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Orange County IBM PC Users’ Group
April 2004
2
Letters
Published and
distributed to club
members by the
Orange County IBM PC Users’ Group
President, Mike Lyons
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Vice President, OPEN
Treasurer/Membership/
SYSOP, Charlie Moore
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Editor/Webmaster, Linda Gonse
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Reviews, Terry Schiele
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Programs, Lothar Loehr
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Membership, Carl Westberg
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APCUG Rep, Siles Bazerman
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March Program Switches with
April Program
All was set for the March meeting
when Rich called me and told me that
he had a problem…. Carey Holzman
was scheduled for April and agreed to
switch with Rich.
It turned out really well. Carey is a
great speaker. He first mentioned his
book and than started to talk about PC
problems. Then he asked for problems
from our group and he had an answer
plus much more for all questions. In
some cases he referred to his book
which he must know by heart. He
could call up the chapters and
sometimes the pages of his book as
reference. Very impressive.
He did not like Partition Magic as
you store your data on the same hard
disk and Carey preferred to have the
data backed up on removable storage
like CD or DVD.
He circulated about ten books to
have members look at them and they
are very well written and easy to
understand.
He also knows about all kinds of
FREE programs which you can
download and he describes them in his
book.
It was a super presentation!
Lothar Loehr
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Linda Gonse,
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Notepad
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Got hardware annoyance?
Thanks for the great response to
our call, a few weeks ago, for
annoyances, gripes, and complaints
about Excel. The email we got was
extremely useful and a lot of your
members not only sent annoyances,
but fixes! So, a thousand thanks for the
help.
As you might guess, we have
another book in the wings—this one
focusing on PC hardware annoyances.
We’re not just talking about PCs and
laptops per se—we also talking about
all the hardware that’s inside and
attached to your computer, such as
memory, motherboards, hard drives,
printers, scanners, home networks,
DSL/cable, CD/DVD, and host of
other annoying hardware devices.
I
t seems like user groups say
good-bye to a lot of people
who have been very involved in
providing them with essentials
such as programs, articles,
prizes, and more.
In order of recent losses, they
are: Ken Fermoyle, Steve Bass,
and now Siles Bazerman.
Siles is not leaving our group,
thank goodness. Or, his post of
APCUG Rep. But, he is setting
aside his monthly column of
witty, informed opinion and
advice so many have come to
rely on.
Groups around the United States
and in Canada have printed his
column and untold members
have benefited from his hard-won
experience.
He is a friend and an always-
ready font of information and
good cheer for other friends
(such as me) who come round at
all hours asking questions or
seeking advice.
In addition, he has been a strong
supporter of our website and
newsletter and I will always be
flattered and grateful.
It was a constant surprise to me,
as the editor of the newsletter, to
receive articles from Siles when
he was scheduled for out-of-town
vacations, or even surgery. Yet,
his articles came without fail,
and on time, regular as an
atomic clock.
Thank you, Siles, for the count-
less hours you have given and
the wonderful columns that
resulted from them. We will miss
them. But thank goodness, we
won’t miss you — because you’ll
still be here with us!
Member enjoys March program
I did buy the book “The Healthy
PC” from Carey Holzman and recom-
mend it highly. He really cleans things
up and where there is a problem, he
responds to email within hours. That
was a great presentation, particularly
since he is from Arizona and had only
about a 24 hour warning that he would
be up (at the ORCOPUG meeting).
Richard Tooley
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