Voice for Joanie - Danbury Area Computer Society
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1. standard for this techn Heros This solution is nest high ogy so one Vendor s products wil peo WA but expensive 15 to SIDO per abiy not work with thse iom any other cable run dow WAF I m sure you get vendor There are several caveat Firat he idea In my house I simply tan the elder telephone wiring wi give problemn kale down he ball tom ng tothe due toa lack of sufficient wists 1 kid you Family room looping dunder rugs to 89 and these will probably mot wok if 2 the living room Obviouslyihis you havea DSL connection ia the house 1 Kalow WAF soliton bur since 146 do not recommend this technology but it avea wife this was nota problem Your cost less than wireless and may it your mileage may WAF const Naw today s lechnologyofferssome One last suggestion is another ype of solutions tnat may pass the WAF testin network intere 1 your computer Your house One good one is a wireless has po available slot ar you simply don t erwart These are available sev want m open it up hee s sull 49806 vendors suchastmmeL D Link 3COM Several manufacturers make NICs that ss Lat Sys and others Look for products the USB universal serial bas port rather basedon the 802 1 1b fheenel than a slot to connect computer o a sedro eliminate that eable dowa he ball network SCOM and others offer these Tar comes from D Link Systems Ine abou S60 redo and works acceptably Well M2. Danbury Area Computer Society Inc 2 January 2001 Volume 12 Issue 1 John Patrick Takes Us on a magic carpet ride By Jack Corcoran does is take his audience on a magie or just get information there ate no longer any carpet aver the landscape of our emerging e boundaries This is truly the beginning of a disruptive orid Ar he December 2000 meeting of ect on ihe lifestyle or the eae popa J Patriek does not do a presentation What he aneleewonic communication device t buy sell conum The Danbury Area Computer Society we 108 the earth As with 31 soared ih him over a cyber terrain af changes no one can predict what eventu momentous aeeomplishments exciting Sly wii be What John points out to us new developments and hand Harwever the many thi wae devices hanger ishing upal over the land With Job 45 our tou guide we saw Scape He shows we new communications the beginnings ofa ansion ro acon Based devices ot a kinds He telis us about partment mindset to something very new business patterns and mindsets adapting ind ditierent Currently our vera iv to viden conferencing rather tha facets ing is prey much boned in by owr can face He describes technology develop munity and city Our nationalistic need mnis that are approaching real me pre sd obligations are determined by the sentation He enphaszes overall 268 we livein However w
3. 86 6 3 common probe since Hound Pages at Compaq Adobe PC Magazine Sod other sites discussing how to cope Im essence there are siepe in dealing with this problem First you have o learn the extent of the problem Win lows Ox includes a 100l the Resource Meler which shows the percentage of User GDL and System resources avail abl systema resource figure ia com ation of we although it al ays seems to makeh he lower of the aiher 865 namber Resource Meter is entr exe in the AWindows diroctory You can apen Windows Explorer fidi e and drag itta your desktop to create a shorcut Ia Wind you can then drag it to the tig side of he system tay To bave it sun every time you boot up Note that this uses some resources to This will sive you 4 constant check The icon Shanges colors as the resources change Breen if you ve got plenty yellow if 198 re gening ow and red if you re in the danger zone With this icon in the system tray Sou ean atari Shocking which programs use fhe resources Start with aelean Then our monse pointer over the and note the te Sources avail able If you re indes 185 094 good idea to at checking your system Click on the Start bunion then Run and type in msconfig exe When the Window opens ellek n the Startup tab You ll get a list of programs ihe checked neme rua every time you boot Your computer and usual
4. and communication devices AAC Speech discrimination and hear ing products computer access haniware sofiware environmen al contol units ECUS and educational technology Joining David at the presen tation will be Voice for Joanie founder Shirley Fredlund to demonstrate the technology used by paralyzed victims of Lou Gehrig s disease to communi cate by eye switch and voice synthesizer the same tools used by astrophysicist and ALS Stephen Hawking 12 anvary 2001 ma tle arg Certification Prep Course ACSS LowLort Weck Tod Coune Enlasies Hands On Tnstrucor Led 559659 WATT May goo parng pis in cupiasppot thee daps sepia A Ceriicstion Gating the time many 9 19 taka tke sessa pean cawas mi then pasing the 2 erame cm tear creridesg dalange for may apisim tesicias the ACSS makes tha tel las of a oxi en youstine oy oasis the prpacaion couse ithe erame ou edd at a puce 78 can ane 292 and at a price yow can aed WAT ACSS Tha ACSS priced at is beig off for bct Dik rate of moit of ha commercially aii As 14 prap Nasal he course i for members on ak joining wey TOR WHOM heyocewho wishes to meru 96983 mites liy by baing blato pit a garda a FC Ton hosli bes usar of Microsof Vidas echa basi perithealesoch sea modem sepantar WHEN Tha At prap cousa il be offrad in 10 vw aic
