The Low End Mac Link Archive, November 2003
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- Advice:
Faxing in Panther, Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network, 11.26. How
to set up and use the faxing capabilities built into Mac OS X
10.3.
- Virus: Decades
after creation, viruses defy cure, Robert Lemos, Cnet, 11.25.
First computer virus appeared 20 years ago.
- Hardware: Hands-on review -
PowerLogix PowerCube, Macs Only!, 11.25. Larger aluminum
replacement case for Cube's acrylic enclosure permits larger video
cards, faster CPU upgrades, better heat management.
- Virus: Nachi worm
infected Diebold ATMs, Kevin Poulsen, The Register, 11.25. Who
in their right mind would run an ATM with Windows? Someone more
concerned with convenience than security.
- Review:
Contour MiniPro Mouse, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac
Opinion, 11.25. "As with all Contour products I've used and
sampled, the MiniPRO Mouse is well constructed out of first-rate
materials."
- Opinion: Apple
death knell #34: Four tech execs agree that Apple will soon be
dead, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Net Journal, 11.24. "The panel also
agreed that if it didn't run on the x86 architecture, it was likely
gone."
Rights:
Master/slave,
Snopes.com, 11.24. Political correctness run amok. Los Angeles
County bans use of terms "master" and "slave" - even for hard
drives.- Opinion: Is your
computer fast enough?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 11.23.
"The bottom line is that you may be paying for performance you will
never need, really."
- Opinion:
What do you do for fun, Dr. Mac?, Bob Levitus, Dr Mac: Rants
& Raves, Mac Observer, 11.21. He paints - and you'll probably
be impressed with the results.
- Opinion: Filling product
gaps, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 11.21. "What's left? A
cheap Mac at the low end."
- Opinion: The
Cupertino community playground (or, why Apple owes me nothing),
Kirk Hiner, Applelinks, 11.20. "Apple's kind of big on strong-arm
tactics, you see, and if they don't like something that's going on,
they'll let you know about it."
- Web: Around the Mac
Web in 80 clicks, Rothenberg, eWeek, 11.20. "If you want to
gauge the enduring vitality of the Mac, just take a look at the
wellspring of Web sites focused on Apple Computer and its computing
platform."
- Rights:
Local teen
singing the blues after being sued for downloading music, Joe
Furia, KOMO 1000 News, 11.17. The RIAA is at it again, suing yet
another minor - 15 year old Megan Dickenson of Seattle.
- Advocacy: A renewed pitch for
the low end, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 11.19. A . . .
person on a budget needs lots of persuasion . . . to believe that
spending $799 for a Mac is better than shelling out a couple of
hundred less for the latest cheap [Windows] boxes...."
- Opinion: Apple
Death Knell #33: Apple may run out of steam, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 11.19. "...iTunes for Windows has met with great success
in the Windows world, and that is earning Apple good will."
- OS X: Panther
pounces, part one, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion,
11.19. "Apple should have included a bright red sticker on the
package that screams 'Your video card may not be supported by this
upgrade!' with links to more information on the web."
- Software:
XPostFacto 3.0a8, Ryan Rempel, 11.18. Version 3 (now in alpha)
allows installation of Panther on unsupported hardware.
- Advice:
G4 iBook or titanium PowerBook - which is the best choice? (For
you), Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 11.18. New
iBook G4? Discontinued TiBook? New AlBook? Each has its advantages
and drawbacks.
- News: Apple
unveils 20-inch iMac, MacCentral, 11.18. "The new [US$2,199]
iMac joins the 15-inch Combo Drive and 17-inch SuperDrive models in
Apple's consumer line-up."
- OS X: Interface and
performance anomalies, Gene Steinberg, The Panther Report, Mac
Night Owl, 11.18. "When you configure the Print & Fax
preference panel to send you faxes via e-mail, it simply won't
work."
- News: Apple offers
dual-processor 1.8GHz Power Mac G5, MacCentral, 11.18. "The new
dual-processor system replaces the single-processor 1.8GHz G5
previously available, and costs US$2,499 - only $100 more than the
1.8GHz system it replaces."
