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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 us about the data collection, computing and climate modelling work she is involved with. Lynette ...Continue reading→

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 be done. Often, you could reduce the tedium by writing a simple program. For example,...Continue reading→

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 meeting. O’Neil is a mathematician who was a Professor at Barnard and has worked in...Continue reading→

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 operating systems: Linux, my preferred environment; Windows 98 and Windows NT (I have legacy applications),...Continue reading→

John Hall Volunteering for your Club By the time you read this it will be the end of September/early October and the time for nominations for committee members will be closing soon.   I am very pleased to able to tell you that David Stonier-Gibson has nominated for the position of President and Stephen Zuluaga...Continue reading→

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 Graham Swanston Ever wasted time finding the pointer or cursor lost at the side?  ...Continue reading→

The September Monthly Meeting will be held Wednesday September 4 at 7pm Guest Topic: Australian Computer Society ICT Educators Our guest speaker for September is Catherine Newington who leads the ICT Educators Program and is the community’s moderator. Catherine is a registered teacher with over 12 years’ experience in the classroom including 5 years as...Continue reading→

Anthony Elliott, University of South Australia The idea of robots taking our jobs is not radically new. But artificial intelligence (AI) is now completely reorganising the global economy. Some estimates of productivity-driven economic growth conclude that AI will contribute approximately $US16 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Unfortunately – compared to the European Union,...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Over the years PC Update has been produced using many different software packages. These have included Corel Ventura, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Word. For about the past six months, it has been produced using LibreOffice Writer. Neither LibreOffice or Microsoft Word have been ideal, as they aren’t strictly desktop publishing packages. So the search...Continue reading→