March – April 2000 — Vol 22 No 2
Source
Open PDF • Mar–Apr 2000 • Vol 22 No 2 • 99 pages
Overview
Not Lawrence's MacWorld (Lorin Evans, 5). BOD December + January Meeting Notes (8). January General Meeting Report (Steven Kiepe, 9). In Memoriam—Harold Herman Greene (Lorin Evans, 11) — Pi member memorial. Counterpoint (response to "Beyond the Pail") (12). Warner Brothers Scene Preview—Technical Paper Review (Stuart Bonwit, 20). Font of Wisdom (Lawrence I. Charters, 21). Cartoon (Charles Stancil, 23).
Macintosh: Nova Development's Print Explosion (Steven Kiepe, 24). Extensis Portfolio and CD-ROMs — Keeping Your Digital Images Organized (Dennis R. Dimick, 27). Nikon CoolPix 950—Nice Enough Pictures (John Barnes, 30). That WOW Thing You Do (Jerry Kindall, 33). MacTicker Reviewed (Lawrence I. Charters, 35). EXPRESSNET, High Speed Web Access Through Cable TV Montgomery (Joe Belotte, 38) — Montgomery County MD cable broadband. Click City: The Good, the Weird and the Vague But True (40). Learning to Network with the Airport (Edgar Durbin, 42) — AirPort base station setup. Because It's There: Linux on Virtual PC (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 44). Best of the TCS (John Ludwigson compiler, 52). Surfer Beware III: Privacy Policies without Privacy Protection (Electronic Privacy Info. Center, 61) — EPIC reprint. DoubleClick (78). Toys of Tokyo (MWJ, 79). Pi Fillings v. 6, contents (81). 1999 Index of Journal Articles (86).
Highlights
In Memoriam: Harold Herman Greene
Pi member Harold Herman Greene died — Evans memorial.
EXPRESSNET cable broadband
Montgomery County, MD cable Internet — broadband arriving in Pi's territory. Joe Belotte writes practical adoption guide.
Linux on Virtual PC — Washington Apple Pi Labs
Linux running in Virtual PC on a Mac — cross-platform exploration matching the new Linux SIG.
Surfer Beware III: EPIC reprint
Electronic Privacy Information Center report on web privacy. Pi's reprint coverage of major tech-policy moments.
DoubleClick + cookies
DoubleClick ad-tracking — major 2000 privacy story (DoubleClick proposed to merge online + offline data; eventually backed off).
Toys of Tokyo — MWJ
Japan tech humor column by Macintosh Journal (MWJ).
Counterpoint to Pail
Response to Lorin Evans's "Beyond the Pail" from 2000-01 — V22 N01 — Pi internal dialogue.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Steven Kiepe, Harold Herman Greene (in memoriam), Stuart Bonwit, Lawrence I. Charters, Charles Stancil, Dennis R. Dimick, John Barnes, Jerry Kindall, Joe Belotte, Edgar Durbin, Washington Apple Pi Labs, John Ludwigson, MWJ, Electronic Privacy Info. Center Topics: Harold Greene Memorial, EXPRESSNET, AirPort Networking, Web Privacy 2000, Linux on Virtual PC References: Print Explosion, Extensis Portfolio, Nikon CoolPix 950, MacTicker, EXPRESSNET, Surfer Beware III, DoubleClick
Connections to other issues
- EXPRESSNET = continuing High Speed Internet coverage from 1999-03 — V21 N02
- Linux SIG (V22 N1) → Linux on Virtual PC (here) — coherent thread
- Web Privacy 2000 = pre-GDPR era of privacy concerns