The Low End Mac Link Archive, January 2002
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- OS: Migrating
from Linux to BSD, OS News, 01.31. Linux isn't the only free
*nix out there. Here's why you might want to use it. (BSD is at the
core of OS X.)
- News: FTC
to crack down on deceptive junk email, Yahoo/Reuters, 01.31.
It's a start: FTC to go after spammers sending "deceptive"
email.
- News: Apple sued
over G3 support in OS X, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.31.
"...the failure to write the drivers for the hardware video
accelerators in these computers degraded performance so severely
that OS X is rendered an unrealistic option...."
- Opinion: How
much abuse can one Mac user take?, Secret Office Guy, Right On
Mac, 01.31. "My Mac hating boss must have been peeking...."
- Tech: New 7445/7455 "G4"
CPUs more efficient than old G4s, Accelerate Your Mac!, 01.30.
Based on MIPS/MHz, the new G4s are about 26% more powerful than
older designs.
- Opinion:
AOL's monster, David Lawrence, The Screen Savers, TechTV,
01.30. It's ironic that AOL is suing Microsoft over Netscape since
AOL helped Microsoft become the dominant browser.
- Dark side: Microsoft piracy
police target honest consumers, Russell H. Peterson, osOpinion,
01.30. "After my auction had been listed for about a day and a
half, I got a message from EBay saying that it had been asked by
Microsoft to end my auction...."
- Low End: Apple IIe
card for the Mac LC FAQ, Phil Beesley. LC PDS card puts an
Apple IIe inside LC series, Color Classic, 500 series, Quadra 605,
etc.
- Low end: Being a Mac pack
rat, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 01.30. "I'm here today to
recommend that you do keep old hardware around if you have the
space and don't have anything better to do it with it."
- Web: Your Mac Life
broadcasts tonight in streaming QuickTime.
- Dark side: BBC bans use of
non-MS PDAs, John Lettice, The Register, 01.30. No Palms - only
PocketPC 2002 machines deemed secure.
- Opinion: Apple doesn't need
zealots, Matt Johnston, os Opinion, 01.30. "These people are
the decision makers. They aren't zealots - they just recognize good
technology."
- Opinion:
OS X, Part 2: Speed, Philip Machanick, Mac Opinion, 01.29.
"It's time we acknowledged the problem. OS X, as we have it today,
is a slug."
- Opinion: Your chips are
served, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 01.29. Are ATI and
Apple secretly working on support for older RAGE chipsets? (We hope
so.)
- Opinion: Whore or
prostitute? Mac Web can sell its sould & stay true, too,
Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 01.29. "...what if the Web was never
meant to be free?"
- Web: The
once and future Mac286 page, John Ruschmeyer. A page on the
Mac286, the first DOS cards for the Mac.
- Web: Apples are not
the only fruit, Phil Beesley. Twenty ways to "misuse" the
Orange386 card in a Mac.
- News: Top-end iMac
G4 now shipping, Apple, 01.28.
- Opinion: Is the Mac Web
selling its soul?, Bob McCormick, MyMac.com, 01.28.
- Advice: How I managed to
can the spam, Kelly McNeill, osOpinion, 01.25. "...I noticed
that the spammer had included his fax number in the body of his
message."
- Review: PowerMail
v3.1, Kirk Hiner, Applelinks, 01.28. Looks like a worthy
OS X replacement for Emailer or Outlook Express - and it also
runs under Mac OS 9.
- Upgrade: Nvidia GeForce3 in
G4 Cube, Macs Only, 01.28. It fits - and runs fast.
- Opinion: The
eternal quest for operating system simplicity, David Chilstrom,
Mac Night Owl, 01.28. Mac OS X gives the user complete control
of the desktop, not the computer.
- OS X: Installing MySQL on
OS X, Entropy.ch. Full instructions for installing the world's
most popular free database program.
- Web: Dayna
MacCharlie, Phil Beesley. The original PC compatible solution
for the original Mac.
- Benchmarks: Western Digital blows away
the competition, Bare Feats, 01.25. New "Jumbo Buffer" drive is
the fastest Bare Feats has ever tested.
