[MyAppleMenu] Mar 3, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Mar 3, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Releases New Mac OS X Security Update (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/03/securityupdate>
It "addresses a security issue in sendmail where a remote individual could gain access and control of the system."

Want A Cheap Server? Call Apple (Gene Steinberg, Gannett News Service)
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/etech/etechmain.html?gannet_story=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/eteam/mac_reality_check.html>
Even if performance levels were close, the Xserve's relative ease of use would put it atop the heap. And the fact that it is relatively inexpensive for a quality computer server is just the icing on the cake.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Companies Mobilize To Patch Sendmail (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1009-990802.html>
A critical vulnerability in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular mail-server application, had security experts and software companies moving quickly on Monday to convince customers to apply a patch.

Richard Devince: Architect Of Aural Mayhem (Stephanie Jorgl, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/music/devine/>

John Early: Driving Automotive Dreams (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/early/>
"From the beginning my crew and I used Macs and Apple software to create some of the most sophisticated VR in the business."

Neville Brody: Inventing A Graphic Language (Barbara Gibson, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/design/brody/>
"I liken working on the Mac to jazz. A pianist doesn't spend time peeking inside the piano."

Apple Staking Out Future Away From Microsoft (Mitch Stone, Ventura County Star)
<http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/technology/article/0,1375,VCS_129_1783410,00.html>
Here's a news flash: It's not 1997 any more.

Apple Takes Bite Of Prime Retail Site (Ryan Tate, San Francisco Business Journal)
<http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2003/03/03/story5.html>
Union Square sees pixels at the end of Stockton Tunnel as Apple Computer Inc. prepares to move into the three-level storefront LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's Sephora USA LLC is exiting in July.

Apple/Microsoft Case May Provide Ammo For Linux Maker (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0303/03.lindows.php>
While the companies continue to wrangle over trade dress issues, Lindows.com has secured a court order to force Microsoft to produce more than 300 boxes of evidence, including evidence produced during the 1992 case between Apple and Microsoft that tread over similar ground.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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It Is Becoming A Virtual World (John Taschek, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,910477,00.asp>
Microsoft became a virtual company with its recent acquisition of Connectix. It's only a matter of time before Microsoft positions Windows as the core operating system capable of virtualizing and managing Linux server distributions.

Does The Finder Make The Grade? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/03/170.htm#finder>
There's the rub. What do you consider good enough, and is that phrase merely an expression of mediocrity?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Enter AirPort Extreme (Jason Snell, NewsFactor)
<http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20897.html>
If you need to move lots of data around your local network at high speeds, you'll welcome the speed improvements AirPort Extreme offers.

Inspiration 7: Accessible Diagramming Program Helps You Organize Your Thoughts And Realize Your Ideas (Charles Purdy, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/03/reviews/inspiration7/>
Inspiration 7 earns high marks for its ease of use and excellent visual-representation and chart-drawing features. Users outside education environments may occasionally wish for a few more design tools -- many of the included symbols definitely have a generic, classroom aesthetic. But if you've ever lost a great idea in a brainstorming session's sticky tsunami, Inspiration will blow you away.

Cubase SX 1.0: OS X-Native Version Of Venerable Music-Production Application Needs Minor Tune-Up (Christopher Breen, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/03/reviews/cubasesx1/>
Cubase SX is a substantial bug fix away from being a solid contender for your digital-audio-production dollars. Logic Platinum is the deeper program, but Cubase SX packs plenty of punch and is easy to use. When a stabler version ships, people with earlier Cubase iterations should upgrade in a hurry.

HP Color LaserJet 2500L: Inexpensive Color Laser Printer Turns Out Great Documents Quickly (Rick Lepage, Macworld)
<http://www.macworld.com/2003/03/reviews/hpcolorlaser2500l/>
Breaking the magic price barrier of $1,000, HP has done an amazing job with the Color LaserJet 2500L. Its combination of crisp, clean laser output and PostScript support means that small workgroups with big printing needs can finally get the benefits of color-laser technology without putting too large a dent in their budgets.

Spaceward Ho! 5 (Chris Rithcie, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=330>
If you enjoy the primary elements of strategy games, and you want to challenge your strategic abilities as opposed to your gold-gathering skills, buy this game and enjoy it.

Fallout 2 (Cathy Lu, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0302/rev.fallout2.html>
Skip that overpriced movie this weekend and get yourself a copy of Fallout 2--it's the best $30 you can spend on entertainment.

On Beyond Microsoft Explorer (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_10/b3823035.htm>
Despite the seeming Microsoft triumph, Apple Computer and Norway's Opera Software have just come out with interesting and--in Apple's case--revolutionary, new browsers.

