[MyAppleMenu] Apr 4, 2003

Fri Apr 4 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Apr 4, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple To Consolidate Apple ID, .Mac Accounts (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/04/appleid/>
.Mac accounts will now serve as the Apple ID.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Steve Jobs Highest Paid CEO Of 2002 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/04/jobs>
According to research firm Equilar, Apple's Steve Jobs made US$116.3 million last year, making him the best paid CEO of 2002.

More Wireless Internet Access Set For Lower Manhattan Parks (Edward Wyatt, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/nyregion/04WIRE.html>
A downtown business improvement district is planning to establish free high-speed wireless Internet access in six parks and public spaces in Lower Manhattan next month, significantly expanding the availability downtown of wireless connections to the Internet.

Pinnacle And Apple Help Switch Edit Facility To Final Cut And CineWave (Mike Washlesky, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/04/03.7.shtml>

Getting To The Hotspot (David Haskin, 802.11 Planet)
<http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/2173781>
Fast, easy wireless access to the Internet is the promise of wireless hotspots.

Mac OS X Floppy Disk RAID Comes To Light (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/03/floppyraid/>
Mac OS X's included Disk Utility may be more flexible than you think. One enterprising Mac user named Daniel Blade Olson has managed to craft together a RAID system using, of all things, a series of floppy drives.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac OS X And The Promise Of Stable Computing (Pierre Igot, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/oped/applepeel/archives/peel_53_030404.shtml>
I don’t mind the current emphasis on “secure” computing. Security is a major concern and things do need to improve. But I still wish that as much energy was devoted to stability and reliability, especially at the application level, now that the major hurdles for system-wide stability appear to have been lifted.

Update On Antioch School District's Mac Vs. Windows Platform Debate (Jeff Adkins, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/lab/03/0403.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Versus GeForce 4 Titanium (rob-ART morgan, Bare Feats)
<http://www.barefeats.com/r9700.html>
ATI Technology's Radeon 9700 Pro takes the Quake3 frame rate bragging rights away from the GeForce4 Titanium, especially at higher quality settings.

Sound Advice (Rick Lepage, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/04/reviews/macgems200304/>
Whether it's a vital shareware utility or a cool gizmo you just shouldn't be without, these overlooked gems can transform your Mac from something you work with to something that works for you.

Finder Follies (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/>
To many Mac users, the proliferation of folders can be downright confusing, and rather than enhancing the ability to navigate through the file system, it makes it more complicated.

PowerBook Titanium/17" CD/DVD Ejection Problems (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030403081000334>
The system properly attempts to eject the disc (not a software issue), but is in some cases blocked by an apparent mechanical defect.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft OKs Minor Changes In Windows (Ted Bridis, Associated Press)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Microsoft%20Antitrust>
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to a government request for minor changes in its Windows operating system to make it easier for consumers to use software from rival companies to browse Web pages, listen to music and send instant messages.

Sun Vs. Microsoft: Harding Vs. Kerrigan Revisited (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,997305,00.asp>
Is Sun Microsystems Inc. really a force in the PC operating system market? That question was the crux of the hearing Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit here.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Ten Questions For A High-Tech Starup (Karl Moore, Richard Sudek and Kai Peters, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-994949.html>
Things will be looking up for high-tech. With the shakeout being so severe and investments curtailed for so long, innovation is again needed. But spending is still tight so individuals planning to launch a high-tech start-up in 2003 need to make sure their business plans are solid. We'll examine five market issues and five management issues that entrepreneurs need to deal with in order to survive.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Sony TV Would Grab Streams From The Net (Evan Hansen, Stefanie Olsen and Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1031-995467.html>
Sony is developing a plasma screen television set that's intended to tune in streaming video from home networks and the Internet as easily as regular TV programs, according to sources familiar with the plans.

More Wireless Internet Access Set For Lower Manhattan Parks (Edward Wyatt, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/nyregion/04WIRE.html>
A downtown business improvement district is planning to establish free high-speed wireless Internet access in six parks and public spaces in Lower Manhattan next month, significantly expanding the availability downtown of wireless connections to the Internet.

Making Open Source Pay - A Developer's Dilemma (CIO Asia)
<http://cio-asia.com/pcio.nsf/unidlookup/19A79BF1EDC860AF48256CFD003FD28B?OpenDocument>
Even the companies that have managed to successfully sell themselves as service and support providers for open source have struggled to find a winning business model.

