Universal Rule

Book Reviews

Monday, May 5, 2003

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Apple's iTunes Music Store: the Review: "After reading Jade's review, I've renewed my resolve not to try the new service. In fact, I won't even visit the site. This isn't because I hate it, but because my credit card is already strained to the breaking point. I've done enough damage this semester with Amazon and one-click shopping; I don't need another online impulse buy addiction. But maybe I'll just browse the catalog a bit..." [Ars Technica]

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Not The Same Old Song: "Amazon was caught sleeping, and now it's Steve Jobs who's running the coolest store on the Internet." (Newsweek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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iTunes: Easier Than Stealing?: "Maybe it's not just a Trojan Horse into the Wintel world, but one into the the music industry itself. No wonder Apple didn't buy Universal; why buy the cow when you can steal its calves?" (The Tech via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Windows Doesn't Live Here Anymore: "My wife chides me for carrying a PowerBook everywhere I go. My editors are sick of seeing mention of the Mac in almost all of my columns. My 18-month-old son walks around the house babbling Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple." (InfoWorld via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Backing up with rsync and ssh: "Mike Bombich has written a fine tutorial on remote administration/backup of OS X using rsync and ssh. The same principles can be applied to Windows and Linux as well." [dive into mark]

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See Internet Explorer crash: "It only takes this code:

<html> <form> <input type crash> </form> </html>

[...] To make this a fair game, this invalid code will crash Mozilla: [...]" [Mark Pigrim > vowe dot net]

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Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy: "Some of the world's biggest record companies, facing rampant online piracy, are quietly financing the development and testing of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to industry executives." [Tomalak's Realm]