The Low End Mac Link Archive, October 2002
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- Tech: IBM's
970: Power4-lite, and the future of the PowerPC, David K.
Every, iGeek, 10.31. Why the "slower" G4 holds its own against the
Pentium 4, and how IBM's 970 will trump both.
- Web: Does
search engine's power threaten Web's independence?, Stefanie
Olsen, Cnet, 10.31. A look at Google's domination of the search
side of the Internet.
- Analysis:
Mac OS among least prone to attack, Paul Roberts, InfoWorld,
10.31. "Two different versions of Unix shared top honors with
Macintosh with fewer than 25 vulnerabilities."
- Virus: BugBear tops
virus charts as Klez refuses to die, John Leyden, The Register,
10.31. FYI: "The nasty BugBear worm finally displaced the irksome
Klez-H as the most common virus circulating on the Internet this
month."
- AAPL: Dell
iPod news helps push Apple to 9-week high, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 10.30. No, $15.98 isn't very high, but Apple stock has
been beleaguered for months.
Education: Apple extends "X
for Teachers" program to Canada, MacMinute, 10.30. "The program
gives a free copy of Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) to every K-12 teacher
in Canada."- Advice: Apple doesn't
install OS 9.x drivers on the HD's on some latest Macs, Damien
Barrett, AppleTechs, 10.30. Only solution: Reformat the drive with
OS 9 drivers.
- Advice: Sharing a
peer-to-peer Filemaker database across platforms, Damien
Barrett, AppleTechs, 10.30. You can't share FileMaker Pro databases
with PCs over an AppleTalk network.
- Advice: TiBook 400 won't
boot from anything higher than 9.1 or OS X 10.1, Damien
Barrett, AppleTechs, 10.30. Problem solved - read how.
- Dark Side: MS gets top security
rating for Win2k, makes big noise, John Lettice, The Register,
10.30. It took 3 years, several service packs, and some hot fixes,
but Win2k is now certified as secure.
- Opinion: Apple death
knell counter: apple has been declared dead 10 times since February
1997, Mac Observer, 10.29. Apple Computer seems to have more
lives than a cat....
- Forum:
Microsoft: You need permission to sell our software, Slashdot,
10.29. "This action by Microsoft should serve as a warning to any
corporation that has a significant investment in Microsoft
licenses."
- Dark Side:
Microsoft, others oppose Kmart bluelight.com sale,
Yahoo/Reuters, 10.29. "The licenses that debtors (Kmart) have of
Microsoft's products are licenses of copyrighted materials and,
therefore, may not be assumed or assigned with Microsoft's
consent."
- Opinion:
PowerBooks forever (iBooks too!), Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10.29. Will Apple release new 'Books before
the end of the year? Here's why one user hopes so.
- Education: Macintosh teachers
challenge: Give Apple education a road map, Mark Marcantonio,
MyMac, 10.29. "Does this mean that Apple is ready to fight for the
education market or is it just (pardon the phrase) window
dressing?"
- Dark Side:
Microsoft's media monopoly, Farhad Manjoo, Salon, 10.29.
Burst.com claims Microsoft stole its streaming video system and
colluded to keep Burst out of the market.
- OS X:
Comparing Apples and penguins, Moshe Bar, Serving with Linux,
Byte, 10.29. "Many potential buyers are, however, asking themselves
if OS X - given its recent introduction - is ready today to handle
their critical apps."
- News: Motherboard flaw
the cause of "wind-tunnel G4" noise, Graeme Bennett, Mac Buyers
Guide, 10.28. "We now have official confirmationthat loud G4 fan
noise is due to a motherboard problem so that fans run at high fast
speed."
- Advice: Update firmware
before installing Jaguar!, Geoff Duncan, TidBITS, 10.28. "Last
week, I began to see credible reports that installing Mac OS X 10.2
Jaguar on some iMacs was 'frying' the motherboards."
- News: Apple triples
server market share, Ron Carson, Insanely Great Mac, 10.28.
Xserve moves Apple to #5 in the server market behind #4 Sun.
- Opinion: Report:
Apple will go Intel next year, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
10.28. Giga Information Group claims Apple "continued technical
disadvantage" can only be addressed by putting Intel inside.
Sure.
- Tech: Inside the
PowerPC 970, Hannibal, ars technica, 10.28. A wider, deeper
instruction queue than the G4 and better branch prediction among
PPC 970 advantages.
- Opinion: OS
9.2.2 on a Power Mac 8600, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10.28.
"Right now I'm booting up every day in 9.2.2 on a five-year-old
machine...."
- OS X: Keyboard
shortcuts under Mac OS X, Westwind, 10.28. Toggle dock hiding,
empty the Trash, minimize window, and more without touching the
mouse.
