eBlue, Sacra Blue Online Magazine

Sep 2000 — Issue 218	*Sacra Blue* is available in Adobe's Acrobat PDF format. Right-click on this link: sb0900.pdf (3.9MB, 12Min@56K) and select "Save Target\|Link As...". Print these pages and read them whenever, and wherever, at your leisure.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
eBlue Archives
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Credits & Information
The eBlue staff, disclaimer, and copyright information

E-mail the Editor
Ask the Editor your questions

Subscription Troubles?
Contact Circulation Manager Diana DeMuth

Advertising in Sacra Blue
Sacra Blue advertising rates and the 1999 Media Kit

Writing for Sacra Blue
The Sacra Blue Writer’s Kit details our style guidelines

Sacramento PC Users Group
SPCUG’s Web site

LOCAL MEDIA LINKS
California Computer News
Sacramento’s general- purpose computing magazine

Sacramento Stations
Links to Sacramento-area TV and radio stations

The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento’s daily newspaper

REGIONAL MEDIA LINKS
Computer Currents
The Bay Area general- purpose computing magazine

MicroTimes
The Bay Area high-tech mag

San Jose Mercury News
The Silicon Valley’s newspaper

The Gate
The San Francisco news site

MAGAZINE SITES
- BYTE.com
- InfoWorld
- PC Magazine
- PC Week
- PC World
- Windows Magazine
- ZDNet

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August's Presentations
AMD's Athlon and Duron CPUs and Digital Persona's Fingerprint ID System

SPCUG's Business
A review of the business portion of August's Main Meeting.

Feature Articles

Geeks
A new cartoon series on life in Silicon Valley.

—Julie Swigart

HAL 9000 - A Problem in the Making

—Unknown

Little Man
A new cartoon series on the little man who makes the computer work.

—Monta Elkins

Horror in the Computer Lab
Fifty ways to confuse, worry, or just scare the bejeezus out of people in the computer lab.

—Unknown

Prez.Com
President's Thoughts
Problems with e-mail being relayed through Net Exchange.

—Milt Hull

The Blue Pencil
We Need Your Help
We want the Sacramento Bee to pick up the "off the mark" cartoon series.

—Tom Anderson

Adventures in Computing
Keeping in Touch While You're on the Road
How do you keep up with your e-mail when you're traveling?

—Tom Anderson

Ken's Kompendium
Buying a New Computer
Understanding the listed specifications.

—Ken Hopkins

The Volunteer Page
Updated SPCUG Volunteer List

—Stan Morris

Solutions

Tech Talk
A Timeline of Computer Development

—Milt Hull

Reviews

Light Blue
Allegiance
Army Men: World War
Edited by Chris Seip

Hardcopy
MySQL & mSQL
Adobe InDesign, Classroom in a Book
Looking Good on the WEB
Edited by Tom Anderson

Environmental Notes
Star Wars Math
Star Wars Early Learning
by Bruce Boss

Product Review
PalTalk
Adobe InDesign 1.5
Edited by Brian Smither

Chapter and SIG Reports
Auburn Chapter
Davis Chapter
Roseville Chapter

Et Cetera
Steering Committee Notes
Mentor List (Password Req'd)
Consultants' Corner

This page prepared by:

Brian Smither