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By Charley May, KIPCUG

The KIPCUG October 7 GeneralMeeting started with the Back to

Basics session with host DavidBrooks. David's presentation cov-ered "CreatingUseful DesktopShortcuts" and wasquite interestingand useful.

The User to Usersession with hostBill Cull gave ourKIPCUG friends achance to answerseveral timelyquestions. If youare having a problem with your PC,bring your question next month,submitted on paper at the door, toget a good solution.

KIPCUG attendees were extreme-ly pleased to have Dr. Julius P.Wong give his presentation on howto use your PC for information oninvesting. With a large number ofinvestors in our group and quite afew members interested in theirretirement accounts, Dr. Wong heldeveryone's rapt attention.

With money market funds return-ing less than 1%, the big questionswere: What are the alternatives?Are there solid investments thatreturn 10% or better? Well, Dr.Julius P. Wong said the answer isyes! Then he gave us the places toget good information!

For those of us that could not takenotes fast enough, here are the top-ics and the URLs that Dr. Wongcovered in his presentation (cour-tesy of DR. Wong).

Screening at Yahoo Finance

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MSN Money Central

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MEETING DIRECTIONS

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As a reminder, if you are interest-ed in meeting others to share invest-ment ideas, please consider attend-ing the KIPCUG's Investing SIGand the Technical Market AnalysisSIG.

The KIPCUG November 4General Meeting will start with theever-helpful Back to Basics sessionwith host David Brooks. The Backto Basics session will look at waysto make your computer sessionseasier and smoother; so don't missit!

The User to User session with hostBill Cull is just before the MainPresentation, giving your KIPCUGfriends a chance to answer YOURquestions submitted on paper. If youare having a problem with your PC,this is the time to get a good solu-tion, so remember to bring yourquestions.

Is that e-mail really coming fromBill Gates? Who really sent you thatstrange request? Why are you get-ting bounced messages that youhave never actually sent out? Mr.Clay Collier will be our GuestPresenter and have answers to theseand many other questions at theNovember General Meeting. Clay isa systems programmer for theWin.Net engineering team, and willhave some good news and a lot ofinformation for us.

Clay will be speaking on SPAM.He will include information on whatPostini filtering has done forWin.Net's customers, a short histo-ry, how to read an e-mail header,tracking a spammer, blacklisting IPaddresses and much more regardingunsolicited e-mail. He will tell uswhat the Win.Net staff is doing tofight SPAM and will fill us in onwhat is happening from the ISP siteof the server.

Some of the many topics that hewill cover will include informationon the following questions: How doyou read an e-mail header? Is itworth your time to fight SPAM?Does an ISP really block your out-going mail? Will your mail beblocked if someone uses yourname? Can you send out mail usingthe bcc: feature? Does Win.Netoffer its clients a mass-mailing tool?

We all want to use e-mail withoutdifficulties. The problem is thatunwanted e-mail messages are fill-ing our in-boxes. If you havereceived SPAM or might in thefuture, this month's presentationwill be interesting and helpful. I cansay this because Clay led an excel-lent presentation on SPAM at ourWebmaster's SIG in September,which was very well received.

By Charley May, KIPCUG

Many of us are bombarded dailywith unwanted emails that fill ourinboxes to the brim, making the useof electronic mail lose much of it'sluster of yesteryear. I can rememberthe days when we first started usingemail and how happy we were toopen the email program to find afew, sometimes very few, messagesfrom people that we knew and want-ed to hear from. Email then began tobecome useful in business situationsand had the speed that everyonealways wanted from the post officemail, even giving us the ability tosend an attached document or photowithout using a fax machine.

At that time, the regular mailbegan to be called "Snail Mail" aswe quickly became use to electronicmail. Also, the regular mail wasbeginning to drown us in unwantedmass mailings (strange how thingsrun in patterns) from people andcompanies that did not know us onthings we were not interested in.Many companies began sending usoffers on products that were notapplicable or not wanted, wastingpaper, postage and our time.


President’s Desk

Program Director (cont.)

November


As Yogi said "It's "deja vu, allover again". Here we are, gettingelectronic mailings of every offerknown to man and in a volume thatsupercedes the snail mail volumetenfold. With no end of dealingwith Spam in sight, it was indeed apleasure when one of KIPCUG'sSponsors recently started doingsomething about Spam.

I hope that you will find the timeon Election Day to attend ourGeneral Meeting and learn from ourWin.Net friend, Mr. Clay Collier,about the latest happenings in pro-tecting ourselves from Spam. Ifound Clay to be quite knowledge-able and helpful on the subject andI think you will too.

For your information, ClayCollier is the systems programmer

for the Win.Net engineering team.He is a graduate of HarvardUniversity with a degree inComputer Science. Prior to comingto Win.Net, Clay held internships inLouisville with Humana, Inc.,working with their web-basedhealth insurance initiative, and withPalm, Inc., in California, where heworked on the Palm OS operatingsystem.

When you talk to a perspectivemember about joining KIPCUGand tell them about the benefitsavailable, always remember to tellthem about KIPCUG's Win.NetSpecial. The KIPCUG pricing is$14.95 per month for unlimited ser-vice, five email addresses, yourown Web Page and most important-ly, hometown service. You shouldalso mention that Win.Net recently

completed a big upgrade and inte-gration of their mail system recent-ly. This allowed big improvementsin overall performance in process-ing mail, as well as in the tools thatthey have for managing customermail accounts. Soon they will bereleasing a new version of the mailmanagement tool that they provideto customers. This upgrade willinclude a lot more features than theold one; customers should be ableto manage just about any part oftheir mail account (passwords, for-wards, and adding mailboxes ormanaging domains) without a callto tech support.

So, come visit with your KIPCUGfriends and meet with Clay Collierof Win.Net as he tells us more,about how to protect ourselves.

President’s Desk (cont.)

By Joe Rothstein, KIPCUG

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Dont Let Yourself Get Hoaxed

Email messages that start with“Forward” are often pretty back-ward. Some are perfectly well-meaning, just mistaken, such as thepleas to send unwanted greetingcards to sick children or protestsagainst satirical Web sites. Someplay on greed, such as the folks whofalsely claim that you can get freestuff just by forwarding a message.And some are mysteriously annoy-ing, such as virus hoaxes. Onething’s for sure: Almost everyone’sbeen hoaxed at one time or another.

“It’s all age groups, and surpris-ingly, it’s all levels of education,”says Barbara Mikkelson, who withher husband David operatesSnopes.com (http://www.snopes.com), one of the Internet’s tophoax-debunking sites. “We’ve hadpeople write to us and say, ‘I cannotbelieve that my co-workers believethis; they’re all Ph.D.s!’ ”

Long Ago & Far Away

Chain letters, hoaxes, and urbanlegends have been around far longerthan the Internet. A chain letter fadswept the country in 1935, saysDaniel Van Arsdale, author of astudy of chain letters, which tracksthem back to 1922.

