[MyAppleMenu] Mar 28, 2003

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Friday, Mar 28, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Mac-ceptional (George Emerson, The Globe And Mail)
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030328/RO4TECH/TPBusiness/ROBM>
The battle for home-computer supremacy is finally over. Mac wins -- by a mile.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Pangea Announces Enigmo (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/28/pangea>
Pangea Software, makers of the popular Bugdom series, today announced Enigmo, its latest Mac-only game.

LaCie Ships FireWire 800 Hard Drives (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/03/27/lacie>
LaCie today announced that it is now shipping the new line of desktop hard drives that support the faster FireWire 800 interface.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Ultra Cordless Optical Mouse (Niko Coucouvanis, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0303/rev.ucom.html>
Even those of us with healthy wrists and no presentations to give are keeping this one around, because it works so well and in-air mousing is just plain cool.

Troubleshooting iCal: Reminders Forgotten If Not Active (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030327073641370>

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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NT4.0 Too Flawed To Fix - Official (John Leyden, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29985.html>
In a surprisingly candid admission, Microsoft states that fixing NT4.0 is simply too difficult.

Windows XP SP1 Glitch Could Slow Systems (Stacy Cowley, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/27/HNxpfix_1.html>
Because of changes made in SP1 to Windows XP's memory management system, programs that affect large blocks of memory may take up to ten times longer to load on a system running SP1 than on one without, Microsoft said.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Mandrake Moves Faster With New Linux (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-994429.html>
MandrakeSoft has released a new version of its Linux software that embraces some technology that rival Red Hat still keeps at arm's length.

OpenOffice 1.1 Beta Debuts For Download (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20030327S0002>
Among its new features and enhancements are several new import/export formats, including PDF, flat XML, and XHTML, and support for additional languages such as Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.

Wireles LANs Set For Growth Spurt (Gregg Keizer, TechWeb)
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030327S0020>
The number of wireless LAN users in North America is poised to grow more than sevenfold in the next four years, market-research firm Gartner says.

Red Hat Linux 9 Forces Stability Gamble (Jason Brooks, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,979046,00.asp>
On the general-purpose fast track, there will be no point upgrades—nor the stability they promise. Case in point is Red Hat Linux 9, the first update of the product since Version 8 was released just last September.

AOL Time Warner Pulls Free Net Magazines (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025-994358.html>
AOL Time Warner will move the free Web sites for a number of magazines into its America Online proprietary service, signaling the media giant's attempt to fortify AOL with exclusive content.

Linux Gains Modestly In Retail Systems (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016-994382.html>
The number of computerized cash registers using the Linux operating system grew by 185 percent in 2002, according to a study released Wednesday, but Linux still has only 4 percent of the overall market.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Weblogs Cover The War Without Mainstream Restraints (Rona Kobell, Baltimore Sun)
<http://www.sunspot.net/technology/bal-to.warblog27mar27,0,4410562.story?coll=bal%2Dtechnology%2Dheadlines>
Despite the onslaught of information from the networks, 24-hour cable stations and radio reports, information consumers are increasingly looking to the Internet for still more news about the conflict with Iraq.

"Cakewalk" (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/03/28/cakewalk/index.html>
Bush administration officials and their hawkish supporters now say they never promised an easy war -- but the record shows otherwise.

The Bush And Blair Show (Jake Tapper, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/27/bush_blair/>
The president has the reputation for straight talk, but it's his British ally who actually delivers it.

Our Kind Of Law (Michael Kinsley, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39936-2003Mar27.html>
When it comes to international law, the United States is a forgetful old man whose forgetfulness comes and goes with suspicious convenience.

The News Veteran (Howard Kurtz, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40055-2003Mar27.html>
'Nightline' anchor Ted Kopel had to see for himself the shape of a conflict drawn in sand.

Delusions Of Power (Paul Krugman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28KRUG.html>
In the last two years Mr. Cheney and other top officials have gotten it wrong again and again —- on energy, on the economy, on the budget. But political muscle has insulated them from any adverse consequences. So they, and the country, don't learn from their mistakes —- and the mistakes keep getting bigger.   

Osama Must Be Laughing (Fawaz Gerges, The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/27/1048653802724.html>
Perhaps most alarming, US policy towards Iraq has alienated many of the important moderate voices, both secular and religious, which until now had been unwilling to join militant anti-American forces.

America: An Empire In Denial (Niall Ferguson, The Chronicle)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i29/29b00701.htm>
The former American Secretary of State Dean Acheson famously said that Britain had lost an empire but failed to find a role. Perhaps the reality is that the Americans have taken our old role without yet facing the fact that an empire comes with it.

Help Iraqis Arise (William Safire, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/27/opinion/27SAFI.html>
The answer is to adopt the proposition set forth by Gen. U. S. Grant in our Civil War, and Roosevelt and Churchill in World War II: declaring irrevocably that the only acceptable end to hostilities is unconditional surrender.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Memory Block (Bradford McKee, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2080730/>
It seems not to bother the folks at the Department of Defense or anybody else that the recently unveiled design for the Pentagon's Sept. 11 memorial places it on one of the most restricted—-not to mention wind-swept and noisy-—pieces of real estate in Northern Virginia.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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DBS Blasts Sars Rumors Spread By Rival (AFP)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,179878,00.html?>
DBS Bank said on Friday it has lodged a complaint with the Singapore Exchange and the Monetary Authority of Singapore over a rumour allegedly spread by a competitor that staff at a DBS unit  were infected with the deadly respiratory disease sweeping parts of Asia.

The Singapore Model On SARS (Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200303/msg00414.html>
You would think this would scare governments into taking decisive
action. But so far that hasn't been the case, except in Singapore.

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