Change the Registered User Information for Windows 95
Once you've installed Windows 95, you can change the Registered Owner or Registered Organization to anything you want. Here's how you do it:
Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Open:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersionBe sure to click on CurrentVersion to highlight it. To change the values of the RegisteredOrganization or RegisteredOwner simply double-click on them.
Note: This will only change the registered user information for Windows 95, not for the applications on your system.
Right-Click with the Keyboard
If want to use the keyboard to right-click, make sure the desired item has the focus and press Shift-F10.
Forcing Windows 95 to Remember Window Positions
When you close a folder in Windows 95, it is natural to assume that its size, position, and sort order will be the same the next time the folder is opened. This is not always the case. To force Windows 95 to save folder settings, hold Ctrl while closing each window.
Printing Directory Listings
Although there is no built-in way to print a directory listing (all the filenames in a folder), there is a way to add this functionality to Windows 95. Start Notepad and type the following lines into a new document (assuming the printer you wish to use is connected to LPT1; change the value if it is on a different LPT port):
CD %1
DIR >LPT1
Name it printdir.bat, and save it in your Windows\Command folder. Open Windows Explorer and locate printdir.bat, right click on it, and select Properties. Click on the Program tab, turn on the Close on Exit option, choose Minimized from the Run list, and click the OK button.
Next, run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Open
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellSelect New from the Edit menu, and then select Key. Type PrintDir for the name of this new key, and press the Enter key. Highlight the new Print key, select New from the Edit menu, and then select Key again. Type command for the name of this new key, and press Enter. Double-click on (default) in the right pane, and type:
c:\windows\command\printdir.bat
(assuming that C:\Windows is your Windows 95 directory; type the correct location if it is somewhere else). Exit the Registry Editor.
Now when you right-click on a folder, you can click on PrintDir from the pop-up menu to print a directory listing.
Forcing Netscape Navigator to Really Reload a Web Page
Sometimes when you navigate to a Web page, Netscape Navigator will be confused and will think it has the current version of that page in its cache when it doesn't; it will then load an old version of the page from the cache. Even if you click on Reload, Navigator won't reload the page from the Web site. Hold down the Shift key while you click on the Reload button to force a reload of the page from the Web site.
Diablo Blue needs articles from the members of DVPC. See your name in print! Achieve fame and fortune! (Well, maybe just some limited fame in Contra Costa County...) We are particularly interested in product and book reviews and articles about your PC experiences.
Commercial advertising is available in Diablo Blue. Prices are $75 for a full page, $40 for a half page, and $25 for a quarter page for one insertion – or get three consecutive insertions for the price of two. For more information, call editor Ronald Ogg, at 283-7900, Ext. 201 (days).
Members of DVPC can submit personal classified ads that will be printed in Diablo Blue for three insertions at no charge. The rules are simple: up to 9 lines (as we typeset it), material must be suitable for publication (the editor is the sole judge of suitability), the member must be in good standing (current dues paid), and ad space is available on a first-come first-served space available basis only. If you want fewer than three insertions note that on your ad copy.
If members want their business card reproduced, the rate is $10 for one insertion, or $25 for three insertions. The card must be horizontal and must be scannable.
Upload your articles or member ad copy to the Newsletter section on the DVPC BBS, or mail to:
Editor, Diablo Blue
P.O. Box 2222
Orinda, CA 94563-2222.
See the deadline information in the Calendar on page 15 of each issue of Diablo Blue.
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The Board of Directors usually meets on the Wednesday evening following the general meeting each month. Check the DVPC Calendar on page 15 of each issue of Diablo Blue, or the DVPC BBS, or the DVPC home page on the Internet (www.dvpc.org) for the meeting date, time, and location. You can reach any of the officers and directors by posting a message to them on the DVPC BBS or leaving a message on the DVPC VoiceMail System.
See the DVPC Calendar on page 15 for the date and time of each SIG meeting.
The Access/Visual Basic SIG meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gateway Group's offices, 3687 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 350, in Lafayette.