- Benchmarks: Which ATA100 drive is best
in a FireWire case?, Bare Feats, 01.25. No, it's not the WD
"Jumbo Buffer" drive.
- News: iCab 2.7
released, iCab.de. Possibly the best beta on the planet.
- Opinion: Good
point: Goin' back ain't easy, John H. Farr, Applelinks,
01.25.
- Analysis:
"Resume spamming" brings an online backlash, Carrie Johnson,
Washington Post, 01.25 [
/.]. "In a sign that job spam has hit the mainstream, a
full-blown backlash is in the works."
- Opinion:
How living on a Mac nearly made me change careers, David
Coursey, ZDNet, 01.25. "Apple has pretty much perfected what the
industry calls the 'out-of-box experience'...."
- Advocacy: Debunking Mac
myths (*nix edition), Gary Rodger, osOpinion, 01.25.
"Unfortunately, I know of a large number of Unix geeks who still
harbor the misconception that the Mac OS is for grade school."
- Opinion: The
Finder philosophy, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.24. Would
you rather have the classic Mac interface than Aqua on OS X?
Yes.
- Opinion: Tough
choice: TiBook versus iBook, Vern Seward, Mac Observer, 01.24.
Picking between them isn't easy.
- Review:
Acard IDE-to-SCSI adapter, Rick Pepper, Accelerate Your Mac,
2001.01.15. A year old, but a great way to put an inexpensive, high
capacity IDE drive in an old SCSI-only Mac.
- Review:
Acard Ultra SCSI case for IDE drives, Phil Lefebvre,
2001.03.12. As above, but this one turns an IDE drive into an
external SCSI drive.
- Opinion:
Web feast for Apple enthusiasts, Jim Heid, Mac Focus,
LATimes.com, 01.24. Mentions over a dozen very useful sites, LEM
among them.
- News: iMac
recovered thanks to Timbuktu, AppleScript, MacScripter.net.
Fascinating story of how a stolen iMac was accessed remotely and
eventually recovered.
- OS X: Mac
FAQs & tips, Bombich Software.
- Web: Global
Internet Statistics, Global Reach. English no longer majority
language on the Web at 43%, but next highest languages (Japanese,
Chinese, German, and Spanish) are each under the 9% mark.
- OS X: Preemptive
vs. cooperative multitasking, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
01.23. "[X] features protected multitasking, in which the operating
system constantly monitors and allocates processor power to the
various running applications as needed, balancing and sharing
supply and demand...."
- Opinion: How
I got burned out trying to burn a CD, Nancy Carroll Gravley,
Mac Observer, 01.23. If the Mac is so easy, why can't iTunes copy a
CD?
- Deal: MAG 19"
monitor, $149.99, details at Deals on the Web, 01.23. Offer
expires 01.25.
- Opinion: Damien Barrett on
paying for access to MacFixIt archives: "...this latest ploy is
offensive to the very people that have made MacFixit what it
is."
- Opinion: The
new iMac, Dirk Pilat, Everything Mac, 01.22. Sorry, but *nix
geeks are not going to be interested in a desklamp computer.
- Opinion:
MacFixIt.com to begin charging for old content, MacSlash,
01.22.
- Analysis: Rebooting
Apple, Lisa DiCarlo, Forbes.com, 01.22. "...the company has
reestablished itself as an innovator in design and ease of
use."
- News: Netscape
sues Microsoft, citing "anti-competitive conduct," Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 01.22. Netscape seeks triple damages.
- Low End: 128
MB SIMM in an LC 575, John A. Vink. We've heard of 64 MB SIMMs on 68K Macs, but this one is new
to us. Vink's
accelerated Color Classic runs a 44 MHz 68040
- Advice: PowerBook hard
drives: The essential upgrade, Remy Davison, Insanely Great
Mac. Interface type, drive height, capacity limits, and more.
- Analysis: Mac OS X:
Breeds of programs, part 1, Chris Pepper, TidBITS, 01.22.
Carbon, Cocoa, and Classic explained.
- Web: Shawn King starts up My
Mac Life, Macs Only, 01.22. King hopes to launch his new online
radio show on Wednesday, February 6 - and no membership fees.
