On the Docket for the General Meeting Thursday, November 18, 2004 Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology So You Bought a New PC: Now What? yper-Threading Technology is a and get more work done in the same Hgroundbreaking innovation that amount of time. significantly improves processor per- The November general meeting of formance. Pioneered by Intel, Hyper- the New York PC Users Group (NYPC) Threading Technology provides a signif- will feature a presentation about Intel’s Volume 11 Issue 10 icant performance boost which is Hyper-Threading Technology and how it November 2004 particularly suited to today’s business will affect your future computer purchas- computing climate, applications, and ing decisions. Using materials provided operating systems. by Intel, NYPC education chair Fred Kahn will describe the benefits and oper- How Hyper-Threading Works ation of Hyper-Threading technology. Faster clock speeds are an important As a special treat, Intel has provided way to deliver more computing power, NYPC with handouts and a limited num- and Intel has led the way with industry- ber of gifts for those attending this General Meeting Info leading processor frequency. But clock lecture. As always this meeting is free speed is only half the story. The other and open to the general public; all are When: Thursday, November 18, 2004 route to higher performance is to welcome. accomplish more work on each clock Where: PS 41, 116 W 11th Street, cycle, and that’s where Hyper-Threading Thanks to Intel west of 6th Avenue Technology comes in. A single processor We are grateful to Dave and Kathy Whit- Schedule: 6:00pm Doors open supporting Hyper-Threading Technology tle, who work with user groups for Intel, Cafeteria: Networking presents itself to modern operating sys- for arranging this informative meeting. Meet the Geeks Q&A tems and applications as two virtual Dave also arranged for NYPC to receive 6:45pm Announcements processors. The processor can work on a Pentium 4 3.06 GHz processor and 7:00pm Presentation two sets of tasks simultaneously, use mother board, which we will use to build resources that otherwise would sit idle, a new SIG machine. By Fred Kahn, Subway: A,B,C,D,E,F,Q,V to West 4th St [email protected] 1,2,3,9,L to 14th St @ 7th Ave (check with MTA) ur second presentation will be by grams will help to ensure that the Path: Take 33rd St line to 9th St Sta OMichael Horowitz, and it will be a machine is in tip-top review of tips, tricks, and defensive mea- shape. The Internet Hotline: 212-643-NYPC, code GEN sures for a new Windows XP computer. is a dangerous place You can buy a computer from and the presentation Office: (212) 643-7005 Sears, K-Mart, or Dell, but despite the covers steps to take Web site: http://www.nypc.org ads it is not yet a carefree appliance that when connecting a you just plug in, start using, and forget. new computer to the NYPC’s General Meetings are free and Well, I suppose you can, but it really, Internet. Michael will also suggest ways open to the public. really is not a good idea. of customizing Windows to your liking, To check on the NYPC General Meeting make recommendations of software to or get up-to-the-minute details on speakers, What to Do...and Not to Do install, and discuss what to ask the com- call our Hotline (212) 643-NYPC and Here is a chance to learn what to do puter manufacturer after purchase. enter the code 111, then the code GEN. and what not to do during the initial shake-out period. Free diagnostic pro- more... InsideNYPC
