A very busy and again, informative day. Mike Dinn started off by advising that the Seniors Internet Cafe was to get started September 29, and he was looking for some volunteers to help out. He will post a message to tip.general giving the requirements. Elizabeth Yardley and John Taylor brought in a copies of Computer Choice for review; never got a feel for what people thought, though one comment was that worth buying, but not for "power users" Some people use their computer to communicate, do word processing or play games, Paul Thompson however seems to use his computer as a frustration machine. His latest adventure saw him buy 16 mb of RAM, only then to lose his CD player, scanner and a couple of hundred megabytes of disk space off his Western Digital hard drive. While he retrieved his CD and scanner, he has had no luck with the HDD, even Master Solver Darrell Burkey admitted being stumped. One suggestion was to try a low level format from the BIOS, so we look forward to the next meeting to see what new adventures Paul has had. Peter Hodge wanted to know about Power Saving for the monitor, he had it in WFWG, but has now lost it with W95. This facility comes from the video driver, and it is recommended that the latest driver for W95 and the video card be obtained. Two options should be available, "Stand by Mode" and "Turn Off". Darrell Burkey had bought a Diamond Speedster, but found a cheaper video card in MIRO, and found it to be superior than the Diamond card. Other discussion then started on monitors, the KTX 17" is quite amazing value and O & A Link sell another 17" monitor which is outstanding. Ergonomics came into it, flicker rate and refresh rate, headaches and migraines, it is very important to have the monitor at the right height, particularly if you spend more than a couple of hours a day in front of a monitor. And if you do spend more than a couple of hours staring at a monitor, and you wear mutifocal glasses, you can now get these to be made optimal for looking at screens. Jenny Laraman noted that if you were concerned about your eyesight, there is little point in quibbling about the cost of a monitor, make sure you have one that is "in focus", flicker free etc. Something about virus detection from Jim Hume, sorry Jim I am not into viruses, so I missed the technoblurb, which sounded like that the signature data bank is so big, you need two disks to store the information, and these are now downloadable from your favourite Virus Patch Centre. With five minutes left, someone asked, "Can you tell me about digital cameras and how to send pictures on the Internet". Well first of all, there was in the May issue of PC User, a good rundown on digital cameras, secondly there are other options, a VCR and video capture card, and probably cheapest of all, was to simply scan the photo(s), and attach them to an e-mail. A plug for a magazine, this months Australian PC World has a little book attached to it "Creating Web Pages for Dummies", highly recommended. As promised, Des Pfeiffer gave a run down on Ink Jet cartridge refilling, and I will post an article on what I could glean from this very interesting talk later in the week. For those that missed his details, he is on phone 287 2000. Next meeting will be 19 August 1997, so till then, all the best. Owen ****************************************************** Coffee & Chat Page, inluding archives of past meetings http://www.pcug.org.au/~rcook/c&c.htm ******************************************************
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