- Web: MacFixIt Pro -
MacFixIt will now be charging for access to archived content - even
searches.
- Dark Side: How Microsoft drove
me to Linux, Thomas C. Greene, The Register, 01.22. "Under my
definition, Windows had clearly become an extremely malicious
virus."
- Opinion: Will IBM supplant
Motorola to supply G5?, kelly McNeill, osOpinion, 01.21. "If I
were a betting man, my money would be on IBM to supply Apple with
its next-generation G5 processor."
- Advice: Mac Plus to
iMac, MacInTouch. Reader report has various suggestions for
moving files from a vintage Mac to a modern one.
- Web: Shawn King
exits Mac Show Live, plans new Mac Show, Rodney O. Lain, Mac
Observer, 01.21. For a lot of us, Shawn King, founder of The Mac Show, was The Mac
Show.
- Web:
Comics artists try to draw on new revenue sources, Chicago
Tribune, 01.21. Also see
Web comics as business model on Slashdot.
- Advice: How to manually
remove Microsoft Office 2001, Damien Barrett, AppleTechs.com,
01.18. Reinstalling Office without removing all the components may
not solve your problem.
- Hands on: Apache
Web-serving with Mac OS X, part 1, part
2,
part 3, Kevin Hemenway, O'Reilly Network. An ongoing series on
setting up an OS X Web server.
- Review: Wrist Rug
wrist rest protector and trackpad cover for PB G4, Amy Hoy,
Daily Mac, 01.18. Intriguing accessories for the TiBook.
- OS X: Reader
reports on Mac Radeon 7000, Accelerate Your Mac, 01.18. Darn,
looks like this card is incompatible with OS X on the beige
G3s - otherwise the ideal market for them.
- MacInSchool: TiBooks
flourish at Cincinnati college, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
01.18. "...when asked if they would trade their Mac in for a PC if
given the chance, not one user would...."
- Benchmarks: IBM
DeskStar 120GXP, Bare Feats, 01.18. Fast new drive tested with
ATA-100 and FireWire case, outperforms older 60GXP drive.
- Opinion:
Usability of OS X, Craig Linton. Some excellent reflections and
suggestions regarding the dock.
- News: State
drops distributed-computing dispute, Cnet, 01.17. "Computer
administrator David McOwen will pay just $2,100 and serve 80 hours
of community service after reaching an agreement with Georgia state
prosecutors."
- Dark Side: Intel
sabotaged Solaris on Itanic, Andrew Orlowski, The Register,
01.17. Sun contends Intel withheld key info on Itanium - sounds
like Microsoft's behavior with Windows.
- Hack: 50 MHz
SE/30 running Mac OS 8.1, Manfred Huchler. IIfx ROMs make it
32-bit clean, 20 MB RAM makes 8.1 feasible, and Vintage Box
makes installing and running 8.1 possible. Too bad there's not one
more slot for a grayscale video card....
- News: eBay
hikes fees, eBay, 01.16. Effective 2002.01.31 final value fees
increase 0.25%, $1 higher reserve fee over $200, 5¢ fee for
using Buy It Now, and more.
- AAPL: Apple
reports first quarter profit of $38 million, Apple, 01.16.
"Apple shipped 746 thousand Macintosh units during the
quarter."
- OS X: Mac OS X
installation problems, Mac Night Owl, 01.16. When installing
Mac OS X, read this to be prepared - and be sure to follow
Apple's instructions, too.
- Opinion:
If I go Mac, will I ever go back?, David Coursey, ZDNet, 01.16.
Can anyone willing to put up with Microsoft FrontPage really find
happiness on a Mac?
- Opinion: Unix and
REALbasic: Why I love Mac OS X, David Norton, MacMilitia,
01.15. X makes it easy to simulate on online Web server for site
development.
- Advice: 70 classic
Mac tips, Professor Macintosh.
- Advice: Actual RAM
limitations, Damien Barrett, AppleTechs.com, 01.15. Recommends
MacTracker,
TransIntl, and NewerRAM. LEM tries to provide
accurate info, too.
- Opinion:
PowerBook 5300 revisited, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 01.15. "I always get a kick out of using the little 5300,
whose looks have always appealed to me, and which I consider just
about the ideal size and form factor for a laptop...."
