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FPCUG Notes for November 2020 Editor: Frank Fota (Fotafm@Gmail.Com) FPCUG Notes for November 2020 Editor: Frank Fota ([email protected]) SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (7:00 PM - Falmouth Firehouse, Butler Road): Meetings and Workshops – to be determined The Board of Directors met via the Zoom video teleconference app on October 13th, 2020. We intend to meet via Zoom on November 10th, 2020. At present, our Workshop leaders do not intend to hold virtual meetings via Zoom or other streaming video apps. We will inform you all via Social Media and email if this changes. We intend to resume in- person meetings in the future; subject to State and CDC guidelines. APCUG’s FREE 2020 FALL VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE The APCUG is again hosting the Fall Virtual Technology Conference on November 7, 2020. At present, the conference is short, from 1:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET. The Annual Meeting follows the conference and the APCUG is encouraging everyone to attend. Conference presentations are broken into two overlapping tracks. More information can be found here. TRACK 1 1:00 PM – Saving Your Life with Technology, Part 2 Ron Brown, Program Coordinator, Silvercom Computer & Technology Club 2:00 PM – Staying Safe and Secure Bob Gostischa, Avast Evangelist TRACK 2 1:00 PM – How Technology Has Changed the Way We Listen to Music Ray Baxter, Acting President & Treasurer APCUG 2:00 PM – Chris and Jim Guld, GeeksOnTour Learn with Geeks on Tour, they are Geeks Who Teach This VTC presentation is a virtual stop on their book tour WINDOWS 10? – GIVE LINUX A TRY I know a few of our members that have dabbled with Linux. The reluctance to use the free Linux operating system is understandable. Change can be scary. Linux is easy to install and use but requires some familiarity with the Bash Shell (Bourne Again SHell) and Command Line Interface (CLI) when things don’t work as expected. Some Linux packages are made to look and feel like Windows. However, the Linux operating system is very different. Linux is based on the UNIX operating system and Windows was based 1 on DOS (Disk Operating System) until the release of Windows NT and on the Windows NT kernel since the release of Windows NT. Why consider giving Linux a try? Other than a lack of familiarity, the only disadvantage is the number of supported programs (e.g., gaming is especially difficult under the Linux Operating System). Windows 10 has been in a cyclical state of change since Windows 1.0 (November 1985). Windows 10, Build 2004, released in May 2020, has approximately 50 million lines of code. Linux has approximately 28 million. These lines of code are generally not very complex but the sheer number gives rise to a myriad of patches and bug fixes each month and feature updates every six months. The feature updates have limited support (~18-months). Therefore, you have to stay relatively up to date if you want assistance from Microsoft. Writing for Dave’s Computer Tips, Richard Petersen illustrates the lifecycle of Windows 10 updates (i.e., Builds). Staying up to date does not ensure that your computer will function as expected. Microsoft has been known to screw things up. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update (i.e., Build 1607), for example, replaced a working RAID Array driver and left my array of drives inaccessible. This forced me to revert to Windows 7 for over a year. My experience with Windows 10 is anecdotal. My experience with Linux is that there are fewer updates and generally fewer problems. Since Linux has a smaller user base, the operating system is not targeted by hackers to the same degree that Windows is. Like Windows, support can be found from fellow Linux users. Unlike Windows, support for even older versions of the Linux Operating System can often be obtained from the developer. The Linux Foundation offers a free 60-hour Introduction to Linux course that might lead you to take the plunge. There are hundreds of variations of Linux. Some look and feel more like windows; others work well with older computer systems and limited memory. For support of some programs and games, I primarily use Microsoft Windows. However, I use Linux Mint in an older laptop computer (rarely) and a modified version of Debian Linux (Open Media Vault) for a multi-terabyte server. Want to know more? The founder of It's FOSS, Abhishek Prakash, provides “11 Reasons Why You Should Switch To Linux.” 