The Low End Mac Link Archive, October 2001
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- Software: iDVD 2
released for Mac OS X only, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 10.31.
Another incentive for Mac users to upgrade to OS X.
- Opinion: Forward into the past?,
Dan Knight, The Knight Line, Low End PC, 10.31. Why both Windows XP
and the Pentium 4 offer one step forward, two steps back
performance.
- Opinion: Apple,
Aqua, and interface freedom, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side,
Mac Observer, 10.31. Once a supporter of interface freedom, Apple
now blocks efforts to change Aqua appearance.
- Opinion:
Itanium = Titanic, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac
Opinion, 10.31. Don't miss our Itanium or Itanic? from October
1999.
- Software: "Classic"
Opera beta introduces Mac-exclusive features, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 10.31. Classic version supports Mac OS 7.5.3-9.2.
- Web: Berners Lee: WWW
royalties considered harmful, Andrew Orlowski, The Register,
10.31. Web should be free of royalty-bearing standards.
- Software: Netscape 6.2
available, Macs Only!, 10.31. Includes download links.
- News:
High court allows suit involving tough spam law, USA Today,
10.30. Key issue: May states regulate spam?
- Opinion: Mac OS X: A system
for the post-Windows world, Michael Reynolds, osOpinion, 10.30.
"The maturation of Mac OS X couldn't have come at a more opportune
time...."
- Advice: How to install a
CD-RW in a G3 All-in-One, ScienceMac, 10.30. Includes lots of
helpful photos.
- Opinion:
Sleeping with the enemy, Jim Heid, modbee.com, 10.29. "The best
computing platform is a Mac - running Microsoft software."
- Software:
Unsupported UtilityX v2.0, Ryan Rempel, OWC, 10.29. If you use
it, consider joining our Unsupported OS X email
list.
- Opinion:
Ten best PowerBooks ever - plus one, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion,10:30.
- Humor: Anti-terror
bill requires Americans to install Windows XP, SatireWire
[WOSC]. "... the
anti-terror act mandates that the F.B.I. become an official
Microsoft partner."
- Benchmarks:
OS 9.2.1 freestanding vs. inside OS X, MacSpeedZone, 10.28.
Freestanding 9.2.1 usually faster, but classic mode wins some
tests.
- Dark Side: Dell punts out
pre-built $599 WinXP PC, The Register, 10.29. 1 GHz Celeron,
128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive, 90 day warranty, no upgrade
options.
- Opinion: Macintosh OS
X: Apple is nifty, but Windows is more practical , Mike
Wendland, Detroit Free Press, 10.26. "You can keep Windows as long
as I can have a Macintosh running OS X...."
- Benchmarks: Old
TiBook 500 vs. new TiBook 550, Bare Feats, 10.29. Smaller fast,
faster CPU, better graphics. Each wins.
- Dark Side: Is Windows XP
really a new operating system?, Adam Barr, osOpinion, 10.26.
"Windows XP is based on the NT kernel used in Windows
2000...."
- Dark Side:
Waiting for Windows XP, P. J. Connolly, InfoWorld, 10.26
[MsGeek]. It's not just
bigger; it's also slower than Windows 2000 under load.
- Web: Webintosh is back,
Webintosh.net. Dan Hughes is back, and so is the Webintosh name,
but this time attached to a blog.
- Humor: Apple
listens to customers, adds new "low cost" iPod to lineup,
dissimilation.com. Very low cost iPod LC includes full sized
500 MB hard drive."
- Opinion:
The state of Apple, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac
Opinion, 10.26. "As I have been saying since the G4 launched,
AltiVec is a mistake."
- Dark Side: Will Office v.X
have secret activation registration?, Macs Only!, 10.26. Signs
point to yes. :-(
- Consumer: New promotion
offers US$150 rebate or free digital camera with 600/700 MHz iMac
purchase, MacMinute, 10.26.
- Dark Side: Hotmail
users must use Web client, Microsoft, 10.25. "Security updates"
no longer allow Entourage 2001 or Outlook Express for Mac to
download Hotmail mailboxes.
