Upcoming Meetings

Monthly Meeting  Feb 07, 7pm
"Making the Best Use of Your TVCUC Membership"
Board Meeting   Feb. 14,
3:00pm   All members welcome.
MacUsers
Next  meeting Feb. 28,  @  3:00pm

Bob Mugge reports

This may have been reported before, but I send this as a reminder.  If you get an e-mail appearing to come from NACHA regarding an ACH bank transaction that was cancelled, do NOT click on the link to the transaction report!  Both NACHA and Snopes report these e-mails as bogus. This e-mail does not come from NACHA.  They do not send e-mails to individuals.  NACHA does have a website and requests that fradulent e-mails be forwarded to them.   I tried that, but the Charter postmaster won't send it.  Funny, when they let it come to me in the first place!

Bob Mugge
 

TAP 2011 Update

Submitted by Warren Sanders on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 15:54

As has been reported here previously, last year more systems were given away (602) than in the first three years of our existence.  As of the end of December, 2011, we have delighted 978 children.

Our year-to-date numbers for 2011 are giving 978 children access to the internet at home.  Since the program started in June of 2007, the numbers are 1,392 systems for the benefit of over 2530 children.

Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement.

Upcoming Meetings - February, 2012

TVCUC General Meeting, Tues., Feb 07, 2012 @ 7:00pm - 8:30pm at the Yacht Club, fifth floor.    After current Club Activities & Announcements,  The Program, "Making the Best Use of Your TVCUC Membership" will be presented by Joe Solymossy.  Joe will explain about 1st & 2nd Level Support, offer some advice about Discarding Computers & Peripherals and What the TAP Program can do for you.   Hope to see you there.
Watch this site for more details.

As always, there will a drawing for door prizes for Member attendees.         Visitors are always welcome.

TVCUC Board Meetings,  Tues., Feb. 14, 2012, @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm, at the Chota Activity Center.
 All members welcome.

MacUser SIG, 
Next Meeting, Tues., Feb. 28, 2012, @ 3:00 p.m., at the Chota Activity Center.

ORNL Super Computer Center Tour

A tour has been scheduled for March 22nd, 2012 at 1 PM to tour the ORNL Super Computer Center and for the first time, the inside of the Target Building at the SNS facility (see links below). The tour is limited to TVCUC members only.

We are allowed to have 35 people in the group, so if you are interested in taking the tour, please email Bob Kutschera and include your full name and country of citizenship.

We will meet at the Cooper Visitor Center at 12:00 noon (this could change at the last minute) and should return by 5 PM.

If we have more than 35 people sign up, I will have a wait list established to use with all names having been submitted to ORNL for security clearance. Having said that, if you signed up I would appreciate that you notify me as soon as possible by email if for any reason can't attend.

bkkutch@yahoo.com

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Bob Kutschera

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-wp-049-ch25-McKenzie.pdf
http://computing.ornl.gov/

November 2011 Newsletter Quiz Answers

Did you get the newsletter?  Did you do the quiz?  

The answers to the questions are below the fold.  Click read more to see them.

 

Learning Center Schedule

Submitted by Bob Mugge on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 14:50

Joe Solymossy's novice computer class will run again in February 2012 for five sessions.  Details follow:

Tuesday 2/14 at 10 AM to noon
Friday 2/17 at 10 AM to noon
Tuesday 2/21 at 1 to 3 PM
Thursday 2/23 at 10 AM to noon
Monday 2/27 at noon to 2 PM

call Joe at 458-3834 or e-mail him at jmsoly@gmail.com to sign up for the class.

Both PC and MAC users are welcome.  Bring your laptop if you have one.  Use one of ours if you don't.  PC users: know which operating system you use at home (XP, Vista or 7) 

In addition to the above, Bob Mugge will offer a three session class in Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet applications) for all levels of students.  Those who use Works Spreadsheet may attend, but there may be a few functions discussed that are not compatible with Works.  Details follow:

Thursday 2/2 at 3 to 5 PM
Wednesday 2/8 at 1 to 3 PM 
Wednesday 2/15 at 1 to 3 PM

Call Bob at 458-2544 or e-mail him at eggumbob@chartertn.net to sign up for these sessions.  Bring your laptop if you have one.  Use one of ours if you don't.  Also bring a flash drive if you have one.

RE-ARRANGING PHOTOS IN WINDOWS 7 "LIBRARY/PICTURES" FOLDERS

Submitted by Richard Schmeling on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 14:33

  

A TVCUC member told me recently that she could not re-arrange her pictures in the Windows 7 "Library/Pictures" folder, for re-numbering purposes, as can be done in the Windows XP "My Pictures" folders. Indeed, I checked and found that Windows 7 was designed to work that way, and is not user-changeable, as delivered. Upon checking further, I found that there is at least one way to get around that issue if it is a problem for you, by using a downloadable "Windows 7 - Explorer Auto Arrange - Disable" feature. The "Disable Auto-Arrange" feature can also be reset to re-enable "Explorer's Auto-Arrange" default, if and when you wish to do so.
  
The process involves the following major steps:
 

Hacking story

Great article  

All about how a gmail account was hacked and what could be done about it.

Basic Protection Information

This article says if you keep your firewall turned on and update all your software regularly, you will not get infected.  Unless, of course, you do something stupid.

PERIODIC PROMPTS FOR SOFTWARE UPDATES -- ACCEPT OR REJECT?

Submitted by Richard Schmeling on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 15:38

I am asked frequently, "Should I accept prompts for program updates that appear periodically on my computer? -- usually at, or shortly after, turn-on time.” That is a good and fair question. My responsive advice is usually as follows:

1. The purpose of program legitimate updates is usually to correct real or potential software problems or add one or more new program features.

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