One of the Internet’s most famouslegends recounts how the NeimanMarcus department store charged awoman $250 for a chocolate chipcookie recipe. That tale has itsancestor in a story from the 1930sabout the red velvet cake at New

York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, saysNeiman Marcus’ Kellie Patrick.(The department store actuallynever served chocolate chip cookiesuntil email message forwards aboutits recipe started going around; thestore now posts online a dense, tastyrecipe involving espresso powder.)

The oldest legend online may be astory about a woman fending a sus-picious stranger from her car, whichhas its roots before the Civil War,says Mikkelson.

“I bet if you went to ancientEgypt, you’d find the pharaoh pass-ing around papyruses saying, ‘Hey,send this to all your friends,’ ” saysWilliam Orvis of the U.S.Department of Energy’s CIAC(Computer Incident AdvisoryCapability; http://www.ciac.org/ciac) anti-virus center.

The first computer virus hoax wasprobably the “2,400 Baud ModemVirus,” which swept pre-Internet-era computer bulletin boards in1988. Supposedly, this virus “dis-tribute[d] itself on the modem sub-carrier present in all 2400 baud andup modems,” according to itsaccompanying message. That’s non-sense; no such “subcarrier” exists.But the hoax became sufficientlywidespread to elicit a parody writtenby Robert Morris, the programmerwho later became famous for writ-ing a worm that accidentallycrashed about 10% of the Internet.(For the full text of both the virushoax and the parody, see the memoat http://www.ciac.org/ciac/virdb/VIRS0107.TXT.)

Virus hoaxes became truly wide-spread with the watershed “Good

Times” hoax in 1994, whichscreamed “Other, more well-knownviruses . . . pale in comparison to theprospects of this newest creation bya warped mentality.” No such virusexisted, of course, but Good Timesspawned a hilarious parody, promis-ing “Goodtimes will make you fallin love with a penguin. It will giveyou nightmares about circusmidgets. It will pour sugar in yourgas tank and shave off both youreyebrows while dating your currentboyfriend behind your back andbilling the dinner and hotel room toyour Visa card.” (For the full text ofthe parody, visit http://www.talknatural.com/laughter/GoodTImes.html.)

A subgenre of hoaxes, the pathet-ic-child chain letter, may have start-ed with Craig Shergold, a Britishboy who in 1990 got into the“Guinness Book Of World Records”for receiving 16 million greetingcards, says Mikkelson. Shergoldhad cancer at the time but has madea full recovery and is now a healthy24-year-old in England, says JimMaggio of the Make-A-Wish

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Foundation, one of many children’scharities praying for the deluge ofgreeting cards to stop. Guinness hassince shut down its greeting-cardaward category and one charity, theChildren’s Wish Foundation, had tomove offices because of the mil-lions of pieces of unwanted mail,Mikkelson says.

Anatomy Of A Hoax

The difference between mistake,satire, and hoax is in the intention ofthe author, says David Cassel, afreelance writer who has coveredseveral Internet hoaxes. Well-mean-ing netizens who send along theCraig Shergold sick-child letter, forinstance, probably just don’t knowhe’s been cured. Satire is false infor-mation that expects you to figure

out that it’s false: Artists JoeySkaggs (http://www.joeyskaggs.com) and Jonah and Chelsea Peretti(http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com) have put up fake sites to make apolitical or social point. Hoaxes, onthe other hand, aim to mislead.

Mistakes can become hoaxes, aswhen anonymous folks change thenames on sick-child letters beforeforwarding them. Satires can startout looking like hoaxes: WhenSkaggs plays tricks, he strings peo-ple along for a while before reveal-ing the truth. And satires can gener-ate mistakes, as when a Chinesenewspaper reprinted a story fromTheOnion (http://www.theonion.com), thinking it was true.

These sites look appalling and

have caused thousands of outragedemail messages, but they are sickjokes, hoax debunkers say.

Some hoaxes are jokes, such asBonsai Kitten Web site(http://www.bonsaikitten.com),which claims to deform kittens for aprice. Some are commercial ven-tures, such as the “Irina” virus hoax,which was a publicity campaign fora science fiction book that got out ofcontrol. Some are pointless, such ashttp://www.coincidencedesign.com,which has never actually stalked awoman for pay.

The sources of most genuinehoaxes are anonymous, lost in emailforwards. Cassel tracked down theauthor of Coincidencedesign.com, aman named Nick who claimed that


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Coincidencedesign.com was a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” a business hewanted to run, whether or not itexisted at the time.

“I think a hoax is often a ‘privatesatire’—misinformation generatedfor the hoaxster’s personal agenda.Some people delight in making themass media look stupid or feelingsuperior to the people who fell forit,” Cassel says.

Why are we susceptible to Internethoaxes? Urban legends have beenaround for years, but Western cul-ture attaches power to the writtenword, Skaggs says. “We are peopleof the book. . . . That’s a good thing. . . as long as we know there’s a dif-ference between fiction and nonfic-tion; on the Internet, there’s no dis-claimer.”

And it’s such a weird world outthere that even hoax experts havetrouble figuring out the truth.Prankster Skaggs said that when heheard about the U.S. government’splan to start a futures market on ter-rorist incidents, he thought it was ahoax. It wasn’t.

How Not To Get Sucked In

To prevent spreading bad informa-tion, keep your fingers off theForward button, experts say.

“If it’s forwarded to a zillion peo-ple, and at the end of the message itsays, ‘Send me to all your friends,’that’s a good hint that you shouldn’tsend it to all of your friends,” Orvissays.

When you get an email message,see what the debunkers say beforeforwarding it. (See the “Check ItOut” side-bar.) Pay attention to thelanguage: If a computer virus warn-ing is full of extreme, hystericalclaims, it’s probably a hoax, saysSteve Trilling, senior director ofresearch at antivirus firm Symantec.

Do your own research, saysMikkelson. Look for names of spe-cific companies and call their 800numbers. If the details of an emailmessage are vague (or even use thespecific names of unverifiable peo-ple), it’s probably a hoax.

Check reports in the mainstreammedia, but remember they can befooled, too. Skaggs’ hoax-art pro-jects have pulled in everyone fromNew York’s Daily News to the LosAngeles Times. (Don’t kick your-self for falling for a hoax that foolsmajor media outlets; you have todraw the line between gullibilityand paranoia somewhere.)

Finally, be aware of commonInternet hoaxes. Anything having todo with email tracking or with com-

panies donating money or productsto people who forward email mes-sages is automatically false,Mikkelson says. Most email mes-sages dealing with sick children arefake, and if something looks totallyoutrageous (deformed kittens in bot-tles, a consumer baby-tattooingchain), it probably is.

According to antiviral firmSophos, here are five of the mostcommon hoaxes on the Internet atpress time:

The Hotmail/Yahoo! hoax saysthat your free email account will beclosed if you don’t forward the mes-sage to at least 10 people. It won’t,so don’t.

The JDBGMGR hoax warns youabout a fake virus (Jdbgmgr.exe)that’s actually a harmless Windowssystem file.

Outraged letters about BonsaiKitten claim someone is deformingkittens for fun. A Bonsaikitten.comsite exists, but it’s a joke.

