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Low End PC Archive. April 2002

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• Practice Safe Computing, Michelle Klein-Häss, Geek Speak, 04.04. How to work on your computer without zapping it to death with static electricity.
• more in the March 2002 archive

Around the Web

• Review: Installing Linux on a Walmart OS-less PC, Russel C. Pavlicek, NewsForge, 04.29. Except for the modem, Walmart's "OS free" PCs seem happy with various Linux distros.
• Advice: Configuring mail clients to send plain ASCII text, Pinehurst.net. "Plain text is how your messages should be formatted...."
• TV: Max Headroom coming to TechTV. A favorite series from the 80s comes to TechTV. Wish I could watch.
• Dark Side: Preinstalled Windows: Aargh! I can't get it off!, John Lettice, The Register, 04.30. "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine." Puh-lease!
• Rights: Your right to link threatened, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac, Low End Mac, 04.30. "If the simple process of posting a link to another site becomes mired in regulation, it is not inconceivable that the Internet as a useful communication could begin to wither."
• Opinion: The browser that roared, Lev Grossman, Time, 04.29. Mozilla - has Microsoft finally met its match?
• Spam: FTC shuts down "spam" scam that promised prizes, Yahoo/Reuters, 04.24. Email promised video-game console, but link led to $3.99/minute porn site.
• Web: Rotten links hamper learning, Katie Dean and Kendra Mayfield, Wired, 04.24. Web links - here today, gone tomorrow?
• News: Heads up, third party online credit transactions threatened, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 04.22. MasterCard may cut off PayPal, others. Time to look into Visa, Discover, American Express.
• News: Agreement on computer recycling, Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times, 04.22 (free registration required). $25-30 fee on new computers will fund recycling of old machines.
• Opinion: The case against Microsoft, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac, Low End Mac, 04.23. Why Microsoft should be broken up into two or more companies.
• Dark Side: Microsoft puts the squeeze on NW schools, Steve Duin, The Oregonian, 04.22 [/.]. "They just want to squeeze every nickel out of us they can."
• Opinion: XP means extra pain, Stewart Alsop, Fortune, 04.22. "As many readers know, I've been using the Macintosh more and more at home."
• Rights: Google runs into copyright dispute, David F. Gallagher, NY Times (free registration required), 04.22. DMCA makes sites liable for linking to content they do not control.
• Humor: Japanese American history, Anonymous, iGeek.
• Humor: Funny stuff on the Web, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, Low End Mac, 04.22. If none of these have you snorting milk out your nose, it's only because you're not drinking milk while visiting these sites.
• Rights: Waging peace on the Internet, Oxblood Ruffin, The Register, 04.19. "Our definition of hacktivism is, 'using technology to advance human rights through electronic media.'"
• Opinion: White House considers Microsoft's Passport for online national ID system, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.19. This is how you penalize a monopoly?
• New: Deep linking returns to surface, Michelle Delio, Wired, 04.18 [mam]. "Legal experts say that deep linking can violate . . . copyright and trademark laws." Huh? We prefer Open Link.
• Rights: Shaping the learning curve through a code, Jay Mathwes, Washington Post, 04.16. Georgia Tech student under "suspicion of academic misconduct" after asking another student for help.
• Opinion: Web business, David K. Every, iGeek, 04.16. "...don't let the 'dot-com crisis'" fool you. There has been huge growth in the Internet...."
• Humor: More Microsoft blunders, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, Low End Mac, 04.15. Dead supporters and an anti-Unix site on a Unix server - that's just the beginning!
• Advice: Hide and go seek, David K. Every, iGeek, 04.13. How to search the Web effectively.
• Rights: Google begins making DMSC takedowns public, Linux Journal, 04.12 [/.]. "When results would have included a DMCA-censored page, the results page now includes a link to the takedown letter that resulted in the page being removed."
• Review: l'espion's very small digital camera, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.12. Very small, very inexpensive, and it makes pretty small pictures, too.
• Advice: Scrap your desktop, Brian Clark, Business 2.0. Yes, for a lot of users a laptop can replace a desktop.
• Advice: RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines.
• Opinion: Life on the Net in 2004, Aardvark Daily, 04.09 [/.]. Within a couple years, everything you do online could cost you money.
• Opinion: Cyberspace and race, Henry Jenkins, Technology Review [mam]. "In the end, we will need to give up any lingering fantasies of a color-blind Web...."
• Web: Web surfers brace for pop-up downloads, Stefanie Olsen, c|net, 04.08 [/.]. "In some cases, people are not even asked whether they want the software. It just installs...."
• Opinion: The right side of the road, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 04.08. "The benefit of standardisation is too important to wait for someone to decide on the optimal standard."
• Advice: 10 free POP3 email services, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, Low End Mac, 04.08. Although several companies have dropped free POP3 email, here are 10 that do.
• News: Online casinos wicked - coroner, Tim Richardson, The Register, 04.08. Gambling debts lead to suicide. (You'll never see ads for online casinos on Low End Mac.)
• News: Wisconsin man kills computer, vnunet.com, 04.05. Brand not mentioned, but I'll bet it wasn't a Mac. (According to The Register, it was a Gateway.)
• Rights: Free speech and the Internet; a fish story, Ketherine Mieszkowski, Salon.com, 04.04 [/.]. How does a $15 million suit against members of an email list grab you?
• Opinion: Speak Up for Peace, Dan Knight, Dan Knight's Soapbox, 04.04. "We are spearheading the 'Speak up for peace' campaign and asking people around the world to contact their elected officials...."
• Dork Side: Microsoft's anti-Unix ads backfire, Cydney Gillis, Eastside Journal, 04.02. Anti-Unix site served on Unix. What were they thinking?
• Rights: Hollywood declares war on America, Jimmy James Champlin, Applelust, 03.29. "The entertainment industry has made it clear that they see us, the public, as not only their customer, but as their enemy."
• Opinion: Why BeOS lost, Chris Lozaga, My Turn, Low End Mac, 04.03. BeOS was a great operating system, but you can't blame Microsoft, Apple, or NeXT for its failure.
• Opinion: Sticking with software of yore, Edwin Black, Washington Post, 03.29. Sometimes the old version works better for you than the whiz-bang new version.
• Review: L'espion miniature digital camera, PowerBook Zone, 04.03. Tiny "spy camera" looks like fun - and it's only $60.
• News: Feds target online scammers, spammers, Fox News, 04.03. FTC has already brought "63 law enforcement actions" against online scammers.
• Opinion: The Palestine Solution, Dan Knight, Dan Knight's Soapbox, 04.02. "In a nutshell, the problem is two groups with different but legitimate claims to the same land."
• Rights: Judge says US has jurisdiction in Internet case, Yahoo/Reuters, 04.02. Russian software company can be sued for violation of American DMCA in US courts.
• Opinion: A new high in underhanded licensing, Bradley F. Shimmin, Network Computing, 04.01. "Microsoft has come to a very distinct conclusion: Users and administrators can no longer be trusted to comply with the company's EULA (End-User Licensing Agreement)."
• Opinion: PayPal jeopardy, Evan Kleiman, Mac Daniel, Low End Mac, 04.03. PayPal - a great idea, but do the risks outweigh the benefits?
• more in the March 2002 archive

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