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November 2016 Volume 27 No. 11
Published byThe Central New York Personal Computer Users Group, Inc
A Volunteer, Non-Profit Organization Distribution 250 $2.00
Our meetings are at
Liverpool Public Library
Carman Community Room
Q&A starts at 6:00 P.M.
Presenters at 7:15 P.M.
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CNYPCUG Information
President’s Message
Article
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Calendar
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Elliott Stern, The Computer Maestro,
is known for Perfecting Your
Computer Backup-The Art of Backup.
Learn to take control of Windows 10
so you really do have a better, safer,
somewhat private computing
experience.
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CNYPCUG, PO Box 6444, Syracuse, NY 13217 Published Monthly
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Directions to the library: From the NY State Thruway: Exit at Route 57 (exit 38). After the tollbooth, turn right on Route 57 towards the Village of Liverpool. At Tulip Street, turn right and go one block. Liverpool Library will be on the left side at the corner of Tulip and Second Street. From Interstate 81 North: Take the Liverpool Exit to Onondaga Lake Pkwy (Rte 370). In the Village of Liverpool, follow Rte 370 West (called Second St. in the Village) to the corner of Tulip St. Liverpool Library will be on the left. From Interstate 81 South: Take 7th North St. exit. Bear right on 7th North St. and follow it to the end. Take a left on Electronics Parkway. Go to the end and take a right on Old Liverpool Road. At the Liverpool Village center (Heid's Corners) follow Rte. 370 West to the corner of Tulip St. Liverpool Library will be on the left. Parking is available on Second St., on Tulip St., and underneath the Library in the garage.
Our meeting location for CNYPCUG
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President
Rod Stubbs
Vice President John Driscoll / 446-3944
Treasurer David Gregg / 446-3326
Secretary ___________________
Directors
Dave Cooper / 672-3489 [email protected]
Derek Currie [email protected]
Mary Buttaro [email protected]
Past President John Driscoll
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President’s Message
By Rod Stubbs
Reduce We had a presentation by Keith Liblick from Renovus Solar at the September meeting. It is an alternative energy company. Renovus Solar installs panels which capture energy from the sun and reduce our need to burn fossil fuels. It also leases farmland for its community solar program. Now, anyone can use renewable energy with panels on a solar farm. Solar farms are groups of panels, usually mounted on the ground. They are found in areas with full access to the sun, without obstruction. For more information, contact Keith at renovussolar.com or [email protected].
Reuse Do you have any tech that can be repurposed? Old computers can be donated to family members or organizations. They can also be used for offline tasks such as word processing. Sometimes I use them as oversized music players.
Recycle If your tech has come to the end of its life, you can take it to Bruin Computer (bruincomputer.com) of Liverpool. Anyone can leave e-waste at the Vine Street location 24 hours a day. Also, a Sunnking recycling event was held at the NY State Fairgrounds on October 8. Electronics will be recycled at Destiny USA on November 19. https://www.destinyusa.com/event/electronics-recycling-event/ Thank you, Derek, for the latest updates on Cyber Security last month. I will see you at the meeting. Rod Stubbs
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has also a few new actions, like the jumper that wasn't present in the original game.
[Screenshots at http://pingus.seul.org/screenshots.html]
Rust – v1.6.0. http://blog.rust-lang.org/. Free Apache License or MIT License source code and executables for Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® OS X® and GNU/Linux® by Graydon Hoare and the Rust Project Developers. Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
Features include: zero-cost abstractions
move semantics
guaranteed memory safety
threads without data races
trait-based generics
pattern matching
type inference
minimal runtime
efficient C bindings
[Code samples at http://rustbyexample.com/index.html]
Bridge Designer – v2016. https://bridgecontest.org/. Free GNU General Public License source code and executables for Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® OS X® by Gene Ressler and Engineering Encounters. Bridge Designer is the official software for a national virtual bridge engineering contest with prizes for middle and high school kids, grades 6 to 12, but anyone can enter for fun.
Features include: Design a virtual bridge and compete nationally for
scholarships or a computer!
Learn about engineering and design.
Have fun testing and improving your designs with your friends.
Teachers, school districts, states! Run your own local contest with our support.
Cool game quality animation of bridge test with OpenGL.
BD (since 2013) is code-signed for your computer's safety and Windows 8 and Mac 10.7+ security compliance!
[Screenshots at http://sourceforge.net/projects/
bdcontest/?source=directory]
Open Source Software of the Month By Geof Goodrum, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society Kernel Source – v4.4.1. http://www.kernel.org/. Free GNU General Public License source code for all platforms by the Linux community.
LibreOffice – v5.1. http://www.libreoffice.org/. Free Mozilla Public License source code and executables for Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® OS X® and GNU/Linux® by The Document Foundation. LibreOffice is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. LibreOffice embeds several applications that make it the most powerful Free & Open Source Office suite on the market: Writer, the word processor; Calc, the spreadsheet application; Impress, the presentation engine; Draw, the drawing and flowcharting application; Base, the database and database frontend; and Math for editing mathematic equations. LibreOffice native document standard is OpenDocument, but includes filters to import and export a wide variety of document file formats, including Microsoft Office, Adobe PageMaker, Corel WordPerfect, PDF, and many legacy formats. LibreOffice has localization (menu support) for 110 languages with writing aids for over 140 languages, and supports macros, document templates and over 1,000 program extensions.
This is the first release of the 5.1.x branch of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 5.1 comes with many improvements in speed and offers a completely reorganized user interface, and several improved features targeted at enterprise deployments: better support for ODF 1.2, interoperability with proprietary document formats and file management on remote servers (e.g., Google Drive, Alfresco, SharePoint).
