Volume 24  September, 2005  Issue No. 9

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

 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. 

 

The Next Meeting

Progressive Raffle

Jackpot is up to $225.00!!

28 cards left 

 

Regular Meeting


 

 

Wednesday, September 21

Caseyville Township Bldg. 
10001 Bunkum Rd.
Fairview Heights, IL

Directions:      Map:

 

Board 
Meeting

Wednesday, October 5

Ponderosa Steakhouse

5 Eastport Plaza Drive 
Collinsville, IL
(618)345-5006

Directions: 

Meal starts about 6:00. Meeting starts at 7:00

Everyone is welcome

   

 

The Presentation

This
Meeting

 

Swap Meet/Computer fix

 

Next
Meeting

 

Board nominations and RAID (Short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks) demo by Chuck H.

 

 

Hello From The Pres...
Mike Taphorn

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...

See you at the meeting …

 Mike

 

The Computer Master
Jim Tomlinson, Vice President




See you at the meeting!
Enjoy.....JT

 

 

The Treasurer's Report
Dianne White

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
CD SALES= 35.00
ROLL-OVER JACKPOT= 104.00

TOTAL INCOME: $274.00

EXPENSES:

CHUCK HILL (CD’S) $10.00
PONDEROSA FOR SEPT. 20.00
MIKE TAPHORN (DVD/CD REPAIR) 74.64
MIKE TAPHORN (P.S. @ PUTER SHOW) 20.26

TOTAL EXPENSES $124.90

DEPOSIT: $253.74

BALANCE AS OF SEPT 1ST, 2005 $5853.06


ROLL OVER JACKPOT WORTH $225.00

CARDS LEFT 28

 

The Secretary's Report
Carlos Mariles

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.)

Till then,

Carlos

 

 

The Membership Chairman
JC Spelce

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  

The Web Master
Stephen Kilroy

 


Librarian
Jason Whitener


Assistant  
Dennis McMurtrey

The Librarians

 

 

The Editor
Chuck White

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. 

 

Mitch's Corner
Mitch  Graves


Later,

 

 

 
 

Miscellaneous
 Things Of Interest And Importance To Someone 

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:

http://www.callforhelptv.com/

(Brought to our attention by Dennis McMurtrey)
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The Lighter Side 
Of Computing

Alabama Jokes This Month :-)

An Alabama State trooper pulls over a pickup truck on I-20. He says to the driver, "Got any ID?" The driver says, "Bout what?" 

Q: Did you hear about the $3,000,000 Alabama State Lottery?
A: The winner gets $3 a year for a million years.

Q: Why did O. J. Simpson want to move to Alabama?
A: Everyone has the same DNA.

Q: Did you hear that the governor's mansion in Birmingham, Alabama burned down?
A: Yep. Pert' near took out the whole trailer park.

A new law recently passed in Alabama: When a couple gets divorced, they're still brother and sister.

Q: What's the best thing to ever come out of Alabama?
A: I-20 and I-10

Two Alabamans are walking down different ends of a street toward each other, and one is carrying a sack. When they meet, one says, "Hey Tommy Ray, what'cha got in th' bag?" "Jus' some chickens." "If I guesses how many they are, can I have one?" "Shoot, ya guesses right and I'll give you both of them." "OK. Ummmmm . . . five?"

Q: What do a divorce in Alabama, a tornado in Kansas, and a hurricane in Florida have in common?
A: Somebody's fixin' to lose them a trailer.
***


An Alabaman came home and found his house on fire, rushed next door, telephoned the fire department and shouted, "Hurry on over here. My house is on fire!"

"OK," replied the fireman, "how do we get there?"

"Say, don't you still have them big red trucks?"

***

Q: Why do folks in Alabama go to the movie theater in groups of 18 or more?
A: 'Cuz 17 and under not admitted.

***

Are ya Chicken?
A guy goes into a bar and asks the bartender if he wants to hear a good Alabama joke.

The bartender says, "Before you tell it, you should know that I am 6-2 and weigh 225 and I'm from Alabama. See that guy at the end of the bar? He's 6-4 and weighs 250 and he's from Alabama, too. And see the guy at the other end of the bar? He's 6-6 and weighs 280 and he's from Alabama too! Now, do you still want to tell your Alabama joke?"

The guy says, "Nah."

To which the bartender smiles and says, "What's the matter? Are ya chicken?"

The guy says, "Nah. I just don't want to have to explain it three times."

***

Elevator
A country bumpkin family from Alabama decides to go to the Big Apple for the first Time in their lives; Maw, Paw and their son. They go into the Empire State Building. As they're walking around they notice the elevator. Never seeing one before they stand in front of it bewildered.

While staring at it, an old lady in a wheelchair rolls up to it, pushes the button, the door opens, she rolls herself inside and the door closes.

The Alabama hick family watches as the lights for each floor light as it goes up. They continue to watch as the numbers go down again.

The door opens and out walks this tall gorgeous blonde. Legs to her neck. Great figure. Beautiful!

Paw looks at his son and says, "Quick boy, shove yer Maw in there!!"