Continued from page 1 NYPC Officers Experienced users are likely to come classes in Defensive Computing at President away saying, “Gee I did not know that, NYPC and Hunter College. His own Mary Ginsburg and better do it.” New users have even web site has a lot of useful information: [email protected] more to gain. http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/ Vice-President Michael started with mainframe Bill Ginsburg, [email protected] Leftonred Atanycorner computers and then graduated to PCs. [email protected] Join us at this exciting General Meet- He is the web master for the WBAI ing. There will be a drawing for some Corresponding Secretary page of info about the Personal Com- Robert Behm prizes. The Utilities and Knoppix CDs puter Show (Wednesday evenings at [email protected] will be available at $5 each. 8:00 PM at 99.5 FM). He teaches Membership Secretary Kathy Petruzzi [email protected] Treasurer Book Review: Windows XP Annoyances Roydel Howe [email protected] By David A. Karp (O’Reilly, 2002) s far as I can remember, the first heard myself again, back in those Other NYPC Board Members Atime I heard of Windows XP Annoy- days. & Volunteers ances was within the last year on the Whatever your level of proficiency in, Past President/ WBAI Personal Computer Show. So or love of, computers, I recommend Volunteer Coordinator when I saw the book at NYPC, the whis- Windows XP Annoyances to you Len Ginsburg tle went off in my head, and I became [email protected] without any reservation. Not only anxious to see what was in it. that, but make this book a member of Program Chair Other than the title and subjects, William Ginsberg your tool kit. many other factors attracted me to the [email protected] Now, while I click love and acceptance of this book. Publications on close, you may turn 1. The font size was the exactness of Inside NYPC - Kathy Petruzzi to page 1 in this book [email protected] what my union eyeglasses loved. to see for yourself what Webmaster 2. The printing double-spaced constitutes an Leftonred Atanycorner format coupled with the font style: annoyance. [email protected] bold, italic, etc.plus the diction Additional note. Education made it easy to read. Fred Kahn Perhaps additional editing might be [email protected] 3. The layout of the chapters, head- applied to the following three lines: Marketing ings, and sub-headings, made it easy (i) Page 5, 4th paragraph, 5th line to follow, provided good references, Murray Strelitz “...any of which are likely solve a few 212-691-7788 and a solid source of on-the-job help. existing...” [email protected] If you encounter a particular problem, (ii) Page 518, 6th line from the bot- Hotline Sysop you can turn to a particular page for tom, “...In explorer, you can Stan Silver resolution. right-click a a file or group...” [email protected] 4. I also learned about some new util- (iii) Page 521, 2nd paragraph, 2nd SIG Chair Representatives ities, vocabularies, and some BIOS line “...since the ren command sees is Ashod Kassabian (Stream settings language that I always won- that you’ve typed...” Media) [email protected] dered about, but never had that firm Roydel Howe, Certified NetWare a grasp. Administrator (CNA), Microsoft Mike Ostrowe (Comp Passport) [email protected] Certified Professional (MCP), A+ 5. The appendix on DOS made me Mahesh Chhatlani, (XML) feel young again. Remember at the Certified [email protected] onset of the 1990’s when DOS was Laura Balsam(Photoshop) the biggest thing we wanted to learn? “By following some of the solutions in [email protected] The more complex and difficult it was this book, you can make your experi- Kevin Raguette (Hardware) to grasp, the more we worked at it ence with Windows a lot more [email protected] and talked about it. “When DOS pleasurable, reducing stress and your ruled the night, and sleep was on This newsletter produced in recurring urges to toss your computer Ventura. Design by Allison hold....” In this appendix, I saw and out a window seven stories off the Moore/Database recipes by ground.” (From Chapter 2 of the book) Robert Leuze.
