Mail 'n Stuff
Effective 8/17/06, SLOMUG has a new general email
address. It is slomug3@mac.com. You can send email to this address by clicking
on the bouncing mail bottle.
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From: Jean Anderson
Date: September 25, 2006 5:12:50 PM PDT
To: club membership list
Subject: SLOMUG November meeting date change
NOVEMBER MEETING CHANGE
Because Thanksgiving Thursday is the same week as our usual SLOMUG meeting, the meeting date has been changed to Tuesday, November 14th (instead of the 21st).
The meeting will be at the same time and place as usual, however, and a notice of the program will be sent out. Meanwhile, please note the change on your calendars!
Also, please note the following message just received from the Cambria Computer Club Mac Users Group:
BATTERY EXCHANGE PROGRAM iBOOK G4 AND POWERBOOK G4
Apple has determined that certain lithium-ion batteries containing cells manufactured by Sony Corporation of Japan pose a safety risk that may result in overheating under rare circumstances.
The affected batteries were sold worldwide from October 2003 through August 2006 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4.
Apple is voluntarily recalling the affected batteries and has initiated a worldwide exchange program to provide eligible customers with a new replacement battery, free of charge. This program is being conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and other international safety authorities
If you own one of the affected computers and want to determine if it has one of the risky batteries, go to <https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/batteryexchange/>. You'll find a chart of models and serial numbers there as well as complete instructions.
For more information: cadoff@charter.net
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Note: All meetings are at the Ludwick Community Center, 864 Santa Rosa Street (at Mill),
San Luis Obispo, Room 1 at 7 PM. Parking is available on Mill
Street, and in the parking lot at the rear of the Center.
Note that the Sierra Club sometimes meets at the same time, so parking may be limited.
Mark your calendars now for the following dates:
Month Tuesday evening
October 10/17/06
November 11/14/06 (change!)
December No Meeting
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From: Jean Anderson <slohpver@charter.net>
Date: March 24, 2006 11:10:13 AM PST
To: Kevin Christian <krchrist@calpoly.edu>
Cc: slomug3@mac.com
Subject: Re: More Accolades - Lorraine Donegan
Thanks, Kevin.
...
On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Kevin Christian wrote:
I know that you have her for SLOMUG every once and awhile so I thought you'd like to know about this.
Kevin
Begin forwarded message:
From: Harvey Levenson <hlevenso@calpoly.edu>
Date: March 23, 2006 9:04:29 PM PST
To: grc-lecturers@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu, grc-faculty@calpoly.edu, grc-staff@calpoly.edu
Cc: lhalisky@calpoly.edu, dlvalenc@calpoly.edu
Subject: More Accolades - Lorraine Donegan
All,
I am tremendously proud and pleased to let all of you know that Lorraine Donegan won this year's prestigious international Electronic Document System's Foundation (EDSF) Award -- "EDSF Educator of the Year."
I received a call from Jeanne Mowlds, EDSF Executive Director, informing me of this. I understand that the competition was stiff--internationally, but Lorraine emerged as the EDSF board of director's top choice. The venue for the presentation will be announced shortly.
Please join me in a huge congratulations to Lorraine. This is big for Lorraine, GrC, CLA, and Cal Poly.
Harvey
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From:
Claire Gordon
<clgordon@charter.net>
Date:
May 21, 2004 3:39:50 PM
PDT
Just received this from the Cambria
chapter
NEWS & VIEWS
From the June issue of MacHome
magazine: If you've ever had trouble finding a special character (accented
letter, math symbol, check mark, etc.) to use in a document, Apple has provided
an elegant solution starting with OS 10.2—the Character Palette. To
install yours:
1.) Open
System Preferences and click on International
2.)
Click on the Input Menu tab
3.)
Click on the Character Palette box.
A small square icon will appear on
your menu bar next to "Help". Click on this icon and open the Character
Palette. When you find the character you want to use, highlight it and
click the Insert button to place it at the current location in your document.
(Note: You can also change the font of the character you're inserting.)
If you're new to OS X (as I am), you
may be a little overwhelmed by its unfamiliar features. I've stumbled
across a website which has a tutorial to help you learn some of the basics of
the OS X operating system. http://www.desiredgraphics.com/
If you're running OS X on an older Mac
system with a built-in floppy disk drive (as I am), your desktop probably shows
no sign of activity when a floppy is inserted. The floppy disk does not
appear on the desktop, or in a Finder window. To access your floppy drive,
you have to re-start your system running OS 9, as follows:
1.) Open
System Preferences
2.) Click on
Startup Disk
3.) Select the
Mac OS 9 System Folder
4.) Restart
the computer
5.) Install a
floppy in the drive and copy the information to/from the floppy disk(s) from/to
your hard disk
Note: Be sure to put the copied files
or disk images in a location that is accessible when the computer is started up
from Mac OS X. A folder in your Home directory would be a good place to
put them.
6.) Open the
OS 9 Startup Disk control panel
7.) Select the
Mac OS X System Folder.
8.) Restart
the computer.
This procedure also enabled me to
access my SCSI CD burner (which had disappeared when I installed OS X) from OS
9.
IMPRESSIVE APPLE FIRSTS
The next time one of your PC using
associates starts commenting on your obscure little Macintosh system, you might
want to mention a few of these Apple "firsts". Microsoft and Intel may
well have the upper hand in numbers out there, but Apple continues to be the
leader in innovation. The company's ability to turn ideas into "insanely
great" products gives it a leadership in the industry that Bill Gates can only
wish for.
€ Apple
was the first personal computer company to use a mouse.
€ Apple
was the first personal computer company to ship a computer with a color screen.
€ Apple
was the first personal computer company to make a portable.
€ Apple
was first to ship a personal computer with a floppy drive.
€ Apple
was first to ship a personal computer without a floppy drive.
€ Apple
was first to ship a personal computer with a CD-Rom drive.
€ Apple
was first to ship a personal computer with a DVD-R drive.
€ Apple
invented the trackpad (PC users were using a trackball or red nubby).
€ Apple
invented FireWire.
€ Apple
was first to offer wireless networking in a personal computer.
€ Apple
invented True Type fonts (now a PC standard).
€ Apple
was first to release a PDA (remember the Newton?).
€ Apple
was first to allow use of multiple monitors.
€ Apple
was first to use icons or pull-down folders.
€ Apple
was first to do away with CRTs and use only flat panel displays.
€ Apple
was first to release a 64-bit processor in a consumer machine.
From Jack Hennessy