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Paul McNett blogs “Kill Your CapsLock Key For Freedom!”

Apple shows off the latest iMac, more or less: more CPU, more memory, more disk space, less desk space, less cost. Sweet.
New York Times and ComputerWorld with the news here; Slashdot with the geek reaction.

Dave Winer blogs his reaction to the Allchin memo:
BTW, “Hard core” means “death march.” It’s the same trap that Apple fell into with Copland.
The devteam was always in death march mode, when one impossible ship
date was missed, they scheduled it for another impossible date. When
you ask a Microsoft person to say what Longhorn is supposed [...]

Microsoft announced Friday afternoon that “Longhorn,” the
next-generation Windows, was losing the feature code-named “WinFS” that
was to provide speedy searching and intelligent cross-linking of all
documents the machine had seen. In addition, Microsoft announced that
two of the other touted features, “Avalon,” a new graphical sub-system,
and “Indigo,” a communications sub-system, would be available for
Windows XP and Windows Server [...]

Bruce Schneier, in a recent essay in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
The DHS’s incessant warnings against any and every possible method of terrorist attack has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with politics.
Link via Dan Gillmor’s eJournal

Off to the monthly meeting of the BostonAreaFoxProUserGroup, where Carl Werowinski will be demonstrating Crystal 10 with VFP 8. Links to FoxForum Wiki and FoxCentral.net

Christof Wollenhaupt (nee’ Lange), a Microsoft FoxPro MVP and co-author of FoxPro Advisor’s Ask Advisor column (which I also used to write for) posts a very thorough article on “Security in FoxPro (protecting application and data).” This is well worth reading, and ought to be part of the VFP documentation and website.

A free user’s manual, the “User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop,” published by the International Open Source Network
(IOSN), a subsidiary of United Nations Asia-Pacific Development
Information Programme (UN APDIP), includes training materials and
presentation slides in OpenOffice.org format, intended for spreading
the word that Linux is suitable as a no-cost desktop operating system.
Looks like their site has [...]

Useit.Com: Informational Articles Must Ask For the Order.
“Numerous companies are now producing informative websites that are
rich in content and thin in commercial messages. This is good, because
users are more interested in facts than hype. Unfortunately, many of
these sites are so focused on providing information that they lose the
sale.” Link via Tomalak’s Realm

Despite some glitches and Microsoft delaying the rollout for a week,
Service Pack 2 is on its way to all Windows XP users via Windows
Update. Many large installations have turned off or disabled the update
out of concern for the many programs Microsoft has documented as not working
or needing updates in order to work with SP2. Firewalls, [...]