Directions: take Highway 24 west to the Central Lafayette exit, and keep to your left to the stop sign at Deer Hill Road at the end of the exit ramp. Turn left onto Deer Hill Road, and continue to where it dead ends at Happy Valley Road. Turn left onto Happy Valley Road. Turn right at the traffic signal at Mt. Diablo Blvd. Take Mt. Diablo Blvd. through the next traffic signal and turn left into the driveway at 3685/3687. Immediately turn right into the parking lot in front of 3687. Take the elevator to the third floor to suite 350 at the end of the hallway. If you get lost, call Ron Ogg at 283-7900 Ext. 201.
Everyone who is using or is interested in Access or in Visual Basic, including Visual Basic for Applications, is invited to attend the Access/Visual Basic SIG meetings.
The Advanced Users SIG meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gateway Group's offices in Lafayette (see the Access/Visual Basic SIG notice above for directions).
If you're interested in getting together with other advanced users to discuss topics of interest (including networking, Windows 95 migration, Windows NT Workstation, the best Pentium motherboards, etc.) join us at the Advanced Users SIG!
The new Clarion for Windows SIG meets at 7:00 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month at Gateway Group's offices, 3687 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 350, in Lafayette. See the Access/VB SIG notice for directions.
Clarion for Windows is a powerful database development tool that competes with products like Visual Basic and Delphi and even products like PowerBuilder. If you are an advanced Clarion for Windows developer, you are invited to join the SIG. This is a SIG for advanced user's, so beginners will want to get more hands-on experience before joining.
The Education and Entertainment SIG usually meets at 7:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Montevideo School in San Ramon, but for June, July, and August will be on vacation because Montevideo school is closed for the summer.
The E&E SIG is oriented to exploring the best in education and entertainment software for the PC. Everyone is invited to attend our meetings when they resume in September, and bring your kids along – they'll have a great time, too!
Directions: Take 680 to Bollinger Canyon Road, go west to San Ramon Valley Blvd., go south to Montevideo Rd. and turn left. Proceed east on Montevideo about 3 blocks to Broadmoor and turn left The school's 1 block on the right. We meet in Room 22.
I>"Your Pit Stop on the Information Superhighway"
The Internet SIG meetings are held at 1800 Oak Park Blvd., Suite A, in Pleasant Hill on the third Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon. Enter at the rear. An Internet beginner's session normally meets at noon just before the regular Internet SIG meeting. We hope to see you there!
Tom Vitale has taken a new job in Tracy (congratulations, Tom!), and as a result will not be able to head or host the Internet SIG 2'sday meetings. As a result, SIG meetings have been postponed until a new SIG leader and meeting location can be found. If you can volunteer to be SIG leader, please phone Bill Earl at 939-5874 or see him at the DVPC monthly meeting.
Microsoft Project SIG meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at InterPro ADF's office at 3569 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210. Park in the lot behind Radio Shack. The entrance to suite 210 is at the back of the building. Enter through the door marked "210" at the parking lot end of the walkway from the street and take the stairs to the second floor.
Everyone who is interested in Microsoft Project and project management is invited to attend. If you plan on attending, please call Elias Asmar at 510-299-8500, Fax 510-299-8511, leave a message on the DVPC BBS, or send an E-mail message on the Internet to:
73762.723@compuserve.com.
The New Users SIG holds its meetings at 6:30 p.m. prior to the regular DVPC monthly meeting on the first Thursday of each month at Bank of America building B.
We discuss whatever is confusing or puzzling new PC users. If you are a new user of PCs who would like to meet with other new users – and some experienced users who can answer your questions as well – then join us at the New Users SIG meetings at 6:30 p.m. prior to each DVPC monthly meeting.
The Paradox SIG meets on the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Mero's home at 3636 Sanford Street in Concord.
Directions: From Route 242 North, exit at Olivera Road. At the bottom of the off-ramp, take a right (East). Take the next left (by the Glenbrook School) onto Sanford St. Follow Sanford St. through two intersections. After the second (Floyd Lane), the house will be on your left, number 3636 Sanford St. If you need further directions, Kathleen is available by phone at (510) 685-2484.
