[MyAppleMenu] Nov 5, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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BECTA, BFI Report Praises Apple (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5502>
"Evidence from the pilot shows that the integration of DV into teaching and learning has the potential to enhance learning across the curriculum."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Utility Automates Users' Migration From PC To Mac (Gregg Keizer, InternetWeek)
<http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20021105S0002>

Author Uses iBook, ViaVoice To Pen Sports Bio (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/05.author.php>
Two years ago author Steve Moore started a writing collaboration with ABC Radio sports anchor, Johnny Holliday. The result was "Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock," a new book written entirely using an iBook and IBM's ViaVoice.

O'Reilly Releases 'Mac OS X For Unix Geeks' (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/04.geeks.php>

Breaking Into The Business: An Interview With Michael Matas (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/01/dev_osx.html>
Meet Michael Matas. He's the graphic designer who helped Dan Wood create the great look for Watson and who's now designing for the Omni Group, as well as creating graphics and icons for other Mac OS X software developers.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Doing Three People's Work With One Mac (Derek K. Miller, TidBITS)
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-654.html#lnk3>
I would attend sessions [in a conference], take notes and photographs, write and edit articles, and lay out three four-page issues, distributed overnight to the hundreds of physicians attending, with highlights of the previous day and pointers for the new one.

Using AppleScript Studio To Improve Illustrator (Barbara Gibson, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/11/chapman/>
"You don’t have to have a technical background to do AppleScript or AppleScript Studio. Like a lot of things Apple does, Apple is making more powerful tools more accessible to more people."

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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'You're Still Guilty,' Judge In Sun Et Al Antitrust Case Tells MS (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27935.html>
Yesterday the Maryland judge denied a request by Microsoft attorneys to re-open 395 of Judge Penfield Jackson's 412 findings of fact, so for the moment at least Jackson's conclusions can be used in the case Motz is dealing with.

Microsoft's U.S. Settlement Won't Clear Path In Europe (Paul Meller, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/technology/05SOFT.html>
"Our case is quite different from a factual point of view to the case in the United States," said Amelia Torres, the commission's spokeswoman on competition matters. She added, "We also have our own rules to uphold."

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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MIT, HP Stack Shelves Of Digital Library (Michael Kanellos, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-964488.html>
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled a system for electronically archiving books, lecture notes and scientific data that potentially will serve as a model for academic libraries in the future.

Red Hat Tailors A Snug Fit (Maggie Biggs, InfoWorld)
<http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/11/04/021104plredhat8.xml>
Red Hat Linux 8.0 provides a more economical desktop choice, compared with Windows or Macintosh, although both of those are more mature and offer a wider array of applications.

Software As A Service Alive And Well (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2248>
Software vendors, don't try to turn your software into a subscription product unless you add some new features worth subscribing to.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Mozilla Riddled With Security Holes (Lohn Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27934.html>
Versions of Mozilla previous to version 1.0.1 contain multiple security vulnerabilities, so users need to update their browser software.

AOL Loses Net Privacy Ruling (Reuters)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-964522.html>
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled against America Online in its efforts to protect the identity of one of its 35 million subscribers by asking the court to quash a subpoena calling for the member's name in an issue that goes to the heart of the anonymity of the Internet.

Internet Offers Way Out Of Freeway Traffic Jams (Lisa Leff, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-me-wheel5nov05,0,4361049.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Web sites that provide real-time updates are underused but could become essential.

Red Hat's Switch Campaign (Lou Hirsh, EcommerceTimes)
<http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/19855.html>
Red Hat said its migration campaign is steadily garnering backing from a number of big-name hardware and software providers, including IBM, Dell, Intel, AMD and Oracle.

What Happened To The Goold Solaris Software? (James Duncan Davidson, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2252>
Most developers are working on laptops these days. And that means that they are running Linux or Windows. Solaris x86 on a laptop? Hah!

Should 'www'  Be Retired? (Shawn Wildermuth, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2254>
Ok, maybe this may be petty, but why do so many sites require that 'www' before the names?

The All-Knowing Internet (Ted Neward, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2255>
There is nothing Google doesn't know. Or rather, there is nothing the Internet doesn't know, and Google is the High Priest.

How To Undo AOL Time Warner (David Shook, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2002/tc2002111_9399.htm>
De-merging the online-media giant wouldn't be easy, but it's far from impossible, and it could result in two stronger companies.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Government By Procrastination (David S. Broder, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5344-2002Nov4.html>
If there is one word that characterizes the just-finished midterm campaign, it is avoidance.

Marxism (Joshua Muravchik, Foreign Policy)
<http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2002/marxism.html>
No other idea so enchanted the 20th century as Marxism.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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New Theory On Dinosaurs: Multiple Meteroites Did Them In (William J. Broad, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/science/life/05CRAT.html>
The discoveries are giving new support to the idea that killer objects from outer space may have sometimes arrived in pairs or even swarms, perhaps explaining why the extinctions seen in the fossil record can be messy affairs.

Students Build A System To Solve A Cosmic Puzzle (karen W. Arenson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/education/05COSM.html>
Students from nine New York high schools are participating in an experiment where they will try to discover the origin of high-energy cosmic particles.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Everybody Loves Gilbert! (Alex Beam, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/309/living/Everybody_loves_Gilbert_+.shtml>
Economic challenges notwithstanding, we are witnessing a small boom in magazine start-ups.

Voting Into The Void (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/05/voting_machines/index.html?x>
New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.

Badminton, Anyone? (Laura Sessions Stepp, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5174-2002Nov4.html>
The game moves out of the back yard and into the arena, as Americans play catch-up on a global sports favorite.

The Serendipitous Life Of The Solo Voyager (Geronimo Madrid, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/travel/SIMADR.html>
Those who travel alone return with tales of instant friendships, bouts of loneliness, romantic fantasies and peeks at myriad lives.

For Canada's Top Novelists, Being Born Abroad Helps (Cliford Krauss, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/arts/05ARTS.html>
A good many if not a majority of the leading lights of Canadian letters today are immigrants, including the three finalists for the Booker Prize this year.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Julian Of Norwich (Kathleen Jamie, Limelight)
<http://www.poem-uk.org/Poems/Kathleen_Jamie/kathleen_jamie.htm>

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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The Strange Tale Of Unlucky Luciano (Daniel Williams, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51403-2002Nov1.html>
Luciana Buonocore would like to be known as Luciano. In fact, he would like to be known as a man. Because he is one.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Delay Of Ang Mo Kio Project Hurting Many (Lee Han Shih, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/views/story/0,2276,62677,00.html>
This delay is hurting everyone, except SLF.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Saving Singapore's Soul (Gemma C. Araneta, Manila Bulletin)
<http://www.mb.com.ph/news.php?art=21760&sect=3&fname=OE02110421760f.txt>
Singaporeans have been feverishly restoring, for adaptive re-use, what city planners destroyed or abandoned in the name of progress and commercial gains.

Gambling Thrives In Singapore Despite Ban (Gambling Magazine)
<http://www.gamblingmagazine.com/managearticle.asp?c=280&a=3784>
Top officials have rejected a proposal to let casinos open in Singapore but gambling is already a huge industry in the island, where legal and underground firms thrive on a collective passion for punting.

A Tough Fight: Does Singapore Still Have What It Takes? (Tor Ching Li, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/todaynews/view/175/1/.html>
With the uncertain economic future and the terrorist threats facing the region, it appears that Singapore will be hard-pressed to come out ahead of its peers.

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