The Bill Gates hoaxes claim thebillionaire himself, Microsoft, orAOL will give cash to everyonewho forwards email messages. Notso.

A hysterical message claims that ifyou open an email labeled “WTC


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Survivor,” you’ll be infected by avirus. No such virus exists.

The Pain Of The Chain

Virus hoaxes cause hysteria andwaste IT departments’ time; onlytwo that anyone can remember actu-ally damaged PCs. These hoaxesclaimed that the Sulfnbk.exe andJdbgmgr.exe files were viruses,when they’re actually little-usedparts of Windows. Fortunately,they’re so obscure that they don’taffect most users, but deleting bitsof Windows is generally bad.

“Harmless” chain letters causedamage, but they don’t usuallycrash computers or delete data.Those sick-child email messages,for instance, stress underfundedcharities’ phone banks.

“We’re responding to hundreds ofinquiries a week . . . and that’s timemuch better spent on actually grant-ing wishes,” says Make-A-Wish’sMaggio.

Online petitions, meanwhile, areso easily forged that they’re worth-less and cause a tremendous drainon email systems, Mikkelson says.Back in 1999, a well-meaning stu-dent at Brandeis University inWaltham, Mass., sent around achain letter raising attention to theplight of Afghan women under the

Taliban, asking concerned folks toemail her.

The ensuing email avalanche ren-dered her email unusable and creat-ed major headaches for systemadministrators, who still receivedmore than 4,800 messages a day twoyears after the incident, says RichGraves, an IT security manager atBrandeis. Similar awful things hap-pen when naïve elementary school-ers send chain letters to see “if theiremail can get around the world,”Mikkelson says.

More subtly, political forwardscause slacktivism, the illusion thatyou’re taking political action whenyou’re not doing anything useful,Mikkelson says. Rather than writepaper letters to members ofCongress or attend demonstrations,email message forwarders enjoy“the joy of being able to do some-thing good for mankind withoutactually doing a darn thing,” shesays.

Do hoaxes and chain letters everdie? The Neiman Marcus cookiemyth and Craig Shergold letter arestill circulating after more than adecade. Antispam companyBrightmail says it blocks commonhoax email messages, but that does-n’t seem to stop what all the expertswe spoke to said is a pretty steadyflow of misinformation.

“You can never stop gossip. Itdoesn’t matter how widelydebunked it is, people will still for-ward it,” says an exasperatedMikkelson.

In the case of the BrandeisUniversity Taliban letter, only thefall of Afghanistan ended the chain.“It took a war to kill it,” Gravessays.

Check It Out

One of the basic principles of jour-nalism is, “If your mother says sheloves you, check it out.” To avoidcausing needless panic, try visitingone of these sites instead of pressingthe Forward button when you seesomething outrageous in yourInbox.


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Security (Cover Your Tracks)By Stephen Bigelow, c/o Smart

Computing December 2003• Vol.14Issue 12

Cover Your Tracks

Whether you’re new to theInternet or a grizzled old pro,you’ve probably heard about priva-cy issues on the Web. Like it or not,Web sites do exchange informationwith your PC, and traces of yourInternet exploits can remain on yourPC long after you leave the site.This makes it possible for anemployer, spouse, child, or otheruser to see where you’ve been. Atbest, this is a minor inconvenience,at worst, a gross invasion of yourpersonal privacy. Here, we’ll showyou the tools that are already avail-able to cover your tracks.

Use The Tools

Internet Explorer has a series ofuseful tools that can erase Webactivities from your PC. Launch IE,click Tools, and then select InternetOptions. The Internet Options dia-log box appears. Select the Generaltab (if it’s not already selected).You’ll see entries for Home page,Temporary Internet files, andHistory. Let’s go through eachoption.

Going home

IE references a home page eachtime the program launches andevery time you click the Home but-ton. Most users select a home pagethat they visit frequently. Still, youdon’t want to select home sites thatmay potentially prove embarrass-ing. For example, you probablywouldn’t want your boss or co-worker to launch IE on your work

PC and find your family’s Web siteas the home page; the company’sofficial Web site would likely bemuch more appropriate. To changethe home page, type the new URL(uniform resource locator) in thespace provided and click Apply.Otherwise, click the Use Currentbutton to make your current URLthe new home page.

INTERNET OPTIONS DIALOG BOX

The Internet Options dialog boxgives you the tools you need todelete cookies, temporary files, andhistory traces.

Pesky cookies

A cookie is a small data file that aWeb site can store on your system.Cookies often store innocuousinformation about your system andWeb site preferences so that the siteappears with your preferences thenext time you visit it. For example,if you see a Web site welcome youwith your first name or with a user-name and password pre-entered foryou, chances are that a cookie is atwork. Unfortunately, other Websites can often read cookies, reveal-ing your passwords and other per-sonal information. And cookies canalso pass personal information to aWeb site. You can see the cookiesthat are currently on your system by


Security (Cover Your Tracks) (cont.)opening My Computer and brows-ing to C:/DOCUMENTS ANDSETTINGS/your username/COOK-IES (click Start, double-click MyComputer, and then click LocalDisk (C:), Documents And Settings,username, and Cookies. You may beastonished to see the number of filesthere. Go back to the InternetOptions dialog box and clear yourCookie folder by clicking the DeleteCookies button. Go back and checkthe Cookie folder. If cookiesremain, you can select and deletethem manually.

Revealing Temp files

In order to improve browsing per-formance (especially helpful withslower dial-up connections), IEsaves copies of the Web pages andtheir components (mostly images)in a temporary folder, whichremains on your PC. When you use

the Back button, you can reconstructpages that you’ve visited withouthaving to reload the entire pageacross the Internet. However, otherusers can see the stored Web pagesand their components. Check yourown folder at C:/DOCUMENTSAND SETTINGS/your username/LOCAL SETTINGS/TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES. Ifyou’re shocked at what’s there,return to the Internet Options dialogbox and click the Delete Files but-ton. Because temporary files canaccumulate and waste a great dealof hard drive space, deleting tempo-rary files is also a convenient way torecover that lost space. Go back andcheck the Temporary Internet Filesfolder. If files remain, you can selectand delete them manually.

Remember that deleting files onlymarks the drive space as “free.” Theactual data remains on your driveuntil other files overwrite it. Formaximum security, you should usedata scrubbing software to renderthe old file data unrecoverable.

Rewriting history

Windows keeps track of the thingsyou do, such as recently vieweddocuments, recently played MP3s,and recently visited Web sites.When you click the down button inIE’s Address bar, you’ll see a list ofsites that you’ve been to. Althoughthis is a great convenience (youdon’t need to retype long or obscureURLs), it also lets other users seewhere you’ve been. Click the downbutton in the Address bar. You maybe amazed at the number of siteslisted there for easy reference. Towipe the history list clean, return tothe Internet Options dialog box and

click the Clear History button. Now,check the history list again andyou’ll see that it is empty.

