Saturday, 5 October 2002
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Digidesign to Announce Pro Tools 6.0 for Mac OS X at AES
LOS ANGELES (AES), Oct. 03, 2002
-- Digidesign will be shipping ProTools 6.0 for Mac OS X by the end of the year, and will be making the official announcement at AES on Sunday.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Russia pushes for inspectors' return. Moscow says arms inspectors must return to Iraq soon - directly contradicting US demands for a new UN resolution first. [BBC News | WORLD]
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dive into mark/October 3, 2002: "Many people in the Webmasterworld forums are now suggesting that AllTheWeb.com has better search results overall. Just as a single comparison, their results for "eminem" do appear to be much more relevant. Is this the beginning of the end of Google"
Oh oh. Stay tuned.
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Twilight of the French Aristocracy and of a Reigning Tenor. Plácido Domingo's singing was lovely in the Metropolitan Opera's "Andrea Chénier," but it was guarded and careful: a memory of his former self. By Anne Midgette. [New York Times: Arts]
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What should the world do about Saddam?. Bill Clinton electrifies a British Labor Party conference with a more sweeping vision for global peace and progress than the current president has been able to muster. [Salon.com]Intelligence vs. stupidity.
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EZxslt 1.0 generates Word files with FMPro [The Macintosh News Network]
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The new toolbar Search field in the Finder is one of those features that you
look back on and don’t understand how you could have ever lived without
it. Whether I'm looking for presentations, scans, fonts or even preference files,
you simply type in the partial filename in the search field and hit return.
Presto - the window shows the results. Note: If you have upgraded to Jaguar
from a prior release of Mac OS X, you might have to add the Search field to
your toolbar by choosing "Customize Toolbar..." from the View menu. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]
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US meets more resistance on Iraq. Opposition to the US line on Iraq hardens at the UN[cedilla] with Russia and France spurning a tough new resolution on arms inspections. [BBC News | WORLD]
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The state of AppleScript. John Welch on AppleScript: “AppleScript is one of the most critical technologies on the Mac platform, yet unlike its positive attitude towards other high profile technologies, like WebObjects, Apple seems to be quite divided on AppleScript (AS). I tend to look at this as ‘Good Apple’ and ‘Bad Apple.’” [ranchero.com]
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How and Why the Internet Broke. A series of circumstances and human errors at network communications firm UUNet on Thursday created a huge Internet slowdown throughout the world. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]Sounds as if it was a good day to be too busy to use the net!
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Yukon premier calls election
Yukon voters will be going to the polls in November after the
territory's premier dissolved the legislature.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]Uh oh. JP's gonna be busy!
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Temporarily override auto-login in 10.2 [Mac OS X Hints]'To disable temporarily auto-login hold left Shift and the mouse button during the "blue progress bar" phase of startup.'
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"A big, big mistake". Back from his controversial trip to Iraq, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., talks about his concern over a unilateral strike against Saddam. [Salon.com]
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