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November 2, 2000 Meeting Announcement
To Be Announced

The November DVPC meeting is still a work in progress. In other words, the presenter has not been confirmed yet. However… the November meeting promises to be interesting, even if Alan and the rest of the Board of Directors members have to gather at the front of the auditorium and do a tap dance routine. Hey, no laughing back there in the peanut gallery!
Regardless of the lack of details, you can expect that we will have a really exciting raffle with lots of interesting and exciting prizes to be awarded. And you will, really, truly, learn something about whatever topic Alan is able to arrange. Come to learn more!
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
PC 101, our New Users SIG class run by Craig Peterson on how to use the computer, at 6:15 p.m. We will be looking at the next chapter of our textbook "Teach Yourself Computers and the Internet Visually". The book can be ordered by contacting Craig Peterson (compmail@pacbell.net). The classes are open to all members.
We'll also have the Networking Table from 6:30 to 7:00; if you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views, visit the Networking Table. We may have one of our ever-popular mini-auctions with great products, so bring your checkbooks and cash! Also, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale, SIG news, random access, and some of our usual great door prizes. See you at the meeting!

President's Corner
by Alan Mildwurm

I Hear a Symphony…

This ended up being a good month. I bought a new Sony Vaio laptop only to have the screen go out after 3 days. Sony efficiently delivered -- by UPS next day red tag air -- a box to my office and had my machine back to me in a little over a week.
The question I haven't answered yet was: since my laptop was shipped from Fremont to a destination in Fremont -- did my laptop fly through the UPS hub in Tennessee (or wherever their hub is)? No, you can't deliver it to their facility yourself -- even if you are just down the street.
What I do know is that many models of Sony laptops are built with the cable from the motherboard to the LCD just a little too short. So, when you open your laptop, you disengage the cable. Charlie had a few good ideas to solve that problem -- but as I think

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