[MyAppleMenu] Mar 1, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, Mar 1, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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It's The Apple Of His Eye (Michael Rogers, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/879371.asp>
With the Macintosh now firmly part of global computer culture, it’s hard to believe that just 20 years ago its introduction was a high-stakes, risky gamble by a 28-year-old Steve Jobs. What’s more remarkable, in looking back, is that the vast majority of computer industry experts at the time figured the cute little machine would surely fail.

Mac-Agnostic SME Turns Biz Ops Over To Apple's Xserve (Stefan Hammond, Computerworld Hong Kong)
<http://www.idg.com.hk/cw/readstory.asp?aid=20030228002>
"I've never been a big fan of Macs," says Georges Ouang, managing director of Scorpion Precision Industry (HK) Ltd. A curious statement from an MD who's just bought four of Apple's new Xserve server units?

MyAppleMenu : News
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Atherton Family Foundation Gives $25,000 To St. Andrew's Priory (Terrence Sing, Pacific Business Journal)
<http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2003/02/24/daily77.html>
The grant will go toward the purchase of Apple Computer's Bretford mobile cart, complete with 20 iBook laptop computers for the school's elementary students.

Apple Addresses Mac OS X 10.2. Date Bug With Knowledge Base Article (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2003022807195399>
After updating to Mac OS X 10.2.4, some systems constantly resets themselves to the date "Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969" after being restarted.

Apple Store Coming To Richmond, Virginia (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/02/27/applestore>
Apple will open a retail store in Richmond, Virginia at the Short Pump Town Center, according to the mall's Web site.

Is There Room In The Enterprise For Apple? (John Zipperer, Internet World)
<http://www.internetworld.com/magazine.php?inc=030103/03.01.03analysis.html>
Amid the usual new product announcements that appealed to Apple’s traditional customer base in the education, visual design, and production fields, there was at least one product that seemed sure to attract the attention of the enterprise market at the show. Keynote is a new presentation program that quickly won accolades for its professional-quality graphics results.

Brother Meets Mac Rendezvous (PC Pro)
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=39088>
Brother has announced the first printer with support for Apple's Rendezvous technology.

Ridgeland Elementary Gets Oracle Grant (Beaufort Gazette)
<http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local_news/briefs/story/2262659p-2132488c.html>
Ridgeland Elementary School received 30 Apple iMac computers and six printers as part of a grant from the Oracle Help Us Help Foundation. The computers, already set up in the school's lab, will enable students to develop streaming video and create productions, said technology teacher Joyce Gerald.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Microsoft's Virtual PC Deal Could Lead To Speed Increase (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134643620_ptmacc01.html>
It's technologically possible that Virtual PC could recede into the background, like the Classic compatibility mode in Mac OS X, and Windows programs could run seamlessly. I haven't decided if that's good or bad news for Mac users, for Apple or for Microsoft.

Whither Macworld? (Jason Deraleau, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2852>
I look forward to meeting new people, making new friends, and seeing my peers enjoy themselves. Let's keep our fingers crossed...

Extreme Programming Workshop Powered By Apple (Daniel H. Steinberg, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2855>
It may seem that I'm beating a horse to death but even as an experienced Mac user I was astounded at how easy it was to set up these machines.

Not Just Hardware Or Software: Apple Is A Solutions Company (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/03/0228.html>
People who don't understand Apple keep trying to categorize it as a hardware company or a software company. They want to view Apple as a hardware company that makes software to sell its hardware or a software company that makes hardware to run its software. They're both wrong.

Your Say: Macs In Peril? (The Australian)
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6055080%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Screenshot Hacks For Mac OS X (Wei-Meng Lee and Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/28/screenshot.html>
Capturing great screenshots in Mac OS X involves a little adventure. If you are a professional writer (or a student preparing an important report) and need great-looking screenshots, you have to spend a little more time exploring your options.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Putting Microsoft Brand On A New Breed: Longhorn (Brier Dudley, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134641541_microsoft26.html>
With Longhorn, Microsoft hopes to assert technical superiority and create opportunities for developers to build and sell programs that take advantage of its new technologies.

