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FPCUG Notes for March 2021 Editor: Frank Fota (Fotafm@Gmail.Com) FPCUG Notes for March 2021 Editor: Frank Fota ([email protected]) SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (7:00 PM - Falmouth Firehouse, Butler Road): The Board of Directors met via the Zoom video teleconference app on February 9th, 2021. In-person meetings/Workshops will soon resume; subject to State and CDC guidelines. -- Thurs, Mar 4: All About Your Computer (Robert Monroe) – Zoom Virtual Meeting. Send your computer questions in advance to Robert at [email protected]. A link for the Zoom Workshop will be sent by email to FPCUG members. -- Tues, Mar 9: FPCUG Board of Directors Meeting (Zoom Virtual Meeting). -- Thurs, Mar 11: Annual Meeting and FPCUG Officer Election (Zoom Virtual Meeting). It is important that you attend. We will approve the FPCUG budget for the new fiscal year, nominate and elect or reelect FPCUG officers, highlight the support we continued to provide to our community during the COVID-19 pandemic, and discuss the way ahead as COVID-19 restrictions diminish. Instructions for access to this Zoom virtual meeting will be emailed to FPCUG members in advance of the meeting. Please consider running for office and making a difference. One Director, one Trustee, and all of the Executive Officers (i.e., President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer) will be elected / reelected (see Table below). Anyone interested in serving in one of these positions should contact Patty Davis ([email protected]) or an FPCUG board member. POSITION NOMINEE(S) President Patty Davis Vice President Bill Farr Treasurer Rick Neil Secretary Frank Fota Director Robert Monroe Trustee Jon Beckett -- Sun, Mar 14: Daylight Savings Time Starts -- Wed, Mar 17: Saint Patrick’s Day REMINDER – FPCUG MEMBERSHIP DUES Dues are due April 1, 2021, and cover the period from April 1 through March 31, 2022. Due to COVID-19 concerns, we ask that you make your $25 check out to the FPCUG and mail it to our treasurer, Rick Neil at FPCUG, P.O. Box 276, Fredericksburg, VA 22404. TIDBIT – HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU REBURN A DVD-RW? I cannot connect USB flash drives to my work computer. I use DVD-RW and CD-RW disks to transfer data from other computers to my work computer. I have lots of used disks both at home and at work and it begged the question, “Is there a limit to the number of times a disk can be rewritten?” It turns out that there is. Writing in Quora, former 1 Software Engineer Richard Farnsworth said, “Yes. It’s around 1,000 cycles.” Unlike DVD- /+R disks, a laser heats a metal alloy in the disk that can toggle between a crystalline and amorphous phase. This changes the reflectivity of the disk surface to produce a digital bit. The process can only be repeated about 1,000 times because thermal stresses eventually cause the change to be nonuniform and the digital bit becomes unreadable. LIMITED INTERNET SERVICE OPTIONS? IS STARLINK AN OPTION? Elon Musk emailed invitations to interested Starlink beta customers in Virginia recently. I received my invitation on February 8th. It stated that “Starlink is now available in limited supply in your service area. During beta, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms in most locations over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be brief periods of no connectivity at all.” The majority of Starlink’s more than 10,000 customers are located along the US Canadian border and in rural areas within a couple of California counties. Starlink currently uses 895 small satellites in low-Earth orbit. Starlink intends to deploy 12,000 satellites. PCMag.com’s lead mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, says, “Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet project is faster than its retail competitors, according to data from Ookla Speedtest Intelligence. But then again, nobody is really using it yet.” Starlink’s competitors include HughesNet and Viasat’s Excede. They all target rural users who cannot access the internet via coaxial or fiber-optic cable. The speed difference is significant. Starlink currently averages more than 3.2 times the download speed and 4 times the upload speed of their competitors. The latency, or the time it takes for signals to reach the intended receiver, averaged 42ms. This is similar to 4G LTE (~40ms). Starlink says it expects "…to achieve 16ms to 19ms by summer 2021.” These competitive advantages are expected to improve over time. However, the impact that more consumer and commercial users will have on available Starlink network bandwidth is unknown at present. I suspect that the increasing number of satellites will offset any increase in customers. Starlink is not cheap. During the Starlink beta phase, the cost is $99/month, plus $499 for the satellite dish and Wi-Fi router. There has been no discussion of data caps for Starlink during or after the beta phase. 