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Having never tried crack . . . . Nevermind. Radio is adictive. .< 10:59:48 PM  >To view only one application's windows on your desktop in one click of the mouse, hold down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard at the same time, then click on icon of the application you want to see in the Dock. This will hide all other applications, just as you could do under OS 9.x... [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X Tips] .< 10:56:44 PM >After the crash: When you restart after a kernel panic, hold down the Command key and S at the same time. This boots your machine into Single User Mode, and you can then type in the command line interface the command "fsck -y" without the quotes. This runs a disk utility that will fix any problems with the system caused by the crash. If the system is modified when you run fsck the first time, run it again until it says no changes were made and that the volume appears to be fine. Then type in the command "reboot" and you are back in business, secure in the knowledge that the machine should be fine after its crash. [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X Tips] Good to know. But I haven't had a kernel panic since the early days of Radio 8 and my first attempt to update to 10.1.3 of OS X. That was a long time ago. .< 10:52:29 PM >Maximizing battery life under OS X takes a look at a handful of simple tips to make running OS X under battery power less painful. [Rob McNair-Huff: OS X Tips] Using these six simple steps I have been able to squeeze between 2 and 3 hours of life out of the more-than-one-year-old battery in my PowerBook G3 FireWire (Pismo) while running OS X 10.1.x. And while this is still a reduced time from what I once saw under OS 9.x, it is still acceptable enough to get through those times when I need to run without a power connection. Cool. Same hardware and OS here. I'd love to have the nearly 5 hours I had when the battery was brand new and I was running OS 9. .< 10:26:27 PM >p://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index.html?CP=RDF&DN=310">Scott Ritter. The controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq says Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are largely disarmed, the "Iraqi threat" is built on a framework of lies and President Bush has betrayed the American people. [Salon.com] .< 10:25:07 PM >Small discs to feature big artists - Tech News - CNET.com: "Start-up DataPlay said Tuesday that it has signed a deal with independent label Zomba Recording to offer new albums by artists such as Britney Spears and 'NSync on miniature discs. Boulder, Colo.-based DataPlay calls its technology "the world's smallest DVD-R." It makes discs that are about the size of a quarter and can hold five to 11 hours of music, or three to five albums." I wish the focus would move from 'minutes of play' to 'quality of sound'. .< 10:18:03 PM >Thestar.com/Harris pledges $90M to Toronto arts community: "Reporters were called to today's last-minute funding announcement just moments before another news conference about the 1995 police shooting of a native protester at Ipperwash Provincial Park was scheduled to begin.
That issue has dogged Harris throughout his tenure as premier. " We can dream. The problem is that in some corporations the IT department has obtained so much power that they explicitly prohibit use of unapproved software. .< 4:44:22 PM >Surround Professional Magazine - SACD Technology Report: " By RICH TOZZOLI With any new technology, change happens quickly. The development of stereo and multichannel Direct Stream Digital (DSD) recording technology for SACD is no exception. With players dropping dramatically in price, more artists, engineers, and producers will begin to venture into this new world, drawn to its pristine audio quality and backward compatibility to the CD" For better or worse DSD is making inroads. I think it's fine as a delivery platform but I'm less convinced that it should be used where post-production will be involved. This article is a 'sampling' of recent developments in DSD gear. .< 3:32:39 PM >Russ Lipton: How to Place Pictures in your Weblog.  [Scripting News].< 3:24:27 PM >Frontier ODBC Extension. Tallent Communications Group: “The ODBC Extension allows a Frontier user to easily write cross-platform scripts for connecting Frontier to any ODBC compliant database system such as Oracle, Sybase, MS SQLServer, Access, mySql, or anything with an ODBC driver for your platform.” This new versions works in OS X. [ranchero.com] And - key point - is also runs on Radio. So with Radio on everyone's desktop at $40 a pop, a free Radio Community Server for your workgroup, develpers swarming back to the Userland universe with this kind of power under the hood . . . lookout! .< 11:24:26 AM >NATIONAL POST ONLINE | News story: " In a last-gasp effort to have her Olympic bronze upgraded to gold, Alberta skier Beckie Scott has asked an international court to strip two drug-abusing Russians of the medals they won during the Salt Lake City Games." Apparently you can use drugs to win Olympic medals after all. .< 11:19:03 AM >States aim for tough Microsoft sanctions - Tech News - CNET.com Nine states urged a federal judge on Monday to impose stiff antitrust sanctions against Microsoft, saying the software giant is still using its monopoly power to bully potential competitors like RealNetworks and the Linux computer operating system. .< 11:14:30 AM >BBAutoComplete is a free extension for the Mac OS X version of Bare Bones' popular BBEdit text editor from Michael Tsai, providing a word auto-completion feature. [Macintouch] .< 12:29:54 AM >No end in sight to war on terrorism: PM The federal government hasn't made a decision on whether to extend Canada's six-month military commitment to Afghanistan, says Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. [CBC News] .< 12:23:44 AM >A Somber Memorial From the Vienna Philharmonic. New York Times Mar 18 2002 8:46PM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] "After all the angst and the anger and the hassles of the last few months, the Mozart was like a benediction," one concertgoer said afterward. "Now it seems O.K. to let go a little, to let the dead rest in peace." The VPO played a free concert at St. Patrick's in memory of the victims of 11 Sept. |
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