- OS X: Can a G3
Deliver the goods with 10.3?, Gene Steinberg, The Panther
Report, Mac Night Owl, 11.17. "Under Jaguar, the [600 MHz] iMac
seemed sluggish . . . Panther brought the nearly instantaneous
responses that were hallmarks of Mac OS 9."
- Analysis:
Apple Death Knell #32: Apple must move to Intel to generate
demand, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 11.17. "There's just
nothing of substance behind his prediction that Apple will need to
move to Intel. Nothing at all."
- Upgrade: MCE
offers iBook G4s with DVD-R/RW + DVD-RAM drives, Dennis
Sellers, MacCentral, 11.17. One up on Apple's SuperDrive, which
isn't an iBook option, this drive also supports DVD-RAM.
- Opinion: Panther,
Andy Ihnatko, Mac Observer, 11.14. "...Mac OS X finally has aspects
which I honestly despise."
- Forum Hypothetical:
The longevity of your Mac, Mac Observer, 11.14. "If Apple
closed shop tomorrow and all the remaining Macs in the world were
gobbled up by frenzied buyers . . . how long do you think your Mac
would last...?
- News: Sony launches
0.4in thick notebook, Tony Smith, The Register, 11.14. Gee,
that makes the 1" thin PowerBook look thick.
- Review: Miglia's
AlchemyTV, Pierre Igot, Applelust, 11.14. "Lustworthy" $109 PCI
card gives G4 Power Macs (400 MHz or faster, OS X 10.2.4 or later)
ability to record TV and FM radio to your hard drive.
- .mac: Impending
OS 9 iDisk hitch, Macworld UK, 11.14. "If you're using Mac OS 9
and AFP you'll need to download and install software that enables
WebDAV for your operating system in order to maintain full access
to your iDisk."
- News: Apple offers iPod
battery replacement service, MacMinute, 11.14. "...Apple is now
offering a US$99 battery replacement program for iPods that are
more than a year old."
- Opinion: Is Apple giving
independent dealers the boot?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl,
11.14. "The small independent retailers that supported the Mac all
these years may eventually be supplanted by the marketing muscle of
huge retail conglomerates."
- Advice:
Panther Internet Sharing, Wei-Meng Lee, O'Reilly Network,
11.12. How to share an Internet connection - even using
FireWire.
- Benchmarks: iBook
G4 versus other Apple laptops, Bare Feats, 11.11. MHz for MHz,
the PowerBook G4s are faster than the iBooks G4s.
- OS X: The dust settles
rapidly, Gene Steinberg, The Panther Report, Mac Night Owl,
11.11. The 10.3.1 Update "is clearly a very limited, precisely
targeted update that only fixes those few pressing issues."
- OS X: The dust settles
rapidly, Gene Steinberg, The Panther Report, Mac Night Owl,
11.11. The 10.3.1 Update "is clearly a very limited, precisely
targeted update that only fixes those few pressing issues."
- OS X:
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, John Siracusa, ars technica, 11.10. "Is
it worth it, or is a major OS upgrade every year simply too much,
too often?"
- Humor: Never
click on "Print Jobs", Joy of Tech, 11.10. Why you should never
select the "Print Jobs" function.
- OS X: Mac OS X
v10.3.1 improves FileVault, FireWire 800, more, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 11.10. This should address most of the problems users
have had since switching to Panther.
- Benchmarks: Power Mac 7300 with
Sonnet 700 MHz G4 upgrade - How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 11.10.
The old workhorse really shines with 700 MHz of G4 horsepower - and
the upgrade only cost US$269.
- OS X:
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, John Siracusa, ars technica, 11.10. "Is
it worth it, or is a major OS upgrade every year simply too much,
too often?"
- Humor: Never
click on "Print Jobs", Joy of Tech, 11.10. Why you should never
select the "Print Jobs" function.
- OS X: Mac OS X
v10.3.1 improves FileVault, FireWire 800, more, Peter Cohen,
MacCentral, 11.10. This should address most of the problems users
have had since switching to Panther.
