April 1990 — Vol 12 No 4

Overview

Proposed bylaw changes (page 9) + Commentary (page 10) — formal proposal flowing from March's Draft Standards of Conduct. Frank Potter editorial: "On warranties and bylaws". Apples for the Students program update (page 12) — Pi's K-12 outreach. WAP Picnic announced (page 35) with map. The Cuckoo's Egg book review by Bernadette McMahon — Cliff Stoll's landmark 1989 hacker-tracking memoir, one of the founding texts of cybersecurity narrative. TypeStyler review (Jim Donnelly) — "state-of-the-art type manipulation". macGIS Part One review (Kim Cimmery) — geographic information system for Mac. Sticky Business (Marty Milrod) — label printing. Buying a Hard Disk Drive (Ralph J. Begleiter) — MacNovice "useful and painful information". Hard Disk Hygiene (Robb Wolov) continues from March. WAP Artists in Review features Brent Heatherington art. I like your face — Part Five (Jim Donnelly) — "Gaudeamus Goudy". Authors' Guide Pt 2 (Tim McGraw).

Table of contents (selected)

Club News: Editorials (Frank Potter, 7); Proposed bylaw changes (9); Commentary on proposed bylaw changes (10); Apples for the Students program — update (12); WAP Picnic map (35)

SIGs: Columbia Slice (12); Frederick Apple Core (12); EdSIG (13); IIGS SIG (14); HyperCard SIG (14); WorksSIG (15)

General Information: WAP Artists in Review — Brent Heatherington (Nancy Seferian, 16); I like your face — Part Five (Gaudeamus Goudy) (Jim Donnelly, 18); Authors' Guide — Part Two (Tim McGraw, 21); The Cuckoo's Egg book review (Bernadette McMahon, 23)

Macintosh Articles: Buying a Hard Disk Drive (Ralph J. Begleiter, 25); Hard Disk Hygiene (Robb Wolov, 28); Sticky Business (Marty Milrod, 30); TypeStyler (Jim Donnelly, 32); macGIS Pt 1 (Kim Cimmery, 36); Bits & Bytes (Lynn Trusal, 39); AddressBook Plus (review)

Highlights

Proposed bylaw changes

Formal bylaw revisions for member vote — outcome of Pi Governance Crisis 1989 response.

The Cuckoo's Egg — Bernadette McMahon

Review of Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg (1989) — chronicle of tracking a KGB-linked hacker through LBL networks. Foundational cybersecurity literature.

macGIS Pt 1 — Kim Cimmery

Mac geographic-information-system — Cimmery (who wrote on Low-Cost Microcomputer Mapping in July 1989) does deep review.

Apples for the Students

Pi's K-12 program — likely matching Apple equipment to schools.

WAP Picnic

Family-friendly event — community-building during post-crisis recovery.

Entities

People: David Morganstein, Frank Potter, Nancy Seferian, Brent Heatherington, Jim Donnelly, Tim McGraw, Bernadette McMahon, Ralph J. Begleiter, Robb Wolov, Marty Milrod, Kim Cimmery, Lynn Trusal Topics: Pi Bylaw Changes 1990, Apples for the Students, WAP Picnic, Cybersecurity Literature References: The Cuckoo's Egg, TypeStyler, macGIS, Sticky Business, AddressBook Plus

Connections to other issues

• Pi Bylaw Changes 1990 follows Standards of Conduct draft from 1990-03 — V12 N03
• The Cuckoo's Egg timing — book published 1989; review appears as cybersecurity becomes mainstream
• Hard Disk Hygiene continues from 1990-03 — V12 N03
• I like your face series Part Five