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Opinion: One good spam deserves another, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 04.30. Also why Marc (and others) are philosophically opposed to HTML email.
Web: Itanium dubbed "Itanic" on 1999.10.04, Kraig Finstad, Usenet. Intel's CPU first earned the disparaging moniker the very day its new name was announced.
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.
News: ATI confirms Radeon problems on beige Macs, Daniel Miller, Mac Observer, 04.30. Radeon 7000, Mac OS X, "old world" Macs a bad combination.
Software: ramBunctious 2.0, Clarkwood Software. One of our favorite programs (see review) gets updated for OS X.
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!
News: Apple releases 17" CRT-based eMac for education only, Mac Observer, 04.29. 700 MHz G4 and prices starting at US$999.
News: Apple announces new Titanium PowerBook, MacCentral, 04.29. New 1280 x 854 display, faster CPUs, 1 MB level 3 cache, DVI port, new video, more.
Humor: Introducing the new iToilet, Electric Chicken. Dual pipeô technology makes it twice as fast as Pentium-based toilets.
Opinion: The browser that roared, Lev Grossman, Time, 04.29. Mozilla - has Microsoft finally met its match?
News: Apple Computer retail site planned for mall in Novi (MI), Neal Haldane, Detroit News, 04.25. Our informant tells us Apple is aiming for "early-to-mid August." Low End Mac plans to be there.
News: And now, introducing Itanium 2, John G. Spooner, ZDNet News, 04.25. 1 GHz "McKinley," second generation IA64 CPU, to be named Itanium 2. (We still like Itanic....)
Poll: How often has Mac OS X crashed for you?, MacFixIt, 04.24.
Web: Etymology of "Itanic," Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 04.24. Article credits Low End Mac for first published use of "Itanic" label for Intel's Itanium CPU. Thanks!
Advice: Slow surfing? It's all Internet Explorer's fault, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 04.24.
Opinion: More commentary on the anti-Mac "Christian" Web site hoax, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.24. Some excellent comments on this piece of satire.
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?
Analysis: Anti-Apple "Christian" Web site a hoax, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.23. "...crafted by some person or persons with both more than passing familiarity with the Bible and the motif and style employed in certain strata of American Christian fundamentalism, as well as more than casual knowledge of the Macintosh orbit."
Opinion: Apple is "evil," John H. Farr, Applelinks, 04.23. "I spent too much time in Sunday schools . . . to find anything the least bit unbelievable about the site in question."
Opinion: The shoe on the other foot, Ron Carlson, Insanely Great Mac, 04.23. "...in the blackest part of my heart I hope there's at least one clueless student outraged by this eggregious slight."
Opinion: Disaster! How I wound up in hard-drive hell, David Coursey, ZDNet, 04.23. Norton kills hard drive. DiskWarrior to the rescue!
Advice: What can I do about my overheating PowerBook G4?, AppleTechs, 04.22.
Web: Pay services gather steam on the Web, Bob Tedeschi, New York Times, 04.22 (free registration required). One-third of Internet users willing to pay for some content.
Dark Side: Itanic: It's all academic now, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 04.23. Sorry, guys, but the term "Itanic" was used here nine days before the Reg first published it.
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.
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."
Opinion: It's getting worse, Marc Zeedar, Less Tangible, Mac Opinion, 04.22. "I hoped it was my imagination, but it's not: spam - unsolicited email - is getting worse."
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.
Huh?: Creation education, Richard Paley, Objective, 04.22. "Hypnotically encased iMacs trick unsuspecting computer users into accepting Darwinism." Uninformed fundamentalist blather or great parody?
Rights: Supreme Court to review use of RICO laws against abortion protesters, Fox News, O4.22. Rights of free speech and social protest under fire.
Web: Slashdot subscription update, Slashdot, 04.22. Already 2% of logged Slashdot users have signed up.
Macinschool: University of Texas college requires students to have "Apple Laptops," Bryan Chaffin, Mac Observer, 04.22. Same kind of "wrong-headed thinking" that leads many to adopt Windows as a single platform solution.
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: It's also the browser, Mac Net Journal, 04.19. Don't just blame OS X for slow surfing; some browsers are worse than others.
Opinion: Gartner: iMacs priced too high, Ben Wilson, NewsFactor Network, 04.19. So that's why Apple sells so many and manages to turn a profit....
Opinion: Slow surfing? "It's the OS, stupid," John H. Farr, Applelinks, 04.19. "Nothing, and we mean nothing, on God's green earth will ever convince us that whacking a couple of seconds off any Web page display is worth putting up with Windows...."
History: A/UX, Applefritter. Apple did Unix long before OS X - real AT&T Unix.
Analysis: Why do new Mac surf so slowly?, Paul Boutin, Wired, 04.19. "For Web browsing . . . the new iMacs are notably slower than a PC."
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.
News: G3/OS X lawsuit amended, goes before judicial review, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 04.18. "King & Ferlauto described this design decision as a 'willful failure' on Apple's part to write drivers...."
