[MyAppleMenu] Jan 28, 2001

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

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

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This week: Langston Hughes. Plus, literary life under the Bush administration, waking up to your alarm clock, and the new Hannibal movie.

 The Arrogance Of The OS Majority (ZDNet Enterprise)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2678446,00.html>
Many times "platform standardization decisions become decisions made to benefit the support system, not the user who needs to get the work done." Don't let that happen in your organization.

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

 LOTR Trailer -- QuickTime In Trouble? (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/27/2152254&mode=thread>

 The Arrogance Of The OS Majority (ZDNet Enterprise)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2678446,00.html>
Many times "platform standardization decisions become decisions made to benefit the support system, not the user who needs to get the work done." Don't let that happen in your organization.

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

 Quickkeys 5 (MacDirectory)
<http://www.macdirectory.com/reviews/quick_keys/index.html>
QuicKeys 5 hangs on to one of the utilitys strongest points which is its usefulness to both the ultra-power user who longs to do a days work with a single keystroke to the curious newbie who wants to save a few mouse-clicks.

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ==============

 The Trials Of Microsoft, 4.0 (Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/522711.asp>
Two books look back at a judge’s breakup order. But the ending still hasn’t been written.

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This week: Langston Hughes. Plus, literary life under the Bush administration, waking up to your alarm clock, and the new Hannibal movie.

 Microsoft Concedes It Had Bad Week, Says Ordeal Over Now (Associated Press)
<http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0563_BC_Microsoft-WebProblems&&news&newsflash-national>
After a week of outages, blamed on human error and hacker attacks, that blocked access to many of its Web sites, Microsoft said Saturday that its problems were solved.

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

 The Trials Of Microsoft, 4.0 (Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/522711.asp>
Two books look back at a judge’s breakup order. But the ending still hasn’t been written.

 Microsoft Concedes It Had Bad Week, Says Ordeal Over Now (Associated Press)
<http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0563_BC_Microsoft-WebProblems&&news&newsflash-national>
After a week of outages, blamed on human error and hacker attacks, that blocked access to many of its Web sites, Microsoft said Saturday that its problems were solved.

 The Arrogance Of The OS Majority (ZDNet Enterprise)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2678446,00.html>
Many times "platform standardization decisions become decisions made to benefit the support system, not the user who needs to get the work done." Don't let that happen in your organization.

 Whois Search Provides No Clues To Microsoft Outage (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679261,00.html>
A practical joke misled many amateur investigators this week into prematurely believing that Microsoft's massive Web outage was the result of an attack.

 Survey Shows Microsoft Gradually Accepted In China (People's Daily)
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200101/27/eng20010127_61219.html>
The respondents agree that Microsoft ( China) has grown into a creative and long-term oriented industry leader among multinationals now in operation in China.

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

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This week: Langston Hughes. Plus, literary life under the Bush administration, waking up to your alarm clock, and the new Hannibal movie.

 MS DNS Mess Matched By 25% Of Fortune 1000 (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16410.html>
A survey by Icelandic DNS specialist Men & Mice on a random sample of 5 000 active .com domains, showed that 38 per cent of sites were running all their DNS servers on the same network segment - thus creating a single point of failure.

 Beware Of Brainier Web Attacks! (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679094,00.html>
The attack that took many of Microsoft Corp.'s sites off the Web Thursday afternoon may have been a new, and more dangerous, variant of the distributed denial-of-service attacks that have hit many high-profile sites over the last year.

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

 Web Site Staff Gets The Ax (San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/27/BU126602.DTL&type=tech_article>
Latino.com cut most of its staff Thursday, making it the latest minority- oriented Web portal to downsize operations.

 Microsoft Concedes It Had Bad Week, Says Ordeal Over Now (Associated Press)
<http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0563_BC_Microsoft-WebProblems&&news&newsflash-national>
After a week of outages, blamed on human error and hacker attacks, that blocked access to many of its Web sites, Microsoft said Saturday that its problems were solved.

 MS DNS Mess Matched By 25% Of Fortune 1000 (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16410.html>
A survey by Icelandic DNS specialist Men & Mice on a random sample of 5 000 active .com domains, showed that 38 per cent of sites were running all their DNS servers on the same network segment - thus creating a single point of failure.

 Whois Search Provides No Clues To Microsoft Outage (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679261,00.html>
A practical joke misled many amateur investigators this week into prematurely believing that Microsoft's massive Web outage was the result of an attack.

 Beware Of Brainier Web Attacks! (eWEEK)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679094,00.html>
The attack that took many of Microsoft Corp.'s sites off the Web Thursday afternoon may have been a new, and more dangerous, variant of the distributed denial-of-service attacks that have hit many high-profile sites over the last year.

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

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This week: Langston Hughes. Plus, literary life under the Bush administration, waking up to your alarm clock, and the new Hannibal movie.

== SingaporeSurf (Top Stories) ==============

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This week: Langston Hughes. Plus, literary life under the Bush administration, waking up to your alarm clock, and the new Hannibal movie.

 Why Nationals Abroad Can't Cast Ballots, For Now (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,19973,00.html?>
Mr Lim explained that when people vote for their MPs, they have a vested interest to make sure that their constituency is represented by able men and women. But for Singaporeans living abroad, there is no such vested interest.

== SingaporeSurf (News) ==============

 A Fourth University? Let's Keep It At Three (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/analysis/story/0,1870,19949,00.html?>
The fourth university sounds too much like the second. In fact, all things considered, let's stop at three for now.

 Zoo's 'Snapshot' Chimps Now Run Free (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,19992,00.html?>
Singapore Zoo ends confinement of trained chimpanzees on the back of criticism by animal-welfare groups.

 Why Nationals Abroad Can't Cast Ballots, For Now (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,19973,00.html?>
Mr Lim explained that when people vote for their MPs, they have a vested interest to make sure that their constituency is represented by able men and women. But for Singaporeans living abroad, there is no such vested interest.