[MyAppleMenu] Jun 12, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Thursday, Jun 12, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Who Really Owns Unix? (Allen Brown, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-1016221.html>
Apple has been using the Unix trademark on and in connection with its OS X product. THis constitutes an infringement of our trademark since OS X is not certified under our Unix system certification progrm, and Apple has refused to use that program to obtain certification.

Talk Time (Hamish Mackintosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,975134,00.html>
Susan Kare designed the original desktop icons for Apple and Microsoft Windows.

MyAppleMenu : News
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NoteTaker 1.5 Adds Host Of Features, Enhancements (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/12/notetaker>
The new version marks a major feature evolution in NoteTaker's navigation system while also adding a very powerful global search tool for retrieving information across multiple notebooks.

Mac OS X Server Security Update Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/12/osxserver>
"Updates Apache 2.0.45 to 2.0.4 and addresses a security hole in the mod_dav module."

Sybase Talks Apple Strategy (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/12/sybase/>
"Mac OS X is such a close relation to UNIX that it was easier to look at the Mac market economically."

PowerBook, iBook Nominated For Linux Hardware Award (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/12/linuxaward/>
The PowerBook and iBook have been nominated in the Best Linux Hardware category of the UK LinuxUser & Developer Awards.

Spring 1.3 Adds New Content To 'Universal Canvas' (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/12/spring/>
Spring 1.3 sports a variety of new features aimed at enriching the user experience.

802.11g Standard Approved (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/12/80211g/>
IEEE, the group responsible for setting standards in the networking industry, on Thursday approved the final specification for 802.11g, known to Mac users as AirPort Extreme. Very little has changed from January when Apple released its first 802.11g product.

SimCity 4 Goes Gold (Tuncer Deniz, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=7830>
Aspyr Media has announced that SimCity 4 for the Macintosh has gone gold and is now in duplication.

Hey Mr Tangerine Man (Garry Barker, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/11/1055220639850.html>
An Australian dollar that is finally getting its head above the water of the international exchange markets, and some price cutting decreed by Apple in Cupertino, has brought about big cuts in the price of portable computing.

Wozniak Looks Back: Part Two Of AN Exclusive Interview With Apple Computer Co-Founder Steve Wozniak (David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac061203,0,6666486.column?coll=bal-business-indepth>
"And when you think all of these wonderful things happened in a life, who could ever want more?

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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A Mac Is More Than Just A Computer (Or, Why Are Apple Fans So Zealous?) (2 Guys, A Mac, And A Website)
<http://www.2guysamacandawebsite.com/article.php?id=216>
I could almost hear them thinking: "Hundreds of people are waiting in line for... a computer store?"

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Laser Versus Ink Jet (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/#laser>

Dungeon Siege (Chris Ritchie, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=378>
If you are a fan of the RPG, definitely check this game out, and if you have never so much hefted a sword in your entire game career, Dungeon Siege is an excellent opportunity for you to learn what all these "experience" points are about.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Intel Takes Notebook Chips Past 3GHz (John G. Spooner, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1044_3-1015803.html>
The increase in speed comes courtesy of a new 3.06GHz mobile Pentium 4 chip, which was introduced as part of a volley of new processors fired off by Intel.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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The Wired 40 (Kevin Kelleher, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/40main.html>
Meet the masters of innovation, technology, and strategic vision -- 40 companies that are reshaping the global economy.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Open Relay Spam Is 'Dying Out' (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31177.html>
Open relay spam is dying out as a problem, according to a survey published today that is likely to raise eyebrows in the spam-fighting community.

Will 'Waste' Push File-Sharing Further Underground? (Eric Hellweg, MIT Technology Review)
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hellweg061103.asp>
Justin Frankel, the programming ace who created WinAmp and Gnutella, has done it again -- coding a piece of software that delights some and threatens others.

New Chip Boots Up Computers Like A Light (CNN)
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/06/10/ibm.memory.reut/index.html>
IBM and German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG said they have made an important step toward developing a new kind of memory that could enable computers to boot up instantaneously.

HP, Dell To Ship Java With PCs (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-1015723.html>
Sun signed deals Wednesday under which Dell and HP will ship Java technology on all PCs, a move that bypasses Microsoft's reluctance to distribute the software.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Lost From The Baghdad Museum: Truth (David Aaronovitch, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,974193,00.html>
So, there's the picture: 100,000-plus priceless items looted either under the very noses of the Yanks, or by the Yanks themselves. And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made up. It's bollocks.

Who's Accountable? (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/10/opinion/10KRUG.html>
I'll tell you what's outrageous. It's not the fact that people are criticizing the administration; it's the fact that nobody is being held accountable for misleading the nation into war.

The Free-Speech Follies (Stanley Fish, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i40/40c00301.htm>
Sure there are free-speech issues on campus -- just not that many.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Van Gogh Was Here, But When? (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59189,00.html>
In a marriage of science and art, three astronomers have pinpointed the precise time and date of a painting by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh based on calculations of the moon's position in the picture.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Purloined Letters (David Mehegan, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/162/living/The_purloined_letters-.shtml>
With writers under increased scrutiny, why do so many resort to stealing others' words?

Hey, Wanna Score Some Cheese? (Katy Mclaughlin, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105518091838452100,00.html>
Even as America guards its borders against threats from abroad ranging from terrorism to mad cow disease, one intruder is proving particularly difficult to keep out: illegal cheese. The stinky French kind.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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No Patient Denied Life-Saving Treatment In Sars Outbreak (Karen Tan, Ministry of Health, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,4386,194442,00.html?>
The ministry tried -- but failed -- to obtain, through The Straits Times, the identity of Mr Yeo's late friend. We hope Mr Yeo will tell us, so that we can look into the case and clear up the matter.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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SIA Looks Into Creating No-Frills Budget Airline (Nicholas Fang, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,194391,00.html?>
Singapore Airlines will decide by the end of this year if it should start a new, no-frills budget airline.

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