If you have an older computer or a computer without an operating system on it you may be a candidate for Ubuntu Linux. Makeuseof.com has made this e-book available free to help you learn more about it and your geekly company at EPCUG (me) recommends it. Click below and have a look:
One “guru” I like to watch is Bob Rankin. He’s been a geek since before the Internet and has a good online newsletter that includes this very good description of how to upgrade memory. How to Upgrade Your Memory.
Have a look!
After missing the last two weeks *I* will be at the cafe tonight. Hope to see many of you again and to find more value (topics) to attract even more folks to join us.
-=Larry=-
Multi Commander is for Windows what the old Norton Commander was for DOS machines.
If you are unfamiliar with “File Managers” this may not be big news for you. But managing the files on your hard disk or periferals of your computer normally require using Windows File Manager. The Multi Commander is possibly more ‘intuitive’ to use than the Windows program for handling files.
The Features (from it’s website) are as follows:
Stuff Happen: Backup and Restore Guide
In our last meeting john suggested we discuss again backing up and restoring, something we all mostly ignore,,, to our peril.
Today I see one of my favorite websites has made available a free PDF book/guide on just this subject so I suggest you download it and read it. Our peril need not be bad.
If you use Windows 7 and are not a fan of the mouse knowing these ‘Hotkeys’ becomes a valuable parts of your computing. 
A complete guide to Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts
This is an article from Windows Secrets, a mailling I have received for years since Fred Langa joined them. I recommend it and this article for all of us not yet tuned to Linux or Mac. 
-=Larry Cotton=-
Makeuseof.com has made some wonderful informative publications for free over the years and they just did it again.
Here is a link to an e-Book you can download or read online at Scribd. (We should have a post about Scribd soon.)
MakeUseOf.com Windows on Speed
This is a full search-able book for Windows 7 and XP that list the causes of system slowing and what you can do (FREE) to fix it. I think any of us can benefit from it and wanted to be sure to share it.
Of course I’m using Linux as I write this…
We’ve had discussions at our meetings about Facebook Security in the cafe and how anyone with the Firefox extension Firesheep could access our accounts while using Facebook in the cafe. Now there is news on the Facebook Blog about this:
A Continued Commitment to Security (1)
Apparently Mark Zuckerborg, Facebook’s founder was hacked recently so now the https:// version of Facebook is going to be rolled out. It still requires you turn it on and it will mean slower loading pages. My account is not updated yet but when it is going to Account settings will have the new option to turn on:
I suggest you look for it and when it appears, turn it on.
-=Lare=-
I’ve been trying to get the Ducks to change the time of their little game but so far I have not heard back from them and it looks like they will be performing right when we should all be meeting.
So I guess we’ll just have to defer to football arrogance. We’ll try again next week after the win.
Go Ducks!
Some of us in this group have been using PCs for decades now and from back in those early years were some writers/geeks who became well known for having great information. Among these was Fred Langa who kept the Langalist for years before he joined the Windows Secrets gang. Personally I have been using them less as I drift deeper into the Linux world instead. But now that I installed Windows 7 Family pack on our family’s computers I find myself looking more carefully at this mailing again.
If you want to be informed of useful Windows information I recommend you subscribe to this list. They offer a premium version for a “what you will afford them” payment plan.
Have a look at this week’s offering from them:
Four free programs to help control Windows 7
