As Bert Goff noted in his introduction, this was John R. Patrick’s 24th presentation at a DACS General Meeting. We invite him back because we learn something new every time. Year after year, John’s presentation is always our best-attended meeting. The kicker to all this is that it really puts the … [Read more...]
January 2016: Wi-Fi Security – John Adams
By William Callahan Computer Security awareness is imperative to any end user; WiFi security is no exception. John Adams, the speaker for the DACS General Meeting in January, presented an excellent set of information which was invaluable to understanding wireless devices and securing them from … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, November 2014
Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef Q – My wife and I are downsizing our home and I have some stuff I no longer have space to store. There are lots of old cables and some vintage MAC software. Is anyone interested? A – No one jumped up, but there are people who are interested in vintage … [Read more...]
Secure Digital Communications – Bruce Preston
DACS guru Bruce Preston was our presenter at the November 2014 general meeting on the topic of secure digital communications. He covered a lot of technical content but made it accessible by relating it to historical and current use of the technology for encrypting data. First he got some … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, July 2014
Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef Q – I have a PowerPC Macintosh that is new to me but is obviously not a new machine. It boots and runs just fine on OS X 10.5. It also has Mac OS 9.2 installed in another partition, so I set it to boot OS 9.2 and it hangs as soon as the desktop is displayed. … [Read more...]
Watching YouTube on Your TV
We’ve all watched YouTube videos on our computers, whether it was on youtube.com, or a video embedded in another site’s web page. Sometimes you run across videos that you might actually like to sit back and watch on your large-screen TV rather than on your computer or even smaller-screened mobile … [Read more...]