[MyAppleMenu] Apr 9, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Dell Drops iPod (Ian Fried and Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-996209.html>
Dell Computer has stopped selling Apple Computer's iPod music player after only six months, bringing to an end an unusual marriage of marketing convenience. Meanwhile, the 5GB iPod is fading further into the sunset.

Apple Drops Education eMac Pricing (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/08/emac>
Apple has lowered the educational price of its low-end eMac to US$779, a $70 price drop.

MyAppleMenu : News
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StuffIt 7.0.3 Expands Unix Archive Support (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/09/stuffit/>
v7.0.3 is now able to browse .TAR archives, BZIP2 and GZIP formats.

OmniWeb 4.2 Released, v4.5 To Gain Apple WebCore (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/09/omni>
OmniWeb 4.2 adds a number of features intended to improve user experience and bring greater compatibility with Web servers and Internet plug-ins.

Apple Store Coming To San Francisco (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19066>

Interview With Fink's Project Leader Max Horn (Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews.com)
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3236>
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. They modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and make it available for download as a coherent distribution.

Runtime For Java Updated (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6195>
Apple has released a Mac OS 9.2.2 version of Mac OS Runtime for Java MRJ 2.2.6.

PC Mall Gov To Sell Apple Products To Government Customers (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/04/08/pcmall>
PC Mall Gov, a subsidiary of PC Mall, announced today that it has received authorization to sell Apple products to U.S. federal government customers as part of its contract with the General Services Administration (GSA).

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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I'll Take Mac OS X Only Please (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#only>
Clearly developers took that mock burial ceremony for Mac OS 9 at last year's WWDC to heart.

Poll: Graphite 'Best iMac Colour' (Alison Turner, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6196>
Graphite and Bondi blue are the two all-time favourite colours of the CRT G3 iMac.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Alida (Michael Phillips, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=364>

No VPC Support For Airport Extreme (Clayton Crawley, O'Grady's PowerPage)
<http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=10846>

Final Cut Express (Brian Burnham, Macmerc.com)
<http://macmerc.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=54>
Final Cut Express embarrasses the likes of Adobe’s Premiere, beating it in features and price.

Content Barrier X (MacSofa)
<http://www.macsofa.com/more.php?id=37_0_1_0_M>
It does a great job of blocking web access and monitoring chat software. But it is not a total solution for blocking, controlling and restricting Internet content.

Virtual Hosts, mod_rendezvous_apple, And Apache On Mac OS X (Joe Maller, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/08/mod_rendezvous.html>
A three-step workaround for serving locally-named virtual hosts to Rendezvous clients.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel To Ship Canterwood, New 3GHz P4 Next Week (Sumner Lemon and Martyn Williams, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/09/HNcanterwood_1.html>
New chip set revs bus speeds from 533MHz to 800MHz.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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PR Rules, OK? Google Ducks Promised News Policy Pledge (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30166.html>
So the door's open. Google welcomes you in. You can now attempt to "game" or buy your way into Google News.

The Way We Work (Jessie Scanlon, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/work.html>
Four stories from the wireless frontier.

Feds Falling Short On Cybersecurity (Brian Krebs, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55783-2003Apr8.html>
The new Department of Homeland Security lacks the resources and expertise to execute the core elements of the Bush administration's cybersecurity plan, the president's former cybersecurity adviser told Congress today.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Open-Source Battle Rages In Oregon (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-996210.html>
A group of open-source advocates and critics will meet behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon, in the first of at least two meetings in search of a compromise on what could be the first bill in the United States to encourage the use of open-source software by a state government.

Wireless Firms Still Fight Portable Phone Numbers (Christopher Stern, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59524-2003Apr8.html>
Mobile phone companies are making a last stand to block a regulation that would allow subscribers to keep their telephone numbers when they switch wireless carriers.

SARS Roils Computer Industry (Keith Bradsher, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/science/sciencespecial/09TECH.html>
Some executives are nervous about how they will manage if the disease continues to spread in the region, which dominates global production of computers and other electronic goods.

The First Linux Marketing From Microsoft (Andy Oram, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3024>
Microsoft is admitting that in one quite crucial, huge area--consumer devices--they are going to have to live and let live with Linux.

Speech And Weblogs (Dave Winer)
<http://www.thetwowayweb.com/speechAndWeblogs>
Weblogs are as important as having good lawyers and organizations like the EFF and Berkman Center. The lawyers are our defense. Weblogs are the offense.

