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| Volume 21 | August, 2003 | Issue No. 08 |
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Regular Meeting
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Wednesday, August 20 at 7:00 PM Caseyville Township Bldg. |
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Wednesday, Sept 3 Ryan's Steakhouse Everyone is welcome |
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August
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That other computer system......Macintosh, Apple, and accessories. We are not trying to convert the true believers....just a chance to see what the other one can do.
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September
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An introduction into Linux.......the other operating system for PC's 1. A brief history of UNIX and Linux. 2. What you can do and how it works. 3. Introduction into the different distributions of Linux.
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October
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Nominations for club officers
Selling things on eBay and photographing items you plan to sell (table top photography)
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November
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Election of club officers
Undecided at this time. |
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December
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The GCC Christmas Party |
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Hello From The
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ANOTHER
SHOW SUCCESS! We had another successful computer show. I’d like to thank
everyone who showed up to work the booth. Even though we
didn’t have a lot of names on the sign-up sheet, we had just
enough people to get it done. We
did sign up 13 new members and 3 old members renewed. All in
all the Show was a success for us. The next show will be in
December, just in time for Christmas… THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP
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MAC
DEMO This month we are going to do something a little different. We have a guest speaker who is going to show us about Macintosh computers. He is a friend of mine named, Jason Fischer. He works with me and he has a MAC laptop and an IPOD and lots of other fun gizmos. It gives our usual demo givers a break and we get to see what Steve Jobs has been up to lately. Please make sure you make it to this meeting so you can see what a MAC looks like nowadays. They aren’t tiny little black-and-white boxes anymore… SEPTEMBER
DEMO IS LINUX & OCTOBER
IS EBAY This
is one of the first times in history that we have had three
months worth of demos determined in advance so I had to write
about it…. Since
we had a guest speaker scheduled for August, we figured that we
might as well get a few more. Leonard and Chuck Hill are our
normal demo presenters, but we’re trying to give them a
rest… The
September demo will be an introduction to Linux. The Hill's are
going to introduce us to that operating system. The main
presenter will be Walter with Chuck and Leonard helping. If we
can get Rodger involved, we will have an all Hill Demo. (Note! only Leonard and Chuck are related). I
did hear that
we are going to have many flavors of Linux available on CD
for the club members to buy for a buck each. The October Demo
is going to be presented by Dennis McMurtrey. He has a lot of
fun and makes a lot of money using Ebay. He has a lot of
great tips and tricks to teach us… Make
sure you make it to the next three meetings so you don’t miss
the great demos we have scheduled… BY-LAWS I
saved the boring part for last. Everyone knows how much I hate
formal business stuff that makes the meetings boring, but I
think we have the final touches completed on our revised set of
BYLAWS. We also have a revised Constitution for everyone to
review. We are going to have them available at the meeting and
give everyone a while to review them and then we have to have
an official vote to get them passed by the general membership.
This will not be very painful, because all we did was rewrite
them to match what we currently do. I’m sure it will go
smoothly… See
you at the meeting … Mike |
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The Treasurer's
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The Secretary's Report |
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Well here we go, Carlos |
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The Membership
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| Number of Members in attendance last month: | 59 |
| Total Membership Before last month's meeting | 197 |
| Number of Members renewing last meeting | 5 |
| Number Of Members joined last meeting | 31 |
| Number of members dropped | 16 |
| Current Total Membership | 199 |
| Number of Members in Good Standing | 195 |
| Number of Members on Probation | 4 |
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The Web Master |
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Here is some advice on using the list server. 1. When you send email to the listserver, please use "GCC" as the beginning of the subject line for easy reference. This allows easier sorting and filing for GCC information emails. GCC - POST - COMPUTER SHOW THIS WEEK! GCC - QUESTION - YATA YATA? GCC - RE:QUESTION - YATA YATA? 2. Send all questions to the list server and not to the officers email account you find on the website or the newsletter. Send your message to: gcc@htc.net This address is a hot link. Sending your questions to any other address is just going to slow down response because we have resend your question to the list server. Note these instructions come from the website....Please consult them before sending emails to the list server. |
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The Computer
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See you at the meeting. Enjoy.....JT |
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The
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Two new CD's We have two CD's filled with wallpaper. The images are all categorized and thumbnail images with links have been created for each. Disk 42 contains 3,400 plus images arranged into 23 categories. Disk 43 contains 2,500 plus images arranged into 15 categories.
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The Editor |
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Taking photographs from the air is theoretically straightforward. There are two things you need to do. You need to get the camera in the air, and then you need to trigger the shutter. To trigger the shutter, there are basically three options: mechanically triggering the shutter from the air, electronically triggering the shutter from the air, and using the camera's built-in timer to trigger the shutter from the air. To get the camera in the air, there are basically three options: a balloon, a kite, and a rocket. Click on the above link to learn more about using a balloon. I need four volunteers for the Linux demo. We want to give Linux distributions to four members at the August meeting. They need to take them home and use them and report back their experience back to us. NO, you do not have to stand up in front of the group and talk. We want 10 the 20 sentences about your experience to put in an article in the newsletter. You can email them to me or give me a phone call and I will write it up. Don't worry about spelling and grammar and all that stuff. I can take care of those problems. One of the trial distributions will run directly from your CD ROM drive. You do not have to put anything on your computer. Your computer must be capable of booting from the CD ROM drive. The second distributions will require you to install it on your hard drive. You will need either a second hard drive or a spare machine to load it on. It will wipe out your existing operating system. Note.....we do not plan to provide you with any technical support for either process. We want to know your experience trying to use LINUX, not ours... This page lists all issues of previously published Digital Pictures - our monthly email for digital photographers. If you would like to subscribe to the Digital Picture and have the photo lessons delivered straight to your email Inbox free of charge,
visit our subscription page. Here are the links to the past newsletters and the latest one at the bottom (internet access required): Email Problems Persist For
the Computer Show reminder I went back to the database and
created a complete new mailing list. When I used it instead
of my edited and pieced together list, there were 31 bad
email addresses. These need to be fixed. If you are not
getting regular emails about meetings and other reminders,
from gcc-newsletter@charter.net,
you need to contact our membership chairman and get your
address fixed. DO NOT send corrections to me. |
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Mitch's Corner |
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Note:
The Editor |
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Mac's World for Aug/03
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MS Blaster......aka....."The Worm" Here is the EZ definitive guide to this whole mess, thanks to Bob Young of PConsite.us for fix instructions. Hope this clears up everyone's questions. Google 101....Learn how to use it.
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Miscellaneous |
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