5. and using the Ya hoo wizards The downside to having a commercial site host your homepage is hat they wil put willoalygetworse These days creating a advertising on ev Bytheend ofthe inple website eet Page of your year there could be Sie ver 2 Billion web aseasyas My favorite pro pages out there so writing a letter for creating not join in om Web sites is Microsoft Pub liher With justa basic knowledge of crating documents with picture it is Very easy to use the included Web Wiz rd to create a detailed web site The Same site tht took 6 hours to create online tok me les than 2 hours with Publisher By using simple copy all and paste commands along with its easy port picture commands my web site took less than 30 minutes to set up and sel the documents in place Then 1 Spent the next 90 minutes being picky 321 aligned the text and pictues by sing the view as web page com Bond As easy as iris to use Publisher has afew drawbacks First it does not always accurately show exactly how the Web page will lonk Second there ix 66 embedded File Transfer Protocol FTP utility that would allow it to be easily uploaded this makes you down load and learn 9 party software Another Microsoft product FrontPage is one of the most powerful consumerjprofessional web page cre lion programs out there Unfortunately talo asa hgh learning curve It took me about 10 hours of reading the FrontPage for Dummies bo
6. based voting system would technically possit but not appropri ate for our political and cultural stem Uma a sdes wil have a be applied ta parches over the Nat but it Sill mot sow down the growth af esas Now Available Engish willbe a minority language on the Nerina tew years John makos very clearthatheisnota prophet ballin hi back fick Heis a seer He sees what is happen Fe esenyubere i kis nique alent how ver to also see what is about io happen Andhereis were we have so much io pain y listening up So what should we be watching NG Next Generation Ime check 59 independence developments abeo wil be coming here developments here will be going there VAS that don t require the Web ar the happening already in weather boxes GPS i s fot more than finding your Nay outa ihe woods and wireless Wih mhe TBM maro dk youenn have 390 MB af storage in your Shirt pocket 1 can you do with thar Kiosks available eyeryuhere Anen ely mew lifestyle inthe wol ins Joha sees it going bip When you move beyond the conventional PC makes 559 sense XML More dhan HTML Plas it may bethe key tothe Web communicating wiih everything electronic And then Taha gently brought his magie carpet back t now eurth and we were bak in the aura The mecing Tew wenthome wih radi prizes lor us went home with something new othink about The fortunate ones went home wit
7. is ALWAYS ON eu EVERYWHERE the time factor goes KAMAL Istan messaging es 1 apens up people coatct at any time and makes waweling an indulgence not a Language wanslation extends alib His demo of conversing wih colleague in Germany with the computer January 2001 translating between the languages was showstopper INTELLIGENT Applicaton ings tion is means of making everything work with everything else This isthe key 20 89 together the many and diflerent aspects of everyday life EASY We are moving beyond the browser The tusing and error proe reguirements of conforming tothe browser are disappearing The favorite device be Showed 6 wat the eGo portable MP3 Player from 6 12G company With i weni IEM micro disk tean dana store trough musie for 24 7 IE Mike wies reading this younow know wat he wants in s Christmas stocking TRUSTED As functional capabilities develop he means of supporting finan Sltaactioe ile cte by people Disi IDe far everyone wil come about and become a part of everyday ving As John toid us abour the commonplace ae a PDAs in Europe we could see it The Q and A session covered the ange ot ft sll Hisanswers asus were conce and directly answered the Some ofthe highlghts were Heis proudof out government s rle in the development of the Interner Gov in sering Web IDsand financial wansacton is bol necessary and lp A Nec
8. the installation run to completion O Can move clients du Mac In Tax to TurboTax A There is 3 TXF interchange format Supported by many tax programa In 4 search at www google com on import Maclifae or export MacliTat let 1o tis link chow conveHow SHow 0 1053 15863 FT hunl ac hre which might shed some light on your problem Does know about the Ht Takes Guts to Say Jesus virus just got a warning about it A Any you pet an e mail warning jou about a ew virus before you Forward itt everyone you know heck it out at any of several sites Such at wonccertorgllker fourcestirsec hin 1o confiem tat iri a virus and not a hoax Almost invariably when you get a message describing 5 virus that references companies but not people at companies and advises that you drop everything and alert everyone Sot know iti a hoax Such i the ise for the H Takes Guts to Say Jesus viru it isa hoax There is 2 paper at the referenced web site That tells you what to look for in an email warning that ips off thar itis thon My computer at work has teo hard drives The first which the boot drive is comparatively small ow install applications on the second rive removed Acrobat Reader 3 from the C and then installed Aer Reader 4 on the D However When 1 click on a PDF fei tlle methat tan find Acrobat Reader even though I know thar its in l
