November – December 2003 — Vol 25 No 6
Source
Open PDF • Nov–Dec 2003 • Vol 25 No 6 • 100 pages
Overview
Year-end Vol 25. WAP Bylaws published in this issue (87). Statement of Ownership, Management & Circulation (94).
Welcome to WAP! (Dave Ottalini, 4). President's Corner (Pat Fauquet, 5). Summary of 9 July BOD Meeting (7). 8 August BOD Meeting (8). 10 September BOD Summary (9). September & October Power Users SIG Meetings (Steve Roberson, 11). WAP Introduces a New Store for Members at Cafepress.com (Dave Ottalini, 13). WAP Needs Experts and Speakers (Ottalini, 13). How to Get the Most Out of the December Computer Show and Sale (Ottalini, 14).
Macintosh: Power Mac G5: First Look (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 17). Finding a Few Good Pictures — Tools to Distill Your Digital Collections (Dennis R. Dimick, 25). Paper Modeling (Pat Fauquet, 31). Terascale Computing on a Pizza Budget (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 33) — Mac cluster experiment for affordable supercomputing. Mac Love Stories (Sheri German, 36). Crafting for the Grandchildren: Magnetic Paper Dolls (Pat Fauquet, 38). Interview with Aaron Adams, "Switcher" (Part 1) (Craig Contardi, 42). Apple iDisk Service (Phil Shapiro, 44). Injecting Playfulness into Computer Training (Phil Shapiro, 46). Default Folder X: A Review (Brian G. Mason, 50). Mac OS 8.1 to Mac OS X (Stuart Bonwit, 52) — long jump. Impressive Apple Firsts (53). Clone Wars (Guy B. Serle, 54) — fiction. Low Cost Gifts for Macintosh (59). Macintosh Web Browsers (Darrel E. Knutson, 60). What's on this Disk (Dave Ottalini, 66). Installing Classic Applications with Mac OS X (Guy B. Serle, 67). The Marvels of Cyberspace (Joseph "Scotty" German, 68). The Next Generation of Teachers — how Trinity College is using a Mac lab to train teachers (Sheri German, 68). Extensis Portfolio 6 (Veda Lewis, 71). DoubleClick (73-75).
Highlights
WAP Cafepress Store Launch
Pi launches Cafepress merch store — t-shirts, mugs, etc. Modern community-store turn.
Power Mac G5: First Look — Pi Labs
Power Mac G5 (shipped Jun 2003) — Pi Labs deep-dive. First 64-bit Mac. The G5 era begins.
Terascale on a Pizza Budget — Pi Labs
Mac cluster experiment — wedge into HPC. Apple's "Big Mac" cluster (Virginia Tech, Nov 2003 — 1100-G5-node cluster, #3 on Top500) inspired Pi's smaller-scale version.
Clone Wars — Guy B. Serle
Serle's third comedic Mac fiction piece for 2003 — also Doctor Maclove (2003-01 — V25 N01) + Installing Classic in this issue.
WAP Bylaws Published
Official WAP Bylaws appear in the Journal — governance transparency.
Aaron Adams Switcher Interview Part 1
Craig Contardi interviews a new PC-to-Mac switcher — multi-part series. Reflects Apple's "Switch" advertising campaign (started June 2002).
iDisk + .Mac Coverage
Phil Shapiro on iDisk — Apple's .Mac cloud-storage service ($99/year).
Entities
People: Dave Ottalini, Pat Fauquet, Steve Roberson, Washington Apple Pi Labs, Dennis R. Dimick, Sheri German, Craig Contardi, Phil Shapiro, Brian G. Mason, Stuart Bonwit, Guy B. Serle, Darrel E. Knutson, Joseph "Scotty" German, Veda Lewis, Aaron Adams Topics: WAP Cafepress Store, Power Mac G5, Terascale Pizza Budget, Clone Wars Serle, Aaron Adams Switcher, Apple iDisk, Pi Bylaws Published References: Power Mac G5, Default Folder X, Extensis Portfolio 6, Cafepress.com
Connections to other issues
- Closes Vol 25 — Pi's 25th anniversary year
- Power Mac G5 deep-dive follows 2003-07 — V25 N04 "First Look" — full-issue treatment
- Terascale Pizza Budget = parallel to Virginia Tech's "Big Mac" G5 cluster (Nov 2003)
- WAP Cafepress Store = community-merchandising milestone
- Pi continues bimonthly through Vol 25; soon to slow (quarterly by 2009)