The meetings are very unstructured and flexible so that any and all topics related to either DOS or Windows Paradox related items are welcome. We also urge everyone to bring their own floppy disks for copies of forms, reports, queries and codes that the group creates or that our members are willing to share. The official meeting always begins promptly at 7:30 P.M. Early birds may be forced to listen to and participate in discussions of tips and gossip on the stock market and mutual funds.
Our July meeting will be held on Friday, August 2nd from 11:00AM to 1:00PM at Old Republic Title, 3000 Clayton Road, in the training room. Mark your calendar for August 2nd, pack a lunch, and make plans for a very informative meeting. Old Republic Title will be providing the beverages, chips and cookies.
The Windows SIG meets on the first Tuesday of each month at Nordic Computers in Concord (see their ad on page 11 for a map) at 7:30 p.m.
We'll have our own, official, DVPC curmudgeon, Walt Parsons, who will demonstrate the latest incarnation of that old favorite of word processing packages, WordPerfect 7 for Windows 95, now published by Corel (of Corel Draw! fame). Corel is very serious about WordPerfect, and Walt will show us the newest features of this version. Of course, we'll also have Random Access for your questions (and even, sometimes, answers) about Windows 95 (and older versions as well).
Everyone who uses, is interested in, or is curious about Windows, and especially Windows 95, and getting the most out of any version of Windows on their PC, is invited to attend the WinSIG meetings.
Someone once said to live in a perfect world, you'd have to make it yourself. Now is your chance. Start on a voyage through time bringing your loyal subjects with you.
Build your empires, discover new technology, conquer the weak, make treaties with the powerful, make your own government, and discover the wonders of civilization. This is Sid Meier's CivNet. The main difference between this version and the original Civilization (I haven't played Civilization 2 yet) is that this is not just a one player game _ although you can play it that way.
There are a number of new play options as well. There is a chat feature that allows you to send messages to other players. The city display also now supports scrolling. The Foreign Service Map (from the old DOS version) is back which shows trade routes. You can also customize your notices and reports. The Interactive guide is very helpful. I especially like the CivMaps feature so I can design my own world: JESSICA.
Of course, the graphics and sound are great. The game play is very familiar to the earlier editions. We have just tried a few connections (you have to know who and where you are connecting) and it seems to work well. Really cool. Civilization is a classic – CivNet is really something. I like this kind of game and this seems to be one of the best of this type.
May your civilization prosper and flourish – but not too close too mine!
A Home Owners Journal.
November 28
Moved in at last. Finally, we live in the smartest house in the neighborhood. Everything's networked. The cable TV is connected to our phone, which is connected to my PC, which is connected to the power lines, all the appliances and the security system. Everything runs off a universal remote with the friendliest interface I've ever used. Programming is a snap. I'm, like, totally wired.
November 30
Hot stuff! Programmed my VCR from the office, turned up the thermostat and switched on the lights with the car phone, remotely tweaked the oven a few degrees for my pizza. Everything nice and cozy when I arrived. Maybe I should have the universal remote surgically attached.
December 3
Yesterday, the kitchen crashed. Freak event. As I opened the refrigerator door, the light bulb blew. Immediately, everything else electrical shut down – lights, microwave, coffee maker – everything! Carefully, I unplugged and re-plugged all the appliances. Nothing. Called the cable company (but not from the kitchen phone). They refer me to the utility. The utility insists the problem was in the software. So the software company runs some remote tele-diagnostics via my house processor. Their expert system claims it has to be the utility's fault. I don't care, I just want my kitchen back. More phone calls. More remote diagnostics. Turns out the problem was an "unanticipated failure mode" – the network had never seen a refrigerator bulb failure while the door was open. So the fuzzy logic interpreted the burnout as a power surge and shut down the entire kitchen. But because sensor memory confirmed that there hadn't actually been a power surge, the kitchen's logic sequence was confused so it couldn't do a standard restart. The utility guy swears this was the first time this has ever happened. Rebooting the kitchen took over an hour.