9. unlimited service O Do you stil need a south view And how clear must your horizon be A Yes Ifyou have an unobstructed view af the sun at 400 PM you are good O Usually when I boot CompuServe akes off immediately and testo connect How can I stop this A There are several places where an autostart application can reside in dition tothe obvious Start Menu Frograms Stat Up folder Our guess that iis starting some sort of Instant Messenger application Opin 1 Take aloo in he regii using REGEDIT at he keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microso Windowsi CurrentVersiomRun and HKEY 14 anuary 2001 December 2000 LOCAL MACHINESOFTWARE Microsof WindowsiCunentVersion ARunServices and see what is being Stated Option 2 Call CompuServe and complain O1 have a similar problem I have situ ations where the system starts Dial Up networking without being asked often several minutes after he system was started Whar could that be A Several applications havea chock for recent updates feature Quicken QuickBooks and various Norton AniVirus ete applications come to mind Check thet configurations O Has anyone used the free vice available from Costco 1 tried tonal ithe install failed nor until afier it had removed the dialer for my regular ISP Anyone have similar probes A No several others ad installed it They allreported that they answered each question presented and er
10. 0 January 2 Microsoft Corporation GHome February 6 David Goldberg Health Science Inc Assistive Technology AMSYS Pentium II 6 I Business Systems PENTIUM II 266 MMX Notebook DACS SPECIAL 1 895 AGP 56 6 Tone Case wit Dre Baya ana 220W Powe Spp 104 Kay id 3208 RAM ike Mero Mae AGB 800 35600 0 5 amp UPGRADES 24 0 808 T farta te oe sont Battery Simonsen au Son 121 FFT Display leu ci eu rare SEN 30 sound renum inis Cru papan 238 2666 2 22 EE m AMSYS m ipo den dem em COMPUTER Some 00 Ethan Aen on Lo Gas preme MN 2034311500 wawamsysnet Call for latest prices SANSTS ne 2000
11. 8554677 Marlene Gabel Q03 428 4046 Jeff Sataro 203 748 6748 secarman Laya 260 3550394 MEASURER Chass oa 203 792 7001 Directors hares Sova 203 792 7882 Larry Buoy 860 355 0288 Marc Cahen 1203 75 2 Donald asso 23 669 9622 aa ary 203 706 5538 Bruce Preston 1203 438 4263 Meh Gad 203 426 4846 Alan eter 8591281847 Frances Odes 860 58 077 e Setar 203 148 6748 atten Greger 03 748 290 Committees EDUCATORS V 160 254 2300 MEMBERSHIP td 03 07808 MEWS LETTER France 0991801265 2977 cecsedkorgaaeom PROGRAM Sco 03 4L 694 WEBMASTER sc 203 700 5708 WER SITE pine ng HelpLine iter tave feri to field member questions by phone Please it cal tothe hrs cated Blow Days mens 9 ain 1 emeng means 19330 pm Please be considerate the latex you are calla Heine i trees 1 you are asked to pay for ep or are 55464 for sakes Please contact the dacs dot he person requesting payment wil Be dead from the 5166 Can we add your name to the winter itm 4 67 evening Progam Phone a mmm o pnl Por Hyems E EMI an e pu porre QA wer usa Seb Choo 858 I a7 pro ovem d Wado 11 Nek Suter Gender 4 pes Directors Notes i Racin Mazo fie DACS THRA be proe Bay aben Oe Neary Organ sed Pearson ad Mi abe pt Alan Outre scd and ary Duy kept e of Mid Nocte 200 war pied eir af
12. Char dot bene pen veg kalame oi S707 and pasange on d isien oed paid ef S25 fr aaa al 4736 member t 889 repone 65 ver tg wan utc Sessa Boy pd on eal yar lemm a sh Ana Moeting af c Medi held on December 2 vit Chaves Rove and Nan Gel an n ion Manew ep ean md Donald Penson sete The More inge s Nana rm oot The plas orhe Febre ary Gent Meng was agaia dane a DACS nested Wah e 19 oi be se abu die ony fr het Wa war ad ay aad datas fal copy de pel mad ral ino d o Mes Ced mering smi DACS catt gesing a gene dcin pd incar DACS or Stolen deepest mpolag Conrad ete 228 winenang adara dee pada of te Pri mre a ale see telis and SI A dad won cop among area wer grap ih respect January 2001 3 people who hart access o these caps Tuesaday are willingly and enthusa Sealy absorbing ben bin Vice Presidentolntecer Technology at IBM Corporation is imer nationally Known as a vision 569 His esponsibility at TBM is to be on op of everything happening as a result cof the Internet He evel all over he lobe wherever there s an e happeniag This gives him a unique perspective of the widely divergent culture adapting to the information age ha yes in the greater Danbury ares and isa pow tien
13. L E Mail Figs hip arg o medi Can ete neo tn a m ACS APACE Makan 5 3 91220996 eben che s3004 ot tL ACMMrbchp Fet eye talus TOO adi dra iratan ps Plia Tatad Lf Cony any er Bustu Mame ae ee T po mM hens Wai 66865 eer Janurary 2001 13 RandomAccess O Has anyone here used a refil kit for Inkjet type printers A Yes with mixed esas Most reported That black reti seemed o work just fine but many reported problems refilling color cartridges One ated that be had bener resus when he refilled the cartridges in place perhaps because it didn t disturb the Seals berween the cartridge and the print head or get ink onto the Electrical contacts The most ommon comment was that it fin Created a mess Note undiluted Tigi bleach can be used 10 get the ink ff of your hands you wil jst smell like your local swimming pool for a day or two One individual reported tnat he was satisfied with an exchange service that refil the Car ridges Tor you A common Tinute contamination can plug ajet anyone here using the Direct suele internet access service A Yes It works as advertised In addition within a few weeks ir is expected 10 be high speed upload as well and ilino longer have a time diferentia Where throughput and charges vary depending upon the me of day It is expected tobe 39 95 per month for
