The Low End Mac Link Archive, June 2003
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- Software: Casady
& Greene to cease operations Thursday, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 06.30. "'With computers coming out loaded with software
the way they are, people don't seem to think they need extras,'
Bonnie Mitchell of C&G told MacCentral."
- Hardware: Apple
explains Power Mac G4 mobo switch, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
06.30. New 1.25 GHz G4 models a step back in price - and
features.
- Education: North Carolina,
Tennessee schools to get iBooks, MacMinute, 06.30. Greene
County, NC and Oak Ridge, TN embrace the iBook for students.
- Dark Side: A safer
system for home PC's feels like jail to some critics, John
Markoff, New York Times, 06.30. "...by entwining PC software and
data in an impenetrable layer of encryption, critics argue, the
companies may be destroying the very openness that has been at the
heart of computing...."
- Tech: AMD ships eight-way
64-bit Opteron, Tony Smith, The Register, 06.30. Opteron 800
Series supports up to 8 CPUs, could provide serious competition for
G5 in servers, workstations.
- Tech: Madison puts on
its floaties but can it swim?, Ashlee Vance, The Register,
06.30. Third generation of Itanium chip to reach 1.5 GHz at over
$4,000. Still no significant market share.
- OS X: Is Apple now
cribbing ideas from Windows?, Gene Steinberg, The Panther
Report, Mac Night Owl, 06.30. "When Steve Jobs first displayed
Panther's Fast User Switching feature, he had to admit that the
idea came from Windows XP."
- Humor: Four
thousand holes in Power Mac G5, Joy of Tech, 06.30. "And though
the holes were rather small, they had to count them all."
- Advocacy: Apple and developers,
Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network, 06.29. "...successful companies,
from Microsoft to Apple, often take more than their fair share of
the market, trampling small developers in the process."
- OS X: Modem Script
Generator, Antonio Flores Aldama, 06.29. Having problems
getting fast, reliable modem connections? MSG lets you tweak your
own script. Freeware.
Huh?:
T-Mobile
drives a nail into the Sidekick's coffin, Boing Boing, 06.28.
All your data are belong to T-Mobile. Company abandoning games on
Sidekick phone, will remotely erase them from customer phones.- Review: Hardware
RAID storage: Pricey, reliable, & worth it, Bryan Chaffin,
Mac Observer, 06.27. "...the strength of hardware RAID is that it
requires far less system resources from your Mac to do its
job."
- Macinschool: PC-Mac
war hits Tukwila school - Foster High wins grant for 30 new Apples,
but tech plan calls for PC use, Nora Doyle, King County
Journal, 06.27. Will school system really turn down $43,000 worth
of free Macs and instead pony up $3,000 for 30 of Boeing's
"surplus" (read: retired) Windows PCs?
- Rights:
The RIAA
plays whack-a-mole, Stephen O' Grady, The Register, 06.27.
"Basically, it's ordinary folks who use Kazaa, Limewire, or other
like alternatives who are at risk here."
- Rights: RFID
chips are here, Scott Granneman, Security Focus, 06.27. "RFID
chips are being embedded in everything from jeans to paper money,
and your privacy is at stake."
- Tech: Well known Mac
OS X ports, UCLA Department of Statistics, 06.27. TCP and UDP
port numbers commonly used by Macintosh services.
- Advocacy: Could an eMac
strategy bring more market share to Apple?, Eugenia Loli-Queru,
OSNews, 06.26. If Apple could offer a $499 eMac, there would be
almost no reason to buy a Windows or Lindows PC in the future.
- Rights:
RIAA
to sue song swappers?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.25. "The
Recording Industry Association of America has announced its
intention to sue 'the heaviest users of popular "peer to peer"
services like Kazaa' for thousands of dollars in damages...."
- Rights:
Starting
vicious rumors over listservs ruled OK, Ken "Caesar" Fisher,
ars technica, 06.25. "The US Court of Appeals in the 9th Circuit
has ruled that distributing someone's e-mail does not make one
liable for the content of that e-mail."
