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Monthly Meeting November 2020

The November 2020 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 4th November 2020, with over 100 members in attendance. This was the program for the evening: Guest Speakers: Jerzy Zywicki and Miroslav Reitikh from Digital Home Systems Topic: The Z Wave Protocol… Continue Reading…

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From The President November 2020

David Stonier-Gibson Committee changes There have been a couple of changes in the committee. Kirsten Greed and Aavon Fernando have resigned. The committee voted unanimously to appoint Peter Boin and Aidan Kelly to serve in the period until the deferred… Continue Reading…

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Editorial November 2020

Firstly, welcome to another edition of PC Update, namely the November 2020 edition, and our penultimate for this ‘year’ we call 2020. Secondly, apologies for the very long wait for this particular edition. Like with the last time PC Update… Continue Reading…

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Yammer Highlights October 2020

Dennis Parsons Phones   We had a couple of interesting threads this month concerning phones and plans that ranged far and wide but proved very useful to both the users asking the questions and the other participants. As is our… Continue Reading…

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DOTW Winners October 2020

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too seriously and do pop over to Chit Chat and vote each week. Thanks to those of our members who occasionally… Continue Reading…

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East SIG Report October 2020

Neil Muller East SIG meeting host Paul Woolard opened the October virtual meeting with Frank Maher as the Zoom host. The meeting then commenced with George Skarbek presenting Q&A. I’ve recently had my Melbourne PC email successfully moved to Google G-Suite… Continue Reading…

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How Australia can reap the benefits and dodge the dangers of the Internet of Things

Kayleen Manwaring, UNSW and Peter Leonard, UNSW The Internet of Things (IoT) is already all around us. Online devices have become essential in industries from manufacturing and healthcare to agriculture and environmental management, not to mention our own homes. Digital… Continue Reading…

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3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are shared online daily. Sorting real from fake is an increasing challenge.

T.J. Thomson, Queensland University of Technology; Daniel Angus, Queensland University of Technology, and Paula Dootson, Queensland University of Technology Twitter screenshots/Unsplash, Author provided Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly… Continue Reading…

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Interesting Internet Finds

Steve Costello, SEFCUG In the course of going through the more than 300 RSS feeds, I often run across things that I think might be of interest to other user group members. The following are some items I found interesting… Continue Reading…

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