14. d Yo DACS was he ig annua meeting at which he has spoken to us His vidt is always the high Weh of ou year andthe auditorium was packed as always Tor a Joha Patrick program The magie carpet tour that John took uson looked down on seven of the inter a foces that are causing this world to emerge He described how they function old us how they contribute to the overall capability and showedus relin prod estat are being used today These seven forces are AST We are wash in bandwidth Tae telephone cable wireless ond sete companies ar ali capable of delivering ac informasion as we can use They are Frail competing wuh each Weh ood for us as wers Which delivery method or meth end up on top is ife death Tor them but Jon was confident tat the would progress with aay Such is how tota se liden information Bandwidth ks the key to moving ca fom watching Waiting and then responding toa sereen Bandwidth makes for an interactive enwi hat has presence AIWAYS ON and everywhere Eea abis are spreading out ons the PC Portables andbcid devises kiosks home Sh office display panels and more ever more The inevitab is an eetvtannent The key here are tte connec iy and addresses for everybody and ev erying Examples he showed ws included portable weather box a home command Center contrelling wind blinds heating Se various others If
15. ed on D A The association for PDF files is Sl pointing to your old installation o be File associations are found in Windows Expl View Folder Options or Tools Folder Options and select File Types You WAN get a tist or file types and het associated applications How you change 4 varies depending upon whether you are running Windows Ora NT or 2000 butessemnialiy you want to find the OPEN entry where You will probably see that the pati to Acrobat Reader is incorrect 580 editit and save it O1 have two drives and want o imple ment RAID Level siping hav hardware RAID controller How do Hum it on A Backup everything as you can t activate uwah dara The two dives mast be identical for hardware RAID you cav t just use identical partitions Once you turn on the RAID you can then copy the data edel e hardware wil puti on the drives and dothe redundancy Tor you O1 installed an application and every thing worked fine 1 decided ro re u doesn t appear in he AUR more Programs wizard How fo get rid oft A Programe aren t required to put an emey the registry that guides The Add Remove Programs wizard Ji recommended practice but not a requirement If an application doesn t eds add components to the SYSTEM or name folder and remove the WINDOWSISYSTEMI2 folders Shortcuts there they are how the Then itis probably safe to removet START buon entries a
16. eme Technical discussion Briefly Windows kas five areas or heaps that more information abont system re os p Es which manages 1 are used io aa NG user interface oct fion MN me dite pom aan poems 2c e aiwa bara Mores a WAD Window struc ture foreach window inthe system The ther stores menus The 16 bit heap Stores message queues windows lasses ete GDD dL the graphical de Vice holds the functions Tor drawing graphic images and dis playing text era M bitbeap Anda 32 bit heap Why You Have a Problem The point bere js that this space s limited and ev you run 56 the computer Uses some of When your system slows o a crawl the fos are good that you have a system poem My problems with systems resources began with an update to Eudora Promy e mal program fals under the heading Pree Updates Aren t Always a Good Mes oak me 4 while to elize at 1 had upgraded Eudora about the time the problems started When the light bulh lit I went to Eudora newsgroup to search for com mens Hint search for his kind of ibing at Deja Newt www deja comfusenet chttp7 ovde comen Y quickly dis complaints aute system re Sources used by Eudora along with sp pestine on increasing the resources alae A search o Web turned up nore suggestions I quickly became clar tat
17. ence a durable medical equipment distributor and technology provider represent ing over 23 manufacturers Among products Davidi respoasibie for are aug estive and alemative communication AAC speech discrimination and hearing products computer access han envionment conte ECUS and docatioal technology you know someone who needs spe false ar ast about erang dee technology we 317 the you hou makeit pinto send tis intrigu ing and informative program 8 the meam time far a preview of whats in store it the VEI Web at wew vieforoune fg the aks Aus Osa aacsrRez pnt cow Membership Information ac doc 55 10844573 put Shed ry by be Darby Aves Computer Sec 12 Meteor res ester pos Postmaster eines sangen e Aaa Cara Saeed re cgay See Darby CY ano Mat Editorial Committee Penogegtdee Frances Owes Ted Rovana 5 Technical Support dac tc s using an ANSYS Penim 133 ndan HP Lase ete mer paclages used TrueType ts Mobetagaker s CoGORAM 60 eender Crear or ace doc le banter secui sowed by AvP memet acess proven By Mags net Applications amp Hardware to enhance dace dee ae welcome rone Officers ES ERT Alan Osteen 0601 20 0047 daspren9 alco ss Gene Mnasi B60 354 4380 Frances 045 871