December 7
The police are not happy. Our house keeps calling them for help. We discover that whenever we play the TV or stereo above 25 decibels, it creates patterns of micro-vibrations that get amplified when they hit the window. When these vibrations mix with a gust of wind, the security sensors are actuated and the police computer concludes that someone is trying to break in. Go figure. Another glitch: whenever the basement is in self-diagnostic mode, the universal remote won't let me change the channels on my TV. That means I actually have to get up off the couch and change the channels by hand. The software and the utility people say this flaw will be fixed in the next upgrade – SmartHouse 2.1, but it's not ready yet.
December 12
This is a nightmare. There's a virus in the house. My personal computer caught it while browsing on the public access network. I come home and the living room is a sauna, the bedroom windows are covered with ice, the refrigerator has defrosted, the washing machine has flooded the basement, the garage door is cycling up and down and the TV is stuck on the Home Shopping channel. Throughout the house, lights flicker like stroboscopes until they explode from the strain. Broken glass is everywhere. Of course, the security sensors detect nothing. I look at a message slowly throbbing on my PC screen: Welcome to HomeWrecker!!! Now the FUN begins... (be it ever so humble, there's no virus like HomeWrecker). I get out of the house. Fast.
December 18
They think I've digitally disinfected the house but the place is a shambles. Pipes have burst and we're not completely sure we've got the part of the virus that attacks toilets. Nevertheless, The Exorcists (as the anti-virus SWAT members like to call themselves) are confident the worst is over. "HomeWrecker is pretty bad," one tells me, "but consider yourself lucky you didn't get Poltergeist. That one is really evil".
December 19
Apparently, our house isn't insured for viruses. "Fires and mud slides, yes," says the claims adjuster, "viruses, no." My agreement with the SmartHouse people explicitly states that all claims and warranties are null and void if any appliance or computer in my house networks in any way, shape or form with a non-certified on-line service. Everybody's very, very sorry but they can't be expected to anticipate every virus that may be created. We call our lawyer. He laughs. He's excited.
December 21
I get a call from a SmartHouse sales rep. As a special holiday offer, we get the free opportunity to become a beta site for the company's new SmartHouse 2.1 upgrade. He says I'll be able to meet the programmers personally. "Sure, I tell him."
Term Definition
Token Ring A virtual engagement gift.
Ethernet A devithe for catching the Ether Bunny.
Asynch A place to wash your hands.
BBS Tall tales told by insects that produce honey.
ASCII Ancient god of Telecommunications. Rumored to give vast
amounts of data to believers. Hence, the phrase "ASCII and
you shall receive."
Block Parity One heck of a good time.
Carrier Detect Raison d'etre for premarital blood tests.
File Transfer Procedure followed by INFORMATION CENTER staff who are
tired of their present jobs.
Hayes Compatible Prone to riding with a grizzled old cowhand who sings
off-key. Gene Autry is the industry standard.
Serial Interface A spoon. Goes great with Cheerios.
Terminal Emulation A function performed by a canary that lies on its back
with its legs in the air.
Modem What landscapers do to dem lawns.
XMODEM A device on the losing end of a lightning encounter.
Windows SIG
The Windows SIG got off to a good start at the regular meeting that was held at Nordic Computers, Tuesday, July 2nd, 1996. That was the first Tuesday of the month. The meeting started at 7:30 P.M., and was well attended.
Random Access
Random Access topics discussed were: diskette life, backups on Windows 95, hardware changes, magnetic tools while working on a PC, magnetic charges, Move It for moving applications to a different drive, Cataloger for hard drive, hard disk crashes, e-mail, AOL accounts, Netscape Navigator, using the line SET TEMP=C:\TEMP in your AUTOEXEC.BAT to place your *.tmp files in a temporary directory so they will not be scattered all over your hard drive.
What to do with Demo CD-ROM's?
A little while back the, Diablo Valley PC User's Group had a contest to find out who in the group received the most AOL trial run diskettes (which are good for 10 free hours on America On Line). I don't remember who was the person who won that contest, nor the number of diskettes he had, nor the prize that was given out. (I believe I was in the hospital at that time.)
