TUESDAY Sept 3 STERLING HEIGHTS COMPUTER CLUB
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1. 3 00 TUESDAY Sept 3 Main Meeting 7 30 PM Things fell through for the meeting topic We will have Questions and Answers VISIT THE SHCC WEB PAGE http www SterlingHeightsComputerClub org IN THIS ISSUE Going Wireless About SHCC Resource People Club Business amp Info Door Prizes Ask the Experts Technology Isn t Always 5 Flawless Give Your Portal Some Pizzazz WYSIWYG Web Watch SHCC September Schedule 10 4 5 K Ile WYSIWYG September 2002 STERLING HEIGHTS COMPUTER CLUB Volume 14 Issue 7 PO Box 385 Sterling Heights MI 48311 0385 Going Wireless By Rick Schummer Firs published on http RickSchummer com reprinted with permission here has been much press in the computer trade magazines and on the news about wireless connectivity Many consumers hear wireless and immediately think about cell phones some think about personal digital assistants PDA and some think about connecting a network of computers with a wireless local area network This article will focus on the wireless local area network and in gen eral what it takes to get computers to talk to each other without copper cables using the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance WECA wire less fidelity WiFi standard Four months ago our company decided to lease office space in an old mansion in Detroit W e lease much of the third floor and the biggest issue the landlord noted is that he2. Electronic WYSIWYG ou have the choice of receiving either the paper or the elec tronic version of the WYSIWYG Contact theSHCC secre tary to request the electronic version since it will only be sent to those requesting it D Ge YDS HBS 26 September 2002 For the fanatic computer enthusiast who has everything Technology Isn t Always Flawless few years ago a man living in Newton Massachusetts received a bill on his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed 0 00 He threw it away The next month he received another and tossed that one too The following month the credit card company sent him a nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn t send them 0 00 In retrospect he probably should have let them do that Instead he called the company and was informed that are you ready for this the problem was the result of a com puter error They told him they d take care of it The following month he reasoned that if other charges appeared on the card then it would put an end to his ridicu lous predicament Besides they assured him the problem would be resolved Page 5 So he presented his card for a pur chase It was declined Once again he called He learned that the credit card had been canceled for lack of payment They apologized for here it is again another computer error and promised they would rectify the situation The next day he got a bil
3. History www historyplace com homework index html Home work help www homeworkspot com High School Subjects www highschoolhub org hub hub cfm Science fair project www ipl org div kidspace projectguide Do you know what your first name means Now you can find out what is means and where the name originates You can find out how popular your name is and how popular it was when you started to use it www behindthename com Have you read some stories lately that just do not seem to be true You can check out urban legends about com puters Coke automobiles Disney or any other subject that you may have questions about Do you know what a dord is You can find out at snopes2 Even though it was listed in W ebster s International Dictionary it isan urban legend as to where or what this word means www snopes2 com How do the new movies stack up Check out the grid for ratings on 40 of the recent releases which are ranked on al 10 scale with red yellow and green lights You can also see what movies are playing and what time they are on at the theaters in your neighbor hood www checkthegrid com Is it time to start getting the garden ready for the coming winter or will we have a continuation of the current weather What type of weather will you find on your trip to Chicago Will have any delays with my flight due to the weather Check out weather com and see if you will need a raincoat or if you should put th
4. 2000 XP or something else Please email Don the input contact information on page 2 oO ME 8 BG Directions To The Macomb Library he Macomb County Library is located at 16480 H all Road in Clinton Township between Hayes and Garfield close to the light at Garfield on the south side of Hall Road A large red sign says Macomb County Library The phone number is 586 286 6660 BABB Attend A SIG f you do not attend SIG meetings you are missing out on important club benefits available to you These small groups get into more detail and question and answer sessions than is possible at the main meeting ae Yo 0 ee If your e mail or mail address changes please e mail secretary SterlingHeights ComputerClub org THE WYSIWYG September 2002 SHCC Business Ask The Experts by Jerry Carson Please send questions to Ask the Experts at the club s PO address or email your question directly to Jerry Carson at his email address jerrycarson email com ast time we talked about how BIOS manufacturers placed routines into the BIOS that would dlow easier acess to common hardware devices like hard disks and video displays This month we ll discuss where device drivers fit into this picture and why you need both First what is a device driver W ell it s very similar to one of the routines in the BIOS as it provides an easier way to access a piece of har
