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"I recently purchased a new 1gHz dual G4, and have found that out of the box, the system drive was brutally fragmented. Tech Tool Pro showed us 757 fragmented files. I thought I might have been an isolated case, but three other recent G4 buyers I know have also experienced extremely fragmented system drives. We all work with Pro Tools TDM systems, and as a result have had trouble getting our systems to work properly with the new G4s, until we discovered the fragmentation. Is this anything new? What is Apple doing to these drives?"[Macintouch] .< 6:54:40 PM  >Hey Radio UserLand got a writeup on XML.Com. Thanks. A few minor corrections. The MP3 playlist stuff isn't present in Radio 8, nor is the chat functionality (both were in Radio 7). They renamed XML-RPC and didn't mention the support for OPML. Otherwise much appreciated, glad they mentioned that the outliner is an easy XML editor.  [Scripting News].< 6:53:36 PM >Portraits of Nureyev, Created by James Wyeth. New York Times Mar 27 2002 2:58AM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] .< 6:49:33 PM >BW Online | March 27, 2002 | Apple's Hot New Market: PC Converts 'PC users beware: You just might find yourself drawn to the new iMac like a moth to bright light. It happened to Esme Vos, a Californian working as an intellectual-property lawyer in Amsterdam. She "broke down" and bought a new flat-screen iMac after 17 years as a diehard PC loyalist. "I never thought I'd buy anything from Apple, but I did," Vos wrote in an online piece for Europemedia.net.' .< 6:32:52 PM >Brian Yoder: "I live next door to where Disney does most of its creative work and I know a lot of artists over there, and I can tell you that Eisner has no fans among the creative staff in any of his enterprises. Disney treats most of its creative people like garbage (why? because they can!) and they churn more talented people in and out of their doors than any large company I have ever seen." [Scripting News].< 6:28:35 PM >Business Week: Guard Copyrights, Don't Jail Innovation. Introducing copyright-protection mechanisms into almost all digital hardware clearly flouts the interests of consumers. And it's more evidence that, when it comes to delivering content in the 21st century, the entertainment industry is hell-bent on stifling technology... [Tomalak's Realm] .< 6:26:42 PM >DaveNet : Eisner made over $700 million in 5 years: "They had a good thing going for a long time. The users got snookered into giving him all the money and none to the creative people. That's over. Imho, Eisner and his ilk were the pirates." Dave takes the head of Disney to task for attempting to take a moralistic stand on the issue of 'piracy'. Eisner makes outrageous amounts of money (easy target) on the backs of creative people. .< 6:19:00 PM >O’Reilly: Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 4. “Things really become interesting, however, when you take advantage of a little known feature of term files, the ability to define a command line to run when the window opens. Doing this allows you to create your own double-clickable run files that open in Terminal within a window of your exact specifications and run any command line (or script file) you can come up with.” [mac.scripting.com] .< 6:15:49 PM >Novell Says Microsoft Bullies Server Market. An executive of network computing company Novell on Wednesday accused Microsoft of using anti-competitive tactics to dominate the market for Internet server software. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 5:56:38 PM >New $5 bill celebrates winter sports Canada's new $5 bill was officially unveiled on Wednesday, but some people got a sneak peek at the bills after some banks accidentally handed them out earlier this week. [CBC News] .< 4:07:15 PM >Films Reel in More Sound Awards Culver City, CA--The 49th Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards were presented at a banquet held in Culver City, CA on March 23. MPSE is an organization for professional sound and music editors who work in motion pictures and television. [ProSound News] Glad to see Amélie won an award for sound. Brilliant work. .< 3:59:18 PM >Scheiner Leads Surround Workshop New York City--The New York Chapter of the Recording Academy held an event last night to educate audio professionals on surround sound--as both an emerging format for production and an incredible listening experience. [ProSound News] 'Making known his stance on faux 5.1, Scheiner cited albums having "re-purposed" stereo mixes to give the surround illusion, and argued its severely detrimental effects on surround as an emerging format.' Elliot also played his new surround mix of A Night at the Opera. .< 3:55:48 PM >Academy Adds to Grammy List
Santa Monica, CA--Over the past two years the Recording Academy has
instituted several new award policies to include the technical creative
community in more categories and to better reflect its mission to celebrate
both the art and science of making music. [ProSound News] It looks as though the audio component of MPEG 4 is good to go. It's the video streaming component which is held up in licensing issues. .< 11:43:28 AM >MPEG-4 Audio gets Tech Group approval [MacNN] .< 11:39:08 AM >Canon DIGITAL IXUS v² / S200 ELPH. CeBIT 2002: 0600 GMT: Canon has today announced the DIGITAL IXUS v² (EU name) / S200 DIGITAL ELPH (US name). The DIGITAL IXUS v² has the same 2x optical zoom, 2 megapixel CCD as the previous Digital... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] .< 11:37:13 AM >Apogee Launches NativeTools Santa Monica, CA--Apogee Electronics Corporation has launched NativeTools, a series of hardware/software bundles pairing Apogee converters with leading audio recording and editing software to create a complete system. [ProSound News] Works with Nuendo. .< 11:36:35 AM >Dolby to Host 'Afternoon of Audio' at NAB
San Francisco--Dolby Laboratories has organized a series of technical
panels discussing all relevant and timely technical issues dealing with
audio in broadcasting to be held on Wednesday, April 10 at the NAB 2002
show, 2 p.m., Room S220 in the Las Vegas Convention Center. [ProSound News] Mon dieu! .< 11:23:56 AM >Smut Filter Snags Non-Smut, Too. A witness in the case to overturn library filters says that among the blocked pages was 'The Pen Is Mightier' because the software read 'penis.' Declan McCullagh reports from Philadelphia. [Wired News] Censorship is a bad idea in general. But using software as the censor?! Good grief. .< 2:32:44 AM >inessential.com: Weblog: "I don't really miss menu sharing on OS X any more. " Brent explains why. .< 2:03:58 AM >O'Reilly Network: Digital Photo Goodies for Mac OS X [Mar. 12, 2002] 'Mac OS X is becoming a great digital photography platform. Today I'm going to cover some new tools that work with iPhoto' Great hints and links, as well as links to previous stories in this series. .< 1:23:10 AM >Web radio's last stand. A new ruling involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is set to wipe out independent online music stations. [Salon.com] .< 1:21:29 AM >"Indira" by Katherine Frank. Indira Gandhi led the most populous democracy in the world, but finally, ruthless and paranoid, she couldn't resist the temptation of tyranny. [Salon.com] .< 12:44:44 AM >Sharpe not guilty of possessing written child pornography John Robin Sharpe is not guilty of possessing or distributing written child pornography, British Columbia Supreme Court Judge Duncan Shaw ruled on Tuesday. [CBC News] I think this is good. Don't confuse your fantasies with intent. .< 12:40:59 AM >Earthquakes devastate northern Afghan villages The deaths, damage and destruction are horrific after a series of earthquakes in northern Afghanistan. Reports say the quakes killed at least 1,800 people and left another 30,000 homeless. [CBC News] .< 12:38:35 AM >Best Vacations: Quebec City, Canada. CNNfn Mar 26 2002 6:57PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] A beautiful, charming city. A taste of the old world in the new. .< 12:14:48 AM >The importance of being silly. International Herald Tribune Mar 26 2002 10:34PM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] The genius of John Cleese. |
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