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Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Fix for Matlab 6.5 on Mac OS X 10.2 -- Comment()
MathWorks has released a fix for making Matlab 6.5 run on Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). The bugs and enhancements fixed by this patch are:

License Manager errors for individual licenses that were caused by file ownership or dynamic hostname issues have been improved.
The problem caused by typing any characters along with the Option Key has been fixed.
The problem of the Simulink Simulation Diagnostics window not brought to the foreground when a block error was detected has been fixed.
If a License Manager error occurs, an error message window will now display.

See also a review of Matlab 6.5 on Mac OS X. I tried this fix on a system updated to 10.2 after the Matlab istallation, and Matlab started to work again. Finally!

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Apple-Linux merger powers 'Mac' switch: "Frustrated with crashes on his Apple Macintosh, book publisher and Web pioneer Tim O'Reilly used to call it the "Crapintosh." But since Apple issued its Unix-based OS X operating system last year, O'Reilly has been singing a different tune." [Google Technology News]

Fake MS Switcher captured -- Comment()
I made a screen capture of the Microsoft fake switch add (from the Google cache). As discussed on the web, the woman pictured on the page is a model, and the photo appears in a image library. And the fake "switcher" works in the Microsoft PR department. This is almost too strange to be true. (Dare I point to my contribution in this field: the iSwitch poem?)

Perhaps Microsoft should organize an MS Switcher competition?

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Mac Net Journal writes: "Microsoft says pulling ad was the right thing to do. MacNN: MS "regrets" Switch rebuttal."

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Mac Net Journal writes about Microsoft's fake switcher:

Dave Winer and others are doing a great job of following the story of Microsoft's fake switcher story that ran earlier today. MS posted a page about a woman who supposedly switched from the Mac to Windows XP, but it has since been discovered that the woman pictured on the page, which has since been removed from Microsoft's site, is a model and the photo appears in a image library. Check Scripting News for links to the ugly truth in all of its Microsoft goodness...
Links: Google's cache, and a thread about the fake switch on Slashdot.

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More on IBM's new PowerPC chip. IBM Promises Muscle for the Mac: "Big Blue announces a processor to power a new line of Macintosh computers. The chip is designed to put Macs neck-and-neck with Intel's Pentium line -- and even start new 'computing wars.' By Robert McMillan." [Wired News] [Mac Net Journal]

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Anonymous switcher. "Okay, now I'm really laughing my butt off. Microsoft tries to create a reverse switcher campaign, and falls flat on..." [Backup Brain]

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AppleStore sent yesterday an e-mail notification of shipping the iPod I ordered on Friday. Thus the mp3 player might arrive today or tomorrow. I really look forward to trying it out.

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OpenOffice For Mac OS X Public Beta Released: "OpenOffice.org today released the first X11 public beta of OpenOffice for Mac OS X, its open source suite of productivity applications." (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]