00:11:46 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 00:14:29 Chris Taylor, President: Ooops ... old copy of text. Everyone can unmute themselves during Q&A 00:18:17 Timothy: The first 2 letters are the same on the links. 00:18:28 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): OPCUG’s Great Little Fraud Watch Page https://opcug.ca/Articles/2402NEWS.pdf 00:18:51 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Think doubleclik.net as an ad site is defunct 00:19:21 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Verifying My Intel Processor https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000037864/processors.html 00:21:39 Tom Trottier: DoubleClick Inc. was an American advertisement company that developed and provided Internet ad serving services from 1995 until its acquisition by Google in March 2008. But still a domain extensively used - https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/enterprise/ 00:23:25 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): How Amateurs created the world´s most popular Processor (History of ARM Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwdhPOVOUk 00:23:36 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): ARM's Secret Weapon (History of ARM Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1-6yRAGk0 00:23:38 Timothy: Dr Who. 00:23:47 Tom Trottier: ARM? Sounds RISCy 00:24:38 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): ARM = Acorn Risc Machine (used in the BBC Acorn Microcomputer). 00:25:18 Tom Trottier: FREE + some % off 00:27:44 Tom Trottier: https://listserve.com/ 00:31:03 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Easiest way to join members' forum Send email to sysop@opcug.ca (or chris.taylor@opcug.ca) - say you want to join the OPCUG-Member-Forum - give info so OPCUG membership can be confirmed 00:31:09 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Using the forum through email From the subscribed email address, send an email to opcug-member-forum@googlegroups.com Your message will be distributed to all forum subscribers 00:33:59 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Two-for-one membership offer! Anyone purchasing a new membership from now until March 31 st will buy a one-year membership and have the membership expiry data extended by one year on April 1st. 00:34:03 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): I f you are currently an OPCUG member, there is no need to pay to renew your membership for another whole year. As has been done for several years, the Board of Directors has once again decided to waive membership renewal fees, and this will apply to all members in good standing as of April 1, 2024. So, don’t send us any money. Your next membership year is absolutely free. 00:35:31 Stew Bruce: Well, Alan's fingers certainly seem to be working just fine........ 00:35:42 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): I f you are currently an OPCUG member, there is no need to pay to renew your membership for another whole year. As has been done for several years, the Board of Directors has once again decided to waive membership renewal fees, and this will apply to all members in good standing as of April 1, 2024. So, don’t send us any money. Your next membership year is absolutely free. 00:39:03 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Access Google Groups website directly Browse to https://groups.google.com/ OPCUG-Member-Forum will be listed 00:40:03 Tom Trottier: Hi Cheryl! 00:40:39 Bob Herres: I guess this is normal.. If I post something to the forum, my post is "Not" emailed back to me... (Sometimes I wonder if I posted it right :-) 😀 00:41:51 Carol Pearson: I dont see google groups on my google drive. is that because i am not a ember of one? 00:42:12 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Bob Google seems to think that you should know what YOU posted. However, I agree that this is poor practice. 00:42:31 Bob Herres: Reacted to "@Bob Google seems t..." with ❤️ 00:43:52 E O'Driscoll: Chris: who is Micheline who posts all the great stuff on Google Groups? 00:44:09 Stew Bruce: You can just type google groups in the address bar of a browser 00:45:01 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Is there a way to over-ride that setting in Gmail so that you do get a copy sent back? 00:45:03 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Elizabeth - That's Micheline Johnson. She is on the call tonight. 00:49:58 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Disk is set up as an external USB drive 00:54:16 Tom Trottier: What about compression? 