- OS X:
XPostFacto 2.1, Ryan Rempel, Other World Computing, 01.13.
- Web: OS X FAQ. With Bob
LeVitus as senior editor, we're expecting a lot.
- Opinion: Apple want
users of older system software to get with the program, Mac
Night Owl, 01.12. Not just the new Macs - Apple wants old users to
adopt OS X, too.
- Comparison: Tiny
featherweight FireWire drives, Bare Feats, 01.11. Smallest?
Lightest? Fastest? Best value?
- Dark side: Settlement terms
nixed by judge, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 01.11. Judge
rules Microsoft's proposed settlement would amount to
"court-approved predatory pricing."
- Deals: Brand new Newer Tech
product, TechnoWarehouse LLC. Newer Tech is history, but their
reliable products are available from TechnoWarehouse.
- Tech:
TDK unveils 2 GB CD-RW drive, discs, Hardware Central, 01.11.
New 36/24/40x mechanism works with old fashioned CD-R, CD-RW; can
write 2 GB in 6 minutes.
- Tech: GeForce
4 details, The Inquirer, 01.11. GeForce 4? Mac users don't even
have GeForce 3 yet!
What's up with that, Apple?
- Opinion: Net
watchdogs criticize Time's timing, Skinny DuBaud, Cnet, 01.11.
Did Time magazine cross the line between journalism and
advertising?
- Deal: Power Mac
G3/233 All-in-one, $449 shipped, Deals on the Web, 01.11.
Pre-iMac will run OS X, has 3 PCI slots. More details in
our G3 All-in-one profile.
- Opinion:
We can put an end to Word attachments, Richard Stallman,
NewsForge, 01.10. "Don't you just hate receiving Word documents in
email messages?" Yep.
- Opinion: Steve Jobs may
be the Raymond Loewy of computer design..., Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 01.11. The significance of Raymond Loewy to industrial
design.
- Opinion: Why we've
embraced Mac OS X, Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network, 01.10.
"...this new OS has accomplished in a short period of time what
others have struggled to do for years: bring a compelling, widely
accepted GUI (called Aqua) to Unix."
- Opinion: Why the
new iMacs will be successful no matter what they look like,
Robert X. Cringely, PBS, 01.10. "The new iMacs will be successful -
very successful - for reasons that have almost nothing to do with
their clever design, and almost everything to do with market
demographics."
- Consumer: OS X 10.1 w/128 MB PC100 DIMM or w/128 MB PC133 DIMM,
$129.95, Outpost.com, 01.10.
- Opinion: iPhoto makes
working with pictures fun again, Khan Klatt, osOpinion, 01.10.
"iPhoto clearly was engineered with simplicity and practicality in
mind."
- Sociology: Prosperity through
punishment, Nature, 01.10. "...if there's no opportunity for
punishment, cooperation unravels."
Discussion on Slashdot.
- Consumer: FileMaker
Pro 5.0, $119.99, Deals on the Web, 01.10.
- News: Opera 5.0 for classic
Mac OS released, Opera Software, 01.09. Banner free for 30
days, then pay or view ads.
- News: Gateway
debt downgraded to junk, Yahoo/AP, 01.09. Gateway once had a
higher customer loyalty rating than Apple.
- Deal: PowerBook
G4/500, $1,599, Deals on the Web, 01.09. All I can say is,
"Wow!"
- Deal: Mac OS
9.0.4, $53, DealMac, 01.02. Apple no longer selling 9.1 or
earlier.
- Opinion: Apple's Aqua to
trigger a consumer backlash?, Jared White, osOpinion, 01.09.
"Apple . . . has given the Mac platform new validity for
novice users."
- Opinion:
New iMacs. iPhoto. Good. Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.08.
"What we did get is a new iMac and iPhoto. Both of these things are
Big Deals."
- Opinion: Mac OS X now the
default operating system, Mac Night Owl, 01.08. New buyers can
choose to boot into OS 9 if they want to.
- News: ATI unveils
Radeon 7000, 8500, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.08. $129
PCI-based 7000 supports two displays, could be just what beige G3
users want to speed up OS X.
