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Next Meeting
Thurs, April 19, 2007
205B A&S, Lansing Community College
6:30-8:00 pm
Bob Crawford - the art of photography
(details coming soon)
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As far as we know, we're meeting at 205B A&S - directions below - but always check this page before each meeting as the program and location could change.
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 Note re hard drive failures: When we've discussed hard drive failures at the last couple of LAMALUG Q&A sessions, we were operating with nothing but anecdotal information from our own limited experiences and what we heard from others. I recently ran across the ultimate drive failure report, Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (242k PDF), a February, 2007 study of 100,000+ Google hard drives ranging in size from 80 GB to 400 GB over a period starting in 2001. It's fascinating technical reading, but it fails to identify the manufacturers or offer much in the way of guidance to consumers. Ed Noonan
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Here's a cool way to make a donation to the American Red Cross.
dealmac Fundraiser: Buy these used Macs, 100% goes to Red Cross
As cheap as we are at dealmac, from time to time we find that we can't repurpose an old Mac. Instead of giving them away, we decided this year to eBay our spare Macs as a fundraiser for our local chapter of the American Red Cross. Although your bid won't be tax-deductable, it's for a good cause, so please bid as much as you can bear. 100% of the proceeds will go to our local Red Cross. We'll toss in a free dealmac T-shirt with each Mac. Auctions close March 19. The Macs on eBay:
• Macintosh PowerMac G4 Dual 1.25GHz; and
• Macintosh PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz.
• Find out more about our local Red Cross, or visit RedCross.org for national information. - Yesterday at 11:26 am ET
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As always, the first half hour of our membership meetings are devoted to Q&A, an opportunity to get all your Mac questions answered.
Benefits of LAMALUG membership:
LAMALUG has a members-only mailing list for member questions and information. To subscribe, send email to John Belen.
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LAMALUG members receive a discount on WiebeTech products.
Contact webmaster for confidential details.
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LAMALUG members may rent the club's Proxima UltraLight X350 projector for $25/day
(security deposit and signed rental agreement required). To arrange rental, email webmaster@lamalug.org
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LAMALUG members may borrow the club's Newer USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adaptor for use in transferring data to or from a bare hard drive. Just ask any Board Member.
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| LAMALUG members may borrow the club's Gretag Macbeth Eye-One monitor color calibrator and software. Just ask any Board Member. |
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