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Monthly Newsletter of the Washington Area Computer User Group TheMonthly NewsletterCursor of the Washington Area Computer User Group Meeting Location Next Meeting: Fairfax County July 19, 2008 Government Center Brueggeman’s wide-screen Toshiba Presidential Bits Satellite laptop. July 2008 Meeting Get A Free Digital TV at Our Next By Paul Howard Meeting hile June’s meeting Learn How to Convert Your was lightly attended, Analog TV to Receive Free Digital no doubt because of Channels beautiful weather, those who W Kurt DeSoto will discuss the Federal were there witnessed successful trouble shooting projects, and an government’s mandate for TV informative series of videos on stations to transition from analog repairing laptop computers by to digital channels by February 17, author Scott Mueller. 2009, and what it means to viewers. Topics to be covered include: (1) Geof Goodrum helped Neal the differences between analog Grotenstein set up a Wifi wireless TV, digital TV, standard definition router for use with a laptop computer. television, and high definition TV Scott Hanak worked with Henry sets and broadcasts and how to Kennedy to overcome an error Table of Contents determine the capabilities of your message that appeared every time TV sets , (2) how to configure your Henry booted his computer, and existing analog sets to receive free also worked on troubleshooting Lloyd’s Web Sites of The over-the-air digital channels by a printing problem. Don Ferret using a converter box subsidized by Month ...................... 2 brought in a laptop with several the government, (2) how to submit issues, including Internet Explorer GNU/Linux Sig ........ 3 an order online during the meeting freezing on closing. With Scott (or later at your convenience) for up Linux DOM ............. 3 Hanak’s assistance, that issue was to two $40.00 coupons from the resolved by removing Google and Thought about Trying government to help defray the costs Yahoo toolbars. Other problems Linux ....................... 4 of the boxes, (3) when and how to were cured, or troubleshooting connect the boxes to your analog Digital TV Delimma? 7 paths were suggested. sets, and (4) how to keep getting E-mail Etiquette ....... 7 After the board of directors’ meeting, low power analog channels, such E-mailing Photos ...... 8 held now at Wegman’s dining room as foreign language channels. If on the second level of the Fairfax time permits, Kurt will provide Plus Bonus Pages in the store, the gang was able to verify Download Edition that three memory modules worked See PBits on page 2 properly, and installed two in Jim Lloyd’s Web Sites for July, 2008 PBits continues from page 1 by Lloyd Johnson, WACUG Member http://www.wacug.org/ is the URL for the Washington Area Computer an actual demonstration of how User Group. Visit it for past issues of Web Sites with hyperlinks to hook up a converter box to an analog TV set so the group can 1. MIT: OpenCourseWare–Want to look at MIT courses? http://ocw.mit.edu/Oc- watch cartoons in digital format for wWeb/web/home/home/index.htm OCW is a free publication of course materi- the rest of the meeting, since it is als used at MIT. OpenCourseWare shares free lecture notes, exams, and other Saturday after all. Gosh. resources from more than 1800 courses spanning MIT’s entire curriculum Neal Grotenstein will provide a 2. Yahoo! Shine – http://shine.yahoo.com Yahoo! Shine is a new website for wom- short discussion about protecting en. The site offers nine categories ranging from Fashion & Beauty to Parent- your email address from Internet ing, and will feature content from many of the most popular lifestyles publish- email address harvesting programs. ers, including Conde Nast Publications and Hearst Corporation. (The following web page link to ac- 3. Project Gutenberg – www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg cess a list of Digital TV Stations re- is the Internet’s oldest producer of free electronic books, eBooks, or eTexts. ceived in this area was inadvertently There are over 20,000 free books in this collection left out of last month’s “Keeping www.sba.gov/servic- 4. Small Business Administration: Free Online Courses – Up” column: http://www.wacug. es/training/onlinecourses/index.html Available courses are identified by topic. org/recmtgs.html ) You can learn about the specific courses by clicking, ‘About these Courses.’ In general, the courses are all self-paced and should take about 30 minutes to complete. Most of the courses require a brief online registration. 5. FindLaw – www.findlaw.com FindLaw is the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers. 6. Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations – www.bartleby.com/73 2,100 entries in this collection of quotations. 