- Opinion: Just say no to
Internet micropayments, Adam Barr, osOpinion, 01.08. "The main
problems with the micropayments theory is that people don't want to
pay like that...."
- Opinion: And now
back to earth..., Rob-Art Morgan, Bare Feats, 01.07. The
keynote was over-hyped, and the FP iMac is a reshaped G4 Cube.
- Software: iPhoto
available for download, Apple, 01.07. Alas, it requires
OS X. That'll help justify the $129 cost of the new OS.
- Opinion: "Son
of Pismo" finally arrives (sort of) - 14" iBook, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 01.07. "An incredible value."
- Gaming: MacSoft
ships Sid Meier's Civilization III, Kirk Hiner, Applelinks,
01.07.
- Opinion: The smart move for
Apple, Damien Barrett, MrBarrett.com, 01.06. Another voice
speaks up for a faster, less busy, less processor intensive
interface than Aqua.
- Opinion: A flat-panel iMac
is not thinking different enough, Eliot Hochberg, 01.05. "Apple
needs a system that will really floor consumers and the
competition."
- Advice: Resetting
Pismo's power manager to fix boot problem, Damien,
AppleTechs.com, 01.05. Can't boot Pismo after putting RAM in the
bottom socket? Try this.
- Opinion: State of the
OS: 10.1.2, Derek Currie, Insanely Great Mac, 01:04. Mostly
positive assessment of latest OS update - but still room for
improvement.
- Rights: Is CD
copy-protection illegal?, Cnet, 01.04. Should companies that
copy protect CDs lose royalty fees on blank media?
- Opinion: Commentary
on Andrew Orlowski's withering critique of OS X Aqua,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 01.04. "Aqua is at best a mediocre
and annoying interface compared with the legacy Mac GUI."
- Advice: Recovering a
file from the invisible HFS+ Private Data folder, Damien,
AppleTechs.com, 01.04. If you accidentally save a file to X's
"private data" folder, there are utilities to help you retrieve
it.
- Web: TMO
announces launch of new Mac deal site, Dave Hamilton, Mac
Observer, 01.04. DealsOnTheWeb.com "a combined effort from both TMO
and the team that managed DealNN.com for the last year."
- Web:
Rise of Internet "borders" prompts fears for Web's future,
Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 01.04. Geolocation - we can
know where you're located.
- Advice: What
can you do with a low-end PC?, Eric McCann, Thinking From the
Box, Low End PC, 01.04. Some uses for an old PC - or maybe even an
old DOS card.
- Web: Ad-free
subscriptions for the Mac Observer, 01.03. One year of ad-free
site content, US$24.95 - or no cost access with ads. Low End Mac
will be heading there soon.
- Opinion: Chump
change - $100,000, Steve Wood, Educator News, 01.03. It Apple
really willing to let a $100,000 laptop grant fall through the
cracks? I hope not.
- Opinion: How I learned to
stop worrying and abandoned Mac OS X, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 01.03. "It's really . . . a 'user experience'
issue, but if performance impairs the usage of the machine, then
that's bad UI. And performance on OS X is really not
good."
- Advice: Repairing
directory damage, Damien, AppleTechs.com, 01.03. How to fix
your disk directory so you can delete an undeletable file or just
make the drive work again.
- Advice: Syncing PocketPC
devices with Mac OS, Tecno, AppleTechs.com, 01.02. Yes, you can
sync PocketPC (formerly Windows CE) devices with your Mac.
- Ezine: Web
Page Design for Designers, January issue has a focus on digital
photography.
- OS:
BeOS for Power Macintosh FAQ, BeatJapan.org, 1998.12.09. Old
but interesting FAQ for those seeking to run BeOS on a Power Mac or
clone.
- OS X: VoodooX, Adam
Thayer. Adam is developing Voodoo drivers for Mac OS X. We
wish him the best. How about ATI when this is done.
;-)
- Web: Will
your G3 work well with OS X?, Anthony Surace, MacMatrix, 01.02.
Quick overview of how well various G3 Macs work with OS X, but
PowerBook coverage is inadequate.
- Web: MacMonkies has moved
to its own domain.
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