Victoria Computer Club

Judy presented our club via Zoom from California as well as to people in the room.  She gave us many tips to follow, and her presentation was well received.

Here are the links to her presentation for your reference.

• Decluttering Presentation
• Decluttering Checklist

The AGM held on Tuesday March 21 2023 achieved the following:

• confirmed the current membership fee of $25 for the coming year
• tasked the executive to explore the possibility of paying honorariums to Friday’s volunteer teachers
• elected Michael Swift to replace Scott Dyer as Membership Director.  All other directors were re-elected: Dorothy Cushway as President; George Bowden as Vice President, Ed Prior as Treasurer, Anita Fownes as Secretary, Murray Strome as Member at Large,

Michael gave an interesting update on access to GVPL Digital Library.

Here is the link to the slide show about sharing your screen to get help from others in the club…

A club functions with leadership at the helm. The current executive shoulder multiple duties and are in need of sharing the responsibilities. Can you help?
VCC invites you to join the executive as Membership Director.
Do you like to write? The Membership Director’s role would be as a communications person. Continue reading →

Here is a link to the form

Presented by George Bowden at Ask the Experts,  November 22, 2022

Black Friday Deals and Scams

Alan Perry gave a great presentation to the Victoria Computer Club on November 17th on “Staying Safe Online” on Windows and on Apple Products.  The second part of his presentation was 10 Tech Gift Ideas.  See links below

On Sunday, November 20th, he will be presenting a free workshop on “Staying Safe Online” at 2pm, at the Sidney and North Saanich Library branch at 10091 Resthaven Drive in Sidney.  No registration needed. Continue reading →

When you load up your friend’s computer with your favourite operating system, you may not be doing them any favours.  You may love Linux Fedora for instance, but unless you are going to live forever to support your friend, consider what help is available in the community.  Here is a graph of the popularity of Linux distributions… and Fedora is way down on the list.  And linux is less than 3% of desktops to start, so multiply 0.03 times 0.002 and you get about 1 in 10,000 computers running Fedora…  Now start expecting community support, based on those numbers. Good luck.

To access the slides for the presentation, “The Battle For Your Identity” click here.

Part 1 was presented Sept 6th,  in slides 1 to 21.

Part 2 was presented to club members Sept 20th, with a shortened review of part 1

Recently I have had two instances of people sending me money via etransfer, but sending it to the wrong email address, which I have no access to.   It is very easy to enter a wrong email address when setting up a payee.   If the recipient account has direct deposit set up, it is easy to tick the checkbox acknowledging that this is a direct deposit account that needs no secret pass phrase.  And it is a common error to send a second email to the same recipient with the secret pass phrase, even though there are several warnings to use an alternate channel, like a phone call, for this.

So be careful sending money via etransfer that you cannot afford to lose.  And be extra careful when sending to a recipient with direct deposit.

Here are a couple of articles about the problem.

Warning about losing money with e-Transfer after two people make same mistake

Interac’s E-Transfer Auto-Deposit Creates More Problems than it Solves