On Sep 17, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

?On Sep 17, 2022, at 1:58 PM, John Robinson via <profilecovenant@...> wrote:

Lee, I can’t help, I’ll be glad to know if there is such an item. ?I did use a laser when teaching using the CRT T.V., after a couple days I had darn near destroyed the TV., it started twitching, going black and then coming back on, it was a mess. ?I doubt this would happen with the Pixel TV’s but I darn near destroyed our only TV.?

Right now, when I give a talk, I can do it in two different ways.

My MacBook Pro has a USB-C to HDMI dongle and I use it to drive a projector. I also have a laser pointer with a separate USB dongle. The dongle is plugged into the MacBook and the laser pointer talks to the USB dongle wirelessly. The pointer has buttons on it to move forward and backward through the presentation, so I don’t have to go to the MacBook to change screens. This works well with Keynote and Mathematica, the two programs I use for presentations.

The problem is that I’d like to use an iPad to do the same thing. The USB-C to HDMI dongle works well on the iPad, so there’s no problem driving a projector. But, the laser pointer's USB dongle does not work on the iPad, so I can’t change screens in Keynote without walking back to the iPad.?

Hence my question. It seems there should be a Bluetooth laser pointer that works with an iPad.

L^2

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On Sep 17, 2022, at 12:10 PM, Lee Larson via <leelarson@...> wrote:

Is there a laser pointer that works with Keynote on an iPad? All the Bluetooth compatible pointers I see have the warning “Not recommended for iPad.”

L^2

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?If all the world's economists were laid end to end, we wouldn't reach a conclusion.—?George Bernard Shaw,?Saturday Review of Literature, 1933
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On Sep 14, 2022, at 5:07 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:

I will say Harry that I don’t click on the link, I go to PayPal site & log in.

John

On Sep 14, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

?I’ve been getting them. As far as I can tell, this started with something I bought that promised a $5 PayPal credit….. which is something I’ll never use.

I did have a PayPal account years and years ago, but never used it, either.

Bill

On Sep 14, 2022, at 17:02, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

?Even if you DID have a PayPal account I would ignore it. I bet that that is some kind of a spoofed email address and is not real. Hover over any “Click Here” button (without clicking) and I’d bet that the address that shows up is NOT something that ends in “paypal.com.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. (Modern tech security mantra)

Jonathan

On Sep 14, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:

For about 6 months now I have been getting emails from PayPal from this address: PayPal@...

The emails say this:

Your August account statement is available.
Hi Harry Jacobson-Beyer,

Access your account statements quickly and easily. Log in to your account and select the monthly statement you'd like to view.
View Statement
Forgot your email or password? Recover them here

The emails show up in my inbox and not in my spam or junk folders.

Here is the hitch - I have never ever had a PayPal account. I hesitate to click on the view statement link or click the link that says view online.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

Harry

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Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC
A Claris Business Alliance Partner
jonathan@...
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On Sep 14, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:

?I’ve been getting them. As far as I can tell, this started with something I bought that promised a $5 PayPal credit….. which is something I’ll never use.

I did have a PayPal account years and years ago, but never used it, either.

Bill

On Sep 14, 2022, at 17:02, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

?Even if you DID have a PayPal account I would ignore it. I bet that that is some kind of a spoofed email address and is not real. Hover over any “Click Here” button (without clicking) and I’d bet that the address that shows up is NOT something that ends in “paypal.com.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. (Modern tech security mantra)

Jonathan

On Sep 14, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:

For about 6 months now I have been getting emails from PayPal from this address: PayPal@...

The emails say this:

Your August account statement is available.
Hi Harry Jacobson-Beyer,

Access your account statements quickly and easily. Log in to your account and select the monthly statement you'd like to view.
View Statement
Forgot your email or password? Recover them here

The emails show up in my inbox and not in my spam or junk folders.

Here is the hitch - I have never ever had a PayPal account. I hesitate to click on the view statement link or click the link that says view online.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

Harry

—
Jonathan Fletcher
Workplace Innovation Facilitator

Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC
A Claris Business Alliance Partner
jonathan@...
www.fletcherdata.com
502-509-7137

Kentuckiana’s FileMaker Developers Group
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27th, 12:30 to 3:00-ish
We’re now online! ? Register at kyfmp.com/reg/ for a link

On Sep 14, 2022, at 17:02, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

?Even if you DID have a PayPal account I would ignore it. I bet that that is some kind of a spoofed email address and is not real. Hover over any “Click Here” button (without clicking) and I’d bet that the address that shows up is NOT something that ends in “paypal.com.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. (Modern tech security mantra)

Jonathan

On Sep 14, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:

For about 6 months now I have been getting emails from PayPal from this address: PayPal@...

