Meeting for Friday the 24th June

Hi Everyone,

Ken's on a plane, Colin is one bike rack less and $21 richer due to our TradeMe excursion and this will be the last meeting for me until September. I'd like to thank you all for your efforts over the last few months and for your solid support to get our Club off the ground and running. Without the members support and interest we would not have got the Operators support. We thank Sandy and Terry for supplying the equipment that allows everyone in our Village to have access to the World Wide Web.
Being part of a group like Ocean Shores Computer Club also carries a few responsibilities and this week we will have a hands on for all club members to work the stations so that we can be of help to others who may need a hand to get online for the first time. For all its frustrations, hiccups and downright cussedness, the computer is here to stay and it is our link to the world and all our children and friends that are in it. Let's learn what we need to, to make our computer life a more fulfilling experience and then let's help someone else learn it too.

Cheers

Colin

Meeting for Friday 17th June

Thank you everyone for your participation in last weeks meeting. We are working toward having all the computers installed this week and the TV working again. We will also have a third computer installed in the Library. This will be the last meeting that Ken can attend and next week will be the last meeting that I will be there. We will be back in September. Over the next two weeks we should spend some time working with the set up that we have so most of the group will be able to assist any new comers to the village with how things work. See you Friday.

Colin

Secure Website posted by Joyce Murphy

What is the difference between http:// and https:// ?

The main difference between http:// and https:// is, it's all about keeping you secure. HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure". If you visit a Website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the Website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an Http website ! But, if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a Secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://. If it doesn't, you should NEVER enter sensitive information such as a credit card number..