The Low End Mac Link Archive, June 1999
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- Opinion: Oil barons
of the 21st century, Mac Opinion, 6/30. "When competitors sell
identical products, there is no competition."
- Opinion: Is P1
really an eMate?, Mac Users Militia."...word from the beginning
was that eventually the eMate would be brought back to life, but
this time as a true Macintosh and not a Newton."
- Opinion: Farewell to a friend,
Mac Mania, 6/30. "Today . . . I'm going to retire my faithful SE/30
that's worked for me perfectly...."
- Web: Topsites
lists top 25 iMac sites
- Dark Side: Coming
soon: Back Orifice 2000, Wired News, 6/30. "This will
demonstrate that Microsoft's operating systems are completely
insecure and a bad choice for consumers and businesses who demand
privacy."
- Advice: Running CD
programs from your hard drive, Mac OS Planet, 6/30.
- Siting: Have you seen the 20th
Anniversary Mac in the print ads for MySchwab.com?
- Dark Side: Intel
offers sneak peek at Merced, ZDNet, 6/29. Intel's next great
CPU, under development for years, remains under development.
- Opinion: We
need Macs in school for discovery's sake, Mac Observer,
6/29.
- Quote: "...as reliable as a Windows PC," Newsweek, print
edition (talk about a slow web site....)
- News: iMac hits #3 in
retail sales, MacNN, 6/29. iMac/333 was #3 in May, iMac Rev. B
#7.
- Rumor: Apple
shifts resources to iBook intro, Applelinks, 6/29. "...Apple
wants to make sure the rollout is a success and may temporarily cut
back on other projects...."
- Opinion: Powerful
simplicity, MacDiscussion, 6/29. "...what the Macintosh does
for the user is enable him/her to do powerful, great things -
simply and easily."
- OS: Linux vs. NT as web
server, c't [Xappeal].
Real world alternative to Mindcraft test includes comparison to OS
X.
- News:
AAPL jumps after comments on Consumer Portable, Yahoo/Reuters,
6/29.
- Consumer: Bell Atlantic
escalates war on crammers, 6/29. Bell Atlantic is making it
easier for customers to prevent third-party charges to phone
bills.
- Advice: Time for
a new family Mac: upgrade or buy new?, Mac Parents, 6/29.
- Web: AltaVista
remakes itself as a network, ZDNet, 6/29. Includes "freshness
guarantee" that all pages will be less than 28 days old.
- Opinion: "1984"
greatest commercial of all, MacCentral, 6/29. TV Guide rates
Apple's ad best ever.
- Opinion:
The internet flame column, osOpinion. "What we have to remember
is that when we disagree with someone, even someone who is being a
real jerk, there are better and more productive ways to react than
flaming."
- Science:
Xerox, 3M sign pact for electronic paper, Reuters, 6/29.
Straight out of science fiction, electronic paper is like a
paper-thin computer screen.
- Opinion: The next
iMac: Replace CD-ROM with drive bay, MacChat, 6/29.
- Opinion:
Banning the beige boxes, ABC News, 6/28. "People want that
easy-to-use computer, and the [Wintel] industry is still trying to
figure out how to give it to them."
- News: Mac OS ROM
Update 1.0, Apple, 6/28. For iMac, Blue G3, and Lombard with
Mac OS 8.6 only.
- News:
iMac/333 third best selling desktop in May, Mac Observer, 6/28.
PC Data no longer differentiates iMacs by color, only speed.
- Opinion:
Apple for sale? I don't think so, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer,
6/28.
- News: Big Brother wants to read your email, Charles W. Moore,
MacTimes, 6/28. British government wants ISPs to provide police
with ability to intercept internet traffic.
Hardware: Legacy of an Apple
prototype [MacOS Rumors].
The skinny on the Apple Set Top Box (right).- Rumor: Apple's
WebMate to ship in August, MacCentral, 6/28
- Advocacy: The
World's Most Hugest Page o' Mac Facts
- DVD: Introduction
to DVD, DVD Resource
Page, The Digital
Bits
- Opinion:
Apple's destiny vs. the PC's fate, Apple Trader, 6/28. "The
Pentium III has inspired about as much excitement as, well,
leftover pizza."
