[MyAppleMenu] Oct 5, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ==============

Boxed In By The Cube (Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/business/Boxed_in_by_the_Cube%2b.shtml>
The take-it-or-leave it design philosophy that scored big with the $999 iMac won't work with a system costing thrice as much, no matter how pretty it is.

== AppleSurf (News) ==============

Norton Utilities Adds Mac OS X Functions In 6.0b45 (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/05.norton.shtml>
Symantec has at least partially succumbed to user demands that its set of maintenance, repair, and optimization tools for the Macintosh platform gain compatibility and functionality specifically to Mac OS X.

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ==============

The Sad Joke Of Reviews (AppleSurf)
<http://www.myapplemenu.com/applesurf/sidetrack/?20001005>
Why should I trust your reviews, past and future, anymore, when you are telling me that you probably do not have the necessary technical knowledge and you do not bother to acquire the necessary technical knowledge to do justice to the product you review?

How To Rescue The Cube (Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/rescue.html>
Pretty much everyone agrees on two things: the Cube is cool and the Cube is overpriced. Cool is good. Overpriced is bad.

== AppleSurf (Reviews) ==============

Boxed In By The Cube (Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/279/business/Boxed_in_by_the_Cube%2b.shtml>
The take-it-or-leave it design philosophy that scored big with the $999 iMac won't work with a system costing thrice as much, no matter how pretty it is.

== The Wintel Empire (News) ==============

Now For That Other MS Trial (Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39197,00.html>
With Microsoft asking for a five-month period to prepare papers for its appeal in the federal case, antitrust watchers now turn their attention to the lesser-known class-action battle in California.

Pentium 4 Yields 'Not Impressive' (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13739.html>
30 per cent failure rate reported.

Will Whistler Be A Hardware Hog? (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13740.html>
The new skinnable UI is obviously still under development, so in theory it could get faster during the beta process, but in practice Microsoft's new features have a tendency to get zipped up by having more hardware thrown at them, rather than via code optimisation.

== Breaking Barriers (Top Stories) ==============

Two Major Internet Service Providers In Talks To Acquire Napaster (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,10537_9_12_1,00.html>
In delicate negotiations, a win-win scenario is laid out: The VCs would get bought out handsomely, the ISPs would lure subscribers and the music industry would swim in a big pool of money.

Did Gore Invent The Internet? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html>
Government alone couldn't have built today's Internet, but private industry, left to its own devices, wouldn't have, either.

Will Browsers Ever Not Suck? (Webmonkey)
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/52/index2a.html?tw=authoring>
Ironically, the very nature of the Web's success — its simplicity — is directly responsible for much of its downfall.

== Breaking Barriers (News) ==============

Beyond Today's Turning Point For Net Business (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2000/nf2000105_825.htm>
As the Web's weak pure plays keep falling away, and strong bricks-and-mortars gain, a sound business model will be the only means of survival.

PayPal Cracks Down On Business Customers (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2932909.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Later this month PayPal will begin requiring customers who receive $500 or more in credit card payments during a six-month period to open fee-based business accounts. PayPal, acquired by privately held X.com in March, said the enforcement of the policy will get business customers to help pay some of the costs.

Firm To Offer Asian Domain Names (Washington Post)
<http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62537-2000Oct2.html>
Network Solutions Inc. will begin offering Web addresses later this month in three Asian languages for the first time in Internet history, a move mostly aimed at helping companies reach millions of potential new customers globally.

Survey: Nearly One In Three Japanese Use The Internet At Home (Associated Press)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2000/10/04/international0057EDT0415.DTL&type=tech_article>
Internet use in Japan has quickly spread in the past year as once-prohibitive access charges have started to fall, and online companies are pushing television and newspaper ads, said Video Research Net-com Ltd., a Tokyo-based research firm.

Napster Goes Down (MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/472209.asp>
Napster fans feared the death of their beloved song-swapping service Wednesday morning as the controversial program suddenly became inaccessible for about five hours. But while the recording industry has been trying to shut down the service, Napster was felled by technical problems, not by a court order.

The White House Tames Web Journalists (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/00-10-04_90853.asp>
The Podesta briefing showed how the White House is attempting to domesticate the Net press.

Two Major Internet Service Providers In Talks To Acquire Napaster (Inside)
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,10537_9_12_1,00.html>
In delicate negotiations, a win-win scenario is laid out: The VCs would get bought out handsomely, the ISPs would lure subscribers and the music industry would swim in a big pool of money.

Ethical Music Piracy (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/05/fairtunes/index.html>
An Internet business model built on human charity? Asking Napster users to offer up donations to the artists from whom they pirate MP3s, out of the goodness of their hearts? The glass-half-empty types of the Net might scoff at the concept, but two benevolent Canadian computer science students think it just might work anyway.

Did Gore Invent The Internet? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html>
Government alone couldn't have built today's Internet, but private industry, left to its own devices, wouldn't have, either.

Will Browsers Ever Not Suck? (Webmonkey)
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/52/index2a.html?tw=authoring>
Ironically, the very nature of the Web's success — its simplicity — is directly responsible for much of its downfall.

== PenguinSurf (Top Stories) ==============

Red Hat Talks Big At Open-Source Conference (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2932538.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The seller of Linux software and support always has been ambitious, but the company grew a step bolder today, taking credit for launching the open-source programming movement that underlies Linux and several other software packages.

== PenguinSurf (News) ==============

Red Hat Talks Big At Open-Source Conference (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2932538.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
The seller of Linux software and support always has been ambitious, but the company grew a step bolder today, taking credit for launching the open-source programming movement that underlies Linux and several other software packages.

== The AppleSurf Reader ==============

The White House Tames Web Journalists (Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/netelection/entries/00-10-04_90853.asp>
The Podesta briefing showed how the White House is attempting to domesticate the Net press.

Did Gore Invent The Internet? (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html>
Government alone couldn't have built today's Internet, but private industry, left to its own devices, wouldn't have, either.