Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Saturday, October 5, 2002

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OpenOffice/NeoOffice on Mac OS X: "Ed Peterlin of openoffice.org spoke about his experience porting OpenOffice to Mac OS X." [Daypop Top 40]


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Sony - worth more than the sum of its parts ?: "Sony is on a roll with its PlayStation 2 video games console, which last month surpassed the 40m mark, further widening the gap with its arch rivals, Microsoft and Nintendo." [Google Technology News]


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Q&A: The Bugbear e-mail virus: "The Bugbear virus has been rated as a high danger to computer users by anti-virus experts. BBC News Online explains how it works and what can be done to stop it." [Google Technology News]


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Apple's new tune: Portable music players: "Apple Computer for the first time is offering a product truly for "the rest of us" the 96 percent who use Windows personal computers rather than Apple's Macintosh and the debut is a stunner: the iPod portable music player." [Google Technology News]


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I added about a dozen new RSS feeds to my Radio subscriptions. This is rather easy in Radio, so perhaps some of those subscriptions will go after reading them for a while.

I browsed the RSS feeds of some of these new subscriptions, and noticed that quite a few were dissatisfied with the Radio software. Many have noticed that Radio behaves sometimes unpredictably, working strangely for a while and then coming back to normal. Some even had decided to move elsewhere, to Movable Type for example.

I haven't had too much trouble with Radio, but perhaps I will be a bit more careful with this software. It would be nice to access the weblog from other machines in addition to my iBook. On the other hand, having the whole collection of weblog posts locally on my machine is not so bad either. But now I have to do all the backups and maintenance by myself.


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LSU Supercomputer Is Super Cheap: "Built at a fraction of the usual price, Louisiana State University's new supercomputer is one of the world's largest. Officials hope the new machine will stimulate ongoing research, attract top faculty and boost economic development in the Bayou State. By Katie Dean." [Wired News]


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Cellular doom: "Doom has been ported to the Nokia 7650 handset!" [Boing Boing Blog]


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Mr Linux basks in the limelight. "The man behind Linux, Linus Torvalds, talks about being the poster boy for the anti-Microsoft campaign in an interview with the BBC." [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]


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Navel gazing wins Doctor Karl an Ig Nobel. "An Australian study on bellybutton lint, a dog-to-person translation device and an inquiry into what arouses ostriches have been recognised with Ig Nobel prizes for dubious contributions to science." [Google Technology News]


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Microsoft Discloses Security Flaws. "Microsoft has warned that a security flaw in the help tool of most versions of the Windows operating system could allow a hacker to take control of a user's PC." [Google Technology News]


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IBM offers portal software for small businesses: "IBM THURSDAY ANNOUNCED plans to launch a new version of its WebSphere portal software aimed squarely at small and medium-sized businesses." [Google Technology News]