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Book Review: We Have Been Harmonized

Tim McQueen We have been harmonised – Life in China’s surveillance state Kai Stittmatter Old Street Publishing. 328 Pages. This is not the usual type of book reviewed in PC Update. However, in the light of recent publicity of China’s… Continue Reading…

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Northern Suburbs Linux SIG Report December 2019

Trevor Jacobs and David Hatton A jovial bunch and many animated pre-meeting conversations, so again we started a few minutes late lacking the timekeeping of our resident MC – continue the health improvement, Paul. Nick’s Linux News this month was… Continue Reading…

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December Monthly Meeting

The December Monthly Meeting will be held Wednesday December 4 at 7pm. Guest Speaker: Fiona Patten MP Fiona Patten is a state politician. She is the leader of the Reason Party and has a seat in the Victorian Legislative Council,… Continue Reading…

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From The President October 2019

John Hall Volunteering for your Club By the time you read this it will be the end of September/early October and the time for nominations for committee members will be closing soon.   I am very pleased to able to… Continue Reading…

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Software Review: CloudReady

Hugh Macdonald Like me, you might have always wondered whether a Chromebook would be a useful computing device for everyday use. But also like me, you might have been reluctant to actually purchase a Chromebook, lest it wasn’t suitable, and… Continue Reading…

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Melbourne Society of Model and Experimental Engineers Exhibition Report 2019

Words: Phil Lew, Photos: Phil Lew and George Skarbek   The “Let’s Make It” theme invited many other like minded groups to exhibit their projects which showcased each groups knowledge, expertise and ingenuity in the various areas of technology and… Continue Reading…

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From The President November 2019

John Hall Our new committee In my September President’s Report I asked for volunteers to nominate for the upcoming committee and I am very pleased to say that we have filled all of the “executive” positions and we also have… Continue Reading…

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Software Review: Emergency+ smartphone application

Neil Muller Ed: This article was originally part of the East SIG Report but is being run as a standalone article due to the fact that this app could be important and useful to members over summer. Thanks to Malcolm… Continue Reading…

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Video Production Group Report October 2019

John Hall The meeting opened with John Thomson’s “What’s New” section where he showed us the Sony FX9 Pro Video Camera and gave us some facts about its amazing capabilities. He also showed new Cameras from Canon – the EOSC500,… Continue Reading…

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