The Low End Mac Link Archive, October 2000
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- Low End:
PowerBook 100 series retrospective, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10/31. Nine years of PowerBooks - this is
where they got their start.
- Opinion:
Apple, where is our mid-range Mac?, Stefano Scalia, Getting
Critical, Mac Mind, 10/31. As we said last week, Apple needs something
between the iMac and Power Mac G4.
- Opinion: Group
thinking & the Macintosh explained, Michel Munger, 10/31.
"What? Us? Guilty of group thinking? You read it right."
- Low End:
Shobaffum's Macintosh IIci Page, Al Brower. Includes helpful
notes such as, "neither the Sonnet '040 accelerator or the Micromac
'040 accelerator a can run in 24-bit mode."
- Analysis:
Email fosters misunderstandings at the office, Sarah Shafer,
Washington Post, 10/31 [Win98 Central].
- Star Trek: Review of Where No
Man Has Gone Before, Dan Knight, Digital-Views.com. We're
starting a new site to review DVDs and VCDs.
- Profile: Dr Bott
LLC, MacDirectory. "A niche player in a niche market," Dr Bott
distinguishes itself with superior products. Congratulations,
Eric!
- Opinion: Death of a
Macintosh, Julie Fugett, Hissyfit, 10/30. UPS shipping vs. an
LC 580 - guess who won?
- Opinion: The
age of everyman tech: Bill Cosby lied. Classic was better, John
Holmes, osOpinion, 10/30. "I am interested in whether OS X
behaves like a Mac, not a Unix box, and certainly not
NeXT...."
- Upgrades: Sonnet
releases new 7200 upgrades, Brad Gibson, MacCentral, 10/30. One
has 400 MHz G3, the other has a 400 MHz G4.
- Advice:
How to repair a disk directory so damaged your Mac want's to
initialize the disk, Ask Al, Alsoft.
- Web: The pickle's
ResEdit hacks, Chris Lawson, 10/29. Some interesting AIM and IE
hacks, among others.
- OS X: OS X with G3
upgrade cards, OS X Talk, 10/28.
- Deal:
Star Wars Trilogy on VCD, CoolVCD. Not available on DVD. First
Video CDs mastered using THX process. Preorder for just US$26.88
plus shipping. Works with most CD-ROM and DVD drives.
- MacInSchool: Los
Angeles school gets 140 iBooks, Dennis Sellers, MacCentral,
10/27. School leasing iBooks for all 140 ninth graders.
- Advice:
Search Engines: A quick start to getting high placements, Nancy
Johnson, The Webmistress, Applelust, 10/27. Not just how to get
listed, but also how search engines work.
- Opinion: Where's
my perfect laptop?, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 10/27. "I
want a small, thin, and light machine. It can have a smaller
display, but give it a reasonable resolution (not 800 x 600)."
- Analysis:
Not another "Windows is not so bad" article, Doc Hillman, But I
Digress, Mac Observer, 10/27. "Intuition is an important
consideration in these conversations, because intuition is at the
center of the platform debate."
- Review: FireWire
PCI cards, Stephan Somogyi, Macworld.
- OS: Classic
Mac OS vs. Mac-on-Linux, Michael Cyloe, ResExcellence, 10/27.
How does Classic under OS X compare with Mac-on-Linux? You may be
surprised.
- Dark side:
Microsoft says hackers broke into its network, Yahoo/Reuters,
10/27. Who said Windows wasn't a secure server environment?
- News: Quark
founder retires, pledges fortune to gay rights, 10/26. Does
this mean anti-gay Quark users will be switching? Hmmm.
- Opinion:
Blue Man Group doesn't use Pentium III, MacSlash, 10/26. Intel
shills use Blue G3. Add your comments to the dialog!
- Advice: PowerBook G3 hard
drive upgrade, Ian Pun. How to replace the hard drive in "any
PowerBook G3 models."
- Review: G4
Cube & Cinema Display, John Siracusa, Art Technica, 10/26.
Perhaps the longest Cube review yet, and worth every page. Reviewer
understands the Cube's market.
