New Orleans Personal Computer Club
P.O. Box 8364
Metairie, Louisiana 70011
Club Hotline: (504) 887-5746

The New Orleans Personal Computer Club was founded in 1981 as a Louisiana non-profit organization. It is composed of individual personal computer users who help each other learn more about their personal computers and their wide variety of applications.

If you own, use, or are considering the purchase of a personal computer, you will find the NOPCC learning experience and the opportunity to exchange information invaluable.

Monthly meetings highlight topics of current interest and the latest developments in the micro-computer industry, focusing on how new technology will affect you. Members discuss common problems and participate in a beneficial exchange of information.

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Donating to NOPCC

The NOPCC is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations to the club are tax deductible.

Please consider making a donation today. Just click on the donation button above to make a secure donation through PayPal and save your receipt for tax purposes.


The Secret Guide
To Computers
If you haven't gotten your copy of "The Secret Guide To Computers" yet, it's not too late. We are continuing to make them available at the same low price of $15.00 each. Many of our members who have taken advantage of these books are repeatedly echoing the ratings.

To get your copy, see Tom Ford at a Membership Meeting or the New Users SIG or drop him a note at secretary@nopc.org.



Recycling Program
The NOPCC is now set up to participate in the recycling of printer consumables. This accomplishes two goals:
1) helping to keep spent cartridges out of the waste stream, and
2) having another source of funds coming in to the club

Don't forget to bring your spent inkjet & laser jet printer cartridges, and even cell-phones to the next meeting.

TIME:
Social and General Q&A from the audience: 6:30 p.m.
Presentation: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Ochsner Hospital's Hotel Conference Center
1516 Jefferson Hwy. Metairie, LA 70121
View a Map
Entrance is from River Road or Jefferson Highway, at the eastern end of the campus. Go to the second floor of the parking garage (most direct way to meeting room) and head through the double doors to hospital hallway. After about 40 steps, take a right to the "Hotel Conference Center," entrance. We are in the center conference room, the Caldwell Room.
PARKING:
Free in the garage

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Contests
The Grand Challenge
Dr. Paul Trepagnier, Grey Matter, Inc. of Metairie
Caldwell Room - 2nd floor of "Hotel Conference Center"

The three owners of the Gray Insurance Co. have always focused on developing new technology and new business opportunities such as surety and bonding, oil and gas exploration, real estate transfers, and real estate management.

In spite of Hurricane Katrina, being a newcomer, and competing with experts such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, General Motors, Raytheon, Boeing, Ford, Honeywell, General Dynamics, and Google, Team Gray was one of only four teams to finish the November 2005 Grand Challenge.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Media Convergence in Practice
Modern Home Computer and Entertainment Systems
Greg Wilde, Star Technologies of Metairie
Monroe Hall - 1st floor of Hospital

September's presentation will discuss one implementation of computers in the Home Theater environment. The elements of the system include Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition running on an Opteron system, over five terabytes of hard drive disk on various systems, Windows synchronization software, Cox Internet service, Silicon Dust HDHomeRun, and assorted other thingies.

The presentation will unveil a novel post Katrina design for the wired room which the Cox Field Operations Supervisor called "a work of art, a thing of beauty." This will be a PowerPoint presentation .

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Get Your Household Ready for Digital TV
Jerry Seregni, WWLTV
Caldwell Room - 2nd floor of "Hotel Conference Center"

The presentation will cover the latest developments in the federal government's DTV plan and will include a demonstration of a variety of DTV-related devices, ranging from digital-to-analog converter boxes, to indoor DTV antennas, to USB ATSC TV tuners for laptops. Jerry says the topic usually provokes a lively discussion, so bring your questions.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
How Internet Service Providers [ISPs] work
John Souvestre, Southern Star & Integrated Data Systems
Caldwell Room - 2nd floor of "Hotel Conference Center"

How Internet Service Providers [ISPs] work. How ISPs handle email and spam. The Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
How Stations Will Transition to Digital & Multicasting
Randall Feldman, President & General Manager, WYESTV
Johnny Moore, Assistant Director of Technology, WWLTV
Caldwell Room - 2nd floor of "Hotel Conference Center"

On February 17, 2009 the old technology the United States has used for television will go away. All the broadcast channels you have watched will be handed back to the F.C.C. New channels have been assigned and all are digital. If you are not prepared, you will receive no television at all. See how two stations - one commercial and one non-commercial are handling the situation. What will change? What will remain the same? And how many more times will you have to buy a new television set to stay current? The speakers will talk about the technology involved and the new services that will be available. So bring your questions.

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» Donating to the NOPCC:
Did you know that the New Orleans Personal Computer Club (NOPCC) is a 501(c)(3) organization? This means that it is a non-profit organization and donations to the club are tax deductible.