Aussie Consortium Ponders Linux Engineering Cluster (Iain Ferguson, ZDNet Australia)
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273441,00.htm>
A supercomputing consortium plans to decide within the next two weeks on a tender for what it claims is the first large cluster in Australia dedicated to computational engineering.

Getting To The Hotspot (David Haskin, 802.11 Planet)
<http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/2173781>
Fast, easy wireless access to the Internet is the promise of wireless hotspots.

Microsoft Moves On VoIP (Paula Musich, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,997727,00.asp>
Microsoft Corp. yesterday launched its first VOIP (voice-over-IP) support in its Windows CE .Net embedded real-time operating system.

Intel V. Hamidi Case Tests Net Freedoms (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30084.html>
The hearing comes after two lower courts ruled that Intel was within its rights in taking legal action against a worker who protested against his dismissal by the company by spamming his former colleagues. 

AOL's Incredibly Shrinking Dial-Up Base (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1034-995292.html>
America Online expects to continue to see its dial-up subscriber base contract, extending a trend seen in the last quarter, according to a regulatory filing the Internet division of AOL Time Warner.

RIAA Sues Campus File-Swappers (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027-995429.html>
The recording industry has stepped up its campaign against campus music swapping, filing suit against four university students who operated file-search services on their school's internal networks.

Apache Patch To Thwart DoS Attack (Sandeep Junnarkar, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009-995309.html>
The Apache Software Foundation has released a patch for its Apache 2.0 HTTP Server to thwart a "significant" denial-of-service vulnerability.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Plan B -- For Baghdad (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24173-2003Apr3.html>
The miracle having not happened, we are now fighting a conventional war. And winning -- thanks to the Franks plan and its flexibility, and despite the carping of those who, in conflict after conflict, see Vietnam in anything short of immediate immaculate victory.

How To Think About This War If You're Against It (Joan Walsh, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/04/04/cakewalk/>
I hope for a U.S. victory with minimum bloodshed and maximum freedom for the Iraqi people. But I also want the cakewalk conservatives to pay for their hubris politically.

The War Americans Don't See (Rami G. Khouri, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/opinion/04KHOU.html>
he Arab press -— like Arab public opinion as a whole -— predominantly opposes the British and American attack on Iraq, and does not hesitate to say so in its front page headlines, articles and photographs. Yet the press is neither monolithic nor uniformly anti-American.

CNN Was Right On Target In Guessing War's Start Date (Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/03/MN306918.DTL>
Here's a nagging question: Did CNN know the war in Iraq was going to start March 19?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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An Early Warning System For Diseases In New York (Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/nyregion/04WARN.html>
What was remarkable about that episode was not so much the city's response, but that it was detected at all.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Is It Nature Or Nurture That Makes Spring Menus Sing? (Julia Moskin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/dining/02WILD.html>
Spring is in the air, and wild foods from around the United States are staging their annual return to New York restaurant menus. But what exactly is a wild food?

Cents And Sensibility (Adelle Waldman, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081052/>
The surprising truth about sales of classic novels.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Regime Change (Andrew Motion, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersoniraq/story/0,12975,928666,00.html>

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Another Rite Of Spring: Will They Or Wont' They? (Karlyn Barker, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23411-2003Apr3.html>
One of Washington's favorite guessing games -- whether the giant pandas at the National Zoo will produce a cub -- resumed yesterday in a nation's capital sorely in need of a happy diversion.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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PUB Says NEWater Free From SARS Virus And All Bacteria, Safe For Drinking (Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/36601/1/.html>
The Public Utilities Board says NEWater remains safe for drinking, amidst heightened awareness of viral infection following the SARS outbreak.

Singapore Infocomm Growth To Skid To 3-4%: IDC (Raju Chellam, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,77401,00.html?>
The Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic is set to slow Singapore's infocomm growth to 3-4 per cent this year, from the more than 4.5 per cent forecast earlier.

Same-Sex Smooching Too Much For Singapore (Associated Press)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/4/4/latest/11251Samesexs&sec=latest>
Moviegoers in this wealthy city state are not ready for same-sex smooching on the big screen, the head of Singapore's Board of Film Censors said on Friday.

More Singapore News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/singapore/>

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