5. only minor glitches Other resources http www howstuffworks com home network htm http www howstuffworks com wirelessinternet htm http www linksys com Conclusion have been really impressed with this technology even though it really is considered to be in the infancy stage also expect it to be improved rapidly over time like the rest of technology bs iad 6 en 6 oe FOR SALE Compaq Presario Computer System 166 MGz 40 MB ram 15 inch monitor Contact Walter Jendhoff for more information E mail Baselal aol com THE WYSIWYG September 2002 WYSIWYG WEB WATCH www by John Beauchamp This column attempts to locate sites containing valu able amusing and free con tent with no overbearing presure to pur chase anything If you hae a particularly en joyable or helpful or just plain use less site which you would like to share with the membership email the site address with a brief site scription for a future WYSIWYG issue to jjbmalb yahoo com Addition ally send in a website category in which you are particularly interested and all eyes will watch out for related sites Check the SHCC web site W eb Page R eviews for past previous gems It s time for school to start and these sites may be helpful Astronomy http members aol com gca7sky astrohelp htm Math http school discovery com homeworkhelp webmath www gomath com www mathonline org
6. 16 2002 starting at 7 00PM at the Macomb County Library The SIG meeting days are generally the third Monday of the month depending on the meeting room avail ability All new members are invited to come and learn the DOS and Windows basics here There is always a question and answer period at these meetings The computer training sessions are free to club members but members will be advised to purchase the book in use by the class For more information about the SIG call or email Don V anSyckel numbers are on page 2 or check the club web site BABB B Linux SIG he next meet ing of the Linux SIG is Thursday evening Sep tember 19 2002 ii The purpose of the SIG is to learn the Linux operating system M eetings will discuss topics that are related to this The SIG will meet at Ken Belbot s house for now The SIG meeting days are generally the third Thursday of Page 3 September 2002 the month Ken Belbot is the SIG coordinator Call or email Ken for directions or the latest information about the SIG numbers are on page 2 G A 8 8 A New Novice SIG Class he Novice SIG will be starting a new course The previous class has graduated to the Advanced N ovice level Don VanSyckel the SIG coordinator and class instructor is interested in learning what operating system people interested in atending the next class are using Windows 95 98 ME
7. AM dial to notify members that a meeting is canceled because of bad weather or for other reasons The announcement will happen along with the school closings and other events Please remember to listen to the radio when there is bad weather 4 68 8 8 Presenters Wanted he officers invite any member to make a presentation at the main meeting If there is some software you have been using and think others may be interested as well or there is a computer topic you would like to present to other members please call or email Don VanSyckel Making presentations is not that difficult The hour ges by before you know it and there is always enough material to cover in a software package so that the hour is easy to fill If there is a topic you are interested in or something you would like demonstrated please see any of the officers They are always interested in what the members would like to see We Be XG Bn 48 Advertising Sign Hangers Wanted he SHCC has been advertising to make people in the area aware of the club and what we are all about in hopes of building club membership O ne way to get people to find out about us is to hang a flyer with tear off phone numbers at the local retail stores like M eijers Farmer Jacks and anywhere where a bulletin board is available If you are interested in helping out in this very important service please contact Pat Little email and phone number on page 2 8 68 8 4 4
