The Road to Windows 8.1
Jim Hurley
- Evolution of the Windows OS from XP to 8.1. How we got from there to here.
- Major features of Windows 8 will be covered. Some hints about what may be in Windows 9.
Jim Hurley spent most of his career in telecommunications writing kernel drivers for hardware. Mostly, software was written in C and assembly for Unix-like kernels. One major project was to port the Berkeley Sockets library to a real-time OS, so he knows TCP and IP protocols pretty well.
Jim has been designing digital music instruments as a hobby. He volunteers as a Beta tester for several well-known music companies, and makes free sound libraries for software instruments.
Jim built most of his PCs and has made some for others. He’s been using Windows 8 since itvcame out.
All members and guests are invited to attend a NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Lock Up Your Passwords
Safe practices on the internet require that you use multiple long and strong passwords which are hard to break and also hard to remember. Password vaults allow you to generate strong passwords and store them in an encrypted file under a single master password. They also allow you to store other sensitive information.
We will introduce the topic with a description of some of the currently available password vaults and some of the significant differences between them. Then our featured speakers, Megan and Alex from Agilebits in Canada will do a Skype presentation about their product, 1Password. For a brief introduction to this product, check out the video below.
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Meeting registration starts at 7PM in the Lodge room on the second floor. The featured talk begins at 8PM.
All members and guests are invited to attend a NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Please NOTE:
Parking is either on the SOUTH side of Woodside Road or within the apartment complex in the driveway to Robert’s unit.
Carpooling is strongly recommended.
WiFi will be available.
Sound Engineering: From Vinyl to Digital Editing
Fred Catero, NARAS
Recording legend Fred Catero has worked with some of music’s greatest stars. Beginning his career at Columbia Records in New York during the early 1960’s. Many of the records he made are now considered classics. [Read more…]
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Meeting registration starts at 7PM in the Lodge room on the second floor. The featured talk begins at 7:15 PM.
All members and guests are invited to attend a NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Devoxx4Kids: STEMing the kids at an early age
Arun Gupta
Devoxx4Kids USA wants to get kids excited about technology with the hope that many of them will become producers of technology in future. We conduct a variety of hands-on workshops where children build computer games, program robots, build circuits, program micro-controllers etc. and have fun. . [Read more…]
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Meeting registration starts at 7PM in the Lodge room on the second floor. The featured talk begins at 7:30PM.
All members and guests are invited to attend a NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Members’ Presentations
Using Social Media: Facebook, Twitter & Skype
Christie Bilikam and Aldora Lee
Upgrading Your Computer with an SSD
Maurice Green
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Meeting registration starts at 7PM in the Lodge room on the second floor. The featured talk begins at 7:30PM.
All members and guests are invited to attend a NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Monthly meeting of the SPAUG Planning Committee.
Members’ Presentations
Virtual Computers: An Overview
Bill Young
Building a Website with WordPress
Maurice Green
What is a virtual computer and why would you want to use one? Bill Young will describe the installation of a virtual computer into a real computer. He will discuss the many different virtual computers that are available and demo the useful features of VitualBox, a free virtual machine from Oracle.
The SPAUG website is built with WordPress, the most popular content management system (CMS) for building websites. Maury will demonstrate both the simplicity of building a WordPress site using a “local host” and the great variety of functions and styles which can be included in the site.
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. Meeting registration starts at 7PM in the Lodge room on the second floor. The featured talks begins at 7:30PM.
All members and guests are invited to attend a NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new, Maker Faire is an all-ages gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, authors, artists, students, and commercial exhibitors. All of these “makers” come to Maker Faire to show what they have made and to share what they have learned.
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