- Advice: A
few more tips for new users, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer,
10/25. Extensions Manager, the Apple Menu, and dealing with
lockups.
- Web: Creative Mac, a
very nice, very different, very professional layout.
- Web: OS X Talk launched,
another site based on Slashcode - but this one has a very clean,
less cluttered look.
- OS X: Public
beta on 604 machines, MacSlash, 10/25. Kernel compiled
specifically for 604-based Power Macs.
- Review: SANcube,
Misha Sakellaropoulos, Reviews.MacNN, 10/25. "Micronet's SANcube is
a FireWire storage area network (SAN)...."
- Analysis: What
global language?, Barbara Wallraf, Atlantic Monthly, 11/00
[Slashdot]. English is #2 native
tongue, #1 second language around the world.
- Humor: Some office
madness, The Usual Bucket. Dedicated to anyone who has to work
in an office.
- Low End: The pickle's
Low-End Mac FAQ, the pickle, christened 10/25. The pickle's FAQ
answers the most common questions about 68K Macs.
- Opinion: Test
drive musings of a (slightly wavering) OS X skeptic, Charles W.
Moore, Moore's Machine, Mac Junkie, 10/25. "While OS 9 is pretty
stable on my PowerBook, I am looking forward to protected memory
and preemptive multitasking with OS X. I just hope the new
interface doesn't slow down my work too much."
- First look: Voodoo4
4500 PCI, Games.MacNN, 10/25. "The card basically matches the
performance of the Voodoo5 in 640 x 480 and 800 x 600...."
- News: AT&T divides by
four, CNNfn, 10/25. AT&T Consumer, AT&T Business,
AT&T Wireless, and AT&T Broadband - business as usual or a
change for the better?
- News: Cybercrime
treaty targets hackers, MSNBC, 10/24 [Slashdot]. "European Union nations, and
perhaps even the United States, are about to make nearly any form
of hacking &emdash; even security research &emdash; illegal
by treaty."
- Hmm: Blue Man
Group uses Macs, Apple.
You know, the guys doing the ad for Intel's Pentium III processor -
they use Macs.
- Again: New Intel TV
ads "complete crap," The Register, 10/24. "...the central
characters in its latest TV ads are Power Mac users and feature large on
Apple's
website."
- News: Symantec
rolls out SystemWorks, updates NUM, AntiVirus, Dennis Sellers,
MacCentral, 10/24.
Rights:
Mandated mediocrity, Slashdot, 10/24. N2H2 Bess "filter"
software, used by about one-third of schools, bans political speech
including Second Amendment.- Technology:
Air-powered cars on the way to South Africa, News24, 10/20
[Slashdot]. 1500 lb. vehicle can
reach 80 mph, travel 125 miles on a tank of compressed air.
- Deal: G3 daughter cards as low as
$157.90, details at DealMac, 10/24.
- Opinion: Will
Apple bounce back?, Michel Munger, On the Flip Side, Mac
Observer, 10/24. "Of course. Apple always bounces back."
- Analysis:
Now there are two, but do processor upgrades for G3 Series
PowerBooks make sense?, Charles W. Moore, MacOpinion, 10/24.
There is no easy answer.
- Low End: System 7.1
through 7.6 compatibility, Apple, TIL #8970. Table shows System
7.5.5 most widely supported version.
- Review: VirusBarrier,
MacNN, 10/24. Fast new anti-virus programs is fast, scans on the
fly, and even catches PC viruses.
- AAPL: Market
pauses for a breather, Apple gains 4.49%, Wes George, Mac
Observer, 10/23. AAPL is almost up to what I paid for it last week.
:-)
- Advocacy: Get a
Compaq, put the old Mac to rest - revisited, Frank Ruffel,
Right On Mac!, 10/23. "Tony may have taken a cheap trip to the
darkside by buying a Compaq. But the ugly truth bit him in the
butt: A Compaq is no Mac. And his wife let him know."
- Advice: Overlooked Mac OS
feature: Pop-up folders, MacOptions. Pop-up folders are one of
the best reasons to use OS 8.0 or later.
