00:09:20 Chris Taylor: Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:11:04 Alan German: Special tonight! - The last ten minutes of our Q&A session will not have any prepared material - so, give some thought to the question that you want to ask! Enter your question in this chat window. We will monitor the content and come back to the questions at the end of the session. 00:14:54 Chris Taylor: to join https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 00:21:04 Bob Herres: If I forward an "Interesting forum group post" to another person, you might be interested... could that new person "Unsubscribe me" by accident? 00:21:12 Jocelyn Doire: if you set the override to false, how to reply to the originator? 00:22:17 Bob Herres: I sometimes remove that link 00:23:34 Bill Van Dijk: When I send a message to the OPCUG forum, it is not echo'ed back to me (I use Outlook). Is that a list issue, or outlook? 00:24:03 Jocelyn Doire: ok, thanks 00:27:22 Chris Taylor: @Bob H - no problem - the bottom of emails sent from the list say "To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opcug-member-forum+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com." So if you forward the message to someone else, they can't unsubscribe you. 00:27:40 Chris Taylor: This is not necessarily the case with other mailing lists. 00:29:14 Chris Taylor: OpenDNS customization and tracking https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ 00:32:30 E O'Driscoll: I think baidu.com points to China too. 00:33:48 Jocelyn Doire: What do you see if you go to a blocked domain? Can you bypass the block temporarily? 00:35:29 E O'Driscoll: Good info Tom. 00:36:46 Tom Trottier: Can be useful 00:36:54 Chris Taylor: Configuring Rogers WiFi - some settings can only be changed at https://ignitewifi.rogers.com If you need to configure a Bell Home Hub 3000 to passthrough mode https://www.reddit.com/r/bell/comments/jxfps4/passthrough_home_hub_3000_wan_ip_to_your_own 00:37:34 Tom Trottier: SSID of "RCMP Surveillance van" is funny..... 00:46:12 Bill Van Dijk: disabling the firewall is useful if you use the router inside your network, so the router is then already protected from the outside (WAN) but is open within the protected environment. 00:51:36 Bill Van Dijk: I use the second router in a different area of my property so I have wifi available outside the range of the main router 00:52:04 Bill Van Dijk: The second router is hardwired to the first 00:52:12 Stew Bruce: I've read about using separate internal networks for IOT devices 00:55:10 Tom Trottier: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2 - is shields UP currently 00:56:59 Tom Trottier: (for common ports) 00:57:05 Tom Trottier: for ALL ports - https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2 00:57:09 Stew Bruce: When I used to use Cogeco as an ISP, I changed the broadcast name to "Cogeco House of Pancakes" or something like that. 00:57:43 Bill Van Dijk: I also have the 3000. It is important to restrict physical access, even though it allows you to turn off password display on the front, (push button) it resets after a power cycle 00:58:06 Tom Trottier: Is anyone using PFsense? 01:00:54 Tom Trottier: It's a firewall on steroids 01:01:11 Jocelyn Doire: Not a question, just an interesting effect: Recently NASA sent a spacecraft to deviate an asteroid called Dart, and if you search on Google for "Dart Mission", and check for the screen for few seconds, you will get a little surprise 01:06:44 Tom Trottier: Hibernation uses up SSD life.... 01:07:21 Alan German: What does everyone think is the best thing to do with the computer overnight or if you are out of the house for several hours? 01:08:01 Tom Trottier: I sleep when away < 1 hour, shut down when longer 01:09:27 Tom Trottier: Capacitors/condensers age on or off. When they leak & fail, you got a problem 01:09:33 Tristan: Nothing wrong with using sleep. Although with Windows it's generally a good idea to reboot or full shutdown once every week or two. 01:10:48 Bill: Thanks everyone. Great night. 🤗🤗 01:12:20 Tristan: It all becomes a bit pointless if have a new nvme SSD. A startup from full shutdown is almost as fast as resume from sleep. 01:12:51 E O'Driscoll: I shut down overnight usually. I often have many things open (too many things). 01:13:56 Stew Bruce: You guys are trying to answer this question generally. This doesn't help Lorraine. What kind of system does she have? 01:14:43 Edward Morawski: If left on 24/7 any corruption that develops can persist, perhaps for a long time. 01:15:21 Brigitte: Put to sleep too stop fan from failing prematurely. Alao stop it from sucking in dust. 01:15:43 Brigitte: power supplu fan 01:16:10 Brigitte: i had one fail 01:17:03 Tristan: It all boils down to personal preference with one's home computer. With work devices it is a different story, they want them left on so they can deploy software updates. 01:17:04 Bill Van Dijk: At work IT wants it running so they can do remote maintenance 01:18:44 Tristan: If an update is pending reboot, Windows will force the reboot after a certain amount of time. 01:20:07 Tristan: Generally the auto reboot will happen late at night, even if it is left in sleep. 01:21:21 Jocelyn Doire: For me, not on a fast computer, for a coffee break I just leave it on, for overnight I put it on sleep for faster restart, for a longer time I shut it down, and if it slows down and have problem, I reboot 01:21:47 Bob Herres: Very interesting Thank you Everyone! 01:22:22 Allison: Thank you. Great information tonight. 01:22:31 E O'Driscoll: Thank you. I'll try to identify a speaker.