I would like to poise a somewhat similar question to the Diablo Valley PC User Group. Note that "This is not a contest, and there will not be a reward." I would like to know what can be done with all the unsolicited CD-ROMs that we receive in the mail for demo application try outs, and from AOL also now that they are shipping their trial software that way. I have myself received over 30 CD-ROMs of this nature.
I have heard that the clever Chinese have taken the CD-ROMs, peeled off the magnetic layer, cut the magnetic layer into strips, and put them on the back of your credit cards. I don't know how true this is, but I would like to find a way to recycling these CD-ROMs, so they will not clutter up our land fill.
[Actually, this isn't true. It's a new "Urban
Myth." There is no magnetic layer in CD-ROMs – there is a thin layer of metal that has pits etched into it that can be read by the laser in a CD-ROM drive. Nothing magnetic. – Ed.]
If anyone has an idea as to what can be done with these CD-ROM's, please contact me. I will be able to get the word out, so we don't have our land fill cluttered up. I am not looking for a way to make money, and being diligent person who recycles everything, I want to be able to dispose of CD-ROM's in a proper way. One of these days I will write a column on recycling. My wife and I were rewarded by the City of Walnut Creek, for being good people who recycles everything.
Next Windows SIG meeting
The next Windows SIG meeting will be held on August 6th, 1996, which is the first Tuesday in August. As usual the meeting is at Nordic Computers, 5060 Commercial Circle in Concord. Next months topic of discussion will be a presentation on the new WordPerfect 7.0. Our presenter will be our own Walt Parsons (DVPC's official curmudgeon, "accept no substitute"). Walt is a person that has put on many presentations with our group, and he does it very well.
We would like see more active presenters become more active in their willingness to put on presentations on their favorite Windows application... believe me, it gives you a fine felling to be able to put on a presentation. Ask someone who has done it.
See the Windows SIG column for directions on how to get to Nordic Computers. Be there early to obtain a seat.
You might have noticed we've switched to a one-column format for Diablo Blue. It's probably more difficult to read than the two-column format. However, the new format will let your editor generate our Web page version more easily, instead of having to almost completely reedit the entire newsletter to create the HTML pages.
Meeting Date: July 17, 1996, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Alan Mildwurm's house
Bank Account: $2,478.84 (Approx.)
Newsletter Deadline: 8/23/96
Upcoming Speakers: Aug 1 – Nolo Press
Sep 5 – Partition Magic
Oct 3 – Corel (Not firm yet)
Nov 7 – Windows Night
Non-Profit: There is good news and bad news. After months of waiting for the State to complete the processing of our incorporation as a nonprofit organization, a sign of life (although of limited intelligence) has arrived from Sacramento. The good news is that it was addressed to DVPC "a California Corporation", implying (but not officially stating) that we are one. The bad news is that the letter is to inform us that they have lost our nonprofit paperwork.
VoiceMail System: An impressive three calls were handled by the VoiceMail system last month. The callers used the options for getting directions to the meeting and for information about SIGs.
Newsletter: There was essentially no reaction at the June meeting when Jim mentioned that the Board was considering options for electronic delivery of the newsletter as a means of cutting costs, and this attitude carried over to the Board. No further discussion or decisions took place.
Richard provided an updated report on his research into current postal regulations and rates: "Postcards will go to 22¢ sometime soon." More to follow.
Visual Display System: Discussion was held to a less-than-five-minute-recap of everything that has been said several times at previous meetings: we want one, it costs a lot, we don't have the money.
Windows Night: A brief discussion of potential vendors for Windows Night touched off a digression regarding the latest scoop on who bought whom this past month. Steve suggested we go after some "new" companies and recommended gleaning them from the various trade magazines. Alan mentioned several vendors that are already interested (at least someone is working on this), and again promised to put last years list on the BBS.
Auction: It was the consensus of the Board that having a mini-auction each month is much less work than a once a year auction, better ensures that the merchandise is reasonably current, and generates roughly the same revenues. Although we have no scientific evidence to support this warm fuzzy feeling, we agreed to continue the mini-auctions.
