[MyAppleMenu] Jan 24, 2003

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Friday, Jan 24, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Softly Does It! I'm Writing On The Edge (Jessie Moniz, Royal Gazette)
<http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030117&Category=MIDOCEAN&ArtNo=101170074&Ref=AR>
My name is Jessie Moniz. I'm a Microsoft Windows user. I'm relieved just to have reached the end of this column without my computer crashing.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Quebec's Eastern Township Schools To Buy 5,000 Apple Notebooks (MacDailyNews)
<http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P523_0_1_0>
In its efforts to provide its students with the best learning experience, the Eastern Townships School Board announced today an innovative Enhanced Learning Strategy that will provide every student in its schools with an Apple portable computer. This will be the first board-wide laptop initiative implemented in Canada.

Henrico Parents Happy With iBook Program (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0301/24.henrico.php>
Henrico schools teamed with Apple and launched the Teaching and Learning Technology Initiative.

Tech Coalition Fires At Hollywood (Pamela McClintock, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2102575>
The battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood went public with a fury Thursday, as leading computer companies kicked off a campaign to paint the entertainment business as the bad guy in wanting to mandate strict copy protection technology.

Apple Confirms Keynote Glitch (Ian Fried, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981953.html?tag=fd_top>
"Apple has identified a bug in the driver software for certain ATI graphics chips which can affect a small number of systems when used with Keynote," the company said.

Apple Posts New "Switch" Stories (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/01/23/switchstories>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Tech Coalition Fires At Hollywood (Pamela McClintock, Reuters)
<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=2102575>
The battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood went public with a fury Thursday, as leading computer companies kicked off a campaign to paint the entertainment business as the bad guy in wanting to mandate strict copy protection technology.

Congress Plans To Slash E-Gov Funding (Roy Mark, Internet.com)
<http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1573661>
Congress plans to gut the funding by almost 90 percent.

Ruling Shields AOL On 'Hostile Code' (Paul Festa, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981800.html?tag=fd_top>
In what legal experts describe as a first, a federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that America Online and other Internet service providers are not liable for "hostile code" sent between subscribers.

LinuxWorld: The Death Of Unix? (Tom Sullivan, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/23/030123hnunixdeath.xml>
An underlying theme at this year's LinuxWorld conference here is whether or not the stalwart Unix operating systems are still alive and kicking.

Open-Source Defect Reaches Deep (Patrick Gray, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981830.html>
A critical vulnerability has been found in the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is used in the vast majority of open-source projects to update and maintain source code.

IBM: 'Linux Is Here To Stay' (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981857.html>
Steve Mills, the head of IBM's software group, continued the pro-Linux drumbeat Thursday in a keynote speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. Big Blue has 4,600 customers buying Linux servers, software or services, he said.

Microsoft's .Net To Get EU Nod (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981883.html>
The European Union's privacy watchdogs are expected to say next week that Microsoft's .Net Passport system broadly complies with EU data protection rules and that only minor changes are needed, EU sources said Thursday.

Dell Switches Internal Servers To Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-981893.html>
Dell Computer has switched 14 of its internal servers from Sun Microsystems machines to its own systems running Linux and a new version of Oracle's database software, Chief Information Officer Randy Mott said Thursday.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Sex- And Death-Crazed Gays Play Viral Russian Roulette! (Andrew Sullivan, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/sullivan/2003/01/24/rolling/index.html>
Rolling Stone claims that a full quarter of new HIV infections stem from morbid thrill-seeking. Sean Hannity is swallowing the story -- should you?

Where's The Bang For The Buck? (Jeff Madrick, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/business/23SCEN.html>
What we have here is a huge tax cut for the rich without a commensurate bang for the buck for the economy.

AIDS Panel Choice Wrote Of A 'Gay Plague' (Ceci Connolly, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30410-2003Jan22.html>
Views of White House commission nominee draw criticism.

Why We Know Iraq Is Lying (Condoleezza Rice, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/opinion/23RICE.html>
The world knows from examples set by South Africa, Ukraine and Kazakhstan what it looks like when a government decides that it will cooperatively give up its weapons of mass destruction. The critical common elements of these efforts include a high-level political commitment to disarm, national initiatives to dismantle weapons programs, and full cooperation and transparency.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Exhibitionist Technology (Erik Sherman, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_sherman012203.asp>
Hungry for eyeballs, museums go high tech—-and face a rogue’s gallery of costs and costly mistakes.

The Guilt-Free Soldier (Erik Baard, The Village Voice)
<http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0304/baard.php>
New science raises the specter of a world without regret.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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How To Manage A Dream Factory (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1534766>
Harder times are reminding the industry of the critical importance of creating good content. But that means managing the tensions between artists and suits.

Only Art Can Make Us Human (Michael Tanner, The Spectator)
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-01-18&id=2695>
The complex issue of art and the Holocaust.

MyAppleMenu Reader : EOF
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Lucky Segway Winners Are Scooting Into History (Christine Frey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/105429_segway23.shtml>
"People are more likely to say 'Hi' to you when you are on one of these things."

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Should Not Issue Threats, Says DPM (Sim Leoi Leoi and Lee Yuk Peng, The Star)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/1/24/nation/llputeh&sec=nation>
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Malaysia and Singapore understood that both countries had laid claims to the island.

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