Surf Safely

With a growing focus on personalprivacy, it’s important to be sensi-tive to your own Web surfing habitsat home and at work. Web surfingleaves traces on your PC, whichother users can later access. Thoughnot foolproof, deleting cookies,temporary files, and history listingsare three easy and free ways to eraseyour activities.

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KnowledgeBy Susan Moore, KIPCUG

Please join me in welcomingKIPCUG’s newest member.

J. R. ANGAL

Each new person that you inviteto a KIPCUG meeting can earn aFREE month of dues for you ifthey join as an Individual orFamily member! Why not inviteseveral friends or co-workers nextmonth to increase the number ofyour free months. There is NOLIMIT to the number of bonusmonths.

Membership


Name Position Home Work Email AddressCharley May President 425-4604 [email protected] Buzan Vice-President 639-7647 [email protected] Miller Secretary 895-5360 [email protected] Krainski Treasurer 429-5155 [email protected] Langdon Program Director 245-8132 [email protected] Moore Membership Director 499-5222 [email protected] McArdle Volunteer Director 458-7269 [email protected] Edwards SIG Director 945-3187 [email protected] Henderson Webmaster 812-945-1102 [email protected] Cull Editor, I/O Magazine 852-6052 [email protected] Johnson Publicity Director 239-1234 [email protected] Shaikun Legal Advisor 425-3326 587-3540 [email protected] Rothstein Review Editor 451-3874 [email protected] Klingeman Director 245-9518 [email protected] Russman Director 244-0667 589-5794 [email protected] Garst Director 897-2820Alan Birch SIG Leader 429-0506 [email protected] Boneck SIG Leader 552-3062 [email protected] Campion SIG Leader 810-9125 [email protected] Coddington SIG Leader 396-3514 [email protected] Cooke SIG Leader 423-9920Joan Combs Durso SIG Leader 452-8471 [email protected] Kilpatrick SIG Leader 969-6983 [email protected] McCormick SIG Leader [email protected] Reising SIG Leader [email protected] Scanlan SIG Leader 502-477-1639 477-1639 [email protected] Smith SIG Leader 897-7718 [email protected] Stenger SIG Leader 502-252-8643 [email protected] Travelstead SIG Leader 375-4796 852-4761 [email protected] Viele SIG Leader 452-6878 [email protected]

Changes for mailing address, email address or telephone numbers should be sent to Susan Moore, Directorof Membership. You can send the change to the KIPCUG mailing address printed on the back of the I/O or byemail to [email protected].

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ACCESS PROGRAMMING SIG - Meets 10:00 AMon the 4th Saturday of the month at the Main Branch ofthe LFPL at 4th and York Streets. Contact SIGLEADER John Kilpatrick at 969-6983 or [email protected]

ADVANCED USERS SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the3rd Friday of the month at CCUM at 4614 BrownsboroRoad. (US 42 & Blankenbaker Lane) in the ComputerLab (Room 222). Contact SIG LEADER Tom Scanlanat 1-502-477-1639 or [email protected]

BASIC ACCESS SIG - Meets 10:00 AM on the 2ndSaturday of the month at the NHCLC at 10200 LinnStation Road in Suite 110 of the Triad East Bldg.Contact SIG LEADER Alan Birch at 429-0506 [email protected]

BASIC EXCEL SIG "NEW" - Meets 6:30 PM on the1st Friday of the month at CCUM at 4614 BrownsboroRoad. (US 42 & Blankenbaker Lane) in the ComputerLab (Room 222). Contact CO-SIG LEADER FlaveReising at [email protected]

COMMUNITY OUTREACH SIG - Meets only onscheduled months on the 3rd Tuesday at a location tobe determined. Contact SIG DIRECTOR Bill Edwardsat 812-949-7348 or [email protected]

EXCEL INTERMEDIATE SIG "NEW" - Meets 6:30PM on the 2nd Friday of the month at CCUM at 4614Brownsboro Road. (US 42 & Blankenbaker Lane) inthe Computer Lab (Room 222). Contact SIGDIRECTOR Bill Edwards at [email protected] or812-949-7348

GENEALOGY SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 3rdMonday of the month at the LFPL-Eline Branch at St.Matthews City Hall Building at the corner of GrandviewAve. and Fairfax Ave. about 3 blocks south ofShelbyville Rd. Contact SIG LEADER Susan Moore at 499-5222 - [email protected] (www.win.net/mooresk)

GENEALOGY II SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 2ndThursday of the month at the LFPL-JeffersontownBranch, 10635 Watterson Trail. Contact SIG LEADERSusan Moore at 499-5222 or [email protected]

HARDWARE SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 1stMonday of the month at the LFPL-Eline Branch at St.Matthews City Hall Building at the corner of GrandviewAve. and Fairfax Ave. about 3 blocks south ofShelbyville Rd. Contact SIG LEADER GrantMcCormick at [email protected] or CO-SIGLEADER Charley May at [email protected] or425-4604

INTERMEDIATE USERS SIG - Meets 6:30 PM onthe 4th Monday of the month at CCUM at 4614Brownsboro Road. (US 42 & Blankenbaker Lane) inthe Computer Lab (Room 222). Contact SIG LEADERJim Travelstead, [email protected], 852-4761(W), 375-4796(H)

INVESTING SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 2ndThursday of the month at the Louisville Aero Club,

Bowman Field. We do not discuss the merits of MutualFunds. Contact SIG LEADER Doc Viele at 452-6878

LINUX SIG "LOCATION CHANGE" - Meets 6:30PM on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the FloydCounty Sheriff’s Training Room. CO-SIG LEADERSRob Coffey and Jacob Wilkins. Contact TEAM MEM-BER Jack Link at [email protected]

LINUX LAB SIG - Meets 10:00 AM on the 4thSaturday of the month at the LFPL-Eline Branch at St.Matthews City Hall Building at the corner of GrandviewAve. and Fairfax Ave. about 3 blocks south ofShelbyville Rd. CO-SIG LEADERS Rob Coffey andJacob Wilkins. Contact TEAM MEMBER Jack Link [email protected]

NEW USERS SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 2ndMonday of the month at the NHCLC at 10200 LinnStation Road in Suite 110 of the Triad East Bldg.Contact SIG LEADER Charley May at [email protected]

PDA (PALM OS) SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 3rdTuesday of the month at a location to be determined.Contact SIG DIRECTOR Bill Edwards at 812-949-7348or [email protected]

POCKET PC SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 4thTuesday of the month at the LFPL-Bon Air Regional,2816 Del Rio Place. Contact SIG LEADER Sam Cookeat 423-9920 or CO-SIG LEADER Matt Coddington at608-1561 or [email protected]

TECHNICAL MARKET ANALYSIS SIG - Meets6:30 PM on the 4th Tuesday of the month at LouisvilleFree Public Library, Crescent Hill Branch, 2752Frankfort Avenue in the lower level meeting room.Contact SIG LEADER Myron Smith at 897-7718 [email protected]

VISUAL BASIC SIG - Meets 6:30 PM on the 1stThursday of the month at the LFPL-Bon Air Regional,2816 Del Rio Place. Contact SIG LEADER MartinCampion 810-9125 or [email protected]