- Web: A
matter of (Wired news) style, Wired News, 10/23. Wired takes a
step against the flow, chooses to hyphenate email despite
historical trend of English to drop hyphens.
- Opinion: Apple:
The message isn't even medium, Adam Gillitt, ZDNet, 10/23.
"People make choices based on the data available to them, and
Apple's current advertising and PR strategy leaves most consumers
without any concrete reasons to buy Macs."
- AAPL: Mr. Jobs
goes to Wall Street - and gets thrown out, Johnny, MacEdition,
10/23. "...somewhere in those product announcements in New York, we
saw disturbing flashbacks of a history forgotten."
- Opinion:
Online government and the digital divide, Scott McCollum,
osOpinion, 10/23. "...the problem with computer use in our great
land is that it is overwhelmingly white and male."
- News: iCab browser
reaches v2.2, supports OS X.
- Connectivity: SOHO router comparison,
Bill Fox, Macs Only!, 10/23. Macsense vs. Linksys ethernet
routers.
- Hands on: KB
Gear JamCam 3.0, Paul Cesarini, PowerBook Zone. A $100 digicam?
Yes, and a decent one at that.
- Dark side:
Windows ME knocks out DSL, Interactive Week, 10/23. New OS not
compatible with Win98 drivers. Oops.
- Review;
VSE BeFound 2.1, Tyler Jacobson, Applelust, 10/22. Tool helps
create META tags, submit pages to search engines.
- News: Xerox PARC for
sale, UpsideToday, 10/21. Palo Alto Research Center created
first GUI interface, partial inspiration for Lisa and Mac.
- USB: Griffin
releases iMic, go2Mac.com, 10/20. Connect a standard 1/8"
microphone to USB-only iBook.
- Review: iBook
SE, MacUser UK. "Where the original iBook felt sluggish with
all but the simplest of tasks, the new SE is sharp and
responsive."
- Politics: Compare your views
with presidential candidates, SpeakOut.com [Slashdot]. Interesting use of computer
technology!
- Benchmarks: 466
MHz FireWire iBook vs. 400 MHz Pismo PowerBook, Bare Feats,
10/23. Real world tests with iMovie, Cinema 4D, and Bryce.
- AAPL: Morningstar.com: Eight
bucks for an Apple, Yahoo, 10/20 [MacNN]. "That's not a lot of money for
a business that - while declining at the moment - is highly
profitable and has one of the most well-known brand names in
technology."
- Benchmarks: Battle
of thin, portable FireWire drives, Bare Feats, 10/20.
- News: PowerLogix
Bluechip G3 upgrades for G3 Series PowerBooks shipping, Charles
W. Moore, 10/20. Innovative design copies ROM from original CPU
card.
- Tech: A
big blue shadow over Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64, Paul DeMone, Real
World Technologies, 10/16. New Power4 (cousin to PowerPC) sounds
very impressive.
- Advocacy: The
dominance myth, Pete Ottman, osOpinion, 10/19. "...no one has
ever offered up one bit of evidence to support the assertion that
using any modern operating system but Windows will be a
hindrance."
- Low End:
660av/840av Video Input Specifics, James Wang. "On a 660av or a
stock 840av, one 512KB bank is insufficient to store 640 by 480
pixels worth of 16-bit video."
- Opinion: I
am not alone, because I have my Mac laptop, Nancy Gravley, Mac
Observer, 10/18. "...he replied that the Mac was the only computer
he had ever tried that didn't break down all the time."
- OS 09. AutoPurge, Stimpsoft.
Freeware that fixes that pesky "Temporary Items" problem in Mac OS
9.0-9.0.4.
- AAPL: Apple
profit: $170 million, MacWeek, 10/18. At 47¢ per diluted
share, this was far better than anyone expected.
- AAPL: Apple
reports profit of $170 million, MacCentral, 10/18. Margin was
down, Cube and education sales were weak, but the future remains
bright.
- AAPL: Whisper
number for Apple's 4th quarter is higher than estimates, Wes
George, Mac Obsverer, 10/18. Best guesstimate is 36¢ per
share, better than 31-33¢ many predict.