8. eather Financial portfolio A small password protected box that lets me see my daily losses Mapping Similar to MapBlast com but with a pull down history News clipper Yahoo automatically searches its news database to find arti cles that I m tracking have other Yahoo pages each accessi ble from my H ome page Entertainment with a listing of movie show times for theaters in Pasadena and an evening s worth of TV listings Yahoo Search Tools have all my lookups here Y ellow Pages E mail and phone searches as well as bookmarks that link me to people and reverse phone directory pages Yahoo sa Flex Champ Page layouts are simple to design M ost Yahoo modules Calendar Maps E mail Weather for instance can be placed on either side of the Home page Bookmarks Portfolio N ews and other modules can be removed from the page to become a separate tempo rary floating boxes And the content can be set into either two medium sized columns or two narrow and one wide column Creating a Home page Portal is a fun project has the potential to let you navigate the Web faster and unlike installing a new operating system is guaranteed not to hose your PC Steve Bass is a Contributing Editor with PC World and runs the Pasa dena IBM U sers Group Write to him at steve bas pcworld com Check PCW s current edition at www pcworld com resource toc index asp and sign up for the Steve Bas online new
9. help you out or maybe you can find an expert in the user group that can assist you that would not be me How it works am not an electric engineer or com puter engineer so will not get to deep into discussing how this works The WAP sends out a signal just like your wireless phone does from the base station All the W APs I have seen have two antennas that send out the signal This creates a bubble around the WAP depending on how you point the antenna This bubble can range from 30 to 90 meters indoors and from 150 to 450 meters outdoors with a standard WAP The signal strength degrades the further you get from the WAP The signal is transmitted over the airwaves on the 2 4 gigahertz GHz frequency which is the same frequency as some wireless phones and some microwave ovens The computer and the wireless network card look for that signal They connect and the rest works just like being connected with copper wires Just so you know there are a number of wireless standards The most common is the IEEE 802 11 standard Within this standard are a number of substandards The most popular one is 802 11b Under 802 11b devices communicate at a speed of 11 Mbps whenever possible If signal strength or interference is disrupting data the devices will drop back to 5 5 Mbps then 2 Mbps and finally down to 1 Mbps Though it may occasionally slow down this keeps the network stable and very reliable Distance does make a differe
10. walk into their offices and beon the network without having to search down a wire This can be important if you have a multitevel home or in a college dorm or any place that is not conducive to dropping wire There are also anumber of hot spots being developed in major cities that allow mobile computer users to connect to public networks in coffee shops restaurants college campuses and public buildings like libraries There are even private companies making wireless networks available to people who get inside their bubble Disadvantages In my case the network maxes out at 11M bps which is nine times slower than wire networks running at 100M bps If you use a 10M bps network it is obviously faster The performance is only really noticeable when copying files between computers which is how do backups It does not slow down even the fastest access to the internet since cable modems and DSL typically max out at 1 5Mbps When I need the higher performance plugin the wire There is a security exposure that is available with a W AP if you do not use encryption With a wired network only those plugged in can access the network the computers and the Internet connection Wireless users can literally see any wireless network that they bump into This means anyone inside the bubble can possibly have access to your computer other computers on the network and Internet connection There are a number of ways to lock ot
11. 000 2000 07 10 htm 2 Playing Around with Portals think of my browser and Home page as the center of my online activ ity sort of a control panel that gets me to other places quickly and efficiently I ve never counted the hours but I m guessing my browser s on screen about 40 percent of the time Probably an other 40 percent is with Eudora and the balance in W ord and PowerD esk By the way a portal isn t something mysterious or esoteric It s simply a sin gle integrated point for access to infor mation people and other W eb sites a personalized and customized user inter face While I m not happy with Yahoo s emulation of Microsoft they bought eG roups only to make it a complicated chamber of horrors their portal is ter rific My bias towards using Yahoo is twofold Yahoo provides a variety of information more than most portals and it s blessedly easy to customize a THE WYSIWYG page Better have five separate Yahoo pages each serving a different need For instance my main page includes the following News Technology local science world and others Calendar A quick view of my upcom ing events with access to my calendar E mail and messaging get to see my Yahoo mail account and who s online for an instant message Local area events Bookmarks use this handy category to jump to sites that want access to but aren t important enough to add to IE s Links bar W
