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ELB USER GPROCUP Meetings In August 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 30 31 1 The Newsletter of Colour Codes Have A Question Melbourne PC User Group Inc. Black: SIG meetings at Melb PC H.Q. Moorabbin. July 2016 Volume 33 Issue 6 Blue: SIG meetings held at other locations. Dotted Box: No SIG meeting held this month. Post it on Published by NEW Monthly Meeting Live Stream For information on “Special Interest Group” activities and Yammer Melbourne PC User Group Inc. Tune in here at 7.00pm on Wed 6 July to view meeting times see the group details in PC Update http://yammer.com/melbpc.org.au/ Suite 26, Level 1, 479 Warrigal Road the Monthly Meeting live over the Internet. or go to http://stg.mpcug.net.au/. Test Transmission usually commences at around 6.15pm Moorabbin, VIC 3189 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 http://tv.melbpc.org.au North East Ballarat Essendon Microcontroller Office hours 9.30am-4.30pm (Mon-Fri) Genealogy (7.30pm - 9.45pm) (Main Meeting 9.30am - Workshop (Ivanhoe 10am - 12noon) Monthly 12noon) (12noon - 5pm) Phone (03) 9276 4000 Sunbury Daytime Meeting (New Users Multimedia Email [email protected] Contents 9.30am - 12noon) and Home Entertainment Office Manager Dianne Vogt (Wadham House Melb PC H.Q. Mt Waverley - Membership Application Form 2 10am - 12noon) ABN: 43 196 519 351 Moorabbin Editorial 3 7pm - 9.30pm Victorian Association Registration # A0003293V July Monthly Meeting Details 4 July Raffle 5 PC Update Newsletter Random Access 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Editor Gary Taig East Workshop Access (database) WASINT Video Production East Casey Windows Plus (Wadham House and Excel (investing) (Eley Park Community (Narre Warren Library (10am - 1pm) Our Statement of Purposes 6 Mt Waverley 10am - 2pm) Sony Centre - Blackburn South 12.30pm - 3pm) (6.30pm - 8.30pm) (10.30am - 12.30pm) (10am - 12noon) [email protected] 7.30pm - 9.30pm) Technical Editors Roger Brown Optus Wi-Fi Modems 7 Video Inner East Linux Workshop Communications North East Essendon (Ashburton Library (4pm - 7pm) (7pm - 9.30pm) (Open Forum 9.30am - 7pm - 9.30pm) Daytime 12noon) Kevin Martin 7 Quick Tips for Windows and Office 8 (Includes Photography & Linux Microcontroller Digital Imaging Wyndham (7pm - 9pm) (7pm - 9.30pm) Ivanhoe 10am - 12noon) Hardware Malcolm Miles (Hoppers Crossing (Wadham House NEW PC Update Subscription Form 9 Mt Waverley - General 7.30pm - 9.30pm) Sunbury Daytime 10am - 12noon) Dennis Parsons (Advanced Users Map & Calendars: John Swann Special Interest Group Section 10 9.30am - 12noon) Blockers & Internet Advertising War 22 Librarians: Clemens Pratt 9802 5501 Open Source Software of the Month 24 Melb PC Committee [email protected] Choy Lai Membership Drive 28 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 MACE North Suburbs Wyndham North East Music Essendon Hardware (Hoppers Crossing (7.30pm - 9.30pm) (Check website for [email protected] Using the Library Budget Wisely 29 (Atari computers) Linux Android meeting details. Workshop (10am - 2pm) (7.30pm - 9.30pm) Multimedia 7.30pm - (Ivanhoe 10am - 12noon) 9.30am - 12noon) (10am - 12noon) 9.30pm) Bayside PDF File Type — What and Why? 30 Beginners East Mornington (Brighton 10am -12noon) Digital Images Microcontroller Peninsula (Includes Photoshop Management Committee (Beast) Sunbury Daytime Wadham House Workshop NEW Subscription for Monthly Disc 31 (Vermont South (Mornington (12noon - 5pm) General inc Q&A (Main Meeting Mt Waverley - President John Bade 10am - 12.30pm) 10am - 12noon) 9.30am - 12noon 9.30am - 12noon) Vice President Gary Taig OneNote – Perfect Computer Junk Drawer 32 Genealogy East Digital Imaging (Vermont South 12.30pm - 2pm Secretary Geoffrey Keenan 1pm - 3.30pm) Family History Event Hire Facilities 34 2pm - 4.30pm) Treasurer Jim Hanna Macedon Ranges Mobile Broadband Application 36 (Gisborne 2pm - 4pm) Members Charles Adams Deadline for September Stewart Gruneklee My Experience with Windows 10 38 2015 Articles Ian Rankin Office365 Pro Plus Subscription 39 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Philip Lew July 2016 Meetings Calendar 40 Everything Apple Yarra Ranges Programming Sunbury Daytime Casey Workshop Don McKenzie (2pm - 4pm) (Kilsyth - (6.30pm - 9pm) (Maintenance & Linux (Narre Warren Library Meeting 9.15am - 11.15am 9:30am-12noon 12.30pm - 3pm) Website Design Workshop Video Production Meeting also held Melb PC User Group (2pm - 6pm) 11.30am - 1.30pm) Pinnacle on a 5th Thursday Raspberry Pi (9.30am - 12noon) Maintenance & Linux (Wadham House 9:30am-12noon) Mt Waverley - Inc is a member of 10am - 12noon) Copyright © 2016 Melbourne PC User Group Inc. and individual Essendon the Association of (Multimedia/General authors. Except where otherwise stated, all material is the copy- 7pm - 9pm) Personal Computer right of the author. Contributions from authors may not be