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Panther Not Huge Improvement, But Faster And Loaded With Small Enhancements - Salkever Panther Not Huge Improvement, But Faster And Loaded With Small Enhancements - Salkever BusinessWeek's Alex Salkever says:
"To say Panther is perfect would be disingenuous. I've already read plenty of complaints. I myself had some strange application crashes immediately after converting. And a friend had to hard-reboot his system after Panther crashed and as a result had to rebuild some data on his desktop. In general, though, it seems Panther is more stable, faster, and more fun than Jaguar." For the full review, visit here. Can Panther Fit Into A Windows-Dominated World? The Independent's Charles Arthur comments:
"...Panther comes over like a whole new operating system - which in many ways it is. Much of the interface has been refined, and revised, including new ways of working such as "Exposé", which moves all the windows open on your screen into non-overlapping tiles, so you can move between applications in a moment.
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Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List Already? OSNews' Eugenia Loli-Queru says:
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's supercomputer running 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s and announced last month already is attracting the attention of other academic institutions and offers to build commercial clones, said the project's director in an interview with eWEEK.com during the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference here.
A big part of the attraction is the supercomputer's ability to reach levels of performance that place it among the fastest clusters in the world at a relatively inexpensive cost of about $5 million, said Srinidhi Varadarajan, director of the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va."
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"Such solar storms have the potential for knocking out communications and power grids on Earth, and can be harmful to orbiting satellites and astronauts....
"NOAA classifies geomagnetic storms on a scale from 1 to 5. Initial indications show that this has the potential to be a G5 storm - the top of the scale. The most benign effect of such a storm would be bright auroras visible from more southern latitudes than usual. However, the geomagnetic storm triggered by the CME also could interfere with satellite communications; disrupt power grids (as occurred in the 1989 Quebec blackout); even short out orbiting satellites, rendering them permanently inoperable." According to a report in the National Post:
"Similar solar events in recent years have disrupted television transmissions, GPS navigation, oil pipeline controls and even the flow of electricity along power lines...
"Sunspots and solar storms tend to occur in 11-year cycles; the current cycle peaked in late 2000." More solar storm info:
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Watchster Debuts With Headline News Coverage of Over 100 Top News Sites Watchster officially debuts this week with coverage of over 100 well-respected Mac, PDA, and Tech news sites. Watchster is a news compilation site that dredges the web four times per hour for the latest news, and presents the headlines in an easy-to-read and fully customizable listing. Sites that are not of interest to the reader can be disabled, and coverage dates can be selected from popup menus at the top of the page so each user can customize the site exactly to their liking. The easy-to-navigate tabbed interface lets the user select from Mac news, PDA (Palm OS, PocketPC, Wireless, etc) news, and Tech news. The Mac section offers comprehensive coverage from virtually every major Mac news source, subdivided into categories for convenient access. A single site's news can be listed by simply selecting the site from the side navigation bar, where sites can also be easily disabled from the main listing. Watchster is designed to be your first source for Mac, PDA, and Tech news, and your launching point for your daily surfing routine. Each headline is linked directly to the full story on the source site - opened in a new window so readers can easily and quickly catch up on the latest news.
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Mac Xperience's Dave Zeilercomments: With Panther, Apple has delivered yet another impressive upgrade to Mac OS X. Mac Night Owl: The Panther Report: A Memo to Mac OS 9 Holdouts Just a personal letter. Here's the URL for today's commentary: http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#holdouts Survey: I Plan To Buy Legal Music Through: Anyone wondering which paid music standard has captured the attention of the online technology community, need look no further than a recent survey posted on osViews.com. The site asked its readers which paid music service they plan on using. A list of all the popular (and not so popular) options are there along with an option to choose the tried and true "rip mix and burn", go the illegal route and pirate your music, or you can sound off and choose the option which says that your favorite OS is not compatible with the DRM that is being used. Here's your chance to cast your vote and let your voice be heard. For more information visit here. First-Ever Comparative Analysis of Internet Access and Use Reveals Growing "Digital Divide" The AMD Global Consumer Advisory Board (GCAB) has released a new study, entitled Charting and Bridging Digital Divides. The study is the first of its kind to compare and synthesize research about the digital divide -- the gap between those who can access and use information and communications technologies and those who can't -- in eight countries conducted over the past ten years. The study's main finding is that while the digital divide is narrowing in the U.S. and in other countries, specific aspects of the digital divide are widening or are stalled in many countries. Specifically, there are "gender divides" in Germany and Italy, and there is a substantial "age divide" in South Korea. And while many consider the U.S. a global technology leader, it significantly lags behind other developed countries in several important aspects of Internet access and use. For example, Japan leads the world in mobile Internet access and South Korea dominates in broadband connections. The study also suggests that the digital divide is shaped by social factors as much as technological factors. Furthermore, access