12. ce and operating system Next time we ll talk a little bit about operating systems and what they do for you BBB BB Door Prizes he SHCC offers door prizes at most regularly scheduled club meetings The door prizes for the Seotember meeting were unknown at the time of publication TheJune W inners Circle included Ann Wunsch won an I O card parallel port John Muhall won CleanSweep U nin staller Jack Knirk won the Epson Color Pack graphics programs Cliff Miller won a computer micro phone Vic Pruder won Quicken Family Lawyer 2000 Lindell Beck won Norton System works 2001 Ron Rolfe won Quicken Family Lawyer Mary Valenti won a Gravis Game pad Edward Mandell won Family Law yer Arnold Jarboe won Click n Burn Cd burning software SE EOD eo Program Coordinator new coordinator position has opened up for the club We are looking for a program coor dinator The duties of this position will be to get presenters for the main meet ing and follow up with them prior to the meeting This position will bring you in contact with a lot of interesting and influential people You can either volunteer to be a part of a group to do this the group leader or to be the group SO ME eS ES ee New SHCC Member Please welcome the following new member Dee Culhane THE WYSIWYG SHCC Emergency Shutdown he Sterling H eights Computer Club will utilize radio station WWJ 950 on the
13. did not want us to alter the walls in any way These walls are covered with old woodwork and they did not want a bunch of geeks cutting holes and dragging cable We also did not want cable hanging along the floor ready to trip employees or customers O ur solution was to go wire less W hat you need So we went to the computer store and purchased 5 wireless cards and a wire less access point WAP There are a number of brands and models It is outside the scope to compare all of these will mention that at home have a Linksys Ethernet WAP with a built in Cable DSL Router and 4 port switch What this means is that can connect my DSL line into the router portion bypassing the ISP router con nect up to four computers to the net work with copper Ethernet cables and all share access to the internet Addi tionally can connect to another hub which connects more computers via Ethernet cable This demonstrates that you can ease into the technology with out converting all the network connec tions all at one time The WAP will additionally support 256 computers how practical this is am unsure defi nitely enough for homes and small offices You need to install the wireless card in the desktop or notebook computer The card you buy will depend on your configuration and the type of slots available or sometimes more impor tantly what is not available N otebook computers must have a PCMCIA slot free Desktops can
14. dware The major difference is that these are loaded into the operating system and are not part of the BIOS Because of this these pieces of hardware are not useable until after the operating system isrunning Normally this isn t a prob lem because running the operating system is one of the first things your computer does when you turn it on It does explain why you generally can t boot from a tape drive even if the tape has a copy of the operating system on it This is because the driver for the tape drive isn t stored in the BIOS but is only loaded AFTER the operating system is running Yes there are some versions of UNIX that can boot from a tape drive but this requires a special BIOS If adevice driver does the same thing a BIOS routine does why not just put the device driver into the BIOS and have all the drivers in one place Just think of all the different types of sound and video cards that are out there There are just too many different types of devices to fit all the drivers in to a BIOS Also as new features are added to the various devices the drivers may change It is much easier to change the software that gets loaded than it is to change the BIOS Finally since device drivers are designed to work with a particular operating system they can be written to take advantage of that operating system s unique requirements This is why it is important to get the correct drivers for your particular model devi
15. e snow shovel in the truck before you hit the road See what the temperature will be around the Detroit area in Denver and in Places like London www weather com www accuweather com Have you ever wondered if those old record albums are worth anything N ow you can check to see what the old records by Elvis and the Beatles are worth http www moneymusic com Are you concerned about staying healthy while you are away from home These two sites will answer your ques Page 9 tions www tripprep com www cdc gow travel index htm Do you need information on your travel destination What is there to see what is there to do when you get there or for that matter how do you get there C heck these sites out www travelandleisure com www travelchannel com If you are looking for a good source of world news money sports life tech and weather check out the online version of U SA Today www usatoday com As you are traveling through the inter net check out this site from the Li brary of Congress It will provide you with links to Portals from over 60 different countries around the world www loc gow rr international portals html Need help with that basement repair Is your car not running right Are you looking for information concerning you hobby Check out the DO IT YOURSELF net They offer informa tion and links to many of the do it yourself projects as well as help with arts crafts hobbies and recreat
