May – June 2004 — Vol 26 No 3
Source
Open PDF • May–Jun 2004 • Vol 26 No 3 • 99 pages
Overview
Election issue + Picnic + WAP Expo 2005 announcement.
Welcome to WAP! (Dave Ottalini, 4). President's Corner (Pat Fauquet, 5). WAP Expo 2005 — Under Construction (7). Washington Apple Pi Picnic, June 19, 2004 (7). Minutes January + February BOD (John Barnes, 10-11). February + March + May General Meetings (14-18). A Pilgrimage to "Mac-CA" (Craig Contardi, 18) — Macworld attendance rules. Notes from the 'first' iLife SIG meeting (Hal Cauthen, 21). Computer Reclamation and Community Education (Richard Rucker, 23). Looking Back: "1984: The commercial" (26) — 20th anniversary of Apple's iconic Super Bowl 1984 ad (aired Jan 22, 1984).
Macintosh: WebQuest Time Machine MTV! Part 1: A tutorial for teachers, parents, and children of all ages (Sheri German, 29). Apple Confidential 2.0: A Review (Lawrence I. Charters, 35) — Owen Linzmayer's Apple history book. Upgrading a Power Mac G5 (Washington Apple Pi Labs, 40). Washington Apple Pi Elections — review the candidates (43). Power Mac G5: Second Look (Pi Labs, 48). Old Fart's Guide to Internet Searches (book review by Stuart Bonwit, 51). Upgrading My Pismo PowerBook: Benchmarking the Result (Richard Rucker, 52). Controlling Spam with PostArmor X (David L. Harris, 56). Erasing CD-RWs in Mac OS X 10.3 (Karen Ackoff, 59). Converting Audio Cassette Tapes to CDs (Mark Davis, 62). A Short Review of Zinio Reader (Mike Mellor, 67) — early e-magazine reader. Soundtrack: A Review (Guy B. Serle, 69). BTCS: An Evening with Richard Stallman (Richard Rucker, 76) — Richard Stallman of FSF visits. BTCS: Web site Creation & Maintenance the Cheap & Easy Way (Rucker, 78). Introduction to Fink (Mike Mellor, 81) — UNIX-on-Mac packages. They're Twisted for a Reason: One Man's Struggle with 802.3 (Craig Contardi, 85). Notes from the First Day of the Internet Commons Congress, March 24 (Phil Shapiro, 88). Digital Photography: Are You Ready for a Dye Sublimation Printer (Rich Lenoce, 90).
Highlights
1984 Commercial 20th Anniversary
"Looking Back: 1984: The commercial" — 20 years after Apple's Super Bowl XVIII Mac launch ad (Jan 22, 1984). Iconic Apple moment.
Richard Stallman Visits — Richard Rucker
"BTCS: An Evening with Richard Stallman" — RMS, founder of GNU/FSF, visits the DC area; Rucker reports. Major Free Software figure.
Apple Confidential 2.0 — Lawrence I. Charters
Owen Linzmayer's revised Apple history — Charters reviews. The definitive Apple-history book.
WAP Expo 2005 Announcement
"WAP Expo 2005 — Under Construction" — Pi planning a major expo for 2005. Did it happen? (Track in 2005 issues.)
Internet Commons Congress — Phil Shapiro
Internet-public-resource conference notes from Shapiro — tech policy + the commons theme.
Pi Elections 2004
Annual election — candidate review section. Fauquet running for re-election.
Power Mac G5 Coverage Continues
Second Look at the G5 (Pi Labs) + upgrade piece — G5 still the high-end king.
Entities
People: Pat Fauquet, Dave Ottalini, John Barnes, Craig Contardi, Hal Cauthen, Richard Rucker, Sheri German, Lawrence I. Charters, Washington Apple Pi Labs, Stuart Bonwit, David L. Harris, Karen Ackoff, Mark Davis, Mike Mellor, Guy B. Serle, Phil Shapiro, Rich Lenoce Topics: Pi Election 2004, 1984 Commercial 20th Anniversary, WAP Expo 2005, Stallman Visit, Computer Reclamation, Internet Commons Congress References: Apple Confidential 2.0, Soundtrack, Fink (Mac), Zinio Reader, Pismo PowerBook
Connections to other issues
- 1984 Commercial 20th Anniversary = retrospective glance to the 1984 GAP year (PDFs not yet available)
- WAP Expo 2005 = future-event teaser
- Stallman Visit = Free Software visits Pi territory
- Pi Election 2004 = annual election cycle