Diablo Valley PC User's Group

January, 1999

January 7, 1999 Meeting Announcement
MGI PhotoSuite II and Ontrack Data Recovery Services

At our January, 1999 meeting (by the way, Happy New Year!) MGI will show their latest version of their popular image editing program PhotoSuite II. (See the review of PhotoSuite II in the December issue of Diablo Blue.) This program is noted for ease of use, is aimed at non-technical general business and home users, and is popularly (read: "low") priced. MGI will also demonstrate VideoWave, a program that turns any PC into a video production studio, letting you capture video and audio with the click of a button. Ontrack will tell us about their wide range of revolutionary data recovery services and products, and will demonstrate Ontrack Y2K Advisor, a freeware software package that evaluates your PC's BIOS and Real Time Clock for year 2000 compatibility.
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). 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 main meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. From 6:30 to 7:00 we'll have the New User's SIG meeting; the Real Estate SIG will be manning a table to tell you all about this unique SIG and their very interesting meetings; you can visit the Networking Table if you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views; and, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale. The main meeting will include SIG news, random access, our program, and some of our usual great door prizes. See you in January!

President's Corner
By Alan Mildwurm, DVPC
Well, I still haven't gone through all the treasures I brought back from Comdex. My office floor is littered with boxes, flyers, trinkets and all manner of things Comdex. My special photo of me with a Klingon Warrior and Ferengi Trader taken at Microsoft's GeekFest stands proudly on top of the TV. (Strangely, some of my non-computer and non-Trek friends don't understand - I've gotten used to the strange looks from the kids). [By the way, I enjoyed Insurrection- Ruth notes I'd like any Star Trek movie - she's mostly* right.]
I thought I'd share a few more observations of Comdex in this column. Steve and I attended a very top secret Windows 2000 meeting where we were privy to some inner sanctum stuff on Windows 2000  messages. This is so secret that if you speak to any other Microsoftie, I'm sure they'd deny it. Steve had to make quite a distraction for me to smuggle this out. After you read it, eat the page of Diablo Blue this is printed on. (If you get the electronic

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