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Digital 3D Entertainment: Why Now and How?
Gary Sasaki, DIGDIA
We are seeing an explosion of activity, products and services pop up touting 3D. Why is this happening now? Didn’t 3D die back in 1953? Find out why it is different this time, including some behind the scenes technical and business details that few people know about unless you are deep in the industry.
In this session in our series on building your own PC, Kevin will present a detailed discussion of the quad-core Intel i7 processors and some of the ASUS socket 1366 boards which are available for this chip. This will be the last SVCS session prior to the actual BYOPC workshop at Microcenter.
February 10-12, 2010
Hyatt Regency at SFO
Burlingame, CA
The 2010 SharePoint Technology Conference, February 10-12 in San Francisco, focuses on Microsoft's collaboration software used by IT developers, users and managers. Whether you are migrating to SharePoint 2010, remaining with SharePoint 2007 or just getting started with SharePoint, the future of SharePoint education is at SPTechCon.
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.
At the April 2009 SPAUG meeting, member Larry Templeton described how he built his own Home Theater PC.
Bill Young really laid the groundwork for tonight's talk a couple of month's ago when he made a presentation to the group about how to build a standard desktop for the PC so I'm not going to go into the nuts and bolts of it, but I do want to talk how they work, how they fit into a home entertainment system and the parts that you might want to procure if you are going to build one.
What can an HTPC provide?
Record /store/ replay off-air/cable TV shows, DVDs, CDs, ipod, MP3s, etc.
From the internet, download /store /play YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, TV shows, movies (amazing amount of content now available)
Edit video, burn DVDs, CDs, load iPod, etc.
Any other PC function such as surf the internet, play games, etc.
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
Drupal: Configuring the WYSIWYG Editor and Creating Content
Maurice Green, SVUGA Webmaster
We continue our construction of a model Drupal website. In this session we will install and configure the WYSIWYG and FCK Editor modules, setting up multiple user roles and matching input formats and toolbars. Then we will demonstrate the process of creating several different kinds of content for the site.
We are seeing an explosion of activity, products and services pop up touting 3D. Why is this happening now? Didn’t 3D die back in 1953? Find out why it is different this time, including some behind the scenes technical and business details that few people know about unless you are deep in the industry.
In this session in our series on building your own PC, Kevin will present a detailed discussion of the quad-core Intel i7 processors and some of the ASUS socket 1366 boards which are available for this chip. This will be the last SVCS session prior to the actual BYOPC workshop at Microcenter.
We continue our construction of a model Drupal website. In this session we will install and configure the WYSIWYG and FCK Editor modules, setting up multiple user roles and matching input formats and toolbars. Then we will demonstrate the process of creating several different kinds of content for the site.
