[MyAppleMenu] Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple Needs More Than Skin-Deep Security (CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2452-7355-5102059.html>
Mac OS X users should ask Apple to do no more than what other sellers of operating systems are doing: Keep the customer in the loop, not in the dark.

A Classroom Comeback For Apple? (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2003/tc2003114_2699_tc134.htm>
While K-12 sales numbers are weak, reviving strength in laptops for students and in the college market could signal a broader recovery.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Laptop Foes Oust Three Incumbents Via Write-In Vote (Megan Boldt, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/7185226.htm>
A Stillwater area school district decision to provide laptops to junior high students apparently fueled a record number of write-in votes for the school board Tuesday and led to the defeat of three incumbents.

Poll: Half Twitchy Over Windows Ports (Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=7219>
Despite the positive reception for Apple's iTunes for Windows, nearly half (43 per cent) of Macworld Online readers believe the company should not port any more software to Windows.

DivX For Mac 5.1 Released (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/11/05/divx>
Version 5.1 offers improvements in speed, performance, and visual quality.

Apple's iTunes Offers Alternative To Illegal Downloading Of Music (Ed Rowe, The Collegian)
<http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/11/11-05-03tdc/11-05-03dnews-03.asp>
Music lovers too anxious to wait for Penn State's proposed music download service already have an alternative to illegal downloads.

G5 Cluster Secures Elite Spot For Apple, IBM (Ashlee Vance, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33780.html>
With some help from Virginia Tech, Apple has managed to join the ranks of the high-performance computing elite, as the "Big Mac" cluster is set to capture the title of the world's third fastest supercomputer.

Stomp: A Final Cut Pro Odyssey (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/uk/pro/video/stomp/>
"Using the Apple platform enabled us to run an amazing system."

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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A Happier Hour At The Genius Bar (Terrie Miller, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/3952>
My Genius Bar experience was really pretty optimal, but as I watched others come and go, I realized that part of that was because I was well-prepared. If you're having hardware trouble and you're thinking of taking your machine in, here are some tips that might help.

Microsoft Could Never Get Away With What Apple Is Doing (George Hulme, Internet Week)
<http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16000151>
So Apple is going to do the right thing. But why did the company take so long?

Same Old Song (Paul Boutin, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2090727/>
The Net hasn't changed music -- except maybe for the worse.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Confessions Of A Partitioned Hard Drive User (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3948>
I have some real decisions to make soon that will impact my workflow.

Panther/FireWire Drive Issue: More Firmware Updates; Public Statements, Frequently Asked Questions; More (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2003110503170466>

"Case-Sensitive HFS" And The Risks Of Using It (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20031105033441651>
Implementing a case-sensitive file system in OS X has some significant hurdles, the most compelling being that many current Mac OS applications that work with files will need to be updated to provide case-sensitivity themselves.

Panther Is A Special Breed Of Cat (Edward C. Baig, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2003-11-04-baig_x.htm>
The upgrade is pricey. Nonetheless, it takes something excellent, the previous revision, and makes it better.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Appeals Court Ponders Microsoft Antitrust Suit (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5101981.html>
A federal appeals court on Tuesday returned once again to the long-running Microsoft antitrust case, which may be nearing an end after six years of high-profile injunctions, hearings and testimony.

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

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Receipt, Please (Matt Haughey)
<http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007544>
In 2003, I have to save a piece of paper for five years if I ever want my washer fixed under the purchased warranty.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Millions Deleted Downloads (Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/11/05/BUGVM2Q3RG19.DTL>
The threat of legal action by the record industry prompted more than  2 million households across America to delete all the music they had stored in  their computers during the summer, according to a report scheduled for release  today.

China To Invest In Linux-Based Industry (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5102378.html>
The Chinese government plans to throw its financial weight behind Linux-based computer systems that could rival Microsoft's Windows, in one of the world's fastest-growing technology markets, a government official said Wednesday.

During Wildfire Mayhem, Internet Kept Scorched Communities Connected (Associated Press)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7182082.htm>
As wildfires grew to epic proportions along Southern California's mountain crests, so did an online network of displaced residents hungry for details about their homes and neighbors.

Gone In The Blink Of An Eye (Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/11/05/outsourcing_report/index_np.html>
Berkeley researchers declare 14 million U.S. jobs are at risk of being outsourced.

The Penguin's New Desktop Habitat (BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2003/tc2003114_2722_tc134.htm>
Linux is popping up on PCs worldwide as businesses and governments start opting for the open-source operating system instead of Windows.

Intel Claims Breakthrough In Chip Making (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/technology/05chip.html>
Researchers for Intel say they have discovered a new material that they believe will permit them to overcome one of the most serious obstacles facing chip makers as they struggle to shrink computer chips to ever smaller dimensions.

Linux Users Worry About Desktop Products' Fate (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5102282.html>
Two major moves by well-known Linux companies have the open-source community worried that the consumer is being left behind.

Linux Is Unix (Dana Blankenhorn)
<http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20031101.shtml#58715>
Linux will evolve primarily as an enterprise Unix, pitched against Windows by all the old Unix vendors who spent two decades refusing the call to compatibility.

Novell Reinvents Itself Around Linux (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5102038.html>
For Novell, Linux is not just a popular operating system -- it's a lifeline for the company and its shrinking base of NetWare customers.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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They Ban Textbooks, Don't They? (Frederick Clarkson, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/05/textbooks/index_np.html>
Texas school officials rejected a widely used environmental textbook, claiming it was filled with errors. The author says they're censoring him because they didn't like his green views -- and he's suing.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Expressions
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Skins (Suji Kwock Kim, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2090665/>

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Mrs Lee's Scan: SM Mistaken That 10 Downing St Helped (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,218288,00.html?>
Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said early today he regretted being mistaken that the British Prime Minister's office had anything to do with his wife's treatment at a public hospital in London last week after she had a stroke.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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SM Paying For Wife's Treatment, Return (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,218418,00.html?>
Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew is paying for all the extra expenses of his wife's medical treatment in London after she suffered a stroke there, and for her flight home on Singapore Airlines.

Singapore's Growing Illegal Trade (Reuters)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/11/03/singapore.wildlife.trade.reut/>
Wildlife smuggling is on the rise, say authorities in Singapore, whose ports are increasingly used as transit points in the shuttling of endangered animals between the United States and tropical Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam.

Dismay Over $5 Ezlink Card Charge (Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,218285,00.html?>
But most commuters already have a card and the move is better for everyone in the long run, LTA counters.

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