Dorchester — Jul 9th 2024

Mick took us through the various steps in trouble shooting a Mac. First don’t panic. As a first step shut down and reboot. If no change try disconnecting all accessories. Failing that Safe Boot/Safe Mode. This procedure is different on Apple Silicon and Intel chips but fully described on Apple help pages on the internet. The final step is try Recovery Mode, again all instructions are on the Internet. In Recovery mode, you can use Disc Utility to check and repair the Macs hard drive (you cannot use the Mac’s own version of Disc Utility to check its own hard drive). In Recovery Mode you can also reinstall the operating system.

David Moon showed us the website Dorset Explorer, detail maps which are full of interesting information about the county right down to individual houses. This is a site to investigate and play with. Because it has been built by the Council using Open Maps which is an Open Source software being used right across the World.

After the break following a question from John Marriott about how to retain existing landline phones when converted to full fibre, Trevor Craven explained his experience with BT, There is a phone connection on the router but he also has a BT Digital Voice Adaptor, You connect this to the router wirelessly and once the connection is made you can plug it into any power socket and connect a phone to it.

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