One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 10 May 2002

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Guest DaveNet: The Big Lie, by Adam Curry.  [Scripting News]

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Copies of 'Star Wars' Sequel Online. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A week before its scheduled release, illegal copies of ``Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones'' are already appearing on the Internet. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

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Europe Said to Plan Tougher Line Than U.S. on Microsoft. Microsoft could have to make radical changes to meet European regulatory concerns, changes that go well beyond what is being demanded of it in the U.S. By Francesco Guerrera and Birgit Jennen, Ft.com. [New York Times: Technology]

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Apple's Jaguar - sliced and diced [The Register] 'Jaguar gets an overwhelmingly positive verdict, even though Steve, in his campest tease-mode, claimed that this was [base "]not even Alpha code[per thou] . A straw poll unanimously preferred the beta to the current public release, 10.1.4.'

Performance increases seem to be the key. No more spinning cursor.

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"Celine Dion album seriously confuses the drive in some of the new iMacs -- the iMac refuses to eject the CD and also refuses to boot! The only way to get the disc out and restore the machine to normal operation is to wind the eject cogs by hand. Contact your dealer if you need advice." [Holding down the mouse button while starting the Mac usually will eject removable media. -MacInTouch]

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Minnetonka, MN (May 9, 2002)--Minnetonka Audio Software has unveiled discWelder STEEL, a basic DVD-Audio writing program that allows anyone to deliver high-resolution audio from his or her own PC. [ProSound News]

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Pavarotti and Borrowed Time. If Luciano Pavarotti sings on Saturday night in "Tosca" (he cancelled on Wednesday), it may be his farewell to the Metropolitan Opera and to staged opera. By Anthony Tommasini. [New York Times: Arts]

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Jaguar Preview Is Stunning. O’Reilly: “Tevanian explained that the move to GCC 3 will give full C++ compliance, including support for the standard template libraries. As for Apple’s IDE Project Builder, there will be an improvement in the performance of generated code, and the redesigned multi-window UI will be much more full-featured.” [ranchero.com]