1st September 2020
Neil Muller After a 4 month hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, East SIG returned in August. Host Paul Woolard opened the meeting via the internet conferencing software Zoom, to a larger audience than our normal face to face meetings.… Continue Reading…
1st September 2020
Hugh Macdonald Welcome to another edition of PC Update! This edition actually coincides with the anniversary of a fairly seminal moment in personal computing history – it’s now 25 years since Windows 95 was released. On August 24, 1995, it… Continue Reading…
1st September 2020
David Stonier-Gibson To be honest, it is a little difficult to find much to report on during a stage 4 lock-down. Does the fact I visited the clubrooms a couple weeks ago to collect the mail (and possible cheques!) count?… Continue Reading…
11th August 2020
The July 2020 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 1st July 2020, with over 100 members in attendance. This was the program for the evening: John Hall: The Video Production SIG John will talk about how the lockdown has affected… Continue Reading…
11th August 2020
David Stonier-Gibson Let me start by apologising for not doing a report last month (how many noticed?). I have been very preoccupied designing, making and programming a specialised 7-channel temperature logger for my son’s startup business. That’s not to say… Continue Reading…
11th August 2020
Dennis Parsons Windows 10 Most of us have been down the sorry road of deleting a file only to realise later that we shouldn’t have and being unable to retrieve it. All too often this leads to users frantically searching… Continue Reading…
11th August 2020
Tim McQueen Lurking – how a person became a user Joanne McNeil Farrer, Straus and Giroux 2020 298 Pages This may not be of interest to Melb PC members. McNeil traces the development of the Internet from the 1990s to… Continue Reading…
11th August 2020
Damien Manuel, Deakin University Australia’s long-awaited cybersecurity strategy, released yesterday, pledges to spend A$1.67 billion over the next ten years to improve online protection for businesses, individuals and the country as a whole. The lion’s share of the cash will… Continue Reading…
11th August 2020
Rob Nicholls, UNSW The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its draft news media bargaining code, announced today by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. The draft code allows commercial news businesses to bargain – individually or collectively – with Google and… Continue Reading…
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