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Wednesday, June 05, 2002

Disney's wants Tron's master control program. Gordon Mohr sez: "Has anyone else commented yet on the eerie similarity between Disney's proposed controls on all media devices, and the agenda of the evil Master Control Program (MCP) in Disney's 1982 movie Tron? If not, then let me be the first, in my OreillyNet weblog entry." Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 1:23:03 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Oh yeah. Here's a wizzy text editor in Flash. Bing. Thanks to Jon Udell for the link. (For Radio/Mac users, this could be the way we get a wizzy editor in MSIE/Mac.)  [Scripting News] 12:13:09 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Blogging for credit. UC Berkeley is offering a for-credit course in blogging, taught by (of course) experienced journalists: John Battelle (late of Wired and the Industry Standard) and Paul Grabowicz (director of the New Media Program). A quick Googling reveals that both participate in a group-blog, which is good news. Also interesting is that the class-blog will concentrate on intellectual property issues -- nice! Wonder if they're looking for a guest lecturer? They've sure got their pick of textbooks coming out in the next couple months. Link Discuss (Thanks, Sumana!) [Boing Boing Blog] 11:43:20 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Smallscript for .Net to be ready in late July. 9:47:33 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

The secret ingredient is no longer beef. The secret ingredient is now a mixture of love and fear of the courts.. McDonald's will pay out #6.85MM to vegetarian and Hindu groups by failing to report on the beef tallow used to flavor their french-fries. More suits are pending. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 9:24:30 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

WiFi for $35. 802.11b cards for $35 after rebate. The chipset costs about $22 wholesale; how much lower can the prices go? I'm waiting for the day when wireless cards are sold in blisterpacks of five and ten at the lcoal WalMart. Link Discuss (via Oblomovka) [Boing Boing Blog] 9:00:54 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

$53 WiFi access points. Now that you've got your $35 wireless card, how about a $53 access-point to go with it? Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 8:59:58 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Grading the world's flags. Letter-grades assinged to the world's flags, by an utterly obsessive flag nut. The commentary ("Do not put a picture of a parrot on your flag! [This goes for you too, Guatamala!]") is wonderful! Link Discuss (Thanks, Derryl!) [Boing Boing Blog] 8:57:30 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

High school freshman invents product from used CDs. Mankato Loyola freshman Ryan Riebel dug into his bag and produced a granite countertop sample he had fashioned. [Twin Cities] 8:56:31 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Hollywood Has a Setback in Controls for Digital TV 8:36:09 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

OS X 10.1.5 arrives. This evening Apple has rolled out the anticipated free update to OS X 10.1.5, a 22.4 megabyte download and installation that offers the following fixes and enhancements, according to the information offered through the Software Update panel in System Preferences: Update 10.1.5 delivers enhancements which improve the reliability of Mac OS X applications, improved networking, security, support for PC Card serial communication devices as well as expanded peripheral device support. Specific improvements include: Peripheral Device Support - Expanded support for new Canon digital cameras. - Improved support for Nikon FireWire cameras. - Expanded support for SmartDisk, EZQuest and LaCie disc recording devices. - Improved support for MO drives. Application Improvements - Increased stability of Mail and Sherlock. - Emails are properly retained when rebuilding the Draft mailbox. - Support for 2D and QuickTime hardware acceleration for Rage Pro. - Updated Carbon applications can use Quartz anti-aliasing technology for high quality text display. Networking and Security - Improves networking via AFP when accessing multi-level directories on Windows NT file servers. - Significant improvement to file searching on local and remote volumes. - Includes a generic PC Card driver to support a variety of PC Card modems. - Mail accounts go offline to indicate that SSL encryption settings are not supported by mail server. - Includes the Security Update April 2002. WebDAV - More efficient iDisk mounting and file navigation. - Added support for connecting to iDisk using default DNS settings of AirPort. - Support for mounting a WebDAV volume from a non-standard http port. Asian Language - Significant updates to the Korean Input Method, especially important when using AppleWorks. - Internet Connect and AirPort applications updated with Chinese and Korean localized I have downloaded and installed the update and I see no problems so far. What are you seeing? Send me your comments by using the Comment link... [Mac Net Journal] 8:19:22 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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