[MyAppleMenu] Nov 23, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Nov 23, 2002

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Releases November Security Update (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/22.security.php>
Security Update 2002-11-21 fixes potential vulnerabilities introduced in BIND, the domain server and client library software package from Internet Software Consortium.

Laptops Power Learning To New Dimension At Elementary School (Robin Beck, Boothbay Register)
<http://boothbayregister.maine.com/2002-11-21/laptop_program.html>
The slates of yesteryear and the mimeograph sheets of yesterday have given way to the keyboards and flat screens of Apple laptop computers.

Oracle's Ellison Bought 70,000 Apple Shares (Reuters)
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2002/11/22/rtr804403.html>
Oracle Chairman Lawrence Ellison, who resigned from Apple's board of directors in September, exercised options and acquired 70,000 shares of the computer maker, a regulatory filing on Friday said.

Apple Offers $100 Off Combo-Drive eMac (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=17481>
Apple's new Jingle bells and whistles promo offers $100 off the purchase of an eMac.

Ruin Your PC With An Aqua Dock (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28258.html>
A small number of sites continue to produce knock-offs of the Aqua UI.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Imagine That - Learning Made Fun (Michael McGuire, The Courier-Gazette)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1464&dept_id=179647&newsid=6156906&PAG=461&rfi=9>
I continue to be a staunch supporter of Maine's trailblazing laptop program. I think it is the most forward-looking education initiative of the last 25 years. It's going to make a huge, positive difference - unlike the so-called Learning Results mandates that I believe are mostly doomed to uselessness.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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About Tablet Computing Old And New (Dan Bricklin)
<http://www.bricklin.com/tabletcomputing.htm>
A discussion of PC tablet hardware and software from the 1990's, and why Microsoft's pushing of the new Tablet PCs will bring renewed innovation.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,720477,00.asp>
Thanks to several high-profile vulnerabilities and an overall increase in the number of flaws, open-source software has taken over Microsoft Corp.'s position at the bottom of the security heap.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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About Tablet Computing Old And New (Dan Bricklin)
<http://www.bricklin.com/tabletcomputing.htm>
A discussion of PC tablet hardware and software from the 1990's, and why Microsoft's pushing of the new Tablet PCs will bring renewed innovation.

Father Of Java Sounds Off (Darryl K. Taft, InfoWorld)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,720078,00.asp>
James Gosling, the father of Java and a fellow at Sun Microsystems Inc., graced the Software Development Conference and Expo East 2002 with his presence this week, addressing a wide range of issues from Sun's software strategy to Web services to embedded Java to open-source software.

AOL Tests Standalone E-Mail Product (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-971064.html>
America Online is testing a standalone e-mail client that could set the stage for a features battle with Microsoft in the market for Internet-based communications software.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The New Convergence (Gregg Easterbrook, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/convergence.html>
Ever so gingerly, science has been backing away from its case-closed attitude toward the transcendent unknown.

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