18. enter Web Design We had a great trout for the December meeting although the shopping season was upon us Our 796 continues t grow and everyone seems t have 5 reat mo Athough we had a few technical gitches we Successfuly wentover creating images for the web as well as ideas for finding a hostand SP wantto remind everyone to send me those goodsites and bad stes to matihewgg thebusinesshelper com We are sso looking for some specife topics that users would Be intrested in for future meetings If you have any deas please eMai then OnJanuary 105 cur topic wil be et Listed The Basics on Keywords Meta tags and Search Engines We wil go ver seting up your page so its robot Mendy as welas discussing varaus methods of submiting your ste to Ya hoo Excite Lycos Google and the others Look forward to seeing everyone in the New year January 2001 Danbury Area Computer Society NN AA Wednesday Third Friday Saturday 10 77 13 aa mm fares EOM 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 521455 1 serana 203 4284438 M 22 23 2 25 26 27 mes Janurary 2001 9 Trouble shooting OU VE PROBABLY gotten the Y waring frm Windows Ninety Percent or mare of sour system ane in use Close programs aw your computer will explnde Your ike mine might have been T ve got plenty of memory and hard drive space Whats going oa Unfort
19. es have a bad babit of not cleaning out my inbox wich con eat ta the problem 5 The end because the latet Eudora upgrade does solve the resource prb 18 and costs as mach as some ae peo ied alternanives and changed to Calypso an excellent shareware mail poo ram Weh ses about 5 of ess Problems in Windows Itself Finally note that system resources are socias iwed up when a pogran clos dato 5 programming prac ties in Windows Windows Irequenily pus off iil ing things program necs ke ons uni they ate requested Once requested those est aval afier the program is closed and the resources used by Yes hi isthe way they de Signed Isuspectir sa crude ack 1o mmako grams appear ta load aster also says at closing program before akas achonce to completly siart up can stand resources 254 rede the level of ee system re DACS President Alan Ostergren receives Jerry Award trom APCUG Secretary Joan Dineen The check in the amount f 750 is in recognition of DACS efforts lo provide Tetubishad POs fo area non profs Named tor former APCUG presi ont Jory Schneider ie award recognizes user group publi ser Vico intiatves M yu finding you have regular problems wa ow sytem resumes as 1 fst chek the programs al ays running then check the programe you use ely Internet browsers are notorious for us ing and not freeing op system reso
20. h a lot of things to tink about Direct From Disk Blsck and White Spot or 4 Color Copying For All Your Printing and Copying Needs 3 Commerce Dr Danbury CT Phone 203 792 5045 Fax 203 792 5064 Random Vectors A Manual Shall Come to Thee by Vira Jack ISIS YOUR USER manual hee Another thing I don t want to hear is My function isto teach you how that there are too many pages There are 9 use this system that you just never too many pages You don thave to bough memorize the whole Aie you still with me 9 thing all you do This is the second para is remember the seton graph and most of you Listen up you xxx Then when you wax up ever make tthis far Now SOO aoo the system you know Sou just paid a bundle to o hee to look 656 this ing so listen There are alot of new Spo what m telling you nerds tentures in this version 1f you don t you are in Use them You paid for credibly stupid and have them Move your xx and Wasted your money change your way of us And none of those hokey excuses ing the system like you don t do techie you can t un Saget itthrough your thick skull that derstand the jargon or that macho you ae going to have to work This xxx I never manual can t do 6 sining ia your book Here is Clyde I you don t hard shelf It ives you the stuff you need o manual m going to burn your know and can get Irom the Help tab TES Sorry wxx 1 Y
21. hen we use INTERNET centinaed on paged Down Home With Microsoft START THE NEW YEAR DACS is hosting jobs the latest Office 2000 Also to be demonstrated ix I Microsoft at its January 2nd 2001 general MSN Explorer and MSN Companion mosting Microsoft will presem is HOME The meeting promises o cover not only efficient and series of software educational hut also Mieresofi s plainaqectof ing aee John Stzoiney will computer Ps elaborare on the Far additional in theme of how a PC formation onthe prod isenhancedbyio dts demonstrated fol make ow the fum the Tesindhopecon DACS web page at Mup hrwvcdactarg Productive The meeting will is always a favorite of DACS members 461 start at 7 on Tuesday January 2 2001 at the usual obar presentation will include demos of new programs mecing place Danbury Hospital Auditorium The mecing There Will be something Tor any computer user Forte opis withthe questions and answers session foliowe pamer e ultimate fun i by brie club announce fo be had with Combat seats The main presenta Fight Simulator 2 WIL in is at 8 pan All general Pacific Theater For the meetings are free to the students and any one public For more details Seeking knowledge heck DACS weh pape Encarta Language Lear s mentioned above ar cll ing those who DACS center at 554 productivity ia eir f 366496 President s F
