REPORT OF THE TECHNICAL MATTERS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP HELD ON  26th APRIL 2012 AT 2.15PM IN THE COMPUTER ROOM.

 

17  members attended this monthly meeting. Some of the topics discussed are as follows:
A member brought up the question of a large number of email addresses in the TO line. A number of suggestions to tidy up emails before forwarding them on were suggested.  Suggested a workshop on “Problems with Emails” 
A general discussion on TV reception and Freeview ensured.

 A member asked what was libreOffice?
 LibreOffice is the free and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux,   that gives six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from a large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.

A fun video of the “PUSH THE RED BUTTON” from YouTube was shown.
http://www.morefm.co.nz/Push-The-Red-Button/tabid/94/articleID/2569/Default.aspx 

An older computer was booted up to demonstrate how to look at different aspects of the hardware and software installed. A new operating system was tried to be installed but it failed to initialize.Next month we will demonstrate installing UBUNTU onto the same computer.
A very interesting and informative meeting.
All members of SeniorNet Canterbury are welcome to attend this technical meeting to learn more about how their computer functions. 

The meeting  date for  this group is the fourth Thursday of each month.. The next meeting is  to be held on 24 MAY 2012  starting at 2.15 pm in the computer room at the Ferrymead Computer centre.
Lester Reilly
Member of the Technical Committee.