[DM-MUG] Last night's meeting --

[Victoria L. Herring]

Was quite interesting and everyone contributed.  The topic of 
discussion was Leopard.  We talked about issues some had with its 
installation and the concensus was that one should do an Erase and 
Install and not to just us the default updater.  This is also 
recommended by the Take Control book [eBooks] on upgrading to 
Leopard.  Takes a little more time but cuts down on issues that may 
crop up and gives you a pristine new machine.

We talked about what we like and don't like about features of the OS: 
STacks, Spaces, more features and new features in Safari [such as the 
search on the page feature and the clipping feature, and the 
rendering/resizing of text form boxes; Mail, etc.  General consensus 
was that there will be either OS updates or 3rd party developers 
'fixing' issues people perceive [one being the awkwardness of having 
'only' stacks without just a listing of items rather than the tall 
stack or the Grid view].

One neat demonstration of a GREAT feature came about when Bryan Baker 
showed us various ways to do Screen Sharing:  there's Back to my Mac 
[it's in SysPrefs], you can do it via iChat and there is a 
ScreenSharing option too -- I don't understand it all myself, but it 
was fascinating to watch Bryan run my machine while it had one of the 
Haddock machines on it as well.  Otherworldly.

I hope Bryan, in response to this, will post a more apt description 
of what was going on.

Another neat demonstration was with iChat and Video Effects.  I was 
able to roam in Yosemite and wander in Paris the same evening. 
Definitely worth another demonstration some time.

Topic for next time:  Security [passwords, wiresless etc] - one 
person told the tale of how the FBI got involved when his machine was 
taken over by someone sniffing out his wireless, although he has [he 
thought] good security and didn't leave it on all the time. 
Definitely a session to attend.

WE WILL NOT MEET IN 
DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next Meeting:  Tuesday night, January 22nd.
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype:  vlherring.
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