Fix For The Mac OS X 10.2.4 Date Bug (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030301092101999>
Apparently, files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory - which is normally invisible - become corrupted for some users after applying the Mac OS X 10.2.4 update.

Take Two (Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407745777.html>
There is a learning curve. You need to pay attention while you are getting to know Final Cut Express. It requires more of you than iMovie, but it is not hard.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Linux Does Windows (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/03/desktop_linux/?x>
Desktop open-source operating systems are ready for prime-time and available from Wal-Mart. But if they look and act just the same as software from Redmond, what's the point?

Senator Seeks Full Copyright Disclosures (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5298641.htm>
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has a strikingly simple idea to bolster customers' rights to freely use software, movies and music that they've paid for: Force the sellers of such products to tell the truth about the restrictions they're imposing on users.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Google's Popularity Makes It A Media Target (Mark Glaser, Online Journalism Review)
<http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1046710533.php>
So far Google has fared well and deflected most of the criticism, but the coming storm generated by its domination will show every chink in its armor -- with a specialty Web site dedicated to each miscue.

It Is Becoming A Virtual World (John Taschek, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,910477,00.asp>
Microsoft became a virtual company with its recent acquisition of Connectix. It's only a matter of time before Microsoft positions Windows as the core operating system capable of virtualizing and managing Linux server distributions.

AOL Aims To Cash In On Instant Messenger Success (David A. Vise, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30944-2003Mar2.html>
In one area, America Online Inc. continues to enjoy spectacular success: It is the leading purveyor of instant messaging, the world's most popular electronic communications tool. The only problem is, the service is free and no one has figured out how to make much money from it.

Going To Extremes To Fight Spam (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57867,00.html>
A new spam filter from the creators of AvantGo takes a draconian approach to killing spam: only approved senders make it into a user's inbox. Trouble is, it will never work, spam experts say.

Beaming Video At Speed Of Light (Kim Griggs, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57860,00.html>
A New Zealand company's twist on free-space optics -- which broadcasts data over visible light spectrum -- promises to make wireless data transfer faster and cheaper. It can even beam high-quality video.

Police Powers Move Into Your Browser (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-990728.html>
The U.S. Justice Department is experimenting with an Internet crime-fighting technique that raises novel legal, technical and privacy concerns.

'Reassurance' A Key Word As Google Grows (Stefanie Olsen and Margaret Kane, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1032-990685.html>
Google is known and loved for its impressive Web search tool, but now the company is beginning to face some probing questions about its plans as it branches into new areas.

Antivirus Firm Takes On Junk E-Mail (Lisa M. Bowman, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012-990650.html>
Antivirus company Trend Micro is jumping into the spam-fighting fray, unveiling new software it hopes will help information technology managers protect their workers from an increasing barrage of unwanted messages.

E-Music Sites Settle On Prices. It's A Start. (Saul Hansell, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/technology/03TUNE.html>
After years of denial and confusion, belligerence and panic, most of the big record labels have coalesced around a set of prices at which they will make almost all of their music available to an ever-expanding array of legal online services.

Linux To Get Mainstream Server Tests (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1010-990673.html>
A consortium devoted to improving Linux for high-end servers will announce on Monday a suite of tools designed to make widely used speed tests available to Linux programmers.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Problems Of International Law (Michael Kinsley, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31235-2003Mar2.html>
Even if Saddam Hussein were well-meaning, he still wouldn't be all-knowing. The United States actually is well-meaning, but we're not all-knowing either.

Bush Misleds The Average Joe On Tax Cuts (Isaac Shapiro, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shapiro3mar03,1,7067940.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions>
The administration persists in pushing its tax-cut numbers, ignoring their obvious problems and evidently calculating that repetition and the public's desire to trust in the president's veracity will win the day on support for the package.

Inspecting US Weapons (Matt Bivens, The Nation)
<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=bivens>
Why can't we have independent inspections of the US military's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons stocks?

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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U.S. Citizens Get More organs Than They Give (Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30746-2003Mar2.html>
Mixing politics, nationality and medicine makes doctors and the transplant network uncomfortable.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Take That, Monica! Kapow, Chandler! (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/design/03MATT.html>
Online performance is, in a way, a form of street theater, and audience participation is expected to enliven the action.

Stop Clapping, This Is Serious (Tony Davis, Sydney Morning Herald)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html>
Tom Lehrer is still feisty and funny, but the king of sophisticated satire says there's no place for his style of humor now: the world just wouldn't get it.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Zoo's Big Splash On A New Name (Ginnie Teo, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,174864,00.html?>
We are not yet another run-of-the-mill zoo.

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