Just a note to let you know the Ashland meeting will be held at the Rivergate in the Sanctuary. The meeting place is in the    back near the fireplace. 

Visit our Ashland Web Site Developed by Mike Davis at http://sites.google.com/site/senioraces/ they have a link to us so please  visit often.

We have a Beginner's meeting in Medford at the Masonic Temple see ( table above for address ) on the 2nd Thursday of the  Month at 1:00pm to 1:45pm Advanced at 2:00 to 4:00pm. For the Regular Mac Meeting's location use the map in the Meetings   Page if needed, its a pdf file so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to get the map.

Joyce  Tonkin, instructor of the "beginning MAC" class at our Ashland meetings, has an e-mail address where she will answer beginner Macintosh questions. The address is beginmac@gmail.com Send your questions there. Thank you Joyce, for  providing this service. 

Please come and support her and learn some great new things. 

Thanks to all who volunteer to host a teaching session and also for those who came to demonstrate new products, we appreciate  your participation.

 .: There will be Workshops On June 14th At the Masonic Temple 975 N. Phoenix Medford (541) 773 4226 Doris Chicano
Come and learn something, like, how to do your e-mail correctly.

There will be a Scheduled Presentation Meeting of the Month on May 24th By me at 1:30pm what is Linux Ubuntu Ver. 11.10. I will show what it looks like, is it for you.....It's a free program actually you can download any Linux program for "FREE" the best part and it will not need a virus program, nothing affects this system all the servers use it... It does not even need defrag program it does it in the background. If you have the gumption to investigate trying it. There are hundreds of Linux programs out there from Linux Puppy only 128 megs total for the whole program and lots of others out there also FREE to download. I will show some of the system if it will let me. I am just investigating it with a slow "OLD" 6 years old computer, it's a 2.4ghz microprocessor and not very much RAM 2 Gigs of RAM and not very much video RAM either 250megs should have 1 gig of video memory. It still will work fairly good if the Internet is fast  enough of course it isn't unless I can find a way to go wireless. Clearwire is not fast enough at only 750kb/s where my internet speed at home with charter is 20,000kb/s.

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Things are happening here in Medford with the ACES, we are having the member meetings for the MAC group at the Masonic Temple it seems to work for us now. 

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I just installed the newest Linux Ubuntu Version 11.10 called Ocelot a totally new upgrade it now has a Doc like the MAC's do now and have had for quite awhile. The upgrade really changed the screen and the way you get to your files. I think I will be needing a different video card with more memory and power supply to support it. I am still getting used to the totally new system structure. I had to install a new video card but the video card needs more memory not only 256megs but maybe 1 gig or more to make it run again. I think that the video card is holding up the graphics I need with the new program. I just called Rob at Upper Case Computer Solutions he says I need a new computer if I want to make the new Linux program come alive. He wants to make me a deal...? This version is like upgrading to Windows 7. The program is free but the computer isn't...! 

A computer with a Digital Hard Drive with 4 Gigs of Ram and a decent Video Card and that computer will blow your socks off. You can buy this computer at Upper Case Computer Solutions here in Medford and cheaper than you think.

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Don Haag brings his Clearwire Modem in to support us with Internet via the wireless router I install each time we have a meeting thanks  to him we have Broadband Wireless Internet for everyone that wants to use it at our meetings. The signal strength is even better here with the same wireless modem from Clearwire we only moved maybe 50 feet from next door, go figure..?

I have been learning Linux Ubuntu its quite a program it really does not look at all like Windows except it uses some of the ideas windows has in their operating system like the screen saver but that's where it looks even different even there. 

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Some of the clickers for like shutting it down are on the top right side instead of lower left side. I just upgraded to a newer version Version 11.10 again it is FREE to download and the clickers are different now they are in the left upper part of the program I am running like their word processor etc., Lots more clickers are on top like the sounds and the video clickers are there if you want them there. I like it first because its so easy to install it finds all of the drivers for cards you have physically plugged in. 

If you want to try it out only you can do a Dual-Boot in other words you can try it out first running it in "RAM" only, not on the Hard Drive and if you want to install it later you can if you want at anytime, also you can run both systems on your drive and not have to put it on a separate drive. You also can run it from a thumb drive too or even a card used for a camera. Linux has a program that is only 128 megs total in size called Linux Puppy not like the Windows XP at about 600megs in size before putting any programs in. 

Mind you it's really not for rank Amateurs though it's really quite different from Windows. I just tried it first from RAM and ran it there for several months before I installed it totally on a dedicated drive in the computer I have now. I have another OLD computer with a dual-boot setup and it is really running fairly well with it's "OLD" 900 Megahertz Microprocessor with only 500 megabytes of "RAM" the most it can run in ram, although it can also use the space within your hard drive temporarily a temp space that can be changed too.