- Benchmarks: Apple denies
fiddling G5, Xeon tests, Tony Smith, The Register, 06.25. PC
systems were tweaked for better results, Linux scores were used
(since they were better than Windows), lab tried to make comparison
as fair as possible.
- Tech: Motorola hurries
release of 0.13µ G4, Tony Smith, The Register, 06.25. "The
clock speed will max out at 1.3GHz, but the extra cache sizes
should improve performance...."
- Opinion:
G5 reaction, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion,
06.24. "Whether you have multiple threads on one processor or a
multiprocessor system, memory speed . . . is more of a
bottleneck in current designs than raw processor speed."
- Opinion:
Apple often gets it right, Gene Steinberg, Mac Reality Check,
AZ Central, 06.24. The good stuff: Panther, iChat, Power Mac
G5....
- OS X: Panther
sneak preview, Apple, 06.23. The new Finder, Exposé, iChat
AV, faster Mail, FileVault, wicked fast Preview, Font Book,
built-in faxing, and lots more.
- Software: Apple
presents new video conferencing solution, Mac Observer, 06.23.
"The solution consists of iSight, a new digital video camera, and
iChat AV, an upgrade to the company's Instant Messenger
client."
- Software: WWDC:
Apple releases Safari 1.0, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 06.23.
"...Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple would make the final
version of its Safari Web browser available for download
Monday."
- Dark Side:
P4 3.2 GHz reviews, Slashdot, 06.23. Whopping 6.7% jump in CPU
speed at a $200 premium. Hope they don't plan to steal PowerPC 970
thunder with this one.
- Humor: WWDC
prediction: White-Out can save you money, The Parting Shot,
MacEdition, 06.20. "The power of Unix, a better GUI, in a sleek
metal case."
- Apple: Apple to
replay WWDC keynote via QuickTime, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
06.20. Apple won't be streaming the keynote live, but they will
make it available afterwards.
- News: Apple graphical
glitch reveals Power Mac G5 specs, Tony Smith, The Register,
06.20. "Apple inadvertently revealed its hand last night, posting -
albeit briefly - specs. for upcoming Power Macs on its online
AppleStore."
- News: A leak, a mistake, or a
hack?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 06.20. Did Apple
accidentally "spill the beans" on the new dual 2 GHz Power Mac G4 -
or did someone manage to hack the site?
- Opinion:
The bet: Apple, faster, better & still a loser, John Kheit,
The Devil's Advocate, Mac Observer, 06.20. Apple's constantly
declining market share - it's the price, stupid.
- Review: Mac OS X Hints:
Jaguar Edition: The 500 Most Amazing Power Tips, Charles W.
Moore, Applelinks, 06.20. "...a book that will help the neophyte OS
X user become more proficient, and help turn proficient users into
power users."
- Huh?: USB Forum speeds
up USB by renaming it, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 06.20.
USB 1.1 can now be called "Full Speed" USB 2 while faster USB 2.0
ports will be called "Hi-Speed" USB 2 ports. Got it?
- Opinion: A real Mac
to PC switcher ready to dump the Mac, Mac Observer, 06.19.
"...Macs are slow and overpriced, and did we mention he isn't going
to take it any more?"
- Rights:
Orrin
Hatch: Software pirate?, Leander Kahney, Wired, 06.19. "...if
Hatch's terminator system embraced software as well as music, his
servers would be targeted for destruction."
- Opinion: Microsoft
wages war on spam in courts, Todd Bishop, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 06.18. MS "announced 15 lawsuits against
alleged spammers, accusing them of collectively sending more than 2
billion deceptive and unsolicited e-mails to users of its . . .
Internet services."
- Rights:
US Senator
would destroy MP3 traders' PCs, Thomas C Greene, The Register,
06.18. "...Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah), thinks it would be a
fabulous idea if copyright owners could remotely destroy computers
that contain pirated material...."
