The Low End Mac Link Archive, December 2001
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- Analysis: 2001. A browser
odyssey, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 12.31. A look at browser trends
shows majority using "standards compliant" browsers.
- Web: New to
Mac?, Apple Asia Pacific. A newbie's introduction to what makes
Macs so special.
- ATI: Developer
relations, Linux/XFree86, ATI Technologies. Hmm, ATI actively
supports those creating ATI drivers for Linux - but no similar page
for Mac developers.
- Advice: All 2001 iMacs should have iMac Power Management
Update 1.1 installed to solve a problem with losing PRAM settings
when the computer is disconnected from power for an extended period
of time. See Knowlege
Base article 120048 for details.
- Opinion: The
educational freewares of 2001, Steve Wood, Educator's Week,
12.31.
- Opinion: The
year in Internet law, Carl S. Kaplan, New York Times, 12.28
(free registration required). The most important laws and court
cases concerning the Internet.
- Advice: USB vs. FireWire
CD-R drives, Damien, AppleTechs.com, 12.30. Why you really want
FireWire on your CD burner instead of USB.
- Benchmarks:
PowerBook G4/500 vs. G4/550, MacSpeedZone, 12.28. Generally
similar results under OS 9 and X, but newer model benefits
from improved graphics for 3D gaming.
- Advice: Internet
sharing, CD backup, and video ports, Dave Hamilton, Mac
Observer, 12.28.
- Web: Happy birthday to Macs
Only!, begun Dec. 28, 1995.
- Opinion: Open letter to
board of directors of Apple Computer, Bob McCormick, MyMac.com,
12.28. I bought my PowerBook G3 "for the singular purpose of being
able to make the transition to OS X."
- Analysis: Fascinating
discussion of Mac OS X, 2D graphics performance, and Cocoa vs.
Carbon speed in Maca Only, 12.27.
- News: Palm
Desktop 4.0 public beta supports Mac OS X, Mac Observer, 12.27.
Another obstacle to adopting OS X is falling by the
wayside.
- Analysis:
Is it time to fence in broadband?, Rachel Konrad, ZDNet, 12.26.
"The government should monitor Internet service providers like
utility companies...."
- News: Apple
CEO Jobs takes $1 salary again in 2001, Yahoo/Reuters, 12.26.
Dollar sales down 33% in FY2001, unit sales down 32%, losses total
$25 million.
- Opinion: A realistic look at
the ATI chip conspiracy, Mac Night Owl, 12.26. "If Apple and
ATI were ordered by court or convinced by incessant user demand to
commit resources to get make those older chips work better under
Mac OS X, would it make any difference?"
- Advice: Sharing USB printers
on a network, Matthew Glidden, ATPM, 12.25. Step-by-step
instructions for sharing a USB printer among two or more Macs.
- Analysis:
20 factors that will change PCs in 2002, Daniel Tynan, CNN.com,
12.25. Pixie dust, OLEDS, 802.11, XML, PCI's replacement, and lots
more.
- Opinion:
2001 a vintage year for Apple portables, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 12.24. With the TiBook and iBook, what more is there to
say?
- Opinion: User payments:
Predictions for 2001 revisited, Jakob Nielsen, 12.23.
Micropayments, not ads or subscription fees, are the future of the
Web.
- OS X: It's official:
Apple remains committed to sub-standard ATI graphics performance in
OS X, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 12.22. Apple now
states it does not plan to support acceleration with ATI Rage II+,
IIc, Pro, Pro Turbo, LT Pro, or Mobility chipsets, leaving
WallStreet and Lombard PowerBooks, iMac Rev. A-D, beige G3s, and
original iBook and iBook SE users behind.
- Opinion: Who needs hackers
when we've got Microsoft?, Richard Forno, The Register, 12.21.
"...Windows XP doesn't protect you from Microsoft, an entity some
argue is more dangerous than any cyber terrorist or hacker
gang."
- OS X: Getting
to the source of Mac OS X, Chris Coleman, O'Reilly, 12.21.
"...what many people don't know is that the source code for much of
Mac OS X is available to the public."
