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New Meeting Schedule
At the December 2020 general meeting, a
resolution was passed to again change the Club's meeting
schedule. Starting in 2021, the Club will meet every month
on the second Tuesday of the month at 3:00 p.m. The meetings
will be online-only using the Zoom Video Communications
software.
General Meeting Information
Each meeting will include the club business
report, a technical exchange, and, when possible, an outside
speaker or club member will discuss a topic of interest to
the club.
Before each meeting, an email containing the
upcoming topic and a Zoom link will be sent to club members.
You can join the meeting by clicking the link. If you do not have Zoom software on your machine,
it will be installed automatically when you join the
meeting.
If you have a computer, tablet, or phone with
a camera and a microphone, you will be able to participate
in the meeting. All of the attendees will be able to see and
hear each other. If you have a microphone and no camera, you
will be able to participate in the discussion, but the other
attendees will not be able to see you. If you don't have a
camera or a microphone, you can still attend and watch and
listen.
Not all meetings have specific topics and
speakers. For more details about the meetings not summarized
below, see the Meeting Calendar at the left.
April, 2023 Meeting
Subject: An Update of Electric
Vehicles
Speaker: Alan Baker
Time: Tue. Apr. 11, 2023 @ 03:00 PM Pacific Time
About 3 years ago Walt Cole gave the PC Club a presentation
on electric vehicles. The market has changed a lot since
then--Californians are snapping up electric vehicles at an
unprecedented rate--sales are up 61% year over year. Today
there are many new models, better reliability, easier
charging, and tax credits.
Curious to learn more? Join us on Tuesday Apr. 11, 2023 at
3pm.
Renew your membership for 2023
Since we are not currently meeting in person,
we have decided to wave the membership dues. However, we
would like you to fill out the membership application form.
See the Membership link in the column at the left for
instructions.
Club Newsletter
For many years Dick Stuart did an outstanding
job editing our club newsletter. It is with much sadness
that we report that Dick passed away on March 30, 2017. We
will miss him. We all agreed that no one would be able
to replace Dick as newsletter editor, so in lieu of future
newsletters, you might find some interesting PC related
information on the websites of the Association
of Personal Computer User Groups or the Golden
Gate Computer Society. Also some good Windows 10
reference material can be found here
and here.
PDF copies of our previous newsletters can be accessed by
clicking Club Newsletters in
the left-hand menu.
Secret Guide to Computers & Tricky
Living
The latest edition of this handy reference
has been posted here.
Check it out.
One Hundred Icons of Progress
For the IBM Centennial Beverly Baker
put together a PowerPoint presentation depicting IBM's
major accomplishments throughout its first one hundred
years. It is really well done. A PDF version of the
presentation is on this website. Click here
to view it.
Can Your Car be Hacked?
Read an interesting blog by Bob Rankin
about how vulnerable some of the new cars are to
having their controls hacked from the outside. Hackers
could potentially take over a car's engine, breaks,
steering, or even windshield wipers. Read the blog
here: http://bit.ly/autohacking
Printer and Monitor Calibration
File
Take a look at the new printer and
monitor calibration file contributed by Ed Mueller.
Click the link in the column on the left.
Sixty years of star parties
with the San Jose Astronomical Association
On September 19th the San Jose
Mercury News printed an article about the San Jose
Astronomical Association. The article highlighted
some of the activities that our club postmaster,
Jim Van Nuland, is doing to bring the
Association's Outreach Program to the schools. Jim
visits schools in San Jose and neighboring cities
and sets up telescopes for night viewing
activities. You can read the article at http://goo.gl/BSCYyF.
Thunderbird upgrade
The Thunderbird email client may
issue an erroneous message about the TLS
security protocol being disabled at
sjpc.org. If you encounter this message,
please change Thunderbird's server setting from
TLS to SSL. For more information about
email at sjpc.org, click here.
PC Health Check
Due to the smaller size of our
new meeting room, we will no longer be able to
provide a PC Health Check at our meetings.
However, information about software that members
can use to do their own PC health check is at http://sjpc.org/pchealthcheck/software.html.
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