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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
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Minolta DiMAGE A1 review: "Our full in-depth review of Minolta's DiMAGE A1 digital camera. The A1 is the sucessor to the popular DiMAGE 7 series, it is Minolta's new flagship prosumer digital camera and carries one of the widest range of features of any digital camera on the market. The DiMAGE A1's vital specs are a wide angle seven times optical zoom lens, a five megapixel CCD sensor, Anti-Shake image stabilization, a metal body, tilting LCD monitor, tilting EVF, Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery..." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Mac OS X 10.3 - the definitive Panther review: "Ars Technica's Apple Technology Expert John Siracusa is back with one of his trademarked reviews, this time covering Panther." [Ars Technica] Good work by Ars Techica! I disagree with some of the observations, but this is in any case one of the best software reviews I have ever read.
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20th Anniversary Of Computer Viruses Commemorated: "Our good friends at the BBC are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the computer virus. So, viruses are no longer teenagers and are now entering adulthood, as 'there are almost 60,000 viruses in existence and they have gone from being a nuisance to a permanent menace.' What wonders shall there be to come, as these marvelous bits of code continue to grow and multiply?" [Slashdot]
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Infinitely expressive smileys: 
"This highly tweakable smiley-generator is part of a computational semiotics project to refine the expressivity of machine-mediated communications." [Boing Boing Blog]
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Mac OS X v10.3.1 Improves FileVault, FireWire 800, More: "The 10.3.1 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: FileVault, Printing, WebDav, and FireWire 800 drives. This update also includes the latest Security Updates." (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Rendezvous Picture Transfer With Panther: "There are many clever features in Mac OS X 10.3 that don't appear on the cover of Apple's Panther page. One of my favorites is the new Image Capture application that enables you to network images directly from your digital camera to others who can view them with a Rendezvous-enabled browser." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Europe Exceeds U.S. in Refining Grid Computing: "Grids lash individual computers together, tapping their unused power to tackle complex computing chores beyond the scope of isolated processors. They are being called upon by scientists and corporations for a variety of applications, including building low cost supercomputers and creating work groups that can span cities or even the globe. [...] While the United States is beginning to respond to a report in February from the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure urging coordinated investment in grid technologies, the European Union is preparing to start two major initiatives in early 2004." [via ACM News]
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