00:08:37 Chris Taylor, President: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Everyone will be muted during the presentation. Feel free to use the Chat window to comment and ask questions. After the presentation, people will be able to unmute themselves. Please feel free to do so if you want to ask a question or make a comment 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 00:16:06 Chris Taylor, President: USB Speed Test https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00024571 Windows System Assessment Tool https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc770542(v=ws.11) 00:26:04 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: My thoughts on the screen blanking (looks like a pause) is a video issue. Perhaps too much demand for the system. I would lower the resolution to see if there's any difference/improvement. Or (if the system allows it, increase the memory given to the video card if it's an integrated video. 00:26:08 Harvey Hope: The Windows Reliability Monitor is useful for troubleshooting. 00:26:08 E O'Driscoll: I had a blue screen of death on my old Dell Inspiron and I did a defrag etc and it seemed to help. 00:26:20 Natalie: I had a compatibility problem with my video card in an old computer that was built. Similar issue. 00:31:55 Timothy: I just close the laptop screen and then re-open to fix my blue screen. 00:35:16 Harvey Hope: Other areas to consider are the apps running, hardware temperatures, etc 00:36:06 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: GPUZ is a good video monitor tool that's open source. 00:36:52 E O'Driscoll: Elephants are afraid of bees too. 00:37:20 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: GPUZ : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ 00:38:03 E O'Driscoll: Interesting about the featured badge! 00:39:03 Chris Taylor, President: Free on-demand malware scanners ESET https://www.eset.com/ca/home/online-scanner/ Trend https://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Panda Cloud Cleaner https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/homeusers/cloud-cleaner/ F-Secure https://www.f-secure.com/en/online-scanner Norton Power Eraser https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20100824120155EN Microsoft Safety Scanner www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx Sophos Scan & Clean https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/virus-removal-tool 00:39:16 Chris Taylor, President: Mouse Odometer https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mouse-odometer/eemhobgckjipmjobdocfilbfapcbkano 00:42:04 Stew Bruce: πŸ‘ 00:42:08 E O'Driscoll: Very funny presentation Bob.πŸ˜ƒ 00:42:29 Lynda: You crack me up Bob! 00:42:35 Bob Gowan: great stuff, Bob 00:42:39 Allison: That was great Bob! 00:42:45 Chris Taylor, President: Very good Bob H !!! 00:52:46 Serge-Γ‰rik: I totally agree about the fine print! 00:52:52 Natalie: Thanks for the info, and the Hill Street Blues reference! 00:53:20 E O'Driscoll: Thanks for the info on fraud. A good reminder. 00:57:50 Chris Taylor, President: @ Lynda I get what you are saying about the first points, but they may only apply some of the time for some of the people. I think the 3rd point should be useful to everyone to get the basic research done better than most people can do on their own. 00:58:31 Carol Pearson: I worry it becomes a crutch and slows down actual learnig 00:58:35 Bob Gowan: good points, Lynda ! 00:58:40 E O'Driscoll: @Lynda - When things have to go out quickly and multiple revisions have been done, it is great to have AI to do a last sweep through the grammar. 00:58:51 Bob Herres: Reacted to "good points, Lynda !" with ❀️ 00:59:13 Bob Herres: Reacted to "@Lynda - When things..." with πŸ‘ 00:59:32 Darlene: I still work In education and I know of younger teachers using it in their planning. 00:59:38 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: AI is definitely becoming better at generating incorrect information. :-) 01:01:42 Natalie: As previously mentioned, the value of the AI info is dependant on the info being fed into the system (like the old corpus concordancers). 01:01:48 Darlene: Teachers wear too many hats, so it might be a good thing. 01:02:03 Chris Taylor, President: OPCUG presentations offered to the Ottawa Public Library https://opcug.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024-01to03-OPLpresentationTopics.pdf 01:03:22 Timothy: the New York Times is suing Chatgpt for using it's articles without approval. 01:05:06 Chris Taylor, President: Hardware recycling CompuCorps https://www.compucorps.org National Capital Freenet https://www.ncf.ca/en/high-speed-internet/e-waste-depot/ Trash Nothing https://trashnothing.com 01:07:50 Natalie: I've seen a couple of people on TrashNothing who occasionally ask for computers to refurbish for people who can't afford to buy them. 01:08:50 Carol Pearson: Someone gave me an this a few years ago https://www.hwfottawa.org/eng/about-us 01:09:57 Darlene: Yes, Helping with Furniture did and maybe still takes used computers for less fortunate families that reach out to them. Checking their website above is a good idea. 01:11:08 Natalie: Also, for Smartphones, the CNIB collects used phones to refurbish, give & train people with low vision how to use them. Tax receipts are given. https://www.phoneitforward.ca/ 01:11:33 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Have a good evening everyone. 01:11:38 E O'Driscoll: I downloaded Malware Bytes and ran it on mylaptop recently. It was free for a limited time. (just fyi) 01:12:06 Bill: A good night. Thanks everyone. Have yourself a wonderful New Year. 01:12:31 Natalie: Thanks! I was just thinking about my renewal date :) 01:12:36 Bob Herres: Thank you everyone /Ton's of Great Stuff 😊 01:13:56 Serge-Γ‰rik: Thanks! 01:13:57 Natalie: All the best to everyone! 01:14:01 Kirsten Fleming: Thanks and Happy New Year to All! 01:14:04 Carol Pearson: Happy New Year to all 01:14:05 Allison: Happy New Year! 01:14:06 Darlene: Happy New Year! thanks 01:14:06 E O'Driscoll: Thanks I plan to download the slides for tonight's great info. 01:14:11 Harvey Hope: Happy New Year! 01:14:15 E O'Driscoll: Happy New Year everyone. 01:14:16 Bob Gowan: Happy New Year 01:14:16 Timothy: Great stuff and Happy New Year. 01:14:17 Ed Morawski: Happy New Year's, everyone!