- Software: iVCD lets
you burn VCDs, Super VCDs, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral, 06.17.
Want to burn movies but don't have a SuperDrive? iVCD lets you burn
Video CDs using a standard CD burner.
- Opinion: Microsoft
shows true color: Yellow, Tig Tillinghast, MediaPost, 06.17.
Microsoft's reaction to Apple launching its own browser: "Stop
development due to imminent defeat."
- Apple: Supply snag
slows down Mac cloner, Leander Kahney, Wired, 06.17. "John
Fraser's one-man Mac clone business has been put on hold after a
key parts supplier became the target of Apple Computer's legal
team."
- Analysis: Apple
sometimes gets it wrong, Gene Steinberg, Mac Reality Check, Mac
Night Owl, 06.16. "Some of you may not recall how much R&D
money Apple squandered over the years developing technologies that
never bore fruit."
- Rights:
Proposed
act in Congress would keep Internet access tax away, Vern
Seward, Mac Observer, 06.16. "...a group of our elected
Congressional Reps are pushing a proposed Act that would make
access to the Internet permanently tax-free."
- Rights:
Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet, Cnet, 06.16.
Proposal draft says Internet news sites, individual websites,
moderated mailing lists, and even Web logs, must offer a "right of
reply" to those who have been criticized.
- Rights:
Europe to force right of reply on Internet communication,
Slashdot, 06.16. Proposal would force all Internet news
organizations, moderated mailing lists and even web logs (blogs) to
allow a right of response to any person or organization they
criticize.
- Hardware:
Floppy disks may soon be spinning to a halt, The Straits Times,
06.16. Five years after the iMac was announced sans floppy, most PC
makers are abandoning it as a standard feature, although some still
offer it as an option.
- Software: Updates to Microsoft
Internet Explorer expected today, MacMinute, 06.16. Swan song
for IE on the Mac. Also, "In addition, Internet Explorer 5.1.7 for
Mac OS 8/9 will be released later this month."
- Opinion: Why I can't
finish the upgrade to Mac OS X, Ted Haigh, Mac Night Owl,
06.16. Three programs and one printer prvent the author from going
OS X only.
- Web: MacServers
website, MacServers, 06.16. Thanks to OS X, any modern Mac can
be a server using included and free software.
- News:
Stolen Apples ended up on eBay, Clay Bailey, GoMemphis.com,
06.15. "The equipment was part of the loot taken in a pre-dawn,
window-smashing burglary at the Apple computer store in Germantown
about seven weeks ago."
- Dark Side: R.I.P., Jeffrey
Zeldman, The Daily Report, 06.13. "...after spending billions of
dollars to defeat all competitors . . . Microsoft as a corporation
is no longer interested in web browsers."
- News: No
Mac drivers from Belkin, Apple AirPort Weblog, 06.13. Belkin
has stated that the promised Mac drivers for their 802.11g PC Card
will not be produced.
- Review:
Giga Designs 1.4GHz CPU upgrade, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your
Mac, 06.13. Hands on with the fastest G4 accelerator to date - this
one runs at up to 1.467 GHz.
- Low End: Using
an Apple IIe card in your Macintosh, Vectronic's Apple World,
06.13. You must have a Mac with an LC PDS and be running with
24-bit addressing to use this card.
- Review: iListen 1.6
dictation software for OS X, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
06.13. "It's far from perfected yet, and still has rough edges, but
so does the competition, and this release has done considerable
smoothing."
- News: 802.11g standard
approved, Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral, 06.12. "The changes to the
specification are minor and will affect how 802.11g products
interact with older 802.11b (AirPort) products."
- Opinion: Mac G5: Too
little, too late, James Maguire, osOpinion, 06.12. Up the death
knell counter by one - "the company needs to do something besides
create cool computers to survive."
- Opinion: Who really owns
Unix?, Allen Brown, ZDNet, 06.12. The author, a spokesman for
The Open Group, doesn't seem to understand the difference between
calling something Unix and comparing something to Unix.
