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I guess this would be 'new' Europe. .< 11:49:14 PM  >UN diplomats say Powell must bring 'undeniable proof' 
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is promising a comprehensive presentation to the United Nations Security Council next week. But he's saving the details for then. [CBC News] .< 11:47:35 PM >iLife, Keynote for $15 to teachers, faculty [The Macintosh News Network] Hmmm. I wonder if I could swing this through my work at McGill . . . .< 11:43:45 PM >Nagano a hit with MSO fans 'But last night at Place des Arts, the 51-year-old Californian with the lanky black hair flew into a maelstrom of a different sort: feverish, if hopeful, rumours that he is short-listed as the new leader the Montreal Symphony Orchestra has been looking for since Charles Dutoit's abrupt and embarrassing exit last year.' .< 11:30:46 PM >Can artists inspire scientists? The National Research Council has awarded two fellowships to see if a different kind of creative process can stimulate scientific thinking
By STEPHEN STRAUSS Yikes. I've got to remember to get up and move around! .< 11:06:48 PM >Next-gen DVD: There can be only one (standard). The DVD Forum has announced that they'll be choosing the video codec for the next-generation, high-definition DVD standard (tentatively called... [PlaybackTime] .< 11:06:25 PM >Apple offers .Mac Address Book Syncing [The Macintosh News Network] .< 10:25:16 PM >Use search on Safari's bookmarks folder [Mac OS X Hints] Very cool. It took me a minute to dig it out but have a look at Rob's second point. Click on the bookmarks icon. Click on History. Command-F. Do a keyword search on your history file. Wow. .< 2:43:47 AM >Worm Hits Microsoft, Which Ignored Own Advice. Among the companies that found its computer system under attack by a rogue program was Microsoft, which has been preaching the gospel of secure computing. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] .< 2:42:12 AM >Hot OSXFAQ Topic. Palm and iSync Troubleshooting [OSXFAQ] .< 2:38:11 AM >Man sacked for blogging. Blogger [The Register] .< 2:35:16 AM >100 poets enlisted in protest against war Montreal-born Todd Swift has organized an e-mail demonstration of antiwar verse By GAYLE MACDONALD FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 2:22:09 AM >Bush: new al-Qaida link to Iraq. US to rally support by releasing files. [Guardian Unlimited] Colour me skeptical. The 'evidence' will be extremely sketchy. .< 2:19:42 AM >Palestinians sinking into 'extreme poverty'. Most Palestinians are living in extreme poverty with Israel's military occupation blamed chiefly for the crisis, an aid charity says. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 2:17:13 AM >U.S. president pledges $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa U.S. President George W. Bush says he wants to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa and the Caribbean. [CBC News] .< 2:15:43 AM >War games. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix's nuanced report won't resolve the diplomatic impasse between the U.S. and its European allies. But Bush seems ready to invade anyway. [Salon.com] .< 1:39:38 AM >Apple has reposted a Power Mac G4 4.4.8 firmware update for the "wind-tunnel" (MDD) models, but it is not clear whether there have been any changes since the last time it was posted. The update is supposed to resolve fan control and noise problems [Macintouch] I heard one of these suckers in a friend's office at McGill a couple of weeks ago. They make an incredible noise. And they are pushing them as an audio platform?! .< 1:37:55 AM >HyperSpell 1.0b2 gives quick access to the Mac OS X spelling checker through the menu bar. It opens a text field and checks the spelling of any word or words you enter. The new version offers a larger text area, automatically copies the clipboard contents into the text area, and makes other changes. HyperSpell is free for Mac OS X 10.2 [Macintouch] .< 1:35:19 AM >Hybrid Cars Are Catching On. Toyota and Honda are already selling tens of thousands of hybrids, and manufacturers seem ready for a much broader rollout. By Danny Hakim. [New York Times: Technology] Bye bye big oil. Well, I can dream. But it seems to me the true cost of oil is much too high. War. Spills in the oceans. .< 1:32:05 AM >Notes on new Power Mac G4s [The Macintosh News Network] .< 1:29:59 AM >Now it's getting complicated I was deep in some testing when I realized what I had on the screen. I took a step back, cleaned up a little and took a screen shot. X11, Windows XP, Windows 2000, MacOS X plus a couple of other Linux and MacOS X machine logged in terminal windows. No wonder I get lost from time to time. ";->" [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Oh my! Check out the screen shot. Try that on your Wintel box! .< 1:27:11 AM >Posting election results early lands man in court Paul Bryan is going to court Tuesday to defend himself for posting results of the 2000 federal election on the Internet before he was supposed to. [CBC News] .< 1:26:49 AM >Apple Introduces 20-inch Cinema Display (28-Jan-2003; 1K) [TidBITS] .< 1:25:59 AM >New Power Macs Add FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme (28-Jan-2003; 1.6K) [TidBITS] .< 12:16:48 AM >MS struggles to contain the Slammer worm [The Register] .< 12:09:02 AM >Read the FreeBSD handbook for OS X UNIX info [Mac OS X Hints] |
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