Lotus Smartsuite for the New Millennium TTEND the SEPTEMBER 1 General Meet- Yours
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September 1998 Volume 9, Issue 9 http://www.dacs.org Meeting Preview Lotus SmartSuite for the New Millennium TTEND THE SEPTEMBER 1 General Meet- yours. Use ViaVoice to dictate directly into a Word Pro ing of the Danbury Area Computer Society document, or enter data into a 1-2-3 spreadsheet and turn Ato discover an alternative in the Office Suite your work into fun. market with a vision toward the twenty-first cen- Then there’s Lotus 1-2-3, the spreadsheet that revo- tury. IBM’s Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition lutionized the business world—and is doing it again. It’s is Year 2000 compliant and ready to provide you all there with the latest features such as Web Tables, with better value than its competitors and a superior which lets you incorporate live Web-based data into your way to work the Web. spreadsheets. SmartSuite Millennium Edition prepares you for a SmartSuite fits right into your complicated comput- new era in computing. It contains eight innovative ap- ing environment. It efficiently shares data with Lotus plications: the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet app., the new eSuite, the most popular desktop applications like FastSite intranet publisher, Organizer time and contact Microsoft Office, and integrates with enterprise databases manager, Word Pro word processor, Freelance Graph- and applications including Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, ics presentation graphics, Approach database, Lotus Notes, and Domino. ScreenCam multimedia software, SmartCenter Internet The DACS general meetings, held on the first Tues- information manager, and integrated speech recogni- day of each month at the Danbury Hospital auditorium, tion from IBM’s ViaVoice. 24 Hospital Avenue, are free to the public. The meeting Encounter the newest member of SmartSuite, the starts at 6:30 p.m. with casual networking. At 7 p.m. join Lotus FastSite Intranet document publisher. FastSite Random Access, a moderated question and answer pe- makes Internet/intranet publishing fast and easy. De- riod during which members share their computer prob- signed for desktop application users, it automatically lems. This is followed by Surfin’ Safari, a brief business converts groups of existing SmartSuite or Microsoft meeting, and the main presentation at 8 p.m. For more Office files to Web formats. information about DACS and its SIGs (Special Interest Rather talk than type? With integrated IBM Groups that meet throughout the month to discuss spe- ViaVoice speech recognition software, the choice is cific topics) see http://www.dacs.org. Meeting Review Let Quarterdeck Do the Dirty Work CleanSweep and Partition-It diagnose, fix, and tidy up. by Jack Corcoran IS INDEED a vicious cycle. Disk makers give created Mega Monster, with Giga Monster lurking in us more storage capacity, and software makers the wings. At some point we even admit that we can- Tfill it up, then disk makers give us even more not delete anything because we don’t remember what storage capacity, so software makers … You get the all that stuff is, rationalizing that even though we don’t picture. And we, the users, pig out—save everything, remember what it is, someday we might need it. And download everything, add everything. always, in our minds, is Microsoft’s dire threat: “Don’t There comes a day of atonement, however, which fool around with the Registry.” Since we haven’t the starts when we finally admit to ourselves that we have Quarterdeck Continued on page 4 President’s File EPTEMBER is always a time of re- services for our members and students, and dacs.docMembership newal, as students begin a new school for the greater Danbury Community as well. Information year, car manufacturers sport their new It is hoped that this relationship will help to , ISSN 1084-6573, is pub- Slines, and DACS warms up its SIGs and sets extend DACS membership to WCSU stu- lished monthlydacs.doc by the Danbury Area Computer out its new programs for the coming sea- dents and faculty, and open University fa- Society, Inc., 12 Noteworthy Drive, Danbury, CT 06810-7271. Annual subscription rates: $25 to son. This year we are reinvigorating our cilities for use by our group. In addition, we regular members, $20 to students (included in New-to Computing series for our beginning hope to attract more participation in DACS dues). users, lining up presenters for our monthly activities by area businesses and their em- Postmaster meetings, and making connections with ployees. Look to this column for more in- Send address changes to Danbury Area other computer groups and with the greater Computer Society, Inc., 4 Gregory Street, formation in coming months. Danbury, CT 06810-4430 Danbury community. Access ACSS The Association of Computer Support EditorialManaging Editor: