Computer Busted!?

Next General Meeting

Tue, April 6 7:00pm - 8:30pm at the Yacht Club
ORNL's Bob Whitten - Oak Ridge history and the Super Computer.

Hey! Do Not Hit the F1 Key!

Janice Schneck points us to this article: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/f1key.asp

And Vince Alline gives us some more information here.

Vince's article says, "If you happen across a site that displays a message box that won't go away that exhorts you to hit F1, log off or use the Windows Task manager to close IE."

March General Meeting - Report

tellico network

At the March 2, 2010 meeting Kevin Alfont talked to us about IT Resources in Tellico Village.  We have a surprisingly complex network and Kevin explained it well.   You can see it all here. 

Tellico's IT people have also started a newsletter called Geek Times.  You can read the inaugaural issue here. It's got some interesting stuff in it.  Did you know that the TVPOA staff receives over 100 thousand emails every month?  Or how about this:  The Facebook game Farmville has more than 80 million users! 

You never heard of Farmville?  Well neither had I.

An Ounce of Prevention

FIRST LEVEL SUPPORT

by Joe Solymossy 

An ounce of prevention...

Learning Center Schedule

Tellico Village Computer Users Club runs clinics and classes in the computer room (Room D) at the Chota Rec Center. We are always intereted in finding teachers for courses.

The current schedule for activities is:

Thurs 2/25 - 9 AM-12 noon - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)
Sat 2/27 - 1-4 PM - Excel Investment Tracking course
Wed 3/3 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Thu 3/4 - 1-3 PM - Basic Excel session 1 (for those new to Excel)
Thu 3/4 - 3-5 PM Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Mon 3/8 - 1-3 PM - Basic Excel session 2 (for those who have completed session 1)
Mon 3/8 - 3:30-4:30 - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)
Tue 3/9 - 9-11 AM - Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Mon 3/15 - 3-5 PM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Wed 3/17 - 1-4 PM - Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Thu 3/18 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 1 (for those new to Excel)
Tue 3/23 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 2 (for those who have completed session 1)
Fri 3/26 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Fri 3/26 - 11:30-12:30 - Investment Tracking with Excel
Wed 3/31 - 9-10 - Investment Tracking with Excel
Wed 3/31 - 10:30-11:30 AM - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)

Note: the Basic Excel class is a multi-session course and is subject to the $5.00 fee (for the entire series of sessions) per the requirements set by the TVCUC board. All other classes listed above are one session and do not require a fee.

Further information on these courses may be found here.

Volunteers to teach welcome! Contact Bob Mugge through info@tvcuc.org

Computer Humor

Printer Repair

Computer Repair Caller : Hi, our printer is not working.
Customer Service: What is wrong with it?
Caller : Mouse is jammed.
Customer Service: Mouse? Printers don't have a mouse !
Caller: Mmmmm??.. Oh really?... I will send a picture.

Thanks to Bob Kutschera

Dale Begg-Smith

 This is Dale Begg-Smith.  He is a Canadian born Australian Olympic competitor in the free style mogul event.  He won the silver.

Unlike most other Olympic competitors he is rich.  He drives a $300,000 Lamborghini.  He owns his own company.

You might be asking yourself why his picture is on this website.  It turns out that Begg-Smith is a computer geek, and, perhaps, not of the best kind.  He has apparently made his millions by generating spam and installing spyware and malware.
The Wall Street Journal thinks he's great.
Wikipedia has a different view.

TAP Update

We are approaching giving away our 400th system.  As of February 9, 2010, we have given away 395 systems.  There are 666 children in the homes that have received the systems.

Passwords

Here's a list of the 20 most common passwords:

1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess

WATCH OUT!

According to my email scanner, the latest Tell-E-Gram for January 22, 2010 contains fraudulent links. Do not click on the links in this email message.

Meeting Times

General Meeting: 1st Tuesday
7pm Yacht Club
Board Meeting: 2nd Tuesday
3pm Chota Activity Center

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