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 Friday, 24 May 2002
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The Washington Post reports on a Pentagon fight that pits
Microsoft vs. open-source
software. "But the effort may have backfired. A May 10 report prepared for the Defense Department concluded that open source often results in more secure, less expensive applications and that, if anything, its use should be expanded."
[Macintouch]
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Why Macintosh?
is an analysis by Terri Schoone, Director of Instructional Technology for the Urbana, Illinois school district, that makes the case for choosing Macs in education based on total cost of ownership ("TCO"). [Macintouch]
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The Macintosh STSN Support Site is designed "for travelers who would like to connect their
Apple Powerbooks up to the STSN systems installed
in such hotels as Marriott and Ritz Carlton." [Macintouch]
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T Tp://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/23/technology/circuits/23NEXT.html?ex=1022731200&en=6ed5f3aff0cedfdc&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">Tapping Into Its Strengths, the Empire of Film Strikes Back. Makers of film have started to focus on light sensitivity, the digital Achilles' heel. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology]
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 I must admit that until a few days ago I didn't know about tabbed browsing. It'a a Mozilla feature that lets you open links in "tabs" instead that opening them in new windows. To explore pages like weblogs.com it's just perfect: no more windows all over the screen, everything clean and tidy. Here's how it looks like.
To turn on the feature, visit the Mozilla preferences and go to the Navigator > Tabbed Browsing panel. My favourite detail is that Control/Command clicking on a link open the site in a different tab without bringing it to the front, so while the link I just clicked on loads in the background, I can continue reading the site I was on. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
.< 1:15:33 AM >
Canadian soldiers strike landmine on Afghan road
Six Canadian soldiers escaped unharmed when the armoured vehicle they
were riding in struck an explosive device in Afghanistan.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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EMI 2|6 Audio Interface Supports Mac OS X
IRVINE, Calif., May 23, 2002
-- Emagic has released a software update for the Emagic Multichannel Interface EMI 2|6 that now supports Mac OS X. The EMI 2|6 is a USB interface that includes six playback and two recording channels at 24-bits at 44.1 kHz to 96 kHz. According to the company, the new OS X software allows OS X users to take full advantage of the interface's capabilities. (96 kHz was not available in OS 9.)
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Oh, my—MySQL!. Builder.com: “Do you have a hosted Web site? If you do, chances are you have access to a MySQL database. MySQL is a relational database management system (RDMS) that is great for energizing your Web site, managing personal data, or any of the average everyday uses of a database.” [ranchero.com]
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How OS X Is Growing the Mac User Base. Low End Mac: “A funny thing happened on the way to 12 o’clock hour for OS X. The Macintosh faithful, ever the standard bearers for simple GUI computing, have become command line power users.” [ranchero.com]
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"Unless" by Carol Shields. In the last novel by Pulitzer-winner Carol Shields, a daughter drops out to live on the street, forcing her mother to reassess her "happy" life. [Salon.com]
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Ashcroft knew. The official responsible for the most dramatic failures of Sept. 11 turns out to be the attorney general. His sweeping anti-terror measures in recent months were a fig leaf to cover naked incompetence. [Salon.com]
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A Chronicle of Horror, and Hope. HBO's gripping and sorrowful documentary following Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's day on Sept. 11 shows images that are familiar and others that are shockingly new. By Caryn James. [New York Times: Arts] '"In Memoriam" demonstrates how profoundly television, video, cell phones [~] the entire new world of technology [~] have shaped our experience and memories of the attacks and the new global war they are part of.'
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How to create a Blogroll in Radio's outliner. A new macro, radio.macros.blogroll, makes it easy to manage your blogroll using Radio's outliner. You can see the results in the column to the left. It supports multi-level outlines, macro expansion, and CSS. If you use it, please post a comment with a link to your weblog, and I'll link to your site. Thanks! [Jake's Radio 'Blog]
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Guides to optimizing and troubleshooting Classic [Mac OS X Hints]
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Interview - PHP's Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf. WebmasterBase: “He is quick to play down his contribution to what PHP is today, instead attributing most of PHP’s success to the vast community of developers that have signed on to the project over the years. In a sense, Rasmus today is simply PHP’s biggest fan.” [ranchero.com] I remember a few years ago when I was getting into the internet being intrigued by PHP. It did a lot of the things that Frontier could do. And it was being developed by someone in Toronto, Rasmus Lerdorf. I finally settled on Frontier, largely because it was Mac based and I'm a Mac guy. Of course PHP is Mac based now that we have unix on OS X!
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