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Feb 2003 — Issue 247	*Sacra Blue* is available in Adobe's Acrobat PDF format. Right-click on the Sacra Blue link (1.2MB, 10Min@56K) and select "Save Target\|Link As...". Print these pages and read them whenever, and wherever, at your leisure.

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LOCAL MEDIA LINKS
California Computer News
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REGIONAL MEDIA LINKS
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The Bay Area general- purpose computing magazine

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The San Francisco news site

MAGAZINE SITES
- BYTE.com
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- PC Week
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January's Presentations
Kids*Computers*Community and TuxPaint

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

Feature Articles

Prepping for a New Operating System
An easy and safe way with V-Com's System Commander 7. Well, perhaps once the program is actually installed.

—Guenther Schoett

Random Access Memory
The history of RAM development.

—Bob Elgines

Buying a DVD Recorder
The prices are coming down.

—Bob Elgines

My New Camera
Digital Cameras: Some things stay the same, some not.

—John Hoffman

W(help) by Webcam
The miracle of life as seen via Webcam.

—Ima Clueless, M.C. Esse

Time to Consider a Laptop?
What would be better, a laptop or desktop computer?

—Ira Wilsker

Guest Contributions

Software Download Sources
Download.com and Tucows.com - reknown repositories.

—Ira Wilsker

Sometimes You Cannot See the Problem
The fine print specifies "no backdoor."

—Bill Wood

Electronic or Printed?
Another group contemplates publishing electronically.

—June Hall

Columns

Prez.Com
President's Thoughts
User Group Members are Tech-Savvy

—Milt Hull

Web Site's Worth a Look
Interesting Sites!
Fun, History, Curiosity

—Tom Anderson

The Volunteer Page
A New Group Function
Thank You Tom and Ken!

—Stan Morris

Solutions

Q & A
Here's the latest on all your technical questions.

—The SPCUG Answer Guys

Tech Talk
Building Your Own Machine

—Milt Hull

Reviews

Product Review
SynchroMagic Pro 3.0

Hardcopy
Windows 2000 Pro: The Missing Manual
Edited by Sacra Blue Staff

Chapter and SIG Reports
Davis Chapter
Digital Imaging

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

This page prepared by:

Brian Smither