- Tech: Apple's FireWire
to go wireless at 5 GHz, Kelly McNeill, osOpinion, 12.21. Looks
like GigaWireô will use a 5 GHz carrier. Based on the name,
this could also means data transfer in the 1 Gb/sec. range or
better - even faster than current FireWire.
- OS X: Mac OS 10.1.2:
Still no support for Rage Pro Macs, Go2Mac.com, 12.21. Several
improvements, but OS X still doesn't support ATI Rage graphics
acceleration.
- Opinion: Is OS X the
real user friendly Linux?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.21.
"...with the ascendancy of Mac OS X, prospects for a desktop Linux
breakthrough look bleaker than ever."
- News:
Microsoft seen winning in AT&T-Comcast deal, Yahoo/Reuters,
12.20. Turns out MS has a $5 billion investment in AT&T
Broadband, which means it can help shape the new 22 million user
AT&T Comcast service.
-
Linux on the desktop: 0.24 percent?, Slashdot, 12.20. Cool,
Anne got us linked on Slashdot.
- Stats: Google
shows 91% Windows, 4% Mac, 1% Linux, 4% other traffic in
November.
- Analysis:
Why is Virtual PC 5 slower on Mac OS X?, Eric Traut, Connectix
forum. "...the quantitative difference between VPC 5 on Mac OS 9
and X is typically in the 20-35% range."
- Connectivity:
Comcast wins battle for AT&T Broadband, Yahoo/Reuters,
12.19. Let's hope the new owners know how to run a server that
won't be constantly blacklisted for relaying spam.
- Analysis:
Apple Computer, Catherine Aman, law.com, 12.19. A look at Apple
legal and intellectual property issues.
- Virus: Computer
virus could render a very unhappy new year, Ilaina Jonas,
Yahoo/Reuters, 11.19. Worm disables keys, removes all files
in Windows System Directory, forwards itself via email.
- Software: Internet
Explorer 5.1 for Classic OS, Microsoft Mactopia, 12.18. Now
that IE for Windows is at 6.0, Microsoft throws Mac users a
bone.
- Advice: Booting an SE/30
from CD-ROM, AppleTechs, 12.18. Holding down the C key doesn't
work, but this does.
- Opinion: Mac OS X is the
death of Linux on the desktop, Kimbro Staken, XML Databases,
12.17. "I think Apple has hit the right balance of open and closed
source development and the tide is turning with Mac OS X stealing
from the Linux community."
- Software: Opera 5 Beta 5
available, Opera Software. Beta 5 for classic Mac OS, Beta 3
for OS X.
- Opinion: Tales of a BeOS
refugee, Scot Hacker, OSNews, 12.17. "I hereby publicly
apologize for my past life as a Mac-hater. Not only that, but
thanks to OS X, I'm now a bona fide Mac OS lover."
- Review: Drive 10,
Gary Coyne, Applelinks. Micromat's new utility excels at solving
OS X drive problems, not as useful with OS 9.
- News: Apple
updates PowerBook with combo drive, Jim Dairymple, MacCentral,
12.17. Now my 400 MHz TiBook feels double outdated.
- Opinion: All about
compromise, Code Bitch, MacEdtion, 12.17. You can't please all
of the browsers all of the time, so you make due.
- Low end: Macintosh Crash
Tips. All about dealing with bombs and other crashes in System
7.
- The
Geek Syndrome, Steve Silberman, Wired [
/.]. An examination of autism and Asperger's syndrome in
Silicon Valley. "A WYSIWYG world, where respect and rewards are
based strictly on merit, is an Asperger's dream."
- Web: Family-Mac's
December ezine is out.
- Web: macgo.net, an online
Mac community.
- Opinion: Microsoft is an
unrepentant criminal and must be treated as such, Bill Fox,
Macs Only!, 12.17. "A penalty is required and none is provided by
the settlement."
- Hands on:
Worth every penny: The Sony G420 19" CRT, Joel Hruska, Van's
Hardware. The benefits of a larger monitor at 1024 x 768 and
above.
- OS X: Apple
updates DVD player for OS X, including new support for G3s/G4s,
Mac Observer, 12.14. Now supports G3 (blue & white) and G4
systems with PCI graphics.
