🚀 go-pugleaf

You are invited to the next meeting of the Washington Area Computer User 
Group (WAC), scheduled on Saturday, July 19th from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM 
at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center 
Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia. The meeting is free and open to the public.  
Preregistration is not required to attend.

The July meeting will feature presentations on how to receive digital TV 
broadcasts on an analog TV, and how to protect your e-mail address.

WAC member Kurt DeSoto will discuss the Federal Government's mandate for 
TV stations to transition from analog to digital channels by February 
17, 2009 and what it means to viewers. Topics to be covered include: 1) 
the differences between analog TV, digital TV, standard definition 
television, and high definition TV sets and broadcasts and how to 
determine the capabilities of your TV sets; 2) how to configure your 
existing analog sets to receive free over-the-air digital channels by 
using a converter box subsidized by the government; 3) how to submit an 
order online during the meeting (or later at your convenience) for up to 
two $40.00 coupons from the government to help defray the costs of the 
boxes; 4) when and how to connect the boxes to your analog sets; and 5) 
how to keep getting low power analog channels, such as foreign language 
channels. If time permits, Kurt will provide an actual demonstration of 
how to hook up a converter box to an analog TV set.

WAC member Neal Grotenstein will discuss ways to defeat spammers from 
using your e-mail address as posted on web sites.

WAC is a non-profit general interest computer user group that supports 
the Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. For more 
information, visit our web site at http://www.wacug.org/ or e-mail info 
(at) wacug.org.