22. ile Once ine eve of YK prophesied inmediate end by mel a digital soup Tang not an occasion to prompt 0 cah mere frequent Dyer miles and hop boarda comet 1a meltdown coud i dal not come from adding zeroes Before ach year but from subtracting ene ie end of dot com pot A star we approach the REAL millennium anoet auspicious milestone foretold by Aur C Clarke the inate confonstion between man 484 in wbich man bel prevails Bur even this sembapocaly pe seem vastly overblown when one looks at the cuneat Where is the test 684 that shakes is bead sit on command and Wags ies tail Whereis the f a struggle wo the death other in the Sontived simulations of the action Computer game Even the gargantuan Shadow castaver the desktopby the mighty Microsof seems to have been eut down ia in the face of the new operat ing syslen he Internet At our next meeting on January 2 show of somme of the that his com Pany hopes wil keep it family placed on de Evolving desktop action games enhance ments for the home and Internet tal AS always i wil bean exerting and infor mive experience So comme on by relax nd De weaned oa view of the kinder and ge Poser ise 1 2 pena 5 soni Wa Sem I s pana 15 MonNewa
23. ly putan icon ihe system ay You should go through this lit cate fully and uncheck you don t want ot need Many are aed automatically when you installa With 1 bitappliestions anything ar wal nun in Windows 31 BOS nane af 86 system resources Ned up un 1 41 sich pro program Real ET r ar Audio for ex eaaa a a AN Microsoft says pem 0 i oropa to help it Sar up quicky Wordperfect fo the ray when Son stall Vi purposes Ms poss tht ies laziness eather Than progam ina Way elit he us programs and needed thr are x 2011 caer ally running 8 in the back DEM Microsoft round But you might find programs you don t need oF that you na longer ie Sometimes you id duplicates whieh are rarely unnecessary H you uncheck these programe one at then reboot you can see what each 469 program ase Onee you ve cleared out this list seboot and check youe resourees again Check Out Your Programs Then open a program and when i s completely open check resources Sgain As you open more windows in the program keep checking resources You 557 be surprised at how much of your stom is used In my cae Eudora Pro Was using 30 of my system sours si sonishingly large amount TE turned out that Eudora opens the inbox outbox and wash folders when it Duns and every message in these folders 669 some resourc
24. nscme WAP 15 2 anuary 2001 Three for the Board Tam pleased to announce tat the new directors have been added u our board fl owang the anal cin n December Don Neary has been a member of DACS since it emerged rom be alpha soup of Danbury User Group DAUG Danbury Group DOC Danbury Computer Society DCS and Wester Connecticut Microcomputer Users Group NCMUO Mathew Greger is a mew member who has become very active i ihe Web Design SIG bringing 3 thorough knowledge of both the PC and Mac platforma Don Pearson ian old timer who has been active ja promoting Somat operating sons iom OS2 t Linus wil provide resl ife esperi ce with fes new insights to their role ak Congratulations also to Charlie Bovaindand Marlene Gabel who were both electedas incumbents new wo jcrteme Assistive technology tools Mark your calendars for the 6 of Feb mias the day of meeting and a presentation on assistive technology A but rapidly growing indus ative Technology offers advanced t enhance the lives and inde pendence of he physically and mentally Challenged DACS members who ane fami jar withthe eye switch and voice synthe sis technology wed by Voice for Joanie may not know thatthe field extends ar beyond that to alternative keyboards Vaice seated computing environmental onl mobility tol ad much more Our guest presenter will be Davia Goldberg of Health Sci
25. ofts and mi isk Contact Pau Genres 203 426 8436 pgehr44020 aol com Meet Sed Thursday 130 pm Edmond Town Hall Newtown Next Meeting January 18 MACINTOSH Discusses Macintosh hardware and software Contact Chris 5362 203 798 6417 esaazG kami cam Meets on 3rd Tuesday 730 pm Next Meeting Suspended 0 0 Further notice VISUAL BASIC Devejops Windows apps wih Visual asic Contact Chuck zer 203 7989906 CF ero compusane com rJ im Scheef 860 355 8001 Scheefg Teemancss com Meets on Ist Wednesday Tpm atine DACS Resource Center Next Meeting januar VOICE FORJ OANIE Provides and supports people wih Lou Gehrig s disease wih special PC computer equipment Contact Snirey Fredlund 860 355 2611 ext 4517 fyoicetorjoanieg jana com 66 on lst Tuesday 7 50 pam at Data Brooke Nest Meeting January 30 WALL STREET Examines Windows stock market sotare Contact Phil Diloway 203 367 1202 dilowayg nob net Seat on ast Monday Tpm at te DACS Resource Cemer Next Meeting January 29 WEB SITE DESIGN Fundamentals of design for the Internet Contact Matthew Greger 203 748 2919 matthew hebuisenesshelpr com Meet second Wednesday atthe DACS Resource Center Next Meeting December 13 SIG News amp Other Events Back Office The 83 40 5 5 Decembermeetingdis cussed Internet communications and LAN security The January meeting wil be a special combined meeting with the Visual Basic and Access SIGs The program