There is a need in the Greater New Orleans area for working computer equipment and software to help in rebuilding after Katrina. The NOPCC has been trying to assist in this rebuilding by identifying sources for suitable equipment and locations in need of this equipment. If you know of any individuals, or companies that have equipment to be donated, we need to know about them. If you know of any Community Rebuilding efforts that need this equipment, let us know.

Some of the Community Rebuilding efforts identified so far include local schools, Battered Women’s Clinics, and Social Rehabilitation programs. Each site has specific needs and levels of acceptance.

To facilitate this program within the NOPCC Carl Henderson has been asked to act as coordinator. He can best be contacted via his eMail address: nomocsmaj@netzero.net.

If you know of a source for equipment, or an organization in need, please let Carl know the Name of the Company/Need; Address; Telephone number; eMail address; Contact Person, and anything you know about the equipment.

Please DO NOT BRING equipment to the NOPCC General Meeting. The club has limited storage space. Let the program coordinator know what you are offering, and he will match it with a suitable recipient before accepting the equipment.

The more places that can be identified as needing this equipment, the quicker we can get it to them. Donating this equipment through the NOPCC, helps your club by getting its name out into the community. Just as the club helps you with your computer problems, it will help the community with theirs. By showing its community involvement, others may wish to join to further the NOPCC programs.

» Special Interest Groups:
Those interested should check the SIG page. It is constantly being updated with progress reports and locations.

» NOPC “Grab Bag” Table
At General Membership Meetings for the New Orleans Personal Computer Club (NOPCC), our club will have a “Grab Bag” table available for members that want to help the club by passing on any computer related items they no longer want or need that they feel may benefit other members of the club. Read the guidelines.

» NOPC Yahoo! Group
NOPC Help is the forum for the New Orleans PC Club to discuss PC related issues. Questions and answers can be anything related to hardware, software, peripherals, networking, etc.

»  Review
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security by Andrew Conry-Murray and Vincent Weafer

Software Reviews!
NOPCC receives numerous offers for us to try new software products. If you are interested in participating, please see the Reviews section of our website.

Job Openings!
We need you to chair a committee! Find out more on our Committees Page.

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2008 at NOPCC Recommend NOPCC Membership to a Friend
January 2008
Broadband Connectivity, Ray Paternostro
February 2008
Adobe Photoshop Elements, Richard Vallon
March 2008
Using Spybot, CCleaner and Microsoft Office
April 2008
Internet Browsers
May 2008
Protecting Home & Office Computers, Jeffrey Wagar, MCSE: Security-2003, CISSP®
June 2008
Cyber Crime Protection, Kristine Green, Special Agent, FBI
July 2008
Members Helping Members Night
August 2008
The Grand Challenge (DARPA), Paul Trepagnier, Ph.D., Software Development Manager
September 2008
Media Convergence in Practice, Greg Wilde, Senior Principal Systems Analyst
October 2008
Get Your Household Ready for Digital TV, Jerry Seregni, Technology Analyst
November 2008
How the Internet Works, John Souvestre, Southern Star & Integrated Data Systems
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Page Updated:
July 10, 2008


Thanks!

To - CoffeeCup Software
For their extremely generous donation of software to our club. Coffeee Cup has been serving up fairly priced, but fully loaded software since 1996 and this webmaster has been using it since 1997. We used their HTML Editor in our Web Design SIG. "Fresh software, warm people" is their motto and they have lived up to it!

To - Small Pleasantries
For their door prize donations. Boutique shopping at an affordable price!

To - Trend Micro
For their donation of PC-Cillin Internet Security 2007. They have long been a supporter of NOPCC and still have the best functioning anti-virus and Internet security software on the market today!

To - John Souvestre
For the boost in server resources. John owns & operates Southern Star,our host server which is gracioualy provvided free of charge.

To - Foxit Software
For their donation of software. They are new supporters of NOPCC and have been very generous with their donations of Foxit PDF Creator and Foxit Reader Pro.

To - Gary Walker
For site scripts. Gary is the developer of NXL Cart.



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OpenOffice
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PrintFolder
Handy utility to print or save a list of files located in any folder. Right-click any folder in Windows Explorer and select "PrintFolder" in the popup menu.

PC Decrapifier.
A program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with newer PCs.

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Tips from the Webmistress!

When are Passwords too secure?
When there is an emergency and no one knows them! Be sure to give someone you trust a list of your User Id's and Passwords in case of emergency.

Did You Know?
If you registered your domains with Network Solutions, they are prepared to honor last wills and testaments. Your executor will have no problems transfering domain names into your heirs names, so be sure to include them in your will.

Assoc of PC User Groups

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NOPCC
P.O. Box 8364
Metairie, Louisiana 70011
Club Hotline: (504) 887-5746

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