Affiliates: Office Depot | Amazon.com

Other Cobweb sites: Low End Mac | Low End Living | Reformed.net

Low End PC Archive. February 2002

Links Low End PC

• Console madness, Michelle Klein-Häss, Geek Speak, 02.25. How I became a Dreamcast junkie despite how badly I do at games.
• more in the Jan. 2002 archive

Around the Web

• Advice. Tune-ups and upgrades, Jerry Pournelle, Byte.com, 02.25. First eliminate the viruses, the decide what to do with the old 133 MHz Packard Bell.
• Humor. If cars were like operating systems, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, Low End Mac, 03.04. What if cars were designed like Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux?
• Rights. Digital security fomenting a feud, Declan McCullagh, Wired News, 02.27. Intellectual property protection vs. your right to copy in the digital age.
• Opinion. The Web is for serving, not surfing, David F. Carlson, osOpinion, 02.27. "The three central tenets of the Internet are peer-to-peer, distributed control and free speech."
• Low-end. PC makers soon may be forced to recycle, USA Today, 02.25. Our advice - keep reusing those old Macs and PCs until they drop from exhaustion, then recycle.
• News. Senators propose recycling fee on new PCs, Jonathan Skillings, ZDNet, 02.22 [/.]. California may impose a recycling tax on new computers. Hmm. Check out the OS-free PCs at WalMart.com, Drew Cullen, The Register, 02.22. "Naked" 1 GHz Duron and Celeron models for $399, Athlon and P4 from $499.
• Hands on. A Linux guy looks at FreeDOS, Russell C. Pavlicek, NewsForge, 02.15. A DOS installation that takes 35 MB? What's up with that?
• Opinion. A modern, low resource Linux distribution and all the real reasons why we need it, Marco Fioretti, Linux Journal, 02.13.
• Dark Side. Check the fine print, Ed Foster, The Gripe Line, InfoWorld, 02.11. Microsoft - newly security conscious - retains the right to access your computer and modify their product.
• Humor. Dellmentia, Unintendonitis, and X-ema, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, Low End Mac, 02.11. Glossary of new computer-related medical conditions also includes Torvaldic Shock Syndrome, Low Enderoids, and Punditrella Syndrome.
• Tech. USB 2.0 and FireWire - Killing some myths with tests, Jeff Lewis, Mac Opinion, 02.08. Real world testing shows performance is comparable - but which is faster?
• News. Dell discontinues Itanium workstation, Ken Popovich, Extreme Tech, 02.07. Chip sinks on maiden voyage. We first labelled it the "Itanic" chip on Low End Mac in October 1999.
• News. NY challenges McAfee covenants, Yahoo/AP, 02.07. State contends restrictions on product reviews restrict free speech.
• Advocacy. Tired of viruses and bugs? Ditch Microsoft, Mac Net Journal, 02.07. "I have found the best antidote to Internet viruses and computer security concerns is to avoid Microsoft products like the plague."
• Consumer. New Vermont "opt-in" privacy law faces legal challenge, Computerworld, 02.07. Law requires customer consent before a business can share their data.
• Opinion. OS themes are only skin deep, Kelly McNeill, osOpinion, 02.07. "What advocates of 'theme' or 'skinning' software fail to realize is that OS consistency is only truly realized when an entire platform is universally similar."
• Opinion. Piracy, value, and unrippable CDs, Jody Dugan, My Turn, Low End Mac, 02.06. Cost vs. value - why we copy our music.
• Opinion. Dumping Dr. Evil's junk, Eric Schwarz, The Power of Mac, Low End Mac, 02.06. Living without Microsoft, one application at a time.
• Opinion. The laptop vs. desktop dialectic, Charles W. Moore, Mac Opinion, 02.05. "...once you begin using a laptop it's highly likely that you will be ruined for desktops forever."
• News. Rogers mulls new fees to curtail "bandwidth hogs," Globe & Mail, 02.02. Rogers proposing three-tiered plan for light, moderate, and heavy users.
• more in the Jan. 2002 archive

[an error occurred while processing this directive]