AskDACS is a Question and Answer session before the main presentation at the monthly General Meeting. We solicit questions from the floor and then answers from other audience members. Q – Does anyone have experience with PaperPort for document scanning and archiving? This is software that runs … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, November 2014
Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef Q – My wife and I are downsizing our home and I have some stuff I no longer have space to store. There are lots of old cables and some vintage MAC software. Is anyone interested? A – No one jumped up, but there are people who are interested in vintage … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, October 2014
Moderated and reported by Sean Henderson. Q - My Windows 7 laptop gets the "blue screen of death" if I walk away from it for 30-60 minutes, when I do not have USB audio interface attached. A - Initial thoughts were that the USB audio interface was out-of-date and lacking DDM (Dynamic Device … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, September 2014
Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef Q – I have a new cable modem from Charter that I cannot install. The device is an Arris TM822. When connected to the incoming cable, the modem does not get an IP address. Has anyone else had this problem? A – A member suggested connecting directly to the … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, August, 2014
Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef. Q – Richard Corzo asked the first question, which we had discussed prior to the meeting: What causes attachments sent by Windows users, mostly using Microsoft Outlook (the “real” Outlook that is included in most versions of Office), to arrive in my inbox … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, July 2014
Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef Q – I have a PowerPC Macintosh that is new to me but is obviously not a new machine. It boots and runs just fine on OS X 10.5. It also has Mac OS 9.2 installed in another partition, so I set it to boot OS 9.2 and it hangs as soon as the desktop is displayed. … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, June 2014
Q – A friend has a Windows 8 machine where they are using an administrator account rather than a user account. When they clicked on a PDF they received the message, “The app cannot be launched, UAC is disabled.” [UAC is User Account Control, the feature in Windows that asks your permission when … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, May 2014
Q – My Windows 8.1 machine can’t get on the Internet. I have McAfee antivirus so the machine is safe. It flashes back a message to reinstall Windows which I would rather not do. What’s wrong? A – Naturally this generated a lot of discussion. First a member asked if other computers in the house … [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...]
Ask DACS, March 2014
This month I was away on vacation. Bruce moderated but is unable to write up the discussion. Q – The social networking site, Meetup.com, has been sporadically unavailable over the last few days. They announced that this was caused by a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). What is a … [Read more...]