One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 12 June 2003

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AudioUnits Update

Audio companies are spawning new developments for Mac OS X daily. An online search or visit to sites such as Harmony Central or OS X Audio reveals an amazing candy store of tasty new AudioUnits plugins. [Jun 12] [Apple Hot News]

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In a career that spanned half a century, Gregory Peck often played a morally anguished hero who displayed grace under fire. [New York Times: Arts]

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· Israel declares war on Hamas · Islamic resistance movement orders fighters to "blow up the Zionist entity" [Guardian Unlimited]

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Politics: Britain has signed secret agreements with the US over the Bush administration's missile defence project. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The project is being pushed by Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, who says it is needed to counter threats from "rogue states" such as North Korea.'

Argh. Boys and their toys. Wasn't this thing utterly discredited in the Reagan era?

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Net notes: As Swiss scientists reveal sticklebacks ejaculate more sperm after seeing images of flirting fish, read our web guide to piscine prurience. [Guardian Unlimited]

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News.Com: Is Ma Microsoft calling? That's just the tip of the iceberg: In a move that could shake up the telephony services market, Microsoft eventually plans to add support for video conferencing, cheap Internet voice calls, and complex message-management functions. [Tomalak's Realm]

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The PowerBook and iBook have been nominated in the Best Linux Hardware category of the UK LinuxUser & Developer Awards. They're competing against the SGI Altrix 3000 (a family of clusters and superclusters) and the Xinit Sharq SPS440 (an enterprise-class SCSI-based server). Winners will be named at the awards ceremony on June 24, which kicks off the LinuxUser & Developer Expo. The expo runs June 24-26 in Birmingham. [MacCentral]

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), the group responsible for setting standards in the networking industry, on Thursday approved the final specification for 802.11g, known to Mac users as AirPort Extreme. Despite recent controversy that the final spec would see a major speed reduction, very little has changed from January when Apple released its first 802.11g product. "As we indicated earlier, there have been no significant changes to the specification from the time we introduced our products," Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Hardware Product Marketing, told MacCentral in an interview today from the company's corporate headquarters. [MacCentral]

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The president's sudden, passionate intervention surprised everyone. But Israeli officials doubt he's in it for the long haul. [Salon]

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A wireless sonar system can map the seafloor thousands of feet below the surface, where divers and global positioning system equipment cannot go. [New York Times: Technology]

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Maurice Rosenthal, a French composer, was a student of Ravel and a vigorous champion of French composers from Offenbach to Messiaen. [New York Times: Arts]