Managing Your Passwords
Maurice Green, PhD
President/Webmaster, SPAUG
A password manager is a piece of software that remembers passwords, so you don’t have to. By remembering a single master password, all of your other passwords are stored securely for retrieval as and when you need them.
Maury will discuss the properties and use of strong passwords to secure your online accounts and describe a number of available paid and free password managers.
As usual, the meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto and begins at 7PM. We will be meeting in the Library on the second floor.
For those who enjoy the schmooze, we will have our usual no-host pre-meeting dinner at 5:30PM in the Bistro Café on the first floor of the lodge.
NOTE: This meeting will be available online via ZOOM.
The online session will start at 7PM.
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Playing in the Sandbox
Running Windows on a Linux OS
Bill Young
Running Linux on a Windows OS
Maurice Green
Virtual machines allow you to run an operating system in an app window on your desktop that behaves like a full, separate computer. You can use them play around with different operating systems, run software your main operating system can’t, and try out apps in a safe, sandboxed environment.
As usual, the meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto and begins at 7PM. We will be meeting in the Conference Room on the second floor.
For those who enjoy the schmooze, we will have our usual no-host pre-meeting dinner at 5:30PM in the Bistro Café on the first floor of the lodge.
NOTE: This meeting will NOT be available online via ZOOM.
Highlights of CES 2020
Andy Marken, Marken Communications
Andy Marken returns to SPAUG to review the highlights and the best new products of the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. If it wasn’t at CES this year it probably isn’t worth considering – nearly 4500 companies from over 160 countries, over 100 educational/informational sessions covering everything was there in January.
As usual, the meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto and begins at 7PM. We will be meeting in the Conference Room on the second floor.
For those who enjoy the schmooze, we will have our usual no-host pre-meeting dinner at 5:30PM in the Bistro Café on the first floor of the lodge.
NOTE: This meeting will be available online via ZOOM.
Join Zoom Meeting from your computer at
https://zoom.us/j/329198601
Video Conferencing with Zoom
Maurice Green
In light of the current concerns about the Coronavirus it has been decided that we avoid contacts in unnecessary group meetings, especially given the high risk factors for members of our group. So we will not have our usual monthly meeting at the Elks Lodge. Instead, the meeting will be conducted by, and the topic will be, Zoom Videoconferencing.
Firefox Extensions and Add-ons
John Buck
For our 9/9/20 SPAUG general meeting, member John Buck will attempt to discuss and demonstrate some Firefox browser add-ons and search techniques. Since this is John’s first attempt at doing this, perfection is not guaranteed, and the results may be interesting and/or useful. All operations will be performed in strict observance of Murphy’s Law and its corollary that “Murphy was an optimist.”
There will also be an opportunity for our usual ‘random access’ discussion.
NOTE: This will be a ‘virtual’ meeting using Zoom videoconferencing.
The Zoom site will open early to provide time for some good ol’ schmoozing.
When: Sep 9, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIod-qorTMtE9YK-0SQDHZh_GL_k6QsNQWh
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Doctor is In
For our 9/9/20 SPAUG general meeting, the Computer Doctor, Sue Kayton will join us for a ‘random access” Q&A session about computer problems.
If you have a particular topic you would like to discuss, please send an email to webmaster@spaug.net so we can make time for the discussion.
NOTE: This will be a ‘virtual’ meeting using Zoom videoconferencing.
The Zoom site will open early to provide time for some good ol’ schmoozing.
When: October 14, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time
Please register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Doctor is In
For our 12/9/20 SPAUG general meeting, the Computer Doctor, Sue Kayton will join us for a ‘random access” Q&A session about computer problems.
If you have a particular topic you would like to discuss, please send an email to webmaster@spaug.net so we can make time for the discussion.
NOTE: This will be a ‘virtual’ meeting using Zoom videoconferencing.
The Zoom site will open early to provide time for some good ol’ schmoozing.
When: December 9, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvdOquqzIvGtDrZ95iCLAcIKqU-Q_d15Y6
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.