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Smaug Meetings

We will be meeting on Thursday instead of Monday. Please check on the email list or Facebook about that.

Our meetings will now be held at the Asana teahouse in downtown Santa Cruz, at 103 Lincoln St, between Pacific Ave and Todal Fitness. Taqueria Vallarta is around the corner and a block down Pacific, at 1101 Pacific.

An exception will be Wednesday, 30 December, when we will have a meeting instead of the following day, New Year's Eve.

The meeting time is now 7:30 pm. Some people may wish to show up earlier, and that's fine, but bring your own extension cord if you need one!

Note: Our old meeting location - Tiny's - reopened on 6/15 as an IHOP

We have sometimes used the new IHOP as a meeting place. Their wi-fi signal isn't very good, so far, so we are back downtown for the time being.

Announcing

Cabrillo's CGLUG hosts an installfest on the 3rd Friday evening of each month, during the school year. For further information, check the
CGLUG web site. Also, there is a CGLUG group on Facebook.

Lindependence has just run a series of installfests in Felton. They plan to have another series in Boulder Creek later this summer. For further information, check the Lindependence Web Site

Felton LUG
Meetings of the Felton LUG are generally held on the first Saturday of each month at the firehouse in Felton, 131 Kirby Street, from 2 to 5 or 6 pm.
Phone: 831 335 7303
Email: lcafiero@fixedbylinux.com

Future Events

Linux Picnic
Picn*x XIX - The Linux 19th Anniversary Picnic!

Linux Picn*x 19 will be held on Saturday 21 August 2010 at Sunnyvale Baylands Park.

DEF CON 18
The DEF CON 18 hacking conference will take place - July 30th - August 1st, 2010 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Defcon 18 Web Site

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Ways to Preserve Your College Papers

Submitted by MojoFilter on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 09:00

Let's admit it, you are not the best candidate to write an awesome college paper. Your analytical skill is only a notch higher to a monkey's and your writing skill pretty much didn't improve since first grade. But who knows? Maybe one of these days you might actually write something people will get to like; something not just your mother will gladly lay eyes on. If that rare opportunity happens, you better know how to quickly and efficiently save your work because the next time it happens again, you'll probably be too old to even remember to save.

Here, let me show you four simple ways on how to preserve college papers:

Hard Drives. If you used your computer to type your research paper, then you already have one copy of your work saved in the hard drive. Given that your computer automatically saves while you type. While hard drives are still the viable option to preserve your work, they are not necessarily the best choice if you plan to keep your papers for a long time. You should explore other options.

External Hard Drives. If your computer's hard drive have limited storage space or has already reached its capacity, consider getting an external hard drive. They may cost a bit, depending on storage space, and can be burdensome to carry, but they are very useful in storing massive amounts of documents, pictures and even movies.

Flash Drives. These is probably the common tool people use today, at least according to what I see in my campus. Flash drives have become smaller, cheaper and capable of storing more data than before, making it an ideal device for students writing their term paper or thesis. Given its small size, however, flash drives can easily be misplaced, taking with it all the college papers you've invested countless nights to finish.

Compact Disks. For many, saving files of college papers to CDs is the best option. CDs can store significant amounts of data and, assuming that they are cared for properly, are capable of retaining data as time progresses. Just avoid the CD from having scratches and you can read your literary masterpiece over-and-over again until you're at the throes of death.

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