Another good meeting with about 25 in attendance. The meeting
quickly got underway with an offer to pull a "computer to bits" so
that those that didn't know would be able to see things like mother
boards and whatever else goes inside a computer.

	This was OK, and will be scheduled for the next meeting or the
one after. The seal on the back of the computer recently purchased by
a member came in for some discussion. It would appear that this seal
has no effect on warranty, but does make you think twice about opening
it up.

	Denis Wilson had a problem with graphics and another member
would speak to him after the meeting about it, however Darrell Burkey
(DB) advised that Wayne Corbin had written an excellent article on the
various graphic formats and he hoped to publish it in the near future.

	DB then spoke on editing of Sixteen Bits. One of the problems
he has is that there a quite a lot of high quality articles that have
been submitted, but cannot publish because of various constraints. The
magazine was "costing" more because it had lost a major sponsor that
provided the  colour cover, as well the magazine would have an extra 4
pages in the next few issues to cope with some of the backlog of
articles.

	Sixteen Bits had carried over 50,000 applications for the
internet, and one wondered if this was an efficient use of the
magazine, particularly when most members were now on the Internet.

	The magazine was to come on line in a more timely manner, Ken
Livingston is updating the PCUG WWW page, which will include a revised
version of the electronic Sixteen Bits. Emil Joseph is working
backward to place Aug 95 to Apr 96 on line.

	DB also described a visit to the Corel road show where
Ventura7 was demonstrated. A mind boggling experience as it is a very
powerful desktop publisher. However, printers preferred Pagemaker, and
this matter was still under investigation. 

	The C&C group conveyed their appreciation to DB and his sub
editors for all the effort they apply to the magazine. 

	Phillip Bell said that the attachments he was sending with
Eudora were being received corrupted. An explanation was given:
Eudora Lite, the freeware version can only send Binhex or MIME.
Agent only does UUENCODE, though MIME is coming out soon.
Pegasus, if you can get it to work will do the lot.
Eudora professional ($99 ?) did the lot
It is best to ask the recipient what format is preferred.
If you have troubles, you can use a program like Xferpro, which
doesn't care what format it is, it sorts it out and decodes it.

	Now all this time, Neville Anderson has been sitting down
wearing a baseball cap. No one had made any comment, and it was too
much for him, he took it off and said "didn't anyone notice". It was
an advertising cap from Australian Net Guide. I lost track of the
ensuing discussion, but he would have been better keeping it on, and
keeping the top of his head warm in that cold old room.

	Wolf Lieske provided a statement of affairs for 95/96. Thanks
Wolf for keeping track of all these things. Ah... knew there was a
catch, then he wanted to know how to convert JPEG format to Kodak
Photo CD. No one was quite sure how this was done, but Emil Joseph
said he would have a look around and see what could be done. So we
will just have to wait till next time to find out.

	Mike Dinn passed around a book. Genealogy on the Internet by
Anne Foxworthy, ISBN 0 947 158 54 5, published by Coherent Publishing
of Melbourne. $10 and looked worth the money.

	John Saxon conducted a straw poll on the speed of WWW pages of
TIP machines, and was pleasantly surprised to find that everyone else
was as slow as he was. No explanation was forthcoming, though there
were lots of theories.

	Ken Meadows stated he had not had a "no user prompt failure"
for a long time and wondered if the problem had been fixed. In a
general discussion, it was revealed that TIP team had been working on
all sorts of problems and that the system was getting better all the
time as minor bugs were corrected. Yes, all agreed, that type of
problem had largely disappeared.

	Charlie Rann described how he had fixed his drop out problem
with an expensive switch which isolated his other phones when his
modem was activated. He had an old T200 touchfone which was causing
problems, but this had now been isolated.


	The meeting sort of closed at 11.30, but a lot of chattering
continued, and maybe a few more cups of coffee drunk, thanks to Alf
McMicken for opening up and keeping the road on the show.

	Next meeting 23 Jul 96, hope to see you then.


Owen



	
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