WEBMASTERS SIG "LOCATION CHANGE" -Meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM atWin.Net located at 1048 Chestnut St. Contact SIGLEADER John Henderson at [email protected] or812-945-1102

WINDOWS XP/2000 SIG "LOCATION CHANGE"- Meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 6:30 PMat the Floyd County Sheriff’s Training Room. ContactSIG LEADER Bill Edwards at [email protected] or812-945-3187

YOUTH SIG - Meetings on Hold - Meets 6:30 PM onthe 4th Friday of the month at CCUM at 4614Brownsboro Road. (US 42 & Blankenbaker Lane) inthe Computer Lab (Room 222). Contact SIG LEADERJoan Combs Durso at [email protected] or452-8471

KIPCUG Special Interest Group Directory


By Bill Edwards, KIPCUG

Where to find the scoop on your Special Interest Group

HEADLINE NEWSWe expect a very interesting

November and we hope you willtake complete advantage enjoying itall. Microsoft will visit Louisvilleon Wednesday, November 12, withtheir Windows Mobile User GroupTour. The KIPCUG Pocket PC SIGis so active that it is well knownenough to have become one of only10 stops headlined for that tour. Thehard work of SIG LEADER MattCoddington is the main reason forthat tour stopping in Louisville.Nice going Matt! See the followingPocket PC article for informationabout how to register. You reallyshould attend both the Tour and themonthly Pocket PC SIG meetings.

We are happy to announce that theFLASH MANAGER III SIG willhold their first meeting onWednesday, November 12, at theSW Regional Library on DixieHighway at 6:30 PM. Don Garr,who wrote and developed FlashManager III, will be the SIGLEADER. For more information onFlash MANAGER III, (particularlyif you missed the General Meetingwhen Don presented the program tous) see http://flashmgr.homeip.net.

At a recent LINUX USERS LABSIG, one gentleman even hadbrought his computer in from Ohioto solve problems prior to loadingLinux. He was really surprised (aswere some of the rest of us) whenJack Link loaded a volatile memo-ry-only version of Linux on his sup-posedly non-working machine.

With Linux on it, his machineworked very well and looked verygood. That program was Knoppix3.2. It will work well on yourmachine, too. As one who still hasWindows 3.1 on one of mymachines, as well as 95 and 98 SE,it really caught my attention. If yourBIOS allows booting from CD, thisversion of Linux should be of inter-est to you. The only thing thatappears to be difficult is how to usea dial up line (haven't figured thatout yet). If you have cable or DSL,you really should try it.

Yes, KIPCUG SIGs are very cur-rent on their meeting topics. Comevisit some of the SIGs. The SIGsand the General Meetings are opento any and all guests.

KIPCUG SIGs are still lookingfor NEW meeting places. Pleasekeep your eyes and ears open fornew SIG meeting locations andreport suggestions to KIPCUG SIGDIRECTOR Bill Edwards at 812-945-3187 or [email protected] should hold 12-24 per-sons, have Internet connectionsand, if possible, computers for theattendees would be a plus.

ACCESSPROGRAMMING SIG

The November 22 Meeting of theACCESS PROGRAMMING SIGwill be a Help Session, so bringyour problems and we will try toapply some creative problem-solv-ing techniques.

There will be no December SIG

meeting due to the Holidays.

Possible future topics are a) usingbatch DOS commands from withinAccess to perform housekeepingand backup chores and b) problemsafter a power failure with multiplefront ends for a shared database.

The ACCESS PROGRAMMINGSIG assumes a good workingknowledge of Access, focusing onprogramming and advanced tech-niques. If you have found a greatsolution to a problem in Access,please come share it with us. If youhave a problem or topic you wouldlike to learn about, please emailSIG LEADER John Kilpatrick [email protected]. Come join us thefourth Saturday of the month at theMain Branch of the Louisville FreePublic Library downtown from 10AM to Noon.

ADVANCED USERSSIG

The ADVANCED USERS SIGmet on Friday, October 17, at 6:30PM in the CCUM Computer Lab(Room 222). SIG LEADER TomScanlan opened the meeting with abrief review of industry trends insoftware and network security, withemphasis on the status of the cur-rent Microsoft software patches.

The main topic of this meetingwas devoted to the increasing num-ber of hardware solutions for net-work security. It is common toimplement network elements likefirewalls, intrusion detectors androuters in software running on a

The SIG Scene


dedicated server. Over the lastdecade, electronic designers havereduced the size and cost of pro-cessing hardware, as well as powerconsumption, while increasing reli-ability. Manufacturers have capital-ized on this by creating dedicateddevices that offer greater sophisti-cation and increased speed at alower cost, requiring less manage-ment and simpler installation.

We discussed some of the proces-sors in production and what thedesign factors might be. We thentalked about how some of thesedevices function and how theymight be useful.

The meeting ended with a briefquestion and answer session wherewe discussed setting up a networkunder Microsoft Windows. Makingsure the NIC (network interfacecard) was installed, we then addedsome common network protocolsand "bound" them to the device,then installed file sharing beforeclosing for the night.

At future meetings, we will belooking at some common securityissues with Windows networkingand how you can protect yourself.Recent news makes it sound like weare under constant attack fromhackers, and in a sense we are.Users are aware of port scanningprobes on their DSL/Cable connec-tions. Knowing more about how weare at risk and how to avoid attack isbecoming a major concern for everyuser. Come learn and share whatyou know.

The ADVANCED USERS SIGexplores software and hardwaretopics of interest to people very

comfortable with their computerwho want to know more. Weencourage everyone to share theirexperience so we can all learn andgrow in areas where we would notnormally venture.

We meet in the Computer Lab,Room 222, of Christ Church UnitedMethodist, 4614 Brownsboro Road(US 42 at Blankenbaker Lane) onthe third Friday of each month at6:30 PM. To be added to the SIGemail list, contact Tom at 477-1639or [email protected] and enter'Add me to the ADVANCEDUSERS SIG' in the subject line.

BASIC ACCESS SIG

The BASIC ACCESS SIG did notmeet in October.

In November, the plan is to sharethe type of database applicationseveryone is building. This will givea feel for some real uses for Access.The December meeting will coverdropdown lists and combo boxes onforms. For January, we may look atbuilding active server pages inAccess.

The BASIC ACCESS SIG meetsthe second Saturday at the NewHorizons Computer LearningCenter from 10 AM to Noon. If youhave a topic, something to share orjust want to learn more aboutAccess, come join us. Send sugges-tions to SIG LEADER Alan Birch,429-0506 or [email protected] Basic ACCESS SIG uses thetools available within Access with-out programming.

BASIC EXCEL SIG (NEW)

Plan to attend the BASIC EXCELSIG on November 7 at 6:30 PM ifyou want to learn how to make a PCspreadsheet or if you would just liketo brush up on your skills. Bring afriend or family member!

Jim Boneck, the instructor for thisSIG, will be covering the followingExcel features: Charts, using built-in forms, additional formulas, plusadditional basic spreadsheet opera-tions. Time will be allowed to prac-tice these features and to answerquestions by attendees.