- Education: More
straight talk about the education market, Steve Wood, View From
the Classroom, 10.28. "...I was astounded by the depth of
disillusionment with Apple Computer and Apple Education by teachers
and other columnists who wrote."
- Advice: Use an extended
dektop with your iBook, Macparts.de, 10.27. Open firmware patch
lets latest iBooks (and not older ones) support two displays. Use
at your own risk.
- Opinion: Why does
anyone use Linux?, MacSlash, 10.27. In a world with Mac
OS X, why would anyone continue to use Linux?
- Web: Free software org
burned by PayPal, Thomas C Greene, The Register, 10.27. "PayPal
seems to have numerous legal loopholes through which to escape
responsibility for accounts under its control."
- Benchmarks: How
fast is the IBM 180GXP on an ATA-133 controller, Bare Feats,
10.25. Drive tested using both Sonnet and Acard controllers, since
Apple doesn't yet support ATA-133.
- Dark Side: Guerilla marketing
tactics spawn viral fears, John Leyden, The Register, 10.25.
Not exactly a virus, EULA actually asks permission before using
user's Outlook address book.
- OS X: Mac
OS X: Not ready for prime time? (part 3), Marc Zeedar, Less
Tangible, Mac Opinion, 10.24. "...even if I had tried to delete
something I shouldn't, Mac OS X should be friendly about the
situation."
- News: Dana
bridges the gap between PDA and laptop computer, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 10.24. AlphaSmart's new Dana runs Palm OS, has
full size keyboard, runs 30 hours on a charge.
- News: Two men held in
sniper case as evidence mounts, Fox News, 10.24. Probable
sniper a former military marksman, convert to Islam, sympathetic to
9-11 terrorists.
- Opinion: Comments:
"Two-button mouse! Two-button mouse!", John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 10.24. "...Apple needs to retire the single-button
mouse." Amen.
Rights: Google
excluding controversial sites, Declan McCullagh, Cnet, 10.24.
"This is not pre-emptive--we only react to requests that come to
us...to avoid legal liability, we remove sites from Google search
results pages that may conflict with local laws."- Web: Let's
put users first, Carla Passino, E-Media Tidbits, 10.24. "I
quickly found out just how many sites force their font size to an
exact (and usually very small) number of points, preventing users
from modifying text size to suit their needs."
Rights: Band
can't sell own music on eBay, Brad King, Wired, 10.24. "On two
occasions, the company mistakenly identified Ziemann's album -
which was advertised as a CD-R - as infringing on somebody's
copyright...."- News: Apple
reportedly to sell iPods in Target retail outlets, could have major
impact, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 10.24. "News.com is
reporting that Apple will be selling iPods through Target's retail
outlets, giving Apple a much broader exposure to mainstream
consumers."
- Spam: No easy
money suing spammers, Joanna Glasner, Wired, 10.24. Not easy,
but sometimes you do win against the spammers.
Rights:
Google complies with law, excludes 'controversial' sites,
Slashdot, 10.24. "To conform with some French and German laws,
Google has removed listings for over 100 sites which it believes to
be anti-abortion, pro-Nazi, white supremacist or
anti-semitic."- Opinion:
1 button, 2 or 3?, David Zeiler, SunSpot.net, 10.24. A second
button and a scroll wheel - it's all about efficiency. (Low End
Mac agrees.)
Huh?:
BBC wins police Tardis case, BBC.com, 10.24. Metropolitan
Police attempted to wrest control of Dr. Who's Tardis from the
BBC.- Tech: End of
the road for CD burners, Mark Hachman, Extreme Tech, 10.23.
Drives and media may never get much past 48x, but new Mt. Ranier
disc format holds promise.
- Opinion: Apple's
Rendezvous: Too open for the enterprise?, Don MacVittie,
Network Computing, 10.23. Good question: Do you want a guest on
your business network to see everything?
- Web: CNET's download.com
fees, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 10.23. Shades of .mac -
download.com to start charging authors $99 for posting their
software (mostly free- and shareware).
- Rights:
Washington State Congressman attempts to outlaw GPL, NewsForge,
10.23. Could Microsoft (also in Washington state) be behind move to
undermine GPL for federal projects?
- Software: Make
Mac OS X more efficient with AutoHide, MacDailyNews, 10.23.
"AutoHide is a simple background application that will
automatically hide applications after you switch out of them."
- Dark Side: PC market
finally catches up to Apple's titanium PowerBook, Mac Observer,
10.23. New Best Buy(!) laptop matches DVI TiBook in many respects,
but thicker, heavier, and Intel inside.
- Advice: How to be
happy, Brent Simmons, inessential.com, 10.23. Use OS X Mail to
fight spam and Chimera to stop popup ads. Then disable Flash.
- Benchmarks: USB 2.0 against
FireWire, Xbit Labs, 10.23. No matter how you slice it,
FireWire outperforms supposedly faster USB 2.0 in real world
testing.
