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Troubleshooting Windows 7 Installations
Kevin Lynn
There are lots of web pages and advice to be found by simply entering "Trouble-Shooting Windows 7 Installation" in a Google (or Bing) search box.Google about 22,800,000 entries,
Bing found 8,900,000.
Kevin will focus on cleaning up and speeding up a Windows 7 installation on a Laptop using msconfig and easy BCD. He will also discuss Vista and XP problems, especially dual-boot.
Public Access Television and Community Media Centers
Elliot Margolies, Midpeninsula Media Center
NOTE: This meeting will be held at the Midpeninsula Community Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. A tour of the Center operations and studio is included.
Founded in 1990, the Midpeninsula Community Media Center helps local individuals and groups use the power of video, television and the internet to inform, persuade and build community. They provide video production and editing services, offer classes and seminars, broadcast local government meetings and operate five cable television channels serving the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Stanford.
The mess of moving your phone to Comcast et al without Local Number Portability (LNP)
In order for you to learn from the experience of others, I offer the following discussion on how to avoid problems when attempting to move data communications services between vendors, and the problems their personnel insert into the process.
SVCS has established a new Build It Yourself SIG for those members interested in building their own PC systems. The new SIG will meet at MicroCenter in Santa Clara on the first Monday night of each month. The Multimedia SIG which previously met on this night will now be combined with the Digital Imaging SIG on the third Monday nights.
After discussions with SPAUG on membership sharing, the Silicon Valley Computer Society has decided to remain as a separate organization, operating the Special Interest Groups. Effective January 1, 2010 persons attending the SIG meetings at MicroCenter in Santa Clara will be asked to join SVCS. Annual dues have been set at $12 per year, payable on the first of the year. Dues checks should be made payable to SVCS and mailed to Glen Murray, Treasurer, 3718 Seine Ct., San Jose, CA 95127-2149
How would you recreate the massive Normandy D-Day assault on Omaha Beach with three actors, a green screen, some old military gear and sophisticated editing software?
Like millions of people around the globe, I wasn't able to access Gmail.com for a couple of hours last Tuesday but — thanks to redundancy — that didn't stop me from getting my Gmail.
I use Gmail for all my incoming mail, but the same messages that arrive on Gmail also arrive on Yahoo mail and Microsoft Outlook.
I do this by spending $10 a year for my own Internet address. Almost any Internet registrar — such as Godaddy.com and GKG.net — will allow you to create your own domain and, at no additional charge, allow you to automatically forward mail from that domain to any other e-mail address or even several addresses.
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 7, 2009
When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com.
...such services as YourHackerz.com are still active and plentiful, with clever names like "piratecrackers.com" and "hackmail.net." They boast of having little trouble hacking into such Web-based e-mail systems as AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail, and they advertise openly.
And, experts said, there doesn't appear to be much anyone can do about it.
Join SVUGA webmaster Maury Green at this month's WebSIG meeting on TUESDAY, September 29th and learn some of the tricks webmasters are using to fight the scourge of hackers and spambots.
Founded in 1990, the Midpeninsula Community Media Center helps local individuals and groups use the power of video, television and the internet to inform, persuade and build community. They provide video production and editing services, offer classes and seminars, broadcast local government meetings and operate five cable television channels serving the communities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Stanford. 
