Cleveland Tech eNews
March 13, 2023
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CAP - Rotary Special Event
As I hope you know, the volunteers (yes we are all volunteers and always have been) of the 501c3 Computers Assisting People (CAP) have refurbished over 25,000 PCs (and countless printers and other peripherals) and donated them to over 550 schools and non-profits in every ward of Cleveland and underserved areas of East Cleveland and beyond. Beyond that, our volunteers have set up community PC labs, networks for organizations, trained the trainers, troubleshot and repaired and provided other training, mostly hardware related.
When Covid hit we expanded our bylaws so that individuals could get PCs in their homes. We still have to give to a non-profit but then the non-profit is able to direct the PCs to individuals that they support. This let us get hundreds of PCs into students’ (and teachers’) homes during Covid.
On Saturday March 25 we are having a Community Open House from 10AM – 1PM at the Computers Assisting People Resource Center at 4415 Euclid in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Cleveland. We want to let leaders, media, groups, schools, organizations and people know about CAP and the opportunities to get PCs, donate equipment, volunteer, learn how to fix PCs and so on.
It will be a casual open house with some food, maybe some giveaways but most importantly an opportunity for schools, organizations and individuals to find out how to get computers to schools, non-profits and the underserved.
Please let your colleagues, schools, organizations you support, scout troops – and others – know about this. Forward the graphic (below) please. And please attend if you can. Everyone reading this knows how important it is to have a PC in your home.
If you want to bring some handouts about your company or organization, let me know. And if you want to sponsor the pizza or water or some tchotchkes, let me know that too.
It's a good day to bring your unused systems to donate. Please don’t remove hard drives or memory. Wiping drives is always a good practice but rest assured that we overwrite the entire surface of the disk with a random zeroes of zeros and ones – 3 times.
We would appreciate a reply from you/them as to how many might attend so we can plan for pizza, etc. Let me know if any questions and I hope you will join us.
PS There’s lots of free parking in the lot at 4415 Euclid. CAP is in the lower level (LL on elevator)
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After a couple years of webinars and Zoom events it was good to be together in a room for an event - this was on Cybersecurity.
ASMGi and Box hosted a presentation on March 9 by Terin D. Williams, Cyber Security Advisor, Ohio, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security. (photo below)
Topics covered included Ransomware and good practices such as Multi-factor Authentication, Network Segmentation, Immutable Backups, Establishing a Baseline and Centralized Logging. And, of course, discussion of the TikTok app.
It was good to get out and get together – and not just because it was held at a brewery!
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Cleveland Tech History Update |
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Here’s a classic 2006 photo taken at the House of Blues that was titled The Grandfathers. The first 3 to reply back with who the 4 are can pick up their prize – a CAP cap at our community day on March 25.
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It’s been awhile since the last Cleveland Tech History video but with the support of Kevin Goodman and BlueBridge Networks we have some interesting ones in the works. Stay tuned.
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Astronomicum Caesareum in Cleveland |
There’s a terrific exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art called - The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. It’s the first exhibition in the US to trace the transformation of the arts in Tudor England. The Tudor dynasty ruled for only three generations but it transformed England from a land devastated by the War of the Roses to a major player in Europe and eventually the rest of the world. Henry VII, Henry VII and Elizabeth I were the major figures.
It’s really worth seeing for the huge tapestries, suits of armor, paintings and so on but for readers of this eNews you will be interested in the Astronomicum Caesareum books. Astronomicum Caesareum (Astronomy of the Caesars or The Emperor's Astronomy) is a book by Petrus Apianus first published in 1540.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Ferdinand II of Aragon commissioned the work which took eight years to produce. Twenty-one of its 36 woodcuts are volvelles. A volvelle or wheel chart is a type of slide chart, a paper construction with rotating parts. It is considered an early example of a paper analog computer.
Of course it was written before Copernicus so it’s a geocentric model of the universe. But knowledgeable readers could still use them to predict planetary movements
It is said that although other 16th-century books used volvelles, Astronomicum's are distinctive because they take precedence over the book's text, as opposed to serving as illustrations. According to Ronald Brashear and Daniel Lewis, Astronomicum is "really a scientific calculating instrument as much as a book".
And you can see it at the Cleveland Museum of Art. My coverage
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Pretty cool, eh? What, you didn't get it?
Okay, read it this way.
A dozen, a gross, and a score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
is nine squared and not a bit more.
Here's another:
There once was a Geek from Cleveland...
Sorry, out of space.
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