Opinion: Can a Windows guy learn to love the Mac? You bet!, David Coursey, ZDNet, 04.18. "I like this little iMac and don't want to give it up. It's a whole lot more fun than my Windows machine...."
Deal: Power Mac G4/800, $899.99, Deals on the Mac, 04.18. Used, but wow!
Technology: TiVo begins 3.0 software rollout, BetaNews, 04.17 [ /.]. Now supports ethernet and downloading program data via Internet without a dialup connection.
Web: Winners don't take all: Characterizing the competition for links on the Web, Modeling the Web, 04.15 [ /.]. Popular sites have more links, receive more new links.
AAPL: Apple reports second quarter profit of $40 million, Apple, 04.17. Just slightly down from the year ago quarter with 813,000 Macs sold.
OS: Mac OS X 10.1.4 available, Mac Observer, 04.17.
AAPL: After the bell - IBM up, Apple down, Reuters, 04.17. "Apple Computer Inc. fell to $25.85 after hours from a close of $26.11."
AAPL: AAPL holds gains ahead of earnings report, Robert Paul Leitao, Mac Observer, 04.17. "Apple closed on Tuesday at $25.74, it's highest daily close since early May."
Opinion: Apple, give me back my pixels (and fix the Finder), Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet, 04.17. "1024 x 768 under Mac OS X is the functional equivalent to 800 x 600 under Mac OS 9."
Software: POPmonitor 2.0, Vechtwijk Automatisering. New version of very useful utility can automate trashing spam, handling bounce messages. Requires OS 8 or later.
Benchmarks: How fast is Photoshop 7?, Bare Feats, 04.16. Faster than Photoshop 6.
Advice: Sorting out PowerBook G3 confusion, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 04.16. Kanga, bronze keyboard, WallStreet, PDQ, Lombard, Pismo, MainStreet explained.
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.
Software: Internet Explorer 5.1.4, Mactopia, 04.16. "Version 5.1.4 resolves all security vulnerabilities in previous versions of Internet Explorer 5." (All of 'em?)
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...."
OS X: Floppy drive support for beige G3, others, Darwin Development [xlr8]. SWIM 3 floppy driver has some bugs.
History: A top-secret one-of-a-kind Mac, Leander Kahney, Wired, 04.15. "Tempest" SE/30 - could it really be unique?
Web: CubeOwner.com, "a heaven for Cube owners."
Advice: Hide and go seek, David K. Every, iGeek, 04.13. How to search the Web effectively.
Web: Dive Into OS X [MNJ]. Answers to lots of questions about OS X.
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."
Opinion: Fast, free, or cheap software picks for low end Macs, Charles W. Moore, 04.12.
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.
Petition: Release Mac OS 8.1 and 8.5.1, Steve Godun, Petition Online. If you'd like to see Apple make OS 8.1 and 8.5.1 free-for-all, as they did with System 7.5.3, please sign this petition.
Opinion: Reading this will cost you half a penny, Marc Zeedar, Mac Opinion, 04.11. The case for micropayments on the Internet.
Opinion: Why so excited about Bluetooth?, Damien, mrbarrett.com, 04.11. "...once Apple decides to adopt a technology or technology trend into its product line, the rest of the industy will follow."
Advice: Scrap your desktop, Brian Clark, Business 2.0. Yes, for a lot of users a laptop can replace a desktop.
Web: iGeek. David K. Every's new site contains new content and will be home to updated versions of some old MacKiDo articles.
Web: "Black ops" SE/30?, Greg Wassmann, DigiBarn. Metal case, snoop-proof shielding, and other features make Tempest SE/30 virtually unknown outside of secure installations.
Advice: Can I deduct my computer?, June Kim, SmartMoney, 04.10. Tips on tax deductions for computer owners.
Opinion: When MacWeek ruled the earth, Chuck La Tournous, RandomMaccess, 04.09. Before the Web, MacWeek was the ultimate Mac publication.
Opinion: Did Mac OS X make your peripherals obsolete?, Mac Night Owl, 04.10. Lots of perfectly good older hardware just isn't supported under OS X.
Deal: Power Mac G4/500 Cube, $965, Deals on the Web, 04.10. This deal ends 04.12.
Opinion: A tale of two PowerBooks, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 04.09. Which one is "the best Mac I've ever owned"?
Opinion: Impersonal PCs, Charlotte Bauer, Sunday Times, 04.07. Uninformed musings on Macs seems stuck with the candy colored iMacs of 1999.
Advice: RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines.
OS X: Macs Only! reports that Jake Luck has OS X running on his G3-upgraded PB 2400 thanks to XPostFacto, 04.09.
Opinion: Life on the Net in 2004, Aardvark Daily, 04.09 [ /.]. Within a couple years, everything you do online could cost you money.
Web: Mac Net Journal has overhauled their look and feel, 04.09. Faster loading, less cluttered. We like it.
