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Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Second Edition Released
Apple Creates New iPod Division, Shuffles Execs
Apple's iPod Gets Its Own Product Development Team
Mac Night Owl: Could You Live with the End of the Mac?
Fragmentation in HFS Plus Volumes Tutorial
Minimo (Mini Mozilla) Project Profiled
Gene and Grayson Steinberg meet David Biedny, Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and Edgar Matias this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE
DEVONtechnologies HOLIDAY NOTE
Linux War Takes Ugly Turn
Buying Frenzy On For Free, Not Yet Ready Gmail
Mac Night Owl: Does Anything Other Than Corporate Greed Justify Upgrades?
Anti-spam Buy Enhances Symantec's Security Plan[/url]
Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Second Edition Released
The X Lab has published "Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Second Edition," a major update to their e-book dedicated to preventing or resolving common problems with Mac OS X.
The Second Edition covers both Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. The e-book format enables the reader to quickly find the solution to any of the numerous Mac OS X problems addressed in the nearly 500 pages of "Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Second Edition."
The book is extensively hyperlinked and cross-referenced, both within the book itself and to some of the best Mac OS X troubleshooting information on the Internet. Pricing begins at US$15.00 for a single-user license. Multi-user and Site licenses are also available.
For additional information, visit The X Lab:
http://www.thexlab.com
Apple Creates New iPod Division, Shuffles Execs
Reuters reports:
"Apple Computer Inc. has created a new division within the maker of the Macintosh computer to sell its popular iPod, the market leading digital music player, the company said on Wednesday.
"Jon Rubinstein, who has led the Cupertino, California-based company's hardware engineering efforts, will run the new division, an Apple spokesman said.
"Timothy Cook, head of Apple's worldwide sales and operations, will lead a newly organized Macintosh division, Apple said. Tim Bucher, now in charge of Macintosh system development, will head up the Mac's hardware engineering."
For the full report, visit here.
Apple's iPod Gets Its Own Product Development Team
IDG News Service's Tom Krazit reports:
"Apple Computer Inc. has created two product development teams organized around its most prominent products, the Macintosh computer and the iPod music player, a company spokesman confirmed Thursday.....
"The iPod has reinvigorated Apple and its bottom line in the past year. The company shipped more iPods in the first quarter than it did Macs, according to Apple's first-quarter results."
For the full report, visit here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/20/HNipoddevteam_1.html
Mac Night Owl: Could You Live with the End of the Mac?
No more Macs. Could it happen sooner than we expect?
Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#mac
Fragmentation in HFS Plus Volumes Tutorial
Amit Singh has posted a tutorial on the sometimes controversial topic of disk fragmentation.
"Fragmentation in filesystems has traditionally been an important factor affecting performance negatively. Modern filesystems are usually less prone to fragmentation than their ancestors. Numerous algorithms and schemes have been incorporated into filesystems to reduce fragmentation, and in some cases, even undo existing fragmentation. Nevertheless, fragmentation is still a cause for concern for those who design and implement filesystems, as well as for end users.
The purpose of this discussion is to:
• Introduce hfsdebug, a tool for exploring internals of HFS+ volumes.
• Describe a procedure for quantifying fragmentation in HFS+ volumes, and list the results of applying this procedure to a few volumes.....
"....HFS+ uses delayed allocation: rather than allocating blocks as a file is written in memory, the filesystem can reserve (or loan) blocks, delaying actual allocation until the buffer cache is flushed to disk. Thus, several small allocations can be combined into larger, possibly contiguous, allocations.
"While Apple does not provide a defragmentation tool, they introduced a few HFS+ optimizations in 'Panther', two of which play important roles in countering (even undoing) the fragmentation of files that are below a certain size, and are frequently accessed.....
"As we have seen, an HFS+ volume seems to resist fragmentation rather well on Mac OS X 10.3.x, and I don't envision fragmentation to be a problem bad enough to require proactive remedies (such as a defragmenting tool).
"Defragmentation on HFS+ volumes should not be necessary at all, or worthwhile, in most cases, because the system seems to do a very good job of avoiding/countering fragmentation.....In some cases, you could make the situation worse by defragmenting."
You can read the tutorial here:
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/
Minimo (Mini Mozilla) Project Profiled
"Mozilla, the browser, is arguably one of the best desktop browsers. Mozilla is used in many desktop applications: Netscape 7, CompuServe, AOL for Mac, Ximian GNOME, Galeon, and Nautilus. There also have been a few ports to make Mozilla run on various devices such as the Nokia Media Terminal and the AOL/Gateway. With the release of Minimo, a slimmed down version of Mozilla, we offer a minimalist browser that may be the best browser in the embedded space.....
For the full report, visit here.
Gene and Grayson Steinberg meet David Biedny, Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and Edgar Matias this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE
This week, Gene and Grayson will be talking with Mac pioneer and multimedia wizard David Biedny, the man who says he coined the name "Power Macintosh." We'll also be hearing from Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus [www.levitus.com], who will discuss his new book about Apple's GarageBand, and Edgar Matias [www.tactilepro.com], who developed the fabulous Tactile Pro keyboard.
As usual, Gene will be ably assisted by his irreverent son and co-host, Grayson Steinberg. When it comes to The Mac Night Owl, expect the unexpected.
Special Notice: We are now able to take your calls on the air toll-free from any location in the U.S. We'll announce the number during show time so stay tuned.
You can tune into the broadcast from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at:
http://www.macradio.com/friday/
DEVONtechnologies HOLIDAY NOTE
Dear DEVONtechnology users,
We will be on holiday until the 7th of June, 2004. Due to this, replies to all e-mails and support enquieries could be delayed significantly. So, if you plan to reinstall your system or upgrade to a newer machine, please request a fresh license code before next Monday.
We wish all our users a happy Pentecost,
The DEVONtechnologies Team
Linux War Takes Ugly Turn
Macworld UK's Robert McMillan reports:
"'The nonprofit organization that created the software license that governs Linux says that it will not produce all of the material requested in a November subpoena it received from The SCO Group, as part of SCO's multi-billion dollar lawsuit against IBM.
"We are certain that we will not produce all the material requested,' wrote Bradley Kuhn, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, (FSF) in a statement published Tuesday on the FSF's Web site. 'We will not betray our legally protected confidences, particularly when they relate to our work upholding the integrity of the GPL (GNU General Public License).'
For the full report, visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8716
Buying Frenzy On For Free, Not Yet Ready Gmail
The Canadian Press' Jen Horsey reports:
"What's one of Google's new, invitation-only e-mail accounts worth? A pet monkey, a postcard or a mixed tape, according to users posting to a new Internet site, gmailswap.com.
"Since the service hasn't even launched yet, it isn't easy to get an account with Gmail, the new web-based e-mail service being developed by the company that so revolutionized the Internet that its name has become a verb.
"But the new website allows would-be users to offer items in trade for one of the few thousand exclusive preview accounts that have been available to select invitees since early last month."
For the full report, visit here:
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/05/20/pLiving213.raw.html
Mac Night Owl: Does Anything Other Than Corporate Greed Justify Upgrades?
Enough is enough.
Here's the URL for today's commentary:
http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#upgrades
Anti-spam Buy Enhances Symantec's Security Plan
"Security software maker Symantec Corp. announced Wednesday it is acquiring anti-spam specialist Brightmail Inc. in a cash deal valued at about $370 million.
"Symantec said the acquisition will complement its security products. Unsolicited e-mail, which has long been a nuisance because of its volume, is a growing security problem as the messages increasingly carry computer viruses."
For the full report, visit here.
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/05/20/pBusiness229.raw.html
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