Wednesday, 23 October 2002
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Al-Qaida men handed to US, says Georgia. World latest: Georgian special forces have detained as many as 15 al-Qaida operatives and handed them over to the American authorities, according to Georgian officials. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Life of Pi takes Booker. Books: Yann Martel's magical realist tale has won this year's prize. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Yann Martel wins Booker Prize
Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for Literature
Tuesday for his second novel, Life of Pi.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
Another Canuck wins the Booker!
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RealNetworks' server business eroding rapidly. Today RealNetworks announced their financials. Compared to the same quarter a year ago, (1) revenue is flat, (2) software license... [PlaybackTime]
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MOTU, Inc. Announces 24i/o 96 kHz Audio Interface
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 22, 2002
-- MOTU, Inc. has announced the 24i/o, a single rack-space 96 kHz audio interface for Macintosh and Windows personal computers that provides 24 balanced quarter-inch (TRS) 96 kHz analog inputs and outputs in a single rack-space enclosure.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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My Car Sounds Better Than Yours. While some car owners can spend hours under the hood, others find themselves tweaking their custom-designed car audio systems. By David F. Gallagher. [New York Times: Technology]
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Dr. Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day. Dr. Mac says - "Do the Hover-Scroll..." [OSXFAQ]Definitely not Jaguar only. One of the first things I noticed after I installed OS X. A little disconcerting at first but actually kinda cool. Not of much use though.
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Nothing short of curious
The list of finalists for this year's Governor-General's Literary Awards is perhaps most surprising for who didn't make the cut, writes SANDRA MARTIN
By SANDRA MARTIN
-- Guy Vanderhaeghe and Rohinton Mistry are zero for two this year, having struck out on the shortlists for both the Giller and the Governor-General's literary awards. Their editor, McClelland and Stewart fiction publisher Ellen Seligman, admitted she was ''very shocked'' by the snub to Vanderhaeghe's novel, The Last Crossing, by the Governor-General's jury, which announced its finalists yesterday. ''It is a literary masterpiece that is both ambitious and successful,'' she said, an opinion that is shared by Globe reviewer and novelist Annie Proulx and many others, including me. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Nineties not kind to arts groups: study
By JAMES ADAMS
-- Declining government support and shrinking audiences in the last decade forced Canada's performing-arts companies to mount fewer productions and seek greater support at the box office and from donors, a Statistics Canada study has found. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Jonathan Baldwin writes about problem with digital video cameras in Mac OS X "Jaguar", cameras that work fine with Mac OS 9 [Macintouch] There's also a problem with some cameras with any version of OS X vs OS 9. If I want to import or export video to an external drive I have to boot into 9. This was also discussed at Apple's Discussion site a lot but there was never a response, let a lone a solution, from Apple.
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Digigram Releases Mac OS X Sound Card Drivers
Oct. 22, 2002
-- Digigram has released Mac OS X drivers for three of its sound cards. These include two models for laptop computers and one for desktops. The drivers are available now for Mac OS X 10.1 through 10.2.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Abbey Road Brings DTS In-House
London (October 23, 2002)--Abbey Road Studios in London has purchased DTS hardware to expand its surround sound mastering capability. Abbey Road will incorporate DTS hardware to enable 5.1- and 6.1-channel surround sound mixes for CDs, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio. [ProSound News]
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An Intel regional manager also noted that mobile PCs (meaning mostly laptops) will rise from 30 to 50 million units by 2006, and 90 percent will have Wi-Fi or other wireless network technology in use. [80211b News]
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Sprint to enter Wi-Fi business: Alan Reiter reports from the Wireless Airport Association that Sprint said they'll be entering the Wi-Fi market. Alan also notes that airlines have distinctly different interests in and concerns about wireless networks in airports than the authorities that run those airports and the wireless ISPs trying to install them there. Good reporting from Alan as always. [80211b News]
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