- OS X: A
few Mac OS X 10.1 secrets revealed, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 10.25. Classic MP-aware apps can now use multiple
processors.
- Opinion: Why
iPod doesn't do Windows, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10.25.
"Apple obviously hopes that the iPod will prove one more enticement
to Windows-users to upgrade to a Mac...."
- Dark Side:
MSN.com shuts out non-Microsoft browsers, Yahoo/News.com, 10.25
[
/.]. Funny thing is, if you have iCab tell MSN that it's IE5,
everything works just fine.
- Web: Living
Without Microsoft
- Analysis:
Apple gets a boost from Microsoft, Jim Heid, LA Times, 10.25.
"Best Windows ever" makes MP3s second-class citizens - at
best.
- Dark Side: Big Brother Award
nomination for WPA, Passport pains MS, John Lettice, The
Register, 10.25. MS creates Orwellian activation and Passport, then
balks when people recognize it for what it is.
- Connectivity: PocketPCs
on the Mac: It's finally a reality, Mac OS Planet, 10.25.
Solution requires CompactFlash to install driver onto
PocketPC.
- Opinion:
iPod - iFlop?, Philip Machanick, Mac Opinion, 10.25. It's a
consistent refrain - Apple has priced the iPod too high.
- Software: First ever
IE 5.0 service release for Mac users, Mactopia, 10.24. Fixes
problem with Windows Media Player, Microsoft Entourage 2001,
Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime.
- Myth:
SubWallStreet, Dana Sibera, The Apple Collection. Great job in
Photoshop showing what a subnotebook WallStreet might have looked
like.
- Opinion:
Apple jumps into the MP3 game - and does it right, Stephan
Somogyi, ZDNet, 10.24. "...Apple seems to be the first company to
have gotten the portable MP3 genre right."
- Opinion: Another
Mac success story, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Mac Observer, 10.24.
An iMac and eBay create a small business.
- Opinion:
The iPod: What would have made it right (for me), Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 10.24. "The name is stupid, and the price is
too high."
- Myth: Macintosh LC
V, Dana Sibera. Scroll down for what looks like a Quadra
605/Mac IIsi hybrid. Nice job with Photoshop. :-)
- Analysis:
Calculated rave: iPod wows, disappoints, Andras Puiz,
Applelust, 10.24. "The only way to modify the music library or the
playlists on the iPod is through a Mac and iTunes."
- Opinion: "iPod.
iYawn": Vacillating Reaction To The "Breakthrough Digital
Device," Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 10.24. "It's the price,
stupid."
- Dark Side: Intel
strong-arms site, OC-AthlonXP.com [Van's]. Intel lawyers demand
publisher remove "Trash Inside" from parody of "Intel Inside"
logo.
- News:
Apple introduces new portable music player, Matt Richtel, New
York Times, 10.23 (free registration required). "...songs loaded
onto the iPod from a Macintosh computer, cannot then be loaded from
the device to a different Macintosh computer...."
- Oops: New picture of the
iWalk, SpyMac.com, 10.23. Newest Mac rumor site buys nonsense, completely mispredicts
iPod - complete with doctored photo.
- Oops: Intel took iPOD
name before Apple did, Tony Smith, The Register, 10.23. Intel
announced iPOD (Phone Over Data) system just last week.
- Analysis: Apple's
"breakthrough" iPod, Wired News, 10.23. "...Jobs hinted that
the company is looking into making the iPod compatible with
Windows...."
- Benchmarks: Pentium vs.
Athlon, Emulators.com, 10.22. Pentium 4 consistently slower
than Pentium III and AMD Athlon, even running SoftMac.
- Macinschool: Reports
claim that single platform better, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
10.23. Ignorance of the Mac drives move to PCs, "because the
district's technical staff was more familiar with PCs."
- Analysis:
The new 'Books, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion,
10.23. "The most significant change announced for the PowerBook on
October 16th is its price."