7. How Recessions Work – http://money.howstuffworks.com/recession.htm In this HowStuffWorks article, you will find out what recessions are, see why NCTCUG they occur, and examine the criteria economists use to identify them. Site also looks at the effects of recession as well as explores some of the ways a Visit our “sister” user group. country can turn the economy around again. The National Capital Tech- nology and Computer User’s 8. U.S. Major Metro Newspapers – http://newslink.org/metnews.html A listing Group meets the first and of U.S. major metropolitan newspapers. fourth Wednesday of the www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/under- 9. Understanding Your Telephone Bill – month. They meet in Carlin standing.htm l The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Truth-in- Hall in Arlington at 5711 Billing rules require telephone companies to provide clear, non-misleading, South 4th Street. Visit their plain language in describing monthly services for which you are being billed. web site for more informa- Here is a detailed description of some of the charges or line items that may ap- tion, a map and directions: pear on your traditional wireline telephone bill, your wireless telephone bill, or http://www.nctcug.org/ both. Meetings start at 7:00 PM 10. English Pronouncing Dictionary – www.howjsay.com Enter the word you want and when it appears in pink, mouse over it to hear it spoken as often as you want. Each word is individually pre-recorded and no form of synthetic speech is used. Both American and British spellings are provided. Pronunciation is in Standard British English, with World English alternatives. Over 82,000 words listed. The Cursor — July 19, 2008 Page 2 — www.wacug.org programs from Windows 3.1 to XP. Pioneer Linux 3.2 The Wine Project plans to support Sabayon Linux 3.5 Scientific Linux 5.2 64 bit Windows applications in the sidux 2008-02 future. StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2 While not every Microsoft Win- SystemRescueCd 1.0.4 dows software runs well under VectorLinux 5.9 Wine, a wide variety of games and Voltalinux 2.1 productivity applications do. The Zenwalk Linux 5.2 Zenwalk Live 5.2 Wine Project maintains a commu- nity database of application compa- Linux Software of the Month tability reports and configuration The software described below is advice at http://appdb.winehq.org/. downloadable at the links provided There are also commercially sup- or may be requested on CD. In addi- ported versions of Wine that are GNU/Linux SIG tion, WAC can provide CD-R and optimized for various programs, By Geof Goodrum, WAC DVD±R media for any download- such as CodeWeavers (http://www. able GNU/Linux operating system Now Serving Wine (1.0) codeweavers.com/) and the closed distribution (e.g. Fedora, Mandriva, source Cedega Gaming Service After 15 years of development, the Ubuntu, Debian, Knoppix). Please (http://www.cedega.com/). Wine Project released stable versi- note that download versions of on 1.0 on June 17. 2008 (v1.1.0 was GNU/Linux Distribution commercial distributions do not in- th Releases released on June 27 ). As described clude official technical support nor by the Wine web site (http://www. GNU/Linux distributions are com- printed documentation. winehq.org/), “Wine is a translation plete GNU/Linux operating system layer (a program loader) capable of Discs are available only by pre-or- and application software collections. running Windows applications on der. Contact Geof Goodrum by e- Many are freely downloadable or Linux and other POSIX compa- mail ([email protected]) at least 48 can be ordered on CDs or DVD at tible operating systems. Windows hours before meeting day to order or low cost. DistroWatch.com lists the programs running in Wine act as for more information. Single CD-R following distribution release an- native programs would, running discs are available with a $3 dona- nouncements for the period June 5 without the performance or memo- tion; GNU/Linux distributions on – July 2, 2008. ry usage penalties of an emulator, multiple CD-Rs or single DVD±R with a similar look and feel to other Distribution are available with a $6 donation. 64 Studio 2.1 applications on your desktop.” For July 2008 Arch Linux 2008.06 Floola - v3.0. http://www.floola.com/. example, when a Windows program ArtistX 0.5 requests user input, Wine substitu- CentOS 5.2 Freeware executable by Tomas Camin. tes an equivalent X-Window Sy- Damn Small Linux 4.4 Floola is an application to efficiently stem function for the Microsoft® eAR OS 1.10 manage your iPod or your Motorola Windows® OS function. Finnix 92.0 mobile phone (any model supporting GoblinX 2.7 “Mini” While GNU/Linux has excellent iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X, and Greenie Linux 3.0.2H Windows. 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