- OS X: OS X on
old Power Macs?, Xappeal. "...the Client release will support a
wider range of hardware than the Server release."
- OS X: Where's the
new finder?, MacKiDo, 6/28. "As Mac users, we need to face the
fact that the NeXT acquisition of Apple is complete."
- News: MacRevolution
expands, 6/28. Mac-only ISP adds Arizona, Maryland, Mass.,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersy, New York, Oregon, Penn., and
Washington to California base.
- Opinion:
The iMac challenge, osOpinion. "I recommend some real-life
shootouts between [the iMac and the E-Power]."
- Connectivity: iCab
preview 1.6a out, now available in Japanese, too. [Macs Only!]
- Opinion: The
E-Power threat, NoBeige. "...I'm willing to bet the E-Power
will easily slaughter the iMac in sales."
- Dark Side:
Have I told you lately that I hate Windows, Stewart Alsop,
Fortune. "Microsoft's operating system is what has led to our loss
of control over computing."
- Science:
High dose of caffeine protects from radiation, New Scientist,
6/26 [Slashdot]. "A person
weighing 70 kilograms [about 155 pounds] might therefore need to
drink at least 100 cups to receive the same dose as the mice."
- Opinion:
Apple for sale?, Mac Observer, 6/25. "Apple is a classic buy
out target!"
- Opinion: The end is
near: backup now!, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 6/25. Overview
of backup hardware and software.
- Opinion: Mac
in a box, Mac Mania, 6/25. One man's idea how Apple could make
a computer to take the world by storm.
- Rumor:
Consumer Portable plans intact, but new iMac may slip,
AppleInsider, 6/24.
- News: CompUSA
to shift focus, cut jobs, ZDNet, 6/24. May be moving away from
low margin, low cost PCs (the iMac is neither).
- News: Castlewood
unveils Mac ORB drive, TechWeb, 6/24. SCSI version of $200 2.2
GB cartridge drive shown.
- Rumor: Consumer Portable
due in August, The Register, 6/23. Apple says nothing, but
manufacturer Alpha Top spills the beans.
- News: Tax-free
web goods may disappear, ZDNet, 6/23. Congressional panel says
it's time to tax internet commerce.
Dark Side: PC maker
blatantly rips off iMac design, Daily Mac, 6/23. The sincerest
form of flattery?- Performance: Startup Doubler vs. Speed
Doubler, Bare Feats. Which $20 program is faster?
- Opinion: iMac:
simplicity is in the eye of the beholder, MacProvider. "Why
can't users just press a button to turn off the computer and not
worry about open apps, or being online."
- Hardware: The
impact of the system bus, Daily Mac, 6/22. What does it mean to
have a 50, 66, or 100 MHz system bus?
- OS: System
7.0 released 10 years ago, The Press On-Line, 6/22. Introduced
32-bit addressing (way before Win95), TrueType fonts, broader
network support, and more.
- Hardware: Sneak
peek at Apple's new LCD display, MacInTouch, 6/22. Looks like
$2,895 1600x1024 pixel SGI display and
Radius Artica display.
- News: P1 woes for
Apple, MacWeek, 6/22. "...the consumer PowerBook, or P1 - is in
danger of being scrapped...."
- Advice: Reasons
you should not use virtual memory, Mac Observer, 6/22.
"...there is no way in the world that VM can actually replace
RAM."
- Analysis: Megahertz demystified:
what really determine's your computer's speed, Daily Mac, 6/22.
"Once you get to a speed as fast as 233 MHz, another 33 Mhz - or
even another 100 MHz - is not a big deal."
- Advice: The
impact of RAM/memory, Daily Mac, 6/22. "If you're looking for a
secret elixir to make your iMac young again - err, faster and more
responsive, that is - I highly suggest a RAM upgrade."
- Opinion:
Why convergence won't happen, osOpinion. "You go to your TV to
turn your brain off - you go to your computer to turn your brain
on."
- Rumor: Another
headache for Apple?, ZDNet, 6/22. Consumer portable may be
derailed by engineering problems.