Web: Danish
watchdog calls for ban on intrusive online ads, Drew Cullen,
The Register, 10.23. "...calls in Denmark to ban in-yer-face online
ads such as 'shutter' banner rolldowns and interstitials."- Opinion: If your Mac crashes
all the time, why aren't you upgrading?, Gene Steinberg, Mac
Night Owl, 10.23. Learn a new OS or put up with crashes in the old
familiar one?
- Spam: Direct marketers
endorse anti-spam laws, Declan McCullagh, ZDNet, 10.22. Direct
marketers turn about face, say level of junk spam makes legitimate
spam ineffective. Or something like that.
- Dark Side: Is Microsoft
licensing forcing banks to break the law?, Dan Orzech, Boston
Internet.como, 10.22. "...we're either out of compliance with
Microsoft's licensing, which is not acceptable, or we're out of
compliance with the law, which is not acceptable either."
- Analysis:
Apple's sweet-and-sour season, Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek,
10.22. "Against great odds, Apple is succeeding in establishing its
own chain of stores."
- .mac: Apple, why don't you
use OS X for your Web servers? It is time to switch!, Cube
Zone, 10.22. Apple China run on Windows 2000? At least Apple USA is
running on OS X Server!
- Dark Side:
IE holes open up Web booby traps, Robert Lemos, Cnet, 10.22.
Nine security flaws in IE 5.5 and 6 uncovered - Windows version, of
course.
- Advice:
Hotrodding the clamshell iBook?, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10.22. Add up to 512 MB RAM, drop in a big
fast hard drive, but still limited to 800 x 600 screen.
- Advice: TidBITS
Troubleshooting Primer, Part 1, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS, 10.22.
"The most important piece of advice I can give up front is: Be
methodical."
News:
Probe as Mac retail relaunches, Simon Hayes, The Australian,
10.22. Apple Australia preparing for renewed retail push, still
trying to clear up Buzzle mess.- Opinion: Apple's
stickiest marketing ploy, Leander Kahney, Wired, 10.22. "...an
Apple sticker is often the first thing people stick on a new
car."
- Analysis: Inside
Apple's new smaller store: Crowds still come for 43rd retail
store, Vern Seward, Mac Observer, 10.21. 43 stores in just over
a year - but this one is different.
- Software: Introducing nSync,
Everchanging, 10.21. New utility lets you sync your Jaguar Address
Book with . . . a Newton.
- Review: PDF
Browser Plugin, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks,
10.21. "PDF Browser Plugin allows you to preview PDF documents
before downloading them to disk, and enables your browser to
display embedded PDF."
- Software: Introducing nSync,
Everchanging, 10.21. New utility lets you sync your Jaguar Address
Book with . . . a Newton.
- Huh?:
PageRank by judicial decree? SearchKing sues Google, James
Grimmelmann, LawMeme, 10.20. "SearchKing, Oklahoma's premiere
parasitic link-farm, is suing Google for tweaking its PageRank
algorithm to lower SearchKing's scores."
- Review: Apple
leads pack with DVD software, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, BayArea.com,
10.20. "...for the best consumer-grade DVD authoring around, get a
Macintosh with iDVD."
- News:
Shell casings found in rental truck resembling white van sought in
sniper attack, ABC News, 10.18. Authorities have not yet
determined if shell casings match bullets sniper used.
- Macinschool: Straight
talk about the education market, Steve Wood, View From the
Classroom, 10.18. "The sad fact of the matter is that Apple lost
the critical mass necessary to stay viable in the education market
a number of years ago."
- Benchmarks: How
does Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card compare to others?, Bare
Feats, 10.18. Radeon 7000 only currently shipping PCI card for
Macs. How does it compare to past cards?
- Opinion: Expo Wars:
Apple, IDG playing hardball - but what gives?, Peter Kirn,
O'Grady's PowerPage, 10.18. What does Apple hope to gain from
playing hardball with IDG over holding Macworld in Boston?
- OS X: A Linux
user defects, Simon Cozens, Apple, 10.18. "...the dream of Unix
on the desktop had been realised. It is indeed possible to have the
best of both worlds."
- Hardware: Faster
write-speed DVD drives unveiled, Kuriko Miyake, Digit, 10.18.
Pioneer, Sony, and Teac unveil 4x DVD burners. Sony drive to
support DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW.
- Huh?: Campaign:
Send AOL CDs back, CNN.com, 10.18. "We're going to AOL and say,
'You've got mail. Please stop this.'"
- OS X: OS X makes
9 a distant memory in Mac realm, Bob LeVitus, Dr. Mac, Houston
Chronicle, 10.17. "Today I do more with my Mac than I ever did
using OS 9, and I do it in less time, and with less stress. "
- Dark Side:
Ad campaign leaves pie on Microsoft's face, David Pogue, New
York Times, 10.17. "...more likely, Microsoft's latest blunder
demonstrates is neither jealousy nor wounded pride; it's pure
arrogance."
