Number 229 - June 2002

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Landslide? Apathy? Who Cares?     By popular vote of those present at the May 2002 meeting, all of last year's officers were returned to office for another year, as follows:     President - Ray Mills     VP/Prog Chairman - Dave Rowe     Sec'y/Treasurer - Bob Henkel     Disk Librarian - Tom Stepanek     Newsletter Editor - Bob Thomson     Web Master - Ray Mills     Newsltr Print/Distrib - H. Broomell     King County Rep - Carl Tenning Beginner Routine Worth Repeating     Old timers have heard it all before, may even have given the same advice to "newbies", but they're worth repeating again. Checkout the beginner article in the Beginner's section on easy steps to keep your computer running well.     And don't just do it once and forget it. These should be routine maintenance chores done once in a while. The "while" may be a month for a seldom user, a week for a regular user or a day for an all-day Internet crawler.	WiFi Presentation To Expand on Articles     Beginning with Wireless Wonders are two articles on the "new" wireless network making use of equipment designed to 802.11b specification. This technology has taken off in the last six months to a year and is crowding out competitors on the same 2.4 GHz frequency band. Come to the meeting to see a slide show presentation on the subject and learn more about this new and simple way to network several computers among themselves as well as to give them access to the Internet Care and Feeding of Your Hard Drive     In the Hardware section, Gene Barlow of Power Quest discusses several steps you can take to keeo your hard drive and its files in good shape. While Gene is a salesman for Power Quest's utility software, the steps outlined by him make sense whether or not you are using the products he is touting. OPSYS Shakedown?     We've all heard about technological shake-out where the best or most popular (not necessarily the same thing) products tend to survive while the less so disappear. In XP, VP, ZP, Burton Shane has some comments on Microsoft's new approach to fees for operating system software licensing. What do you think?
Number 229 - June 2002