One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 23 February 2004

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A Security Primer for Mac OS X

A hands-on overview of the security tools built into your Mac OS X computer, including recommendations for best practices to protect your data and identity in an otherwise dangerous world. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com] 'In this article, I'll take a hands-on approach to what I call "security through common sense," the basic security steps that every single Mac user should take.'

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In the first article in this series, Alan Graham provided you with an overview of a home automation system. In this installment, he digs deeper into the hardware and gives some tips based on his experiences. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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Quebec City, Canada-based BUG.tv (Broadcast Unifying Gears Inc.) on Monday announced the CLASS-1. It's a video server that uses Apple's Xserve G5. BUG.tv said that CLASS-1 can be used to play Final Cut Pro projects directly on-air without resorting to file format conversion. [MacCentral]

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“In my computing life,” writes David Coursey for ZDNet AnchorDesk, “there’s one constant: The Macs don’t crash and the Windows machines do… The nice thing about Mac OS X is that it’s darn near uncrashable. No matter what programs I install or uninstall or how I use it, OS X just runs.” [Feb 23] [Apple Hot News]

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This article contains information about Security Update 2004-02-23 for Panther Client and a link to the software download. [Apple Computer Knowledge Base Changes for 2004-01-30]

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Alex King has released Tasks Pro 1.0, his web-based task manager. From the screenshots it looks pretty cool. It even generates RSS feeds! [Ranchero.com]

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Network World Inc., an International Data Group (IDG) company, announced their fifth annual Network World Best of the Tests Awards on Monday. The 2003 awards went to 14 enterprise network products, including Apple's iSight Web cam and iChat AV conferencing software, which won the Cool Tools category. [MacCentral]

It's certainly the coolest technology I've used in a long time.

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Coolio!

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Euroresidentes: "RSS es un formato para la sindicacion de contenidos de paginas web." [Scripting News]

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A scathing report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on the misuse of science and scientific process by the Bush Administration for political purposes has capped probably the most dismal six weeks for the presidency of George W. Bush. The report has won endorsements from many luminaries, and it provides a chilling insight into how the Truimph of The Bush Political Philosophy has put into danger the lives of the public, and that of the planet itself. In other words, President Bush and his Administration may itself be the ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction. The report opens with a quote that describes the vision of the current president's father, and ends with damning evidence of the son's misdeeds by the standards set by his own father. This is probably not surprising as GWB has tried to do almost everything differently from his father, the 41st and one-term President of the United States. In its conclusion the report seeks to strongly reprimand the president himself asking him to change course dramatically and immediately, chastises the almost pliant Congress, exhorts the Scientists to speak up, and asks for help from the public. [Kuro5hin.org]