- Opinion: A wish list for
AppleWorks 7, Greg Torok, osOpinion, 10.23. My favorite
suggestion: resurrect Claris Home Page as part of AppleWorks. (We
design LEM with Home Page.)
- Discussion: Ten years of
Apple PowerBooks, Slashdot, 10.23. Some good comments about
reliability, ease of use.
- Web:
Slashdot updates, Rob Malda, Slashdot, 10.22.
- Advice: Using
aliases, Charles W. Moore, Mac Basics, Applelinks, 10.22. How
to make the most from a tool we've had since System 7.0.
- Analysis: Memo to companies:
You are your Web site, Erika Morphy, osOpinion, 10.22. Some
businesses get it, but too many don't.
- Profiles: Fuji FinePix digital
cameras, Digigraphica.com, 10.22.
- Macinschool:
School gives students laptops to integrate technology into
life, Jennifer Barnett, Tennessean.com, 10.21. iBooks, of
course.
- History: Happy
birthday, PowerBook!, PowerBook Zone, 10.22. A look back on the
PowerBook's 10th anniversary.
- Benchmarks: Macs Only! test
10.0.4 vs. 10.1 on a beige G3, 10.22. Finds latest version of
OS X "perfectly usable" on 266 MHz G3.
- Opinion: Apple looks to
future - post-Motorola? - PowerPC world, Tony Smith, The
Register, 10.22. "Apple is becoming increasingly irritated with its
prime PowerPC provider, Motorola...."
- Dark Side:
Meet the dark side of Windows XP, David Coursey, ZDNet, 10.21.
Licensing, cost, activation, firewall woes, wireless troubles,
drivers, software compatibility, "home version" limitations, memory
demands, Passport, MSN, lack of MP3 support, and MS firewall are
all issues with new OS.
- Analysis: Billy gets a
laptop, MSNBC.com, 10.19 [
/.]. Gov. Angus King of Maine, a technologically literate
politician (and also a Mac user).
- Photography: Nikon N4004
(F401) and N6006 (F601)
profiled, Dan Knight, Digigraphica, 10.19. I've been into 35mm
photography far longer than computers.
- Opinion: Is the G3
unfairly getting the short schrift?, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 10.19. "It's hard to swim against the current of
popular sentiment, but I'm still a fan of the inexpensive,
cooler-running, less power-hungry G3...."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook, iBook deals, PowerBook Central, 10.19.
- OS: Open War,
Russ Mitchell, Wired. "Linux is highly reliable, but unfortunately
that's about all it offers the typical desktop user."
- Dark Side:
Gateway loss in line with outlook, Yahoo/Reuters, 10.18. $520
million in losses on 818,000 units sold plus cost of layoffs,
closing overseas operations.
- Software: Transitive
creates 1 GHz PowerPC on Athlon, Matthew Broersma, ZNet UK,
10.18. Virtual Mac offers 1 GHz performance on a 1.4 GHz AMD
Athlon, but not ready for market.
Consumer: Free
digital camera with iMac, Macworld UK, 10.18. Buy a CD-RW iMac
in UK and get HP Photosmart 318 2.3-megapixel digital camera - for
a pound for £1.- Hardware: Apple's
cool new portable AC adapter, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
10.18. I'll gladly trade my TiBook's yo-yo adapter for one of
these!
- Dark Side:
What's MS' ultimate goal for XP? Hint: Way more than an OS,
Patrick Houston, ZDNet, 10.18. Wants to turn XP into the heart of
an AOL-like system - count on that meaning a monthly fee.
- AAPL: Apple
announces $66 million profit, $4.3 billion cash on hand, Bryan
Chaffin, Mac Observer, 10.17. So why is AAPL stock usually in the
crapper?
- Art: Poster of clear
Mac SE, Raft Island Productions. The sample image on the site
is gorgeous! Posters are printed and mailing tubes are ready.
- News: iBook
education sales triple in 4th quarter, Apple, 10.17. iBook
sales "to education tripled in the fiscal 2001 fourth quarter over
the same quarter last year, growing by an unprecedented 205
percent."
