00:10:13 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 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 00:14:52 Tom Trottier: It's a mute point 00:16:18 Tom Trottier: I just moved to a new Pixel 00:17:00 Tom Trottier: Data, programs copied after backup, but programs' settings had to be reset 00:18:12 barb: i find that contacting companies through facebook works 00:18:45 Harvey Hope: Suggest using https://mxtoolbox.com/ to verify companies DNS, ensure email not blocked. 00:19:24 Tom Trottier: When a bridge director died, I used an AI to search for their obituary, using name, general date, country. 00:19:33 David Odynski Oshawa: I have a comment to say about the phone if we have time at the end of Q and A 00:20:17 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "I have a comment to say about the phone if we have time at the end of Q and A" Thanks David. If I forget, unmute yourself and yell at me! ๐Ÿ˜ 00:20:42 Tom Trottier: FWIW, for vibe coding, if you want a small executable, You can use the "tinycc" compiler for a C program. 00:21:32 Stew Bruce: I think we looked at this website some time ago for trying to contact a company, https://gethuman.com/ 00:22:15 Tom Trottier: Companies are moving to AIs on the phone, eg, Rogers. 00:33:04 Timothy: Ctrl-Alt-Delete is another way to get to Task Manager. 00:33:25 Tom Trottier: Sysinternals' Process Explorer can give you much information and control and history. You can also show taskbar minigraphs to show congestion. 00:36:39 Natalie: Can you choose which resource is used for the Dock (e.g. for currency rate)? 00:41:00 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Microsoft PowerToys - Command Palette Dock - download PowerToys from Microsoft Store, or - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases 00:43:17 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: If anyone has difficulty figuring out how to set up Command Palette Dock, email me at chris.taylor@opcug.ca and I can help you out. 00:44:22 Tom Trottier: Version control is a way to track and manage changes to files over time, especially code, so you can see what changed, when, and by whom. It is used because it helps people work safely, collaborate without overwriting each otherโ€™s work, and go back to earlier versions if something breaks. 00:44:35 Tom Trottier: You can also identify changes between versions 00:46:39 Tom Trottier: Systems of multiple files also have a configuration manager which identifies which version of each file goes woth each other to create a working system. 00:48:31 Harvey Hope: Does the git checkout prevent access to that software, until the developer commits changes?? 00:48:31 Tom Trottier: MS Word, probably others, also can have such version controls 00:49:43 Tom Trottier: https://git-scm.com 00:52:26 Jeff Dubois: I set up a GitHub account this week. My 'free' hosting service does not allow cron jobs from the server. So in order to put an updated scheduler.json my my hosting service, I run the schedule task on GitHub and then use GitHub to FTP the file over to my hosting service at 4:00am every day. It's all automated and happens (once set up) in the background. 00:52:45 Tom Trottier: FWIW, GIT branches usually are spinoffs which add a feature or fix a bug. Merging branches to choose a solution is nontrivial 00:52:59 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Learn Git In 15 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USjZcfj8yxE Git and GitHub Tutorial for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRZGeaHPoaw 00:53:42 Tom Trottier: GitHub is a public free GIT repository anyone can use. 00:54:20 KWG: It was my question. Fantastic comprehensive answer! Thanks Alan. 00:58:36 E O'Driscoll: Thanks...I did ignore that EaseUS suggestion. 01:00:54 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Thanks...I did ignore that EaseUS suggestion." Most people do icnore the suggestion! ๐Ÿ˜ You can make it at any time. Very good to make one and test that you can start your computer from it AND that you can access your backup files WHILE booted from the flash drive. Really ugly if you need it and infyou have difficulties . 01:02:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Disk Image Backup and Recovery โ€“ Part 2 EaseUS Todo Backup https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html 01:05:00 Jocelyn Doire: can the emergency be made on a DVD disk, and should we? 01:05:47 E O'Driscoll: When you say "reboot the computer" is that a full power down? 01:13:06 Ma Vo: has anyone encountered floating point errors in Libre Office Calc? 01:14:12 Harvey Hope: Replying to "has anyone encountered floating point errors in Libre Office Calc?" Does your calculation include the Round function? 01:14:45 Ma Vo: Replying to "has anyone encounter..." no, only currency values with values only having 2 decimal points 01:14:52 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG presentations at the OPL https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/program?text=ottawa+pc 01:15:36 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Chris Taylor's AI presentation at the Durham Personal Computer Users' Club Thursday, April 9, 7:00pm OPCUG members are welcome to attend https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83492096183?pwd=Q3phQnBxR1hIUE9ZWWsrQjlTSmQzUT09 01:15:46 Harvey Hope: Replying to "has anyone encountered floating point errors in Libre Office Calc?" @Ma Vo True, but use the Round function to see if the error is resolved. 01:16:16 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Bonus presentation: Armchair Travel: Beautiful British Columbia https://opcug.ca/events/bonus-presentation-2-armchair-travel-beautiful-british-columbia/?occurrence=2026-03-03 01:16:45 Ma Vo: Replying to "has anyone encounter..." the round functions does resolve it, but it adds lots of what should be uncessary code 01:17:25 Harvey Hope: Replying to "has anyone encountered floating point errors in Libre Office Calc?" Sorry, that's all I can suggest. 01:17:35 Gail Eagen (OPCUG Secretary): Thanks! 01:17:43 Timothy: Thanks for tonight. 01:17:43 Deborah: thanks! 01:17:53 Allison: Thanks! 01:18:03 Ma Vo: Replying to "has anyone encounter..." I even tried redoing the calculation in a different cells, and the error carried over (usually in excel, that usually worked)