[MyAppleMenu] May 24, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Monday, May 24, 2004

MyAppleMenu
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Mac News for Mac Users

[News]

*** Paranoid Android 1.1 Adds Jaguar Support
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/05/24/paranoidandroid>
by MacMinute

*** Secunia: "Apple Security Update Does Not Secure Users"
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/05/24/secunia>
by MacMinute
"It is still possible to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable user's system."

*** Danes Put Mac On Display
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8742&Page=1&pagePos=2>
by Macworld UK
The University of Aarhus in Denmark is staging a permanent exhibition of Apple products -- known as MacLab.

*** iPod Mod
<http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/5855397873128375/>
by Sean Bonner, Unofficial Apple Weblog
This guy decided his friends Gen 1 iPod needed a red screen rather than the greyish stock b/w one...

[Opinion]

*** About The Help Viewer Security Update, And, Also, Why You Do Not Need Paranoid Android
<http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/help_viewer_security_update>
by John Gruber

[Review]

*** Fedora Core 2 Also Runs On PPC
<http://osdir.com/Article833.phtml>
by Colin Charles, O'Reilly Network
While getting a giddy installing Fedora Core 2 on a Sunday afternoon I found this little gem... Fedora 2 can run on your Macintosh.

*** The Finishing Touch
<http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0524/feat-addons-05-24-04.asp>
by Patrick Marshall and Michelle Speir, Federal Computer Week
10 low-cost product add-ons that can improve employee productivity.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Behind $12 Million Payment To Opera
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+behind+$12+million+payment+to+Opera/2100-1032_3-5218163.html>
by Evan Hansen and Paul Festa, CNET News.com
Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software $12.75 million to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browsers.




The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technology. Innovative Applications. New Economy.

[News]

*** Books Get Interactive Makeover
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3733249.stm>
by Mark Ward, BBC News
Soon some of the books you read could be much more interactive.

*** The Distributor Vs. The Innovator
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/business/24print.html>
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
The confrontation between Hewlett-Packard and Dell is more than a particularly lively bout of competition in the $106 billion-a-year printing industry. It is a clash -- and an intriguing test case -- of two different models of innovation and corporate strategy.

[Linux]

*** Linux Contributors Get New Rules
<http://news.com.com/Linux+contributors+get+new+rules/2100-7344_3-5218724.html>
by Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com
The Open Source Development Labs, which promotes adoption of the Linux operating system, said Monday that it is putting in place a new system to better track and document changes to the Linux kernel.

*** Linux Going Mainstream
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20900300>
by Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek
Linux leads open-source move into running key business processes and systems.




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