- Dark Side: MSN-Qwest
alliance requires use of MS email client, Qwest.net [
/.]. POP3 email users must use MSN Explorer, Outlook, or
Outlook Express. A great day for malware.
News: House
resolution OKs public school displays of "God Bless America,"
Fox News, 10.17. "To threaten a public school for showing the same
type of patriotism that we all showed on the Capitol steps is the
opposite of what this country is all about."- News: Taliban
stealing trucks from relief groups, Fox News, 10.17. Talk about
morally bankrupt....
- Consumer: Apple UK
cuts iMac prices, Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK, 10.17. Prices
reduced up to £100.
- Web: Family
Mac ezine.
- Web: Operator Headgap
Systems, refurbished Macs including some highly tweaked
systems.
- Opinion: Analysis of the
new portables, Paul, iBook Zone, 10.16. "...how do these new
products differ from the former products?"
- Opinion:
PowerBook and iBook repair costs are a scandal, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10.16. LEM's advice - buy
AppleCare.
- Opinion: Resisting
the Borg, Charles W. Moore, Appelinks, 10.16. "Microsoft makes
at best mediocre software, and their market dominance is due to
consumer ignorance, fear, dysfunctional conformity, and mental
laziness."
- Overview: Apple feels the
need for speed, Philp Michaels, Macworld, 10.16. A look at the
new PowerBook and iBook models.
- Dark Side:
Intel profits tumble 77 percent, Yahoo/Reuters, 10.16.
- News: IBM announces
1 GHz G3, MacCentral, 10.15. PowerPC 750FX will run at 700 MHz
to 1 GHz speeds, include 512K L2 cache.
- Profiles of Canon PowerShot
S30, S40,
G2,
Digigraphica.
- Rights: RIAA wants to
hack your PC, Wired, 10.15 [
/.]. "The recording industry wants the right to hack into your
computer and delete . . . stolen MP3s."
- Opinion: Apple's
X factor, Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review, 10.15 [MacNN]. "Apple is betting that OS X
will freshen the MacOS bloodline, overcome the Mac's inbred
disorders and provide a new base for future expansion."
- Macinschool: Thermos
bottle barometer, Steve Wood, View From the Classroom, 10.15.
Coffee, old Macs, education priorities, and handicapped kids.
- Discussion: Apple
shouldn't have killed the Cube, MacSlash, 10.14. Readers weigh
in pro and con.
- Opinion: Microsoft
will remain a monopoly, Bradley J. Fikes, North County Times,
10.14. Odd quote: "The vaunted Apple advantage of smart design and
style will appeal to an elite, but by definitions elites are not a
mass market."
- OS X:
Unsupported UtilityX 2.0b4 released, Ryan Rempel, 10.13. Allows
OS X on a lot of unsupported hardware.
- Web: Apple Computer's
statement on the draft W3C patent policy, Apple, 10.13. "...it
is essential to continued interoperability and development of the
Web that fundamental W3C standards be available on a royalty-free
basis."
- Opinion:
Geek toy no more - the look and feel of OS X as a real operating
system, Andras Puiz, Applelust, 10.12. "[Aqua's] features may
be similar, but nothing is exactly the same."
- Tech:
IBM to unveil "Sahara" PowerPC chip, Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek,
10.11. New G3/750fx to reach 1 GHz, "AltiVec-like
acceleration." But will Apple adopt it?
- Opinion: Disabling
formatted email - yes!, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10.12. "I
regard formatted email as a regressive plague, and I strongly
advocate disabling it...."
- Dark Side: What the hell is
Microsoft's new software licensing programme?, Kieren McCarthy,
The Register, 10.12. "The great advantage - and coincidentally,
people's great fear - about MS' .Net idea is that everything is run
by Microsoft."
- Analysis:
Apple and oranges: The Cyrix PR debacle vs. the Athlon model
number, Joel Hruska, Van's Hardware, 10.12. Model numbers may
be imperfect, but they are more meaningful than MHz.
- Virus: SirCam
ready to drop payload, Wired News, 10.12. "...every year on
Oct. 16 the worm will delete all the files and folders contained on
the hard drives of randomly selected SirCam-infected
computers."
