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June 7, 2001 Meeting Announcement
Microsoft Office XP
The June DVPC meeting will feature Microsoft Office XP, the newest version of the world's most popular office suite. Office XP has numerous new features and improvements to both make users more productive, and to provide better integration of Office components. A couple of examples include built-in voice recognition that supplements keystrokes and mouse actions, and lets you dictate text, make formatting changes, and navigate menus using speech and voice commands. The Answer Wizard is now available from the toolbar without opening Help, letting you get answers about how to use Office features more easily. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access files can now be saved at the point when an error occurs, eliminating the time it would take to completely recreate documents. And if a document is corrupted, a powerful new repair feature will allow you to recover much of your work. What else is new? Lots… but you'll have to attend the meeting to find out! This will be a very interesting presentation, so be sure to attend! Of course, we'll start with one of our typically rousing Random Access sessions where you get to ask your computing questions and hopefully get the answers you need. And you will even have a chance to give answers or suggestions to other members' computer questions.
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. "How does the computer know what time it is?" will be the class this month. 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 will have one of our pre-meeting games, with a great prize for the winner! Also, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale, SIG news, and some of our usual great door prizes.
See you at the meeting!
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In
an article in the Washington Post entitled Code
Crackers and Free Speech,
an industry group called the Secure Digital Music Initiative last
year made music files coded with "watermarks" available to the public
and challenged researchers to strip out the protection. A prize
was to be awarded to anyone who broke the protections, so long as
that person told the industry group how they did it, and did not
publish their results.
A team of researches broke all four watermarks and elected to publish
rather than claim the prize. The industry group was not amused,
and seeks to prevent publication anyway.
You
Asked for It!
We've been asked
to make Diablo Blue available in Adobe Acrobat format, so it can
be read as a unit. Well, here it is folks! It's a huge file to download
(as PDF files often are), 648K, but if you have the bandwidth, or
the time, go for it! You'll need Adobe
Acrobat, and/or the Acrobat plug-in for your browser, to be
able to read this PDF document file.
Ready? Click HERE
for this month's download.
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