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Low End PC Archive. May 2002

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• Screen size and resolution, Dan Knight, Low End PC's Online Tech Journal, 05.31. How to determine how big a monitor you need for the resolution you want.
• GEM, a Mac-like GUI and OS for Low-end PCs, Roger M, Thinking From the Box, 05.30. GEM, a Mac-like GUI launched in the mid-80s, can be a real choice for low-end PC users.
• Monitor dot pitch, Dan Knight, Low End PC's Online Tech Journal, 05.30. Why your monitor is fuzzy at high resolutions even though dot pitch seems to indicate it should be sharp.
• What we hate on the Web, Dan Knight, The Knight Line, 05.29. Hundreds of Web users told us what they dislike on the Web - and how strongly they dislike it.
• Toward a less annoying Web, Dan Knight, The Knight Line, 05.29. Now that we know how you feel about annoying Web stuff, what's a webmaster to do?
• Good-bye Slackware Linux, hello OpenBSD, Dirk Pilat, Low End BSD, 05.24. Admitting Slackware was a mistake, our *nix newbie discovers OpenBSD and has a working system in no time.
• More reasons to run a low-end PC, Roger M, Thinking From the Box, 05.22. A second PC for games and experiments can protect your main PC from unexpected software-related problems.
• Going nowhere fast, Dirk Pilat, Low End Linux, 05.20. One step forward, at least one step back with Slackware Linux.
• Survey: Annoying Web Stuff. Pop-up ads, flashing banners, undreable text, subscriptions, "Best Viewed With," and more. Tell us which ones drive you batty.
• Basilisk II: Solving the printer problem, David G. Bell, Thinking From the Box, 05.15. While Basilisk II emulates a Mac, it doesn't include drivers that work with your PC's printer.
• More Linux baby steps, Dirk Pilat, Low End Linux, 05.09. Linux up and running for a while, then refusing to boot.
• Linux baby steps, Dirk Pilat, Low End Linux, 05.07. A Linux newbie tries to learn Linux and gets BasicLinux up and running.
• More things to do with an old PC, Roger M, Thinking From the Box, 05.03. You have a lot more choices than just DOS and Windows 3.1/95.
• Why Not Use a Freenix?, Joseph Bales, Thinking From the Box, 05.02. Why use DOS when free and powerful versions of Unix are available?
• more in the April 2002 archive