- Opinion:
Is Dell the antitechnology company?, Red Herring, 10.11.
"Dell's style of rapidly commoditizing marketplaces . . .
goes against everything technology companies are all about."
- Rumor: Everyone seems to be speculating on speed-bumped
PowerBooks and iBooks coming out later this month - but nobody
seems to agree on specs. That's rumors for ya!
- News: Michigan
legislator says use Macs, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 10.11. Rep.
Vern Ehlers (R-Michigan) promotes Macs as more stable, secure
platform. (Ehlers represents the district where LEM is
headquartered.)
- Opinion: Make
nice with PC users?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10.11. "It's
hard to be humble, when you're a Mac user."
- Opinion:
Mac passion and its abuse, David Schultz, Infinite Loop,
Applelust, 10.10. A thoughtful meander on Mac passion and the Mac
Web. (If you're not sure what he's addressing, click here.)
- Benchmarks: Which
is best for OS X: G4/867 or dual 800?, Bare Feats, 10.10.
Comparison also includes dual G4/533.
- Opinion: "Grim"
PC sales in August, September, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10.10.
Sales down 30% vs. 2000, no word yet on Apple sales.
- Advice: How to turn off
HTML or RTF email, List Administrators, RootsWeb. Also see
Instructions
for turning off formatted email, Berner.org, and Configuring mail
clients to send plain ASCII text, Pinehurst.net.
- Advice: E-mail
droppings: On the trail of the wild equals sign, Jon C.
Thomason, Washington Apple Pi. "Quotation marks get a long list of
letters and symbols, the number 20 keeps appearing everywhere,
contractions are also big problems..."
- Analysis:
Why Apple can't pull the plug on OS 9, Charles Hadded, Byte of
the Apple, BusinessWeek, 10.10. "Today, too many users - and too
many programs - are still dependent on OS 9, the last version of
the original Mac operating system."
- Analysis:
The "Mac-ness" of Mac OS X, Brian Tiemann, Applelust, 10.10.
Mac OS X compared with the classic Mac OS and Windows.
- Dark Side: A "must not" upgrade:
Windows XP, Michelle Klein-Häss, Geek Speak, Low End PC,
10.10. Why you really should avoid Windows XP at all costs.
- Dark Side: AMD's Athlon XP
numbering scheme misses the (bench)mark, Tony Smith, The
Register, 10.10. "...we're not sure that slapping '1800+' on a CPU
enough to convince punters that it's faster than a 1.8 GHz Pentium
4."
- News: ELS files
suit against Apple for "Mac Manager," MacNN, 10.09. ELS has
been using Mac Manager name for six years; now Apple is trying to
coopt it.
- Dark Side:
There'll be no XP for me, Brian Livingston, Window Manager,
InfoWorld, 10.08. "After looking at the changes Microsoft has made
in its forthcoming Windows XP, I'm recommending that most companies
and individuals avoid it."
- Dark Side:
Microsoft eyes auctions of old Windows, Active Network, 10.08.
"...people who buy a computer with pre-loaded software cannot break
out the software and sell it."
- Analysis: Who wants to
buy Excite?, Jim Hu, Cnet, 10.08. Even at fire sale prices,
they may have a hard time selling beleaguered excite.com
portal.
- Opinion: Did
someone say "Nimda"?, Aaron Russell, Brave New Mac, 10.8.
"...if you're using Virtual PC, don't think your fake Windows
machine is any safer than real ones."
- AAPL: Apple
profits "on course," Macworld UK, 10.08. "Apple is set to
return a profit of 16 cents per share...."
- Opinion:
Why hast thou forsaken me?, David Nagel, Talkin' Smack,
Creative Mac, 10.08. After seven months, Mac OS X finally
crashes.
- Opinion: The
PC performance scam, Mike Wafkowski, Thinking From the Box, Low
End PC, 10.08. The need for the latest and greatest and fastest PC
is nothing but marketing hype and adolescent ego insecurity.
