PC Community Main Meeting
7:30 - 10 pm Friday September 3, 2010
28924 Ruus Road, Hayward California

The meeting was called to order at 7:35 pm by Jan Fagerholm. Verne Perry’s son Sergei and his daughter Valentina and her friend Omar introduced themselves.

Jan reminded people to print their names legibly on the raffle and drawing tickets, obtained from Harold Smith. The drawing is a Netgear N300 Wireless Router.

There will be a Clubhouse cookout on September 11, starting at 11:30 am. The Clubhouse will be open on September 25^th as well. In addition it will continue to be open on Wednesday evenings from 4 pm to 7 pm. Enter through the Laurel Street entrance, go through two gates to find the Clubhouse.

SIG Announcements:

There will be a Hardware SIG at the Smith’s tomorrow evening from 8 pm to 12 midnight. Bring your hardware and as much documentation as you can find.

We do not publish SIG addresses in the newsletter for the privacy of the people at whose homes the SIGs are held. If you need directions, call the number in the newsletter.

Bud Gallagher announced that the Windows 7 SIG will meet on September 11 at Bud’s house. He may look at ReadyBoost.

The spectacular Linux SIG will take place on the last Saturday of the month at the Smiths. Ubuntu is releasing their 10/10 update but the beta should be ready by the 25^th. They may also look at the Linux version of Teamviewer.

Presentations

Members Bud Gallagher and Diane George presented Teamviewer is a utility that allows you to connect remotely to other computers. It is easy to use and secure. The website has explanatory slides and PDFs. The person being supported maintains control of the mouse and other features so that it is a good teaching tool as well as a problem-solving tool.

Teamviewer has been a corporate tool for 5 years. They have recently been promoting their free personal version.

After the break, Diane presented Belarc Advisor. Belarc Advisor provides a detailed profile of installed software and hardware. It advises and assists in keeping software, hardware, and security configurations up to date. It also keeps a profile of software keys and of hardware; this critical information after a crash when you have to rebuild your computer.

Verne Perry showed VirtualBox, which allows him to log into his Windows computers at work from his Linux computers at home. He uses the Firefox add-on iMacros to log in securely.

General Drawing

Raffle Prize

The Netgear N300 Wireless Router was won by Don Odle.

The meeting was adjourned at 10 pm.

The next meeting will take place at the same location on October 1, 2010.

Respectfully submitted,

Bayle Emlein, Secretary