to the Internet doesn't mean informed use of the Internet. "For companies that are increasingly focused on global emerging markets, understanding socio-economic factors impacting technology adoption in the various regions is absolutely crucial," said Patrick Moorhead, chairman of the GCAB and vice president of corporate marketing at AMD. "Bridging the digital divide requires more than simply offering computers and Internet access. Technological fixes won't close the divide unless they take into account the social reasons why people aren't online." "While this issue is not easily quantifiable, studies such as this one are important first steps in understanding the magnitude of the global digital divide," said Bill Archey, president and CEO of the AeA -- formerly the American Electronics Association. "The better we understand the problem, the better we can lobby for policies and programs that reach more under-served people around the world." Perhaps indicative of the complexity of the digital divide, another of the study's main discoveries is that there is no single, global standard for measuring Internet usage and growth. "While there have been many analyses of the digital divide in individual countries, no study has compared and synthesized those analyses until now," said Ken McEldowney, chairperson of the GCAB's socio-economic committee and executive director at Consumer Action. "By taking a comparative approach, we have been able to gauge the complex state of the digital divide more holistically. Unfortunately, we found that in some countries, the digital divide is not narrowing as some have suggested, and that more and more people are finding themselves on the wrong side of the divide." The GCAB compiled the study to better understand how to extend the reach of information and communications technologies to more people around the world. The study examines research from government agencies, academic institutions and international policy organizations about Internet access and use in China, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States. Written by sociologist Wenhong Chen and GCAB member Professor Barry Wellman, both with the Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto, Charting and Bridging Digital Divides presents a framework for understanding the digital divide in terms of factors such as socio-economic status, gender, age, ethnicity, geographic location and Internet access and use. Utilizing this framework, the study found that there is no single digital divide -- there are multiple digital divides based on these factors. For example, in some developed countries, such as the U.S., the U.K. and Japan, the gender divide is narrowing as high percentages of women have come to the Internet. However, women are still under-represented in China, Germany, Italy, Korea and Mexico. "The various digital divides are affected by characteristics of a country, such as its developmental level, as well as by characteristics of an individual, such as his or her socio-economic status, age and gender," said Barry Wellman, GCAB member and sociology professor at the University of Toronto. "Therefore, the multiple divides vary markedly between countries, communities and individuals." The study also found that, in general, while the digital divide is narrowing in developed countries, the divide is widening in some developing countries -- even though more under-served people are going online. This is because as under-served populations such as the poor or women go online more, they're still going online more slowly than those traditionally better connected, such as the more affluent or men. "The distribution of Internet users is extremely uneven around the world. Not all people are experiencing the benefits of the Internet, such as access to friends, jobs and information," said Wellman. "We found that although the Internet's reach has grown exponentially in about the last ten years, increasing from just under a million users in 1993 to more than 600 million in 2002, only about 10 percent of the world's population is online. Additionally, almost 90 percent of the world's Internet users are from what are considered to be developed countries, with nearly a third of those users from the United States." The study concludes that the uneven diffusion and use of the Internet are shaped by -- and are shaping -- social inequalities. While the digital divide occurs at the intersection of international and intra-national social, technological and linguistic differences, it also has profound impacts on the reproduction of social inequality.
The AMD GCAB invites the public to review the complete findings of Charting and Bridging Digital Divides, which can be found on
PC Mag: Online Music Stores: Music to Your Ears?
Instead, as Apple iTunes Music Store for the Mac showed, users wanted to download as much or as little as they liked and pay only for what they bought. Now that the winning formula has been hit upon, it's rapidly being improved."
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Apple Posts Knowledge Base: Recent Changes (Mostly Panther) Dozens of new Apple Knowledge Base articles have been released over the past week. You can find a convenient summary here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75185 SCO Claims GPL "Unenforceable, Unconstitutional And Void" The Register's Andrew Orlowski reports that:
"The document is a response to IBM's Amended Counter Claims; IBM is counter-suing the SCO Group, claiming that it violates the terms of the GPL. SCO's response, filed on Friday, argues that the case be dismissed with costs awarded against IBM, and makes twenty six counter-counter-claims....
"And to top it off, indulging in software libre is an un-American activity:
"'The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws, and IBM’s claims based thereon, or related thereto, are barred.'"
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PC Mag: Samsung Napster YP-910GS Review
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or call 888-335-9632. Rob Enderle Zealot MicroEvangelist, Here is Eric S Raymond's Confession Editorial contributor "zeekpaks" uses his osViews' "fifteen minutes of fame" to respond to the rash of Rob Enderle "Linux Zealot/Terrorist" FUD articles that have proliferated throughout the Internet, and then also speaks to SCO about its so called "Denial of Service evidence" against Eric S Raymond. For the full report, visit here.
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