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To register or to request specific classes, phone 212 for in a machine, one of our experts will help you look at specifics 643-7005, x2 or e-mail [email protected]. on vendors' websites. Sunday, December 5, starting at 10am. For complete descriptions, click on class name at Only $39 for this individualized course! http://www.calsplus.net/nypcmeetings. Unless otherwise specified, classes are hands-on. We welcome walk-ins for seminars, but please phone to confirm that the class is / Finding Medical Information on the Internet being held. One advantage of NYPC computer training is our flexi- There are millions of health-related sites on the Internet! How can bility. If there’s a topic you want to learn, let us know. If we have at you find the ones with the reliable information you need? In this least three students, we’ll try to tailor a class to your needs. seminar, we’ll take a look at how to structure effective searches, Prices below are for NYPC members; if you are not a member, how to separate the valuable information from the questionable, please add registration fee of $45; as a bonus, you will receive a and what to do with the information you find. We’ll also look at one year membership. some excellent sites. Each person attending will receive a CD with hyperlinked resources. / Getting Started with QUICKBOOKS Monday, December 6, 6:00pm-9:00pm. Seminar, $29 QuickBooks is perhaps the most popular bookkeeping application for small businesses. It has powerful capabilities, but effective use / MS Word: Advanced Formatting and Page Layout depends on proper set-up and getting to know the ins and outs of Learn how to use tables to format text. Automate document format- its forms and reports. In this class we’ll help you get started, using a ting with Styles and Templates. Your documents will look better and case-management approach. Trial versions of the program will be have a more consistent look. given out so you can practice. Wednesday, December 8, 6:00pm-9:00pm. Hands-on, $39 3 Monday evenings, November 29, December 6, 13, 6:00pm-9:00pm. Hands-on, $99 / File and Disk Management Have you ever saved a file, then forgotten where you put it? Or / Greeting Card Workshop needed to copy several unrelated files to a diskette for a friend? File Have you been yearning to send greeting cards with your own pho- and Disk management in Windows is easy when you know how. tos but haven't been sure how to go about it? This workshop is for Emphasis on Windows XP; let us know if you use a different version. you! Create customized greeting cards using Photoshop Elements Wednesday, December 15, 6:00pm-9:00pm. Partially hands-on, $29 and Microsoft Word. In 6 fun-filled hours, you'll learn how to make basic enhancements to your photographs and print them on greet- ing card stock, plus add your own greeting inside and outside. Cost Coming in January includes two cards with envelopes, plus a CD with a time-limited version of Photoshop Elements and some templates. (Note: if you / Access have photos that need to be scanned, please phone to arrange this.) / C# Saturday, December 4, 10:30am-5:00pm. Hands-on, $79
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ODK C++/JAVA: Object Data FLA Flash Knowledge Management Mary Ginsburg, [email protected]; SIG Directory Carlos Jerome, [email protected] Tony Holley, [email protected] The calendar shows the events that were Tuesday, November 9th, 5:45 PM Monday, November 29th, 6:30 PM scheduled at press time. You can find Monday, November 22nd, 5:30 PM Location: NYPC Seward Park Library, 192 E. Broadway More lessons for beginners to Flash detailed information about many SIG Continuing our development of a constituent meetings by going to the Meeting & communications system using LDAP & FPX Front Page Class Calendar via the NYPC website, CRM-focused unified process www.nypc.org, and clicking on the SIG If you’d like to see this SIG continue, please PAS Computer Passport let us know at [email protected]. of interest. Details will appear in a Kathy Petruzzi, [email protected]; W pop-up. Updates changes, or cancella- Michael Ostrowe, [email protected] GFH Genealogy tions, or specific topics to replace Thursday, Nov. 4th, December 2nd, 6:30 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~metrony/ TBAWare announced here as well as on Location: NYPC David Kleiman, [email protected] the hotline, 212-643-NYPC. General Discussion of PC Technology Tuesday, December 7th, 6:00 PM Location: NYPC If we have your e-mail address, we will also SEQ Database: SQL Topic TBA send you occasional meeting updates and