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June 2003: PowerPC G5
May 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.6
April 2003: Apple's Corporate Governance
December 2002: File Permissions; QuickBooks Pro 5
November 2002: Journaled HFS Plus
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June 2003: The PowerPC G5 microprocessor

MDJ 2003.06.25 was published from the conference halls of WWDC 2003, and contained our first look at how the new IBM PowerPC 970 (first announced the previous October) works in Apple's just-announced Power Macintosh G5 computers. Our extensive MacCyclopedia coverage includes a history of the PowerPC processor family, a discussion of how Apple's marketing changed since the G5 has a lot in common with Intel chips that Apple used to disparage, what 64-bit computing really means, and why the instant criticism over Apple's benchmark results was ill-conceived at best.

May 2003: Mac OS X 10.2.6

MDJ 2003.05.11 covers the Mac OS X 10.2.6 update, released the week before, with some comprehensive coverage that took us a few days. This was the update that fixed a bug that caused kernel panics when attaching certain USB hubs, so we explore how bugs like this can happen in the first place, as well as all the changes that could be documented in the update, the difference between "client" and "server" updaters, and a walk through all the updated files. It also debunks some myths of the time about using "combo" updaters instead of individual system updaters.

April 2003: Apple's corporate governance

MDJ 2003.04.08 examined Apple's mid-March changes in corporate governance, using some later SEC and NASDAQ filings to point out what Apple chose to do on its own, and what the company had to do to meet more stringent NASDAQ rules. This is also where MDJ examined Apple's changes to stock options for executives, and Steve Jobs' new compensation plan that's been misrepresented in almost every mainstream news report. It's the equivalent of four full-sized features in one issue and a must for policy wonks.

December 2002: File Permissions; QuickBooks Pro 5

MDJ 2002.12.19, just before the holiday break, covered two topics. In Part 1 of a series finished later, we looked at Intuit's history on the Macintosh and with QuickBooks as the company moved to release QuickBooks Pro 5. The big story was our MacCyclopedia feature, though, a double-length look at file permissions on Mac OS X and elsewhere. If you do small business accounting, or if you never understood why an operating system wants to keep you from accessing your own files, this issue is for you.

November 2002: Journaled HFS Plus

Just a few days after Apple released Mac OS X 10.2.2, MacCyclopedia was there with the full story on journaling: what it does, how to turn it on, and how it works, down to the low-level Journal Info Block on a journaled HFS Plus disk. We also put all the current versions of the disk utilities through their paces to recommend the best strategy for disk problems on a journaled volume. This is all stuff that, as of August 2003, is still not officially documented by Apple, but MDJ readers had it just a few days after the update was released.

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