16. er com It s free for personal use and if you accept the defaults easy to use Of course you can tweak W ebWasher in dozens of ways finetuning it to say allow some cook ies to be released while withholding others Point MeHome Changing your Home page is a five minute operation It s straightforward in Internet Explorer IE Go to the Web site you want to use as your Home page Then from the Tools menu choose Internet Options and click U seC urrent In Netscape go to the Web site you want to use as your Home page From Page 6 September 2002 the Edit menu choose Preferences I m using version 6 01 your Netscape version may have slightly different menu settings You ll need to find the N avigator category or a dialog area that shows the Home Page option Click the Use Current Page button and you re done But while you re there examine the Toolbars section of the Options area Uncheck the buttons Netscape automatically adds things you might not need or want Presto C hango You may encounter a sleazy web site that changes your Home page without permission It s happened to me and it threw me for aloop Not only couldn t figure out how they did it couldn t change it back to my original Home page First try the previous instructions If that doesn t fix it you ll need to change a setting in your Registry Fred Langa has a way to do it and he ex plains the process here http www langa com newsletters 2
17. get normal network type cards with wireless capability via a built in antenna Some desktop wire less cards havea PCM CIA slot built in Continued on page 7 THE WYSIWYG September 2002 Guests and visitors are welcome People may attend any of two consecutive months of club meetings before deciding to become a member or not Membership includes admission to all SH CC functions and the newsletter Membership is open to anyone It is not limited to residents of Sterling H eights Meetings are on the first T uesday of the month except for July and August There isa monthly drawing for door prizes at the end of the meeting DUES 25 YEAR Resource People E Mail Clients as Excel Mike Greenen 3 Family Tree Rick Schummer 5 FoxPro Rick Schummer X Internet Explorer w MS Publisher Rick Kucejko he Netscape Don VanSyckel 0 Professional Write Mike Greenen Vi 2 Spreadsheets Rick Schummer Elz Word Rick Schummer O gt SHCC Coordinators Associate Editor Rick Schummer k m os Net Comm SIG Betty MacKenzie Yl Door prize OPEN om Greeting table Lindell Beck N 5 Linux SIG Ken Belbot 4 Local Web Sites Jim Golec N 5 Newsletter publisher Rick Kucejko a Novice SIG Don VanSyckel g PC SIG Jack Vander Schrier 3 Publicity Patrick Little 6 Resource People Mike Greenen A Vendor Press Rel Jim Waldrop Web Page Rick Kucejko Special Interest Groups MS DOS Main Net Com PC Novice Linux IBM compatibles Compu
18. hers out The Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP makes sure that only users with a key can access the network This is the simplest way to lock others out You generate a key that each computer needs to have in the wireless connection It is simple to enter in because you are prompted the first time you connect to the W AP although it is a long string of letters and numbers For stronger techies you can also specify specific computers via network card MAC addresses also highly recommend setting the administrative password on the WAP to something other than the default so someone cannot hack their way in and change your settings All this is well Page 8 September 2002 documented in the user manual and is easy to set up Some W APs have the ability to enable firewall protection Mine had the ability to license ZoneAlarm Pro and PC Cillin for anti virus New standards are evolving all the time The 802 11a is available which improves the speed even though the letter on the standard went backward from b to a they never make this easy do they Jumping in now means that you might have to purchase new W APs and cards later to get the better performance If this is important suggest you hang out on the sideline a little longer The last disadvantage is that have experienced that occasionally the W AP will lose its mind and you will lose your connection Overall have found the network to be very reliable with