http://www.thelinuxsociety.net/dbsig.html reminders. Dario Castellanos, [email protected] HRD Hardware Location Legend Thursday, November 18th, 6:30 PM http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/hugnypc Location: NYPC Kevin Raguette, [email protected] MS *Microsoft, 1290 6th Ave. More on Oracle 9i (51st/52nd Str), 6th Fl Monday, November 22nd, 6:30 PM Location: NYPC NYPC NYPC Office, Hotel New Yorker, LUG DeLUGE (Desktop Linux Users More on circuit board design 481 8th Ave, Suite 1560 Group) IBM *590 Madison Ave. http://www.delugeny.org NET Internet *Photo ID required) Mark Halegua, [email protected] Wednesday, December 1st, 6:30 PM Laura Balsam, [email protected] Tony Holley, [email protected] AXS Location: IBM Access Skype: Voice-over IP for Linux or Windows Not meeting in November. Watch for Claire Chase, (212)691-3577, M-F, 9am-5pm PLEASE: RVSP to Mark to be placed on IBM’s December. Monday, November 1st, December 6th, 6:30 PM SECURITY list. Please also bring a picture ID. Location: MS INV Investment Topic TBA PHT Digital Photography & Graphics Phyllis Pawlovsky, [email protected]. SIG follows the investment principles of the ATT Mary Ginsburg, [email protected]; Advanced Technologies and Tony Holley, [email protected] National Association of Investment Corp. Techniques Monday, November 8th, 6:30 PM Friday, November 12th, 6:15 PM Jessie Shereff, [email protected] Location: NYPC Location: MS Monday, November 22nd, 6:30 PM Enhancing Photos Retail industry Location: MS General discussion of PC technology. LNX EMB Embedded Systems LINUX http://www.thelinuxsociety.net. Dario ACC Accounting (New SIG!) Lee Thalblum, [email protected] Tuesday, November 16th, 6:15 PM Castellanos, [email protected] Len Ginsburg, [email protected] Location: NYPC Tuesday, November 9th, 6:30 PM Monday, November 15th, 6:30 PM More on AVR hardware Location: NYPC Location: NYPC Topic TBA Invoice Design in QuickBooks EWN Enterprise Windows LNX LINUX Study Group: Beginners ADB Alpha Database Bill Zack, [email protected]; Tony Iams, [email protected] http://www.thelinuxsociety.net Barry Rochford, [email protected] Not meeting in November or December Dario Castellanos, [email protected] Wednesday, Nov. 10th, December 8th, 6:00 PM Friday, November 5th, 19th, 6:30 PM Location: NYPC EXC Excel Location: NYPC Topic TBA Beginners’ Linux Admin Study Group Al Vachris, [email protected] CSG C++/Java: Gen’l Mtg Tuesday, Nov. 9th, December 14th, 6:00 PM WMM Location: MS Macromedia Suite http://www.cppsig.org Topic TBA Melody Reed, [email protected] http://nycjava.org/certification Friday, December 3rd, 6:15 PM Dario Laverde, [email protected] ART Fine Arts Location: NYPC Thursday, November 4th, 11th, 18th; Topic TBA Monday, November 22nd, 6:30 PM Melody Reed, [email protected] On hiatus. Contact Melody if interested. Location: NYPC MTA MetaStock Study for the Sun Java Certification exam. During November and December, this study Barbara Scheiner, [email protected] group replaces other meetings. See website Thursday, November 11th, 7:00 PM (URL above) for details. Location: NYPC TBA
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...continued from page 5 BRD NYPC Board Meeting Taking and Using RAW Images; Q&A BAS Visual Basic Tuesday, December 7th, 6:30 PM Join us at noon in the TickTock for socializing David Kulick, [email protected] Location: NYPC prior to the meeting. Wednesday, November 3rd, December 1st, Members are welcome to attend, but please 6:15 PM e-mail Mary Ginsburg at [email protected] SUG Smalltalk Location: MS http://www.ocit.com/stug GEN NYPC GENERAL MEETING Charles Monteiro, [email protected] WFI Wireless ¾ New SIG! Thursday, November 18th, 6:00 PM E-mail Charles for meeting information Ted Cohn, [email protected]; Location: PS 41, 116 W. 11th St., W of 6th Ave Leftonred Atanycorner, [email protected] Hyper-Threading SPR Speech Recognition Tuesday, November 23rd, 6:30 PM How to Get Started wih Your New PC http://www.out-loud.com. Laura Miner, Location: NYPC [email protected]; Leftonred Wireless Security, continued PDA Palm Pilot Atanycorner, [email protected] http://nypc.org/palm.htm. Ted Cohn and Wednesday, November 17th, 6:30 PM XML XML/Web Services Grace Lee, [email protected] Location: NYPC Mahesh Chhatlani, [email protected] Wednesday, November 3rd, December 1st Jonathan Klausner: Tuesday, November 23rd, 6:30 PM Location: NYPC New Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 8 Location: NYPC Topic TBA Continuation of NYPC Education Project STR Streaming Media PRL Perl Seminar NY Ashod Kassabian, [email protected]; Other Organizations James E. Keenan, [email protected] Edwin Woo, [email protected] NPC Non-Profit Computing Not meeting in November or December Tuesday, November 16th, 6:15 John L. German, 212-759-2368 Location: NYPC Includes: Marc Prewitt on CPAN module Text::Template. VP1 Ventura Allison Moore, [email protected] JOB Career Development Group PHO Photoshop Monday, November 15th, 6:30 PM Tuesday, Nov. 2, 16, 30, Dec. 14, 4:00 PM http://www.hookbuilt.com/nypc/photoshop_si Location: NYPC West-Park Presbyterian Church at 86th and g.html. Laura Balsam, [email protected] Starting a flyer from scratch in Ventura Amsterdam Monday, November 8th, 1:00 PM Facilitators include: Location: NYPC Susan Werbin, 212-799-6111 Mort Trachtenberg, 212-769-TRAC
