One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 19 September 2003

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Drive standard to pump data on the double

A group working to improve the Serial ATA communication standard for hard drives promises a spec to up its data-transfer rate to 3Gbps by the end of the year. [CNET News.com]

< 11:06:41 PM >

Boom [The Register] 'But that's not the case everywhere. Of all the leading broadband nations, only the US and Canada have substantially more cable modems than DSL lines. And only in North America is cable broadband growing faster than DSL, at 18.2 per cent rather than 15.5 per cent.'

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Most U.S. banks plan to convert their ATMs to the Windows operating system by 2005. Will this move make bank customers vulnerable to malicious Internet attacks and the infamous blue screen of death? By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

< 12:30:23 AM >

The UN's former chief weapons inspector says the UK and US "over-interpreted intelligence" and used spin in their cases for war with Iraq. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 12:28:40 AM >

In neither Afghanistan nor Iraq does any exit for American troops appear feasible in the foreseeable future. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

< 12:27:33 AM >

Comment: Tim Predmore, currently serving with the 101st Airborne Division near Mosul, Northern Iraq, calls for the end of an occupation based on lies. [Guardian Unlimited]

< 12:27:03 AM >

The BBC is to be subjected to the most wide-ranging review of its role in its 80-year history. [Guardian Unlimited]

< 12:18:02 AM >

The digital audio workstation software adds improved system stability and performance when using both audio and MIDI I/O on Digi 001 and Digi 002/Digi 002 Rack systems, and more. [MacInTouch]

< 12:16:52 AM >

The Omni Group has released Export to iCal 1.0, a tool for exporting OmniOutliner tasks to the To Do item list of Apple's iCal calendaring application. If an outline also contains columns for due dates and priorities, that information will be transferred to iCal as well. [MacCentral]