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Updated: 12 April 2003
Treasurer Bernard Hart reported that Chebucto is in good
financial shape, Internal Committee Chair Mark Alberstat reported on the
revitalization of his committee and Policy Committee Chair Andrew
Wright reported that spam email using forged headers pointing to innocent
third partys' email addresses was the biggest abuse issue Chebucto faced
in 2002. Board member Christopher Watt's excellent home-made cookies and
squares were well received by the membership.
Technical Committee Chair Edward Dyer reported on the many technical
advances made in 2002 and how Chebucto is looking to make even more,
demonstrating wireless internet technology at the meeting. Chebucto is
actively investigating possible uses for this new high speed technology.
In recognition for all the work done by the Technical Committee this year,
Chair Marilyn MacDonald presented them with Certificates of Appreciation.
She was surprised by receiving a Certificate of Appreciation herself from
Board member John McKay.
Six Board members offered for re-election this year: Edward Dyer, Bill
Matheson, John McKay, Jeff Warnica, Christopher Watt and Andrew Wright.
They were elected by acclamation. The Chebucto Board of Directors has been
joined by local community activist and newspaper columnist Joan Jones, who
is completing the second year of recently resigned Board member Mark
Rushton's two year term.
Chebucto's IMP Webmail service has been upgraded and now includes several
very useful new functions. Chebucto users can now not only access their
email from any web browser in the world, but keep an easy-to-use online
Appointment Calendar as well. For quick reminders to yourself there is a
new Memo feature that will record and organize your notes. The new Tasks
feature lets you record and organize a tasklist for yourself. You can set
deadlines, prioritize tasks and keep a record of when they are completed.
Users can reset their mailbox password from the Webmail now and keep their
notes secure from other people by logging out. All these features are in
the top toolbar of the Webmail, which can be accessed from Chebucto's home
page, http://chebucto.ca/
or on the Chebucto Plus home page, http://plus.chebucto.ns.ca/
Chebucto
mousepads may be purchased from the Chebucto Office for $10 each or mailed
out for $15 each. Contact office@chebucto.ns.ca
to order.
Chebucto advises all users of the Windows Operating System to keep updated
with the latest security updates from Microsoft. There are major security
holes in the Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft's Internet
Explorer web browser and Microsoft's Outlook Express email program which
can be fixed with software patches from Microsoft's authentic Windows Update site.
Unpatched versions of these Microsoft products are vulnerable to many
viruses, worms, trojan programs and exploits where hostile users can get
access to your computer and files. Users are advised to keep current with
Service Packs and Critical Updates for Microsoft products.
Chebucto Users still tops in *.NS.CA SETI processingSETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, has been processing their radio telescope data with home users' computers for years now. Using an innovative screensaver which runs whenever the user computer is not in use, SETI has had more than 1,406,000 years of high quality computer processor time donated to it.Of all the computer domains ending in the letters NS.CA, denoting Nova Scotia, chebucto.ns.ca now ranks number one, beating out both the government of Nova Scotia and the vast resources of EdNet, the schools network. Current stats here. Chebucto users have sent in more than 19,400 results, representing more than 40 years of CPU time that would otherwise have been wasted.
SETI is about to enter a new phase, targetting the top 200 candidate
signals for direct observation using the full resources of the world's
largest radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
Outlook user email advisoryAfter the continuing wave of viruses specifically targetting users of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express email programs, and the constant stream of user complaints about randomly altered program settings and difficulty using the program, the Chebucto Community Net Office and the Chebucto Technical Committee recommend our users do not use either Outlook or Outlook Express as their email program.Windows Users can find a selection of email programs available for download here and Macintosh users can find a selection of email programs here.
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