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Low End PC Archive. July 2002

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  • Dark Side: How will Microsoft's licensing plan affect Office?, Mark Hachman, Extreme Tech, 07.30. About 70 percent of the user base still uses Office 97, but they complain about the adoption rate for Office v.X?
  • Advice: Website automation with PHP and MySQL, part 15, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 07.31. A little more link automation - and frustrating problems with PHP.net documentation and the imap_open function.
  • Review: A Runtime Revolution for Linux and the Mac OS, Jason Walsh, PPC Linux, 07.31. Runtime Revoltion brings the promise of write once multimedia to Linux, Windows, OS X, and the classic Mac OS.
  • Dark Side: Death to the 3.5" floppy?, Slashdot, 07.30. Doesn't this sound a bit like the 1998 iMac introduction?
  • Dark Side: Microsoft upgrade plan gets cold shoulder, Joe Wilcox, c|net, 07.30. "This is the sort of thing that has lost Microsoft a lot of friends."
  • Rights: RIAA.org DOSed: Whining commences, ars technica, 07.30. RIAA.com subject to same type of denial of service attack they wish to inflict on others.
  • Web: On the future of LWN, Linux Weekly News, 07.26. In less than one week, LWN readers have donated over $12,000 to keep the site afloat.
  • Rights: Ethical hacker faces war driving charges, John Leyden, The Register, 07.26. If you tell them their wireless network isn't secure, they can charge you with hacking?
  • Dark Side: Hotmail clean-out catches members out, Lisa M. Bowman, c|net, 07.25. "As part of a series of . . . policies aimed at driving more people toward its paid services, Microsoft has instituted a plan to delete sent Hotmail messages that are more than 30 days old."
  • Web: LWN.net closing down, Slashdot, 07.24. "The best Linux news site is calling it a day. Citing money problems, they are saying next weeks issue will be the last."
  • USA Rights: Could Hollywood hack your PC?, Declan McCullagh, c|net, 07.23. Draft legislation would authorize RIAA, MPAA, and others to hack into any computer with P2P capabilities.
  • Opinion: Hooked on Everything2, Dirk Pilat, Down But Not Out, Low End Mac, 07.24. "For the last couple of weeks, I have been seeing myself becoming helplessly drawn to the genial Everything2."
  • Advice: Website automation with PHP and MySQL, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, 07.24. Modifying the way the date is displayed and scheduling content for future release.
  • News: Yahoo admits changing e-mail text to block hackers, Andrea Orr, Yahoo/Reuters, 07.18. "Yahoo! Inc. confirmed on Wednesday that its e-mail software has automatically changed certain words...."
  • Analysis: AOL "cooked books" as dot.com bubble burst, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 07.18. "AOL misrepresented its accounts in three quarterly periods as the 'New Economy' bubble was bursting..."
  • Analysis: Gigahertz gap?, Christopher Allbritton, Popular Mechanics, 07.18. Chip speed doesn't matter much anymore.
  • Huh? Game publicity plan raises grave concerns, Mark Oliver, Guardian Unlimited, 2002-07-15. Acclaim wants to buy ad space on gravestones. Really.
  • Huh? Forget the gadgets, just let me see, Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, 07.17. Volvo's "Safety Car" runs Windows 98?
  • Analysis: Content filtering exposed, Adam C. Engst, TidBITS "...the way overzealous server-side content filtering makes email unreliable stands only to worsen the very problem it's attempting to fix."
  • Advice: Using relative font sizes, Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Mark, 07.15. More involved than what we do at LEM, but the key concept is letting readers resize text to meet their needs.
  • Opinion: Weighed down, Jeff Adkins, SFGate.com, 07.15. "...if I buy a [Southwest Airlines] ticket using Friends Fly Free, can I be my own best friend?"
  • Opinion: If it's broke, don't sell it, Teri Robinson, osOpinion, 07.15. "...it seems that many software developers live by the following sentiment: 'If it's broke, but it's really hot, then release it and fix it later.'"
  • Opinion: The dark, scary clouds over broadband, Grayson Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 07.13. "Broadband is still too unreliable for mainstream acceptance in America." But we love it anyhow.
  • Analysis: Canning spam without eating up real mail, Stefanie Olsen, Yahoo/c|net, 07.12. While trying to filter out spam, legitimate email is sometimes discarded as well.
  • Web: 30 days to a more accessible weblog, Mark, DiveIntoMark.org. A lot of good advice for anyone posting contenty anywhere on the Web.
  • Rights: Minnesota court rules on Internet libel, Brian Bakst, Yahoo/AP, 07.12. Court rules that libel suit must be filed "in the place where the statement is produced."
