SIG Changes
Photo Video SIG -
Now on 3RD Wednesday. Same time and location
New iSIG Forming
The iSIG will hold its first meeting on Monday June 21 at 7:00PM at Denny's on Lee Rd & I-4. The group will meet every month on the 3rd Monday at the same time & location.
The iSIG meetings will cover the products that use the iPhoneOS, which includes the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. This is a combined effort of the Central Florida Computer Society http://www.cfcs.org and the Florida Macintosh Users Group http://www.flmug.com . Other groups are invited to participate.
Attendees will be consumers, developers, consultants, and publishers. The first meeting will give us a good opportunity to find common interests and how to handle topics from both the consumer & the developer perspectives.
This is still in the very initial planning stage. Originally it was suggested that we have this for Past Presidents only, but we felt it would be more enjoyable if we included EVERYONE - ALL past and present members! There were some short discussions at the 9/20 meeting to gather ideas on Date and Place.
For those of you that are out of town, we will have some sort of way for you to send us an update to be read at the Reunion; we'll email that kind of thing later.
We are currently thinking of doing this on either a Friday or Saturday evening, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Suggestions so far have included restaurants such as Buca Del Beppo, The Golden Corral, and others.
This is all VERY wide open; any and all ideas are welcome! If you are not going to be able to attend the 9/20 meeting, please DO email your ideas to cfcs.reunion@gmail.com
Help Identify Pictures:
Here are the 2 links to look at the pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9656572@N06/sets/72157621908028195/ and slideshow http://www.flickr.com/photos/9656572@N06/sets/72157621908028195/show/
or http://tinyurl.com/ku7zsw and http://tinyurl.com/lg62k6 respectively.
Please contact vp-oper@cfcs.org if you can place names with any of the pictures of CFCS back in the 1980's
by Stan Wallner, President, CFCS
This is a now a separate, continuing monthly column
item. Check the Bussline regularly for updates and
new information. This a very important issue
regarding our environment; can't be overemphasized!
It is still in a state of flux and still
pending. If you just have one or two items for either
of the following places., contact me - if I
know in advance, you can bring them to a meeting,
and I'll take them from there. I just need to
know in advance so there aren't too many items
on any one day.
Missionary Computer Fellowship, 401 S Magnolia
Ave, Orlando, FL;
Phone: (407) 422-
9265.
This is a major organization doing refurbishing
and rebuilding, as well as recycling. It is
associated with and located in the First United
Methodist Church downtown.
They only accept
items on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
They are not
all religiously oriented - they send reconditioned
PCs to poor villages in Africa, and it is my understanding
that if an indigent person approached
them, they might be able to get a computer.
I took
some 15-20 PC's and monitors there last month. I
can tell you it is a large and interesting place; with
about 35 volunteers, many retired Martin Marietta
people coming in to refurbish and rebuild PC's.
One good feature - they wipe ALL hard drives,
and reload Windows on them. The Bussline pictures show
the unloading, and the various workbenches, with
separate rooms for laptop work, monitor storage,
and the holding room for the stuff they just can't
use or make work, so that gets sent for a recycler
for dispisal.
Click Here for Info and Needs
What is MCF?
MCF is a group of volunteers from many different churches who fix up old computers
for missionaries, pastors, schools and other nonprofit organizations. Most are sent to Africa, Latin
America and Haiti. Some are used by local groups, mostly for tutoring children.
What does MCF need?
- 1) Pentium II computers or faster. They don’t have to work. We can fix them.
- 2) Monitors less than 10 years old. They need to work. We don’t fix monitors.
- 3) Hewlett Packard printers and scanners. Only HP please.
- 4) Any Windows operating systems from Win98 to XP.
- 5) Mice and keyboards. We’re very short on mice right now.
- 6) Microsoft Office software.
What doesn’t MCF need?
Anything not listed above.
How do I contact MCF?
Call Jim Gibboney at 407-422-9265. Phones are answered only on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 4:30, except during lunch, 11:30 to 12:30.
Where is MCF located?
MCF is located in the First United Methodist Church building on South St. between Rosalind and Magnolia, and next to the fire station. You can drop off contributions any time on Tuesday or Thursday between 9:00 and 4:30. You don’t have to call first. A letter for tax purposes is available on request.
Southeastern Data, at 142 Park Road in
Oviedo, FL 32765 (Off Alafaya Trail, just north
of E. McCulloch Road); phone 407-971-4654 has
made us the nice offer of allowing CFCS members!
It NOT necessary to call before you take
items there, but do let them know you are involved
with CFCS, or you'll be hit with a drop-off charge.
Also, ask that Mr. Alan Jackson there know that
you've left material. (I do not believe they plan to
ask for ID, so this may work even if you are not
actually a CFCS Member! If you have questions,
please call or email me; also, I'd appreciate it if
you'd send me a rough list of what you've dropped
off - no great detail needed at all.)
We will be adding to this list. There are additional
places, and we want as many listed here as possible
for our members convenience! If you have
suggestions or comments,
send me an email - president@cfcs.org.
The 2011 FACUG Technology Conference Cruise
Details on website.
Website
The solution to this disaster is to regularly backup your computer's hard drive. This is the most important thing that every computer user should do to protect their system and files. With a good backup, you can restore your hard drive to the way it was before the crash. You will have your computer running again in a matter of minutes. Your important data files are safe from being lost. What a difference having a backup makes when your hard drive crashes on you.
Running backups is not that difficult using the latest technology and following the right backup approach. Our presenter this month will show you a quick and simple backup process that is also the most effective. He has years of experience in this topic and will show you his Perfect Backup Approach that is used by thousands of users around the world. With it, you can also easily get a good backup system running on your computer or greatly improve the way you are currently backing up your system. This is perhaps the most important computer presentation you will hear this year, so don't miss it.
Gene Barlow has been a presenter in the user group community for over 25 years. He spent his career with IBM in various technical and managerial positions. Back in the 80's when IBM first introduced the PC, Gene and a small handful of others establish the IBM PC User Group program. He spent the last 15 years of his career with IBM working with user groups all over the world, supporting this effort from every aspect. Gene has since retired, started his own consulting business called User Group Relations, and now lives in beautiful southern Utah, close to Zion's National Park. His presentations are interesting and easy to understand. So, don't be left out, be at the meeting this month for some important information.
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