- Benchmarks: Power Mac 7300 with
Sonnet 700 MHz G4 upgrade - How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 11.10.
The old workhorse really shines with 700 MHz of G4 horsepower - and
the upgrade only cost US$269.
- Rights:
Penn State
students revolt against Napster, DRM invasion, Ashlee Vance,
The Register, 11.07. "Students can download - or stream - all the
songs they like for free but can only use or play the tunes while
at Penn State."
- Analysis: iTMS beats
Napster 5:1 in head-to-head sales, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
11.07. "Late yesterday, Apple announced that during the first week
of Napster's launch, the iTMS had some 1.5 million downloads."
- Apple: Your 99¢
belong to the RIAA - Steve Jobs, Andrew Orlowski, The Register,
11.07. At this point, Apple isn't even breaking even selling music
at the iTunes Music Store.
- OS X: Panther two weeks
later, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 11.07. A few teething
problems, but all in all, Panther is a worthwhile upgrade.
- Review: Charles Moore
reviews Mac ARA Modem Magic 5.7, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks,
11.07. "...the Modem Magic scripts do seem to hold onto connections
more tenaciously, and dropped connections have been extremely rare
since I started using them."
Macinschool: Apple
corners Canada schools market, Karen Haslam, Macworld UK,
11.06. "In the last quarter Apple Canada won 46 per cent of the
Canadian education market, putting the company in first
place."-
Macinschool:
Apple laptop program costs school board members their jobs,
Bryan Chaffin, The Back Page, Mac Observer, 11.06. Anti-Mac
computer consultant elected to school board on anti-iBook
platform.
- OS X: Panther bug:
Is it really dead?, Leander Kahney, Wired, 11.06. "...it looks
like Apple's problems with FireWire - a technology the company
invented - go back several years."
- Apple: .mac renewal rate:
87%, dotmac.info, 11.06. Very impressive renewal rate.
- Advice: Five reasons
not to buy an iPod, Eliot Van Buskirk, Cnet, 11.05. Five
reasons the iPod might not be the ideal portable MP3 player for
you.
- OS X: FireWire
400 data loss culprit remains a mystery, Jim Dalrymple,
MacCentral, 11.05. "...users of FireWire 400 drives have been
reporting symptoms very similar to the ones initially found with
FireWire 800."
- OS X: Panther bitten by
second data damaging bug, Tony Smith, The Register, 11.05. "Mac
OS X 10.3's FileVault system, which protects each user's home
folder with on-the-fly 128-but AES data encryption, has been found
to contain a data-damaging glitch, Apple has admitted."
- OS X: The Panther FireWire
bug: Prosoft says you can get your data back!, Gene Steinberg,
Mac Night Owl, 11.05. "As you might expect, Prosoft is getting an
avalanche of orders for its drive recovery program."
- Opinion:
WallStreet redivivus - and laptop heat issues, Charles W.
Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 11.04. "In which the author's
WallStreet rises Phoenix-like from the ashes of a processor
meltdown."
- OS X: Panther
security update addresses Terminal issue, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 11.04. Latest security update "addresses a potential
vulnerability with the Terminal application in OS X 10.3 and OS X
10.3 Server that could allow unauthorized access to a system."
- OS X: Run Panther
run, Daring Fireball, 11.03. One site's logs show that 6 of 10
visitors using Safari are already running Panther.
- Benchmarks: Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) on
G3 Macs - How fast is it?, Macs Only!, 11.03. "The G3's show
the same speed increases as did the G4s, maybe even more so."
- Opinion: Mac.Ars
takes on Apple's quality control, Eric Bangeman, ars technica,
11.03. "...bugs such as the Panther/Firewire drive and the Windows
2000/iTunes installation issue come at a particularly inopportune
time for Apple."
- Opinion: Why
open standards are better, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac
Opinion, 11.03. "...the only way Macs (and other platforms) have a
chance to survive in this world is if they are given equal footing
to Windows boxes."
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