In October, Jim covered severalExcel features including the follow-ing: headers and footers, freezingpanes, printing setup features andformulas using the MID function.

This SIG is held the first Friday ofeach month in the Computer Lab,Room 222, of Christ Church UnitedMethodist, 4614 Brownsboro Rd.,which is the same location as theGeneral Meeting.

The BASIC EXCEL SIG assumesno working knowledge of MSExcel, but assumes one is familiarwith MS Windows.

To be added to the email list senda message to Flave at [email protected] with "BASICEXCEL SIG" on the subject line. Ifyou have a topic that you would liketo see covered, send Flave Reisingan email with your suggestion andtype "BASIC EXCEL SIG Topic"on the subject line.

Hope to see you at the meeting.

The SIG Scene (cont.)


COMMUNITY OUTREACHSIG

The COMMUNITY OUTREACHSIG has not met in 2003. Watch fordetails of the revitalization of thisSIG that has been able to provide avaluable community service to thedisadvantaged residents of theLouisville area. In the meantime,we are open to your suggestions forother projects.

For more info, contact SIGDIRECTOR Bill Edwards at [email protected] or 812-945-3187. To be added to the email noti-fication list, please type "Add me tothe COMMUNITY OUTREACHSIG List" in the subject line.

EXCEL INTERMEDIATESIG (NEW)

The EXCEL INTERMEDIATESIG assumes a working knowledgeof Excel and familiarity with mostof the Excel icons. There are many,many functions that are available inExcel that few of us realize canmake our lives easier. Due to lowattendance, the EXCEL INTER-MEDIATE SIG has been suspend-ed. We hope that the EXCELINTERMEDIATE SIG will resumein 2003 if KIPCUG membersexpress sufficient interest.

To be added to the email list andto state your interest in the EXCELINTERMEDIATE SIG, send anemail to [email protected] andtype "EXCEL INTERMEDIATESIG?" in the subject line.

GENEALOGY SIG

The September 15 meeting topicwas How to Organize Your Data forPublication. Discussion includedtips and tricks, a detailed look at theGenealogy Format Report and theelements to include in your book.

The October 20 meeting topic willbe How to Enter Data includingTips and Tricks to Simplify TMG.Some of the advanced features canbe ignored until you are ready tolearn a new feature. It is a lot easierto learn the more advanced featuresone at a time than having to learn anew program.

The November 17 meeting topicwill be How to use Flags to Helpyour Research Process. Flags canbe used to limit the data on yourreports to the specific people youcan really expect to find in thesource that you are researching.This helps to eliminate a lot ofsearching for records in the wrongplace or time period.

The GENEALOGY SIG meets atthe LFPL Eline Branch at 6:30 PMon the third Monday each month.SIG LEADER Susan Moore and allof the SIG's attendees are lookingfor YOU to join us at a future meet-ing. If you have any particular ques-tions before the next meeting,please email SIG LEADER SusanMoore at [email protected]. If youwant a map or directions on how toget to the GENEALOGY SIG, go towww.win.net/mooresk.

GENEALOGY II SIG

The GENEALOGY II SIG willhave its next meeting on November13 and will continue to meet month-ly on the second Thursday at 6:30PM at the Louisville Free PublicLibrary Jeffersontown Branch.

In October, we discussed theavailability of births and deaths forJefferson County, Kentucky, includ-ing the 1852-1859, 1861 and lateryears up to 1910 as part of the staterecords, as well as the LouisvilleCity deaths for 1866-1910. Alsodiscussed were the availability ofthe 1930 census forms on Ancestry,if you subscribe for census records.These are also available in the LDSLibrary in Salt Lake City for allusers. Also in the LDS Library arefive computers that will copyimages from any of the availablefilms onto a CD. You pay for theCD and can put as many images aswill fit onto the CD at no additionalcharge. I created a CD with 550images and it was still not quite full.Lastly, we covered how to entercitations in TMG; specifically, howto cite the source when using LDSfilms.

This SIG is going to be an infor-mal Q&A session without anyhandouts. Topics are not announcedahead of time because the partici-pants will determine the content ofthe meeting. Short subjects may bepresented from time to time whenthere are insufficient questions.

If you have any particular ques-tions before the next meeting,please email SIG LEADER Susan



Moore at [email protected]. If youwant a map or directions on how toget to the SIG, go towww.win.net/mooresk and click onthe GENEALOGY II SIG.

HARDWARE SIG

On October 6 at 6:30 PM, theHARDWARE SIG Meeting washeld at our regular meeting loca-tion, the LFPL Eline Branch(Grandview Avenue at FairfaxAvenue in St. Matthews). SIGLEADER Grant McCormick was illand CO-SIG LEADER CharleyMay gave the expanded demonstra-tion on the August GeneralMeeting's Back to Basics topic ofMicrosoft's Tweak UI. Examples ofhow to make the interface work foryou and detailed coverage of manyof the features such as Logon andParanoia were presented.

At the November meeting,Charley May will have an expand-ed, hands-on session on how torefill your own ink jet printer car-tridges. He will also have informa-tion on sources, qualities and whatto look for in an ink supplier.

At the December meeting, Grantand Charley will have a show andtell on DVD Recorders, thatChristmas gift that you have beendying to give to yourself or yourspouse (Hee, Hee).

Keep those suggestions comingfor future meetings, as we want toshow you what you want to see!

If you have a HARDWARE prob-lem that you would like to bring toany of the meetings for a possible

solution, please call one of the tele-phone numbers listed in the SIGDirectory for the HARDWARESIG. This will get you in the queueso that the HARDWARE TEAMcan be prepared to handle yourproblem. With this advance plan-ning, you may not need to bring asmuch of your computer equipmentwith you and the HARDWARETEAM will be better prepared tohelp you.

If you would like to receive areminder notice of our SIG meet-ings, send an email to [email protected] on the Subject line insert "Addme to HARDWARE SIG List."

INTERMEDIATE USERSSIG

The INTERMEDIATE USERSSIG meets in the Computer Lab,Room 222, of CCUM at 6:30 PMon the fourth Monday of eachmonth. CCUM is at 4614Brownsboro Road (US 42) at theBlankenbaker Lane traffic light.Directions are on the CCUM WebSite at www.ccum.net and on theKIPCUG Web Site atwww.kipcug.org.

At the October meeting, welooked at backup programs, strate-gies, etc. Jim went over the differ-ent methods and programs he andother SIG members use.

For the November 24 meeting, wewill do an overview of the Office2003 Suite of programs. Theseproducts were to be released onOctober 21. Jim will briefly go overeach product (Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, Access, Outlook,FrontPage, Publisher, InfoPath,OneNote, Visio, and Project).Future meetings will be devoted toone or two of these products inmore detail.

For the December 22 meeting, wewill do a more in depth review ofOutlook. We'll go over new featuresand changes to old features.

