
Volume 20 No. 4
The
MacWest Memo
Page 6
March 9th, 2005
GENERAL MEETING
By Margit Hansson
MacWest Secretary
Attendance: 37 members and 3 Guests
Chairman: President Dale Marcell
Dale called the meeting to order at 19:40.
Quorum established.
Copies of Agenda were circulated and
approved.
The previous AGM minutes were
presented and read.
Motion: To adopt the March 10th, 2004,
minutes as read. Moved by Bryce Warner.
Seconded by Hube Start. Carried.
Reports:
President Dale Marcell: Dale especially
spoke of our web site, created and managed
by him. A good number of members had
responded to the questionnaire.
Vice President Robert Hausselman:
Robert spoke of the fact that much new
technology has been developed and that he
is looking forward to working with the club
in the coming year.
Secretary Margit Hansson: Margit spoke
of her role on the board. The consideration
of ideas and topics for Wednesday meeting
as well as attendance regarding new,
intermediate and long term members.
Treasurer Robert Scales: Robert, in detail,
explained the Financial Statement which
was enclosed with the March issue of our
newsletter. Our ending balance, $5,623.10
increased by $38.19 from the February 1,
2004, starting balance. Similar topic as last
year was discussed: Cost of Newsletter and
whether it should be changed to .pdf format
and whether some issues should still be
printed if changed to .pdf format. Tabled
for further discussions. Member, Roger
Smith would like to see a statement of assets
owned. A statement will be enclosed with a
future newsletter.
Motion: To approve the Financial Report
as read. Moved by Roger Smith. Seconded
by Eric Wolstenholme. Carried.
Annual General Meeting
Membership Report: Robert Scales
reported 22 new members and 70 renewals.
Motion: To approve Membership Report.
Moved by Roger Smith. Seconded by Robert
Hausselman. Carried.
There were no further reports.
Nominations:
Dale Marcell, Robert Hausselman, Robert
Scales, Terry Lawrence, Phil Beall, Ian
Birch, Nash Damji, Don Loftis, George
Wade, Pyaro Panjwani.
Motion: To declare the above list of
members elected to the new board of
directors for 2005/2006. Moved by Dale
Marcell. Seconded by Margit Hansson.
Carried.
Non-executive position: Scott Gilroy,
BBS Sysop.
As there was no further business
Chairman Dale Marcell closed the Annual
General Meeting at 21:05.
A little late in getting all my stutf together
having lost all my address's in the break in,
also they got my Backup, so if you want to
be on my list please mail me.
I hope you enjoyed the last tip we sent
you about cookies and security. Too many
cookies can load up your computer with
unwanted files, and expose your private
activities to others.
If you've ever wanted to change your
HOME-PAGE, I'm about to show
you how to do it now.
New Browser
In my last email, I said I would share a
new browser that is really great. The name
of this browser is Opera. Just look at some
of the great features.
Pop-up blocker
Opera Mail with SPAM killer
IRC-compatible chat
Newsreader
RSS newsfeeds
Integrated Google search
Small-Screen Rendering (SSR)
And the best part (in my opinion) is the
fact that instead of having multiple sessions,
you can have different 'windows' for all the
different sites you have open. This browser
is very stable. I've never seen it crash. You
can download it here:
http://www.freedownloadzone.com/opera
Have a great week!
Michelle
Apple plugs iTunes security
hole
By Macworld staff
Apple has addressed a security hole in
the iTunes Music Store that made it possible
to purchase songs that did not immediately
feature anti-piracy protection.
The hole was being exploited by DVD
Jon (Jon Johansen), famous for breaking
the encryption software that protected and
localized DVDs. He had found a way of
buying DRM-free tracks. Because the
iTunes Music Store didn't add the digital
rights management tag until after a track
had been bought and downloaded.
Apple released a statement yesterday
saying: "The security hole in the iTunes
Music Store which was recently exploited
has been closed, and as a consequence the
iTunes Music Store will now sell music
only to customers using iTunes version 4.7."
IE's seven days of grace
By Macworld staff
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser was
unsafe for 98 per cent of 2004, according to
security firm ScanIT.
The researcher's controversial findings
also confirm Mozilla browser to have been
unsafe for a relatively short 15 per cent of
the year. ScanIT's figures come from a
survey of 195,000 Internet users.
Those using Firefox suffered the shortest
"exposure period" when a patch for known
vulnerabilities was not there.
Internet Explorer enjoyed only seven days
without being vulnerable between October
12 and 19.
ScanIT CEO David Michaux said: "For
200 days in 2004 ? that’s some 54 per cent
of the time - there was a worm or virus
exploiting one of those unpatched
vulnerabilities."
iPod Camera Connector now
available
By Macworld staff
Apple's iPod Camera Connector is now
available at Apple's online store.
The device enables a digital camera to be
connected to an iPod photo allowing photos
to be imported into the iPod.
The Camera Connector features a cable
for connecting to the iPod and a USB port
for connecting to a camera. Pictures load
IAN’S E-MEMO
Continued on page 10
Editor’s note: This is part
of Ian’s e-memo.
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