***

Kindergarten
Billy Bob and his family moved from Alabama to Maine to so his Paw could find better work picking potatoes. The next day Billy Bob started his first day of kindergarten. When he got home he rushed to tell his Paw, "Paw, Paw, Teacher ast us to ree-cite the alpherbet today en Ah wuz the onliest one that could!"

His Paw replied "That's cuz you's from Bama, son!"

The next day he came home and told his Paw "Paw, Paw, Teacher ast us to count as high as we could en Ah counted the highest!"

His Paw replied, "That's cuz you's from Bama, son!"

The next day, he came home and told his Paw "Paw, Paw, today, when we wuz all in a line, Ah noticed Ah wuz the biggest of all! Ah bet that's cuz Ah'm from Bama, huh Paw?"

His Paw replied, "No son, that's cuz yer 17 years old."

***

Rabid Dog
Two boys are playing football in a vacant lot when one of the boys is attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the first little boy rips a board off a nearby fence, wedges it down the dog's collar, and twists, breaking the dog's neck and killing him instantly.

A reporter, who happens to be strolling nearby, sees the incident and rushes over to interview the boy. "That was the most incredible act of bravery I've ever seen!" the reporter exclaims. He whips out his notebook and furiously scribbles the headline: "Young Bama Fan Saves Friend From Vicious Animal!"

The little hero sees this and says, "But sir, I'm not a Bama Fan, I'm an Auburn Fan!"

The reporter looks warily at the boy for a moment, then flips the page and begins a new headline: "Little Redneck Kills Beloved Family Pet"

***

Q. Did you hear about the New 3 Million Dollar Alabama State Lottery?
A. 3 dollars a year for a million years.

Q. What do a Divorce in Alabama, a Tornado in Kansas and a Hurricane in Florida have in common?
A. Somebody's fixin' to lose them a house trailer.

Q. Why do folks from Alabama go to the movie theater in groups of 18 or more?
A. Nobody admitted 17 and under.

Q. What do you get when you have 32 Alabamians in the same room?
A. A full set of teeth.

Q. Why did OJ Simpson want to move to Alabama?
A. Everyone has the same DNA.

Q. A new law was passed in Alabama recently.
A. When a couple gets a divorce, they're still brother and sister.

***

Two Alabamians are walking down different ends of a street toward each other and one is carrying a sack. When they meet, one says, "Hey Tommy Ray, what'cha got in th' bag?"

"Jus' some chickens.

"If I guess how many there are, can I have one?"

"I'll give you both of them."

"OK. Ummmmm......, five?"

***

An Alabamian came home and found his house on fire, rushed next door, telephoned the fire department and shouted, "Hurry over here. My house is on fire!"

"OK," replied the fireman, "how do we get there?"

"Say, don't you still have those big red trucks?"

***

The Alabamian and his gal were embracing passionately in the front seat of the car. "Want to go in the back seat?" she asked.

"No," he replied.

A few minutes later she asked, "Now do you want to get in the back seat?"

"No," he said again, "I wanna stay here in the front seat with you."

***

Q. Did you hear that the governor's mansion in Alabama burned down?
A. Almost took out the whole trailer park.

***

No Driver
Several years ago the city of Birmingham decided to lease several English style double decker buses to transport the Auburn and Alabama fans to the Iron bowl. On this bus, the Auburn fans were on the bottom level and the Alabama fans were on the top deck. as we started off to the stadium, all of the Auburn fans were making a lot of noise yelling "War Eagle" and having a good time. We noticed that the Alabama fans were quiet. Not a sound was coming from the upper deck.

I decided to go up top and see what was wrong. As I arrived up top , I noticed that all of the Alabama fans had their hands clasped on the rail in front of them and they all were white as a sheet. I was stunned. I asked them why they all were so frightened?

They replied with fear in their eyes, "WE DON'T HAVE A DRIVER."

***

Question and Answer

Q. How did the Alabama student die from drinking milk?
A. The cow fell on him!

Q. Why do Alabama students have TGIF on their shoes?
A. Toes Go In First!

Q. Did you hear about the Alabama quarterback who tried to throw himself on the floor in a fit of rage?
A. He missed!
***


Mom: Only 2 more minutes until 1998.
Dad: I'm going to bed.
Son: But Dad, you're going to miss the ball drop....
Dad: Hey Son, I've seen it plenty of times.. I'm an Alabama fan you know!!

***

Q. What is the one thing that keeps so many Alabama football players from graduating?
A. CLASSWORK!

Q. Did you hear about the Alabama fan who froze to death?
A. He went to the drive in...He sat through "Closed for the season"!!

Q. How do you get an Auburn student off your porch?
A. Pay him for the pizza!

Two Auburn fans have been walking in the woods for eight hours when they stop and one turns to the other and says, "I'm cutting the next Christmas tree we find, lights or no lights."

Q. What's the difference between a University of Alabama sorority sister and a scarecrow?
A. One lives in a field and is stuffed with hay. The other frightens birds and small animals. 

From www.ahajokes.com

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