26. ok and fol lowing along in order to start using FrontPage I would estimate that it took about 20 more hours of experimenting With the program and consulting the book again before I was confident about my ability to crate a good site Once you do Teara it though FrontPage makes ita snap to create a web site that Will look just as good on the web as it does on your computer And since it Includes is own File Transfer Protocol A WEB SITE FOR EVERYONE PART 3 HOW TO MAKE ONE program itis a snap to upload and up dme your pages with compatible host Creating Web Site is something that more and more people are doing The 1 1 estimate 1 have seen ir that there are over million personal web sites available on the web think Bat within 3 years a majority of the World s indusirialized population will hive their own web siie The coming incredible fusion of computers wireless modems and the Internet will continue To make access to the Web as common as using a telephone is today When You add in the hundreds of companies Sctvely competing to host web sites yon should agree there is no better tine fo stant man today Smart advertisers Teach over 1000 active computer users and software buyers taking Ivanta of the attractive advertising rates in DACS DOC Adobe GoLive 5 0 Professional ws sca ce sanamen papa authoring and site management tawanan ee Order Adobe GoLi
27. ou will sxe up stem for yon and those sir KANAAN will freeze hang anderash pirates that copy the disk doa thave the Now a manual 9 sot your sugar manual and can t petit sweettutoral holding yourhandevery O K now you know what you bener Siep of the way A manualis bootcamp rema well do pet sad The de Sothape upand doit by the book siga goal Tor this system and the imple Now if some pars of this usea bit mentation of every feature in it is to be ofmathorsomeelecuoniesiermt don t USER FRIENDLY Guth Next gen some wi ff he mana ii Youre star enough to cara the fer pale New Members 820 2900 tu 78 2000 2 con Dineen 7 kemahe Koso 3 856 Meare THIS IS YOUR LAST NEWSLETTER Ifthe membership date on your malinglaelreats EXP 10 2000 or eartier Youneedto renew your DACS membership Now Local Area Internet Providers Win ba Sas 2081501000 Lsterifomatonal purposes nl not sevi Can jin Finen 2937903654 tpe daez ore pes Janurary 2001 5 Personal Web Pages VER 800 MILLION Web sites are in existence More than 21000 domain names are being regis tered every wee will it ever stop My guess is that it he fun Soin thie cle we wil talk bout how anyone with Internet access can create his or ber own web ste These da
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30. unately this somewhat ery ptic message das Very lille todo Wih RAM aad TEGEN 1 refers o vna areas of Wi dows memory T learned tar Kama more about this Subject than wanted recently when my Systema kept collapsing because the s fem resources kepi disappearing The Microsoft Web sire lt hi auppor mentah ca has surprisingly ite on the toic buts searchin newsgroup and nother at Google chp we gost yielded the 1 needed Twas surprised though to find anas tanishing amount of misinformation ac Wel Far too many references on suppor sly well informed sites referred ss 56 resources as KAM and recommended losing applications to ree up more RAM While closing applications ean help sys em resources problem is not with RAM What Causes the Problem When Windows is running what you see and do ae bu from a collection of objets hat together make up the Win ovs experience All abject have to be locution in memory hei stats open checked maximized fe their menus and much ao they can be displayed when necessary 110 anuary 2001 Adventures in Computing Freeing System Resources by Tam Anderson closed or restored withoutrampling over Anything else in your Windows session Windows 3 1 was notorious Tor tunning out of system resources Windows 95 changed how these tems are andl and Windows 98 uses the same sch
31. urces 18 Tind thar one browser works for you than others You an siso uy oat replacements far your mpl Calypso leaves me more free Sources than Eudora Pro and offers bener Features in the bargain the fici magazine fhe January 2001 11 Action Games Coming in The Conquerors Expansion Pack November 2000 February 8 alert AL its February 6 meeting Maes done it Britain France Haly and South DACS Wila ageman ot again hey have made an ex America There ars aho new game per pension pack oe Age of Ear that are very highly challenging ike technology a relatively bites il The Age of Kings Iis called Wonder Race in this ype of game New hatrapidly growing industry hill stays there long enough they win by the Americans with Disabili sAdcsueirmanweapunis Al hese new game ophion make ate Pressure and eye controlled the plumed archer game a whole lot more entertaining switches to voice synthesizers ami main weapon is ueri is a vary good sane alternative keyboards voice Ini game are ilaa nen halfa onto five 1da nan hawa any PANA Able c eae ssa ne Pan D es equipment disributor and maps look more like real places suchas games assistive technology provider representing over 25 manufac turers Among the products David is responsible for are augmentative
