August 2016
NEXT SIG MEETINGWINDOWS 10 ANNIVERSARY
Wednesday August 17, 20164:00-5:30 PM
Havasupai RoomChaparral Center
GCC GENERAL MEETINGCLUB OVERVIEW
Wednesday October 5, 20161:00-3:00 PM
Aqua Fria RoomCimarron Center
COFFEE CHATTO BE DETERMINED
ThursdayOctober 13, 20168:30-10:00 AM
Hopi RoomChaparral CenterNE
W TECH
NOLO
GIES
2016
Who is “Techie” of the
month?
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Lightning-fast internet comes to 24 new locations
TECH NEWS
https://www.washingtonpost.
http://www.bloomberg.c
This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American
Dota 2 Dev forum breached, nearly 2 million users affected
Cities looking to compete with large Internet providers
just suffered a big defeat
Which ISP has the fastest internet?
There’s a new way to make strong passwords, and it’s
way easier
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3 reasons why you should upgrade your router
TECH TIPS
http://www.c
http://www.c
http://www.fo
6 surprising things you can do with your smartphone
http://www.komando.com/
Brand new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10
Tech can help the elderly...if they use it
6 ways to customize the Windows 10 lock and sign-in
screens
10 ways to customize the taskbar in Windows 10
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GADGETSThe Back-to-School Item
That's Becoming Less http://www.foxbusine
http://www.foxnews.com/
Wilson smart football: First and long in the high-tech
A close-up look at the F-35A, the Air Force's next-gen jet
Most anticipated tech of 2016: August to December edition
20 most useful Alexa skills
Best back-to-school gadgets under $50
http://www.cnet.com/
http://www.c
4 common Amazon Echo problems and how to fix them
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NEW
TECHNOLOGIESAugust 2016
Techie of the MonthBrian J. FoxBrian J. Fox (born 1959) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur,[1] consultant, author, and free software advocate. He was the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989.[2] He continued as the primary maintainer of bash until at least early 1993.In 1985 Fox worked with Richard Stallman at Stallman's newly created Free Software Foundation.[5] At the FSF, Fox authoredGNU Bash,[6] GNU Makeinfo, GNU Info, GNU Finger, GNU Echo[7] and the readline[8] and history libraries.He was also the maintainer of GNU Emacs for a time, and made many contributions to the software that was created for the GNU Project between 1986 and 1994.The year was 1987, and as Fox drove cross-country to his new home, the tapes held a software program called Bash, a tool that Fox had built for the UNIX operating system and tagged with a license that let anyone use the code and even redistribute it to others. Fox—a high school dropout who spent his time hanging out with MIT computer geeks such as Richard Stallman—was a foot soldier in an ambitious effort to create software that was free, hackable, and unencumbered by onerous copy restrictions. It was called the Free Software Movement, and the idea was to gradually rebuild all of the components of the UNIX operating system into a free product called GNU and share them with the world at large. It was the dawn of open source software.
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WINDOWS 10 ANNIVERSARYWEDNESDAY AUGUST 17, 20164:00-5:30 PM HAVASUPAI ROOM CHAPARRAL CENTER
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