[MyAppleMenu] Nov 14, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Nov 14, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Teachers Mainely Happy With Tech (Katie Dean, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56284,00.html>
A recent trip to three Maine schools offered a glimpse of how attitudes about the program are shifting: Many teachers are now more enthusiastic than dubious.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Poll: 85% 'Still Need Power Macs' (Dominuqe Fiedle, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5550>
Macworld Online readers say they still need the Power Mac G4, despite the top-end PowerBook G4 now offering 1GHz and a DVD-R SuperDrive.

3-XServe Cluster Achieves 217 GigaFlops (MacNN)
<http://macnn.com/news.php?id=17354>
The JPL group has begun running parallel computing code on what is presently the largest working XServe cluster known to exist.

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.2 Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/14/ranchero>

Metrowerks Updates CodeWarrior (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2002/11/14/metroworks>

Yo Yo Ma Plays Different For Apple (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1040-965856.html>
Apple Computer's latest switcher is cellist Yo Yo Ma.

Early Desktop Pics Ahead Of Time (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56318,00.html>
Decorating a computer's desktop with a photo of a pet, a kid or a trip to Florida is commonplace. But back in the early 1990s, a forward-looking designer transformed his Mac's dull gray desktop into an integrated work of cyberart.

On The Move (The Star)
<http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/11/14/business/kyapple&sec=business>
Apple Computer Inc has appointed Tony Ho  as vice-president of Asia Pacific reporting to John Brandon, Apple vice-president of the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Apple's WebObjects Greets Web Services (Ian Fried, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-965489.html>
A new version of Apple Computer's Web application development software released on Tuesday aims to be more compatible with emerging Web services standards.

Apple Backup 1.2.1 Available For .Mac Members (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/13.backup.php>
Apple on Wednesday released an update to its backup utility for paid members of .Mac.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Microsoft's Tablet PC: A Hard Pill To Swallow? (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac111402,0,5552371.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
Bill Gates says he sees the future in his new machine; With many drawbacks, Apple probably shouldn't plan to lose much sleep over it.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Matlab 6.5: The Engineer's Best Friend Returns To The Mac (Charles Seiter, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2002/12/reviews/matlab/index.html>
Matlab 6.5 provides a much improved programming environment and state-of-the-art execution speed on all matrix math functions. It's one of the first technical programs delivered to the Mac in "we're Unix software, get used to it" mode, and it's generally an impressive success.

Mac Vs. PC III: Mac Slaughtered Again (Charlie White, Digital Video Editing)
<http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciii.htm>
Even though the Mac's dual G4 chips have been sped up to 1.25 GHz and offers faster DDR RAM, apparently this wasn’t enough to keep up with the newest and fastest from Dell and Intel.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel Server Sales To Outpace Rivals (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965865.html>
In 2003, sales of servers built on Intel processors will for the first time exceed sales of more customized Unix systems built on RISC processors, analyst firm Gartner Dataquest has predicted.

Security 'Impossible' For Win9x, Buy XP Now, Says MS Exec (John Lettice, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28100.html>
Why people are going to have to ditch their old MS stuff and buy lots of lovely new MS stuff instead.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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For Bulk E-Mailer, Pestering Millions Offers Path To Profit (Mylene Mangalindan, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1037138679220447148,00.html>
While there are large companies that send unsolicited commercial e-mail, most of the hundreds of people who make up the industry are small-business people and entrepreneurs.

Why Linux Is A Desktop Dud (Don Soegaard, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-965803.html>
Once you get beyond the turnkey desktop, the learning curve required to tweak your system can become formidable.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Creative Execs Stress Importance Of Internet (Alice Z> Cuneo, AdAge)
<http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=36553>
Advertising agencies must think beyond the TV-centric creative tradition and see the Internet and other new media as the way to expand their craft.

Wi-Fi For Handhelds Gets A Push (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1033-965875.html>
Wireless "hot spot" provider Boingo Wireless on Thursday unveiled software meant to make it easier for people with handheld devices to use Wi-Fi wireless networks.

Red Hat Wins Over Windows Convert (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965843.html>
Linux seller Red Hat--which chiefly looks to displace Unix rivals--announced today it has landed a customer that is bumping aside Microsoft Windows in favor of Red Hat software for its database servers.

Bracing For MS Patent Suit Attack (Robert McMillan, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,56337,00.html>
The open-source developer fears that, having settled its long-running antitrust suit, Microsoft will now become more aggressive in competing with open-source software. And for Samba -- software that allows Windows machines to read files on Linux servers -- as well as other open-source projects that compete with Microsoft's products, that may mean dealing with patent lawsuits.

Using A Hard Drive To Show Films In Theaters (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/movies/14DIGI.html>
As the major Hollywood studios bicker with theater owners over who should pay for the digital equipment that allows films to remain free of dirt and scratches no matter how many times they are viewed, a luxury carmaker and the world's largest software company have stepped into the breach, casting themselves as the unlikely champions of independent digital cinema.

Toward A Night At The Desktop Movies (Jonathan Krim, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51235-2002Nov13.html>
Could there actually be progress on the Internet entertainment front?

Deals Set Stage For Online Music Firms (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-music14nov14001425,0,2682275.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Licenses allow them to offer songs from major labels and open door to competition on features.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Critique Of Pure Comedy (Jefferson Chase, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/314/focus/Critique_of_pure_comedy+.shtml>
The terrorists' humor problem -- and our own.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Will The DVD Save Movies? (Charles Taylor, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/11/14/dvd_era/index.html>
Film purists have long wanted to watch movies "as they were meant to be seen." With the art house all but dead, the future of film is right there in your living room.

Grin And Hug It (Don Oldenburg, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51461-2002Nov13.html>
Bearing up well, the ubiquitous Teddy turns 100.

How To Build A Better Bureaucrat (Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52325-2002Nov14.html>
Take integrity and hard work and shower with praise.

BYOB, But It'll Cost You (Valli Herman-Cohen, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/food/cl-fo-cork13nov13,0,3187105.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood>
More people are bringing their own wine, and restaurants are fighting back with tougher rules and corkage fees as high as $50.

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