- Dark Side: Why Windows 2000 is
already a failure, ZDNet, 6/22. "It is too much for consumers.
And too little for mission-critical business environments."
- News: Haverford
College appears to be phasing out Macs, MacCentral, 6/22.
- Rumor: Apple
to standardize on DVD, AppleInsider, 6/22. "...Apple will begin
to completely phase out the CD-ROM starting sometime later this
year."
- News: Modem security flaw
hits iMac, Global Village, others, MacInTouch Special Report.
"...the modems fail to safely guard between data mode and control
mode, so that control sequences may be triggered remotely...."
- Opinion: Apple's
engineering shakeup for the better, PowerBook Zone. "...if all
four of these projects are brought together under one group, the
combined shared development effort will speed each of these
projects."
- Opinion: Days
of "big ugly box" coming to a flashy end, Arizona Central, 6/21
[Macs Only!]. "What
PC-makers are realizing is that design sells."
- Rumor: A look at Apple's next
PowerBook, Mac OS Rumors, 6/21. Business and creative versions,
maybe 1280 x 1024 (yes!), return of second device bay, lots
more.
- News: Due
to popular demand, no iMac shipping until late July, Mac
Observer, 6/21. Looks like the Apple store has run out of Revision
D iMacs. Could it mean a new one is just around the corner?
- Opinion:
The iMac still has no competitor, The Apple Trader, 6/21
- Hardware: Mac SE, SE/30,
Mac Users Militia
- OS: The promise of
Mac OS X, About.com, 6/21. "Most Mac OS users have high
expectations for their Mac: it should just plain work."
- OS: Mac OS
X, raising the bar, Sunworld, 6/99. "Although I use FreeBSD for
my server, I use (gasp!) Mac OS on my desktop machine."
- News: University
of Michigan not dumping Macs, MacCentral, 6/21. "While the
campus is cross platform from the student perspective, it is pro-PC
from an administrative office standpoint."
- News: iCab Preview
1.6 available. More on MacCentral.
- OS: Icons and
previews, MacKiDo, 6/21. OS X supports new 128x128 icon
size.
- Advice: Ask Dr.
Mac #22, MacCentral, 6/20.
- Advice: Using the Apple
menu effectively, MacBC, 6/19. Hints on getting the most out of
the Finder.
- Connectivity: Fractal
antenna small, efficient, Scientific American, 7/99 [Slashdot]. Already used in some cell
phones, fractal antenna could find home in wireless networking,
portable computers.
- Advice: Working with
Finder views, MacBC, 6/19. Hints on getting the most out of the
Finder.
- Connectivity: USB
cordless phone coming, iMac NewsPage, 6/19. Mac version of
phone/organizer will come in Bondi.
- Opinion: Reflections
of a Columbine father, MacKiDo, 6/19. The father of two
Columbine victims shares his thoughts.
- Opinion: Why the
American PC maker's time is limited, MacBC, 6/19. "Even Apple
is outsourcing its production to Eastern companies."
- Opinion:
What Windows users will put up with, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 6/18. "What has stunned and amazed me time and again are
the things that [even experienced] Windows users will put up with."
- Reinstalling Windows because they tried to install some new
component and something went wrong.
- Paying someone else US$79/hour to do reinstall Windows for them
because they simply can't.
- Having an "expert" install software for them (again at
US$79/hour).
- News: House passes net
filtering bill, Cnet, 6/18. Mandatory internet filtering in
schools, libraries may become reality.
- Web: MacBC unveils Mac
101, 6/18. Includes articles on the Finder, the Apple menu,
Appearance Manager, more.
- Opinion: Disappearing
software, Busman's Holiday, 6/18. "...users of vintage Macs are
in a real quandary as to where to find software beyond basic system
software that Apple keeps available."
Opinion:
Packard Bell design resembles ugly 20th Anniversary Mac
(right), Mac Observer, 6/18. I wouldn't say ugly, but certainly far
less stylish.- Rumor: ATI
Universal Installer 4.0 on the way, MacCentral, 6/18. New
installer will include additional fixes and enhancements over
Apple's recent update.