- Web:
ConsumerReports.org hits 1 million, but at what price?, Steve
Outing, E-Media Tidbits, 10.17. "This policy of demanding a
long-term relationship in order to support access to what is
valuable content is, simply, maddening."
- OS X: Mac
OS X: Not ready for prime time? (part 2), Marc Zeedar, Less
Tangible, Mac Opinion, 10.17. "Please Apple. I don't mind UNIX, but
make it more Mac-like. Please."
- News: Pioneer
announces 4X DVD-R/2X DVD-RW drive, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
10.17. New DVR-A05 burns DVDs, CDs twice as fast as current
SuperDrive.
- News: Macworld
Expo moves to Boston; Apple will not go, Jim Dalrymple,
MacCentral, 10.17. "Today IDG announced plans to move Macworld New
York to Boston in July of 2004. Apple disagrees with this decision,
and will not be participating in Macworld Boston."
- News: Serious problem with Mac
OS X Server 10.2, Damien Barrett, mrbarrett.com, 10.17. Barrett
tracking a problem with the way OS X Server sets group priveleges
on files and folders - data copied to a shared folder is not
inheriting proper priveleges.
- Macinschool: Apple gives
Jaguar free to K-12 teachers, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 2002.10.17.
"Apple on Thursday announced a program that will give all K-12
teachers in the United States a free copy of Mac OS X 10.2
Jaguar."
- OS X: Succumbing
to a Mac attack, Renay San Miguel, CNN.com, 10.16. "After 10
years as a Windows person, the new Mac operating system does take
some adjustment, but not much."
- Tech: What is
journaling and logs, David K. Every, iGeek, 10.16. What's a
journaling file system and why should you care?
- Opinion: Rebate hell: One
user stands up, Rob Carlson, Insanely Great Mac, 10.16. Rebates
sound like a deal, but actually getting them can be difficult - or
impossible.
- Upgrade: iBook
RAM? Now they tell me, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10.16.
Clamshell iBooks can be upgraded with 512 MB module - news to us,
too.
- OS X: Mac
OS X: Not ready for prime time? (part 1), Marc Zeedar, Less
Tangible, Mac Opinion, 10.16. Undeletable items in the Trash - and
they can't be removed, either.
- Advice: Things
nobody remembered to tell you, Nancy Carroll Gravley, Computing
With Bifocals, Mac Observer, 10.16. Tips on printer drivers,
resizing the dock, the usefulness of the lowly paper clip, and
more.
- Dark Side: Internet
Explorer flaw abets attackers, Dennis Fisher, eWeek, 10.16.
"Security researchers have identified a new vulnerability in
Internet Explorer that enables an attacker to steal cookies, forge
Web content and run code on [Windows] machines."
- Opinion: Apple's
efforts to keep us, willing or not, on the cutting edge, Bill
Power, Halifax Herald, 10.16. "Apple wants to get everybody who
loves their products off OS 9 as soon as possible, and on to
OS X...."
- OS X: Jaguar
sets a ferocious pace, Garry Barker, The Age, 10.16. "...the
move to OS X and its tools had vastly improved the speed of
development for Apple and thirdparty developers."
- Tech: Mac toters
push wireless bounds, Paul Boutin, Wired, 10.16. The TiBook's
poor AirPort connectivity isn't a problem - it's a project.
- AAPL: Apple
reports $45 million loss, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 10.16.
"Excluding [one-time] charges the company would have posted a
$7million profit...."
- Humor: A
disturbance in the force?, Joy of Tech, 10.16. Millions of
voices silenced - or was that just .mac accounts being closed?
- Benchmarks: Does a
52x CD burner burn 6.5 times faster than an 8x burner?, Bare
Feats, 10.16. New 52x drive outperforms 48x, but doesn't meet 6.5x
faster expectations vs. 8x.
- Tech: A brief look
at the PowerPC 970, Jon "Hannibal" Stokes, ars technica, 10.16.
"The 970 fetches eight instructions per cycle from its 64KB
instruction cache...."
- Review: 800 MHz
PowerForce G4 Series 100 in a Cube, Bill Fox, Macs Only!,
10.16. "The Cube with the 800 MHz PowerForce G4 Series 100 upgrade
averaged 80 percent faster than with the original stock 450 MHz
CPU."
- .mac: Maybe .mac Is a good
idea after all, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 10.16. 100 MB of
offsite storage and 15 MB for huge email attachments can be very
useful.
- Advice:
Email quotes and inclusion conventions, The Jargon Dictionary,
10.16. "The practice of including text from the parent article when
posting a followup helped solve what had been a major
nuisance...."
