[MyAppleMenu] Jul 15, 2003

Tue Jul 15 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Jul 15, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Clash, Then Synthesis: Joys of A Laptop Jam (Johanna Jainchill, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/10/technology/circuits/10jamm.html?8cir>
Laptop music can be "strange for the listener" because "the performers understand what they're doing, but the audience doesn't."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Live Avrill Tracks On iTunes Include Green Day Cover (MTV News)
<http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1473799/20030715/lavigne_avril.jhtml>
Avril Lavigne is sending a subtle message to Metallica, Linkin Park and other groups who have pulled their music off Apple's iTunes recently -- Let Go.

Apple Takes Aim At Government, Defence And Media (Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1039132060&fp=16&fpid=0>
Apple has signalled its intent to play hardball in courting the Australian government and military space.

Sophos To Prevent Worms In Apples (Robert Lemos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2110-1045_3-1025482.html>
Sophos Antivirus for Mac OS X allows administrators the ability to prevent users from uninstalling the software, and offers centralized installation, configuration, updating and reporting.

Buzzle Administrator "Under A Spell" (Sarah Stokeley, ARN)
<http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=134616567&fp=2&fpid=1>
The ongoing legal battle over Buzzle was back in court yesterday, as Apple continued its quest to overthrow the administrator of the failed reseller group.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Microsoft Shakes Up Its Mac Lineup (Nick Ciarelli, Microsoft-Watch)
<http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1192679,00.asp>
Microsoft will next month revise its Office for Mac product line with across-the-board price cuts and two new editions of Office, sources said.

Blame The Last Man Standing? (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3512>
The whole point of Rendezvous is that it is the networking that keeps working even when everything else is broken.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Retrospect 5.1 Improves Disaster Recovery (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07268>
Most important is that Retrospect 5.1 now ships with a disaster recovery CD-ROM that can boot a Mac OS X machine, thus eliminating one of the big gotchas that has plagued Retrospect users who back up to removable media.

Potential Data Loss Bug In Mail.app; Workaround (MacFixIt)
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030714082710227>
We are investigating a potentially serious and now confirmed issue with Apple's default Mac OS X e-mail client, Mail.app, that causes loss of sent messages when working with a large volume of e-mail.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Eating Out And Logging On (Bob Tedeschi, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/technology/14ECOM.html>
The number of wireless "hot spots" is still tiny compared with the Internet connections wired to homes and offices. But mainstream companies are beginning to pay attention to wireless initiatives as one way to reach more of their traditional customers.

Wi-Fi Pushes Beyond The Laptop (Ben Charny, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1037_3-1025407.html>
Manufacturers are adding Wi-Fi wireless connections to media adapters that let home electronics equipment play music or show photos stored on personal computers.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Teaching Computers To Work In Unison (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html>
A look at what many computer scientists regard as the next big evolutionary step in the development of the Internet, known as grid computing.

The Politics Of Open-Source Software (Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1025268.html?tag=fd_nc_1>
Why not let open-source and closed-source products compete in a free (government) market, and let the best-fitting software win?

Funding For TIA All But Dead (Ryan Singel, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html>
The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: death by legislation.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Should Howard Dean Be A Little Afraid Of The Internet? (Chris Sullentrop, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2085610/>
By encouraging so much spontaneous organization, Dean has -- knowingly or unknowingly -- ceded a lot of control to these unofficial groups. It's a gamble that may pay off, but it's still a gamble.

Black Thursday For Bush (David S. Broder, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55857-2003Jul14.html?nav=hptop_tb>
If President Bush is not reelected, we may look back on last Thursday, July 10, 2003, as the day the shadow of defeat first crossed his political horizon.

The Bright Stuff (Daniel C. Dennett, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/opinion/12DENN.html>
We are, in fact, the moral backbone of the nation: brights take their civic duties seriously precisely because they don't trust God to save humanity from its follies.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Early Voices: The Leap To Language (Nichoals Wade, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15LANG.html>
New research is eroding the idea that the origins of language are hopelesly lost in the mists of time. New clues have started to emerge from archaeology, genetics and human behvaioral ecology, and even linguists have grudgingly begun to join in the discussion before other specialists eat their lunch.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Sound, Fury And Cellphone Users (Elizabeth Olson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/business/15CELL.html>
Feelings of rage and seething are not uncommon when it comes to cellphones, where the "against" line up passionately against the "for."

Question For 'David' At 500: Is He Ready For Makeover? (Alan Riding, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/arts/design/15DAVI.html>
There is no shortage of passion in the arguments brandished by Ms. Parronchi and Ms. Falletti and their respective supporters, arguments in which science and experience have been marshaled for partisan purposes.

The Devil Highway's Number Is Finally Up (Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-na-highway12jul12.story>
After 77 years, U.S. 666 will soon be renamed and, some locals say, maybe even reborn.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Lets Its Hari Down (Wayne Arnold, IHT)
<http://www.iht.com/articles/102576.html>
But is it O.K. to chew gum while bar dancing?

KL's Water Ad Blitz Ignores Crucial Facts, Says Singapore (Rebecca Lee, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,199770,00.html?>
Singapore said yesterday that a series of advertisements Malaysia has taken out in newspapers on the water issue ignored crucial facts and were a rehash of old arguments.

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