June 2001 Meeting summary
FinMUG Meeting Summary
June 12, 2001
By Keith Cooper
The Fingerlakes MUG met on Tuesday night, June 12. Our meeting featured an impromptu
discussion of Networks and an informal session on OS X.
Michael Duke shared with us his personal experience with a wired/wireless network
in his home. He also explained the concept of routers and hubs as a way to share
internet connections throughout a network. It was a highly informative discussion
and I think all those in attendance benefited greatly.
During the meeting I proudly showed off my new PowerBook G4 Titanium. Although I
had only been using the machine for a few days as of the meeting, I already considered
it the most exciting computer I’ve ever owned. Not only is it sleek and sexy, it’s
incredibly fast and powerful and slices through even tough graphics projects faster
than the G4 tower I used to use at Goff Communications.
I’m running OS X non-stop on this machine and loving it. I only rarely reboot into
OS 9.1 to install apps or perform something that Classic won’t allow. I haven’t even
tried a DVD movie in the machine because I’m waiting for the ability to do it in
X. Everything runs very smoothly, even though most of my applications are legacy
apps and have to run in the classic environment.
You can find out more about this incredible portable at .
After the networking portion of the meeting we split into two separate groups for
informal demos of OS X-related topics. Kathy and Michael set up their G3 PowerBooks
and played with UNIX tricks, discussing how to code the Dock into submission and
move it from it’s default place at the bottom of the screen to the side or top. A
shareware program provides the same feature without the fun of coding the solution
in the terminal.
I demoed the basics of OS X and performed a graphics illustration in PhotoShop (running
in Classic mode). Then booted into OS 9.1 briefly to show the difference.
Thank you to the Barfoots and Bethany for hosting the meeting, and to all who attended
for an enjoyable evening.
keith cooper
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