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SLO Bytes Hard Copy

A publication of the San Luis Obispo PC Users Group

Vol. 19 No. 7 July 2003

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This rich text format (.rtf) was selected for the newsletter to make it acceptable to most of the email programs used

by SLO Bites members.

For (.pdf) version, see:

http://www.slobytes.org/newsletter/nl0703.pdf

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SLO Bytes Meeting Review, by Bill Avery

The early General SIG meeting with Alan Raul was the only program for this month, as no members attended the

Windows SIG.

Alan's topics began with this collection of slides from

http://railz.net/ , 11454 West Ida Ave., Littleton CO 80127

USA , which says:

"Welcome friends to Railz.net. This site is intended for you to view and download as wallpaper. All images on this

The memory requirements for these slides could be as much as a megabyte per picture, so it might not be a good

idea to download them if your system is short on resources. But wallpaper brightens up a desktop, so try it, you

might like it. There is no cost to use these photographs. Several resolutions are available, although a clean desktop

makes your machine run faster, according to Alan.

Alan showed us a USB Drive combined with a wristwatch. Waterproof, expensive, and an unusual accessory for

the user who has everything. See

http://laks.com

for a picture. It runs under Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium

Edition, (Windows ME), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux 2.4 or higher. The reading speed is 1000KB/second,

and writing speed is 920KB/second. The watch is a Citizen 2035 movement which is water resistant, shock proof,

and anti-static. It is plug and play, with easy operation from a startup cd disk, and using a standard USB interface

with a 1 meter extension USB cord, included. It is available in four versions, ranging in size and price as follows:

[32MB Euro 42 = USD 42]; [64MB Euro 64 = USD 64]; [128MB Euro 89 = USD 89]; [256MB Euro 149 = USD 149] .

All these specs are from the web site, and you may also order on-line.

A fine picture of California coastline, was shared with the group, featuring Barbara Streisand's home, at

http://www.thumb.images.californiacoastline.org/images/thumb/3850.JPG

it is a large download, about 6.5 MB, so

be careful. On the same site, see Morro Bay at: http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/location.cgi? .... All of the

coastline is covered, except for Vandenberg Air Force Base, a restricted zone.

We checked out a USB drive by Lexar, available from:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/ , Cliff Buttschardt also

recommended his PNY model, so you may wish to ask him about it. It is possible to boot and autorun a file or

program from these devices. Courtesy of Fred Cook, we watched a video of a frustrated treadmill user hard at

work. We got a good laugh from that one. We also saw another topical presentation on Saddam Hussein, which

was too long to view. Removing the USB drive is a step-by-step process, which Alan showed us how to do. In

Windows 98, it is possible to simply unplug the drive, but later versions are more fussy.

Alan showed us the neatest and latest hard drive carrier out on the market: for laptops, a portable USB2 device

using a 20GB laptop hard drive. It does not work directly with USB-Type 1, due to the power requirements, and has

two cables, one for data, and one for power. There is a wall-mount power adapter for USB-Type 1, however. They

call it FireXpress USB2-EB-25S Ultra Slim 2.5External USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure. See it at:

http://www.compucable.com/firewire/embed.asp?stuff=se_1394_body.html#USB2EB25S

. I called it a " giga-floppy"

, and Alan noted that the carrier was only $50!

Hard drives are getting better, and the latest development is a new group formed from Hitachi and IBM, producing

7200 RPM laptop drives with exceptional performance. See:

http://www.hgst.com/about/news/20030514.html

[Hitachi Global Storage Technologies]. Hitachi made hard drive history today by introducing new advances in

miniaturization technology to create a giant of a drive: The industry's first 7200 RPM mobile hard drive with

breakthrough femto slider technology. These developments give new-found mobility to users who were previously

plugged-in to their desktops for the performance advantage. But users of the new Travelstar 7K60 mobile drive will

not have to give up battery life for the additional speed. The new 7200 RPM drive offers power-consumption parity

with its 5400 RPM counterpart, due to Hitachi's newly miniaturized femto slider. The femto slider or the tiny flying

wing supporting the read/write head above the surface of the disk reduces power consumption and increases

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SLO Bytes Hard Copy A publication of the San Luis Obispo PC Users Group Vol. 19 No. 7 July 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This rich text format (.rtf) was selected for the newsletter to make it acceptable to most of the email programs used by SLO Bites members. For (.pdf) version, see: http://www.slobytes.org/newsletter/nl0703.
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shock performance, adding to the overall superior mobile experience of the Travelstar 7K60. At 60 Gigabytes (GB) of storage, the 7K60 is also the industry's most capacious 7200 RPM mobile hard drive." Two of our members commented from personal experience on the changes these companies have made in their plant in San Jose, California, where the old IBM sign has been taken down, and the new Hitachi sign has taken its place.
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www.techbargins.com Our Cookie and Coffee Klatch was hosted by Nancy Vrooman and Peter Stonehower, to the delight of a full house, with almost half an hour of social time. We used this time to catch up on our many projects, and family news. Guy Kuncir introduced our guest speaker Ralph Dallon, from our original Staples store, (Broad Street) discussing computer monitors, both LCD flat screens and CRT types. Ralph opened his discussion with the question: "What kind of monitor should I buy?".
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the sharper and clearer the screen images will be. Opt for a flat CRT monitor if you want improved image depiction. Unlike regular CRTs, flat CRTs don't have convex, or bowed, glass. Compared to standard CRT's, they offer reduced glare, greater image sharpness, and better uniformity in image brightness. All CRT monitors emit a low level of electromagnetic radiation.
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Have a safe holiday, and I'll see you later. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------President's Message Sunday, July 6th, happenings: At 1 PM Alan will be speaking on a variety of current computer topics. Just some of these topics: - - - - - PowerQuest Drive Image 7.
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current and future members of SLO Bytes. If you chose to subscribe to KCBXnet as your dial-up ISP, you and SLO Bytes will benefit. You will be billed only $17/month and SLO Bytes will receive $2/month from KCBXnet. Check out our web site's Announcements for further details. ----------------------If you have any used ink-jet printer or toner cartridges bring them to our meeting.
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Click the red record button and start the music. After the first song has played, stop Sound Recorder and pause your cassette/record. In Sound Record, click File>>Save. Name the file, ensuring that "Save as type" is set to "Sounds *.wav" Repeat until all songs are recorded. Since there are silent spots and probably some pops and hisses, you'll want to clean up and edit the wav files. Again, there are programs made just for this task. Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.
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Windows XP Class: An Overview and Demonstration. This class will demonstrate (no hands on) Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition.
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Outside SIGs HTML-Internet SIG normally meets at 6:30 PM on the Monday following our Sunday General Meeting at Ralph Sutter's home in Arroyo Grande. Call Ralph at (805) 489-8678 for directions Linux SIG normally meets on Thursday at 6:30 PM (following our Sunday's General Meeting) at KCBX.net [a.k.a. SLONET] Training Center, 4100 Vachell Lane, SLO. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------SLO Bytes Officers/Volunteers: Ray Miklas (President) rmiklas@pacbell.