'Step Back' For Wireless ID Tech? (Elisa Batista, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58385,00.html>
Privacy advocates applaud a statement from clothing maker Benetton that it will not embed wireless ID tags in its clothing until it completes further testing. But those in a burgeoning industry aren't clapping.

Databases Ripe For Attacks (Lisa Vaas, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1007007,00.asp>
One reason the Slammer worm was able to wreak so much havoc is database administrators are loathe to install patches that haven't been thoroughly tested.

McNealy Sings A Low-Cost Tune (James Niccolai, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/08/HNsuncost_1.html>
After earning a fortune selling big, costly servers in the dot-com heyday, Sun Microsystems is singing a different tune: Buy our hardware and we'll save you money.

Gear makers Team For Wireless Broadband (Richard Shim and ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-995994.html>
Gear makers have joined a nonprofit group looking to promote wireless access to high-speed broadband connections.

New Palms Feature Intel Chip, Camera (Richard Shim, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1041-995990.html>
Palm is getting ready to launch two handheld devices, one with built-in wireless and the other with a digital camera, sources say, features that mark company firsts for the industry leader.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Resisting Superpowerful Temptations (Robert Kagan, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60003-2003Apr8.html>
Can the Bush administration follow its brilliant military campaign in Iraq with a smart political and diplomatic campaign after the war? It can if it avoids some dangerous temptations.

Dances With Wolfowitz (Maureen Dowd, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/opinion/09DOWD.html>
Victory in Iraq will be a truly historic event, but it will be exceedingly weird and dangerous if this administration turns America into Sparta.

Dissonance: March Madness (Marc Cooper, LA Weekly)
<http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/18/dissonance-cooper.php>
Let’s do a reality check. If you’re in the peace movement and your secret hope is that an arrogant George W. Bush will get his comeuppance in Iraq, that the war will go awry and that it will sink into a bloody I-told-you-so quagmire, then you better have a long, soul-searching meeting with yourself.

Saddam's Regime Is A European Import (Bernard Lewis, National Post)
<http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=%7B0E39D93C-7FF7-43A9-9E5D-A0E7EF4CF6C4%7D>
In the Western world, knowledge of history is poor -- and the awareness of history is frequently poorer.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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How Could We Identify Saddam's Body? (Brendan I. Koerner, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081276/>
If human remains are recovered from the smoldering ruins of Baghdad's al-Sa'aa restaurant, how will scientists be able to verify whether or not they belong to Saddam?

Asian Offiicals Say SARS May Be Here To Stay (Keith Bradsher with Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/science/sciencespecial/09INFE.html>
Health officials in Hong Kong and Singapore warned their citizens today that the agent that causes a mysterious respiratory disease has spread so far in their communities and abroad that it will be hard to bring under control any time soon, if ever.

Speech And Weblogs (Dave Winer)
<http://www.thetwowayweb.com/speechAndWeblogs>
Weblogs are as important as having good lawyers and organizations like the EFF and Berkman Center. The lawyers are our defense. Weblogs are the offense.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Why Wine Costs What It Does (Amanda Hesser, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/dining/09PRIC.html>
Why does one bottle of fermented grape juice cost $135, and another just $15?

Letter To And From Home: 1918 And 2003 (Jonathan Gornall, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-638980,00.html>
In the First World War, Richard Cork's grandfather wrote passionate letters home from the Balkan Front. In the Iraq conflict, the e-bluey has transformed this vital link.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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The Invisible Man Looks Into A Mirror (Paul Guest, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081196/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Asian Offiicals Say SARS May Be Here To Stay (Keith Bradsher with Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/science/sciencespecial/09INFE.html>
Health officials in Hong Kong and Singapore warned their citizens today that the agent that causes a mysterious respiratory disease has spread so far in their communities and abroad that it will be hard to bring under control any time soon, if ever.

SARS Roils Computer Industry (Keith Bradsher, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/science/sciencespecial/09TECH.html>
Some executives are nervous about how they will manage if the disease continues to spread in the region, which dominates global production of computers and other electronic goods.

Where's The Bio Buzz? Biotech Firms Tell Why They Are Silent On Sars (Tan Hui Leng, Today)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/todaynews/view/578/1/.html>
The partner in boutique biotech company Inflexion Corp, Mr Ho Kok Hiang, said one reason is because it is close to impossible to obtain blood and saliva samples from the 118 people who were infected with Sars.

Banks Put Off Credit Card Dining Programmes (Siow Li Sen, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,77882,00.html?>
Credit card discounts at restaurants so beloved of food-crazy Singaporeans have been canned by some banks - yet another victim of the Sars virus even as the government pleads for businesses to carry on as usual.

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

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