- Opinion:
Web design: Keep it simple (stupid), Eolake Stobblehouse, Fuzzy
Logic, Mac Observer, 10/18. "The long and the short of it is that
when that company finally got a Web site up and running at all, I
had already been living off my own Web sites for two years!"
- Low End: Remodel
your Mac for under $1,000, Chris Oakes, Computer User,
11/15/94. Good article - and prices have dropped quite a bit over
the past six years.
- Connectivity: Apple
Modem Updater 2.0 improves stability, performance, MacCentral,
10/17. Update applies to iMac, PowerBook G3, blue Power Mac G3, and
Power Mac G4. MacFixIt
reports this updates the iBook and Cube as well.
- History: NeXT:
When cool wasn't enough, Colin Barker, vnunet.com. "NeXT was a
high-profile disaster, a computer system that the world admired but
wouldn't buy."
- Low End:
Obsolete Macintosh is still a classic for some, David E.
Graham, Union Tribune, 10/17. Color Classic "shows that some old
models are destined to live on outside a museum."
- Design: PowerBook
G4, Go2Mac.com, 10/17. Cube-inspired laptop design. I could go
for one of these!
- Whine: Web
workers cite poor treatment as start-ups begin cutting jobs,
MSNBC, 10/17 [in].
Gosh, dot-coms go out of business and can't provide severance pay
or outplacement counseling. Can we say "at-will employment"?
- Design: Sony
VAIO PictureBook, Sony [Go2Mac.com].
Apple should take a long hard look at this 9.8" x 6.0" x 1.1.4",
2.2 lb., up to 20 hour battery life portable. Now that's a
notebook computer!
Dark Side: Are
Canadian tax dollars promoting Microsoft?, Gary Lawrence
Murphy, osOpinion, 10/17. Canada Post announces free Internet
access for "all Canadians" - with Windows.- Opinion:
Rebates, hinges, and asinine centralized PowerBook service,
Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 10/16. "...the job is
subject to Apple's Tier 1 repair flat fee of $310.00 plus the
technician's time, and you lose the use of your PowerBook for ten
days or so."
- Hardware: BridgeIt! FireWire-to-SCSI
converter/hub/repeater, FWDepot.com. Connect up to 7 SCSI
drives to FireWire iMacs, iBooks, PowerBooks, PowerMacs, and the
Cube.
- Tech: The fundamentals
of cache, Paul Mazzucco, SystemLogic [Slashdot]. More than you ever wanted to
know about L1, L2, and L3 cache - and pretty accessible.
- MacInSchool: Charter
school issues laptops to its students, LA Times, 10/16. "The
140 ninth-graders from Lennox will get leased Apple iBooks for a
year."
- Opinion: Why we
will benefit from Apple's financial troubles, Dave Schultz, Can
We Talk?, Applelust, 10/16. "The industrial design team at Apple
cannot be beat. Period. And if they are put in corner . . . look
out."
- Hands off: Back
to Claris Home Page from Adobe GoLive 5, Robert A. M. Stephens,
Behold the Rage. Flaws in HTML encoding send GoLive to the trash,
Home Page back into action.
- Hands on: IBM
TravelStar 32 GB PowerBook hard drive, Accelerate Your Mac,
10/13. Highest capacity, fastest drive made for the PowerBook.
- Opinion: nPower: Power4 based
server, Dave Egger, MacMonkey. Contending that Apple needs a
high-end server, the author proposes some specifications.
- Advice: Nancy's
guide to Internet abbreviations, Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer,
10/12. Don't know LOL from AFAIK? Here's the key.
- Advocacy: Help extend
the life of old computers, Mac Observer, 10/12. Abandonware
project (covered here in June)
asks software companies to release old versions for free public
use.
- Deal: Refurbished iMac/350, free
sweatshirt, $689, details on DealMac, 10/11. It's the old
blueberry model with 6 GB hard
drive.
- Opinion:
Paris iBook value equation revisited, Charles W. Moore, Mac
Opinion, 10/11. Yes, they are a great value.
