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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 on Yammer and vote each week. Thanks to those of our members who occasionally ‘feature’ for taking the gentle humour in such good part. Our September...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Welcome to the October issue of PC Update! There’s a lot of focus on Microsoft Windows in the club, and therefore in this magazine. And rightly so.It is used by over 80 percent of desktop users in Australia. However there are alternatives to Windows. The main one that members might want to consider...Continue reading→

Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne The federal government has announced a A$3.5 billion upgrade to the National Broadband Network (NBN) that will grant two million households on-demand access to faster fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) internet by 2023. Reports from the ABC suggest the plan would go as far as to upgrade the FTTN services to fibre-to-the-premises...Continue reading→

Dennis Parsons Our move to Google G Suite This is a new group created by Harry Lewis to aid with the transition from MS Office365 based email to Google based G Suite Gmail. It’s the place to ask all your questions about the transition and find out what’s going on – one of the transition...Continue reading→

David Stonier-Gibson There is very little new to report that hasn’t already been reported via all-member emails, namely: AGM deferred As Secretary John Swale has already advised, we have decided to defer the AGM until 3rd February because we could not find a satisfactory way of running an AGM online and complying with the statutory...Continue reading→

John Nelson Editor’s note: John Nelson has provided this list of common applications and utilities that you can download and use in your Linux distribution of choice. Some distributions will come with many of these already pre-installed. For any that aren’t already installed look in the software manager/package manager and you will most likely find...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald I’ve always been fascinated by Linux. When I was about fourteen or fifteen, in my quest to expand my computing knowledge, I attempted to install it for the first time. I think back then it was Red Hat Linux that I attempted to use. I can remember getting as far the command prompt...Continue reading→

Fleur Stephens Have you ever wanted to try your hand at developing a website in WordPress but you don’t have access to a web server? Would you like to play with multiple websites and WordPress themes without breaking your site?. With the right software you can create a web server on your own PC. In...Continue reading→

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? I suppose compared to the excitement of a walk to my own letterbox it is...Continue reading→