BENTSEN GROVE COMPUTER CLUB
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UPCOMING EVENTS The Pizza SIG will meet the third Monday of each month throughout the season at Mr. Gatti’s |
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Barron’s Bytes By Val Barron Is Spring Coming To The Valley? You
don’t have to look outside and check the weather to know that spring is
indeed coming to Bentsen Grove. We can tell by the fact that a few of our
club members are beginning to leave for “up north”. George Kelly reports that
“up north” in Hoax of the Week: Don’t Use Cell Phones at the Gas Pump This
chain letter hoax has been reborn recently and is once again clogging up our
e-mail. This dates from at least mid 1999 but has been seen several times
recently. I guess with the beginning of spring we also begin what I call the
“e-mail silly season”. When you have received a chain letter and are
considering forwarding it, please research it at one of the many hoax sites
that we have discussed in the past. A good resource is con John Abbott’s page
on the club web site at http://my.awesomenet.net/~bentsen/a%20scam%20funny.htm.
Or you can simply do a Google search by putting
some pertinent information like the title of this paragraph, “Don’t Use Cell
Phones at the Gas Pump” into the Google search
window. Besides chain letters were seeing other types of hoaxes, scams, and
virus hoaxes. Computer Viruses: Real ones not hoaxes In
the last couple of weeks I have been receiving increasing numbers of virus
notifications from AT&T WorldNet, my ISP who (bless them) are filtering
them out and not even giving my Norton Anti-Virus a chance to whack them.
But, this is a serious reminder for you to update your VIRUS DEFINITIONS at
least bi-weekly if your anti-virus program doesn’t do that for you
automatically. AOL News: (Who said I couldn’t be nice to AOL) AOL,
(bless them too) has begun today (Wednesday, http://rss.com.com/2100-1024-992142.html
or http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/12/technology/12AOL.html?th
And
to think that all along I thought you AOLers loved
those ads. By
the way, the New York Times folks MIGHT ask you to register but it doesn’t
cost anything. I’ve been registered with them since before the printing
press, so I can’t remember if they will want you to or not. Shortcut of the Week: Which was recently shown at a meeting,
but without much comment. WINDOWS
R – That is, press and hold the WINDOWS key (the flag looking thingies) then
tap the R key. This will bring up the RUN dialog box, which many of us use
for MSCONFIG if nothing else. Old Business: Web sites mentioned at recent meetings In
no particular order and with few if any comments. http://copydesk.org/quizzes.htm http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_pm_wizard
http://www.verkkotieto.fi/jv16/index.php RegCleaner http://www.jermar.com/wdrvbck.htm
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/weekly/1743611
Calendars http://www.tensecondfilms.com/index.php
http://www.takegreatpictures.com/
http://dpi.hypermart.net/3dpong.htm
Next Week: Lots of good things are planned for next week. Happy computing, Val valbarron@att.net phone 956-519-2319 |
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For All Computer
users By Corinne Higbee It has been suggested that we try and find some other places to eat as so many groups use Mr.Gattis. If you have any suggestions we would appreciate you leaving a note with us on Monday, at the meeting, for places we might go next year. If you would like to rotate to different places, instead of the same one each month, we can do that also. All suggestions will be appreciated. There will be drawings for the free tickets to Mr. Gattis, between the beginners and advanced sessions. Please bring your favorite sites to visit to share with others. We will publish them in the BGRCC bulletin. Go to the home page when you are on the internet and re read the old lessons and bulletins. They have a wealth of information stored there. The site is www.bgrcc.com and is a well laid out web page by our club member Harold Buechly. The previous bulletins have the web sites shared by members listed for all to see and use. Corinne |
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