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The May 2021 Monthly Meeting was held in person and online on Wednesday 5th May 2021, with over 20 members in attendance at Moorabbin and over 70 members in attendance via Zoom. This was the program for the evening: Guest Speakers: Adrianne Fleming and Chris Hodges Topic: Australian Air League Adrianne is Australian Air League Victorian Executive Commissioner...Continue reading→

David Stonier-Gibson Successful Covid-be-gone party Sunday 18th April I think I can confidently declare the Party at Moorabbin on Sunday 18th April a success. We all had fun with frivolous games, pizza, and a lot of socialising. Email Transition The transition to Google continues, and is now roughly 65% complete. The migration team are migrating...Continue reading→

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened the April meeting again presented via Zoom. After welcoming members, the meeting commenced with George Skarbek presenting Q&A. Q: I have a problem with printing. I’ve done all the maintenance tasks on the printer and the printers test page prints perfectly. When I open and attempt to print a...Continue reading→

Tim McQueen This is how they tell me the world ends – the cyber weapons arms race Nicole Perlroth Bloomsbury 491 pages   On 10 May 2021 The Age carried a story ‘DarkSide, ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack, new but not amateur’. This attack could, and should have been prevented. ‘This is how...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to another edition of PC Update. This month the highlights include: Dave Williams with the first part of his series on building his own CNC Router Dan Douglas with tips on backing up your Windows PC (I’ll have a follow up next month on backing up your Linux PC) Phil...Continue reading→

Phil Sorrentino, Sarasota Technology Users Group Most modern computers have HDMI outputs so it is easy to display your computer screen on a big-screen TV, but what about displaying your smartphone screen on that same big screen? Most phones do not have HDMI or more specifically micro-HDMI connectors. (Though I have seen some tablets with...Continue reading→

Dennis Parsons Coronavirus Discussion & Comments   The use of QR codes for “checking in” to many businesses and venues for COVID tracking purposes, including Melb PC for those physically attending our premises for meetings, raised some discussion around the difficulty of scanning the codes and deficiencies in the system.   The necessity of having...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Pleasingly, life is beginning to return to normal at Melbourne PC User Group. Everytime I walk into the club these days (usually on the weekends) it is a hub of activity, often with members of the Microcontroller Workshop SIG working on their projects. There’s also often Coder Dojo, which sees some of the...Continue reading→

Dennis Parsons Windows 10 Merv, our loud and proud purple dinosaur (if you see his Yammer profile pic you’ll understand), has been on a rather steep learning curve with using a new Nokia C3 Android phone as a 4G hotspot for his Win10 laptop. He had been using an old Lumia Windows Phone which was...Continue reading→