Around the Web

• Opinion: Using computers effectively in the classroom, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, Low End Mac, 05.31. Computers have great potential in the classroom, but first we need to make sure the teachers know how to use them effectively.
• Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 2000, Digigraphica, 05.30. Compact, inexpensive 2 megapixel digicam announced today.
• Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 4500, Digigraphica, 05.30. Slightly smaller successor to Coolpix 995 created 4 megapixel images.
• Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 5700, Digigraphica, 05.30. Nikon's first consumer digicam with SLR styling creates 5 megapixel images, has impressive 8x optical zoom.
• Rights: Cries in the wilderness, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 05.30. Now they want to make the iPod and other MP3 players illegal....
• Digicams: Fujifilm FinePix F401 Zoom, Digigraphica, 05.30. A 3x zoom, improved low light sensitivity, and 4 megapixel images - coming in August at US$499.
• Rights: Ventura signs Minnesota Online Privacy and Anti-Spam Law, Vin Crosbie, E-Media Tidbits, 05.26. Spam must begin subject with ADV, include valid return address, have valid opt-out email info or toll-free phone number. $10-25 fine per email.
• Tech: Intel's Itanium 2 performance twice that of Itanium, Yahoo/Reuters, 05.29. Of course, the 64-bit Itanic was a pretty huge flop to begin with, and they will have to contend with the MHz Myth when trying to market a 1 GHz CPU as powerful.... Tech: MHz or GHz: What does MHz mean?, David K. Every, iGeek. What MHz is, and why it isn't a direct indicator of computer performance.
• Web: Will your domain be "porned out to pasture?," John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.27. "Due to the loyalty of the user base, expiring Mac domains are particularly sought after...."
• Rights: New violators of the DMCA? Reuters, Yahoo.com, CNN.com, dozens of others, Grant Gross, NewsForge, 05.22. Reporting how a marker can defeat protection on "copy-proof" CDs illegal under Digital Millenium Copyright Act. What ever became of free speech?
• Humor: Quiz: Are you a Mac-head or PC drone?, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, Low End Mac, 05.28. A quick way to determine whether you're Mac addicted or assimilated by Windows
• Analysis: New rules for the new advertising economy, Chris Anderson, Wired, 05.24. "The new equation for success in online advertising is simple: Effective advertising must be intrusive."
• Rights: Spammers threaten UK Net user, Tim Richardson, The Register, 05.24. "A British man has been threatened by a gang of spammers after reporting its activity to his ISP."
• Opinion: The Internet, research, and plagiarism, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, Low End Mac, 05.24. The Internet can be a great research tool, but watch out for plagiarism and don't forget about books.
• News: Nearly 60% of Web surfers plan to quit AOL - poll, Lycos, 05.21. The Microsoft of ISPs is losing up to 25% of users per year.
• News: Nigerian email fraud gang nabbed, Drew Cullen, The Register, 05.22. But will arrest of six West Africans end their flood of spam?
• Humor: Why I love pop-up ads, Madhu "MadMan" Menon's Weblog, 05.18. "If Web sites want to shock their readers and intrude upon their user experience, it should be their right to do so."
• Opinion: Potent laptops shove desktops aside, Fred Langan, Christian Science Monitor, 05.20. "These are laptops that never see a lap and might never head out on the road."
• Humor: Lindows ruling has Microsoft scrambling to claim consonants, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 05.20. After losing the suit over Lindows, Microsoft is making a preemptive strike by trademarking other *indows variants.
• Web: The comments that just won't die, Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal, 05.16. "...it struck me how long it took an online publication to follow up on a controversial topic that had appeared a week before...."
• Opinion: Learning Linux on a PC?, Dirk Pilat, Down But Not Out, Low End Mac, 05.17. Why in the world is Dirk running Linux on an ugly beige Pentium box?
• Opinion: Educational computing done wrong, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, Low End Mac, 05.17. Poorly maintained and rarely updated computers undermine their use as educational tools.
• Virus: Hoax virus alert could cripple Windows Java, John Leyden, The Register, 05/15. Deleting specified file could disable Java.
• Opinion: MS Passport: Enabling paranoids everywhere, Jeff Lewis, Mac Skeptic, Mac Opinion, 05.15. "...the implementation leaves something to be desired."
• Digicams: Minolta Dimage 7i, Digigraphica. 5.2 megapixel 7x zoom digicam updated.
• Advice: Website automation with PHP and MySQL, part 8, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 05.14. Adding data to your MySQL database with your browser.
• Digicams: Olympus Camedia C-720, Digigraphica. 3 megapixel digicam with an impressive 8x zoom.
• Report: Top UK companies waste millions on duff Web sites, Tim Richardson, The Register, 05.13. The British have no monopoly on "Web sites that don't work and are difficult to use."
• Advice: Top ten guidelines for homepage usability, Jako Nielsen, useit.net, 05.12.
• Advice: Free POP3 email update, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings, Low End Mac, 05.13. Field report on 10 free POP3 mail services - and two new ones.
• Digicams: Fujifilm FinePix 2800, 2 megapixel SLR-type digicam with 6x zoom.
• Advice: Website Automation with PHP and MySQL, part 7, Dan Knight, 05.13. Using the date field.
• Advice: Website automation with PHP and MySQL, part 6, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 05.10. Finding and fixing a problem in our PHP script.
• Opinion: Europeans, atheists, socialists, and anti-Semites, Jason Walsh, Reformed.Net, 05.10. "For US journalists to label Europeans as racists and anti-Semites is a total misrepresentation of Europe, its media, its politicians, and its people."
• Analysis: The sad state of Macs and PCs in school, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, Low End Mac, 05.10. Problems include poor maintenance, kids messing things up, and a lack of training on how to use a computer.
• Digicams: Pentax Optio 230, 330, and 430, three beautifully styled, compact digicams.
• Rights: Free speech, fair use both take another blow from US courts, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.09.
• Review: 2002 Linux Web browser review, Rob Valliere. "The latest browser versions have improved considerably in the past few months."
• Rights: Free speech, fair use both take another blow from US courts, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.09.
• Review: 2002 Linux Web browser review, Rob Valliere. "The latest browser versions have improved considerably in the past few months."
• Rights: Free speech, fair use both take another blow from US courts, Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 05.09.
• Digicams: Olympus Camedia cameras, Digigraphica. Some of the most innovative digicams on the market. Dark Side: Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick, Tina Gasperson, NewsForge, 05.08. "Did you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French court?"
• Dark Side: Compulsory Windows for Macs and people without PCs?, John Lettice, The Register, 05.07. Microsoft now want schools to pay a license fee for all personal computers - even Macs and Linux machines. Emulation: Mac emulation with Basilisk II, vMac, Alan Zisman, Mac2Windows. Low End Mac, 05.08. Emulating a Mac on PC hardware using Basilisk II and vMac.
• Digicams: Minolta Dimage X, Digigraphica. The world's smallest 2 megapixel digicam is only 0.8" thick.
• Digicams: Nikon Coolpix 2500, Coolpix 5000, Digigraphica. Nikon's latest digicams.
• Digicams: Fuji FinePix F601, FinePix S602, Digigraphica. Two of this year's hot new digicams.
• Opinion: Toxic computer waste, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, Low End Mac, 05.03. How old computers endanger health in China, and what you can do to reduce the problem.
• Opinion: What you should know about "deep linking," John H. Farr, Applelinks, 05.02. "...would you believe that certain Web sites have been trying to prevent others from linking to internal pages?" Emulation: Basilisk II puts a Mac on a Windows computer, Alan Zisman, Low End Mac, 05.01. Freeware emulator lets you run Mac OS and applications on a Windows PC.
• News: Melissa virus author jailed for 20 months, John Leyden, The Register, 05.01. One of the first email viruses, Melissa caused over $80 millin in damages.
• Rights: Site barks about deep link, Farhad Manjoo, Wired, 05.01. Dallas Morning News insists BarkingDogs.org remove all "deep links" to DallasNews.com.
• more in the April 2002 archive

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