By Stephen D. Harkness Like our 21 previous presentations by John Patrick, this one was a very thought provoking eye-opener. I have taken notes on John’s past 5 presentations and I made sure to review each of them before this one, in order to appreciate the mind-boggling progress the world of … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2014
Board of Directors Meeting 4/2/14
Called to Order: 7:20 Attending: Richard Corzo, Dick Gingras, Bert Goff, Lisa Leifels, Jim Scheef, Richard Teasdale Minutes of Last Meeting: Accepted. Treasurer's Report for March, 2014 Balance on hand 3/1/14 $3,414.93 INCOME Website … [Read more...]
Drupal May 10, 2014
The April meeting was a discussion of the bulk emailing feature of CiviCRM. Our installation generates an error message when sending bulk mail but is able to send "regular" email just fine. This has everyone most perplexed with no solution so far. CiviCRM is a "Constituent Management System" … [Read more...]
Upgrading a Hard Drive to an SSD – Apple SIG April ’14
In April I talked about my recent project to replace the hard drive in my MacBook Pro with a solid-state drive (SSD). My objective was two-fold: to increase the storage capacity, since I had only 10 GB free space on my hard drive, and to gain a speed improvement from using the SSD, which uses flash … [Read more...]
Linux SIG
The DACS Linux Special Interest Group (SIG) deals with all aspects of software and hardware as they relate to running and using a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Fedora. Focus usually shifts to what attendees need to know. Also we help each other with our own knowledge and experience … [Read more...]
April 2014 Meeting Review: Android
By Richard Teasdale The topic of the evening at the DACS general meeting for April 2014 was the Android operating system. Our speaker was Jeff Postolowski, an enterprise administrator at Western Connecticut State University. Jeff has wide experience of operating systems (OSs) for many computing … [Read more...]
Dr. John Patrick – “The Future of Healthcare and the Internet”
Date: Tuesday, May 6th, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium By Andy Woodruff We are honored to welcome John Patrick back to DACS for his 22nd annual presentation! John served as IBM’s Vice President of Internet Technology, and many consider him a guru about future trends related to … [Read more...]
Ask DACS April 2014
Q – After receiving and installing a software program, I can no longer get on the Internet. My system is running Vista. Other computers in the house have Internet access. Can I download a new update to fix this? A – The first step is to determine what is broken. A member asked if the problem … [Read more...]
President’s File May 2014
I would like to start by recognizing Richard Corzo's leadership and commitment to DACS as its President for the past 4 years. He has worked relentlessly to arrange our General Meetings and slide shows, lead the Apple SIG, co-lead the Mobile SIG, and undertaken countless other roles for all of us at … [Read more...]