[MyAppleMenu] Oct 7, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Oct 7, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Acknowledges, Explains .Mac Outages (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0210/07.mac.php>
"Since the equipment vendor has not been able to persuade us that the problem will not occur again, we've already begun installing new equipment from a different vendor."

Apple Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#never>
Do you remember the old days?

Apple's iBook: Why It's Not Just For Home, Anymore (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2882475,00.html>
While I'm sure that Apple's engineers have done everything they can to eke every last erg of performance out of the AirPort on Powerbook, it's just not enough.

MyAppleMenu : News
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iSync Puts You On The Same Page (David Frith, The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5240704%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>

Apple Updates iPod Software For Europe Only (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=16866>
Apple has released an update to the iPod 1.22 software for Europe only, which will bring the sound level down from 104 dB to 100 dB.

15" iMac Line Quietly Dropped US$100, Starting At US$1299 (Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/07.11.shtml>

New Apples For Teachers (Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News)
<http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1908374p-2022260c.html>
The disparity among computers in Anchorage schools is clear when you wander the classrooms of Campbell Elementary School.

.Mac Was 'Down For Hours' (Dominique Fidele, Macword UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5367>
Reports of problems began surfacing yesterday, the service was fully resumed by 12pm today. 

Apple Stars At Stuff Live (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5365>
Apple's solutions were to the fore at the recent gadget-orientated Stuff Live 2002 show at London's Earl's Court.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Microsoft Optical Mouse Blue And Wireless Optical Mouse Blue (Ian Johnson, Globe And Mail)
<http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20021007/gtmouse/Technology/techBN/>
The hardware and optical mechanism are among the best money can get at the moment, but Microsoft went wrong trying to reinvent the wheel mechanism.

The Fade Factor (Anush Yegyazarian, PC World)
<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105461,00.asp>
Ink jet photos can last for years--or a few months, depending on the printer, ink, and paper. We identify the best products and deals.

Mac OS X 10.2 Makes Fast Break (Jason Brooks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,599045,00.asp>
Combining a thoughtfully designed user interface with components culled from the open-source community, Apple's Mac OS X 10.2 operating system will probably fit into the mainstream enterprise desktop space better than any other Unix-based system.

Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos (Corey Tamas, MacHome)
<http://www.machome.com/reviews/display.lasso?grr8=35>
All this gaming goodness comes at a price, however; system requirements for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos are steep.

Beefing Up OS X's Windows Networking (Alan Zisman, Low End Mac)
<http://lowendmac.com/mac2win/02/1007.html>

A Tale Of 12 Mice (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4226646.htm>
Call me a curmudgeon, but I wish mouse vendors wouldn't get rid of models that work just fine -- and my trusty Microsoft rodent continues to perform spectacularly.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft Judge Takes His Case To The Public (James V. Grimaldi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51851-2002Oct6.html>
About 15 months after the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit rebuked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson for talking to the media in the Microsoft antitrust case, Jackson has formally filed his rebuttal. Jackson's venue of choice to file his reply brief is, naturally, the court of public opinion.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Beware Of The Internet Toll Booth (Bruce Perens, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-961092.html>
This battle must be taken to the various governments and treaty organizations that produce bad law permitting the patenting of software and business systems, and continue to do so.

Designed For Life (Wendy M. Grossman, New Scientist)
<http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23631>
Why gadgets in the real world are still so hard to use, and why computers need emotions.

Music Industry In Global Fight On Web Copies (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/technology/07SWAP.html>
Having vanquished the music swapping service Napster in court, the entertainment industry is facing a formidable obstacle in pursuing its major successor, KaZaA: geography.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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House Votes For Webcasters' Reprieve (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-961100.html>
A bill exempting small Webcasters from fees that had threatened to drive many small operations out of business passed the House of Representatives on Monday.

As Launch Looms, AOL 8.0 Details Begin To Leak (Scarlet Pruitt, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/10/07/021007hnaol8.xml?s=IDGNS>
The new bells and whistles are just part of an overall effort by the Dulles, Virginia, ISP to shore up its business amid dwindling advertising revenues and falling subscriber rates.

The Problem With "Pragmatism" (chromatic, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2116>
Surely the "best tool for the job" is a tool that won't make your life harder in the future. Only truly free software can make that guarantee.

Rift Threatens Web Services Security Spec (Darrl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,590669,00.asp>
An emerging rift among supporters of a proposed Web services security specification could slow the ratification of the standard and hamstring enterprises trying to settle on a way to make Web services transactions safer.

Yahoo Heralds Corporate Messaging (Margaret Kane, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960979.html>
Yahoo has unveiled a version of its Messenger service designed to work with corporate portals and business applications.

W3C Proposes XML Encryption Methods (Paul Festa, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-960895.html>
The Web's leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization's push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.

Linux Maker Takes On Windows (Stephen Shankland, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-960917.html>
SWsoft, whose Virtuozzo software lets several copies of Linux run simultaneously on the same Intel server, plans to expand its reach next year.

Register Air Travelers? P-Shaw! (Lauren Weinstein, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55536,00.html>
Some inappropriate uses of technology are simply ill-advised. The registered traveler plan looks downright dangerous.

Niche Retailers Supply Gadget Geeks With Latest From Japan (Maureen Fan, San Jose Mecury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4229566.htm>
"There is a cultural difference where Japanese favor small compact sizes and elegant design way more than Americans do, but there's a portion of the American market who share that desire."

AOL Is Relearning Its ABCs (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_41/b3803066.htm>
With advertisers scarce, the focus is on retaining subscribers.

Dueling 8.0's: America Online Vs. Microsoft (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/technology/07DUEL.html?ex=1034568000&en=e8317116b68f0c14&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER>
While AOL scarcely deigns to mention its rival, Microsoft plans to compare itself relentlessly with AOL.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Power Paradox (Christopher Layne, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-layne6oct06,0,4229158.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
History teaches that holding a monopoly on might--as the United States now does--is likely to provoke a backlash.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Register Air Travelers? P-Shaw! (Lauren Weinstein, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55536,00.html>
Some inappropriate uses of technology are simply ill-advised. The registered traveler plan looks downright dangerous.

Love Online (Henry Jenkins, Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins100402.asp>
Online relationships aren't virtual, and they aren't revolutionary. Shakespeare knew it, and so does my son.

Hollywood Gets The Big Picture With DVDs (Frank Ahrens, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51962-2002Oct6.html>
The DVD is changing more than Hollywood's bottom line. It is influencing what kinds of movies get made and when they are offered for sale and rental.

Obscure Show With Small Products (Barnaby J. Feder, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/technology/07NECO.html>
Trade shows do not get much more obscure than Sensors Expo and Conference. The semiannual gathering assembles scores of little companies -- or little-known divisions of large ones like General Electric -- that make devices to measure heat, pressures, speed, voltage, acceleration and scores of other conditions that are vital to machines and people.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Miss America -- More Than A Beauty Queen? (Kate Shindle, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/817198.asp>
Until organizers decide what the title represents, the public will go on thinking it means very little.

May You Never Know Your Place (Justin Davidson, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/07/entitled/index.html>
My son believes New York is his town, and the world is his oyster cracker. Is he entitled to feel entitled?

Oh, Ottawa? Oh, Yes. (Bill O'Brian, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43989-2002Oct4.html>
Canada's surprising capital.

Naughty Victorians Find New Takers (Ruth La Ferla, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/fashion/06VICT.html>
Unlike previous flirtations with the period, which emphasized the stereotype of Victorians as a stuffy lot, today's crop of books, museum shows and runway fashions reflect the latest scholarship about the era.

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