- Tech: Macs to drive on
HyperTransport links, Michael Kanellos, Cnet, 06.12. "Apple
Computer plans to discuss how it will incorporate HyperTransport, a
rapid chip-to-chip communications technology, into future computers
later this month at its developer conference."
- Rights:
Apple sued over Unix trademark, Slashdot, 06.12. The Open Group
suing Apple over "unlicensed use" of the Unix trademark. Apple
countersuing to have the Unix trademark declared invalid because
term has become generic.
- Advice: Laser versus ink
jet, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 06.12. Whether an inkjet or
laser printer - or both - might be your best choice.
- Opinion: Mac users
can't catch a break in a PC world, Vicki Estes, Topeka
Capital-Journal, 06.11. "For years, Mac users have been
discriminated against simply for wanting a computer that doesn't
crash or lock up when the mood hits it."
- News: Apple in court dispute
over Unix, Ian Fried, Cnet, 06.11. The Open Group sues Apple
over use of Unix trademark. Apple countersues, asks judge to
declare trademark invalid, Unix a generic term.
- Macinschool: Foster
High considers turning down free Macs, Nora Doyle, King County
Journal, 06.10. "It's silly to turn down the offer of free Macs
when the school district has to provide technical support for the
Macs already at the high school."
- Advice:
A compleat buyer's and user's guide to high-end Macintosh
laptops, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.10. A
look at portable Apple options above the $1,000 price point.
- News:
Core shut down, dealmac, 06.10. Looks like Core is going out of
business, and along with it the Core Crib Power Mac clone.
- OS X: Apple
releases Mac OS X security update for June to address networking
issues, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 06.10. Security Update
2003-06-09 addresses potential security issues with AFP (Apple
Filing Protocol) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol).
- Opinion: Apple
nostalgia: Why we love older Macs, John Ward, Vectronic's Apple
World, 06.09. "While most older non-Apple computers eventually hit
the landfills, it seems a crime to discard an older Mac."
- .mac: .Mac
affected by virus?, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 06.09. "...
Apple's email servers have been slowed by the Windows-only virus
simply because of all the "waste email" being generated across the
Internet by BugBear B."
- Upgrade: PowerLogix
announces 1.4 GHz single and dual Power Mac G4 upgrades,
PowerLogix, 06.04. Give your AGP Power Mac the speed of today's
top-end model. $599 for single 1.4 GHz and $1099 for dual 1.4
GHz.
- Opinion: Jaguar/iBook
input device woes, and another switcher's odyssey, Charles W.
Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 06.09. "...even though the iBook
is faster than the Pismo, these USB-related issues are slowing me
down overall."
- Rights:
RIAA
wrath hits teen, Lindsay Martell, ABC News, 06.09. Student
creates search engine for university network. RIAA sues, settles
for life savings of $12,000.
- Huh?: Pink
Gateway laptop planned, MacMinute, 06.09. "Gateway PCs will
show up in several summer movies, including a color-coordinated
role in the upcoming movie 'Legally Blonde 2.'"
- News: 64-bit Macs
may outpace 'Panther', N Ciarelli, M Rothenberg, eWeek, 06.09.
"Apple Computer Inc. is nearing the release of desktop systems
featuring IBM's 64-bit PowerPC 970 chip, sources report - but a
64-bit version of Mac OS X may lag behind by a month or two."
- Rights:
Netizens,
prepare to pay more, Declan McCullagh, Cnet, 06.09. "The FCC
is considering levying an additional tax of up to 9.1 percent on
the revenue of cable modem providers."
- Forum:
Cable modem tax proposed by FCC, Slashdot, 06.09. "...the FCC
is considering a new tax of up to 9.1% on the revenue of cable
modem providers. This is an expansion of the existing universal
service fund...."
- Deal: Maxtor
30GB IDE hard drive: $29.99 A/R, Deals on the Web, 06.09. 7200
rpm drive has 2 MB buffer. Cost is $59.99 before $30 mail in
rebate. Expires 06.14.