- Dark Side:
In defense of AMD's model rating sytem, Van Smith, Van's
Hardware, 10.06. AMD facing same "MHz myth" as Apple.
- Advice: How to set
ethernet ports to full duplex, Damien, AppleTechs, 10.05. "Full
duplex is especially beneficial on servers...."
- Consumer: Week's
best PowerBook & iBook deals, PowerBook Central,
10.05.
- Dark Side:
Pandering to the masses: Does engineering still matter?, Joel
Hrusk, Van's Hardware, 09.27. "From a marketing standpoint, the P4
is a brilliant product. It adeptly exploits the ignorance of the
masses...."
- Humor: Microsoft
patents, ones, zeros, The Onion.
- News: Apple says stores
helping win back PC users, Yahoo/Reuters, 10.04.
- Dark Side: Microsoft
Research: Defending ourselves from "The System," Ken Standard,
osOpinion, 10.04. "This stinks of maniacal dominance of an industry
that has been relatively free flowing since the home-built"
computers of the mid-70s.
- Web: Colour Classic
Upgrade Mega FAQ, Chris Lawson. Want a 640 x 480 screen, 40 MHz
68040, or even a PowerPC in your CC? Learn more here.
- Advice: Is there a
better way to reset my PRAM?, Damien, AppleTechs.com, 10.04.
Yes, there are two alternatives to cmd-opt-p-r on restart.
- History: Art
print of clear SE, Raft Island Productions. You may have read
about this transparent SE
prototype on LEM, but you've got to see this image.
- OS: Linux
for die-hard Mac users, MacGuruTemple. An introduction to Linux
for Mac users.
- News: Intel to kill
floppy drives, serial ports next year, Tony Smith, The
Register, 10.04. "PC types seem to hang on to their outdated
technologies with rather more passion than their Mac
counterparts."
- Law: Court
asked to decide who's the real Yahoo, IT, 10.04 [
/.]. Comic Yahoo Serious suing Yahoo! over trademark.
- Law:
Copyright: your number's up, The Age, 10.04 [
/.]. A couple Australian composers have just copyrighted your
phone number....
- OS:
Pipes in Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, Dr. Edward G.
Bradford, IBM [
Slashdot]. Which OS has faster pipes? Well, Windows XP is very
disappointing.
- Opinion: Counting
down to the day when Apple kills "classic," Rodney O. Lain, Mac
Observer, 10.03. "OS X 10.1 is proof that we should start making
some closure to our love affairs with Classic and all that it
entails."
- News: FBI lists 20
most dangerous Internet security holes, The Register, 10.03.
Addresses lots of Windows flaws.
- Web: FTC seeks
to trap a mousetrapper, Wired News, 10.02. "...the FTC has
charged Zuccarini with engaging in unfair business practices, as
well as attempting to defraud consumers."
- Web: 80,000
Microsoft servers "disappear," vnunet.com, 10.02. About 2,000
running alternatives to IIS, others simply missing in action.
- Dark Side: Expiring OSes?
Check the Windows "best before" date, John Lettice, The
Register, 10.02. See Microsoft's entire expiration cycle for
Windows.
- OS X: New in Mac OS X
10.1: Screenshots from the Finder, Mac Observer, 10.02. Yep,
shift-command-3 is back.
- Tech:
Email celebrates its 30th birthday, Yahoo/Reuters, 10.01. "As
great inventions go, e-mail had a rather ho-hum beginning back in
1971."
- Web: The first email
message, Todd Campbell, PreText, 3/98. Who sent it? What did it
say?
- Web:
FCC shuts down "pop-up trapping" sites, Slashdot, 10.01. "The
FCC today ordered the shutdown of 5,500 sites owned by John
Zuccarini, all of them the so-called 'typo' sites...." More on
Cnet.
- Dark Side?: IE 5.1 (OS X
only) autorun feature, MacInTouch, 10.01. Is this an attempt to
make Macs more susceptible to malicious software?
- Virus: Nimda worms
its way to top of September virus chart, The Register, 10.01.
SirCam at #2 and still busy sending out random attachments.
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