[MyAppleMenu] Jan 26, 2003

Sun Jan 26 21:05:00 EST 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Jan 26, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Students' Grades To Go Online For Parents (C. L. Waller, Daily Herald)
<http://www.dailyherald.com/main_story.asp?intid=37647279>
With the click of a mouse, students will see grades for each class assignment. Parents will too.

This Student Gets The Apple Of The Class (Patti Richter, The World Link)
<http://www.theworldlink.com/display/inn_news/news05.txt>

Townships Students To Receive Laptops (Jane Davenport, The Gazette)
<http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id=%7B93DBE8D5-CE1B-4904-8D41-39FEA3D75081%7D>
"The biggest benefit would be that it will engage studnets more into their own learning."

Apple Accuses Unova's Intermec Of Infringing Patents (Susan Decker, Bloomberg)
<http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=marketsquote99_relnews.ht&s=APjGyQRYXQXBwbGUg>
Unova's Intermec unit is using the patented technology in software and scanners that are hand-held or mounted on vehicles and used by delivery people or warehouse workers, Apple claims.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple's Ads Versus PC Ads: Cool Features Compared Instead Of Specs (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/01/165.htm#ads>
If Apple hopes to enter into that marketplace, its commercials need to deliver the proper message to appeal to the jaded IT manager who is reluctant to consider one of those pretty boxes with an alien operating system.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Learning The Terminal In Jaguar, Part 2 (Chris Stone, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/24/terminal_osx.html>
I'll show you how to configure cron to email you a report each time it runs one of these jobs.

Descender (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/reviews/descender.shtml>
There's nothing new about Tetris clones. There's also nothing wrong with them.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Computer Worm Slows Global Net Traffic (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982131.html>
Worldwide Internet traffic suddenly slowed down dramatically for hours on Saturday, after a fast-spreading computer worm clogged pipelines of the global network, officials said.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Plug (The Product) And Play (Ellen Edwards, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43992-2003Jan25.html>
In marketing, it's called an advergame, the marriage of advertising to computer games.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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'Slammer' May Punch In Monday (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57409,00.html>
The global worming attack that fried much of the Internet this weekend may return on Monday as unpatched systems and applications boot up at the start of the workweek.

Computer Worm Slows Global Net Traffic (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982131.html>
Worldwide Internet traffic suddenly slowed down dramatically for hours on Saturday, after a fast-spreading computer worm clogged pipelines of the global network, officials said.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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America's Dreams Of Empire (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-hoodbhoy26jan26001512,0,3321741.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
It is time for people in my part of the world to ask themselves a question: Why are the streets of Islamabad, Cairo, Riyadh, Damascus and Jakarta empty? Why do only fanatics demonstrate in our cities? Let us hang our heads in shame.

Reagan's Son (Bill Keller, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/magazine/26BUSH.html>
Bush's seeming invincibility to bad news may be exasperating to Democrats, but it was no surprise to Michael Deaver, the shrewd public relations man who played Karl Rove to an earlier president, Ronald Reagan.

Now 'No' To Agreement, Later 'No' To Independence? (Chua Lee Hoong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,168380,00.html?>
The twists and turns of the Singapore-Malaysia dispute over water have been more complex and surprising than even the best episodes of the X-Files.

Sense And Censor-Bilities (Ong Sor Fern, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,168426,00.html?>
Censorship has existed in societies throughout the ages. The only difference has been the degree of its influence. In the 21st century, censorship must now balance the competing demands of pluralistic and multicultural societies. While a secular society is probably the best protector of freedoms in the modern world, it also has to protect the interests of particular groups against others - via censorship - to keep the peace. There can be no system that will accommodate every wish.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The Race To Kill Kazaa (Todd Woody, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/kazaa.html>
The servers are in Denmark. The software is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the South Pacific. The users -- 60 million of them -- are everywhere around the world. The next Napster? Think bigger. And pity the poor copyright cops trying to pull the plug.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Lust-See TV (Bob Thompson, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35783-2003Jan23.html>
The shocking story of a diehard television resister who hops into bed with the tube.

Book 'Em (Jason Epstein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/magazine/26FOOD.html>
Getting the secrets of top chefs onto the page takes a gut reaction.

How To Write A Catchy Beer Ad (Chris Ballard, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/magazine/26PROCESS.html>
Football, guitars — and twins — turned a commercial into a phenomenon.

Is PowerPoint The Devil? (Julia Keller, Chicao Tribune)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5004120.htm>
Is PowerPoint changing not only the way we do business and educate our young, but also the way we think?

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Sense And Censor-Bilities (Ong Sor Fern, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/commentary/story/0,4386,168426,00.html?>
Censorship has existed in societies throughout the ages. The only difference has been the degree of its influence. In the 21st century, censorship must now balance the competing demands of pluralistic and multicultural societies. While a secular society is probably the best protector of freedoms in the modern world, it also has to protect the interests of particular groups against others - via censorship - to keep the peace. There can be no system that will accommodate every wish.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Just Provide Affordable Travel (Ng Lee Meng, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,168606,00.html?>
Public transport is a basic necessity of the masses, the lifeblood that moves resources. It should not come with the added cost of unnecessary technology and automation.

Singapore Stance On Water Gets Scant Coverage (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,168573,00.html?>
By relying on wire reports, none of the newspapers captured a critical shift in Singapore's position over the water negotiations -- that after years of negotiations, the republic has abandoned any realistic hopes of a win-win outcome of the water talks.

Now 'No' To Agreement, Later 'No' To Independence? (Chua Lee Hoong, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,168380,00.html?>
The twists and turns of the Singapore-Malaysia dispute over water have been more complex and surprising than even the best episodes of the X-Files.

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

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