- OS X: Look out
enterprise: Mac OS X to get journaling, M. Rothenberg, N.
dePlum, eWeek, 10.15. "In case of a crash or other system failure,
the file system can retrieve lost data by consulting the 'journal'
log...."
- OS X: Finally
saying hello to Jaguar, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey,
Applelinks, 10.15. "...I was surprised at how little different it
seems from OS 10.1.4."
- Opinion:
Is the Lombard a lemon?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 10.15. "...one might deduce that either a design flaw or
hardware defect is beginning to manifest widely in these machines
as they age."
- Opinion: Mac
rocks! But Apple ads oversimplify switch, Andy Ihnatko, Chicago
Sun-Times, 10.15. "It's absurd to try to convince someone to
abandon an OS they're perfectly happy with."
- Advice:
The importance of being backed up, Gene Steinberg, AZ Central,
10.15. "Your only means of protection is to back up your precious
files, on a regular basis."
- Advice: 5 ways to head
off OS 9 crashes, macHome, 10.15. How to keep your Mac up and
running under the classic Mac OS.
- Dark Side:
Microsoft ad unravels - lessons, Dan Gillmor,
SiliconValley.com, 10.15. "It was a mistake that it was posted, and
Microsoft took it down as soon as it came to the attention of the
Windows XP marketing team."
- Dark Side: Microsoft pulls ad after Net
faux pas, MSNBC, 10.15. "Microsoft acknowledged that the
writer's anonymity and use of the stock photograph contributed to
suspicions...."
- Dark Side: MS pulls fake
Mac-to-Windows testimonial, Thomas C Greene, The Register,
10.15. We can't get enough of Microsoft's fraudulent ripoff of
Apple's "Switch" campaign.
- Tech: IBM confirms
Altiveck'd POWER4-lite, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 10.15.
"PowerPC 970 . . . supports the AltiVec instruction set
. . . tailor made for high end Apple machines."
- Dark Side: Microsoft
offers, then pulls, its own Mac-to-Windows switcher story,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 10.14. "Microsoft must be really proud
that they were able to convert their very own employee...."
- Dark Side:
Microsoft PR rep is the switcher, Slashdot, 10.14. Purported
"reverse switcher" actually a Microsoft employee, image taken from
stock photo CD.
- OS X: The
top-10 things I missed in 10 days without OS X, Rob
McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 10.14. From OS X on a fast G3 to
9.x on a PB 3400 - speed tops the list.
- Opinion: From power user to
dummy, Mark Starlin, MacReview, 10.14. "After a year or two, I
began to consider myself a power user. Then I switched to
OS X. I immediately went from Power User to Complete
Idiot."
- News: Gateway
to sell stuff in stores, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10.14.
Following Apple's lead, Gateway decides it might be a good idea to
actually sell computers in their stores.
- Opinion:
Mac users hit with pay-to-use fees, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Chicago
Tribune, 10.14. Lengthy rant based on mistaken assumption that iCal
can only publish to .mac accounts.
- Web: Online
gambling laws a good bet, Lauren Weinstein, Wired, 10.14. "When
it comes to Internet gambling, all bets are off."
- OS X: Progress
and regression on the dual-mouse input front, Charles W. Moore,
OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 10.14. "...this past weekend I made
what was for me a momentous discovery: using a Wacom Graphire2
graphics tablet mouse partly restores dual mouse support."
- Humor: IBM
64-bit chip to re-ignite annoying arguments, Crazy Apple
Rumors, 10.14. "At least, as far as I can tell it'll be faster. I
don't really understand these specifications."
- Tech: 64
bits: How much should you care?, David K. Every, iGeek, 10.14.
"Will 64 bits matter? For most users, it will matter very
little."
- News: IBM announces 64-bit
PowerPC processor, John Leyden, The Register, 10.14.
Forthcoming 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970 will run 32- and 64-bit software,
may turn up in future Macs.
- Forum:
Australian anti-spammer wins court case, Slashdot, 10.14. More
insights into the Australian anti-spam court ruling.
- Rights:
Anti-spammer wins court case, Caitlin Fitzsimmons, News
Interactive, 10.14. "The Australian court system upheld the right
of internet activists to campaign against junk email...."
Rights: Web
sites blackout over Spanish monitoring law, John Leyden, The
Register, 10.14. "Spanish Web site operators have taken their sites
offline in protest at government proposals to regulate online
content."- Analysis:
The PC's new tricks, David Kirkpatrick, Fortune, 10.14. PC
sales down, PC makers bleeding red ink - yet Dell and Apple are
profitable.
- Deal: 433 MHz G4
iMac upgrade $299 after rebate, Technowarehouse, 10.14. Drop a
433 MHz G4 into a Rev. A-D tray loading iMac. $299 after
rebate.
