Happy Fourth of July! At our first meeting after the official start of summer, we're going to have Bill Gram-Reefer of Keyspan who will demonstrate their USB product line. Keyspan is perhaps better known for their Mac peripherals, but they have a lineup of PC products as well: a high speed USB serial adapter; a USB PCI card for PCs that don't have USB ports; a USB parallel printer adapter for Windows; a USB hub, and a Palm organizer USB adapter for connecting your PDA to a PC's USB port. Perhaps the most interesting device is the Keyspan Digital Media Remote. The Keyspan Digital Media Remote is a powerful infrared remote which allows you to control multimedia applications on your computer in the same convenient way that you now control your home TV. Great for PowerPoint, QuickTime, DVD players, CD players, and MP3 Players! The Keyspan Digital Media Remote controls your multimedia applications by sending them the same keystrokes that you do when you control the application from the keyboard. For example, if your program uses the "N" key to advance to a new slide, the Keyspan DMR Remote Control can send the same key to your application allowing you to control your application from across the room.
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank of America Technology Center office complex in Concord, located near the northeast corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the Map to Monthly Meetings on page 15). Please use the main entrance of the building, which is in the center of the front of the building that faces Clayton road.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. We will have the next installment of

President's Corner
by Alan Mildwurm
I think I have been done in by DSL. Actually, I think the culprit is PacBell's email servers. You see, I wrote an article and a President's Message last Friday and emailed it to Ron from my office. Little did I know the email never made it. Ron called me Monday evening just as I was getting ready to leave for a class to let me know he didn't get anything from me. So, here I am at the San Ramon campus of DVC just before my class, hacking out a replacement article to make deadline. After our PacBell presentation last month, a member asked me to write an article comparing DSL at the office with our cable at home. Well... While not very scientific, my experience is that PacBell's email sucks. This is not the first problem I have had. At my office we subscribed to an email service which PacBell has refused to forward to us because they think it is spam. (It's a newsletter on recent legal developments -- PacBell may be right on that one!) Also, it would appear that email sent out doesn't always make it.  So, I am still (overall) more

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