[Screenshots at https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/screenshots/]
Pingus – v0.7.6. http://pingus.seul.org/welcome.html. Free GNU General Public License source code and executables for Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® OS X® and GNU/Linux® by Ingo Ruhnke. Pingus started at the end of 1998 with the simple goal to create a Free clone of the DMA Design puzzle game Lemmings™.
The player takes command of a bunch of penguins and guides them through 77 levels. Since the penguins walk on their own, the player can only influence them by giving them commands, like build a bridge, dig a hole or redirect all animals in the other direction. The goal of each level is to reach the exit, requiring multiple command combinations. The game is presented in a 2D side view.
Pingus doesn't try to be an exact clone; it includes a few ideas of its own like the world map and secret levels. It
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Back to Basics Your Internet Connection By Jim Cerny, Chairman,
Forums Committee,
Sarasota Technology UG, Florida
Today most people have and use more than one
computer device that can connect to the internet.
Smart phones (such as the iPhone), tablets, laptops,
and desktops all LOVE the internet. In fact, most of
these devices try to connect to the internet
automatically. In this article we will look at how
you can easily determine the answer to that all
important question: Am I connected to the internet?
In the old days of ancient history, people connected
their computers to a network (which could have
been a private network) with a wire connection
(telephone or private lines) perhaps using a
telephone modem. Do you remember those
telephone modems with the two rubber cups to hold
the handset? Ah, those were the days when carrier
pigeons were faster! But enough of days gone by.
Today the access to the internet is mostly wireless
and devices can be connected to it in different ways.
One easy way to see if you have internet access
regardless of the device you are using is to try to go
to a web page. If you can, the web page will display
and you know you have access. If not, you should
see a message on your screen that tells you there
was a problem.
If you are using a smart phone or a tablet device,
you may have a model that can use the cellular
phone network to access the internet. This may
work just fine, but be aware that you will be using
your “minutes” or “bits” which will be billed to
your cellular phone bill. I recommend that you only
use the cellular network to access the internet when
no other means are available.
There are two icons that seem to be universal for
indicating that you are connected to the internet – a
small bar graph or an “eyebrow” icon. In either
case, the more “bars” you have on the bar graph or
the more “eyebrows” you have, the stronger the
internet signal. You should know where to find
these small icons on the screen of your device,
usually in a corner. You should know how to get to
the “settings” option on your device and there will
probably be a setting option that deals with the
internet and will show you if you are connected.
Many portable devices (laptops, tablets, smart-
phones) are constantly searching for a wireless
internet connection. Say you went to a restaurant and
wanted to get on the internet. You would look at your
device’s icon and see that you had no internet signal
or a “not connected” message. So you would ask an
employee of the restaurant for instructions on how to
get connected. They would reply with the NAME of
their Wi-Fi network and a PASSWORD (if required).
Go to the “settings” option on your device and select
the wireless network option. You will probably see a
list of all the Wi-Fi networks within range of your
device. Although you could try to connect using any
of the networks found, you probably want to use the
network name given to you by the employee.
Naturally that network should have the strongest
signal and be at the top of your list. Select that
network and you will be prompted for the password
(if needed). Entering the password should get your
connection. The nice thing about this is that the next
time you return to that restaurant your device may
connect automatically without you having to do
anything. That is unless, of course, they changed their
password.
If you have a problem understanding this for your
device, go to Google (on the internet, of course) and
ask Google “How do I connect my iPhone to a Wi-Fi
network”, or “How do I know I am connected to the
internet on my Toshiba laptop?” etc. Try to be as
specific with your device name as possible. It’s nice
to know if you are connected and what to do if you
are not.
Article
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Safeguarding Windows 10 By Dick Maybach, Member, Brookdale Computer Users’ Group, NJ
If you've taken advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, you're vulnerable to losing it as well as your data if you don't make some preparations. Your old system installation disk or the recovery CD and backups you created will allow you to restore only your old Windows system. If you have a serious crash after July 29, 2016, when the free upgrade period expires, you would then either have to live with your old version or purchase a retail copy of Windows 10. Fortunately, Windows 10 includes utilities to avoid this, but only if you know about and use them, and they are buried deep enough in menus that a casual Windows user may not find them. Your first task is to create a Windows Recovery Environment on an 8-Gbyte (or larger) USB memory stick with the following procedure.
Tap the Windows key, type "recovery", and select "Create a recovery drive".
Select "create recovery drive".
Be sure the box "Backup systems files to the recovery drive" is selected (Screen 1). Click "continue". This is a slow process; don't get impatient.
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ADDRESS
CNYPCUG
PO BOX 6444
Syracuse, NY 13217
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Member Door Prizes
& Giveaways every
month at meetings
Our meetings are at Liverpool Public Library
Carman Community Room
Tulip St. & 2nd Street, Liverpool, NY
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO MEMBERS
Please be aware that we would like you to
register for EACH month’s meeting!
CNYPCUG requests that all members and non-
members register to attend our monthly meetings at
Liverpool Public Library. The registration form is
available online at -
www.cnypcug.org/reserve.
DOOR PRIZES
Here’s a partial list of some of the items
we have lined up for future meetings:
Air Ultra Duster
iPad Hardshell Case
Wireless Mouse
Kaspersky Security Software
HP 32 GB Flashdrive
DVD Movies
Vibe Acoustic Speaker
PNY 16 GB Micro SDHC Card
PNY 16 GB USB Flash Drive
And many more valuable prize items!
2015 Meetings
June 6 RSS Feeds & Evernotes
July 5 GRAMPS Software
August 1 Annual CNYTUG Picnic !!!
Sept 13 Solar Power
Oct 3 Cyber Security Month
Nov 7 Windows 10 from APCUG
Dec 5 TBA
Rod sez:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