- Deal: 500MHz G3 iMac
upgrade $199 after rebate, Technowarehouse, 10.14. Turns a 233,
266, or 333 MHz tray loading iMac into a 500 MHz powerhouse. $199
after rebate.
- Opinion:
Apple-Linux merger powers 'Mac' switch, Paul Andrews, Seattle
Times, 10.14. Tim O'Reilly: "A lot of my friends and customers are
switching to OS X because of its Unix underpinnings."
- Rights:
In my own dream, Steve Gillmor, Infoworld, 10.14. "...it's
instructive to watch how Apple has walked the thin line, preserving
the innovation of technology while respecting the rights of both
creators and consumers."
- Tech: IBM promises
muscle for the Mac, Robert McMillan, Wired, 10.14. IBM's new
64-bit PowerPC chip expected to power Macs in late 2003.
- Tech:
IBM server chip seen slimmed down for Apple Macs,
Forbes/Reuters, 10.13. "IBM said its new PowerPC chip would go into
production late next year and process 64 bits of data at a time at
1.8 Gigahertz...."
- Review: iSync: T68i
Sony/Ericsson cell phone and bluetooth, Michael Flaminio,
Insanely Great Mac, 10.11. "Bluetooth makes synchronizing with a
computer a piece of cake because it doesn't require any cables that
get lost or tangled."
- Benchmarks: Does a
48x CD burner really burn 6 times faster than 8x?, Bare Feats,
10.11. It's faster, but not six times faster.
- Hardware: Tempo Trio,
Sonnet Technology, 10.11. New $180 PCI card provides 2 ATA/133
buses, 2 FireWire ports, and 2 USB 2.0 ports.
- Review:
Mac-PC networks: Leaping past Jaguar, Stephen H. Wildstrom,
BusinessWeek, 10.11. PC Maclan "is a utility that enables a PC to
speak Appletalk, which is much easier to use within a local-area
network (LAN) than Windows networking."
- Advocacy: Remember
this? "I wonder which brand of camera that was!", John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 10.10. Janie Porche saved Christmas - and her father
shares the details.
- OS X: Apple
pitches Mac OS X to Linux fans, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet, 10.10.
"This year Apple attended Linux Expo for the first time to explain
why Linux fans should take a look at its operating system."
- Deal: Double your
memory, Apple, 10.10. Buy any Mac from Apple Store through end
of the year and Apple will double base memory for 440.
- Advocacy:
The EET on IBM's upcoming desktop Power4 derivative, ars
technica, 10.10. "Apple would have to be crazy not to use this
part."
- Advice: 3
more startup speed up tricks for OS 9, macHome, 10.10. Turn off
memory testing, reduce number of startup items, avoid automounting
network drives.
- Benchmarks: Is a
5400rpm ATA-133 drive a lot slower than a 7200rpm ATA-100
drive?, Bare Feats, 10.10. It may support Ultra133, but new
5400 rpm drive can't keep up - does well, though, and costs
less.
- Advice: Beware the IDEs of
disk, Bryan Betts, The Register, 10.10. As we wrote last week,
backing up to IDE drives can be faster and cheaper than using
tape.
- Opinion: The search for the
missing floppy drive, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 10.10. "I
have seen a handful of floppy drives installed. But when I ask if
they are actually being used, the response is usually no."
- Opinion:
Thinking beyond the box at Apple, Charles Haddad, Byte of the
Apple, BusinessWeek, 10.10. "The second part of Apple's plan is to
branch into new electronic devices."
- Advice: Faster
startup, macHome, 10.09. How to trim precious seconds from your
startup sequence.
- Tech: IBM
processor hints at Apple's 64-bit future, Rick Merritt, Silicon
Strategies, 10.09. "...the 64-bit Power4 could be IBM's first
PowerPC-compatible chip to support the Altivec multimedia
instruction extensions...."
- OS X: Too hostile for novice
users?, Gene Steinberg, Jaguar Report, Mac Night Owl, 10.09.
"Since Mac OS X is a multiple user system, it stubbornly insists
that you confirm your right to administer your computer when you
run a software installer."
- Web: Trojanized
Sendmail distro circulated, Thomas C Greene, The Register,
10.09. "An enterprising computer enthusiast has managed to insert a
Trojan in the source code for a recent Sendmail distro...."
- Opinion:
The collegiate PowerBook revisited, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10.08. Some teething problems, but the
PowerBook 1400 remains a good student workhorse.
- News: IBM's PPC 750FX
G3 now available at 1 GHz, Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac,
10.08. IBM now offers G3 at up to 1 GHz - and up to 200 MHz bus
speed.
- Virus: Mac users
cannot be infected by Bugbear worm, Sophos, 10.08. Just a
reminder that Mac users cannot be infected by Windows viruses.
