The Low End Mac Link Archive, March 2002
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- Rights: "I have my
rights," Ed Stroliho, Overclockers.com, 03.31 [/.].
"...in general, fair use rights are legal, not constitutional
rights. Congress can giveth, and Congress can taketh away"
- Opinion: Technology
innovator: Jonathan Ive, designer of the iMac, Sharyl Garratt,
Innovation 100, The Observer, 03.31. "Until 1998, we all knew what
a personal computer looked like. Beige boxes...."
- Poll: What
operating system do you use at home?, Linux.com, 03.31. Let 'em
know if you're using the Mac OS at home.
- CustoMacs: The TronBook?,
icruise. An iceBook in translucent indigo - gorgeous.
- Advice: How to get rid
of old computer equipment, Damien, AppleTechs, 03.30. Several
suggestions - or find a Low End Mac fan to take them off your
hands. :-)
- Rights:
Hollywood declares war on America, Jimmy James Champlin,
Applelust, 03.29. "The entertainment industry has made it clear
that they see us, the public, as not only their customer, but as
their enemy."
- Opinion:
Top five things you can do on a PC - but not a Mac, Brett
Larson, The Screen Savers, 03.29. Number 4: Blue Screen of Death.
Number 5: Get viruses.
- News: Students
suspended for laptop tampering, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03.29.
Look at it, use it, but don't make any changes to that
school-issued iBook.
- Interview: Windows on a
database - sliced and diced by BeOS gurus, Andrew Orlowski, The
Register, 03.29. Fascinating discussion covers file systems and
good ol' HyperCard.
- Rights:
Intel forces yoga group to fight for its name, David Lazarus,
SF Gate, 03.29. Yoge Inside under fire from Intel. We had to
double-check - this does not appear to be an April Fools joke.
- Opinion:
Java creator Gosling says .Net falls short of expectations,
Carol Sliwa, ComputerWorld, 03.29 [Macs Only!]. Not only that, but he's
switched to a Mac.
- MacInSchool: Parents
don't like iBook suspensions, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 03.29
[Applelinks].
57 students suspended for "subverting" the operating system.
- Opinion: Mac OS X software
updates: Only for broadband users, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 03.29. Dialup users can spend hours on end trying to download
updates.
- Opinion: Could the Mac be
the premier Linux platform?, Ben Wilson, osOpinion, 03.29.
"Motorola's processors are better equipped for Linux than their
Intel counterparts."
- Dark Side: Microsoft
& Unisys to launch anti-Unix campaign, John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 03.28. Sounds like someone's scared of the
competition.
- News: Apple
uses second vendor for LCD screens, MacNN, 03.28. "HannStar
joins LG.Philips as the sole vendors of LCD panels for Apple's
iMac."
- Rights: Bloody hard to run
a forum in Sweden, Mikael Pawlo, The Register, 03.28. It seems
the owner of a site is responsible for anything anyone posts in a
forum.
- Opinion: One year
later, Mac OS X sucks less, Scott McCarty, Graphic Power,
03.28.
- Dumb Law:
What happens when something goes wrong?, Dave Gussow, St.
Petersburg Times, 1999:11:15. Florida law prevent Apple from
selling AppleCare to individuals.
- Opinion: Do the
Apple Stores need evangelists - or salesmen?, Rodney O. Lain,
Mac Observer, 03.27. Apple needs to hire people who possess sales
skills. Nuff said.
- Opinion: Can Apple convince
you to retire your old Mac?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
03.27. "...the out-of-the-box experience on a Mac, which includes
Mac OS X and Apple's smooth-as-silk digital hub applications, is
unsurpassed."
- Opinion: Think
you need a new PC? Here's why you don't, Andy Ihnatko, Chicago
Sun-Times, 03.26. "Software is the hidden cost of a new PC."
- Thanks to Wired
Japan and Wired News
for linking yesterday, the second busiest day in site history.
- Rights: More
on the Washington/Hollywood plot to destroy computing and the
Internet, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.26. "This
initiative, if not stopped, will ruin computing, the Internet, and
reduce us all...."
- Opinion: Apple's
Weltanschauung, forward-thinking fashion sense & creative
homage to Bauhaus, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 03.26.
"...style is underrated. Apple exudes it, yet the PC world shuns
it."
- Petition: Release Mac
OS 8.1 and 8.5.1, Steve Godun, Petition Online. If you'd like
to see Apple make OS 8.1 and 8.5.1 free-for-all, as they did with
System 7.5.3, please sign this petition.
- Forward migration: Church is
all Mac, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 03:22. "Everything from
office work to Sunday morning worship video is entirely Mac
driven."
- News: AOL
mail: OK for others, not itself, MSNBC, 03.22 [/.].
AOL Time Warner retreats from using AOL email after months of
problems and complaints.
- Opinion: Are Macs
getting too cheap?, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.22. "Have
Macs gotten too cheap for their (our) own good?"
- Low end: Where old Macs
go off to thrive, Leander Kahney, Wired, 03.22. "The store is
the size of a standard U.S. hotel room, stacked floor to ceiling
with Neolithic Macintosh computers that couldn't be given away in
the United States, much less sold."
