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Five projects for Raspberry Pi at home

Ben Nuttall The Raspberry Pi computer can be used in all kinds of settings and for a variety of purposes. It obviously has a place in education for helping students with learning programming and maker skills in the classroom and the hackspace,… Continue Reading…

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Digging your own digital grave: how should you manage the data you leave behind?

Patrick Scolyer-Gray, Deakin University; Arash Shaghaghi, Deakin University, and Debi Ashenden, Deakin University Throughout our lifetimes we consume, collate, curate, host and produce a staggering quantity of data – some by our own hand, some by others on our behalf,… Continue Reading…

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Coronavirus misinformation is a global issue, but which myth you fall for likely depends on where you live

Jason Weismueller, University of Western Australia; Jacob Shapiro, Princeton University; Jan Oledan, Princeton University, and Paul Harrigan, University of Western Australia In February, major social media platforms attended a meeting hosted by the World Health Organisation to address coronavirus misinformation.… Continue Reading…

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Yammer Highlights August 2020

Dennis Parsons Internet Connectivity Survey I’m re-running the Internet connectivity survey I conducted in early 2018 so please get involved and let us know how you connect to the Internet at home. The turnout so far has been excellent and… Continue Reading…

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DOTW Winners August 2020

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too seriously and do pop over to Chit Chat and vote each week. Thanks to those of our members who occasionally… Continue Reading…

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Northern Suburbs Linux SIG Report July 2020

David Hatton The main presentation outlined the procedure to backup up an Android tablet. The following notes are intended as a guide to creating a full backup of an Android tablet on your desktop or laptop computer running Linux.  The… Continue Reading…

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Interesting Internet Finds

Steve Costello, Boca Raton Computer Society In the course of going through the more than 300 RSS feeds, I often run across things that I think might be of interest to other user group members. The following are some items… Continue Reading…

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Book Reviews

Tim McQueen With the current COVID-19 lockdown and restricted municipal library services I don’t have much access to computer-oriented books for review for PC Update. However, I’m still reading and happy to share some of what I’ve been reading recently.… Continue Reading…

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Hybrid meetings after COVID?

David Stonier-Gibson If you have skills in video, sound engineering, electronics, streaming, maybe even Raspberry Pi, or related areas, this is very much for you. Nobody knows when this COVID thing will totally go away. I hope we can revert… Continue Reading…

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