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Right now we are getting used to the our new
digs at the Masonic Temple next door to the Scottish Rite Center. We are very
thankful for their accommodations.
The place is just right for us and we are enjoying the use of it.
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Things are happening here
in Medford with the ACES, we may be having the member meetings for the MAC
group at the Masonic Temple one
time for a test to find out if it will really work out for them. They may
have to take another time if they can get it at the library. We will see
if it works for all there. I tried to get my Linux up and running but I
have not tried wireless with linux yet and looks like I will have to do
more studying on how to get it to work with their wireless at the Masonic
Temple wireless. Things to learn for the future.
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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..?
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Andrea Patterson of
R.V.G.S. ( Rogue Valley Genealogy Society ) did a presentation on
Beginning Genealogy with Q & A's on the
subject after the
presentation.
She has expressed a desire to come
back and give us another presentation as there are members who
want to learn more about Genealogy as it pertains to use of the Computer
for Research of our blood lines.
Thanks
for coming Andrea we appreciate it immensely and also for volunteering
again in 2011 she will give us a date when she will
return in the future
she will be in touch. Thank Doris Chicano for her scheduling all of these
important meetings.
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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.
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 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.
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