- Opinion: Musings
on elegance and efficiency, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
03.21. "And at this point in time . . . I still find
OS 9 a much more efficient tool for getting my work
done."
- Upgrades: Sonnet
announces 600 MHz Harmoni iMac upgrade, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 03:21. US$400 CPU upgrade also adds FireWire port for
tray-loading iMacs.
- Rights: Scientology
uses DMCA to delist critic's website, Slashdot, 03.21.
"xenu.net is now posting a
'censored by google' image on their front page."
- Opinion: Why BeOS shares
Tucker's fate, Scott Nasuta, osOpinion, 03.21. Parallels
between the innovative Tucker automobile and the OS Apple and
Microsoft buried.
- News: iMacs now in
"volume production," prices up $100, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
03.20. Back orders should clear up in April.
- News: New 10 GB
iPod, iPod contact management software debuts, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 03.20. Now it's 2,000 tunes in your pocket.
- News: Jobs
previews Bluetooth at Tokyo expo, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral,
03.20. Low speed, short range wireless protocol complements
AirPort.
- Rights: Beware
employment contracts, Slashdot, 03.20. Work for hire provision
may entitle employer to all of its employee's creations, even those
developed outside the workplace and unrelated to the job.
- Archive: Email
efficiency: Email attachments, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral,
1999.12.30. All about sending attachments.
- Opinion:
Does a 466 MHz PowerBook 1400 make sense?, Charles W. Moore,
Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 03.19. Low RAM ceiling, cost of used
WallStreets probably best argument against it.
- Analysis:
Email, Web at work - is the free lunch over?, Bernhard Warner,
Yahoo/Reuters, 03.18. Personal shopping and email in the workplace
could be history.
- Web:
The wrong way to use CSS in page layouts, Adrian Roselli,
evolt.org, 03.16 [MNJ].
"...pixel-precise layouts are anything but, especially when you
consider all the custom settings users may have on their
systems."
- Analysis: Unbreakable: Why
assaults on Microsoft's monopoly fail, Daniel L. Taylor,
osOpinion, 03.15. "Consumers don't just choose an OS - they choose
access to a software library."
- Archive: Email
efficiency, part 6, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.11.10.
Forwarding messages.
- News: Combo drive for
TiBook Rev. A, Tim's Webspace [XLR8]. Taxan of Japan has a
CD-RW/DVD drive due out in April.
- Archive: Email
efficiency, part 5, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.11:03.
The best way to reply.
- Review: Mac OS X
Unleashed, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.15. A good
introduction to OS X and the best resource so far on the Unix
side of Apple's new OS.
- Opinion: Maine's
iBooks: The students know best, John H. Farr, Applelinks,
03.14. Grown ups may debate them, but the kids love their
iBooks.
- Advice:
OS X chat clients: So many programs, so little time, Rob
McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 03.14. Fire, Proteus, Adium, AIM, ICQ
- which is best on X?
- Freeware: RBU
Pyramid, Applelinks. Free solitaire game created as part of
REALbasic tutorial series - even available for Windows.
- Opinion: OS
X browser mini-shootout: Mozilla, iCab, OminiWeb, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 03.14. "In practical terms, it's a dead heat
between Mozilla and iCab."
- Archive: Email
efficiency, part 4, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.27.
Plain text vs. styled email.
Rights: Cripple all
those email clients, Ben Tilly, O'Reilly Network. Under
proposed SSSCA (digital content protection) legislation, forwarding
email would be illegal copyright violation.- Archive: Email
efficiency, part 3, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.20.
Email content.
Opinion: Canada
announces astronomical tax increases on recordable media,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.13. "Canada, of course, is the
home of tax fascism...."- Opinion: A
Mac OS X Odyssey, part 5, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac
Opinion, 03.13. "...my uptime is usually over a month, and even
then it didn't end because of a crash, but because I installed an
upgrade that required I reboot."
- Opinion:
An anti-Mac corporate conspiracy, Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek,
03.13. "Businesses rely on people with the least incentive to give
economical recommendations for advice on computer buying."
- Archive: Email
efficiency, part 2, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.13.
Dealing with vcards and naming your message.
- Opinion: Those
still living in pre-OS X world need to "let it go," cuz all our Mac
belong to Unix, Rodney O. Lain, Mac Observer, 03.12. "There is
no place for the hold outs in the future Mac OS."
- News:
Canada to raise tariffs on recordable media, Slashdot, 03.12.
Proposal adds $105 tax on Apple's 5 GB iPod to subsidize the
recording industry.
- News: Cable
Internet subscribers up, FCC to label service, Lycos, 03.11.
Once FCC classifies cable Internet service, it will be able to
regulate it.
- Software: Mozilla
0.9.9 released, Mozilla.org, 03.11.
- News:
AOL embraces Linux and Mozilla, plans to drop MS Explorer,
NewsForge, 03.11. Linux for server, Netscape for browsing,
Microsoft out in the cold with AOL 8.0.
- Archive: Email
efficiency, part 1, Deborah Shadovitz, MacCentral, 1999.10.06.