- Humor: "Macs
suck" websites provide irrefutable evidence that Macs do, indeed,
suck, Crazy Apple Rumors Site, 12.14.
- Opinion: Checking
out OmniWeb, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 12.14. Pretty,
acceptably fast, a breeze to install, fully OS X native.
- Security: MS releases mother
of all IE security patches, John Leyden, The Register, 12.14.
Patch "eliminates all previously discussed security vulnerabilities
affecting IE 5.5 and IE 6." (Windows only, of course.)
- Rights:
Experts say decision could undermine online journalists, Carl
S. Kaplan, New York Times, 12.14 (free registration required).
Courts try to determine when a hyperlink is illegal.
- News: Transitive demo's
ARM, MIPS, PPC, x86 binary translation, Linux Devices.
"Dynamite" technology enables code written for one type of CPU to
run on another type of CPU without being recompiled. Demo included
1.4 GHz Athlon emulating 1+ GHz PowerPC.
Discuss on MacSlash.
- Analysis: Is your G3
obsolete already?, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 12.14.
What, Norton Utilties 7.0 won't support beige G3s or WallStreets?
Say it isn't so!
- Opinion: Charles
the Right? Says it ain't so!, Matthew Ruben, Mac Curmudgeon,
Mac Opinion, 12.14. Provocative discussion of "liberal" and
"conservative" labels on the Mac Web and elsewhere.
- Dark Side: Dell
to discontinue Itanium workstation, eWeek, 12.13. Total Itanium
sales industry-wide estimated at 4,300 units - and you though Apple
had a small market?
- Opinion: Apple
natives restless - and fighting mad!, John H. Farr, Applelinks,
12.13. "Steve Jobs better have one heck of a good reason for making
sure that hundreds (if not thousands) of you will miss the
speech."
- Opinion: The
holes in Apple's marketing lineup, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 12.13. "I would like to see Apple release a low-priced,
entry level, modular CPU...."
- Analysis:
Riding into the sunset, Ed Foster, The Gripe Line, Infoworld
[
/.]. Support expiring after a year, antivirus software
expiring, required annual updates, and other software
nightmares.
- News: Wham, bam,
thank you spam, Jeffrey Benner, Wired News, 12.12. Receive
spam, sue the spammer, win in court - but only in certain
jurisdictions.
- News: Steve Jobs
Macworld SF keynote moved up 1 day to start before the exhibits
open, Mac Observer, 12.12. "Stevenote" moved to Monday, January
7. Why?
- News: G4
upgrade for Lombard, WallStreet coming soon, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 12.12. PowerLogix BlueChip upgrades expected in
January.
- Opinion: Mac users ragin'
mad about lack of ATI support in older Macs, Remy Davison,
Insanely Great Mac, 12.10. OS X users "getting increasingly
frustrated by the lack of driver support for older ATI cards in
Macs built between 1997 and 1999."
- News: Digital
cash payoff, Evan I. Schwartz, Technology Review. A look at
PayPal.
- Advice: Number
crunching for webmasters, Dan Knight, The Knight Line, Low End
PC, 12.07. How to get the most out of your website's logs.
- Dark Side:
Win95 lifecycle draws to a close, Slashdot, 12.07. Windows 95
officially unsupported by Microsoft.
- Rights: Big
stink over a simple link, Farhad Manjoo, Wired News, 12.06
[
Slashdot]. Don't link to KPMG without permission - any
link violates their link policy. Weird!
- Advice: Surfing with Sega,
Michelle Klein-Häss (a.k.a. Ms. Geek), Geek Speak. Low End PC,
12.05. Low end? How about using a $50 Sega Dreamcast to surf the
Web, do email, and IRC?
- Opinion:
You can go back after all, at least sometimes, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 12.04. Going back to WallStreet
not bad, although the screen seems a bit cramped.
- News:
Cable modem users can't turn to FCC, Jonathan Krim, Washington
Post, 12.04. "...the FCC has had ample time to make a simple
classification of cable-modem services that would not leave
customers so exposed."
- Web: ATPM's December
issue is out.
- News: Now we are 06.
"other" browser Opera reaches milestone, John Lettice, The
Register, 12.04. Darn, Mac version is still at 5. Give 'em
time.
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