It is the 9th inning of the world series of word processors. MS Word is ahead by one and their are already two outs in Corel's half of the inning. Corel heavy hitter steps up to the bat and glares menacingly at the pitcher. The pitcher winds up and throws. STRIKE ONE.
Actually the pitcher didn't have to throw the ball. Corel brought strike one on itself.
As anybody who has been around the word processing world knows, there have long been two main contenders for the "best" word processor title. Sometimes it has been Word Perfect and, most recently, it has been MS Word. (Yes, Yes, I know, there are a few other contenders but most of them are still relegated to the minor leagues.)
Why strike one? Let me give you a little background. Ages ago (computer ages that is) there was Word Perfect Corp. They had a wonderful product and they had superb customer support. (Free support, believe it or not, with an 800 number.) Then one by one the founders were eliminated. Customer support was reduced drastically, and then the company was sold to Novell some two years ago. Ray Noorda, then head of Novell bought Word Perfect from Alan Ashton and Bruce Bastian. At about the same time Novell bought Digital Research (DR DOS), and UNIX Labs. Shortly thereafter Ray Noorda was kicked out of Novell and Novell announced late last year that a buyer was needed for Word Perfect. Among those mentioned as wanting to buy Word Perfect was Borland, Computer Associates, Sun, IBM, and even Bill & Kathy Mero. (Inside joke).
On 16 January 1996 Corel actually bought MOST of the Word Perfect products with the exception of the group ware products (Envoy, GroupWise, Informs, etc.) What Corel ended up with was WordPerfect for Windows, DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX platforms; Quattro Pro for Windows and DOS, and InfoCentral and they licensed GroupWise, & Envoy.
Is this a good thing for WordPerfect users? Time will tell. Corel has a reputation for getting its product updates out frequently, and on time. Unfortunately, along with that comes a reputation for buggy first releases.
Enough of the background information.
In April Corel announced the planned shipping of a Word Perfect Suite for Windows 95 in June `96.
Being one of the WordPerfect faithful, I rushed to the phone and ordered the upgrade copy of the whole suite for $99.00. Silly me. I assumed that by ordering this far ahead of the order date I'd be one of the first to get a copy.
Then came May 29th. Corel announced that they would start shipping the WordPerfect Suite as of that date. As soon as I heard the news on Friday, June 1, I rushed out to the mailbox expecting to see my copy sitting there. Nope. I even checked on Sunday just in case. Still no luck. On Thursday night I went to the club's meeting and, to my dismay, I heard that somebody had picked up a copy of the new Word Perfect at Egghead. First thing the next morning I went down to Egghead and sure enough, there it was. Next I got on the phone to Corel to find out what had happened to my order. Surely it must have gotten lost in the mail. (I know, Richard, that never happens.) The cheerful voice at the other ends informs me that they wouldn't start filling direct orders for TWO more weeks. In no uncertain terms I let them know what I thought of Egghead getting it ahead of me and canceled the order.
That was when Corel got their STRIKE ONE! Any company that takes advance order from loyal Word Perfect customers (I used WP for Dos version 3.2) is kicking their faithful fans in the teeth. Okay Corel. Whether or not you strike out and forever loose the word processing market to the Bill Gates team is entirely up to you. We true followers are running out of patience. If WordPerfect 7 for Windows 95 is buggy or the new features don't work and if your support is not good (It doesn't help that there is no longer an 800 number for support) then you will have lost the game and the word processor market. Yes, I did buy a copy from Egghead but it is too early to say anything about it.
Next Corel committed an error.
A rollout was scheduled for 18 June at the Nob Hill Masonic center. A few of us signed up for the presentation and in due course received a confirmation and entrance ticket telling us to go to 111 California Street. As anybody knows who is familiar with San Francisco, the diagonal streets that go off of Market, start their address numbering at Market Street. Therefore 111 California would be in the 2nd block from Market. So we got off of BART at the Embarcadero station and confidently started walking up California. There is no 111 California. The only building in that block is numbered 101. After doing a little checking we realized that the Nob Hill Masonic center is most likely on Nob Hill. (Brilliant deduction <g>). Unfortunately that is about a mile away up a VERY STEEP hill. So Corel, that is an error on your part and certainly didn't sit well with all the people who either didn't get to the meeting or arrived late.