- .mac: Explanation posted for
.Mac outage, MacMinute, 10.07. Recent .mac outaged due to
equipment failures. Apple busy installing new hardware.
- Virus: Worms turn on
Win/Linux users, John Leyden, The Register, 10.07. BearBug,
Slapper, and Opaserv busy infecting Windows, Linux PCs.
- Web: This Cab needs
training wheels, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 10.07. "...iCab is an
important alternative browser that fills niches none of the other
are yet trying for."
- .mac: Backup:
Requires Internet connection and .Mac membership when first
opened, Apple, 10.07. Backup program for .mac users will backup
to local media without Internet connection after first use.
- .mac: Update:
.Mac was 'down for hours', Dominique Fidele, Macworld UK,
10.07. "I'm already considering switching to a real service."
- Opinion:
Apple's iBook: Why it's not just for home, anymore, Stephan
Somogyi, ZDNet, 10.07. "I have colleagues who've bought PowerBook
G4s, only to quickly resell them due to the poor AirPort
performance."
- Opinion: Make
or break: Picking Apple's future, Joellen Perry, US News,
10.07. "Apple has never been better positioned to be more relevant
in the PC business than right now."
- Opinion: Apple
never promised you a rose garden, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 10.07. Remember when Apple used to give away OS updates for
free or at a reduced price?
- Web:
W3C patent board recommends royalty-free policy, Bruce Perens,
Slashdot, 10.07. "After a year of argument and see-sawing, W3C's
patent policy board has voted to recommend a royalty-free patent
policy."
- Review: A tale of
12 mice, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, TwinCities.com, 10.06. "Call me a
curmudgeon, but I wish mouse vendors wouldn't get rid of models
that work just fine...."
- Opinion:
Hello computer, Jason Walsh, Metamute, 10.05. "...isn't it
about time we stopped pointing and clicking?"
- Forum: Leaving
classic behind, MacSlash, 10.05. Is there any part of "classic"
that you shouldn't delete when you go 100% OS X?
- OS X:
Mac OS X: An Apple a day keeps the penguins away?, Timothy R.
Butler, Open For Business, 10.05. "Editor-in-Chief Timothy R.
Butler considers one of the most prominent arguments against
adopting a Free Software desktop: Apple's Mac OS X."
- Benchmarks: How do Pentium 4, Athlon
XP running Windows XP compare to G4 Power Macs running
OS X?, Bare Feats, 10.05. Dual 1.25 GHz G4 and 1.6 GHz
Athlon both outperform 2 GHz Pentium 4 in Photoshop.
- Web: Google
degraded? Geeks aghast, Paul Boutin, Wired, 10.05. "...for the
first time since its launch in 1998, Google results have been
degraded rather than improved by the latest tweak to its
proprietary scoring algorithm for Web pages...."
- Survey: One-third of
Slashdot readers find the Mac "very tempting", OSNews, 10.04.
Completey unscientific poll indicates half of Slashdotters are
favorably disposed toward the Mac.
- Opinion:
Why I (still) just love my iMac, David Coursey, ZDNet, 10.04.
"Today I'd like to revisit one of those columns, in which I
explained my own switcher experience firsthand."
- Rights: Copyright
wars legislation goes to bat for the consumer's interest,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10.04. "Consumers have rights and
expectations that cannot be ignored by industry goliaths."
- Web: How and
why the Internet broke, Michelle Delio, Wired, 10.04. "Those
massive e-mail delays, slow Internet connections and downed
e-businesses were all caused by a software upgrade that went
horribly wrong...."
- Opinion: Macs didn't always
just work, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 10.04. Today's Mac
and OS are vastly superior to what we had in the old days.
- Rights:
Parents fight to ban perfume, aerosols in schools, CNN, 10.03.
Kristian Childers hasn't been to school since she reported that a
campus bully sprayed her in the face with perfume a year ago,
causing a severe asthma attack that landed her in the
hospital.
- Virus: Two new
epidemics wreak havok on PCs, Seng Li Peng, atNewYork.com,
10.03. Not one new Windows virus this week, but two. Opasoft and
Tanatos threaten Windows users.
- Rights: Stop, in the
name of 'bots, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Fox News, 10.03. RIAA
guilty of "near criminal sloppiness" in relying on bots to find
copyright violators.
- Dark Side:
New alerts have analysts doubting Microsoft security, Paul
Roberts, InfoWorld, 10.03. "A string of new security alerts from
[Microsoft] has prominent industry analysts and security experts
predicting that the company's goal of making its software secure
may remain elusive."
- Web: E-mail
hits snail-mail pace, Michelle Delio, Wired, 10.03. "Slow
e-mail delivery and sluggish Internet connections on Thursday are
due to a technical problem at WorldCom's UUNet division."