- News: More
Mac schools - and some defectors, MacCentral, 6/18. Looks like
the University of Michigan and the University of Tennessee at
Memphis may phase out Macs.
- News: Mac hobbyist puts G4 in
6100, Mac OS Rumors, 6/17. "Of course, even the first G4s will
be severely bottlenecked by the slow main bus speeds on first and
even second-generation PowerMacs...."
- Rumor: Apple
said to be seriously considering AppleCentre, Mac Provider.
Rumors of Apple storefronts in the U.S. persist.
- Opinion: Five keys to Mac
OS X success, MacWeek, 6/17. "Can Apple release an operating
system so compelling that . . . owners of older Macs buy a new
computer to run the new operating system?"
- Opinion:
Linux, the experience, osOpinion. "My experiences with Linux
were rough at first, but now I use it almost as my everyday
OS."
- News:
Packard Bell designing different, Mac Observer, 6/17. "Packard
Bell Thursday introduced the Z1, a sleek, two-toned, flat-panel
PC...." No photo yet, but sounds a bit like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh.
- News: Dartmouth
recommends Macs, MacCentral, 6/17. "In a letter
to the class of 2002, the college recommends incoming students buy
a Mac."
- Opinion: The
little Macs the could (and still can), Mac Mania, 6/17. "One
thing I've known for a long time is that any Mac, no matter how
old, has a use."
- News: School
gives iMacs to students, MacCentral, 6/17. "...San Jose-Edison
Academy in West Covina, CA, where students get a new iMac computer
to use at home if they're third-graders or older."
- News: Canadian schools using
iMacs, ehMac, 6/16. "I just returned from Nunavet and every
school that I visited was equipped with iMacs...."
- News: Toronto
schools make huge Mac commitment, MacCentral, 6/16. "The
Toronto Board of Education has made a huge commitment to the Mac
platform, possibly to the tune of 10,000 iMacs for Toronto
schools...."
- Opinion: The keys to
Lombard, Jason D. O'Grady, MacWeek, 6/16. "For the most part
the changes in Lombard are for the better."
- News: Update
on Cal State, UT Memphis, MacCentral, 6/16.
- Analysis:
Viruses: The danger of relevancy, Apple's Orchard. "As the Mac
OS continues to gain market share and continues to pop up in the
media we will have to deal with more and more Mac viruses."
- OS 8.6: Mac OS Rumors
reports
ATI video software update 1.0 (OS 8.6 only) greatly improves
stability of the Blue G3.
- Dark Side: Firm
exposes WinNT security hole, ZDNet, 6/16. "Nearly every Windows
NT-based Web server on the Internet is vulnerable to a newly
discovered security hole...."
- Consumer: Divx is
dead, DVD Resource Page, 6/16. Owners of Divx disks will have
two years to watch them, then no more support from the DVD
alternative.
- Opinion:
Microsoft and Standard Oil, osOpinion. "We reached the
conclusion that there were three great divisions in the petroleum
business - the production, the carriage of it and the preparation
of it for market. If any one party controlled absolutely any one of
those three divisions, it practically would have a very fair show
of controlling the others."
- OS: Packages (new
resources), MacKiDo, 6/16. The way Apple bundles resources is
changing with Mac OS X and Carbon.
- OS: LinuxPPC 1999
ships, MacWeek, 6/15. "The new installer in LinuxPPC 1999 makes
it easier for users to install the operating system...."
- Hardware: A $1000
supercomputer?, CNN, 6/15. "Massively parallel, ultratightly
coupled, asymmetrical multiprocessor." Sounds impressive.
- Hardware: Blue & white drive enclosures complement G3 Pro,
Fantom Drives
- OS 8.6:
ATI video software update 1.0, Apple Computer, 6/15. Only for
iMac, PowerBook G3, or Power Mac G3 with ATI RAGE Pro graphics and
Mac OS 8.6.
- OS: Free
Linux training materials on the web, Applelinks, 6/15.
- Opinion: Third
Voice: the next step or cybertrash?, MacBC, 6/15. "These guys
need not win, the sheer cost of defending themselves will drive
them out of business."
