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East SIG Report September 2019

Neil Muller The September meeting opened with George Skarbek conducting his usual Q&A segment.   Q: I received an email from Google Map Timelines in early September titled “Your August in Review”. The email stated “You received this email because… Continue Reading…

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Member Tips and Tricks

Each month we’ll publish tips and tricks from members that could help you use your computer more effectively. If you have any tips and tricks you think are particularly useful, please send them to editorpc@melbpc.org.au. This month’s submission comes from… Continue Reading…

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Time Machine: FreeBSD

Peter Kostouros Every month we delve into the PC Update archive to take a look at what computing was like in the past…this month, a review of FreeBSD from February 2000. Until recently my home workstation was host to several… Continue Reading…

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Book Reviews

Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neil Tim McQueen Melb PC purchased a copy of Weapons of Math Destruction after the recommendation by Michael Brand who spoke on The Data Science Revolution – A User’s Guide at the May monthly… Continue Reading…

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Software Literacy Begins With Learning To Code

Dick Maybach, Brookdale Computer Users Group, NJ If you’re reading this, you probably work with computers almost every day, and you probably also find yourself repeating some tasks many times, not because you enjoy them but because they have to… Continue Reading…

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October Monthly Meeting

The October Monthly Meeting will be held Wednesday October 2 at 7pm Guest Topic: Data Collection, Computing and Climate Modelling Our October guest speaker is Lynette Bettio, a Senior Climatologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. She will talk to… Continue Reading…

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About MelbPC’s Spaces chat forum

Members of Melbourne PC User Group can enjoy the club’s private Spaces based forum. Members share the latest tech news, help each other solve PC problems or simply chat about the affairs of the day. Another good reason to join MelbPC!!

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