3rd March 2020
The Monthly Meeting will be held Wednesday March 4 at 7pm. Guest Speakers: Dr Ken Harvey and Mal Vickers Topic: Data Scraping and Snake Oil Why do we receive so much junk advertising from pharmacies for what appear to be… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
Hugh Macdonald Coder Dojo Our South East Melbourne Coder Dojo has been going now for three sessions and is establishing itself well with regular attendees coming back each time to learn more about basic concepts of programming through the beginner… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
Dick Maybach, Member, Brookdale Computer User Group, NJ Modern personal computers are complex assemblies of hardware and software. A problem in a single component can disable the entire system, and sometimes the reason isn’t evident. Often, you can boot the… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
Geoff Cumming, La Trobe University Many other key arrangements have been tried. Some are claimed to be easier to learn or faster to use than QWERTY. But none has proved good enough to beat QWERTY. Flickr/Jeff Eaton, CC BY-SA Curious… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
Wallace Boone Law, University of Adelaide On the night of January 9 2020, my wife and I secured our Kangaroo Island home and anxiously monitored the South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) website for bushfire advice. After many horrific weeks… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
Graham Swanston These procedures seem to work well on a 64 bit Windows 10 desktop. Do regular backups. Disaster or an accident is always a possibility. Backup onto external drives, which are stored away from the computer. Little time is… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
Dennis Parsons Computer Help The following is a fantastic example of what Melb PC is all about – members helping each other solve problems, computer related or not, and demonstrates how useful Yammer is in facilitating this. Frank… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
John L Hopkins, Swinburne University of Technology There are now more than 45,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus dubbed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (at February 13 2020), and the disease has caused at least 1,115 deaths. The impact… Continue Reading…
2nd March 2020
David Hatton The evening started with Nick Vespo’s traditional wide ranging Linux News. Nick played a selection from the CES2020 keynote address by Ginni Rometty, president and CEO of IBM, which touched on the use of Deep Data with… Continue Reading…
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