- Opinion: The Volvo Syndrome: Is the Mac really the liberal's
computer?, MacTimes, 6/15. "I know lots of conservative Mac-users,
and a significant number of conservative Volvo drivers too."
- Opinion: Macintosh
model implosion: What's in a name?, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
#485. "Apple is now . . . applying the same name . . . to machines
that have significant technical differences."
- Games:
Sneak peek: SimCity 3000, Inside Mac Games. "...SimCity 3000 is
going to provide many, many hours of great gaming fun."
- Dark Side:
Wintel notebooks hit 400 MHz, ZDNet, 6/14. PowerBook G3/400 owners still have
bragging rights for the fastest laptop.
Dark Side:
Gateway intros all-in-one desktop LCD computer (right), ZDNet,
6/14. But it's not nearly as attractive as the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.- Opinion: Third
Voice, boon or bane?, The iMac NewsPage, 6/14. "...if
webmasters want improved feedback and interactivity with their
readers, it's best left to them to decide how to achieve
this...."
- News: Lombard
begins to appear in quantity at CompUSA stores, Mac OS Planet,
6/14. Finally, the new PowerBook G3 is reaching stores.
- Web: Starship's
Lair. This is Gene Steinberg's home page. Gene writes those
great pro-Mac articles for Arizona Central and is the author of
Sams
Teach Yourself the iMac in 24 Hours.
- Opinion: Why the P1
is late, John Martellaro, Mac Opinion, 6/14
- Rumor: Consumer
Portable rumorological update for June, Daily Mac, 6/14.
Essentially an iMac in a laptop form?
- Connectivity: MacRevolution.com, a Mac-based
ISP in California.
- Rumor: Next iMacs are
super consumer computers, digital video-ready, Daily Mac, 6/14.
Look for DVD and FireWire in the new iMac.
- Opinion: Don Crabb is
on crack, osOpinion. "...such blatant disregard for credible
journalism will no longer be acceptable."
- OS: What
is Quartz?, MacKiDo, 6/14. "Apple created a new graphics
system, for OS X, which is called Quartz."
- Opinion: Punishing
the innocent, denying the user, MyAppleMenu, 6/14. "Third Voice
is only a channel for communication.... It need not seek
permission."
- OS: Linux in
business, case studies.
- Analysis: Trends in
shareware, Steve Wood, Busman's Holiday, 6/14. "...shareware is
declining at the expense of trialware commercial software."
- Religion:
Catholics push St. Isidore of Seville as patron saint of the
internet, Sunday Times, 6/13. Father of the encyclopedia seems
a reasonable choice.
- Opinion: Long
live zebra stripes!, Mac Mania, 6/13. "I, along with many
others, own an old Mac to which I am very attached."
- Opinion:
Windows 98 SE, the phantom upgrade, Salon, 6/11. "...this
version of Windows wasn't supposed to exist at all."
- News: DeForest
Kelley, Dr. McCoy from Star Trek, dead at 79, Yahoo, 6/11
[DVD Resource Page]. Not
Mac news, but I know a lot of us are Star Trek fans from way
back.
- Web: Third Voice vandalizes
web sites?, Mac OS Rumors, 6/10. Now Windows only, IE only
plugin lets anyone put notes on your web site.
Also see Say No to Third
Voice. "This software is interpreted to be a violation of
copyright and should be investigated on a Federal Level...."
Register your complaint about copyright violation with Third Voice.
More discussion at MacNN.
- Opinion: Stuck in the
middle again, MacWeek, 6/11. What if you're too advanced for
the iMac but don't want to ante up for a G3 system?
- Virus: Some Macs may be
suceptible to virus, MacWeek, 6/11. Macs sharing files with an
infected Windows computer vulnerable to Worm.ExploreZip virus.
- Rumor: The
selling of Apple, Don Crabb, ZDNet, 6/11. Is Steve Jobs
preparing Apple for new owners?
- Virus: Dangerous
email worm crawls net, Wired News, 6/10. "Both Intel and
Microsoft closed down large sections of their email
networks...."
