[MyAppleMenu] Mar 17, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, Mar 17, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Students' Laptops Ushering Innovations In Education (Colin Hickey, Maine Today)
<http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/030317laptops_.shtml>
For now, halfway through the first year of Maine's much ballyhooed laptop initiative, a transition clearly is in place as traditional and new approaches to education coexist in the same classroom.

MacSoft Revamps Website (Scott Turner, Inside Mac Games)
<http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=7270>

Computer Makers' System Failure (Chris Pummer, CBS MarketWatch)
<http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B613D2CD4-57E7-495F-87BD-9068D0ECA1D4%7D&siteid=google&dist=google>
That defect rate has been little changed for five years, leading some experts to suggest unreliability is undermining consumer faith in technology's promise as much as user-friendliness shortcomings.

>From Exile To X11: A Journey Through Time (Dan Benjamin, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/14/mac_evolution.html>
Every Mac running OS X has, behind the scenes, a true UNIX operating system, with all of the power and capability of a Linux, FreeBSD, or UNIX server found in an enterprise datacenter, but hidden away behind a smooth, easy to use interface.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Mac Magazines May Face Trouble: What Of The Web Publications? (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1830>
Do you feel guilty enough to click a banner yet?

Microsoft Forms New Division To Advance The PC (iTnews)
<http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=17&Art_ID=11688>
Microsoft has formed a new division dedicated to designing and building prototype PC designs... Sadly for Microsoft, this role is already filled--and quite nicely--by Apple Computer, which has spent the past 7 years creating innovative PC designs.

Is Apple Late To The Media Center Party? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/03/172.htm#techies>
Do you really want to watch TV on your Mac? That's a question Apple must be asking itself as it looks at the number of so-called "media center" PCs turning up on that other computing platform.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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FileMaker Pro 6 (Pierre Igot, Applelust.com)
<http://www.applelust.com/reviews/archives/filemaker6/>
it is still, by and large, the "database tool for the rest of us". And it’s still quite powerful. But FileMaker clearly has yet to jump on the Mac OS X bandwagon in any meaningful way.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Sun Brewing Simpler Java (Darryl K. Taft, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,935909,00.asp>
In a move designed to attract more developers to its vision of Web services and application development, Sun Microsystems Inc. is developing enhancements to the Java language that provide a more Visual Basic-like experience.

How Google Grows... And Grows... And Grows (Keith H. Hammonds, Fast Company)
<http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/69/google.html>
Here's a search for the growth secrets of one of the world's most exciting young companies -- a company from which every company can learn.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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More Net Attacks Loom, CERT Says (Dennis Fisher, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,935790,00.asp>
The recent rash of Internet worms has produced an army of hundreds of thousands of compromised machines that could ultimately be used to launch a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack at any time, according to security officials.

Starlight Express (Kevin Kelleher, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/nanotech.html>
Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up.

What Does Linux Have To Do With Dickens? (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2911>
"Similarly, Windows and Mac users confronting a Unix-based operating system for the first time--while not reacting quite so dramatically as Little Dorrit--may find the experience disconcerting."

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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A Long, Winding Road To A Diplomatic Dead End (Steven R. Weisman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/international/middleeast/17RECO.html?ex=1048902885&ei=1&en=160d36ad2c95bd87>
Just about everyone involved now acknowledges that a train of miscalculations and misunderstandings has produced a setback for American diplomacy and world standing.

War Inc. (Farhad Manjoo, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/17/war_profiteering/index.html?x>
American corporations with close ties to the White House are poised to cash in on Saddam's defeat. French companies need not apply.

The War Of Misinformation Has Begun (Robert Fisk, The Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=387592>
Of course, the Americans and British just might get into Baghdad in three days for their roses and rice water. That's what the British did in 1917. And from there, it was all downhill.

Domestic Policies Give Cause For Fear (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5405781.htm>
An imminent war tends to overshadow everything else in the public mind. But our focus in one area should not turn into tunnel vision; things at the periphery matter, too.

What France Really Wants (Dan Goure, MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/884682.asp?cp1=1>
A medium-sized power with super-sized ambitions.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Sorry, I'm Busy That Night (Paul Farhi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26008-2003Mar14.html>
TV viewers and the networks, standing each other up on Saturdays.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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On The Streets (William Trevor, The New Yorker)
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030324fi_fiction>
Arthurs ordered liver and peas and mashed potatoes in Strode Street. When it came, the liver didn’t taste good. A skin of fat was beginning to congeal on the surface of the gravy where the potato hadn’t soaked it up. The bright-green peas were more or less all right.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Red Lane Means Wait, Others OK (Clarissa Oon, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,4386,177420,00.html?>
The Remaking Singapore committee wants red-tape cut and more space for artistes. It also calls for greater individual choice as well as responsibility.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Mobile Payment - A Risky Bet? (Tang Weng Fai, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,75504,00.html?>
The effort to build an indigenous, cutting edge payment structure is commendable. But at what cost?

FairPrice To Leave Plaza Singapura As Carrefour Enters (Kalpana Rashiwala, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,75554,00.html?>
NTUC FairPrice is pulling out of Plaza Singapura just two months after landlord CapitaLand signed rival Carrefour as a tenant to operate a 70,000 sq ft hypermarket in the Orchard Road mall.

Michelin Stars May Sparkle On Restaurant Doors Here (Ronnie Lim, Business Times)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/premiumstory/0,4574,75550,00.html?>
Wondering where to wine, dine and impress that big client or hot date? Well, if 'die, die must try' fare doesn't quite cut it, how about looking out for Michelin stars? These badges of excellence may just become your reference guide to leading Asian, including possibly Singapore, restaurants.

A Fourth Varsity? SIM Aspires To Be Just That (Sandra Davie, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,177481,00.html?>
Govt has axed plan for new institution, but S'pore Institute of Management is raising intake and planning for Open University.

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