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President's View Page 1 SeniorNet Association Inc. February 2021 “Seniors helping seniors use computers and the internet” SeniorNet Association Inc. PO Box 559 Booval Qld 4304 Tel: (07) 3812 5034 www.seniornet.com.au On Other Pages New Committee page 2 President’s View Tech Talk page 3 This being our first newsletter for 2021 and also my first as your new Potty History page 5 President, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your Humour page 6 families a Happy New Year. Further Information page 6 We welcome this new year with a fair amount of trepidation as this wretched virus continues to dominate our lives. Are the new vaccines going to live up to expectations? But, in the middle of all this, there is Social Events “hope” and “resilience”. According to Wikipedia, “Hope” is “an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large”. When you watch world events and in particular how the pandemic is affecting some countries, we do have good reasons to be very hopeful and grateful in Australia. Following on our very well attended AGM and Christmas lunch last De- Lunches cember, I believe that we, the SeniorNet community, will continue to February provide hope and positive outcomes for our members. This happens Grand Hotel Yamanto thanks to the selfless commitment of the many trainers, your Manage- th Friday 19 @12. Meals $17 (seniors) ment Committee and the many volunteers who have once again March stepped up to deliver interesting courses and social activities. Jets Leagues Club “Resilience” may be defined as “the ability to cope with a crisis or to Friday 5th @12. Meals $11 (members) return to pre-crisis status quickly”. No doubt, we will continue to be Café 63, Riverlink tested over the coming months and that will also impact on SeniorNet’s Friday 19th @12. Meals from $9. activities. John McVeigh and his Training Team have not been able to Trips with Just Friends finalise the schedule of workshops to start in February due to our recent Sunday 28th February - Montville lock-down and that is why we don’t have a programme published in this Cost $35; pickup 8.00am @ Redbank newsletter. This will be sent out to you separately. Plaza - see overleaf for details So to hope and resilience I would add “flexibility” Sunday 28th March - Old Petrie Town Salut, Paulette Montaigne Cost $35; pickup 8.00am @ Redbank Plaza - see overleaf for details [“Salut” means “See you” - Ed] Sponsors: The University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich City Council, the Queensland Government and Microsoft. Page 2 Return to Title Page Committee 2020 - 2021 Back row: John McVeigh (Training Coordinator), Barry Gartside (Equipment Officer), Ken Curwen (Westmaster & Newsletter Editor), Margaret-anne Jensen (Membership Officer), Colleen MacKenzie (Secretary). Front row: Betty Ambler (Vice-President), Paulette Montaigne (President), Desley Badrick (Treasurer), Barbara Bottenberg (Social Activities Coordinator) . Just Friends Activities Bus Trips Montville - Travel to Montville to walk around the shops and buy lunch. After lunch go to Maleny for a short stop in Maple Street. Old Petrie Town - At the town there are many historic buildings and working displays, a flourishing market, the Heritage Hotel and the Pine Rivers Museum. Sunday Lunches February : 14th @ Durack Tavern - meals $12; 21st @ Raceview Tavern - meals from $18 March: 14th @ Commercial Hotel, Redbank - lunches $12.50 (members); 21st @ Cecil Hotel, Goodna - lunches $12 Ring Ken on 33892950 for more information Website Just Friends Social Group Sponsors: The University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich City Council, the Queensland Government and Microsoft. Page 3 Return to Title Page Tech Talk Restart, Reboot and Reset These three terms sound synonymous but define very different functions in both Windows, Android and Apple de- vices. And all three are NOT the same as switching a device off and later switching it on. Note that the dictionary definition of reboot is synonymous with restart; but in the context of a project it implies going back to square one when the project has gone off the rails, and I am using that analogy. Finally, there is Factory Reset, a procedure to restore your device to how it was when you purchased it. Normally this employed to remove all your own data and additions so that you can hand the device to a friend or relative (or even sell it). Windows Current versions of Windows use a trick to greatly speed up normal starting. When you turn off, the computer stores the state of the system (such as attached peripherals, memory and connections). This actually slows down the turn off process, but since you are no longer using the system speed is not important. But when next you turn on the computer it does not need to check all the details and can spring into action much more rapidly. There is a consequence, in that temporary files may also be preserved when they don’t need to be, and other parameters can change without the system realising. It is therefore wise to do a full Restart from time to time – with a restart the computer shuts down and then reinitialises the whole system. This takes longer but is more thorough. You will have noticed that when a com- puter updates itself it requests a restart – and this is because the system has changed and needs to be re-initialised. To do a normal restart choose Start→Power→Restart as shown here. Rebooting is required when a computer hangs up and does not respond to commands. Your com- puter may have a special reset switch which will jump the computer into restarting; if you have not got this just hold the power button on for about five seconds and it will shut down regardless. Of course, any work you are performing at the time will be lost; and when you turn on Windows will ask if you want to go into Safe mode for diagnostic reasons; if the problem recurs you should try that. Factory Reset is an option when nothing else will make your computer work well and, as stated above, also a way to turn the computer into a vanilla machine if you wish to sell or gift it. You should back up your files before doing this just in case something goes wrong. Also be aware that any programs you have installed on the computer will be wiped. First choose Start→Settings (the gear icon)→Update and Security. In the left-hand column choose Re- covery and click ‘Get Started’. In the options window choose Keep or Remove personal files. Finally confirm the Reset. A final note on Windows– holding down Ctrl+Alt and keying Delete will bring up a blue screen with a menu – choose Task Manager. In the subsequent menu all currently running programs are shown and, if you want to close one that is unresponsive, select it and click the End Task button. Android To restart an Android device, press and hold the power button until you see the power off menu. For nearly all you get a Restart option in the menu; but the latest Android 11 based phones require an extra tap on the Power menu item to bring up the Restart option. To reboot an Android device press and hold the power and volume down buttons together until the device screen responds – usually for five seconds- (if that does not work try using volume up instead). The device should recover. Factory Reset in Android is part of Settings→System. Tap on Advanced to get Reset Options. Then tap Erase All Data (Factory Reset) and follow the prompts. Sponsors: The University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich City Council, the Queensland Government and Microsoft. Page 4 Return to Title Page Apple To restart a Mac computer, go to the Apple menu (top left) and choose Restart; to reboot when frozen hold down Command, Ctrl and Eject (or Power) until the screen blanks and booting commences. To restart or reboot an iPad, press and hold the power and volume down buttons together until the power off slider appears on screen, then turn it off. Follow with a normal turn on process. To restart or reboot an iPhone press Volume Up, then Volume Down, and finally press and hold the side button. For older devices press and hold the side button and the Home button simultaneously until the Apple logo appears on screen. To factory reset an iPhone or iPad choose Settings→General→Reset. Tap ‘Erase all content and settings’ and fol- low the prompts to complete the task. To factory reset a Mac computer, having first backed up all your data, restart in Recovery mode by holding down Command+R as the computer boots. The machine will display a Utilities screen; choose Disk Utility, then Continue. Choose the Mackintosh HD disk and click Erase. You will need to know the format your machine uses for the next step (APFS or MacOS Extended). Click Erase to complete the reset. Ken Curwen COVID Revisited Back in June last year I discussed the COVIDsafe app and why it might be needed. I also mentioned the options available to governments – keep on as normal and kill substantial numbers of their citizens, or cut the spread of the virus by isolating as many of their people as is possible and accepting the economic consequences. In the event Australia has taken the second option and has been able to handle contact tracing without much use of the app. But it is instructive to see what has happened in countries that took the first option.
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