- Deal: Maxtor
120GB IDE hard drive: $79.99 A/R, Deals on the Web, 06.09. 7200
rpm drive has 8 MB buffer. Cost is $129.99 before $50 mail in
rebate. Expires 06.14.
- Analysis: Motorola looking
to sell PowerPC producer - report, Tony Smith, The Register,
06.09. "...if Motorola sells its semiconductor operation, how
committed will the operation's new owner be to providing Apple with
processors?"
- Opinion: Cell number
portability, Damien Barrett, MrBarrett.com, 06.07. "With true
number portability, many many people will begin shopping in earnest
for the best carrier, for the best deal."
- Advice:
PowerBook G4 12" hard drive swap, Stefan Horn, Accelerate Your
Mac, 06.06. "Note: You should use a 2.5in hard drive with a max
height of 9.5mm."
- Benchmarks: Ultra320 15,000 RPM SCSI
drives compared, Bare Feats, 06.06. "No matter which of the
three drives you choose, it would be faster than the fastest Ultra
ATA-100/133 drive and the fastest FireWire 800 drive kit."
- Tech:
GNUstep, Mac OS X compatible on Intel hardware, John Kheit, The
Devil's Advocate, Mac Observer, 06.06. "This means that a lot of
people are going to be able to run Cocoa OS X programs, not only on
Intel machines, but on various operating systems."
- Review: New OmniWeb beta
improves on original, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 06.06.
"Although not quite finished, OmniWeb 4.5b1, released to the public
on Thursday, comes across as extremely stable and polished."
- Dark Side: How to buy
WinXP for $50, Michael Robertson, Tech Zone, 06.05. TigerDirect
" talked to us about e-mails and phone calls from Microsoft
attempting to bribe them to stop selling LindowsOS computers."
- Virus: Bugbear sequel
spells fresh misery for Windows users, John Leyden, The
Register, 06.05. "Anti-virus vendors today warned of the rapid
spread of yet another mass mailing virus." Macs are immune, of
course.
- Opinion: The learning curve
revisited, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 06.05. "Some say it's
easier for novices to master than previous versions of the Mac OS.
Others say it's just not so...."
- Tech: Motorola starts to
talk up PowerPC 7457, Tony Smith, The Register, 06.04. Motorola
expects to achieve a 40% speed boost (2 GHz tops). New chip will
double size of L2 cache to 512 KB, support 4 MB L3 cache.
- Tech:
New system could speed up Internet downloads, Yahoo/Reuters,
06.04. Newly developed Fast TCP protocol uses existing Internet,
moves data hundreds of times faster.
- Dark Side:
Microsoft plans an overhaul for patch system, Slashdot, 06.04.
"How is a user supposed to trust a patch being issued by a company
that is known to release vulnerable software in the first
place?"
- News: Palm
to buy Handspring, Gillian Law, MacCentral, 06.04. "After they
spin-off of PalmSource, Palm Solutions Group will merge with
Handspring to create a new company, to be renamed later in the
year, Palm said in a statement."
- Dark Side:
Microsoft patents interactive entertainment, Slashdot, 06.04.
Exactly what has Microsoft patented - video on demand or just a
selection system?
- Dark Side:
Microsoft
granted US patent for "interactive entertainment", Alexander
Wolfe, EmbeddedWatch.com, 05.31. Believe it or not, it looks like
Microsoft just got a patent on video-on-demand.
- Dark Side: Microsoft fixes up
patch system, Martin LaMonica, ZDNet, 06.04. "Eventually,
Microsoft will consolidate its patch management into a single tool
that can work across all the company's products, Charney said."
Sounds like Apple's Software Update....
- Tech: Motorola adds
dual-core G4 to PowerPC roadmap, Tony Smith, The Register,
06.04. "It will also contain its own memory controller, capable of
connecting to DDR and DDR 2 SDRAM, according to documents seen by
The Register." Map also calls for speeds to 2 GHz.