2 USPS PLANS WOULD AFFECT THE TIMELY DELIVERY OF MAIL There have been significant delays in the delivery of mail and packages in the past few months. During a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, February 24th, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy apologized for, “unacceptable" mail delays during the holiday season.” The Washington Post was first to report that Postmaster General DeJoy proposed a new strategic plan that would increase postage rates and eliminate First-Class Mail. The strategic plan has three main sections: the creation of a Postal Service health benefits program, reforming the Retiree Health Benefit Fund obligation, and revising service standards for on-time delivery. First-Class Mail would be rolled into the same delivery category as nonlocal mail with a three-to-five day delivery standard. Postmaster General DeJoy said that the Postal Service Board of Governors supports this plan. Congress objects to the proposed change in service standards. White House NOW Reporter at USA TODAY Matthew Brown explains, “The Postal Service has struggled with financial problems as shipping rates have declined and the service's obligations to fund health benefits for its retired workers burdened its balance sheets. As a semi-private entity, the service mostly funds itself through shipping fees; it is not taxpayer-funded but remains under the jurisdiction of the federal government.” The USPS has a decade-long history of annual revenue losses and a net financial loss of $9.2 billion last year. Postmaster General DeJoy confirmed his intention to move forward with the plan when briefing the House Oversight Committee. There are four open seats on the Postal Service Board of Governors. Following Postmaster General DeJoy’s briefing, President Biden named two Democrats and an Independent voting rights advocate to fill three of the four positions. The board has the authority to replace the Postmaster General. GOOGLE STORAGE (TERMS OF SERVICE) CHANGE IN JUNE After June 1st, High and Express quality photos and videos will count against your 15GB storage quota. Files created or edited using collaborative apps (e.g., Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard) will also count against this quota. Files uploaded or created before June 1st will not count against this storage quota. If you exceed the storage quota, your photos and videos will not be backed up, documents will be frozen, and you may no longer be able to send and receive the email in Gmail. Writing for TechCrunch.com, Frederic Lardinois says, “That’s a big deal because today, Google Photos lets you store unlimited images (and unlimited video, if it’s in HD) for free as long as they are under 16MP in resolution or you opt to have Google degrade the quality.” The terms of service will not change if own a Pixel smartphone. Extra storage space is cheap at Google $1.99/month for 100GB, $2.99/month for 200GB, or $9.99/month for 2TB. 3 PERFORMANCE BOOST – MORE MEMORY OR FASTER MEMORY I often describe computer memory and storage needs in terms of grocery shopping. Think of the cache memory on your processor as food on your plate that is easily available when needed. Think of Random-Access Memory (RAM) as food in your refrigerator; that is only steps away when needed. Think of your solid-state or hard disk drive as food in a grocery store a few miles away from your home. If your relatively new computer’s performance is suffering, you might consider adding more or faster RAM. As a first step, open the Windows Resource Monitor to see how much memory is being used. To access the Resource Monitor, click the Start button on the bottom-left of your desktop, expand All apps, choose Windows Administrative Tools and select the Resource Monitor. The screen capture above is from my notebook computer. To stress my system, I opened a 52MB MS PowerPoint file, a few MS Word files, two MP4 videos using the VLC media player, several large Adobe Acrobat files, 5-6 websites using the Chrome browser, and the usual background programs. The 10-year- old Dell Precision M4500 laptop I use has Windows 10 Pro and 16GB of RAM. Forty-two percent (6.72GB) of the available RAM was being used for these programs. I suspect that my system would perform well with just 8GB of RAM. However, I occasionally play games on this computer and the games likely benefit from the extra memory. When your computer lacks physical RAM, it offloads tasks to your solid-state or hard disk drive. These tasks are stored in a swap file or page file as “virtual memory.” Virtual memory is much slower than physical RAM. If your computer has sufficient physical memory to run the programs and apps you typically use, you may not see any improvement by adding more.
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