The emails say this:

Your August account statement is available.
Hi Harry Jacobson-Beyer,

Access your account statements quickly and easily. Log in to your account and select the monthly statement you'd like to view.
View Statement
Forgot your email or password? Recover them here

The emails show up in my inbox and not in my spam or junk folders.

Here is the hitch - I have never ever had a PayPal account. I hesitate to click on the view statement link or click the link that says view online.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

Harry

—
Jonathan Fletcher
Workplace Innovation Facilitator

Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC
A Claris Business Alliance Partner
jonathan@...
www.fletcherdata.com
502-509-7137

Kentuckiana’s FileMaker Developers Group
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27th, 12:30 to 3:00-ish
We’re now online! ? Register at kyfmp.com/reg/ for a link

On Sep 14, 2022, at 5:02 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

?Even if you DID have a PayPal account I would ignore it. I bet that that is some kind of a spoofed email address and is not real. Hover over any “Click Here” button (without clicking) and I’d bet that the address that shows up is NOT something that ends in “paypal.com.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. (Modern tech security mantra)

Jonathan

On Sep 14, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:

For about 6 months now I have been getting emails from PayPal from this address: PayPal@...

The emails say this:

Your August account statement is available.
Hi Harry Jacobson-Beyer,

Access your account statements quickly and easily. Log in to your account and select the monthly statement you'd like to view.
View Statement
Forgot your email or password? Recover them here

The emails show up in my inbox and not in my spam or junk folders.

Here is the hitch - I have never ever had a PayPal account. I hesitate to click on the view statement link or click the link that says view online.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

Harry

—
Jonathan Fletcher
Workplace Innovation Facilitator

Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC
A Claris Business Alliance Partner
jonathan@...
www.fletcherdata.com
502-509-7137

Kentuckiana’s FileMaker Developers Group
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27th, 12:30 to 3:00-ish
We’re now online! ? Register at kyfmp.com/reg/ for a link

On Aug 30, 2022, at 9:18 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:

?I do something similar to Lee (RAID drive and TimeMachine), but I would like to also make a case for one more thing that I do that I forgot to mention the other day: nightly clone.

I have SuperDuper running at 2:00 in the morning (Carbon Copy Cloner--and perhaps other tools--can do this, too) to create an exact duplicate of my internal drive to an equally-sized external drive. That way if my internal drive--or even the whole machine—goes south I will lose at most one day of work.

This actually happened to me several years ago when my laptop that I was using as my desktop died completely. I took the machine to MacAuthority (I DID say “several years ago”) for repair and rented another laptop, brought it home and booted from the nightly clone. I was right back to exactly where I was when I finished using the computer the night before.

That was enough to guarantee that I will include a nightly clone in my back-up plans for the rest of my life.

Jonathan

On Aug 30, 2022, at 2:57 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

On Aug 26, 2022, at 10:28 AM, Jane Plunkett <JanePlunkett@...> wrote:

What do you all do? Is there one kind of drive you would recommend?

Your question came just as I finished changing the backup scheme at home.

For years I’ve been using my Linux server as a network backup device. It has three drives connected in it: the main internal boot drive and two externals that are entwined via software RAID. The system has been running fine for years, but is getting to be too small. The externals are 2 TB Seagate red drives that were huge when I bought them, but now look kind of small to contain backups of three computers plus some Plex stuff.

After thinking about it for a while, I bought an empty Synology DS218 NAS box and stuck in two 6 TB WD Red Plus drives. They are RAIDed, so the box appears as a single 6 TB drive on the network. I got the Synology from Amazon during their Prime days in the summer for about $180 and the drives from Newegg at about the same time for something around $100 each.

There are plenty of less expensive NAS boxes out there. I bought the Synology because I’d had some good experiences with Synology hardware and because they have so many interesting software add-ons.

Now, please indulge me while I write a few words about how I view backups.

A backup system should be reliable and as invisible as it can be. By invisible I mean that if I have to remember to do it, I’ll always find an excuse to put it off. That’s why I want to have a network backup system that magically runs in the background. If I have to remember to do something like plug in a drive, much of the time there will be no backup because I’m too lazy. Right now, I’m using Time Machine as my magical backup software, but I’m thinking of moving back to Carbon Copy Cloner. Either one can be made to quietly back things up in the background as you work, and you don’t have to think about it.

I want to make sure my NAS is reliable, and that’s why I use RAID. (RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks) The Synology box contains two 6 TB disks, but they are automatically mirrored, so it looks like one 6 TB volume. This means that if one of the drives goes out, the full system is still recoverable.

The Synology unit sits in a corner of the basement, connected to my network, and quietly does its job with no muss or fuss. With any luck, I’ll never need it.

