March 2012 The Outer Edge Page 1 | The Outer E March 2012 Vol. 25, No. 8 d Whole No. 298 ISSN 1055-4399 g e The Friendly Computer Club Helping Make Computers Friendly. On the Web at www.cipcug.org Attendance at the February general meeting: 48 members and guests. COMMAND.COM By Jim Brown, President his month I would like to offer our congratulations to Helen Long. To Contact CIPCUG Helen has been a very dedicated member of our user group and The Outer Edge......................805-485-7121 General Information………...805-289-3960 board of directors. Although she had the responsibility of maintain- Mailing Address...P.O. Box 51354, Oxnard, CA ing our website as her primary focus, she also would do just about Tanything that was requested of her. She was awarded a life membership in 93031-1354 On the Web: cipcug.org our user group in recognition of her dedication and hard work. She joins a On Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cipcug group of members who are few in number who have received this recogni- tion. Helen, we thank you. We welcome Andy Toth to the board. Andy is a past president, and he Inside: has volunteered to maintain our website. I know his knowledge of our group will be useful and will be an asset to Chess Titans, which comes with Vista the board. and Windows 7, brings an old game to the Additionally, longtime member Jim Thornton is contrib- computer. uting articles to TOE. If anyone has an interest in specific — Page 9 software, please let John Weigle the, editor of our newsletter, Brown know, and he will pass your request on to Jim. I would like to acknowledge the work of a few other mem- There are lots of sources for help on bers: Sandy Gelso; who sells the raffle tickets with a smile; David Minkin, free and open space software. who controls the audio so that the Q&A can be heard and transcribed; Curt — Page 10 Davison, the assistant sound tech; photographer Jerry Crocker, who provides pictures for the website, the Facebook page and TOE; and the varied mem- Rick’s rant covers the big three choices bers who carry the microphones to our members who ask questions during for types of Internet service providers. the Q&A. We appreciate your work. Thank you. — Page 11 As you can see, the tasks of putting on our monthly meetings are varied, and we appreciate the volunteers who make it all happen. Former webmaster Helen Long is CIP- Remember to bring a guest, and give them a copy of TOE. CUG’S fifth life member. — Page 15 Page 2 The Outer Edge March 2012 Channel Islands Root Directory PC Users Group CIPCUG mailing address: CIPCUG NEWS P.O. Box 51354, Oxnard, CA Benefits ......................................... 19 93031-1354 Bits & Bytes .................................. 15 CIPCUG is a member of APCUG, Board of Directors minutes ............. 3 Executive Committee The Association of PC Users Groups Coming CIPCUG events ................. 3 (Elected members of Board of Directors) Contributors to TOE...................... 16 President……..………………...Jim Brown Command.com ................................ 1 .………….…………[email protected] The Outer Edge Editor’s corner .............................. 16 Vice President/Program Chairman Editor……………………..John Weigle F1 — Your Help Key ................... 18 ………………..………………..Craig Ladd P.O. Box 6536, Ventura CA 93006 Helen Long named life member .... 15 ………………[email protected] 485-7121………[email protected] Map, schedule ............................... 20 Secretary……….………..Diane Mortensen The Outer Edge is published monthly by Channel Membership report ........................ 17 ……………………[email protected] Islands PC Users Group (CIPCUG), P.O. Box 51354, Program: Spam, Internet cameras, Oxnard, Calif. 93031-1354. an independent, nonprofit Treasurer…………..….……....…Art Lewis corporation. Contents of The Outer Edge copyright VMware and DOSBox ................ 7 …………………...…[email protected] 2001 by Channel Islands PC Users Group. 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Life members Frank Segesman* Members’ classified ads are free but are limited to Toby Scott 105 characters, including spaces. Lois Evans de Violini Art Lewis 2006 Southwest User Group Helen Long Conference: second place in both the *Deceased newsletter and Web site contests. March 2012 The Outer Edge Page 3 Coming events Showdown: Google Docs vs. Windows Live Docs Programs Toby Scott and Michael Shalkey will Door prizes The club gets 10 percent of the sales compare Google Docs and Windows Live We have two types of raffle tickets: price. Sold items must be picked up at Docs at the March meeting, which starts one for prizes offered by the presenter the end of the day’s meeting. at 8:45 a.m. March 24 in the Camarillo and one for club-provided prizes. The Any items not picked up will become Boys & Girls Club, 1500 Temple Ave. tickets for the presenter’s prizes are free the property of CIPCUG and will be subject to disposal at the club’s (Ponderosa Drive and Temple Avenue), and limited to one per member. discretion. Camarillo. (See the map on the last page.) The tickets for the club-provided CIPCUG is not responsible in any The doors open at 8 a.m. The Internet prizes are $1 each, $5 for six tickets, $10 for 13 tickets, $15 for 20 tickets and $20 way for items bought or sold at the table. and Networking SIG and the Social Me- for 27 tickets and are available to Each item is sold as-is unless otherwise dia SIG start at 8:45 a.m. anyone. Those who can’t stay until the stated. For more information about Google drawing may sign their tickets and give Docs, visit http://support.google.com/ the person selling the tickets a list of the Meeting, SIG notices docs/bin/answer.py? prizes they would like in the order they’d If you would like e-mail notices of hl=en&answer=49008 . pick them. Winners’ prizes will be held regular meetings and SIGs, go to For more information on Windows until the next meeting. www.cipcug.org, where you’ll find a link Live Docs go to http://explore.live.com/ on the home page to sign up. The URL is Consignment table cipcug.org/listserv.cfm. skydrive. A consignment table is set up at every You will need your membership Other meeting dates for this year: meeting. Anyone can buy, but only number, which is on the back cover of April 28: Avast members can sell. TOE, to complete the sign-up. May 26: Abby Stokes, author of “Is This Thing On?” June 23 CIPCUG members. corner of the building. The pre-meeting July 28 Other than those presented during or SIGs are at 8:45 a.m. at the Boys & Girls Aug. 25 just after the regular meeting, the SIGs Club. The after-meeting SIG is at loca- Sept. 22 run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.