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eWeek: Could Apple Attract Enterprise Converts? eWeek: Could Apple Attract Enterprise Converts?
"Jaguar was the first time the Mac was seriously considered for enterprise deployment," said Philip Rinehart, a computer lab manager at Yale University. "Panther is the follow up to everything (enterprises) wanted with Jaguar.""
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eWeek: Apple Alerts Users of Issues With FireWire Storage
Posted on Apple's Web site, the "special message" said the company had identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives. It pointed to the Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.'s 922 bridge chipset with Version 1.02 firmware as the source of the problem. "In the interim, Apple recommends that you do not use these drives. To stop using the drive, you should unmount or eject the disk drive before doing anything else," the message stated."
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See OS X Odyssey 438 today for more info and links to dowloadable fix patches for some affected drives. Is Panther Worth The Upgrade Price? AnchorDesk's David Coursey comments:
"Which Is Not To Say Panther isn't a good operating system; it's actually a pretty great one. But the relative lack of memorable new features might give me pause before I laid down the $129 that Apple's demanding for the upgrade. (A family pack is $199 and licenses five computers--a deal Microsoft would be wise to offer its consumer customers.)...
"Overall, though, I think Panther is a worthy upgrade that solves some significant user headaches. If you use your Mac a bunch, the new Finder and Exposé are worth the price of admission." The Laptop Advance Continues - BusinessWeek BusinessWeek reports:
"People can go nuts over notebook computers, assigning them tasks that few thought possible a few years ago....
"Laptops, long the computer of choice for corporate road warriors, are becoming a mainstay just about everywhere people use computers. Each year, manufacturers stuff these machines with more features, yet somehow manage to trim their waistlines. Even the slimmest can do many tasks a 30-pound desktop machine can do, prompting computer aficionados to trade in their trusty PC towers and monitors..." Of course, I've been saying this for years.
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Find out why PC Mag gives the latest upgrade to the Mac OS a five-star rating.
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Mac Night Owl: Apple's Bad Hair Day Where's my data? Here's the URL for today's commentary: http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#day Mac OS X Refund Suit Gets Preliminary Approval CNET News.com's Ina Fried reports:
"Apple Computer had already reached a tentative agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed that the company had failed to fully support Mac OS X on some G3-based Macs. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge gave preliminary approval to the settlement at a hearing last month.
"Under the terms of the deal, owners of certain older Macs can get a refund if they return their copy of Mac OS X or, if they want to keep Mac OS X, they can obtain a coupon for $25 off of a $99 purchase at the Apple Store. Apple also agreed to pay $350,000 to King & Ferlauto, the law firm that brought the suit."
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The Register's Tony Smith reports:
"The new release, dubbed AirPort 3.2, only targets the company's 802.11g-based AirPort Extreme product range, not the earlier 802.11b implementation. The software includes a firmware upgrade for the AirPort Extreme access point and AirPort Extreme client code."
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For more information on the Airport updates and download links, see Shareware Beat today. Panther Safari Changes Revealed PC Pro's Simon Aughton says:
For the full report, visit here. Expert Tips for Sending Spiders Out on the Web O'Reilly Releases "Spidering Hacks" Many people will tell you that you can always tell a spider bite because it leaves two puncture wounds. Moreover, spiders are known to drink moisture from the lips of sleeping humans, and not all spiders are poisonous. In fact, all of these statements are false. Google the words "spider myths" and you'll find the Spider Myths Site, where spider expert Rod Crawford debunks these popular beliefs and many others. For example, you'll learn that while few spiders are poisonous (mushrooms are poisonous), most are venomous, but they seldom bite. If, however, your need to keep current on spider myths is so pressing that you want up-to-the-minute notifications of any additions to the site, you'll need to send out a spider of your own. To learn about this kind of spider, dive into "Spidering Hacks" (O'Reilly, US $24.95), written by spidering experts Kevin Hemenway and Tara Calishain. "Spidering Hacks" takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. "If you've ever had any desire to get a certain piece of information on a web page in a different way, like a stock quote though email or product prices compared amongst your favorite sites, then this book is going to give you techniques on how to do so," explains coauthor Hemenway." You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you." Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, "Spidering Hacks" provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. The book begins with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, readers will collect media files and data from databases. Then they'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into their own content. By the time they've finished the book readers will be able to:
-Aggregate and associate data from disparate locations, then store and manipulate the data as desired
"If you've ever been interested in pulling information off the Web, but you have limited experience with Perl scripts, this book will give you dozens of examples to play with, from the very useful to the downright weird," says coauthor Calishain. "Even more experienced Perl programmers will get some ideas from the many different sources and techniques in this book." Like the other books in O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, "Spidering Hacks" delivers 100 industrial-strength tips and tools from experts to help readers master this technology. If you're interested in data retrieval of any type, this book provides a wealth of data for finding a wealth of data.
Complete information about O'Reilly's new Hacks Series can be found at:
The article, "How to Become a Hacker," by Eric S. Raymond may be read in full at:
Several sample spidering hacks including "Downloading MP3s from a Playlist," "Checking Blogs for New Comments," and "Robot Karaoke" are available free online at:
For more information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, author bios, and samples, see:
Spidering Hacks
eWeek Breaking News: New Windows Worm on the Loose
"Antivirus experts are warning of a new mass-mailing worm infecting Windows machines that also is programmed to launch a denial-of-service attack against two domain names. The new pest is called Mimail.C, and it conforms to just about every convention of the mass-mailing virus rulebook.
The worm first appeared Friday morning and is spreading somewhat slowly at this point, although it has the potential to infect a large number of PCs, experts say. Mimail.C arrives via e-mail and has a subject line of: "Re[2]: our private photos." The sender's name is spoofed and often appears to come from the same domain as the recipient."
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Mac Night Owl: A Paragraph Worth of Monday Rants Just venting. Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#rants
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