Washington Apple Pi Power Users' SIG

* Please note the new e-mailing list address below

The next meeting currently not yet scheduled

Currently a discussion is going on the list about how we can better help the Pi community in improving its ability to train members new to the Mac and new to Mac OS X.

Past meetings

On April 25th, Jim Kast and Abraham Brody came and we found he had a very interesting problem with his 10.2.6 on his 1 Ghz Titanium. It appeared after creating another user the problem was at the system preference level, and he needs to Archive and install to hopefully fix it.
Also we found the directory was working fine on Jim's machine, and he had plenty of hard disk space. Jim's external Wiebetech hard drive had Panther installed on it and had no problem using it. We could not launch Onyx from his computer, even after deleting system level cache files.
As a result we postponed further testing till the next meeting.
Speaking of the next meeting, let's try to get an arrangement that works out for most members of the SIG. Sundays at 2 PM seem to be good, however, some people appear to only know at the last second they can't come. Let's make an effort to set a meeting through the mailing list and try to hold a meeting on that date with a topic that interests everyone. If someone is familiar with PHP Myadmin and setting it up on the Mac, that's one interesting topic we could pursue on each of our machines.

On March 28th, we discussed various means of video and audio chat, and attempted to setup a crossplatform chat with iChat
Unfortunately we had no idea how the PC user would have to setup their Windows XP Firewall settings, not having a PC user to test it with on location. Hopefully next meeting we'll be able to do that.

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On January 11th, we had several people turn up and we setup PHP Bulletin Board on some of our machines as well as MySQL and PHPMyAdmin. Sheri took the following picture of us


with her new digital camera. If you are interested in the setup of PHP Bulletin Board please post a question to the e-mailing list.



Meetings always consist of:

A Power User is one who, by means of self-directed study, finds ways to make his or her computer into something more than an appliance.

Check the Power Users SIG TCS board for further particulars. The Power Users' SIG is open to all Washington Apple Pi members.

* New mailing list address: The Pi has our e-mail list mailings on the web: PowerUsers-talk and this is also where you subscribe to e-mail list if you aren't already getting e-mail from it. To post a message to the Power Users Talk e-mail:

PowerUsers-talk at lists.wap.org.