- Consumer: Apple
planning PowerBook, Cube rebates, MacCentral, 10/11. Get $200
back on a PowerBook, $300 on a Cube - but only if purchased with an
Apple display. Starts Oct. 13.
- Tech: Are
the G3e (750CX) chips in the Paris iBooks really slower?,
Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10/11. No, instead MacBench 5.0 is
fatally flawed.
- AAPL: AAPL
breaks $19 mark - in wrong directions!, John H. Farr,
Applelinks, 10/10. Apple stock briefly dropped below $20 per share
on Tuesday.
- News:
IT revolution fuels workplace stress, BBC News, 10/10 [Win98 Central]. Yeah, Windows
can do that.
- Advice: How to use
GraphicConverter, MacInstruct. The poor man's Photoshop, almost
every Mac webmaster seems to find a place for
GraphicConverter.
- News: Orange Micro gets
out of Pentium board business, MacWindows, 10/10. "The advent
of fast G4 processors has brought up the speed of emulators and
made coprocessor boards economically unfeasible."
- Benchmarks: Radeon AGP vs. Voodoo5
PCI, Bare Feats, 10/10. Radeon cooks, but Voodoo5 is no
slouch.
- Opinion: Cube owner
says, "Why all the whining? The Cube rocks!" Mac Observer,
10/10.
- Opinion: Amateur hardware
design & market strategy, M, osOpinion, 10/10. "Two obvious
gaps in Apple's product line are a new sub-notebook and a business
oriented, low-end desktop. The first everybody knows about, the
other seems to have gone largely unnoticed."
- Web: Danger of banner
ads, Lowtax, Something Awful, 10/10 [Slashdot]. "When I first signed on, I
was simply told that I'd get $2.50 CPM - that is, $2.50 per 1,000
ads served."
- Analysis: New
iBooks slower? Not so fast, Wired, 10/10 [MacSurfer]. "Acting on a hot tip,
Wired News ran the widely used MacBench test suite on Apple's
latest iBook...."
- Opinion: AAPL
still cheap!, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 10/9. At $21.75 per
share, I need to find a broker!
- News: AT&T mulls
Web charges, CNNfn, 10/9 [Slashdot]. AT&T wants to charge
online retailers every time an AT&T customer places an order -
or even visits the retailer's site. Time to ditch AT&T @Home
cable.
- News:
Cisco, Microsoft paid no federal income tax, Cnet, 10/9.
Companies used stock options to negate profits, avoid taxes.
- Web: MacCircuit.com
- Advice: Basic
Mac troubleshooting, MacInstruct. "Don't panic, most of the
things that you'll have to face really aren't any big deal."
- Benchmarks: G4/500 matches Athlon 1
GHz, CPU Scorecard [MacSlash]. 'Nuff said.
- Community: Home Mac
List, The Macintosh Guy. "HomeMac is a forum for Macintosh
users at home."
- Connectivity: New
personal FTP application released, Mac Observer, 10/9.
Shareware app allows direct file transfers between computers, Macs
or PCs.
- Privacy: Speech
without accountability, Scientific American [MyAppleMenu]. "New
software makes it nearly impossible to remove illegal material from
the Web--or to find out who put it there."
- Advice: USB
peripherals & adding a forward delete key to your iMac,
Nancy Gravley, Mac Observer, 10/6. Keyswapper lets you create a
forward delete key on the old Apple USB Keyboard, as well as the
iBook and PowerBook.
- Opinion: Apple
needs more than its own store, Rodney O. Lain, iBrotha, 10/6.
"There are many of us who'd gladly work part-time or full-time for
an Apple-branded store."
- Advice:
Running a Web server on the cheap, The Mac Mind, 10/6. A great
way to use an older Mac - we've even run small sites on Mac IIs and
Quadras.
- OS X: The NeXT
Apple OS, MSNBC, 10/6. "Make no mistake about it: the complete
overhaul of the Macintosh operating system is a very big
deal."
- Web: G4 Cube
Site - just for Cube users.
