*CyberCoyote - February 15, 2007*

NEWS, NOTES and NOTICES

*Business*
We held another of our fabled Annual Meetings today. Four respected members were unanimously elected to be our officers for the next season: Bryson Riordan, Pres.; George Jester, V.P.; Phil Costello, Treas. and Connie Beckes -- nominated from the floor -- is Secty.

Don Worthen presented our current financial status and budget for next season. Don keeps quadruple entry books: had some, got some, spent some, have some left. Right now we have about $1,800 in funds, after some stiff deficit spending. He projects that we'll end next season with about $2,000 in funds.

*Next Week*
Next week, George Jester will present the ins and outs of backing up your data. It would be a good idea to be familiar with using Windows Explorer before you get there.
http://www.duke.edu/~dhewitt/tutorials/explorer/explor.html http://cybercoyote.org/links/038.html

Computer Kindergarten is wrapping up next Thursday at 9:00 - 11:00 with a session on handling your photos. The workshop on finding, downloading and installing useful programs continues on Wednesdays at 9:00 - 11:00. Look at the workshop notes if you think you might be interested. We're open to all questions.
http://cybercoyote.org/classes/software-dl/wiki.html

There was a little discussion of new content -- Installing Vista, and using Linux -- for next season's classes/workshops. I have some brief thoughts at our website. Both of these projects would be ambitious but rewarding to undertake.
http://cybercoyote.org/software/vista.shtml
http://cybercoyote.org/software/linux.shtml

TIPS, TOPICS and TWEAKS

*Essential Vista Tip*
If you switch to Windows Vista and want to keep using your external hard drive, you'll want to know about this. :-)
http://cybercoyote.org/links/036.html

*Secret Search Delights* :-)
Ask X is a "double-secret sandbox for testing Ask experiences of the future." Ask X presents answers to plain English questions, and adds a preview of related search results, including video, news, images, blogs, shopping, encyclopedia and more.
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/askx.shtml

CONSIDER THIS

*Herman*
http://cybercoyote.org/links/039.html

*"The Comet and the Galaxy" | APOD*
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060813.html

*Astronaut Running*
A lunar panorama stitched together from photographs originally taken during the Appolo 17 mission.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061210.html