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Presidential Musings April 2021
David Stonier-Gibson Internet lounge equipment As part of our refurbishing and de-cluttering the club rooms, we have moved all the Internet Lounge equipment into temporary storage. If you use any of the stuff there, please email me and let me know what you’d like retained (if you have not already done so). Please use this...Continue reading→
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From The Editor March 2021
Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to the March edition of PC Update. Our magazine this month covers a range of topics: A discussion of various types of ads that annoy us as we’re using our devices, a look at the recent hack of Microsoft Exchange servers around the world, a discussion on just how many...Continue reading→
Yammer Highlights February 2021
Dennis Parsons Computer Help Occasionally members raise the issue of readability of the Yammer posts, no not the quality of the content, but the combination of the dark grey text colour on light grey background. For most of us (presuming the lack of complaints reflects acceptability) Yammer and similar pages look perfectly fine and aren’t...Continue reading→
DOTW Winners February 2021
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 ‘feature’ for taking the gentle humour in such good part. DOTW returned from vacation in...Continue reading→
East SIG Report February 2021
Neil Muller Host Frank Maher opened the first East SIG’s meeting for 2021 again hosted via Zoom. After welcoming members, the meeting then commenced with George Skarbek presenting Q&A. The first question of the night related to connecting to the meeting via Zoom. On my notebook, why is the F7 key with “mute” written on...Continue reading→
New evidence shows half of Australians have ditched social media at some point, but millennials lag behind
Roger Patulny, University of Wollongong A recent nationally representative survey has shown Australians are willing and able to pull the plug on social media. But it turns out the generation you were born in, as well as your level of education, will likely have a bearing on whether you do. This is important, as recent...Continue reading→
Security flaws in Microsoft email software raise questions over Australia’s cybersecurity approach
Carsten Rudolph, Monash University On March 2, 2021, Microsoft published information about four critical vulnerabilities in its widely used Exchange email server software that are being actively exploited. It also released security updates for all versions of Exchange back to 2010. Microsoft has told cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs it was notified of the vulnerabilities in...Continue reading→
Interesting Internet Finds
Steve Costello, SEFCUG Gmail’s New Quick Settings https://cynmackley.com/2020/08/04/gmails-new-quick-settings/ https://cynmackley.com/2020/08/05/gmail-quick-settings-part-2/ https://cynmackley.com/2020/08/06/gmail-quick-settings-part-3/ If you use Gmail, you should know how to use its quick settings feature. Cyn Mackley explains the quick settings in the three blog posts above. Mind The Metadata https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/mind-the-metadata/ Did you know that your digital photos contain a lot of data that you...Continue reading→