2 NEW LAW TO LIMIT DAMAGE FROM SPACE WEATHER Most of us know that solar flares or Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can disrupt communications, electronics, and satellites. According to Wikipedia, “The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably from a CME hitting the Earth's magnetosphere, was the solar storm of 1859 (the Carrington Event), which took down parts of the recently created US telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph operators.” President Trump signed the PROSWIFT Act into law (Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow), a bill designed to improve the prediction of space weather and limit the damage when bad space weather hits. Federal agencies (e.g., NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense) will study the potential impact of space weather and advance research for both forecasting and mitigating the effects. If a Carrington type event occurred today, blackouts, air traffic control issues, and satellite disruption could cost trillions of dollars. Improvements in our electrical grid, satellite, and communications networks are not expected in the short term. Writing for Engadget, Jon Fingas says, “What money the US spends now could reap dividends if the country can bounce back from the Sun’s more extreme behavior with relatively little trouble.” SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP Google, Twitter, and Facebook censored or attempted to censor a story in the New York Post about presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter. They claimed it originated from questionable sources, unverified facts, and very little actual news. Others said the revelations, just weeks before the election, resembled past disinformation campaigns carried out by the Russians. However, we subsequently learned: 1. The FBI obtained the data from Hunter Biden’’s laptop computer well over a year ago. 2. Tony Bobulinski, the CEO of Sino-Hawk Holdings where Hunter Biden worked as a partner, corroborated incriminating email evidence on the laptop. Sino-Hawk Holdings was a partnership with China Energy Company Ltd., Tony Bobulinski, and Hunter Biden. 3. Hunter Biden’s lawyer requested the return of Hunter’s laptop. I keep asking myself how the Russians had the foresight to plant the incriminating laptop at the Delaware repair shop so long ago? In my opinion, “THE STORY” was not that the Biden Family is corrupt, or that the Trump Administration is up to dirty tricks; “THE STORY” was censorship. Google, Facebook, and Twitter attempted to suppress news they disagreed with. The attempt to suppress the news made advocates for and against “THE STORY” redouble their efforts to read and disseminate opinions about it. As a result of apparent bias, Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai intends to modify or “clarify” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. According to Wikipedia, Section 230(c)(1) of the CDA provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided 3 by third-party users. Interactive computer services are not treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Section 230(c)(2) further provides "Good Samaritan" protection from civil liability for operators of interactive computer services in the removal or moderation of third-party material they deem obscene or offensive, even of constitutionally protected speech, as long as it is done in good faith. In other words, interactive computer services cannot be sued for content that others place on their platforms. When an interactive computer service decides what news will be permitted, they are making an editorial decision about that material. Many argue that makes them a “publisher.” For different and similar reasons, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have axes to grind with Facebook and Twitter. The Senate Judiciary Committee, currently led by Republicans, has approved subpoenas for Facebook and Twitter’s CEOs. They allege anti-conservative bias stemming from Facebook and Twitter’s “censorship” of the disputed New York Post reports about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son. Other than to deny the bias charges, neither Twitter nor Facebook commented on the allegations. THE WINDOWS 10 STARTUP PROCESS IS CHANGING Over time, most computers slow down. At least the startup process slows down. It has nothing to do with wear and tear. It has to do with bloat. We install programs that claim to load more quickly if loaded when Windows starts. Many programs default to loading when the computer starts and computer users may not realize that they are running in the background. Writing for InfoPackets, John Lister says, “Which apps should start up automatically is a balancing act.” He adds that anti-malware software should load before other programs. Other startup programs save time; for example, pre-loading components of a web browser. So how can you determine which programs are running? Run the Windows Task Manager and click on the Startup tab. You can disable some of these programs directly. When the first feature update for Windows is released in 2021, the startup process will change. After a change to the startup process, Windows users will receive a notification that tells them a new application is set to run when you log in to Windows. To change this, go to Settings, Apps, Startup.
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