[MyAppleMenu] Apr 7, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Apr 7, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Slow Going For FireWire 800? (David Morgenstern, Storage Supersite)
<http://storage.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,1005894,00.asp>
Price, manufacturing constraints and unrealistic expectations may hobble FireWire 800 in the short run.

TiVo Desktop Allows iTunes, iPhoto Streaming (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/07/tivo/>
TiVo Desktop 1.0 has been released, which lets you stream photos and music to your Mac over a network to a TiVo PVR.

SGI Infinite Structure Coming To OS X (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/07/infinite/>
Developed around a 64-bit filesystem called CXFS, Infinite Structure is already in use in more than 300 customer sites worldwide and on more than 1,100 clients. The storage technology can scale up to an astounding 18 million terabytes of storage capacity. In practical terms, that's about 9 million uncompressed movies at 2K resolution, or thousands of years of 50Mb broadcast material, according to SGI.

Acrobat 6.0 Announced (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6182>
Adobe has announced Adobe Acrobat 6.0, with the update bringing new features and enhancements for creative and corporate customers.

Alias|Wavefront Announces Maya 5 (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/06/maya>
"Improvements added to both Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited software will energize artist and programmer workflows in such creative industries as game development, broadcast graphics, Web content creation, design visualization and film production."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple Needs A Budget-Minded Box (Eduardo Rodriguez-Perez, MacMerc)
<http://macmerc.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=107>

How The MacIntel Will Change The Market (John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine)
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1007662,00.asp>
Right now, all things being equal, Apple should be able to grab half the market for operating systems. If it's as aggressive as Microsoft was with Netscape and essentially gives away the OS to the installed base, Apple could possibly knock Microsoft out of the box completely.

The Apple Guide To World Domination (John halbig, Mac Design)
<http://www.macdesignonline.com/issues/marapr03/On_Apple.html>
Apple is poised to create a platform that could offer literally everything that an end user could possibly need, and the tools to fill in the blanks—scripting, development tools, and databases—all included as part of the purchase price, or for the same cost as just upgrading the OS.

A Place For Everything, & Everything In Its Place, Except In Mac OS X (John Kheit, The Mac Observer)
<http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/04/07.1.shtml>
There are few good reasons for programs to strew files all over your hard drive; since OS X's release, however, more Mac users have to deal with programs that install in ways they cannot control.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple's New iMac Is Almost Perfect (Almost) (MacNETv2)
<http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=314_0_1_0_M>
I want an L3 cache in the next iMac revision or at least a good explanation as to why not.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft's Scary Post-War Crisis (Joe Wilcox)
<http://www.joewilcox.com/casualty.htm>
Microsoft's already precarious situation would be potentially worse should anti-U.S. sentiments inflame growing foreign resentment against the American company. Microsoft would do well to remember the largest software markets are in countries like China, India or Russia, places where the company isn't exactly welcomed with open arms and piracy is rampant.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Internet Phone Calls Stymie FBI (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,58350,00.html>
With phone calls increasingly being made over the Net, the FBI wants to make sure that surveillance capabilities are built into VoIP services. But privacy advocates worry that tapping into the data stream for voice means getting more than what a court ordered.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Radio Tunes In Warily To Its Digital Future (Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-radio7apr07001439,1,7421556.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Technology offers better quality, sophisticated services. But only 20 stations use it, amid concerns about making the investment pay off.

Porn Spam: Are Employers Liable? (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-995658.html>
Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against spam--experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem too.

AOL Asks FCC To Lift IM Restriction (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-995595.html>
AOL Time Warner has submitted a petition asking to be excused from the instant messaging interoperability requirements imposed by the Federal Communications Commission.

Red Hat Builds On Top Of Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-995609.html>
Following the strategy of rivals such as Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft, Red Hat has begun selling higher-level software that works on top of its operating system.

Smart-Clothes Chips End Up In Dirty Laundry (Winston Chai, CNET Asia)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-995722.html>
Clothing maker Benetton won't be using radio tags on its products after all, a move which appears to be a victory for pro-privacy groups and a blow to Dutch electronics giant Philips.

The Power Of Communities (Matthew Langham, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3013>
One of the most important factors - and something typically missing from non-open source development is the emphasis on community.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Reasonableness Test (William Raspberry, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43667-2003Apr6.html>
Mightn't the justices consider a little affirmative action themselves?

In Japan, A Veteran Sees History Repeat (Doug Struck, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43830-2003Apr6.html>
Bush administration's "policy of 'anticipatory self-defense' is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor," when Japanese leaders concluded the United States had to be attacked as a potential threat to their national interest.

Why We May Never Regain The Liberties That We've Lost (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5571471.htm>
Liberties ebbed and flowed in America's past. Leaders curbed liberties, with the public's often ignorant endorsement, in times of crisis. But the rights tended to come back when the crises ended.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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"Sesame Street" Cred (Heather Havrilesky, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2003/04/07/sesame/index.html>
After 33 years, Snuffleupagus isn't imaginary and Elmo gets too much airtime, but the best kids' show ever still educates with honesty, humor and loads of charm.

The Cruelest Month (Jay Mathews, Washignton Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6161-2003Apr1.html>
You are a high school senior applying to college. Your nerves are shot, your energy is drained and your family is deeply split. So it's probably April, by far the worst month in the process.

TV In A Taxi: Not Everybody Is Hailing It (Paula Span, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43829-2003Apr6.html>
The companies that market and install the rear-seat video-viewing systems are convinced that the taxi-riding public will love them. And just in case they're wrong, the screens are bulletproof.

There Is Much To Be Said For The Man Who Changes His Mind (Daniel Finkelstein, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-636942,00.html>
I am fascinated not by the grisly act of killers but by the banal details of their ordinary lives.

'The Best Possible Life' (Maureen Dowd, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/opinion/06DOWD.html>
Michael died for two things he believed in: Journalism and ridding the world of jackboots.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Protects Game Show Fanatics, Orangutans (Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/03/1048962868091.html>
Live studio audiences are no longer allowed to watch television show tapings in Singapore and people are being kept away from the orangutans - all in an effort to protect man and beast from contracting a deadly illness known as SARS.

Anxious Travellers Dread Singapore (Daryl Passmore, The Sunday Mail)
<http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6242483%255E2765,00.html>
Travellers flying out of Brisbane for Singapore yesterday were worried.

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