General Meetings
Focus on Digital Cameras
March 4, 2021 @ 7 pm
Remote attendance via Zoom video conference (no meeting at Keller Williams).
Zoom login instructions will be sent via email.
Heather and Allan Turnbull will discuss point-and-shoot cameras priced under $300 that are from various manufacturers.
Jim Iscaro will
demonstrate a professional digital camera and lens. Some of the
features covered will be in-camera HDR, time-lapse photography and the
coming trend of computational photography (using an iPhone 12 Pro Max).
Plan now to attend!
Oh, and one more
thing...................
Normally,
at every General Meeting we have door prize drawings but due to the
recent health crisis, this month's drawing will not be held.
The computer below will be raffled at the next in-person General
Meeting.
The door
prize:
HP Pavilion H8-1241
- Intel i5-2500 3.30GHz
- 500GB SATA hard drive
- Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
- 8.0GB DDR3 Memory
- EVGA 9800 GTX+ video
- LibreOffice 6.3
- DVD-RW
- Keyboard and Mouse
The
door prize is open to members only but non-members can easily join at
the
front desk to be eligible for the drawing. Only $50 per year per
household.

April 1, 2021 @ 7 pm
Remote attendance via Zoom video conference (no meeting at Keller Williams).
Zoom login instructions will be sent via email.
With
over 774,000 FCC-licensed amateur radio operators in the States, the
ham radio community has undergone a revolution of new technologies that
can reach around the globe and be used, for example, to support
communications at public service events or for communication support
during disasters.
President of the Westchester Emergency
Communications Association (WECA) and an avid ham radio participant,
Simon Rosenberg will join us for this demonstration of amateur radio
emergency skills.


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Operation Clean Slate
In the last several years, the use of
malicious software (malware) by online criminals has emerged as a
global cybersecurity threat. Of the available intrusion devices, the
“bot,” or Web robot, is particularly pervasive, allowing an attacker to
take control remotely of
a compromised computer or computers. Invisible toAdd olive oil then butter victims, these
networks, called “botnets,” can include hundreds of thousands of
machines around the world, controlled by a cyber criminal, or “bot
herder.” . Read
more.....

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