continued from page 9 Most applications worked beautifully, with settings and docu- helpful screen showing what had been in the Start-up of the ments intact; address books and e-mail were exact duplicates old machine and asking for instructions on what to add to the of those on the Windows 98 computer. All MS Office and new Start-up. All told, I was as happy with the final results as Corel Office applications—plus every graphics and web devel- with Relocator. opment program—worked fine. However, OpenOffice Move Me wouldn’t open, and Ventura DataBase Publisher had a path missing. Not bad! Everything that was on the target machine Move Me appears to work identically to PC Mover; the inter- before migration remained. Relocator generates a log file, so face is similar, and the program can use Laplink’s USB cable. that it is possible to see exactly what transferred successfully (In fact, I wondered if they had licensed the technology from and what didn’t, down the last .DLL. (Save this, but do not Laplink.) The pricing structure is different, however. Download print it, if you care at all about trees.) The second time I used the program free, then pay $19.95 per migration. The website Relocator, again from a Windows 98 to a Windows XP promised a pre-payment evaluation of the proposed transfer. machine, two legacy DOS applications failed to transfer. However, the report was a simple statement of the number of Happily, Relocator has an UNDO feature, helpful for a sec- files and megabytes to be moved, not a detailed analysis like ond attempt with different parameters. This was also very the one produced by Relocator. The application used a Wizard useful in restoring the NYPC computers to a legal state. interface, the migration was automated, and the files trans- ferred smoothly. The results were the same as with PCmover. PCmover A downloadable manual in PDF format was the most thor- PCmover’s transfer offers less customization; you simply load it ough of those for the three programs. onto both machines, attach the USB data transfer cable (in the Recommendations $49.95 box), follow the easy onscreen instructions, and let it All three applications are very effective, though none gave a work. Once again, after several hours, the desktop looked 100% transfer of all programs. For a one-time transfer of all identical to that of the old machine, and most applications programs, especially from a relatively straightforward setup, worked fine (including OpenOffice and Ventura DataBase use either PCmover or Move Me. If you’d like to tweak the Publisher). However, GoLive wouldn’t load. The report was transfer and ponder the results, Relocator gives more control. less comprehensive than that with Relocator, but there was a Mary Ginsburg, [email protected] 6 Directory of NYPC Supporters http://www.nypc.org
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8 InsideNYPC Migrating from Your Old to Your New Computer: Feeling at home with your new hardware o you’ve bought (or built) your shiny new computer (no applications designed for this purpose are: Alohabob PC Sscratches yet)! You’re enthusiastic about starting to use it Relocator from eisenworld (www.eisenworld.com), Laplink’s and getting acquainted with Windows XP. PCmover (www.laplink.com), and Move Me by spearitsoftware You’re delighted with how fast it boots, with few applica- (www.spearit.com). All offer three modes of transfer: via a net- tions and little data. Of course, you’ve loaded a few protection work (fastest), over a USB data transfer cable, or over a utilities, perhaps using a CD from NYPC: an anti-virus (unless parallel port cable (slowest). it came preloaded), a software firewall, and one or more spyware All were tested in the NYPC office, using a heavily loaded fighters. You may even have created a restore point in System Windows 98 machine as the source and a machine containing Restore. almost nothing except Windows XP Professional as