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Book Reviews

Thursday, February 6, 2003

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News on IBM's Power5 Chip: "There's some news out today on IBM's Power5, which should make an appearance next year. Interestingly, from the sound of this article, they've put a lot of work into power consumption on this processor so that it can go in anything from blades to big iron. This may preclude the need for a specialized low-heat/power version, such as the 970, for anything other than laptops. Oh, yeah, and they hope to use it to wipe Itanium off the map." [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

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Inessential.com writes about configuring various weblogs: "New NetNewsWire pages: how to configure NetNewsWire so you can post to Blogger, Blosxom, Conversant, and Drupal weblogs."

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Apple's Cozy Niche: "Over the years Jobs has often likened Apple to BMW or Mercedes-Benz, saying that catering to a smaller customer base willing to pay more for the Mac's tangible advantages is a valid strategy. There always will be those who see the computer as Jobs does. Apple's task is to make more such people aware of the Mac alternative." (Baltimore Sun via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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A Bioinformatics Web Service With Mac OS X: "Using Objective-C and Mac OS X's core web services to construct an OmniGene analysis engine client." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Safari, So Good: Browser And Bluetooth Boost OS X: "Safari cures the biggest drawback to OS X which we noted in our Jagwyre review: the utterly miserable browsing experience." (The Register via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Enabling IPv6 on Mac OS X: "Mac OS X has built-in support for IPv6, the next generation internet protocol. Aaron Swartz has posted a short article telling how to enable it. Unfortunately it won't work with most routers & firewalls, including my Airport base station since they won't pass IPv6 packets." [MacMegasite]

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Worm did dirty work at record-fast pace: "Slammer was the fastest computer worm ever, researchers say, spreading to more than 67000 computers around the world in 10 minutes on Jan. 25, closing bank machines, delaying flights and slowing Internet traffic." [Google Technology News]

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John Robb writes about a way to view your Radio weblog on your desktop: "Use this link [http://127.0.0.1:5335/index] only with Radio running. This can allow you to do two things: 1) provides you a preview of your weblog if you are publishing while disconnected (ie. a laptop on an airplane), and 2) allows you to use Radio as a personal journalling tool that is never published (this is a great way to create a extremely private back up brain of time organized notes)."