[AppleSurf Inbox] May 17, 2000

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== Top Stories ====================

Microsoft IE Browser Bug Returns For The Mac (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1888031.html?dtn.head>
The bug, which can expose private files and, in some circumstances, grant unauthorized access to sites on a company's intranet, first cropped up in late 1997. Microsoft patched it then, only to reintroduce the bug with the release of IE 5. 

FireWire A Sure Bet When Speed Reigns Supreme (South China Morning Post)
<http://www.technologypost.com/personal/WEEKLY/20000515200609278.asp?Section=Main>
Few high-technology phenomena generate as much hype as FireWire. The tone of recent headlines ranges from the ecstatic ("Why Firewire is Hot! Hot! Hot!") to the insane ("FireWire Rules The World"). What exactly is FireWire?

== Seize the Day! (Great news for Mac users) ====================

FireWire A Sure Bet When Speed Reigns Supreme (South China Morning Post)
<http://www.technologypost.com/personal/WEEKLY/20000515200609278.asp?Section=Main>
Few high-technology phenomena generate as much hype as FireWire. The tone of recent headlines ranges from the ecstatic ("Why Firewire is Hot! Hot! Hot!") to the insane ("FireWire Rules The World"). What exactly is FireWire?

== Listen Up! (Opinions around the web) ====================

Slash-Not (Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.net/tf/2k0517.html>
It almost seems as if Slashdot created its Apple category to keep Mac fans from whining. Rarely is an Apple submission, or even one remotely related to Apple and its technologies, posted, and they're often anti-Apple.

== Reviews (The good and the bad) ====================

iMac Problems In The Classroom (ScienceMan)
<http://scienceman.com/>
Educators who have been using the iMac in their classrooms have been, in general, fairly pleased with the product. Good speed, fairly reliable, easy to use, takes up little room and kids seem to like them. However, there have been reports of various problems with these machines.

Backwards And Forwards USB And FireWire Conectivity For Powerbooks (Mac OS Daily)
<http://www.macosdaily.com/opinion/columns/roadwarrior_025_20000517.html>
The Macintosh orbit is in a state of flux connectivity-wise these days, with the old order passing and a new one becoming established.

== Thousand Flowers (News on Macintosh third-parties) ====================

REALBasic To Support Mac OS X (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0005/17.realbasic.shtml>
This technology demonstration runs on Mac OS X and creates native, Carbon compliant Mac OS X applications complete with Aqua interface.

Tools For Toolmakers At WWDC (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/05/14/0517wwdctools.html>
Call them tools for toolmakers: the programs that programmers use to write other programs. Several vendors at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this week unveiled new application-development software, most of it primed for Mac OS X.

Court Dismisses Most Sony Claims Against Connectix (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/05/14/0516connwins.html>
A San Francisco court on Tuesday dismissed Sony's copyright and trademark claims against Connectix, the developer of Virtual Game Station (VGS). The decision should come as no surprise: In February, an appeals court lifted a preliminary injunction that prevented Connectix from shipping VGS. In that ruling, the judges sided with Connectix on the key issues in the dispute and remanded the case to the lower court for a final decision.

== Know Thy Enemy (Keeping track of the Wintel empire) ====================

Gateway Grapples With Web Site Glitches (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1888081.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Gateway says it has largely corrected problems that caused parts of its Web site to malfunction at various times during the past week. 

Government To Defend Microsoft Breakup Before Penalty Ruling (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1888228.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The government will defend its proposed breakup of Microsoft in what essentially will be the last official word before a federal judge holds a hearing on what remedies to impose on the company's business practices.

== Breaking Barriers (About the internet and the web) ====================

Microsoft IE Browser Bug Returns For The Mac (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1888031.html?dtn.head>
The bug, which can expose private files and, in some circumstances, grant unauthorized access to sites on a company's intranet, first cropped up in late 1997. Microsoft patched it then, only to reintroduce the bug with the release of IE 5. 

DoubleClick Names Privacy Board (Bloomberg)
<http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth925.htm>
DoubleClick Inc., an online-advertising company under investigation for its information-gathering practices, named seven members to a board charged with reviewing the company's services for potential privacy threats.

Cashing In On Dream Of Riding Net Rocket (Washington Post)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/407766.asp>
When men had midlife crises in the 1950s, they had affairs with their secretaries. When they had them in the ’70s, they got divorced, moved to California or India, and sought spiritual renewal. When they had them in the late ’90s, they started Internet companies.

== The AppleSurf Reader (Great Reads!) ====================

Prozac Indignation (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/05/17/backlash/index.html>
Is a critical book about America's favorite pill too bitter for its maker to swallow?

Teaching Postmodern Fiction Without Being Sure That The Genre Exists (The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i37/37b00401.htm>
Postmodernity is extraordinarily diffuse, ranging from A.T.M.'s to MTV. Nevertheless, in retrospect, it is no surprise that the most coherent manifestoes of postmodernism in the 1970's and early 80's concentrated on architecture, the art form most sensitive to large-scale economic transformations. 

== Entertainment (The Entertainment Scene In Singapore) ====================

Singapore's First Dot Com Drama Festival In October (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/articles/2000/05/17/singaporenews27583.htm>
Watch a play on the Internet. Local arts group Action Theatre will be discussing this idea and more with the IT industry to integrate theatre and new technologies for Singapore's first dot com Drama Festival in October.

== Around Town (News out of Singapore) ====================

Did The Late Nigerian Dictator Stash Money In Singapore? (Sintercom)
<http://www.sintercom.org/notst/index.html>
Is it because the ST feels bound in some way not to undermine the reputation of Singapore and the efforts to present our country as a respectable regional financial centre with strict regulations and safeguards against illegal money? All these at the expense of keeping information to the Singapore readers? Maybe its just cynicism creeping into me.