Also see Devastating
email worm on the loose, ZDNet, 6/11. "You're a target if you
use Windows 95, 998, or NT and Microsoft Outlook or Exchange for
email." What, no Mac support? ;-)
- Opinion:
Intuit, Best Buy, H-P - who needs 'em?, Bryan Chaffin, Mac
Observer, 6/11. "These three companies have proven either inept or
just plain unwilling to make a successful go of it in the Mac
world."
- Opinion: Is my Mac
interface eroding?, MacBC, 6/11. "Being pretty is one thing,
but it shouldn't come at the expense of functionality."
- Opinion: PowerBooks
and subtlety, Charles Moore, Mac Opinion, 6/11. "...PowerBooks
are the logical Mac for most of us, providing that we can live with
the higher cost of admission."
- Advice: Mac
Parents: Summer fun for your kids, Mac OS Planet. New column at
Mac OS Planet.
- Opinion: Complexity,
Mac Opinion, 6/11. "There are two types of people in this world:
those that love complexity and those that hate it."
- Opinion: Macs
thrive at school, MacCentral, 6/11. Walter's State Community
College, University of Wisconsin Applied Superconductivity Center,
Television Studio at Fox Chapel Area High School.
- Web: DVD Resource Page
drops Disney coverage, 6/11
- News:
Backward migration underway at Cal State?, MacCentral,
6/10
- Opinion: Cal
State, a step into the vacuum, MacBC, 6/10. "Cal State is
putting their technological future in the hands of one
company...."
- News: GVC
of Taiwan to produce PowerBooks for Apple, MacChat, 6/10. Looks
like Quanta, the current manufacturer, is being deep-sixed in the
aftermath of Lombard delays.
- Opinion: Macs
are in schools, MacSoldiers, 6/10. Many school districts
continue to prefer the Macintosh.
- Rumor: Sawtooth
G4s may appear before holidays, AppleInsider, 6/10. "...it
appears that Motorola has been favoring to whom they seed
developmental versions of their new G4 processor."
- Rumor: Jobs
pushes for revolutionary iMac revision at Macworld,
AppleInsider, 6/10. "...the plastics for C2 are a 'radical
redesign' and departure from the current iMacs form factor."
- Advocacy: Apple
and the IT Market, follow up, MacBC, 6/10. "Once we invest in .
. . NT, why would we want to remain Apple customers in the face of
a Board of Education and community that relentlessly push
Wintel?"
- Opinion: Misguided administrators switch CSU to NT-only, Mac
Observer, 6/9. "Bean counters often make decisions that make sense
for bean-counters, and not necessarily the business or institution
they serve. This certainly seems to be such a case."
- Opinion:
The Mac is back, or is it?, Fortune, 6/9. "Lots of new
applications don't run on the Mac."
- Opinion: G4 delays,
rumor or reality?, MacWeek, 6/9
- News:
Survey finds Mac format preferred by newspapers, magazines, Mac
Observer, 6/9. "This is an area where the Mac absolutely rules the
industry."
- News: At last,
Microsoft reveals Win2000 date, TechWeb, 6/9. Pencil in October
6, 1999.
- News: Blue G3 not
Energy Star compliant, preventing government orders, PowerBook
Zone, 6/9
- Surf Different: Daily iMac lets
visitors choose color scheme. Visitors can choose from six
iMac-related color schemes: Bondi, blueberry, lime, grape,
strawberry, and tangerine.
- Review: Kinesis ergonomic keyboard, MacTimes, 6/9. One look
(see photo) and you know it's different - but does it help?
- Review: ADS
2-port USB PCI card, The Review, 6/9. "The ADS card worked like
a charm with every device I threw at it."
- Web: Macinstein, a
Mac-only search engine
- Opinion: What is
a web page?, MyAppleMenu, 6/9. What about ad blocking software,
or Third Voice, a program that lets you put notes on other people's
sites?
- Advice: AppleScript
Library, MacBC, 6/9. Ready to use scripts and information on
learning and developing your own AppleScripts.
