Minutes of the Meeting held 25 September 2001
The following are the contributions to the agenda items raised at the
meeting.
* The Barbeque.
PICNIC/BARBEQUE - All PCUG Coffee and Chat members and partners
welcome!
Place: Eddison Park, Woden, Barbeque area below Easty Street.
Parking: Launceston Street, opposite Phillip College.
Date: Tuesday, 9 October
Time: 12:00 following Southside Coffee and Chat meeting.
Nibbles and cold drinks provided - bring your own food etc.
Maps available Northside meeting, 2/10; Southside meeting, 9/10.
Contact Gloria Robbins.
* Cleaning out temporary files.
'I have a number of utilities which claim to clear TEMP files, yet
none seem to work. Even the Disk Cleanup from My Computer/C Drive
Properties does nothing either.' (Graham McCann)
* IE Upgrade - loss of address book.
'The solution offered by John Saxon was to use the Find facility in
Windows Explorer, looking for *.wab, and to find the
temp location that the .wab files had been sent by the upgrade. The wanted
addresses can then be cut and pasted to the new address
book.' (Simon Cowling)
* Copying error messages to the Clipboard.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/topics/errormsg/emresctr.asp is
the URL for the MS Knowledge Base section on
Error messages.
The program that allows you to copy virtually all messages (+ much
more ) to the Clipboard has the unlikely name of
Kleptomania! It is at http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania which has
words like ....
'Kleptomania 2.3 allows to capture and process text from any (even
clipboard-unaware) application. Copy text onto clipboard, launch
internet
browser or email editor, sum numbers, count a number of
words/characters.
Process text of folder trees, file lists, database reports, text
content of
messages and dialog boxes, menus, status lines, visible text of
legacy
systems, and more. Kleptomania does not rely on any data
communication
scheme behind the scene. Uses OCR and delivers ultimate text capture
and
processing abilities.
It's shareware and costs $29.95 to register after 30 day trial.'
(both items fromJohn Saxon).
* Google - Anything better?
'No, though 'eureka' is good for within Australia searches.' (Alan
Vidler)
A search engine spoken of by John Saxon is called Teoma,
http://www.teoma.com 'I have used it several times and it worked
for me.'(Charles Bubb)
* Discussion on Windows XP.
'Everything you want to know about Windows XP are usefully collected
at
:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Tech/Microsoft_Windows/
It has all the news stories and reviews including the following:
- about WPA (windows product activation) built into Win XP
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2814309,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews
01
- a balanced review from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1230-2001Sep20.html
But there is more!
Here's one from Info World magazine:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/17/010917opfoster.xml?0920tha
m
In a scathing attack on MS product and marketing policies it alleges
that "one alert reader just spotted in the license for FrontPage
2002.
"You may not use the Software in connection with any site that
disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or
services ... " the license reads in part. " ' (Emil Joseph).
* Discussion on Transact.
'Transact ran an information session at the Mawson Raiders Club on
Tuesday
11th and the proposed reticulation plan for Mawson and Farrer was
presented.
About 6 locals, including Merv and Simon, attended.
Subsequently Transact Reps have been doorknocking the area
attempting to
sign people up in advance for their long distance phone services
with the
promise that if you signed up you would get free connection to
Transact when
they were cabling in your area.' (Simon Cowling)
The following is from Charles Bubb and is the text of a message he
received on 25/9 from WebOne.
'Web One Internet has our first customer connected via the TransACT
broadband network. This means that if you have a TransACT
broadband service and want to use it with Web One Internet it can be
arranged.
If your suburb has not yet been cabled or may never be cabled by TransACT or
if you are not interested in using any TransACT
service you do not need to worry. Your Web One service will not be effected
(sic) in any way.
Many Web One customers have waited for Web One to go live with TransACT
broadband rather than switching to an alternate provider. I want to say
thank you to those people. Anyone who has an account on the Web One system
and upgrades to a TransACT broadband service will receive a $20 credit to
their account once they pay their first bill for broadband. Anyone who signs
up with Web One for a TransACT broadband service at the recommendation of an
existing customer, will also receive a $20 credit once they pay the first
account and the $10 spotters credit that goes to the recommending customer
will be increased to $20 for these accounts. Please note that this offer is
our way of saying thanks to those who have stood by Web One and for this
reason applies only to those who are currently able to connect via TransACT
and who sign up with Web One before 31 October 2001.
If you would like more information about TransACT specifically please visit
http://www.transact.com.au
You are of course always most welcome to write or phone Web One for
information on TransACT broadband or any other service.'
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