19. ion http diynet com Are you a history buff Do you find the first ladies of the USA of interest You can get information from Martha Dandridge Custis Washington to Laura W elch Bush http www whitehouse gov history firstladies If you are interested in the Presidents you can get information on all of them from George Washington to George Bush at http www whitehouse gov history presidents a 1 Li V H mm S Lu as lt co Lu H o m gt O X LLI m al O O LO 9P I LO V x ag OD oo on D pm oO dp SEPTEMBER AT SHCC TUESDAY SEPT 3 Main Meeting 7 30PM at Carpathia Club 38000 Utica Road Sterling Heights Things fell through for a meeting topic We will have Ques tions and Answers SIGs MONDAY September 9 Net Com SIG 7 00PM at the Macomb County Library MONDAY September 16 Novice SIG 7 00PM at the Macomb County Library THURSDAY September 19 LINUX SIG 7 00PM at Ken Belbot s home MONDAY September 30 PC SIG 7 00PM at the Macomb County Library October Build a Web Site HTML Demo November Funniest Repair Stories Computer Hospital
20. l for 0 00 stating that payment was now overdue Assuming that this bill was yet another mistake he ignored it But the following month he received yet another bill for 0 00 stating that he had ten days to pay his account in full or the company would take neces sary steps to recover the debt He gave in He mailed in a check for 0 00 The computer duly processed it and returned a statement to the effect that his account was paid in full A week later the man s bank called him asking him why he wrote a check for 0 00 He explained the problem at THE WYSIWYG length The bank replied that the 0 00 check had caused their check process ing software to fail The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their customers that day because the check for 0 00 caused a computer crash The following month the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his check had bounced that he still owed 0 00 and unless payment was sent immediately they would institute procedures to collect his debt This man who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her birthday but bought her a typewriter instead Who said To err is human but to really mess things up it takes a com puter Computers may not be the root of all evil but some days they come close Remember that when dealing with crazy computers or frustrating prob lems of any stripe it helps to laugh Writer Barbara Joh
21. member of SHCC you can attend South Eastern Michigan Computer meetings of other clubs where we have Organization SEMCO reciprocating membership agreements at Time no charge Computer Club of Marysville and Port Huron COMP Time 1st Wednesday 7 00PM Place Mackenzie Bldg Room 201 St Clair Community College Clara E McKenzie Library Science Building 323 Erie St Port Huron 810 982 1187 Web Page http www bwcomp org Reciprocating Yes 2nd Sunday at 1 30PM Place Science amp Engineering Building Oakland University 248 398 7560 Web page http www semco org Reciprocating Yes The OPC Older Persons Com mission Computer Club Time Every Tuesday at 10 00 Place OPC in Rochester 248 656 1403 Web page http www geocities com 586 979 8717 248 879 6180 586 264 1497 586 254 0677 586 573 9648 586 268 6586 586 997 1451 586 73 1 9232 586 739 7720 586 731 6481 irish378 comcast net Heartland Village 1904 rick kucejko com PBLittle prodigy net BMacKenz tir com RMorawski aol com preynaud2 comcast net rick rickschummer com don vansyckel net jvanders myself com jwaldrop tir com Newsletter submissions are due 10 days before the club meeting but the earlier the better They should be sent to WYSIWYG Publisher 5069 Fedora Troy MI 48098 OR at the e mail addresses newsletter SterlingHeightsComputerClub org Unless stated otherwise all materials contained in this newsletter are co
22. nce In the home arena you will likely get 11M bps almost everywhere THE WYSIWYG unless you run into some interference In our office we have the wireless networking and a phone system that work on 2 4Ghz and they co exist with no problem You configure the WAP via a web browser by browsing a TCP IP address ie http 192 168 1 254 Minimally you will need to configure the ESSID the name you give your network This is what is broadcasted to wireless enabled computers also recommend enabling WEP security see disadvantage section later in this article Depending on your ISP and broadband capability you might have to configure the login to the ISP to make the connection That is all The setup literally took me 30 minutes because read the instructions Your mileage might vary Advantages can literally use my computer and be hooked up to the network to get email surf the web and copy files to and from other machines can do this from anywhere in the house in the yard and even down the street although the signal gets weaker and performance goes down the farther you get away from the WAP If you are using Windows XP the OS I use on my main machine it auto detects the wireless card and the wireless network as get in range of a WAP see security issues under disadvantages No more need to fish a line through the walls of my house or office If our customers have this technology installed can literally