- Opinion: Apple
retail stores are a good idea, MacChat, 6/9
- Opinion: iMacs at
home in business, MacWeek, 6/8. "...the iMac is the only really
great low-end computer Apple has ever designed."
- Review: Mac OS X Server
on the right track, Network Computing. "Although Mac OS X
Server is a perfectly viable server as it stands, Apple is
continuing to fine-tune it."
- News: Dealers angry at
Apple dropping products too early, MacUser UK, 6/8
- Opinion: Follow-up: Apple
Stores needed, The iMac, 6/8
- Advice: Clean
system installs without the hassle, Mac OS World. You owe it to
yourself to get Clean Install Assistant before your next clean
system install.
- Opinion: Musings
on the elegance of a PowerBook, MacBC, 6/8. "I have been bitten
by the PowerBook bug...."
- Opinion: Apple
Store policy angers resellers, PowerBook Zone. "The Apple Store
now gets priority on all shipments...."
- Benchmark: How much
does interleaved memory help?, Accelerate Your Mac!, 6/8
- News: New
PowerBooks start to arrive, MacWeek, 6/7. "Apple's online store
has started shipping the newest generation of slim and light
PowerBooks, but retailers say the new models won't be available in
significant quantities on store shelves for several weeks
yet."
- Games: SimCity 3000
coming to Mac, Mac OS Planet. Updated version of a long-time
family favorite.
- Opinion: Top 10
dangers for Apple, midyear update, John Martellaro, MacOpinion,
6/7.
- OS:
How big does your Unix server have to be?, Byte.com, 6/7. Tips
on drive size and speed, RAM size, RAID.
- Rumor:
Consumer portable (P1) set to appear at Macworld NY,
AppleInsider, 6/7.
- Opinion: A Luddite
reconsiders, Slate. "And then Apple introduced a power-packed,
immensely loaded, seductively designed new line of notebooks, the
PowerBook G3s."
- Web: Macs Only!
opens MacImports online store with hard-to-get accessories for
iMac, PowerBook, other Macs.
- Web: Consumer
advocacy page, dealmac. Includes links to state attorneys
general, Better Business Bureau, more.
- Opinion: Real
interfaces, MacKiDo, 6/7. "...I'd rather have a more powerful
abstract interface than a more confusing and limited real-world
one."
- News: iMac commission
could undercut Apple presence at Sears, MacNN, 6/6. Commission
for selling the iMac is half that for other computers.
- News: Motorola
denies G4 delayed, Wired News, 6/5 [MacCentral]. Motorola
maintains the G4 will ship in the third quarter.
- Advice: Ask Dr.
Mac, Bob LeVitus, MacCentral, 6/5
- Advice: The
Upgrade Guy, MacCentral, 6/5
- Opinion: Can
Apple get it to you retail?, Red Herring, 6/5
- Connectivity:
Judge to AT&T - free access for all!, ZDNet, 6/4. No, not
free access for end users, but AT&T-owned cable systems must
allow user choice of ISP.
- Opinion: I have made my peace
with Apple, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 6/4. "Cloning was the
biggest issue. I was a big fan of Power Computing."
- Opinion: That rumbling
sound, Dr. Tim Hillman, MacOpinion, 6/4. "Apple computer is
indeed coming, and the PC makers are acting scared."
- Rumor: Apple ends MkLinux
development, Mac OS Rumors, 6/4. Apple to focus on OS 8.x, OS
X, and leave Linux to other developers.
- Opinion: Blue
& white G3 is naked!, MacMania, 6/4. When is a $1,500
computer a $1,900 computer?
- Review: Mac
OS X - Ready to serve, NewMedia. "What you get is a pre-emptive
multitasking, protected memory, multi-user, server operating
system-UNIX that runs on Apple hardware."
- Rumor: PowerPC
G4 delayed, AppleInsider, 6/4. G4 may not ship until first
quarter 2000.
- Connectivity: Life beyond the modem:
PacBell FasTrak DSL, MacGeeks, 6/3. "...I shudder at the
thought of going back to life with a modem."
- Rumor: 600 MHz by
Macworld?, Mac OS Rumors, 6/3. IBM and Motorola prepping 500
MHz and faster G3s.