32. ve 5 0 at www adobe com store producta golive btml AI pie pes January 2001 7 8 anuary 2001 Special Interest Groups SIG NOTES November 2000 ACCESS Designs and implements solutions using Microsoft Access database management sofware Contact Bruce Preston 203 4317020 bprestong mags ne Meet on 2nd Tuesday Jp atthe DACS Resource Center Next meeting arua 2 ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS Explores and develops 659166 and NT operating system Formeeng nates and 2555 flow ink to Dons te an dacs org Contact Dan Pearson 914 669 9622 pearsong atiglabal net Meets on Wednesday ofthe week folowing he general meet ing 730 pm at Don Pearson s ofice Norh Salem NY Next meeting J anusry 10 BACK OFFICE Explores Back Offce server and cent appika fons including Win NT Servers and M S Outipok The SIG meets nd thursday 7 pm at e DACS Resource Centr Contact Jim Scheef scheef telemartsys com Next meeting January 11 GRAPHICS C reate print high qualty graphics and images Contact Ken Grat 20203 175 6667 orafico rip nat Meets Gast Wednesday pm at Best Photo 82069 Brooke Next Meeting anuary 51 INTERNET Acquaints DACS members wit the Intemet Contact Richard Koser kasera woridnetatt net Meets on Sra Wednesday Tp m at he DACS Resource Center Members suggestions are welcome Next Meeting January 17 INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Discusses various investment Sategles to maximize pr
33. wil be 3 uestspeakerftom ComponentOne the merger ofVideosoft Snd Apex Software The speaker wil demonstrate tne lat Est controls from Component One such as SizerOne FlexGr TueDBGri Pro and my favorte veView The mecing wil be Tuesday January Sth at Tpm inthe DACS Resource Center Internet The DACS Interet SIG metin December on the usual third Wednesday the 20th at the Resource Center Brian Backman presented Shopping Bots in the of time forte nla The Intemet Special interest Group now meets usually at 7 30 p m onthe third Wednesday ofthe month atthe DACS Resource Center on the lower level of Manor located t 198 Main Street a few buldinos north from the Danbury Publ Library Open discussion of interesting sts and ther Intemet matters precedes and 85 the presents ton Members suggestons for Internet SIG topics and par tigation are always welcome and even essential contact Richard Koser at aser wordnet att net Visual Basic The VB SIG did notmeetin Decemberso that everyone could hear ohn Patrick at the General Meeting The January meeting wil be a special combined meetng wah he Back Ofies and Access SIG s The program wil be 2 guest speaker from Component One the merger af VideoSoft and Apex Sofware The speaker wil demon strate 88 latest contis from Component One such 35 SizerOne vsFlexGrid TrueDbGrid Pro and my favorite View The meeting wil be Tuesday anang S at Tpm Inthe DACS Resource C
34. y experience as well as thet Far Ecras B FAAA A TARAA Suggests 5 a p may be on the optimistic side and development and Windows NT However the ability completly elini Nenroring Servicer He hes been th DACS nar theneedforcablesmakesthesevery fanger than anyone co remember ou can 38516 Except forthe wie thse Work rech imatjcheetckmaseys cum ple dang ist 7 wit dacs doc atna charge Ads may be paced elecrons al by ax maybe submited atour mont general meeting Fax your ads 788 i5 tending the members table at the meeting FREE CLASSIFIEDS DACS members may pub h noncommercial computer lated classified ads in modem or hao uy Chanie Bovakd at 203 782 Leave hard copy classifieds ih Charlie Marc or whoever Joanie Help give the gift of speech Cal Shirley Fredlund at 860 355 261 et 4517 and become a Voice for J oanie winter Janurary 2001 15 TheDACS computer project is accepting the following items in work Computer Donations Welcomed Dp endang Mice with PS2 ype comecon 2101 type keyboards with PS2 type connectors Help je the at of janganan Contech MN Call Shirley Fredlund ac at 860 355 261 IEScompe Comput wiih rae at ext 4517 ey and become a NGA or SVGA monitors os Voice for J oanie volunteer To arrange a donation call 203 431 150
35. ys creating a simple web site isa easy writing a eter Wah most word processors vou can save he document you just erested asa web page just by clicking on file and speci Iing save as HTML Even multiple Pages will just save asa very long home Website This is a great way tocttatea Web site add some pictures and then practice uploading it to your Intemet How Perhaps an even easier way to cre a web site is to use one of the com mercial services such as Yahoo GeoCities These sites use simple wiz ards to let you have creative control ver how the web site looka They let You import documents pictures and create links that bind everything Together As a test I created wo dif Terent web sites on Yahoo GeoCities My first simple web site took me 20 min umes ro create was told ie should take bout 10 minutes because Twas plagued by long waits between the ser Spsceeeas hen went in and created Sn elaborate sire with several uploaded and articles that were already Stored on my computer This site took me over 6 hours with over an hour Spent just uploading documents to the web Both sites looked very good since he wizards puide you on where vo put pictures and text Yahon OroC ies aiso Jas you upload a pre existing web site thar you have made using other pro grams This is a huge timesaver since 6 anuary 2001 you will aot vaste time uploading each document
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