One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 10 February 2004

.< 11:57:37 PM >
Microsoft Warns of Widespread Windows Flaw

The software giant today released a fix for a vulnerability that affects almost every Windows computer. [New York Times: Technology]

< 11:54:57 PM >

Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird), the browser-only version of the Mozilla open source project, adds a new download manager, improved bookmark handling, and more. [MacInTouch]

< 11:48:16 PM >

Backing up your hard disc is the job nobody wants to do -- and even more so, no one wants to spend a lot of money doing it. Fortunately, Apple gives you everything you need in Mac OS X. You just have to pull it together. Peter Hickman shows you how. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

< 11:46:48 PM >

Terratec Electronics showcased its Aureon 7.1 FireWire Sound System for Mac and PC at last month's NAMM Show. The TerraTec Aureon 7.1 FireWire card is an external 7.1 surround sound system for home musicians and home theater owners who want the full impact of DVD movies with surround sound. [ProSound News]

< 11:45:07 PM >

How an Andover-Yale preppy, scion of one of our nation's most powerful families, was reinvented as a straight-shootin' Texan with "regular guy" values. An excerpt from "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You." [Salon]

< 11:42:46 PM >

[Daypop Top 40] '1. "God is on our side" George W Bush thinks so, as do Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden and an alarmingly high percentage of other important figures in today's world.'

< 10:58:05 PM >

Niki, as he was called by everyone who knew him longer than 10 minutes, died in Toronto on Sunday night, just three months after the last of his almost innumerable music festivals. He was 95.

This quote is funny because last night mom told me her reaction to Goldschmidt's death was 'What? He can't die!' We saw him at a COC performance this fall and he was the life force he is always described as being.

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< 5:13:37 PM >

EE Times: Wireless options increase for home audio, video delivery. Companies offering various distribution alternatives are all jockeying for position in a wirelessly networked environment where multiple channels of streaming high-definition TV, delivered at rates of up to 20 Mbits/second, will converge and compete for bandwidth with lower-rate voice telephony, MP3 audio and data access. [Tomalak's Realm]

< 4:19:12 PM >

Safari 1.2 finally adds support for full keyboard navigation, which allows to Option-Tab (by default) between links and tab between all form elements. You might notice, however, that unless you have "Full keyboard access... [macosxhints]

< 4:15:20 PM >

If Mail.app can't connect to your POP3-server(s) for some reason (ie you don't have an internet connection), it puts the account(s) off-line and shows this by displaying the tilde (lightning?) graphic next to the accont name ... [macosxhints]

< 4:12:47 PM >

Not sure if this works in previous versions, but one of my biggest complaints with iCal in Month View was the hoops you had to jump through to set the time given that it was easy to enter a new item (Control-click on date) an... [macosxhints]

< 4:12:02 PM >

This was something I was missing from IE. If you put a file URL in the location bar and hit option-return, it will download the file to your specified Downloads folder. No fuss, no muss. [macosxhints]

< 9:40:05 AM >

Claude Ryan remembered for his 'unshakeable faith' in Canada
Claude Ryan, the former Quebec Liberal leader who led the federalist fight in the first sovereignty vote, died Monday from cancer. He was 79. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 12:27:36 AM >

Genex Audio recently supplied a pair of GX9000 8-track multiformat digital system to Ray Kimber to make a series of audiophile recordings using Kimber’s proprietary IsoMike, a multi-mic array with acoustic baffles. Recordings made with the new four-mic/four-baffle IsoMike array were captured in Direct Stream Digital/DSD mode to four tracks on the Genex GX9000. Sessions at Weber State University, Ogden, UT, featured the 20-member WSU Chamber Choir, faculty, students and guests in several musical settings. [ProSound News]

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< 12:17:42 AM >

MTS Inc., the parent of high-profile entertainment retailer Tower Records, plans to file soon for bankruptcy protection. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

< 12:03:05 AM >

“Launched just over two weeks ago, the software has already spawned a sizable ecosystem of plug-ins, add-ons and websites for sharing tunes. And it has inspired a frenzy of musical creativity,” writes Leander Kahney for Wired magazine. “Dubbed a ‘studio in a box,’ GarageBand is the digital equivalent of a four-track tape recorder, plus all the instruments and musicians a budding Moby might need.” [Feb 9] [Apple Hot News]