23. nson put it this way Laughter is to life what shock absorb ers are to automobiles It won t take the potholes out of the road but it sure makes the ride smoother Sometimes a smoother ride is the best we can hope for Pe Pe Se 2 8 Give Your Portal Some Pizzazz by Steve Bass Pasadena IBM U sersGroup Customize your browser s home page and increase your productiv ity was at a buddy s house recently and spotted something alarming His home page the screen his browser automatically opens with was MSN Yeah you heard me Not only hadn t he switched to another home page he wasn t even aware that he could modify the page and get rid of much of the useless junk With an ad locking program he could also avoid all of Mi shameless self crosoft s blaring aggrandizements My hand started twitching was about to lunge towards his mouse and try to singlehandedly change his home page when his wife shouted barbecue s ready was on my third beer when two things struck me I d had enough to drink and had to help this guy out Dumping theAds You can decide for yourself whether blocking ads is ethical As far as l m concerned ads that are deceptive the one that looks like a download gauge and says click here pop up boxes or worse those darn X 10 camera pop under boxes and blinking Flash anima tions are all fair game My favorite ad jamming utility is W eb W asher www webwash
24. pyrighted by the Sterling Heights Computer Club License is hereby granted to other clubs non profit to reprint with credit The WYSIWYG was printed by STERLING PRINTING AND GRAPHICS located at 37880 Van Dyke Sterling Heights MI Page 2 THE WYSIWYG SIG Meetings Net Com SIG he next meeting of the Inter net Communica tions Net Comm SIG is Monday September 9 2002 starting at 7 00PM at the Macomb County Library The SIG meeting days are generally the second Monday of the month depending on the meeting room avail ability Each month the members of the N et Comm SIG discuss the Internet to help members of the SHCC learn more about this communications media For more information about the SIG call or email Betty MacKenzie numbers are on page 2 or check the club web site TD A A A he next meeting of the PC SIG is Monday Seotember 30 2002 The SIG meeting is generally the fourth Monday of the month depending on the meeting room avail ability Intermediate level topics are discussed aimed at users with some knowledge of computers As always general questions and answers about computers will be discussed along with a few surprises For more information about the SIG call or email Jack Vander Shrier numbers are on page 2 or check the club web site A 68 8 8 4 Novice SIG The next meeting of the Novice SIG is scheduled for Mon day September
25. sletter at www pcworld com bass letter A 8 8 o Going Wireless Continued from page 1 which requires you to purchase a note book wireless card So buyer beware do your research As far as the wireless access point again it depends on your needs If you already have a network set up you might just need a plain old WAP nothing fancy If you are just starting out and need to connect other computers with various network cards performing at different speeds you might need a switch built in If you are like me and wanted to have other com puters to share one Internet connec tion you might research the DSL Cable router feature as well There are drivers to be loaded so the operating system can communicate with the new device havefound Windows XP to be a true joy with this technology It un derstands wireless networking Other O Ses will also work but check for com patibility issues My only experience is with Windows 2000 and Windows XP the easier of the two One thing can definitely sy about Page 7 September 2002 Linksys is that they provide nice dia grams on the boxes of their products It diagrams the capabilities so people like me who know little about the inner workings of this hardware can see what they need Naturally it also recom mends their hardware but even if you do not buy Linksys it gives you an excellent idea of what you might need If you are confused hire a professional to
26. ters communicating with other computers Intermediate users discuss various topics Those starting out Learning a new operating system Contact Information Paul Baecker Lindell Beck Ken Belbot Jim Golec Mike Greenen Rick Kucejko Patrick Little Betty MacKenzie Dick Morawski Phil Reynaud Rick Schummer Don VanSyckel Jack Vander Schrier Jim Waldrop 586 286 2314 586 939 4278 586 823 6280 586 268 8621 excuser excite com kenger voyager net jgolec comcast net Treasurer Dick Morawski Secretary Paul Baecker ljaybeck comcast net CLUB ADDRESS PO Box 385 Sterling Heights MI 48311 0385 CLUB E MAIL ADDRESS Info SterlingHeightsComputerClub org CLUB WEB PAGE http www SterlingHeightsComputerClub org Four Month Meeting Schedule SEPTEMBER 2002 3 SHCC Questions and Answers 4 COMP meeting 8 SEMCO meeting 9 Net Comm SIG 16 Novice SIG 19 Linux SIG 30 PC SIG OCTOBER 2002 1 SHCC Build a Web Site HTML Demo 2 COMP meeting 6 SEMCO meeting 7 Net Comm SIG 14 Novice SIG 17 Linux SIG 21 PC SIG NOVEMBER 2002 5 SHCC Funniest Re pair Stories Computer Hospital 6 COMP meeting 10 SEMCO meeting 11 Net Comm SIG 18 Novice SIG 21 Linux SIG 26 PC SIG DECEMBER 2002 3 SHCC Topic Pending 4 COMP meeting 8 SEMCO meeting 9 Net Comm SIG 19 Linux SIG 23 Novice SIG 30 PC SIG Other Computer Clubs As a
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