Some very interesting observations,
especially, that Apple doesn't "just 'get' digital media, they take
it and run with it in ways that Microsoft can only imagine."
- Analysis: Will Apple
survive?, Roger Born, MacCreator. "Just be a student of history
and half way pay attention to how things work."
- Analysis:
HP swallows Compaq, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac
Opinion, 09.05. "Let's look at why gobbling a sick competitor is a
Seriously Bad Idea."
- News: Apple
expands as PCs cut back, Jefffrey Benner, Wired, 09.04. Big
winner of HP-Compaq merger, Gateway layoffs, and Dell price cuts
could be - Apple!
- Tech: Will
your next PowerBook be powered by a fuel cell?, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 09.04. Weeks between battery charges? Could
happen!
- Tech: Motorola
develops new, faster chip, AP, 09.04. Gallium arsenide chip "35
times faster" than today's designs - but how long until a 30 GHz
G4?
- Advice: Putting old
machines to work for your business, Paul Shields, Business Mac,
09.04. Five good uses for an old Mac.
- Advice: Writing tools
compared, Web Page Design for Designer, 09.04.
- News: Fry's to
acquire Outpost.com, MacCentral, 09.04.
- News: HP to buy
Compaq in Battle of the Bulge, The Register, 09.04. Could be
the top PC maker. Sorry, Michael Dell.
- Virus: SirCam tops
virus charts, The Register, 09.04. I'm still getting 'em. How
about you?
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