One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 28 October 2003

.< 7:17:17 PM >
CBC RSS = Confusion? (from Reinvented Inc.)
'It would seem to me that if I was the CBC, I would want my work product spread as far and wide as possible. They're a public service, after all, with a primary goal being something along the lines of "the greater good of all mankind."

So if there was ever a technology that lent itself to eager and quick adoption by the CBC, you would think it would be the web syndication facilities offered by technologies like RSS.'

Yup!

< 5:49:37 PM >

I hadn't been able to see any help files since upgrading to Panther. This indeed was the culprit. Apparently a FMP ODBC help file.

< 5:22:00 PM >

First Two Take Control Ebooks Take Off! (27-Oct-2003; 6.9K) [TidBITS] 'sales of our first two Take Control ebooks have still utterly exceeded our initial expectations, with nearly 3,000 copies sold so far.'

Very cool. Publishing for 'events' with super useful just in time information and keeping the price very low. Glimpses of the future.

< 5:13:20 PM >

Introduction

This hint describes a method for generating automatic and rotating local snapshots of a file system with remote copies on UNIX systems using cp (or cpio), rsync, ssh and cron. It is intended for servers, but wor... [macosxhints]

< 5:09:49 PM >

Eight months after Apple announced its smallest and largest PowerBook G4s -- the 12-inch and 17-inch PowerBook G4s, in aluminum, not Titanium -- Apple released the laptop many professional Mac users had been waiting for -- the aluminum 15-inch PowerBook G4. With its slick performance, bright screen, and support for USB 2.0, FireWire 800, AirPort Extreme, and Bluetooth, this laptop was worth the wait. But people who've received PowerBooks with loose latches or video problems may wish that Apple had taken a bit more time to iron out kinks. [MacCentral]

< 5:05:46 PM >

Audio Hijack developer Rogue Amoeba LLC is using this week's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. to debut Nicecast, a new Mac OS X application that enables users of Mac OS X-based audio players to "broadcast" their own Internet radio station. [MacCentral]

< 4:59:03 PM >

Según AppleInsider, se planea un lanzamiento de una nueva versión del paquete de software iLife, el cual incluye iDVD, iMovie, iTunes y iPhoto. Las actualizaciones serían en especial al iPhoto y al iTunes. [NoticiasMac]

Nice.

< 4:48:17 PM >

A virus dubbed Sober which affects many versions of Windows is starting to spread more widely online. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'The virus emerged at the weekend and is multiplying because so many versions of Windows are vulnerable.'

< 4:43:24 PM >

Business: Sony bids to stem a slide in profits. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Sony has been hit by cheaper rivals such as Samsung of South Korea and Dell of the US which have eroded success in audio equipment, computers, TVs and other gadgets. Sony has also fallen behind domestic rivals such as Sharp in liquid crystal display TVs, which are growing in popularity around the world, as well as Matsushita, which makes the Panasonic brand in DVD recorders.'

< 4:42:52 PM >

Updated: 300 PM EST TUE OCT 28 2003

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