January – February 2003 — Vol 25 No 1
Source
Open PDF • Jan–Feb 2003 • Vol 25 No 1 • 96 pages
Overview
Volume 25 opens — Pi approaches its 25th year (founded Feb 1979 1979-02 — V01 N01).
Welcome to WAP (4). Good Communication — key to success (Pat Fauquet, 5). BOD Meeting October (Craig Contardi, 6). Retired SIG Report for November (John Barnes, 8). iMovie SIG Report for October (Hal Cauthen, 9). Garage Sale — a Wonderful Success! (10). Towards Taxing Internet Sales (Lorin Evans, 11). How I Caught a Counterfeiter with a Little Help from my Friends (Jason Eric Smith, 15) — viral eBay-scam takedown story. Basic Webmail How-to (David L. Harris, illustrations by Nancy Seferian, 21). How to Get the Most out of the Pi Computer Show & Sale (Dave Ottalini, 25). The Firewire Target Disk Mode — Some GOTCHAS (Pat Fauquet, 28). Unix on Mac OS X: A Review (Lawrence I. Charters, 33). Where are the Instructions? (Lawrence I. Charters, 36). Creating Forms in Adobe GoLive (Sheri German, 39). Laying the Groundwork for Database Driven Web Sites (Sheri German, 42). Doctor Maclove (or "How I learned to stop worrying and love Mac OS X") (Guy B. Serle, 45) — Strangelove parody.
Macintosh: How to Securely Set Up a Home Wireless Access (James Kelly, 53). What am I doing with a Computer, and Who Cares? (Cheryl Parker, 58). AppleScript Explained (Adam Goldstein, 59). Hemera Technologies, Big Box of Art and Photo-Objects (Rich Lenoce, 60). Someone with a PC Sent me a File, How Do I Open it? (Rich Lenoce, 62). ArcSoft Funhouse (Sylvia Rego, 64). Multimedia MacBeth (Barbara Gibson, 65). SketchUp (Dennis Wilson, 67). Digital Juice's Editor's Toolkit (Paul Gerstenbluth, 69). DoubleClick (Dave Ottalini + Derek Rowan, 70, 73, 75, 77). Federal Penitentiaries Remove Hard Wooden Benches; Apple Sets Them Up in their Stores (Phil Shapiro, 78) — satirical Apple Store complaint about benches. Author uses iBook, Via Voice to pen Sports Bio (Dennis Sellers, 79). You Never Forget Your First Love — The Newton Theme (80). A Business Case Study of Open Source Software (Carolyn Kenwood, 82). New Pi Fillings X CD — list of contents (87).
Highlights
"How I Caught a Counterfeiter" — Jason Eric Smith
Viral Pi piece — Smith catches an eBay-counterfeit-PowerBook scammer with TCS-community help. Forensic-internet-detective tale; one of the best-known Pi articles of the era. Smith later wrote a book about it ("How I Caught a Counterfeiter").
"Doctor Maclove" — Guy B. Serle
Dr. Strangelove OS X parody — Serle continues comedic Mac fiction tradition (also 2001-09 — V23 N05 Maltese Cube).
"Federal Penitentiaries Remove Benches" — Phil Shapiro
Phil Shapiro's satirical bit about uncomfortable Apple Store benches — classic Shapiro humor with tech-policy edge.
Pi Anniversary Year
Volume 25 opens. Pi was founded February 1979 (1979-02 — V01 N01) — 25th anniversary in early 2004. Anniversary build-up.
Volunteer SIG Energy
iMovie SIG (Hal Cauthen), Retired SIG (John Barnes) — SIG ecosystem thriving.
Pi Fillings X
Pi Fillings CD Version 10 ("X") — Pi shareware/freeware annual.
Home Wireless Security — James Kelly
WPA / wireless security primer — pre-WPA2 era (WPA2 arrives 2004). AirPort era.
Entities
People: Pat Fauquet, Craig Contardi, John Barnes, Hal Cauthen, Lorin Evans, Jason Eric Smith, David L. Harris, Nancy Seferian, Dave Ottalini, Lawrence I. Charters, Sheri German, Guy B. Serle, James Kelly, Cheryl Parker, Adam Goldstein, Rich Lenoce, Sylvia Rego, Barbara Gibson, Dennis Wilson, Paul Gerstenbluth, Derek Rowan, Phil Shapiro, Dennis Sellers, Carolyn Kenwood Topics: Caught a Counterfeiter, Doctor Maclove, Pi 25th Anniversary Year, Pi Fillings X, Federal Penitentiary Benches References: Pi Fillings X CD, Hemera Big Box of Art, ArcSoft Funhouse, Adobe GoLive 6
Connections to other issues
- Opens Volume 25 — Pi's silver anniversary year approaches (founded Feb 1979)
- Caught a Counterfeiter = one of the all-time-famous Pi articles
- Doctor Maclove = Guy B. Serle expands Mac humor tradition from Maltese Cube onward
- Phil Shapiro continues humor + tech-policy bend