Well despite the foggy weather, 35 or so managed to navigate their way to this mornings Coffee and Chat meeting. There were a few new members; Terry who had a laptop, fixed up by Nhan Tran at an Internet clinic, but since it crashed, it doesn't connect any more. After some discussion, he was advised to get the correct driver for his Maestro modem, and was shown where to find it. And on the subject of modems, a Netcomm SM 34 will not connect to a digital modem set up like TIP.....This is Netcomm advice. Mike has W95 now, but can get his bubble jet to work on it. Again after some discussion, it appeared he needed to install the driver Go to Control Panel and then Add a Printer. Dot came to lurk and learn, but ended up discussing upgrade prices she had been quoted. Rumour has it Pentium prices are going to fall again, and she was advise to wait another month and get a new quote. Someone had an e-mail problem, messages were bouncing, and would appear that he was attempting to send to an unknown address. Solution was to get daughter to send an email and get the correct address off that, although as it was pointed out, lots of people have inadvertently inserted an incorrect From address. Roger Lowrie of Flight Sim fame,(via Lou) had just discovered ICQ, and gave us a great run down on it, not realising that 15 or so present had ICQ. (Think there was a previous write up on this). Anyway, the upshot of all this another 10 showed interest in getting the program. See the next issue of Sixteen Bits for more details. Paul Thompson was having problems with mail, he has been receiving mail with a note at the end reading: "Warning. The remainder of this message has not been transferred. Click on the server retrieve Icon above and check mail again to get the whole thing. If the server and retrieve icon are not showing, then the message is no longer on your server. The estimated size of this message is 1001 bytes." Mmmmmmm very interesting, and after some discussion, it was suggested he check with the postmaster for help, maybe a corrupted mail box. Peter Hodge had real problems booting up W95, a lot of LNK files were not found. Following the usual interrogation, it appears he once had an Iomega Zip drive permanently installed, but now that it has gone, the W95 boot up was telling him it was gone. Solution.. Go to Microsoft and get REGCLEAN, a freebie, and it will clear up the Registry of all those long forgotten links. Anyone have any comments on Choice magazines Computer editions, $36 for 6 issues. Some thought it was a little too basic, most had never read it, so if you have a view, post it here please. After all the discussion on FTP email in tip.general, Jim Fogg was a bit concerned about chewing up bandwidth by sending a 33K attachment all the way to pommie land. He was advised not to worry and just send it. Emil then related a story of an AOL customer having trouble sending mail, in the end the Help desk discovered she was trying to send the data from a CD Rom, about 50 Megs worth, no wonder the mail system chucked the dummy. With Gordon U( I can't spell it) away, Emil gave a run down on the Albert hall markets. 16 Meg EDO..$89.00, 16 speed ROM..$130.00, Mother boards galore, $200 top price, all others less. If you are into Computer upgrades, check the markets, but as usual, Buyer Beware. The elections for the PCUG Committee are coming up soon, but more importantly, nominations for the committee close shortly, like this Friday, the 26th. They are looking for nominations, so if you feel you can contribute, please get a friend (or maybe an enemy) to nominate you. Next meeting will be 5 August, so till then, may you all have many happy keystrokes. Owen
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