I
then installed the WiFi software and drivers. Next I set up my
network and it works.
Where
does this leave me? Waiting to give SP2 a settling in period.
I have had no issues with it on tower system. It installed and
worked without issue from day one.
What do you do? Sorry, take your chance, but if you want go back,
uninstall, don’t restore.
A
Video Projector
The
project continues. Following this weeks committee meeting we have
decided to ask for volunteers to make a contribution of £25.00
towards the cost of purchase. Our annual membership subscription
has been maintained at a very low level as a matter of policy
since the club was set in 1984. When we have needed anything we
have gone to the membership and collectively purchased it. In
the past we have owned scanners, printers and computers. We also
owned a large screen TV set. As time has passed these items have
become of little use to us and in most cases they have been scrapped.
Our club policy on assets is that in the event of the club winding
up all assets will be sold off and the proceeds distributed between
the current membership. In most cases, because of the nature of
the technology that we are interested in, the value reduces drastically
after purchase and equipment reduces in price quite quickly. This
project is an investment in communications not a financial investment.
It will, however make a very significant difference to all of
our club activities as many of you will have seen in the past.
Compared
the cost of subscription £25 sounds expensive. Compared
to one night out it is cheap.
We prefer to ask for a one off contribution as opposed to increasing
the subscriptions because in medium term it lower cost to the
membership.
The
addition of a projector available for every meeting opens the
way for us to cover in much more detail graphic manipulation,
image editing and special effects, video editing even hardware
demonstrations. It will enable us to video demonstrations of equipment
that we can not bring to the club meeting and show easily.
We
already have £300 so please help us to inject some exciting
possibilities to our meeting be making your contribution to the
project.
We
can expect between 2,000 and 3,000 hours use from a lamp costing
about £300 that gives us several years of use and lots of
time to accumulate enough funds to buy a replacement. We do not
at this stage envisage hiring or lending it out. It is very important
to us that it is always available for us the use.
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