- Opinion: So what's the truth
about Apple's market share?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
06.04. "The key here is that Apple may not be selling all that many
new computers, but Mac users continue to hang onto their old ones
regardless."
- Humor: Tivo debuts
Get-A-Life feature, BBSpot, 06.03. "...some of our users are
watching too much TV. The TivoGAL feature aims to stop that, and
really make a difference in these people's lives."
- Analysis: 10% of computer
users run Apple, Mac-Mike.com, 06.03. Although market share is
much lower, Mac users hold onto their computers much longer.
- Analysis: The MP3 economy: How
labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar, Nancy Einhart,
Business 2.0, 06.03. The average artist or band gets 12% for every
tune downloaded legally, the publisher 30%, and the seller (e.g.,
Apple) 40%.
- Opinion:
Wake up Apple, you're losing the war, Stefano Scalia, The Mac
Mind, 06.03. "We're enshrined in our little cocoons of high priced
computers and world-class design and innovation, but we forget
there's another world out there."
- Advice: Some fast advice for
selecting and using ink jet printers, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night
Owl, 06.03. "...there are potential landmines, which is why I've
assembled a few suggestions and comments on buying and using your
next printer."
- Software: QuickTime 6.3 adds
3GPP, improves iApp support, more, Peter Cohen, MacCentral,
06.03. QuickTime 6.3 adds support for the 3rd Generation
Partnership Project standard, bridging a connection to passing
multimedia content over wireless networks on devices like cell
phones and PDAs.
- Review: OWC
Mercury Extreme 1.33 GHz, Giga Designs G4/800, 1 GHz CPU
upgrades, Mike Breeden, Accelerate Your Mac, 06.03. Which
upgrade provides the most bang for the buck?
- Advice:
The Compleat Buyer's and User's Guide to Low-end Macintosh
Laptops, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 06.03. A
look at "portable workhorses" selling for under US$1,000.
- Humor: The 3rd
annual Nigerian email conference, Just Buzzin', 06.02. Have
email scams become Nigeria's leading export?
- Opinion: The
switching to OS X discussion continues, Charles W. Moore, OS X
Odyssey, Applelinks, 06.02. "Another batch of excellent letters
about why people are or are not switching to OS X...."
- Opinion:
Lower your blood pressure, Sandy McMurray, Globe and Mail,
06.02. "It's not that there's anything wrong with the PC. It's just
that I find my blood pressure goes down when it's turned off."
- News: Formac introduces new
FireWire TV recording solution, MacMinute, 06.02.
Second-generation FireWire TV and Digital Video Recording solution
for the Mac digitizes video, records TV like TiVo.
- Tech: Motorola: 20%
faster, 2 GHz PowerPC G4s using 0.18 micron process, Remy
Davison, Insanely Great Mac, 06.02. New process should yield 20%
speed gain in the short term. Power Mac G4 dual 1.75 GHz anyone?
And when?
- Apple: Apple
drops 12, 15-inch PowerBook prices up to $300, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 06.02. Apple trims $200 from 12" PowerBook, $200-300
from 15" PowerBook.
Rights:
Tiscali
boots off heavy users, Tim Richardson, The Register, 06.02.
Those who consistently use their "AnyTime" dialup service beyond
150 hours per month will have their accounts terminated.- Analysis: How much do you love
tabbed browsing really?, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 06.02.
Transformation of OS X "browser wars" from IE vs. Omiweb to Safari
vs. Camino and IE.
- Opinion: Migration
conspiracies revisited, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 06.02.
"The NeXT people didn't respect the way things were done by Apple,
and feel they can do it better."
- Analysis: Xserves
power iTunes Music Store, 'America 24/7', Jim Dalrymple,
MacCentral, 06.02. Xserve, Xserve RAID, Mac OS X Server, and Web
Objects power Apple's iTunes Music Store.
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