First in an excellent series on email etiquette and
efficiency.
- Oops: Benchmarks demolish
Apple speed boasts, Andrew Orlowski, Register, 03.08. Of
course, the compiler might not be using AltiVec, doesn't
support second CPU.
- Opinion: Disney
versus fair use and the public domain, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 03.08. "...there have been 11 acts that have stretched
the copyright term from the original 14 years to beyond 100 years
in some cases...."
- Opinion: Why
Microsoft is thumbing its nose at the courts and will probably get
away with it, I, Cringely, PBS, 03.07. "The best settlement
would be the total removal of Gates from Microsoft."
- Rights: Republicans
should back recording artists, consumers, Fox News, 03.07
[
/.]. Democrats now the champions of big business - or just big
donors?
- Rights: House
rep's rap: Unshackle the CD, Declan McCullagh, Wired, 03.07
[
/.]. One Democrat wants to outlaw copy protected CDs, rewrite
DMCA.
- Web:
Charges of the site brigade, Leslie Walker, .com, Washington
Post, 03.07. "...electronic subscriptions, enough to make me think
real online businesses are finally being born."
- Web: Dead
Mac sites spawn porno portals, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.07.
A short list of one-time Mac domains that now lead to unexpected
subject matter.
- X-ware: iDraw, Mac
Power User. iDraw is an illustration and animation program for Mac
OS X. US$40 shareware, demo cannot save, print, or
export.
- Opinion:
Slashdot ad free: The worst subscription service ever launched,
Dotcom Scoop, 03.06. "...never has anyone introduced an ad free
service that creates a direct link between the level of usage and
the cost."
- Dark Side: Old
"feature" gives hackers control of Windows PCs, John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 03.06. "An attacker can run arbitrary commands on
Windows machines with a simple bit of HTML . . . even if
active scripting and ActiveX are disabled in the browser security
settings."
- Dark Side of the Mac: Columnist
bashed by irate Macheads, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.06.
"Email flaming, whether about Macs or anything else, is imbecilic
and childish."
- Web: Stop.
Pay toll. Download. Damien Cave, Salon, 03.06. How MPEG-4 is
shooting itself in the foot in pursuit of profits.
- Web: Flat Pack Macs has
moved to <http://fpm.gotdns.com/>
- Benchmarks: Mac OS X
10.1.3, Macs Only!, 03.06.
- Opinion: State
of the Mac Web: Paid membership subscriptions, Scott McCarty,
GraphicPower, 03.06. New models for financing websites.
- Opinion:
The changing Mac community, Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network,
03.05. "My intention is to understand the changes that Mac OS X is
having on the Apple community."
- Rights: The
mouse that ate the public domain, Chris Sprigman, Find Law,
03.05 [
/.]. "The Framers of our Constitution viewed inventions and
expression not as 'property,' but as public goods to which
exclusive rights may be granted purely as a means of incenting
production."
- Opinion: iPhoto,
the bifocals way, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Computing With
Bifocals, Mac Observer, 03.05. iPhoto is the perfect reason to get
serious about Mac OS X.
- Advice:
Tricking out a PowerBook 540c, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior,
Mac Opinion, 03.05. We still consider the PB 540c a best
buy.
- Opinion: Michael
Eisner, Steve Jobs, and digital copyrights, Daniel Miller, Mac
Observer, 03.05. "The Grateful Dead once tried to stop the illegal
bootlegging of their live concerts until they figured out that it
only helped to drive their popularity upward."
- Web: Expired
domains grabbed by porn sites, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.05.
We see it every month - some site we linked to goes down and a porn
site buys the domain.
- Web: Ten
things you need to know about linking and link popularity, Eric
Ward, SearchDay, 03.05. "Free-For-All (FFA) links pages and link
farms have zero effect on link popularity, and more importantly,
will not send you a single qualified visitor."
- Software: Mozilla 0.9.9
available, Mozilla.org.
- News: Apple
chief blasts labels, IT, 03.05. "If you legally acquire music,
you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that
you own."
- Benchmarks: Radeon
8500 AGP Mac Edition, Accelerate Your Mac!, 03.04. Includes
screen shots showing benefit of Truform.
- Web:
Online advertising, strong content will save medium, Kinsley
believes, Wall Street Journal, 03.04. Five years at the helm of
Slate has taught a lot.
- Opinion: The
conspiracy to control your hard drive, Charles W. Moore,
Applelinks, 03.04. Disney, Microsoft, RIAA, Fritz Hollings vs.
Slashdot, Open Source, and Steve Jobs.
- Software: Location X. Finally,
a location manager for OS X.
- OS X:
Some positives, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion,
03.04. OS X may not be done yet, but there's a lot to like
about it.
- Web: FT.com, Slashdot,
GeoCities flag up, The Register, 03.04. Slashdot introduces
ad-free subscriptions at about $20/year - same price as Low End Mac.
- Rights: Disney
boss accuses Apple of fostering piracy, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 03.01. "Eisner accused the computer industry of
considering piracy its new 'killer app.'"
- Web: ATPM,
March 2002 issue available.
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