Committee Frances J. Owles As this newsletterNew to goes ... to mailboxes, Specialists is a community, both “on-line” Production Editor: Marc Cohen DACS was scheduled to hold its first New- and “off-line,” that seeks to promote recog- Technical Editor: Bruce Preston to program of the season on August 26 at nition of computer support as a profession, Public Relations: Marlene Gaberel the Danbury Library, with Ed Heere ex- and to help members advance through edu- pounding on the relative merits of upgrad- cation and personal contacts. Its members Charles Bovaird Larry Buoy ing or buying a new PC. If you decide to go include help-desk specialists, computer re- Elaine Chacho Robert Constantine Wally David John Heckman the upgrade route, on September 23 Wally pair technicians, network engineers, network Dan McLeod Allan Ostergren David will help you decide whether to in- and database administrators, computer in- clude a new operating system, with a dem- structors, technical writers, software and DACS, its officers and directors assume no liabil- onstration of the ins and outs of Windows ity for damages arising out of the publication or non- hardware testers, and programmers (if they publication of any article, advertisement or any other 98. On October 23, in a special program at support the code they write). ACSS wel- item in this newsletter . the WCSU Ancell School of Business, we comes independent consultants, full-timers, The editors welcome submissions from Dacs mem- bers. Contact Frances Owles, at 860-868-0077 will explore the Year 2000 question with a part-timers, and permanent employees, as ( ) or Allan Ostergren at 860-210-0047 panel of experts; and on November 16 our well as contractors. It also welcomes recruit- ([email protected] ). Advertisers, please contact Brad own chief medical officer, Jeff Setaro, will ers and others who offer valuable services [email protected] 203-357-4007 (brad,[email protected]) discuss the latest in PC viruses. to computer support specialists. ACSS of- © 1998Danbury Area Computer Society. Permis- Any suggestions for more New-to pro- fers professional training programs in oper- sion to reprint or publish granted to any nonprofit group, grams? Tell me about them at the general ating systems, IS management, and Web provided credit is given and a copy of the final publica- tion is mailed to the copyright holder. All rights reserved. meetings, or send your ideas to page design at prices well below those at [email protected]. private training centers. Some of these pro- grams are held at AMSYS Computer in Ridgefield. Technical Support TheWestern Y2K program Connection in October will mark ACSS President Howard Rothman, a dacs.doc is prepared using AMSYS Pentium/ longtime DACS member, is familiar with 133 and an HP LaserJet 4 printer a new milestone for this user group. DACS Plus and Western Connecticut State University the quality of our membership and our pro- are exploring ways our organizations can grams; and many in our society have joined Software packages have been provided to staff by: work together to provide new computing his association to take advantage of training dacs.doc opportunities. Now, under a recent agree- ment with DACS, ACSS will waive its $100 Microsoft Windows 95, Office 7.0, TrueType fonts membership fee for DACS members who Adobe PageMaker 6.5, CorelDRAW 6.0, IN THIS ISSUE sign up for courses. That means that any- Calendar Creator Plus for Windows, one choosing to sign up for an ACSS train- file transfer security dacs.doc LOTUS SMARTSUITE 1 ing course will in effect have the option of provided by Dr. Solomons Antivirus Toolkit QUARTERDECK 1 free DACS membership and a $75 cash re- Applications & Hardware to enhance PRESIDENT’S FILE 2 bate, to boot. In return, ACSS will advertise dacs.doc are always welcome. DIRECTORS’ NOTES 3 its programs in dacs.doc for half the usual HELP LINE 3 rate. (See ad, page 5)This compact will give WIN 98 UPGRADE 6 NEW MEMBERS 6 ACSS exposure to more than 600 active INTERNET PROVIDERS 6 computer users in our area, and provide MICROSOFT PLUS! 98 7 DACS members with a vital outlet for tech- SIGS & NEW TO ... 8 nical training and networking. It’s truly a CALENDAR 9 win-win situation for both organizations. PC SHOPPER 11 For more information, be sure to visit PAGEMILL I 12 the ACSS Web site at www.acss.org. PAGEMILL II 13 Jeff Setaro —ALLAN OSTERGREN RANDOM ACCESS 14 APCUG Liaison [email protected] 748-6748 SEP 98 2 Directors’ Notes Officers President: Allan Ostergren (860) 210-0047 he monthly meeting of the Board of VPs: Gene Minasi (860) 354-9380 Frances Owles (860) 868-0077 Directors was held at the Resource Marlene Gaberel (203) 426-4846 Jeff Setaro (203) 748-6748 Center on August 10, 1998, at 7:30 p.m. TPresent were Messrs. Bovaird, Buoy, Secy: Larry Buoy (860) 355-0394 Treas: Charles Bovaird (203) 792-7881 Cohen, Gingras, Heere, McIntyre, Directors Ostergren, Setaro, and Mrs.