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• Live From The Top Of The World Via PowerBook And iBook
Canadian Inuit filmmaker Mary Kunuk's Website http://www.nunatinnit.net offers the chance to share with others the lives and stories of her parents, Vivi and Enuki Kunuk, who have spent much of their lives living off the land as their ancestors did from a remote hunting camp on Baffin Island in Canada's Arctic. The National Post's Andrew Flynn reports that:
"On traditional Inuit caribou hunting grounds in the far north, Tasiujaq is about as remote as you can get. But this month, the ancient outpost camp is a part of the wired world; from a dome tent pegged down on the tundra, the Kunuks and their guests are connected by satellite to the world over the Net."
Ms. Kunuk is using an Inmarsat-M4 satellite telephone, 64kps ISDN Internet connection. Digital video camera, mini-disc recorder, a digital still camera, two Macintosh G3 Powerbooks for audio and video production, an iBook available to participants for creative texts and journal writing, a CD burner, and a Pentium II laptop for data transfer. You can read about it here.
The Register's Linda Harrison reports that last week the Australian charity PCs for Kids charity stepped up its campaign to use Microsoft software for free. However, some folks apparently agree with me that the smart thing to do would be to chuck Windows and adopt the Mac OS and/or Linux for the charity program. Reg. reader Sam Reid reports that Kylie Davies has created a similar charity also based in Melbourne called Computerbank (http://www.computerbank.org.au/) that takes old PCs from higher-end 486s and upwards, refurbishes them and installs Debian Linux.
"These machines are then distributed to all manner of needy and disadvantaged individuals and groups. Recipients include community groups, nursing homes, and people with physical disabilities. Recently a large number of Computerbank machines were shipped to East Timor to aid in the reconstruction of essential services after the violent struggle for independence there...
"Linux hard to use? Tell that to the octagenerians surfing the web and sending each other emails with Mozilla in the nursing home." Forget about Windoze, folks, and get a real operating system. You can check it out at:
The Financial Post's Robert Thompson reports that Hewlett-Packard Co. has announced it will use the Linux OS in everything from cell phones to stereos.
"HP said it would develop new security software for Linux, as well as HP Chai-LX, a program to to develop Linux applications for small consumer devices like stereos and cell phones."
HP will not be dropping its support for Microsoft's Windows, and a spokesman said the company will pursue "a multi-OS strategy." For the full story, visit:
The Register's Tony Smith reports that the next generation of Motorola's PowerPC processor, codenamed G5, will be officially known as the 8500 and not the 7500, as originally planned. Smith's article includes some notes about the G5's architecture, and says that clock speeds will be in the range of 800MHz - 2GHz+ You can read about it at:
AisaBizTech reports that Fujitsu Laboratory Ltd. has developed a new magneto recording technology that realizes a hard disk drive recording density of 100Gb per square inch, or about 2.5cm by 2.5cm. This will enable a 2.5-inch HDD in a notebook PC to have capacity of about 110GB. According to the firm, it has accomplished the "highest recording density in the world" through the technology. Fujitsu Ltd. plans to adopt it in its HDDs to be marketed in the latter half of 2001. For more information, visit:
In his commentary "No New hardware in Paris? For Apple's Sake I Hope Not," Applelust's Dave Schultz says that "Steve better not release new hardware in Paris, not after what he said anyway." For more, visit:
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