Okay Corel - Despite your strike one and your committed error I'm still rooting for that home run!!
This month, we will feature NOLO PRESS as our guest speaker. Recognizing that some people can not afford to hire an attorney, Nolo Press has been in the business of providing good, reliable legal information to the public for the past 25 years. At this point, they publish more than 100 titles comprising books, software, audio and video tapes. Their materials are consistently excellent – and can often guide someone through a routine problem. I have used some of their materials as text in a Civil Law class I teach and can recommend them. Their book Law on the Net is an incredible resource for finding legal information on the Internet – everything from Federal and State Court dockets and opinions to legislation, statutes, codes, law firms, schools, libraries and more. The book is well indexed by both topic (i.e. intellectual property, bankruptcy, divorce, crime, etc.) and by resource (Federal statutes, White House, Congress, State Court, etc.). It also provides all the connect information you need: Internet addresses – (web, gopher, listserve, e-mail, telnet, BBS); passwords; modem settings, etc. It is set up in a format like many of the Internet "yellow page" books. If you are interested in the law, this is a great resource. Look elsewhere in this issue for a discount coupon for DVPC members to order NOLO publications!
Speaking of discount coupons, this month there is also a coupon to obtain Quick View Plus. This is the full version of the viewer software built into Windows 95. I really like this program. It hooks right into windows and gives you much more functionality. A great deal for DVPC members!
Partition Magic will be our September speaker and now that it appears Ricochet has some coverage in Concord, they will soon be out to show their wireless service. I am still working on getting Corel and expect that to firm up soon. Until next meeting, enjoy your summer!
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Take the Clayton Road exit off of the 242 Freeway, and go east on Clayton Road. After about 1.5 miles you'll come to Galindo, and you'll see the Bank of America complex of four high-rise office buildings. Building B is the first high-rise building on your left, near the northeast corner of Clayton and Galindo. Parking: Turn right on Grant Street (the first block past Galindo), then right into the BART parking lot at the back of the BofA complex. Or turn left on Galindo then right onto Concord Avenue to find street parking. Be sure to observe parking regulations! Concord parking officers are very efficient!
August's meeting features Nolo Press, the famous publishers of legal and self-help books and software. We'll see demonstrations of their latest software, including WillMaker. See Alan Mildwurm's President's Corner column on page 12 for a discussion of Nolo's products from an attorney; now there's an unbiased review of a legal self-help publisher's products if there could ever be one! Also see the special offer announcement on page 12. Here's your chance to get some of the most popular of the Nolo Press software and books at a great discount.
Our "Oldest PC Magazine Contest" will be held at the August meeting. So climb into the attic or go out to the garage, dust off that really old PC magazine (no mainframe, mini, or whatever – PCs only, please, Northstar, Apple, Processor Technology, or whatever), bring it in, and you may be our winner!
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank of America Technology Center in Concord, located at the northeast corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the map, directions, and parking information on page 14). 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 6:30 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. The New User's SIG meeting will be held from 6:30 to 7:00. We'll have the Networking Table from 7:00 to 7:30. If you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views, visit the Networking Table. Also, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs for sale, SIG news, random access, and some of our usual great door prizes. See you at the meeting!
This month's Board of Directors Meeting will be at Alan Mildwurm's house at 7:00 p.m. Members who wish to attend should see Alan at the Monthly Meeting to get directions to his house in San Ramon.
Diablo Blue is the monthly newsletter of the Diablo Valley PC User's Group. Editor: Ronald Ogg, Mailing: Janet Rose.
Please submit articles and columns to the Newsletter section of the DVPC BBS, or mail to the editor:
Ronald Ogg
P.O. Box 2222
Orinda, CA 94563-2222
Entire contents © 1996 by Diablo Valley PC User's Group. All commercial rights reserved.
DVPC is a member of APCUG, the Association of PC Users Groups.