the target. In all cases, the new machine had a faster CPU and a much Where’s My Desktop? larger hard drive. You’re ready to start working...but there’s one problem! Your Whatever the software, basic preparatory steps include: favorite applications, templates, macros, and data— devel- 4 Clean up your old machine, deleting or uninstalling files and oped over the course of several years—all reside on your old programs you don’t need computer! How do you get them onto your new one?? 4 Back up your old machine, or at least the valuable data (The This problem is becoming more and more common as we migration applications claim that the transfer process does not use our computers in every aspect of our working and personal affect the original machine, but why take a chance?) lives. As we open several applications, configuring each one to 4 Scan for viruses and spyware (Why transfer problems?) to our work style, we turn our computers into highly individu- 4 Run ScanDisk on the old machine to find and correct errors alized tools. Often, we can click on a well-used desktop icon 4 Use Belarc Advisor (or similar program) to get a printout of the almost without looking. Even if we’ve thought, “I’ve got to contents of your old machine clean up my desktop,” the thought of starting with a nearly 4 Be sure that both machines have the same version of Internet blank screen can be painful. Explorer What about your backups? Typically, backup software is 4 Use the same admin name on both machines configured to restore applications, settings, and data to the 4 Configure PowerSave and Display features so that the hard same computer, not a different one. Even (or especially) online drive will not shut down and the screen saver will not come on. subscription backup services can download only your data, Turn off all running programs, including those that load at not your applications, to a new machine. (“But what if there’s Startup a fire?” one businessman asked plaintively. “...Just your data,” 4 Read the license (EULA). In the case of Relocator, this states in was the reply.) some detail that the user must own both machines and have valid licenses to all software—and that the procedure will not be Migration Software used to illegally duplicate software. What, then, can you do to start using your new computer PC Relocator comfortably? PC Relocator comes in two versions: (1) PC Relocator costs It is possible to set up your new computer manually, of about $30, comes with a parallel cable, and performs an auto- course. Just find and use your old installation disks, purchase mated transfer. (2) PC Relocator UltraCONTROL ($70) comes new software, or order your new computer with your favorite with a USB data transfer cable and gives the option of fully applications loaded. Then use a selective restore from your automatic transfer or two modes of user control. When the backup to transfer your data. Finally, over time, configure your user choses SmartRating, the program ranks applications in applications to your style. order of probable smooth transfer and gives the option of There is another way—with migration software. Migration choosing applications or other files to omit or include. The CD software moves the contents of one computer to another. In a also includes PC Backup Lite and Data Cleaner for wiping the series of tests of this type of software, I found such migration to old hard drive before PC disposal. (eisenworld also makes be not quite perfect—but amazingly close. Enterprise solutions, starting at $500.) In a series of articles, we’ll look at several types of migra- PC Relocator comes with a CD and a small instruction tion software: software that moves “the whole gemish”— booklet. It is easy to use: load the software on both machines, applications, settings, and data—to a new machine with its connect them with the cable provided, follow some simple own operating system; applications that copy settings and onscreen instructions, and note the time estimated for transfer. data, leaving the installation of the requisite applications up to Since this can be several hours, go home (or to bed). you; and programs that copy an image of the drive. When I did this for the first time, I was skeptical, fully “Cloning” Your Computer expecting to find two nonfunctional machines the next day. However, the next morning the desktop of the new machine With the right software, it is surprisingly easy to transfer appli- looked VERY familiar, just like that of the old computer. cations, settings, and data to a new computer! Three more on page 6 9 InsideNYPC
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