- Analysis: The Cube:
Looks aren't everything, BusinessWeek. "All of the Cube's
beauty doesn't change the fact that it is overpriced and
under-featured, with no clear target audience."
- Low End: Mac
System 1.0 Headquarters, Dan Vanderkam. See how far we've
come.
- Opinion: Apple's
spark, Jack Shedd, osOpinion, 10/6. "When PC's became too
complex, it was the Apple Macintosh in 1984 that routed them into
simplicity."
- Opinion: iBook: Portable
stereo, Dave Egger, MacMonkey. Convert you CD collection to
MP3s and carry 1000 songs on your iBook.
- Opinion: The
insanity of Wall Street, David K. Every, iGeek, MacWeek, 10/5.
"When a company is undervalued, and has good technology, good
strategies and good people, in a growing industry, I think it is a
good investment."
- Opinion: The
magic of Macintosh, Grayson Harding, 2 Cents, 10/5. "Using a
Macintosh is an intoxicating experience, that's why everyone
who trys one likes it."
- Review: iMac DV+, DV
Special Edition, Macworld, 11/00.
- Review: Radeon
AGP vs. Rage 128 Pro AGP, Accelerate Your Mac, 10/5. ATI's new
video card kicks on 3D games but doesn't seem to improve non-3D
performance.
- Opinion:
Boxed in by the Cube, Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, 10/5.
"...for the first time in a good long while, Apple has gotten it
wrong."
- Opinion: A
proposal to fix the Cube, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 10/5.
"...I would even go farther and suggest that Apple use IBM's new
750cx G3e chips in the lower end Cubes...."
- OS X: Adventures
in X, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 10/4. "With just a few minutes
of using the OS XBeta, it's obvious that it's not the Mac OS and it
won't feel like the Mac OS for quite some time."
- Opinion: Thinking
outside the Cube: Mac OS X for X86, Jason Brooks, eWeek, 10/4.
"The world of X86 hardware leaves options for the rest of us, with
a veritable Star Wars cantina full of chip, component and
peripheral players from which to choose. "
- Opinion:
Upgrade WallStreet or buy a new iBook?, Charles W. Moore, Road
Warrior, 10/3. Comparing the cost of upgrading a two-year-old
PowerBook G3 to the new iBooks.
- Opinion: I come
not to bury the G4 Cube but to praise it, Jim, MacSpeedZone.
"...in the interest of balanced reporting and fairness I've got to
let you know that my Cube is nothing short of magnificent."
- Opinion:
Heresy, Ceolaf, Applelust, 10/4. "I love Apple. I love its
computers. I love its operating system. But I became very unhappy
with Apple in September 2000."
- Opinon: Mac OS X: Not
ready for prime time, Go2Mac.com, 10/4. Well, it is a beta
after all....
- News: Maxtor buys
Quantum hard drive unit, The Register, 10/4 [Win98 Central]. Merger will
create the world's largest hard drive company.
- Web: Mac
webmaster looks at GoLive 5, part 1, Dan Knight, Applelust,
10/3. Yours truly talks about GoLive 5 and Web design.
- Opinion: Is the
iMac becoming Apple's K-car?, Charles W. Moore, Moore's
Machine, Mac Junkie, 10/3. "As for the iMac, it needs a complete
redesign...."
- Advice: One Mac, many
users: The multiple users control panel, David Pogue, Mastering
Your Mac. How to set up OS 9 for two or more users.
- AAPL: Apple
explained: In Steve we trust, Wes George, Apple Trader, Mac
Observer, 10/2. Best analysis yet of Apple, Apple earnings, and the
way Apple stock tanked on Friday.
- Analysis:
Apple shares fall victim to "multiplier effect," David Wilson,
Bloomberg, 10/2. "Friday's 52 percent retreat in the
personal-computer maker's shares was far steeper than either the
earnings or sales comparison would indicate. "
- Opinion:
HTML editor wars, David Schultz, Applelust, 10/2. "WYSIWYG HTML
editors, analogous to like the DTP packages that came before them,
are coming out which are robust, complex programs aimed at any
would-be web publisher."
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