  • Rights: Girl has no problem with pledge, David Kravets, Yahoo/AP, 07.11. "The 8-year-old girl whose father successfully sued to have the Pledge of Allegiance declared unconstitutional has no problem with reciting the pledge at school...."
  • Humor: Are you a nerd?, Archie McPhee, 07.12. Take the survey and find out where you rate.
  • Opinion: When quality isn't job one, Per Klöfver, My Turn, Low End Mac, 07.11. The software industry is plagued by bad quality. Maybe if hardware innovation slows, software can catch up.
  • Dark Side: IE scripting flaw uncovered, John Leyden, The Register, 07.11. "Cross domain scripting flaw" in Internet Explorer is most recently found of 19 unpatched security holes.
  • Opinion: Why I don't use Microsoft software: No need & no trust, Darla Sasaki, Mac Observer, 07.09. "More pressing than a question of need is the basic idea behind every good relationship - trust. I don't trust them."
  • Analysis: Email filtering: Killing the killer app, Geoff Duncan, TidBITS, 07.09. "...email, often hailed as the Internet's 'killer app,' is in danger of becoming an unreliable, arbitrarily censored medium...."
  • Benchmarks: VIA C3 and other low-end processors, Dmitry Mayorov and Sergei Pikalov, Digit Life, 07.07. VIA C3, Celeron, Duron, and Athlon XP 1700+ compared.
  • Humor: Dvorak, PCs, and "weird"' switchers, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, Low End Mac, 07.09. Yes, Dvorak is right. Those people in the "Switch" ads are a bit weird - and there's a good reason for it.
  • USA Rights: Rep. Boucher outlines "fair use" fight, Erin Joyce, Internetnews.com, 07.08. Proposed bill would make it illegal for recording industry to sell copy-protected CDs.
  • Dark Side: Sites bow to Microsoft's browser king, Paula Festa, c|net, 07.08. Sites designed and tested only for IE make it hard going for users of alternative browsers.
  • Humor: Window XS and world domination, Anne Onymus, Rumor Mill, Low End Mac, 07.08. How XS will help Microsoft move from antitrust violations to complete world domination.
  • News: eBay buys PayPal, Drew Cullen, The Register, 07.08. eBay is buying PayPal, which handles 60% of eBay auction payments, for $1.5 billion.
  • Web: Daylight webbery, Dominic Timms, The Guardian, 07.08. Websites designs are being copied, both wholesale and bit-by-bit.
  • Analysis: The ultimate smackdown: Mac vs. PC, Gene Steinberg, Mac Reality Check, AZ Central, 07.06. Real world tests show 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 system doesn't outperform "slower" 1 GHz Power Mac G4.
  • Digicams: Picking the right digital camera, Dan Knight, Digigraphica, 07.05. Megapixels, camera types, lenses, electronic imaging, quality, memory, batteries, and more.
  • Tech: New metal alloy is super strong, MSNBC, 07.05. Liquidmetal twice as strong as titanium, can be cast like plastic. Coming soon to a laptop near you?
  • Opinion: The good, the bad, and the intrusive, Adam Robert Guha, Apple Archive, Low End Mac, 07.05. Windows, BeOS, and the Mac OSes each have some good points and some bad ones.
  • Opinion: Overcapacity or underutilization?, James Brock Clark, My Turn, Low End Mac, 07.03. We have the technology to vastly improve communication, but too many resist change, preferring yesterday's solutions.
  • Advice: Website automation with PHP and MySQL, part 12, Dan Knight, Online Tech Journal, Low End Mac, 07.03. How Low End Mac uses PHP and MySQL to track, sort, and display links to new site content.
  • Web: AltaVista upgrades search engine, The Register, 07.03. Once the king of search engines, AltaVista hopes to become competitive again.
  • News: BBC to revive Doctor Who next year, Orange Today, 07.02. Not the least bit PC related, but I'd love to see the Doctor again.
  • Rights: Indymedia.nl loses anarchist hyperlinks, Drew Cullen, The Register, 07.02. EC Ecommerce Directive makes ISPs responsible for pulling illegal content.
  • Opinion: A month of VeriSign customer service, Beverly Woods, Acoustic Mac, Low End Mac, 07.02. "Is this customer service or information highway robbery?"
  • Opinion: It's your own damn default, CodeBitch, MacEdition, 07.01. A wonderful rant against nonstandard HTML, nonstandard browsers, and poor standards within HTML.
  • Virus: Klez tops virus charts again, John Leyden, The Register, 07.01. "Klez became the worst virus ever in May, and it shows no sign of abating...." Windows only, of course.
  • more in the June 2002 archive
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