The INTERMEDIATE USERSSIG focuses on the various versionsof MS Windows software, its fea-tures, method of operation, prob-lems and all the hints and tips thatJim knows you will be interested in.Topics suggested at meetings dousually become future meeting top-ics. This SIG is for users who arecomfortable with the daily use oftheir computer and want to learnmore. In other words, you havemastered your fear of computersand are willing to push the envelopea little. We welcome discussion anda chance for everyone to learn.

If you have any questions or sug-gestions for meeting topics, bringthem to the SIG or email Jim [email protected] andJim will have your answer at thenext SIG meeting. Want to get onJim's email notification list? Sendhim a short note with "Add me tothe KIPCUG INTERMEDIATEUSERS SIG meeting email list" inthe subject line.

INVESTING SIG

SIG LEADER Doc Viele moder-ates the INVESTING SIG discus-sions, which have been ongoing



since 1986. There were seven atten-dees at the September 11 meeting.Meetings consist of round tableinformation exchanges on any eco-nomic subject of current interest.Questions and presentations areencouraged.

The next SIG meeting willinclude general information oninvesting and the usual informationexchange. The INVESTING SIGmeets the second Thursday of themonth at the Louisville Aero Clubat 6:30 PM. This is not an invest-ment club; they DO NOT discussmutual funds.

LINUX SIG

We meet at 6:30 PM on the thirdWednesday of each month at theFloyd County Sheriff's TrainingRoom, which is on the second floorof the New Albany Police Station.From Louisville, on I-64, it is thefirst Indiana exit possible comingacross the Sherman-Minton Bridgefrom Kentucky. Turn right at thestoplight (same way you go to thecasino) and then the library will beon your left and the library parkinglot on your right. You may alsowish to park on the street. Thepolice station is just across thestreet from the library (SE corner).The doors will be locked, but one ofus will be at the door, or contact thedesk officer via the speaker andrequest to enter for the LINUX SIGcomputer meeting. Take the eleva-tor to the second floor and enter thefirst room to the right.

The next LINUX SIG meeting isscheduled for Wednesday,

November 19, at 6:30 PM.

Future subjects are expected tobe: compiling, recompiling andconfiguring the Linux kernel; howto patch the kernel; X windows sys-tem; power management underLinux; end user applications thatrun under Linux.

It is the SIG's intention toapproach these subjects as broadlyas possible in order that the infor-mation applies to as many Linuxversions as possible.

Please come, support the LINUXSIG and bring your suggestions tohelp give SIG LEADERS RobCoffey and Jacob Wilkins from n+1a direction for this SIG. If you arean established user of Linux, pleasecome help with a future presenta-tion.

Want to be notified about futuremeeting subjects? To be added tothe email list, send an email toTEAM MEMBER Jack Link [email protected] and type"LINUX SIG" in the subject line.

LINUX LAB SIG

The LINUX LAB SIG meets eachmonth to assist attendees with theinstallation and configuration ofLinux on their personal computers.This LINUX LAB SIG is held onthe fourth Saturday morning ofeach month, 10:00 AM until Noon,at the Eline Branch of theLouisville Free Public Library(upstairs meeting room). TheLINUX TEAM (including experi-enced members from n+1) will bethere to help YOU get your Linux

box up and running.

In addition to their computerhardware, attendees are asked tobring the Linux distribution of theirchoice. The computer should have aworking CDROM drive, andpreferably have a hard drive withsufficient free space for installingthe operating system and distribu-tion applications (3GB or more isideal). If your BIOS does not sup-port booting from CDROM, a cou-ple of blank floppy disks may alsobe required.

KIPCUG can not be responsiblefor the loss of any data on the harddrive.

The LAB meetings are a lot offun, and oftentimes provide theopportunity to see how others useLinux. After the meeting, we maygo to lunch (daytime PIG SIG) atW. W. Cousins or Burger King.

The LINUX LAB SIG is alwayslooking for members interested infinding out how to install, setup andoperate the Linux OperatingSystem on their machines or otherattendee's computers. So, drag thatold used computer out of the closetand bring it to the LINUX LABSIG.

Want to be reminded each monthabout future meetings? To be addedto the email list, send an email toTEAM MEMBER Jack Link [email protected] and type"LINUX SIG" in the subject line.

NEW USERS SIG

The NEW USERS SIG holds its



meetings on the second Monday ofeach month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.We meet at the New HorizonsComputer Learning Center, 10200Linn Station Road in Suite 110 ofthe Triad East Building. SIGLEADER Charley May presents a10-month repeating series on basiccomputer operation.

We just re-started the series and,with all of the virus scares of late,had an extra session on protectingyour computer from the outsideworld. Charley is now starting withthe basics and the beginning of thecourse, so grab your pad, pencil andfloppy disk and come see us. Bringyour questions, too.

So, if you are a new computeruser, received your first computerrecently or just want to review,please consider coming to the NEWUSERS SIG. We don't go too fast.We start with the basics and gradu-ally build the new users knowledgeand skills. Charley May leads atten-dees through each step of every fea-ture. You learn by following thepresentation on your New HorizonsComputer Learning Center comput-er. SIG TEAM MEMBERS DickMcGavic and Susan Moore andSIG LEADER Charley May willassist you if you get hung up duringthe presentation. Now is the time tojump in, come meet with us, havesome fun and learn something new!

If you want to be on the NEWUSERS SIG email notice list,please type, "NEW USERS SIGEMAIL List" on the subject line ofyour email and send [email protected].

If eating before the meeting is a

problem, please consider ouroptional "PIG SIG" that follows theNEW USERS SIG at a restaurantdown the street. We always try tocover any additional questions atthe PIG SIG.

PDA (PALM OS) SIG

There are no meetings currentlyscheduled for the PDA SIG.

This SIG reviews and explores thehardware and software develop-ments in the rapidly changing worldof Personal Desk Assistants. SIGDIRECTOR Bill Edwards issearching for an individual(s) whowould volunteer to lead this group.

Members using a PDA areencouraged to contact Bill withideas to help reorganize this SIG.He can be reached [email protected]. You willthen be added to an email list foradvanced notice of future meetingtopics, time and location.

POCKET PC SIG

The October 28 meeting of thePocket PC SIG continued thereview of the latest PC devices,with continued emphasis on inte-grated portable devices. TheSamsung i700 continues to be afocus of the group.

SIG LEADER Matt Coddingtonencourages all SIG members andinterested KIPCUG members tosign up for the Louisville stop on

the Microsoft Mobile 2003 Tour.On Wednesday evening, November12, the latest in software and hard-ware will be presented. Check thegroup's web site for links to sign up.

The November 26 meeting's topicwill not be determined until afterthe Microsoft presentation. Pleasecheck out our web site atwww.pocketpclouisville.com forregularly updated information onthe next meeting topic and otherinformation that could affect thePocket PC user.

The Pocket PC SIG meets on thefourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30PM in the LFPL-Bon Air RegionalLibrary meeting room, 2816 DelRio Place. If you would likeadvance notice of the SIG's activity,send a message to us [email protected].

Coming November 12th! It's theMicrosoft Windows Mobile 2003User Group Tour to be held atHoliday Inn Hurstbourne at 1325South Hurstbourne Parkway from6:00-9:00 PM.

