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Financial scandal at Apple?
Apple Executives' Stock Sales Studied. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Twice within the last two years, Apple Computer Inc. executives sold company stock worth millions of dollars just weeks before Apple warned of disappointing financial results. Each earnings warning sent shares tumbling. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
At some point here it will be news if some company is not tainted by accounting errors, hidden costs, insider training, or overstated earnings...
11:09:51 PM 
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This is what Microsoft's Palladium is about?
Robert Cringley has an interesting perspective on Microsoft's proposed Palladium system, which is supposedly being pitched for the good of Internet security. I would like to say that Mac users can just ignore this trash, but Microsoft has its fingers all over the Mac too. This is a good time to pay attention to Mr. Bill's latest move to try to make up for the fact that the Internet kicked his butt and took him and his company completely by surprise.
9:45:22 PM
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A good reason to install the Apple Security Update...
New Apache worm starts to spread. A program that exploits a 2-week-old flaw to infect open-source Web servers has been detected by security experts on the Internet. [CNET News.com]
6:38:50 PM
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New mailing list caters to OS X developers
Mailing list for OS X developers of web services apps. - The osxweb mailing list was formed to promote inter-operability between OS X apps that use web services and formats such as XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and so on. The idea is to create informal standards for things like clipboard formats for RSS items. (The idea is not, for instance, to work on RSS itself.) A secondary goal is to promote a toolbox of code that app developers can use. [ranchero.com] [AppleScript Info]
5:09:46 PM
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Apple issues security update
In response to recent reports about shortcomings in the security for the versions of Apache and OpenSSH bundled with OS X, Apple has released a Security Update. MacCentral notes the release in Apple Security Update fixes OpenSSH, more, and the MacSlash readers examine the update as well...
The good news about this update...it doesn't require a restart!
4:51:18 PM
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Ancient forest found along roadside near Denver
CNN has a report today that may be interesting to some folks. It appears that scientists have found evidence of a tropical forest buried under layers of soil outside Denver - a forest that thrived in the years following an asteroid collision with Earth. Here is the story: Signs Earth recovered quickly from asteroid.
11:44:21 AM
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New version of Yellow Dog Linux ships
OK, it isn't Mac OS X, but I thought I would point to the fact that Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 ships regardless of the fact that the OS X user interface kicks butt over user interfaces offered for Linux...
9:44:11 AM
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Living with OmniWeb 4.1
Ever since the release of the final version of OmniWeb 4.1, I have been using the browser from The Omni Group as my main Web browser. This morning I bumped it back to the top of my personal browser choices in my living document, OS X Applications Ranked By Category.
Why change from Mozilla to OmniWeb 4.1 as my main browser? This one is simply a personal preference. OW renders pages quickly, the text rendering and anti-aliasing cannot be matched - even when using Silk to bring anti-aliased text to Mozilla - and OW just feels like a more elegant solution to viewing the Web. There are definitely shortcomings to OW though. Support for some Web standards like Cascading Style Sheets are not fully implemented, and one of the user interface enhancements I find most useful in Mozilla and its immature sibling Chimera, tabbed browsing, is not supported under OW at all yet. But OW does have built in spell checking, which is a great feature when using a browser as the front end for writing in Weblog software.
I wouldn't advise that everyone make a switch to OW. But the improvements in OW 4.1 have been enough to convince me to try it as my main solution again. I have high hopes for OW 5.0 and incremental releases of the browser in the interim.
8:56:19 AM
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Technical difficulties
I realized late last night that some posts I was making to Mac Net Journal yesterday were not being sent to the live site through Radio 8.0.8's built in FTP capabilities. Things are getting caught up now. For a while there I couldn't get anything to upstream to my remote FTP server that hosts MNJ, but after compacting the data files in Radio, things started working. Fingers crossed that the magic keeps happening...
8:35:15 AM
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BIAS ships Deck 3.5 for OS X
MacCentral notes that BIAS is shipping the Mac OS X savvy Deck 3.5, adding to the growing number of OS X multimedia authoring programs. I am sure a lot of people are going to be happy about this release...
8:29:12 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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