copied No Future Meetings User Groups without the author’s prior written permission. PC Update Newsletter July 2016 1 Deadline for September 2015 SIG Reports. MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM Title First Name Last Name Business Name Address Suburb Post Code Phone Mobile Number DOB Preferred Email Address SUMMARY Additional Family Members or Corporate Representatives (Maximum 2 names) Title First Name Last Name Phone Individuals $95 Additional Family Members $25 Title First Name Last Name Phone (Spouse and children) Pensioners/ $80 Title First Name Last Name Phone Adult students A (25+)* Students B (14-25 yrs.) $35 Title First Name Last Name Phone Corporate $190 (One membership is two representatives) Please provide emergency contact details below. Full Name. TOTAL: $ Phone no. Referred by member: _________________________________full name or membership number /SIG_______________________ Terms and conditions Adult students A must attach a photocopy of their student card or letter from their educational institution confirming full student status. All student B members must have a Student Card and have evidence of their age at time of joining. Pensioners must attach a photocopy showing both sides of their Centrelink Pension Concession Card. Change of family member(s) must be identified in writing to the club secretary. I hereby apply for membership of Melbourne PC Users Group Inc. (A000329V) and agree to abide by its rules while I remain a member. Signature ___________________________________________________ Date ________ / _______ /________ Payment Details Name on Card Expiry Date Credit Card Number Signature Date / / Email User Name Selection List the user (“login”) names you would like in order of preference. Write very clearly, to avoid our confusing certain letters. User names are expressed in lower case letters and must represent your real name in some recognisable way e.g. “John J. Jones” might request user names such as “john”, “johnj”, “jjones”, etc. Any user name that is already allocated or deemed unsuitable in the opinion of the system administrators will not be allocated. Choice 1. [email protected] Choice 2. [email protected] PC Update Newsletter July 2016 2 Editorial Free Upgrades to Windows 10 Calculation Failure Last month in early editions of this column I wrote Gary Taig ... the Free Upgrade to Windows 10 is due to expire on count passwords just in case. We want to ensure that 29 June this year. So, unless any further light is shed your account and our service are as secure as pos- upon the matter, we stragglers have limited time in sible, so we hope you don’t mind the inconvenience which to arrange that update. of doing this. There’s not much more I can tell you at this stage. We will be working very hard over the Wrong! I must have been half asleep at the time. weekend to... “ The actual expiry is12 months from the 30 June 2015 announcement and that comes to 29 July Now I know this is purely circumstantial but it’s my not June. Of course, there is always opportunity guess that’s where this crowd in the Netherlands for change, and Microsoft is one company with a got my email address. Read on — if anything looks history of those “change of mind” events. So, unless familiar, then we can discuss the services we use. you’re into Russian Roulette — we have now just under four weeks and it’s time to move on that free Subject headings range across a wide variety of upgrade. topics and each and every message is packed with URLs to tempt you to click and to get involved in Scam Warnings some way and clearly, to get infected. When reading Dave Botherway’s Beast SIG report The first two were from Bunnings Warehouse. on page 10 you will see he mentions some recent Others since have included Woolworths, Coles, Scam Warnings that were being discussed at their Ikea, Mothers Day Special Offer, Google Member- June meeting. The Bunnings Scam caught my eye. ship Rewards... and on and on. A total of 20 arrived between 30 April and 2 July. The last one from one It came from a crowd registered in the Netherlands Laura Swift was thanking me for participating in operating the domain top-selections.net. They their game and winning a new Mercedes. the first must spend most of their day dreaming up scams message from Laura Swift came on 28 May simply — the rest of the time hacking into business opera- advising that I had won the Mecerdes. tions around the world. What You Could Do Scam messages began arriving from this crowd on 30 April 2016 and that was precisely one day after I If you know how to create filters for incoming mail, received the following explanation from a commu- make one for top-selections.net and divert all mail nications company I use here in Australia. from that domain into a separate folder. I keep all scam mail and sometimes it helps to browse “Hi Gary, We identified that a security issue had oc- through them, looking for patterns etc.