- Opinion:
Apple 'Book feature sets: Still searching for the sweet spot,
Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10.03. "...I think
that dropping the removable drive expansion bays was a major
downgrade in Apple's laptop versatility."
- Web:
Web idiocy, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion,
10.03. "I often find myself running 4 web browsers just to view web
sites I need to use...."
- News:
Small Dog Electronics named small business of the year,
MacDirectory, 10.03. Small Dog Electronics "named the 2002 Small
Business of the Year by the Central Vermont Economic Development
Corporation."
- Deal: IBM 25
GB 5400 rpm laptop hard drives: $99.99, Deals on the Web,
10.03. "...compatible with PowerBook 5300, 3400 and all G3
Powerbooks."
- Virus:
Bugbear virus spreading rapidly, Paul Roberts, Yahoo/IDG,
10.03. "Once activated, the virus shuts down vital processes used
by antivirus and firewall software, records user keystrokes to
capture passwords, sends copies of itself...."
- Virus: It's a
bug, a bear and a worm, Michelle Delio, Wired, 10.03. "...the
Bugbear worm, also known as Tanatos, is coded to allow a malicious
hacker complete control over infected computers." [Windows
computers, of course.]
- Analysis: Go
figure, Garry Barke, smh.com.au, 10.02. Installed base of Mac
users much higher than current market share. (Hint: They last
longer.)
- Opinion: Old Unix and
Mac computers never die..., Glenn Fleishman, GlennLogs, 10.02.
"...Mac and Unix users wind up using machines til they die or get
really really old."
- Rights: New
bills aim to protect consumers' use of digital media, Heather
Fleming Phillips, SiliconValley.com, 10.01. "Lofgren's bill would
ensure consumers can copy CDs, DVDs and other digital works for
personal use, just as they now do with TV shows and audio
tapes."
- Humor: What
really happens when you iSync, Joy of Tech, 10.02. Yes, your
digital devices really do talk to each other.
- Analysis: Sometimes you need
Windows, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 10.02. "In each case,
these clients went to Windows because of the needs of customers or
to use software that isn't available in a Mac version."
- Rights: Apple
stands firm against entertainment cartel, Dan Gillmor,
SiliconValley.com, 10.01. "Unlike Intel and AMD . . . Apple hasn't
announced plans to put technology into hardware that could end up
restricting what customers do with the products they buy."
- Tech: Hard disk
roundup: Heat, noise, and performance, Sander Sassen, Hardware
Analysis, 10.01. Looking at cost, capacity, performance, heat, and
noise, some drives are better choices than others.
- Education: Apple
rolls out .mac for education, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 10.01.
"The education version of the standard .Mac account includes 10MB
of email storage and 50MB of iDisk space."
- Web:
Satellite Internet service for Macs?, Slashdot, 10.01.
"Satellite broadband has been available to PC users for half a
decade, and still is not trivially available to Mac users."
- News: MacRaffle
site closed due to investigation by Ohio Attorney General,
Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 10.01. "It is the Ohio Attorney
General's position that I was operating an illegal gambling
operation from my home and on the Internet."
- News: .mac
subscribers top 180,000, MacMinute, 10.01. That's 80,000 during
the final two weeks of September.
- Web: Yahoo!
Messenger 2.5 gets SuperWebcam, MacNN, 10.01. New version of
software supports 20 fps 320x240 video in Mac OS X.
- OS X: The Mac OS
that can't be tweaked, Leander Kahney, Wired, 10.01. "Whereas
Apple pioneered the completely customizable system, they are now
headed in the other direction."
- Analysis: Steal your
interface: A history, Leander Kahney, Wired, 10.01. "Standard
features in most computer interfaces . . . were dreamed up by
people working in bedrooms or back offices."
- Opinion: New Mac Office
promotion: Too little, too late?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 10.01. Has Microsoft has finally realized its regular price is
too high?
- Upgrade: Sonnet
offers new G3, G4 upgrades for PCI Macs, clones, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 10.01. G4/700 and G3/500 daughter cards sell for $350
and $150 respectively.
- Deal: Buy a
Mac, get Office v. X for $199, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral,
10.01. Offer "allows North American customers that purchase any Mac
system to also purchase Office for US$199 if purchased on the same
day."
- Web: What the Net is
doing to you, Mark Ward, BBC News, 10.01. "...academics are
starting to find out how important an agent of social change the
internet is...."
- Web:
Slashdot turns 5, Slashdot, 10.01. Five years of news for
nerds, first posts, and assorted geekiness.
- Rights:
States settle CD price-fixing case, David Lieberman, USA Today,
10.01. States get the money. CD buyers get to keep their overpriced
CDs. TANJ.
- Rights:
Ex-cons
say they want to vote, Fox News, 10.01. State restrictions
prevent 3.9 million from casting ballots.
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