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| Volume 24 | September, 2005 | Issue No. 9 |
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ANNOUNCEMENT |
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Nominations for Board positions will begin next month, October. All
positions are open for nomination, as always. Two positions will definitely be
open, Newsletter Editor and Treasurer.
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Progressive Raffle |
Jackpot is up to $225.00!! 28 cards left |
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Regular Meeting
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Wednesday, September 21 Caseyville Township Bldg. |
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Board |
Wednesday, October 5 5 Eastport Plaza Drive Meal starts about 6:00. Meeting starts at 7:00 Everyone is welcome |
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This
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Swap Meet/Computer fix
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Next
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Board nominations and RAID (Short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks) demo by Chuck H. |
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Hello From The
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LITTLE
DITTY ABOUT CHUCK AND DIANNE
This will be
the last Newsletter I write to Chuck White. As he stated in his farewell address
e-mail, they are moving out of the area and they will no longer be able to fill
the Newsletter Editor and Treasurer positions that they currently hold for the
club from their new location. Chuck and Dianne have helped out the club in
numerous ways over the years and they will truly be missed more than they or I
realize. I'm hoping to find someone to fill in for them in the interim and then
we can officially fill their positions when we have our elections in November.
If you are interested, please let me know at the meeting. I was hoping Chuck
would blow the interview, but, he must have put on a good show....
KATRINA RELIEF
Chuck Hill and
a bunch of our members discussed this via e-mail and the Board acted on your
wishes at the board meeting. We wrote a check for $200 to help out the victims
of Katrina. To be honest I'm a little tired of the news coverage it has been
getting and the politicians that are using it for political gain, but, I can't
imagine what the people that were flooded out are going through and I'm glad we
did something to help them. Please help out on your own if you can.
PROGRESSIVE RAFFLE CONTINUES TO GROW
The raffle
prize is up to $225 and we have 28 cards left in the deck. It's not as good as
the Mega-Millions jackpot, but, your odds are a lot better...
FREE CD/DVD REPAIR FOR MEMBERS
We would like
to offer to repair CD's/DVD's for the membership for free. If you want to use
them, make sure your dues are up to date and bring one or two scratched CD/DVD's
with you at a time. Each disc will take about three to five minutes to go
through the processes and we only have a few hours at each meeting, so, this is
a free service to each member as long as we only get one or two disks per member
per meeting.
COMPUTER SHOW = NOT TOO BAD
Overall, I
think there were a few bargains to be had. The $10 Laptop cases were a steal. I
think we're all starting to get used to the shows and the amazement at how many
computer motherboards and components has started to wear off. At least it was
mostly computers this time and we actually had a good location for our booth.
I'd like to thank everyone that helped out at the show. It still amazes me to
think about how many good people we have in the club. It's not just the
technical ones, everyone that goes to the show learns something new or helps out
just by being there. The club only exists because you are active when we need
you. Thanks again and keep up the good work. Your good deeds will be
rewarded....
COMPUTER FIXING TIME / SWAP MEET EXTRAVAGANZA
As we
typically do at the meeting that follows a show... We're going to have a bring
out your dead / mostly dead computer fixing meeting. If you have a machine that
is acting strange or one that needs to be overhauled. Bring it to the meeting
and we'll try to get it running a little smoother before you go home.
If you bought a bunch of stuff at the show and your better half or the anal-retentive side of your brain is telling you to clean out some of the junk in your room / basement / garage / storage bin / trailer etc...., bring your stuff to the meeting and offer it up at the swap meet. Trade it to somebody else or sell it outright. Make sure you bring some cash so you can take something home to fill in all the holes you made when you loaded up your stuff...
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See
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The Computer
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The Treasurer's
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TREASURER’S REPORT DIANNE WHITE, TREASURER AS OF SEPT. 1ST, 2005 BALANCE AS OF AUG. 1ST. 2005 $5703.96 INCOME: 6 NEW & 3 RENEWAL @15.00 EA. = $135.00 CHUCK HILL (CD’S) $10.00 |
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The Secretary's Report |
August 05 minutes.
0701 President Mike Taphorn called the meeting to order welcomed the members, new members and guests, then introduced the Club's new CD/DVD disc cleaner. He then introduced the prizes for the evening. Next President Taphorn went through some magazine news articles. He then explained the usage of the new disc cleaner. From there he began passing around the worker signup sheet for the computer show and fianlly polled the Board members for comments.
0720 The meeting continued with Q & A.
0740 Drawing for progressive raffle was conducted, again with no BIG winner.
0750 Started Remote Access demo by Chuck H.
Later that evening meeting adjourned.
(Minutes as taken by Newsletter Editor, Chuck W.)
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Till then, Carlos
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The Membership
Chairman |
| Number of Members in attendance last month: | |
| Total Membership Before last month's meeting | |
| Number of Members renewing last meeting | |
| Number Of Members joined last meeting | |
| Number of members dropped | |
| Current Total Membership | |
| Number of Members in Good Standing | |
| Number of Members on Probation | |
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The Web Master |
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![]() Assistant Dennis McMurtrey |
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The Editor |
| This will be my last meeting as Newsletter Editor. I have accepted a job offer in Alabama that pays more :-). It's been fun (especially the Board meetings) and I am grateful to have been able to serve y'all, as best I could. |
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Mitch's Corner |
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Later,
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Miscellaneous |
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Leo LaPorte and Call For Help is back! G4 Tech TV apparently will be airing Call For Help sometime in September. Check out this website for updates:
(Brought to our attention by Dennis McMurtrey)
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The Lighter
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