Steve Jobs, interim CEO of Apple Computer, appears on the cover of
November's FORTUNE Magazine.
Interesting tidbits from the articles:
* Jobs wanted Apple to acquire the PalmPilot from 3Com. Job says "it
didn't come to pass," so it's unclear whether or not an offer was
made.
* Larry Ellison continues to hint at Apple making internet and
information appliances, including portables in the several
hundred dollar range.
* Jobs is 43 but still feels like he's 17.
* Apple's goal is to become the Sony of computers
from FORTUNE <http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/1998/981109/content.html>
Buy a Mac......Oz.
"The Australian" says "Avoid Y2K, Buy A Mac"
"The Australian" [from guess where] national newspaper - which carries the weekly Computers & High Technology section entitled "Avoid Y2K FUD, buy a Mac."
"The Australian (not the Computers & High Technology section) carried a warning last Tuesday from "one of the world's leading Year 2000 experts, Karl Feilder", the chief executive of a London-based consultancy, Greenwich Mean Time.
"Feilder is here to warn us that only 2 per cent of the world's 300 million personal computers have been checked for 2000 compliance.
"Urgency stems, he says, from the fact that 64 per cent of the world's mission-critical data is kept on PCs, with only 8 per cent on mainframes.
"We've over-indulged by spending $1.7 trillion fixing mainframes while neglecting PCs. He wants us to spend another $1 trillion in the next 14 months. Random checks of 500 PCs apparently showed 93 per cent crashed when their clocks rolled over to the year 2000.
"I can only guess that the other 7 per cent were Macintoshes."
Linux.
If you fancy a little change to you MacOS [never!] them check out something for the weekend.
<http://www.mklinux.apple.com/>
<http://www.linuxppc.org>
Something even more off the peg, an interesting look at how user interfaces could be different:
<http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm>
M$ secrets.
<http://www.anchordesk.com/a/adt1019ba/2662>
The tech industry trial of the century gets underway
today. I spent last week in Washington, D.C. meeting
with key players and have come to a shocking conclusion:
Microsoft will lose this case -- on purpose. However,
there is method to this madness. Come to the site
for my insider analysis of Microsoft's secret strategy.
In recent weeks, a number of free ISPs have sprung up in the UK. By free, I mean that there is no monthly subscription fee. By the curious rules of UK telecoms, they can receive a cut of the local rate call fee paid by the subscriber to their phone company.
Of course, support for the Macintosh ranges from non-existent to not-much-better. The most publicized of these ISPs is Freeserve as it is
promoted by the country's largest electrical retailer. Their help page implies that Macs cannot connect but what they really mean is that they haven't got around to producing an installer CD for anything other than Windows.
As Freeserve is just another ISP, you can connect using any suitable OS. I have put together a web page for those interested in connecting using a Mac with Open Transport:
<http://www.leuty.freeserve.co.uk/freeserve.html>
If you use a different PPP you can still connect by putting the right info in the relevant places. Oh, and afterwards you might want to email Freeserve just to let them know you're on - and using a Mac!
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