- Humore: Macnologist List of
the Week: Top marketing slogans you wish Apple would use.
- OS: Mac vs. PC,
Redisential Computing, Standford University. "Many students have
asked us for advice on what type of computer to buy."
- OS: The Unix war:
Epilogue, osOpinion. "Compare this to the Windows or Macintosh
communities where the OSes, while superficially customizable in
appearance, are virtually identical underneath."
- Opinion: Apple retail stores
needed, The iMac, 6/3. "It's now time for Apple to put their
name all over the place in major markets."
- Opinion:
The real reason why Apple is better, Daily Mac. "The real
reason why Apple is better is the people."
- News: Don't
shoot the messenger, MacWeek, 6/3. Australian Senate embraces
web censorship.
- Censorship: UK ISP blocks
defamatory usenet articles and links to defamatory sites,
deja.com [Slashdot]. "Current
thinking is that we and you may be found liable if we do not take
action to prevent an article continuing to be available when
notified of its presence on our servers."
- Opinion: Lombard, still the Mac to have, MacTimes, 6/2.
"...PowerBooks are the logical Mac for most of us...."
- Rumor: Apple ponders own
US retail chain, The Register, 6/3. Will Apple follow model of
Gateway Country Stores to boost sales, Mac profile?
- Rumor: What's a P1?,
The iMac, 6/3. "To put it simply, the Consumer Portable is the
laptop sibling of the iMac."
- Opinion: P1 price a key
factor, Think Secret, 6/3. "For the consumer to truly be the
consumer portable, the price absolutely has to be under
$1500."
- Opinion: Every OS has
its niche, osOpinion. "Mac OS X is the most promising of the
bunch." "The Mac OS is the most mature consumer OS."
- Opinion: On reading
and writing reviews, MacOpinion, 6/3. "Reviews are perhaps the
most political thing a magazine endures."
- Connectivity: Guide
to Mac email servers, Applelinks. If you have a domain and
fixed internet connection, you can run your own mail server.
- Review: PowerPrint
USB, About.com, 6/3. Also see the Low End Mac review from
January.
- Advice: New uses for
extra clock cycles, Jason D. O'Grady, MacWeek, 6/2. "If you are
a longtime advocate of the platform you probably own more Macs than
you would comfortably admit to in mixed company."
- Opinion: iBook, iMac,
PowerBook, and PowerMac: where each is going, The Mac Junkie,
6/2.
- Rumor: Apple to buy
iCab?, Think Secret, 6/2. "...my personal feeling is that Apple
intends to buy iCab and write it for Carbon so that it can avoid
the constant stability problems associated with Netscape or
IE."
- Connectivity:
Getting DSL, Slashdot, 6/2. "I wrote this is in an effort to
purge myself of experience in getting DSL service, and in the hope
that it helps make us DSL consumers a little more
informed...."
- News:
White House warns hackers they will be punished, Reuters/Yahoo,
6/2. "Attacking U.S. government Web sites is becoming an
increasingly popular tool of people angry with the Clinton
administration and its agencies."
- Web: MacCentral
joins Mac Publishing LLC, MacCentral, 6/1. "The combination of
Macworld Online and MacCentral Online will create the largest
independent Mac site in the world."
Also see
MacCentral assimilated by Mac Publishing, The Mac
Observer.
- Media Bias: Apple rolls out
faster desktops, PC World, 6/1. Article notes G3 case is
similar to iMac, computer is twice as fast as similarly configured
Pentium II (not "up to twice as fast"), and then compares price of
G3/450 with 450 MHz Pentium II system. Clueless?
- News:
Laptop experiment turns freshmen on to learning, Star Tribune,
6/1.
- Opinion: Interface Hall of Shame:
QuickTime 4 Player, Isys. "The new interface represents an
almost violent departure from the long established standards that
have been the hallmark of Apple software."
- OS:
AppleTalk services under Linux, Linux World. "If you're trying
to integrate Mac and Linux environments, the Netatalk suite of
programs will take care of basic communication over file sharing
and printing services."
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