Mac OS X Conference Wrap-Up

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Mac OS X Conference Wrap-Up

by Tara McGoldrick Walsh
Network Newsletter for 10/09/2002

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The 2002 Mac OS X Conference is officially a thing of the past, but by all the reports and Weblogs from the show floor, the future for Mac OS X looks bright. If you missed any of the action, be sure to visit our conference coverage page at:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/osx2002/

Mac OS X Conference reports weren't the only articles we published this past week; we also had Richard Thieme, hacker pundit extraordinaire, on the essence of hacking; Daniel Steinberg on the digital rights management miasma; and Jon Udell on a way to Google your email. Check them all out at:
http://www.oreillynet.com

Until next week,

Tara
Web Editor
tara@oreilly.com

Featured Articles

Googling Your Email
Tired of searching through all of your mail just to find one particular message? Jon Udell looks at ZOË, software that can, in essence, Google your email. Written in Java, ZOE proxies your mail traffic and builds useful search and navigation mechanisms.

Top Five ASP.NET Web Services Tips
Alex Ferrara, coauthor of Programming .NET Web Services, offers a brief comparison between ASP.NET Web services and .NET remoting, and then delves into five useful tips for developing ASP.NET Web services.

Real Hacking Rules!
Richard Thieme muses on his favorite subject--hackers, saying it "behooves hackers of any definition to be keenly aware of the ends to which they hack." Read his insightful article on the essence of hacking.

Help! IE6 Is Blocking My Cookies
Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P offers an introduction to P3P and an overview of what you need to do to prevent IE6 from blocking your cookies.

DVD Playback on FreeBSD
Dru Lavigne delves into the world of DVD playback and tests four applications from the ports collection to find one that suits her needs.

The Near Future of Digital Rights Management
Daniel Steinberg looks at the ramifications of Hollywood's desire to turn the PC into a trusted digital appliance, in this report from the DRM panel at the Mac OS X Conference.

Securing Linux: Why It's Worthwhile and Achievable
Michael Bauer, author of Building Secure Servers with Linux, explains some of the reasons why it's both possible and worthwhile to secure Linux for use as an Internet server platform.

Why Unix Matters to Mac OS X
In their keynotes from the Mac OS X Conference Tim O'Reilly and Jordan Hubbard talk about the significance of Unix to Mac OS X.

Using Castor JDO for SQL Mapping
An in-depth look at using Castor's marshalling engine to do data binding of Java objects to tables, rows, and columns in an SQL database.

TAG Rejects HLink
Kendall Clark reports on the rejection by the W3C's Technical Architecture Group of the XHTML Working Group's HLink linking specification.

O'Reilly Network Top Five Articles Last Week

Why Unix Matters to Mac OS X
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon
Remember when searching the Internet was hard, the dark days when we relied on dumb-as-sand machines to rank the documents that matched our keywords? Cory Doctorow says it really sucked, until Google figured out the One True Way to make sense of the Internet.