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Minutes of Meetings
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June 19, 2006 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:21 pm. Attendance 8. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the May meeting. Discussion
Kevin Cook reports that AVG, an antivirus program from GriSoft works quite well.
There was discussion of Microsoft and Bill Gates' money.
Dale Roethig demonstrated ImgBurn. Ran into media problems and switched to Nero.
Gary Köhler attempted to fix Quagmeier II. Kevin Cook installed Registry Mechanic and we tried that. Quagmeier still takes 5 minutes to boot--much too long. The consensus is that seldom-used programs need to be uninstalled/deleted. We did not check the hardware tree, however.The meeting adjourned at 9:15 pm. |
May 15, 2006 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm. Attendance 6. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the April meeting. Discussion
Dennis Drewek described the trials and travails of his new 19-inch flat panel monitor.
There was discussion of dangerous chemicals, such as hydrofluoric acid.
Discussion turned to time zones.
The topic turned to the AVG anti-virus program from GriSoft.
Kevin Cook had a few words about DVD structure.The meeting adjourned at 8:54 pm. |
April 17, 2006 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm. Attendance 7, 5 later on, 0 much later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the March meeting. Elections were held a month late. All officers were retained in their offices by acclamation. Discussion
Phil Moughmer's new digital camera, the Nikon D70S, was a source of amazement. The camera does not come with memory or a lens, the reason being that this is a professional camera and the photographer will be the best judge of which lenses and how much memory to use. A professional photographer is likely to already have a collection of lenses, and this camera can use any of the lenses that Nikon has manufactured for the last 30 years or so.
Phil Moughmer gave a treasurer's report and outlined just how dire the club's finances are.
Dale Roethig showed several freeware programs available for editing and manipulating DVDs. He also showed Foxit Reader, a fast replacement for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The question of which is better, DVD+R or DVD-R came up. The consensus seems to be +R.
Gary Köhler compared the recent remake of The Ten Commandments with the Cecille B. deMille film. General consensus was disappointment with the remake.
There was a general discussion of DVDs and recording.The meeting adjourned at 8:47 pm. |
March 20, 2006 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm. Attendance 6, 5 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the February meeting. Discussion
Dennis Drewek gave us an update about his slow broadband connection and the saga of getting a replacement modem.
Dale Roethig demonstrated a Super Cantenna WiFi antenna by attempting to connecting to Dennis Drewek's laptop. We were not successful in trying to get John Schwarzmeier's machine connected.
Gary Köhler had a question about programs failing to launch in XP (both Home and Professional).
Dennis Drewek then explained the wonders of lithotrypsy.The meeting adjourned at 8:43 pm. |
February 20, 2006 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:16 pm. Attendance 7, 6 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the January meeting. Discussion
Discussion of the oil-cooled computer continued.
Dale Roethig and Phil Moughmer showed off "Duelling Dell Laptops".
Dale Roethig worked on removing a program that had failed to install on Phil Moughmer's computer. The program was removed.
We then viewed the best (and the worst!) of the commercials from Superbowl XL.
Dale Roethig demonstrated BitComet, a BitTorrent-like program written in C++ instead of Java (like Azerus).
There were miscellaneous complaints about miscellaneous electronic appliances.
Dale Roethig demonstrated Doom 3.The meeting adjourned at 8:57 pm. |
January 16, 2006 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm. Attendance 6. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the December meeting. Dale updated us on how Randy's computer was fixed. Discussion
John Schwarzmeier showed off one of the new LED flashlights powered by merely shaking it.
We viewed pictures taken by Kevin Cook at a recent showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Gary Köhler announced that the 100th issue of The Monitor Newsletter under his editorship was at hand. Actually, it has already occurred already, more about this later.
Gary Köhler shared an article by Stephen Gibson concerning the recent Windows Metafile (WMF) bug.
Dale Roethig showed a video from Tom's Hardware featuring a computer cooled with -- wait for it -- cooking oil! I wonder if anyone will want fries with that?
Dennis Drewek asked about Commodore hardware, noted what was not moving on eBay.
Dale Roethig showed us a Compaq Armada without a hard drive.The meeting adjourned at 9:02 pm. |