The good news just before Christmas is that the new office renovations
at the PCUG Centre in Holder are now underway. On Saturday 17
December, a team organized by John Saxon and Peter Reeves removed the
internal partitions in the south room. This will now be fitted
out as the training room, with the "office" now in a corner of the
north room opposite the door. Drop in and see progress when the
Centre re-opens on 9 January.
The committee has appointed Joseph
Tandl as training coordinator and we hope to establish a strong
training program in 2006. Watch Sixteen Bits for details as
courses are offered and feel free to request courses or offer your
services as a trainer to training@pcug.org.au.
As my tip for 2006, remember that all
members are entitled to a pcug.org.au email address, whether or not
they use TIP as their ISP. If you do not use TIP, your pcug.org.au
email can be automatically forwarded to your current ISP mailbox or
read:- by a free dial-up to TIP; using webmail from another
Internet connection such as a library or Internet cafe; or using a
normal email client to read from the PCUG mail server.
Advantages of using a pcug.org.au
address for the member is that it can stay constant for as long as they
remain members of PCUG, no matter how often they change ISP; and for
the PCUG it simplifies our contact with members, particularly as they
change external email addresses. More information on this will be
published on the web site in the new year.
Finally, compliments of the season to
all members. Happy computing in 2006 without the scourge of
worms, viruses, spam, and blue screens of death.
Allan Mikkelsen