[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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FWB Axes RealPC, Calls OS X Version 'Vaporware' (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/27/realpc/>
FWB Inc. has discontinued its RealPC emulation product, according to a statement posted on its Web site. The news dashes the hopes of Mac users looking for an emulation alternative to VirtualPC, Connectix's virtual machine emulation technology now owned by Microsoft.

GraphicConverter Updated To v4.8.1 (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/08/27/graphicconverter/>

Virtual PC No-Go On G5 (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6792>
Microsoft's PC emulation application Virtual PC 6.1 is incompatible with Apple's now-shipping Power Mac G5's, according to reports.

Microsoft: IM Party's Over (Matt Hicks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1231449,00.asp>
Microsoft Corp. is developing a licensing program for third-party instant messaging clients and services that want to continue accessing its .Net Messaging Service, but it comes with a catch.

PC-Makers Look Forward To Brisk Sales To Students (Scripps Howard News Service)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10060902&BRD=988&PAG=461&dept_id=141274&rfi=6>
Makers of personal computers are gearing up for a back-to-school season that analysts expect will be more robust than in previous years, due to the growing popularity of laptops.

School Board Pleased With Budget (Erin Haller, Newton Daily News)
<http://www.newtondailynews.com/articles/2003/08/26/news/news4.txt>
Apple Computers has approached the district about its "one-to-one" program that involves one computer for every student with laptops and Internet access at home. With an original estimate of $300 per student from Apple, McDermott is not interested unless the district can receive corporate assistance.

Apple Issues G5 Benchmarks (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/32498.html>
The results are in line with Intel's historically strong performance in integer performance and PowerPC's equally strong floating point results. But according to Apple the gcc compiler used did not support the AltiVec floating point instructions, and yet the G5 machine managed to trump both Dells on trial.

Jonathan Ive Wins New Praise (Nick Spence, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6786>
Creative Review readers have voted Apple's VP industrial design Jonathan Ive top of the magazine's Peer Poll for 2003.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Wanted: Advertising Rants And Raves (Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/virgin/136553_virgin26.html>
For all the ink spilled in discussing the advertisement over the decades, did "1984" make the Apple Macintosh more than a niche product with a tenuous hold on the personal computing world?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Apple iSight Conference Video Camera (Jack Kapica, Globe And Mail)
<http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030827.gtisightaug27/BNStory/TechReviews/>
An excellent video camera and one we suspect will become very popular -- once the software catches up with it and people keep moving to broadband.

Apple Xserve (Tom Henderson, TechNewsWorld.com)
<http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31432.html>
While decidedly Apple, Xserve puts to shame many of the Linux distributions available by tying together the diverse number of applications that are needed to administer an equivalent Linux server into a simple, GUI-driven interface. Xserve plays well in a Windows network, but also accommodates a variety of network constructions -- all from a tight 1U package.

The Penguin In The Apple (Leonardo Giordani, Linux Journal)
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7012&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>
The installation procedure is quite simple, as you can see, but we cannot say that Linux support is total and stable on this Apple hardware. We are walking on the edge right now.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Dumb Software for Dumb People (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/08/27/microsoft_virus/index_np.html>
The Windows world is fertile ground for infinite virus plagues, especially when users refuse to take proper care of their computers.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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A Legal Fix For Software Flaws? (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5067873.html?tag=nl>
Microsoft's security failings may draw repeated beatings in the court of public opinion, but they will likely never be tested in a court of law unless current product liability statutes are rewritten, legal experts agree.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Wi-Fi Rides California Rails (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,60189,00.html>
Commuters in and out of Silicon Valley will be the first in the United States to experience wireless Internet access while riding the rails.

Much Ado About Options (J. William Gurley, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5068560.html>
Although it has been more than three years since the now infamous economic bubble burst, regulators, congressmen and the media remain remarkably insistent in identifying a blame agent for the excesses of the late 1990s.

Machine Thinks, Therefore It Is (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60153,00.html>
We've come a long way from Microsoft's lame Clippy the paperclip helper application. Artificial intelligence is poised to take another big leap forward, with the development of computers that can anticipate what you want.

Standalone PDA Days 'Are Numbered' (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32500.html>
The standalone PDA's days are numbered, says IDC, which forecasts a bright future for converged handheld computers.

Cellphones Will Sport Wi-Fi, Says Industry Execs (Tony Smith, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32506.html>
Will Wi-Fi prove to be a key technology integrated into future cellphones? Panellists speaking yesterday at the annual Telecosm conference in Squaw Valley, California believe so.

Did Linux Lose A Marketing Opportunity? (Eric Hellweg, Business 2.0)
<http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,51897,00.html>
Microsoft's recent security troubles made it an easy target for Linux proponents. Here's why they didn't go on the attack.

Open Source Protestors Take To The Streets (Estelle Dumont, ZDNet France)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5067976.html>
Two groups, angry at a proposed change to European law on software patents, are taking their complaints onto the streets in order to voice their concerns.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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Inertia And Indecision At NASA (David E. Sanger, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/27/national/nationalspecial/27ASSE.html?hp>
The bitter bottom line of the Columbia disaster comes down to this: NASA never absorbed the lessons of the Challenger explosion in 1986, and four successive American presidents never decided where America's space program should head after the cold war -- and what it would cost in dollars and risk to human life to get there.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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How Was It For You? (Maxine Frith, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=437513>
Viagra can leave a trail of ruined lives and shattered hopes, says expert.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Vendela Vida Floats Amid S.F. Literati But Keeps Feet, Attitude Firmly Planted (Joshunda Sanders, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/27/DD126631.DTL>
While they are admired for their work and for leading a renaissance of  literature, publishing and philanthropy in San Francisco, they are also major  snark targets, annoying others for seeming to have so much brilliance, youth  and charm.

At Ease In Vietnam, Asia's New Culinary Star (R.W. Apple Jr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/27/dining/27VIET.html>
In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, restaurant cooking of real excellence has evolved in the last 10 years.

Scholars Perform Autopsy On Ancient Writing Systems (Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40010-2003Aug24.html>
In the first study of its kind, three experts in the study of written language have described the common characteristics that caused three famous scripts -- ancient Egyptian, Middle Eastern cuneiform and pre-Columbian Mayan -- to disappear.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Not A Poem About Driving At Night (Erika Meitner, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2087472/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Malaysia Mining Denies PTP-Singapore Held Talks On Ports (Dow Jones)
<http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030827/15/3dpks.html>
Diversified company, Malaysia Mining Corp. has denied that its Port of Tanjung Pelepas subsidiary held talks with Singapore on a possible tie-up with the republic's PSA Corp.

Singapore Sets Up Free Noticeboards To Get Rid Of Sticky Problem (Associated Press)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/8/27/latest/13720Singapore&sec=latest>
After ridding squeaky-clean Singapore of its sticky chewing gum problem, authorities are now cleaning up another - unauthorized ads glued to lampposts that the government says cost 42,000 Singapore dollars a month to clean up.

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