"WRMS" DRM Burrows Into MS Office, MSIE (ExtremeTech)
<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,906344,00.asp>
The wording of the consent decree may have been specifically crafted by Microsoft -- which, unlike the DoJ, knew that it planned to incorporate DRM -- to allow it to withhold information about file formats and security mechanisms from competitors.

MSN Blocks E-Mail From Rival ISPs (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025-990653.html>
Microsoft's MSN said its e-mail services had blocked some incoming messages from rival Internet service providers earlier this week, after their networks were mistakenly banned as sources of junk mail.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Exclusive Rights To Stagnate (Lawrence Lessig, Financial Times)
<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1045510979794>
Rather than copying a failed American policy, the Europeans could be exploring alternatives to patents that might provide protection without sinking the intended beneficiaries. No doctor would approve an untested drug for his or her patient. Nor should Europe inflict such a remedy on its already weakened software industry.

Google Lands Web Search Patent (Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1024-986204.html>
Google this week was granted its first patent by the United States Patent Office for a method of determining the relevance of Web pages in relation to search queries.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Who Let Microsoft In? (Russell C. Pavlicek, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/28/09osource_1.html?s=tc>
Redmond giant's appearance at upcoming open-source conference spurs mixed reaction.

A Brighter Future For Sun One? (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/28/09appserver_1.html?s=tc>
Better flexibility, integration could boost app server's standing.

Expert: Router Holes Threaten Net (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009-990608.html>
There'll only be an improvement if the majority of routers use a secure protocol--but the high cost of implementing Secure BGP means that few companies will adopt it.

Will FCC Split On Media Rules? (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57848,00.html>
Critics of efforts to overhaul media ownership rules said Thursday that weakened government restrictions will lead to more mergers and a few large companies controlling what people read, hear and watch.

Server Leaders Wrestle For Unix Crown (stephen Shankland and Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1010-990662.html>
Hewlett-Packard and IBM tied for first place in the hotly contested Unix server market in the fourth quarter of 2002, pushing aside Unix heavyweight Sun Microsystems, according to a new study released Friday.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Life Along The DMZ (Mark Edward Harris, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-dmz09mar02,1,6683837.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dmagazine>
As tensions rise over North Korea's nuclear program, the world is focusing once more on the stark dividing line that has split a region for half a century.

Too Old To Work? (Adam Cohen, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/magazine/02ALLSTATE.html>
If you're over 40 and work for a big company, your future may well be tied to the fate of 6,400 Allstate agents who refuse to be "streamlined."

A Costly Charade At The U.N. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14219-2003Feb27.html>
The entire exercise is ridiculous, but for unfathomable reasons it matters to many, both at home and around the world, that the United States should have the permission of Guinea to risk the lives of American soldiers to rid the world -- and the long-suffering Iraqi people -- of a particularly vicious and dangerous tyrant.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The Seven Warning Signs Of Bogus Science (Robert L. Park, The Chronicle)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i21/21b02001.htm>
I have identified seven indicators that a scientific claim lies well outside the bounds of rational scientific discourse. Of course, they are only warning signs -- even a claim with several of the signs could be legitimate.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Online Library Wants It All, Every Book (Robert F. Worth, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html>
The directors of the new Alexandria Library, which christened a steel and glass structure with 250,000 books in October, have joined forces with an American artist and software engineers in an ambitious effort to make virtually all of the world's books available at a mouse click.

Sneakers, Sweater And Warm Heart: Mr. Rogers (Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-mcnamara28feb28,0,2578595.story?coll=cl%2Dcalendar>
There are people in this world who really shouldn't be allowed to die and Fred Rogers was one of them.

RHC Decides To Close Red Herring Magazing (Matthew Rose, Wall Street Journal)
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1046459976825290343,00.html>
RHC Media Inc. has decided to shutter its Red Herring magazine, according to a person familiar with the matter, ending a 10-year period in which Red Herring was a pioneering force in the market for "New Economy" magazines.

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