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Home Page Monthly Reports Venue Dates RIPPER News About Us The Volunteers Useful Links Download Page RIPPER's Interest Groups      Imaging      New Users      Windows      Hardware	DON'T FORGET, WE ARE NOW MEETING AT THE NEW MelbPC Head Offie Proposed Agenda for Friday August 27th 2010 09:00 The New Users & Problem Solving Group Meeting, run by Brian Parkes, is held in Meeting Room No.3 which is directly in front of you when you have turned right after alighting from the lift. The Imaging Group, run by Bill Cooney and Ian Bock, is held in Meeting Room No.2 which is along from the the table where you pick up your copy of RIPPER News. 10.00 to 10.10 "Introduction" by Convener Ken Thomas. 10.10 to 10.30 Segment 1.     "Answers to Computer Hardware and Software Problems"     with 'Doctor' Graham Ackland 10.30 to 10.50 Segment 2.     Graham Ackland will tell us all about "Acronis Disk Director" 10.50 to 11.10 Morning Tea - 20 minutes for members to socialize (swap CD's etc !!!). Please respond promptly to the "2 minutes to resume your seats" call 11.10 to 11.50 Segments 3 & 4.    "For an overseas trip, Dave Botherway needed to update his GPS." Learn how he used Google, eBay and uTorrent to solve the problem. 11.55 Approx Meeting closure with any questions, thanks to presenters and details of next meeting. 12.00 Midday     Finish on the dot. 12:00 to 13:00 The Windows Group, run by Henk Visscher, is in Meeting Room 3 which you get to, after leaving the main meeting room, by turning right where you would normally turn left to get to the lift.
Ken is still desperately short of presentations by members of the group for this years meetings. Our meetings rely on input from members, so this is a request for anyone who has any ideas for a twenty or forty minute presentation to contact him.    ( Ken can be contacted on (03) 9884 5309 or by e-mail at ripper@melbpc.org.au Even if it is only a possibility, or a vague idea at this stage please discuss it with Ken as it may be possible to do it as an adjunct to someone elses or as an introduction to another presentation. The subject matter list is inexhaustable, but to start you thinking some of the things that could be covered are: Utiliities which have been found useful. Document management    How do you find that letter you wrote last yeat to whoever? Image managemnent.    How do you find that photo you had of Aunt Maude you took 5 years ago because the family want it for the "Celebration of her Life" next week? Hard drive and partition managment.    How easy is it to find anything and everything on your computer's harddisk? Application management    If an application on your computer gives you a 'cannot find ***.dll' or a 'file corrupt' message, how do you know where to look? Small programs or parts of programs that perform a useful function particularly well. Such as all those image maninipulation functions which form part of the larger applications. How about a comparison of differnet programs doing just the one useful thing. Do you use macros to perform some useful function(s).     In Word, Excel etc.    If you do why not share them. Games.    What games do you play and why?     What do you like about a particular gams? What I use the Internet for.    The sites visited regularly. Additions to this list are welcomed.
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