Join Microsoft staff and partnersas they demonstrate the excitingfuture of mobile technology todaywith Windows Mobile™ softwarefor Smartphone, Pocket PC PhoneEdition, and Pocket PC. Participatein discussions and hands-ondemonstrations of cutting-edgedevices.

Don't miss this opportunity to:· Learn about key, innovative

offerings and the future of mobiletechnology for Smartphone, PocketPC Phone Edition, and Pocket PC.

· Hear valuable device user tips



and get answers to your questions.

· Discover applications and ser-vices to increase your efficiencyand productivity.

· See demonstrations of personal-ization and entertainment applica-tions and content.

· Win amazing prizes!

Who should attend:User Group Members, Pocket PC

and Smartphone enthusiasts, mem-bers of User Groups for otherdevices and platforms, and the gen-eral public interested in mobilesolutions and devices.

Bring your Smartphone, PocketPC, and/or Pocket PC PhoneEdition to participate in additionalgiveaways and prizes.

General Event Information:The event is free to User Group

members and registered attendees.All attendees are advised to registerin order to be entered in the localTour stop raffles and giveaways.

Games and raffles will give luckywinners an opportunity to win valu-able software, accessories, anddevices from Handango,Handmark, Ilium Software, Pharos,Visto, HP, Toshiba, Motorola,Samsung, and Microsoft.

REGISTER at:www.mobiletechtour.com

Get more info at: www.pocketpcLouisville.com

TECHNICAL MARKETANALYSIS SIG

The September 23 meeting of theTECHNICAL MARKET ANALY-SIS SIG met at the Louisville FreePublic Library, Crescent HillBranch. We had a detailed discus-sion of the indicators used to pin-point the next moves in the market.This week we discussed the VIXand VXN, which is the CBOEVolatility Index for the NASDAQ.

Our next meeting is planned forTuesday, October 28. Our ownmember, Matt Metzger, will discuss"Trading Mutual Funds" using a"very recent past momentum basedperformance model" that he hasdeveloped and is using with greatsuccess.

We are still trying to reschedulethe presentation by the technicalanalyst firm of Lowry Research, avery well respected firm fromFlorida that provides analysis forprofessional money managers. Wehope to have this presentation laterin the year after Lowry Researchworks the bugs out of their newonline analysis package. This pro-gram will be the basis of their pre-sentation to our group, and we willbe some of the first people to seethe new state-of-the-art system theyare building.

The topic schedule for futuremeetings will be announced byemail, along with more meetingdetails and subject outlines.

We are always looking for sugges-

tions for topics of discussion orsuggested presentations by knowl-edgeable groups or individuals.Please send ideas to SIG LEADERMyron Smith [email protected].

The TECHNICAL MARKETANALYSIS SIG meets on thefourth Tuesday of each month,except December, at 6:30 PM at theLouisville Free Public Library,Crescent Hill Branch at 2752Frankfort Avenue in the lower levelmeeting room.

For more information on meetingsor meeting dates, contact SIGLEADER Myron Smith at 502-897-7718, or to be added to the emaillist, send a request [email protected].

VISUAL BASIC SIG

At the October 2 meeting of theVISUAL BASIC SIG, the creationof a web site for the group wasbegun using VB.Net as exclusivelyas possible. A previous meetingcovered the process of preparing aPC for web development. We usedan Access database to hold memberinformation and ported that data tothe web host.

During the remainder of the meet-ing, the merits of two approaches toour web site design was debated.Both title pages are presented onour new web site for members toreview:

www.mcprogramming .com/vbsig1.aspx and

www.mcprogramming .com/vbsig2.aspx.



The November 6 meeting willcontinue the development of ourweb site, the first topic centering onhow individual SIG members canadd themselves to the database anduse that database to send outmonthly reminders and reports.

The VISUAL BASIC SIG meetson the first Thursday of the monthat the Bon Air Regional Branch ofthe LFPL at 6:30 PM. Contact SIGLEADER Martin Campion [email protected] to be addedto the advance mailing list for thegroup.

WEBMASTERS SIG

At the October 16 meeting of theWEBMASTER SIG, the groupreviewed the changes to the newKIPCUG web page,www.KIPCUG.org. As with all websites, it remains a work in progress.The new web page reflects a mod-ern, fresh display of the organiza-tion's activities and events.

The November 16 meeting willpresent a program on JavaScriptnavigation links. Brian Miller willpresent the new KIPCUG naviga-tion script. We will also see a sim-ple JavaScript rollover that one cancopy and paste into one's own site.The 'fly-out script' on the APCUGsite will also be introduced.

Recent meeting notes are archivedat SIG LEADER John Henderson'sweb site www.inetwebmaster.com.Our November general meetingpresenters, Clay Collier and MikeAndrews of WinNet, have theirSeptember WEBMASTER SIG

presentation recorded there.

Every WEBMASTER SIG pro-gram includes tips or tools that youmay use to improve your web site.There is a question and answer timeafter the main presentation. TheSIG meets at 6:30 PM on the thirdThursday of the month at theWinNet location. Check theinetwebmaster site for a map andany updated information.

WINDOWS XP/2000 SIG

The September 25 WINDOWS2000/XP SIG introduced the mem-bers to WINDOWS OFFICE 2003.SIG CO-LEADER Robbie Gibsonof Hostaroo.com reviewed the newfeatures of this commonly usedpackage. The new small businessversion looks to be a cost-effectivesuite of programs that fills a gapbetween the home and professionalreleases.

The Microsoft X-Box was thenexamined and demonstrated for themembers. With holiday releasesbeginning to hit the stores, thegroup was exposed to the power ofthis small game system (733mhzPentium III).

The October 23 meeting will con-tinue to examine the PC and itssmaller gaming companions beforethe Christmas buying season.Recent Microsoft security packagesfor XP will also be presented.

Thanksgiving and Christmas holi-days will conflict with this SIG inNovember and December. Our nextmeeting will be January 22.

The WINDOWS 2000/XP SIGmeets on the fourth Thursday of themonth at the Floyd County, Indiana,Sheriff's Training Room. The roomis on the second floor of the NewAlbany Police Station on the SEcorner of W. Second and SpringStreets. If a SIG member is not atthe door to allow you to enter, justbuzz the desk officer to enter andtake the elevator to the secondfloor, turn right and enter the room.

SIG DIRECTOR Bill Edwardsasks for your ideas in developingprogram topics and locating presen-ters for this group. Contact him at(812) 945-3187 [email protected] to be addedto the email list for advance noticeof this groups plans.

YOUTH SIG

We continue to hold the count-down for re-introducing this SIG.Keep checking the KIPCUG website for the latest information atwww.KICUG.org.

To sign up young members or tovolunteer your assistance, pleasesend an email to SIG LEADERJoan Combs Durso [email protected] orSIG DIRECTOR Bill Edwards [email protected].

This group is designed to developand improve the computer skills ofpre-high school members. It willcover topics beyond the basicstaught in school.



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