BENTSEN GROVE COMPUTER CLUB BULLETIN

Month of October 2003

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Barron’s Bytes By Val Barron

Introduction

Rain, rain, and more RAIN. For those who haven’t heard, the next to last week in September saw 15 to 20 inches of rainfall in the mission area. Eleven inches fell over the weekend. We were in Houston and missed the whole thing but things were still pretty wet when we got back. I’m sure when you return to the Valley you will find things greener than normal for this time of year.

I was recently reminded of the value of our Bulletin archive. I needed to start someone’s Windows XP machine in Safe Mode and the usual F8 procedure would not work. I remembered that this problem had been covered in one of our club bulletins but didn’t remember when. Making a quick visit to our “Weekly Bulletin Selector” I quickly found the topic “Safe Mode” which took me to my original June 2002 request for information. Then going on to the next bulletin I found the reply from Susan Updegraff that solved the problem for me. Not only is the Bulletin Archive full of valuable information but the “Help Sites” page can also help us solve some of our many problems.

http://my.awesomenet.net/~bentsen/bulletinselector.htm

http://my.awesomenet.net/~bentsen/helpsites.htm

Note

I understand that embedded links don’t sometimes don’t work depending on how you receive e-mail. So, at the end of each item that includes a link, I will include a plain text listing of the URL, which you can cut and paste into your browser’s address window. For example, if I make reference to the BGR COMPUTER CLUB home page at the end of the article I will include the plain text listing as follows:

www.bgrcc.com

Where In The World Is That?

Let’s suppose you are reading a novel and the heroine finds herself in the New Hebrides When you try to find that location in your world atlas there is no New Hebrides in the index. What do you do now if you really want to know where it is? Just click on over to “Nations Online” and there under Australia/Oceania heading you find that the former New Hebrides is now Vanuatu. A click on Vanuatu will take you to its main listing and a few more clicks will bring you more information than you probably wanted to know about New Hebrides/Vanuatu. I enjoyed just scanning down the listings of Nations Online to discover that The Canary Islands were formerly named the Fortunate Islands, that French Guiana was Inini, that Inue was the Savage Islands. I don’t know about you but I like Savage Islands a whole lot better than Inue.

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/North%20America

Function Keys

How often do you use those keys near the top of your keyboard? You know the ones that say F1, F2, F3, etc. They are very useful within many applications as well as within Windows itself. A good explanation of the uses of the function keys can be found in Jay Lee’s column “Keyboards have functions…”. Although the title of the article is about Windows XP it really applies to all versions of Windows.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/weekly/2104407

Windows Tutorial

I recently enjoyed visiting a nice Windows tutorial at the following web site:

http://www.glokraemer.com/lets/index.htm

Happy Computing, Val

valbarron@att.net

How would you like to study at M.I.T.?  Yes I mean THAT MIT.  Better yet, how would you like to study at MIT from home - and its free?  Well the open source community continues to expand and now includes Open Source Ware (OSW).  If you are interested you can check it out for yourself here.   I will forewarn you that many of the courses are at graduate level.  I dropped in on the semiconductor class - and - well my brain has lost a lot of what I once just took for granted.

John Abbott

Since only 15 files in MY Recent Documents in XP can be reopened that one has been working on and older links disappear from the list; this is what I use. It is slightly different from your newsletter article.

1. Click on Windows Explorer

2. Click on My Computer, Local Disk C, Documents & Settings, your user name, Recent.

3. Right click on the Recent folders icon and drag it to the desktop.

4. Release the right button and choose Create Shortcut(s) Here.

5. Opening the folder with this shortcut will bring up all the links to files you have worked on. The list can be purged.

Claude Westfall

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