AAPL: Big blues, Robert Paul Leitao, Apple Stock Watch, Mac Observer, 04.08. IBM profit warning sends market, especially tech stocks, into a tail-spin.
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, Cnet, 04.08 [ /.]. "In some cases, people are not even asked whether they want the software. It just installs...."
Opinion: Classic Macs: Useful or not?, John Christie, RetroMacs, MacWeekly, 04.08. A look at the potential uses for pre-USB Macs - starting with the compact models.
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."
News: "Tax on a tax" slams middle class, Fox News, 04.08. AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) designed to tax the rich, increasingly sticks it to the middle class.
MacInSchool: Laptops for "Backwash Elementary," Educator's News, 04.08. "One cart will carry 24 PC wireless laptops with the other carrying 24 iBooks."
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.)
OS X: XPostFacto updated. Utility now supports installing OS X on unsupported PB 3400, original G3, and possibly 2400.
Web: MacKiDo evolution, David K. Every, 04.03. "Mac OS X has made it clear that the Mac Wayô is dead."
Tech: The AltiVec difference, Craig Hunter, O'Reilly Network, 04.05. How AltiVec makes the G4 more powerful than the G3 for certain tasks.
Benchmarks: LaCie's 40 GB U&I PocketDrive, ExtremeTech, 04.05 [OSN]. Yes, Virginia, FireWire really is faster than USB 2.0 in the real world - even on Wintel.
Opinion: Drowning in Aqua, Peter Seebach, IBM developerWorks. "Aqua stands today as a tour de force, a grand showing of just how unbelievably awful an interface can be." Discuss on MacSlash.
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.)
Tech: A flexible solar panel for clothes, Technology Review, 04.05. "One day, clothing could provide electrical juice to energize a portable phone, hand-held computer, or portable music player."
Humor: Failed iMac designs, Steve the Doodler, MacWeekly, 04.04.
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?
Software: OS X email client showdown, OS X Guide, 04.04.
Consumer: 40 GB 7200 rpm IBM Deskstar, $76, details at DealMac, 04.04.
Dork Side: Microsoft's anti-Unix ads backfire, Cydney Gillis, Eastside Journal, 04.02. Anti-Unix site served on Unix. What were they thinking?
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...."
Advice: Practice safe computing, Michelle Klein-Häss, Geek Speak, Low End PC, 04.04. How to work on your computer without zapping it to death with static electricity.
Opinion: More musings on portables as mainstream computers, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 04.03. We agree - and we run Low End Mac on a PowerBook.
News: Club Mac to be rolled into MacMall, MacCentral, 04.03.
Opinion: OS X: Getting it right?, Philip Machanick, Macintelligence, Mac Opinion, 04.03. Apple Remote Desktop has some serious possibilities.
Review: L'espion miniature digital camera, PowerBook Zone, 04.03. Tiny "spy camera" looks like fun - on 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: Long live the king of PDAs, Slashdot, 04.03. "Despite being cancelled over four years ago, the Newton Messagepad is still getting better."
Consumer: Apple Store (online) adds 90 days same as cash terms, Mac Observer, 04.03.
Opinion: How Apple could improve the iBook, Eric Schwarz, The 'Book Report, MacWeekly, 04.02. The iBook is nice, but there are a few things Apple could have done better.
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.
MacInSchool: Henrico County iBooks, part 2, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 04.02. "Your editor also thinks that the school board should have listened to the teachers on how best to proceed."
Opinion: PowerBook 2400c, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 04.02. "The 2400 is one of the most interesting PowerBooks ever...."
Opinion: Apple should not change its advertising approach, Michel Munger, Mac Observer, 04.02. "Apple uses the essence of its platform to sell it to its customers, without world domination in mind."
Ezine: ATPM, April issue
Ezine: Web Page Design for Designers, April issue
Low End: Mac Plus Web Server, Gilles Aurejac. Little Mac Plus in France not only serves Web pages, but runs off floppies.
Community: Bluetooth Mac email list, The Macintosh Guy. Jump on the technology bandwagon and learn about Bluetooth on the Mac with other Mac users.
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."
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)."
MacInSchool: Inside story on Henrico County iBooks, part 1, John H. Farr, 04.01. Students trading nude photos, MP3s on school-owned computers.
AF: Fastest Mac on the Planet, Macs Only!, 04.01. Cube rereleased as fastest Mac ever with 1.1 GHz G4.
AF: Video details of Apple's iTiVo revealed, TidBITS, 04.01.
Opinion: Brother, can you spare $200, Chris Lawson, Last Word, MacWeekly.com, 04.01. "Just because it's a bargain doesn't mean you should [or can] buy it."
Web: MacWeekly.com launched. This new site has grown out of the old Classic Mac Weekly newsletter and includes several writer you already know from Low End Mac.
Web: NeXT Archive, Z80.org. Lots of NeXT information archived here.

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