00:56:03 Ed Morawski: Last I checked a quick format only does an overwrite of some critical blocks. What happens if this is a first use (ie. unformatted) partition? 00:57:59 Tom Trottier: I use compression on most of my disks - I have a fast processor. On system disk, it leaves the boot files uncompressed so they work. %saved is about 20-30% except media, which is already compressed 00:58:45 Tom Trottier: https://www.lifewire.com/wps-file-2622400 01:00:19 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Can libre office open wps files? - English Ask LibreOffice https://ask.libreoffice.org › can-libre-office-open-wps-... Dec 13, 2017 — Yes, LibreOffice can open .wps files ( If you mean files with a .wps extension that were created by MS Works or MS Works for Mac ). 01:00:21 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/can-libre-office-open-wps-files/29659 01:00:34 Timothy: I think that WPS is Word Perfect. 01:00:46 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: A qucik google search also says "Yes, LibreOffice can open . wps files ( If you mean files with a . wps extension that were created by MS Works or MS Works for Mac ). But Word *should* open it. 01:00:51 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Opening old Christmas letters Online converter https://www.online-convert.com/ https://convertio.co/document-converter/ 01:01:05 Tom Trottier: https://filehippo.com/download_microsoft_works_6_9_file_converter/ 01:01:55 Tom Trottier: AbiWord, LibreOffice, and OpenOffice also can enter 01:01:57 Tom Trottier: open 01:02:26 Bob Gowan: https://pdf.wps.com/blog/how-to-open-wps-file-easiest-ways-in-2022-post886/ 01:02:57 Tom Trottier: You can usually save as .DOC or ..DOCX 01:03:08 Harvey Hope: zamzar.com converts all file types 01:03:44 Timothy: It may be a very old Word Perfect that more modern Office programs may not be able to open. 01:04:47 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Next Q&A Jan 31st Send your questions and topics you wish to share to: SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 01:04:57 E O'Driscoll: I have a question about Microsoft Office. 01:07:54 Ed Morawski: The terms of use that accompany the media should tell you what you're allowed to do (ie. transfer to another PC). 01:08:05 Micheline: Word online is free and you can access it a via https://www.office.com/launch/word?flight=unauthrefresh&auth=1 01:08:37 Ed Morawski: Usually you can 'de-activate' or 'de-install' the software and then re-install on another 01:09:04 Harvey Hope: Good recommendation Micheline! 01:09:16 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: I'm not sure that Office 2007 will run on a Windows 11 system. I was under the impression you required at leat 2019. Also, the Outlook mail client will certainly not work. 01:09:46 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): LibreOffice is free and open source and supports Office files (e.g. doc, docx, etc.) 01:10:30 Tom Trottier: https://newsletter.azadinetwork.com/e/campaigns/rv119dsrotc32/track-url/qr799wjzae819/2eed21ac0ee3c74b9e2a036b6bf64aeb79a19047 01:10:40 Tom Trottier: for office 19 01:11:24 Timothy: Softwarekeep is what I use to buy Office. Microsoft Office 2013 Professional MPN: 269-16094 $157.99 01:11:48 Timothy: SoftwareKeep.ca 01:12:05 Tom Trottier: Office 19 $40 US 01:13:46 Jocelyn Doire: Why not use free software like LibreOffice? Will work forever and everywhere. 01:14:13 Timothy: Microsoft Office 2021 Professional $ 319.99 CAD at Softwarekeep.ca 01:14:16 Serge-Érik: Microsoft Office online is free. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2127926/how-to-use-microsoft-office-online-for-free.html#:~:text=The%20Office%20programs%20are%20also,completely%20sufficient%20for%20most%20tasks. 01:14:55 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: SharewareOnSale Office 2019 $39.99 https://sharewareonsale.com/s/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2019-for-windows-one-time-purchase-86-discount 01:15:39 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Jocelyn The downside is that it's not 100% compatible but you have to work at it to find problems 01:15:40 Bob Herres: Thank you everyone! And Alan your "Partition Segment Substitute" was almost as good as you! Hope U feel better Soon! 01:15:55 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Good night everyone. 01:15:57 Ed Morawski: Good presentations!! 01:16:21 Gail ( OPCUG Secretary): Thank you! 01:16:22 E O'Driscoll: Thanks for all the help! 01:16:27 Allison: Thank you! Good info tonight.