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Roger Brown Your intrepid PC Update editor has asked me to explain why I, in common with a number of other Club members, have elected to use the relatively new retail service provider Aussie Broadband, absolutely not to be confused with the similarly named Australia Broadband. Aussie Broadband (ABB) is a retail service provider which...Continue reading→

David Stonier-Gibson I hope you are all holding up OK in “iso”. It strikes me that those of us who are retired are the lucky ones, or at least best placed to cope with the potential disruption to our lives. To be honest, not that much has changed for me in my daily routine, except...Continue reading→

Zac Rogers, Flinders University The coronavirus pandemic has sped up changes that were already happening across society, from remote learning and work to e-health, supply chains and logistics, policing, welfare and beyond. Big tech companies have not hesitated to make the most of the crisis. In New York for example, former Google chief executive Eric...Continue reading→

Graham Swanston Ed: Thanks to Graham once again for sending these tips and tricks in. If you have any info about software, websites, or hints about an operating system that you think members might benefit from, send it to editorpc@melbpc.org.au. File Hippo https://www.filehippo.com The File Hippo site is useful and filters itself for malware but...Continue reading→

Guest Speakers: John Hollow, Kelvin Cording, Paul Hattam, Craig Evans Topic: SIG Meetings in the time of Corona Now that we are getting so much better at meeting online, it is an ideal time to hear from some of our special interest groups in the club. A panel of our SIG leaders are here to...Continue reading→

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. Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Welcome to another edition of PC Update, and already we find ourselves in the sixth month of 2020. This year has already brought so much in just six months: devastating bush fires, a once in a 100 years pandemic, and now seemingly, political unrest in the United States of America on a scale...Continue reading→

This tiny micro-comb chip produces a precision rainbow of light that can support transmission of 40 terabits of data per second in standard optic fibres. Corcoran et al., N.Comms., 2020, CC BY-SA Bill Corcoran, Monash University Our internet connections have never been more important to us, nor have they been under such strain. As the...Continue reading→

Bill Chandler ‘Bruny’ Heather Rose, 2019, Allen and Unwin What a prescient novel!  Infrastructure, regional planning, political shenanigans, foreign interference, and even the mention of a virus.  Heather Rose has written a thriller with more credibility than I was comfortable with as I sat on my North Bruny deck looking over the D’Entrecasteaux Channel to...Continue reading→