President's Message
by Martin Hanson

August, 2010

Greetings fellow SLUGO members,

I know we have discussed when to replace that old computer, and how to make the old computer run better. A while back, I was considering my options and decided I needed to replace the whole unit. I have finally found a machine for a price I was willing to pay, and even better I got it on sale from the Offutt Base Exchange (tax free!). I now am running a HP system, with a quad core processor, and 8 GB of Ram, and a 1 Terabyte hard drive. That alone helps the Win7 operating system run a lot faster than my old one was. I will have to get that “StarOffice” CDOM at the meeting so I can test drive it on my new system. I have been backing stuff up and now deciding what to put back on the new computer, and what to keep in the archive drive.

In our last meeting, Derek Lawrie presented a brief overview of StarOffice version 9. We had a new release of CDOM’s. This CDOM release had so much stuff we needed to use 3 CDs. If you haven’t gotten them yet, I think you should. The meeting was finished up with our monthly drawings. I would mention more, but I was out of town for this meeting.

In our August meeting, we have busy program lined up for you. First off, Derek Lawrie will show us more about StarOffice version 9. Dennis Fleming will show us an alternate program to adobe reader for PDF files, “Foxit Reader”. Derek Lawrie will come back up from to show us “Editpad Lite”, then I will review a handy program called “Recuva”. As always, if you have computer questions, please post them to the proboard, or bring the questions with you to the meeting to discuss during our Q and A time. We will have our door prize drawings for members present and a separate drawing for those who posted computer questions or replied comments on the proboard. Last but not least, we will have the swap table this month, so if you have items, be sure to bring them and if they are not free, please mark the desired amount you want for it.

As always, come join us at the August 14th SLUGO meeting, Omaha’s friendliest computer club, starting a little after 0900 at the Sump Memorial library, and finishing around 1145. Some of will also go to lunch afterwards, most likely at the “Syzzlin Skillet” in downtown Ralston.

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