I’m hosting a Zoom social about computers every two weeks on Mondays for 2 hours from 7pm. The easiest way to see the details is on the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/computersnotmagic) but please send me an email if you can’t access that or have any other questions. Here are the details … Let’s have a chat …
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‘on or before today’ vs. ‘before today’
Computers are not magic but they are picky. For instance: there’s can be a big difference between ‘less than’ and ‘less than or equal to’. Particularly when it relates to dates and the relevant date is today. Also: I think it can be difficult to remember that large organisations suffer from the same problems as …
Short-term issues can cause long-term problems
As computers and networking and the internet and email become more stable, and I think they have done over the years, there is a corresponding expectation that they will always work. This can mean that when they don’t work people (understandably) try to fix them themselves. Often an unhelpful error message from a bit of …
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Wireless exists. Broadband exists. Wireless Broadband does not exist.
Wireless (or WiFi) is a way that your computer can send and receive information to and from another Wireless-enabled device: e.g. a hub or switch, a router, a printer – without the need to plug in a network cable. Broadband is a fast connection (in the sense that “it’s faster than what we had before”) …
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Files and Folders: It’s all about information
Computers are a tool for storing and working with information. That’s the only thing they do. They can do this in very complicated ways that appear to be almost magical but it is still what they are doing: working with information – in some cases a lot of information and working with it very quickly. …
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