One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Saturday, 24 August 2002

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File sharing: Guilty as charged?. New numbers on declining music sales could mean that MP3 trading really is hurting CD sales. But that still doesn't mean we should lock up the pirates. [Salon.com]

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Women Are Nurturing? How About Cruel, Especially to One Another. Phyllis Chesler explores the often cruel relationships between women. [New York Times: Arts]

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The Jaguar flood begins tonight... [Mac OS X Hints]

It's a big day in the Apple world. Jaguar has been released. Mac OS X Hints has a pile of tips related to the new software so rather than point to each of them I thought I'd just point to this general announcment at their page. This is a truly wonderful site.

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Jaguar is a huge improvement primarily in two fronts: in taking advantage of graphics processing on newer G4 machines or cards with graphics upgrades through something Apple calls Quartz Extreme; and in supporting Windows machines and virtual private networking. [GlennLog]

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Is This One Nation, Under Blog?. Weblog software use grows daily -- but bloggers abandon sites and launch new ones as frequently as J.Lo goes through boyfriends. Which makes taking an accurate blog count tricky. By Lia Steakley. [Wired News]

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New Architect: Wireless, Defenseless. To work, the public mobile Internet has to be open, letting people join and drop out at will. This means that public wireless communication will be vulnerable to sniffing, so there's no longer any excuse for failing to use end-to-end encryption for email, Web, and login protocols. [Tomalak's Realm]