Mac News Today
The Low End Mac Link Archive, January 2004
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- Advice: Beating mydoom and more with POPmonitor, Charles W. Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.30. "Vechtwijk Automatisering has released new MyDoom/Novarg filters for its cool email filtering and mangement application POPmonitor."
- Virus: Gullible users spreading 'mydoom' worm, Fox News, 01.28. "The continued spread of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human."
- Apple: Virginia Tech swaps out G5 desktops for Xserve racks, Tony Smith, The Register, 01.28. "Virginia Tech has officially announced that it will replace the 1100 PowerMac G5 desktops that currently comprise its supercomputing cluster...with Apple's recently announced Xserve G5...."
- Opinion: Pismo withdrawal - Short term pain for long term gain, Charles Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.27. "My beloved Pismo PowerBook has been gone for a week today - off to Daystar in Georgia for a MAChSpeed G4 processor upgrade."
- History: Insanely great Macs: The sequel, Gene Steinberg, Cyberspeak, USA Today, 01.26. Apple's seven greatest portables.
- Opinion: Why no love for Apple?, Dana Blankenhorn, Corante, 01.26. "Apple gave up on the mass market in the 1980s, even before John Sculley joined, when Jobs decided to confuse hardware and software, refusing to allow the 'Mac-clone' market to develop."
- Virus: New virus infects PCs, whacks SCO, Robert Lemos, Cnet, 01.26. "A mass-mailing virus that quickly spread through the Internet on Monday planted a file that will instruct infected computers to attack the SCO Group's Web server with a flood of data...."
- Opinion: Panther problems on the iBook and "getting over" OS 9 - not, Charles Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.26. "Good old dependable, tolerant OS 9."
- OS X: More 10.4 sspeculation: Will Apple run out of features?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.23. "When it comes to Mac OS X 10.4, can Apple deliver another 150 new features...?"
- OS X: Forget Panther! Let's start talking about 10.4, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.22. Nice as Panther is, there's still plenty of room for improvement in Mac OS X 10.4.
- OS X: Panther on the G3 iBook and custom user account pictures, Charles Moore, OS X Odyssey, Applelinks, 01.21. "...the iBook is no slouch, and it's certainly no hardship to be back using it for production."
- Opinion: There really is nothing like a 'Book, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.20. "...there are also practical reasons to prefer laptops. It's extremely convenient to be able to take your computer along...."
- Opinion: Living with a low-end Windows PC, Dan Knight, The Knight Line, Low End PC, 01.19. Sometimes even a died-in-the-wool Macintosh user finds a Windows PC the perfect solution to a problem.
Rights:
Microsoft
lawyers threaten Mike Rowe (17), Kieren McCarthy, The Register,
01.19. "Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on
17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe, demanding the
handover of his Internet domain . . . MikeRoweSoft.com."- History: This week in Apple history, O Linzmayer, B Chaffin, Mac Observer, 01.19. Lisa, the Apple IIe, the 1984 and Lemmings television ads, and more.
- Virus: Say hello to the Bagle Worm, Mike Kemp, The Register, 01.19. "Sunday evening saw reports of yet another email-borne worm affecting MS Windows."
- Advice: Your aging Macs deserve better, Bill Palmer, 01.18. "Part of the beauty of the Mac platform . . . is that you can often ignore a Mac for a few years and it'll just keep cranking along."
- OS X: Are you asking for trouble if you install 10.3 On a Bondi blue iMac?, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.18. Lots of RAM and a bigger, faster hard drive will help, but Panther can run comfortably on a 233 MHz iMac.
- History: The Mac that roared, Jon Fortt, MercuryNews.com, 01.18. "Twenty years ago, Apple Computer heaved a sledgehammer into the face of the establishment with its revolutionary Macintosh."
- Macinschool: Maine iBook program extending to high schools, Macs Only!, 01.17. "This will seriously change the way that Maine's high school students are educated and will place many Macs into many otherwise PC-only schools."
- History: A look at secret new Apple computer, Evelyn Richards, MercuryNews.com, 01.16. Reprint of a January 1984 article about the then-new Macintosh computer.
- Software: Cunning Fox: New app extends laptop battery life, John MacDonnell, O'Grady's PowerPage, 01.16. New OS X utility lets you stop applications without quitting them, leaving more resources for busy apps.
- AAPL: Apple to be debt-free Feb. 16; sells remaining stake in Akamai, MacMinute, 01.16. "Apple will be a debt-free company after it makes a US$300 million payment on senior debt due February 16...."
- Advice: Upgrading Apple eMac, Leo Bodnar, 01.04. How to overclock an 800 MHz eMac, upgrade the hard drive, replace the CD-ROM, and add an external monitor complete with spanning.
- Software: Apple offers AppleWorks 6.2.9 update, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.15. "Minor" update finally adds support for scroll wheels on third-party mice.
- Analysis: The Apple financials report: Power Mac soars, iMac sinks, Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl, 01.15. "...you have to take a long look to find something in Apple's financial statement for the last quarter that isn't thumbs up."
- Analysis: The H-Bomb, John Gruber, Daring Fireball, 01.14. "...it's hard to think of any company which would have been a bigger deal for Apple to license the iPod to."
- Opinion: Marginalizing the Mac and its users, Dan Gillmor, SiliconValley.com, 01.14. Zagat, the restaurant rating guide, and another case of Mac marginalzation.
- Opinion: Not a Macworld wrapup column, Charles Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.13. "...while there's nothing much to talk about in terms of new Apple portables, the big story right now in the 'Book orbit is diminishing prices of older hardware."
- History: The 20 Macs that mattered most, Owen Linzmayer, Wired, 01.09. "Twenty years after the introduction of the first Macintosh, here's a list of the 20 most memorable Mac models."
- OS X: Xgrid, Apple, 01.08. "Xgrid turns a group of Macs into a supercomputer, so they can work on problems greater than each individually could solve."
- Hardware: EyeTV 200, EyeHome turn Mac into media center, Peter Cohen, MacCentral, 01.06. "The EyeTV 200 features FireWire 400 connectivity and MPEG-2 based video encoding, solving the two most frequent requests made by users of Elgato's original EyeTV...."
- Opinion: Were the Pismo PowerBook and the clamshell iBook the last tough Apple portables?, Charles W. Moore, Road Warrior, Mac Opinion, 01.05. "Personally, I can no longer in good conscience recommend the G3 Dual USB iBook as a prudent new (leftover) or used/refurbished purchase."
- Editorial: Could the iBox be the sleeper rumor of MacWorld 2004?, Bill Palmer, 01.03. "Unlike most set-top-box rumors . . . , this 'iBox' would actually allow Apple's penchant innovation to interact with the television set in a meaningful and additive way."
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