Back around the turn of the century, my house got hit by lightning, and a whole bunch of computer stuff was zapped. I lost several hard drives. This is one of the reasons I pay Apple for 200 GB of space on iCloud. Much of the really important stuff, such as the projects I’m working on right now, is stored out there. Of course, another advantage is that I can work on them with any of my Apple machines without carting them around on something like a thumb drive.

L^2

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Lee Larson
leelarson@...

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?Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it…—?Jonathan Swift,
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Jonathan Fletcher
Workplace Innovation Facilitator

Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC
A Claris Business Alliance Partner
jonathan@...
www.fletcherdata.com
502-509-7137

Kentuckiana’s FileMaker Developers Group
Next meeting: Tuesday, September 27th, 12:30 to 3:00-ish
We’re now online! ? Register at kyfmp.com/reg/ for a link

On Aug 30, 2022, at 2:57 PM, Lee Larson via groups.io <leelarson@...> wrote:

?On Aug 26, 2022, at 10:28 AM, Jane Plunkett <JanePlunkett@...> wrote:

What do you all do? Is there one kind of drive you would recommend?

Your question came just as I finished changing the backup scheme at home.

For years I’ve been using my Linux server as a network backup device. It has three drives connected in it: the main internal boot drive and two externals that are entwined via software RAID. The system has been running fine for years, but is getting to be too small. The externals are 2 TB Seagate red drives that were huge when I bought them, but now look kind of small to contain backups of three computers plus some Plex stuff.

After thinking about it for a while, I bought an empty??NAS box and stuck in two 6 TB WD Red Plus drives. They are RAIDed, so the box appears as a single 6 TB drive on the network. I got the Synology from Amazon during their Prime days in the summer for about $180 and the drives from Newegg at about the same time for something around $100 each.

There are plenty of less expensive NAS boxes out there. I bought the Synology because I’d had some good experiences with Synology hardware and because they have so many interesting software add-ons.

Now, please indulge me while I write a few words about how I view backups.

A backup system should be reliable and as invisible as it can be. By invisible I mean that if I have to remember to do it, I’ll always find an excuse to put it off. That’s why I want to have a network backup system that magically runs in the background. If I have to remember to do something like plug in a drive, much of the time there will be no backup because I’m too lazy. Right now, I’m using Time Machine as my magical backup software, but I’m thinking of moving back to Carbon Copy Cloner. Either one can be made to quietly back things up in the background as you work, and you don’t have to think about it.

I want to make sure my NAS is reliable, and that’s why I use RAID. (RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks) ?The Synology box contains two 6 TB disks, but they are automatically mirrored, so it looks like one 6 TB volume. This means that if one of the drives goes out, the full system is still recoverable.

The Synology unit sits in a corner of the basement, connected to my network, and quietly does its job with no muss or fuss. With any luck, I’ll never need it.

Back around the turn of the century, my house got hit by lightning, and a whole bunch of computer stuff was zapped. I lost several hard drives. This is one of the reasons I pay Apple for 200 GB of space on iCloud. Much of the really important stuff, such as the projects I’m working on right now, is stored out there. Of course, another advantage is that I can work on them with any of my Apple machines without carting them around on something like a thumb drive.

L^2

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Lee Larson

leelarson@...

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?Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it…—?Jonathan Swift,?
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On Aug 30, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Beth Phillips <beth.phillips@...> wrote:

We are using Big Sur 11.6.8 with Outlook 16.64 and have started receiving errors from Outlook about the time zone needing to be updated like you would when traveling. We also use an MDM which is pointing us to a local server for our time settings, so we are all getting our time from the same source. What’s odd is in the Date and Time prefs my computer shows me in Jeffersonville, while the rest of the team show Louisville. (Location services are off on all as well.) I had not been receiving the error, but the rest of our team is. At least not until yesterday.

One of our users noted that although she was receiving the error other times of the day, she also noted that she received it when she plugged her iPhone in to charge. I decided to give it a try on mine and sure enough, both my iPad and iPhone caused the message to pop up in Outlook. I checked the Date and Time prefs on both and they show me in New York’s time zone. (I have Location Services turned off.) My iPad running iOS 12.1.1 said there were time zone definitions to be updated and so I restarted it and after that it quit popping up the error in Outlook. There were no notices on my iPhone running iOS 15.3, so I assume it is up-to-date, so not sure why it is causing the error unless time zone definition updates are buried in an iOS update and not independent like they were on the iPad.

We do not sync our personal devices with our work computers, so they shouldn’t be pulling anything from them and I would think the date and time syncing would work the other way around anyhow and the mobile devices would sync to the laptop time?

This still doesn’t explain the other times the error pops up either. The users seem to think it is when their computers sleep. The laptops all connect to docking stations with Ethernet so they are always on our network. Our Energy Saver prefs are set with the following checked:
Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.
Wake for network access.
Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter.

I’m wondering if the MDM setup is causing some time zone issues? Any other ideas?

Thanks!
Beth