One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Sunday, 25 May 2003

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CBC News: Toronto bans lawn chemicals 'The bylaw won't be fully implemented until September 2005 - a year later than originally planned - when $250 fines will be levied for ignoring the ban. Beginning next year, people will receive warnings.

Only organic methods would be allowed to fight the dandelions and other weeds.'

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CBC News: 500 quarantined in latest SARS scare

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The Seattle Times: Practical Mac: New Ethernet offers quick trip to the Web 'You might never send tens or hundreds of megabytes on your home network, but people working with digital media routinely send gigabytes of files across a network. Apple Computer is ahead of the pack in pushing two faster networking ideas: gigabit Ethernet and FireWire as a networking medium.

[...] Apple's other alternative lets you hitch computers together through their FireWire ports using IP-over-FireWire, a free software package it hasn't released widely.

Although the FireWire ports ? which run at 400 Mbps and, on newer machines, 800 Mbps ? typically are used for peripherals like hard drives or scanners, installing this package allows you to network computers by daisy-chaining up to 64 of them into a single pool of bandwidth.'

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Why America needs the world

From the U.N.-led battle against SARS to the French-German-U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, global realities cry out for cooperation. [Salon]