[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] [LCTG Matters] Meeting Reminder: Videos including Satellite Internet. 10AM ET Wednesday, January 24, 2024. Lexington Computer and Technology Group

[Robert Primak]

 Gentlepeople:
I will over the remainder of this week, try to dig up my slide show(s) regarding the state of 5G and IoT in 2020, including the kinds of networking and communication technologies involved. These slides will be sent as a PDF attachment (one or more) to Steve Isenberg. They can be posted to Steve's wiki for our group to look at. I won't guarantee that all my old links are still live, but some may still be available, and the explanatory text is still there in each slide, along with illustrations which do not rely on outside links. 
This will take a day or two to locate and compile, so bear with me. 
-- Bob Primak 

    On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 12:23:45 PM EST, Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
  Is my talk from a couple of years ago to this group about the arrival of 5G technologies and the Internet of Things still available? Members of our group might want to review the state of the art then and compare with how far we've come now, just a few years later. 
When I gave my talk or talks, 5G cellular had just been rolled out, and 5G Internet (wireless) to the home was in the Starry phase, with Starlink preparing for its first satellite Internet service rollout later that year. We wondered out loud whether "5G" was just branding, just as some of us wonder now whether "10G" is just branding and hype. (Spoiler Alert -- it is! And it was!) 
I included a lot of material about how all of this ties in with Wide Area Networking and Edge Processing in Real Time. I also presented a non-technical overview of all these subjects at the Christmas meeting that year of BNUG, one of the last of their in-person meetings before the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdowns, when we learned about remote meetings via Zoom, some of us for the first time. Trump was President then, and now he's running again. 
I have notes for at least two of my talks, along with slides, archived in my data backups, to this day. And a lot of updated materials. Of passing interest, the City of Waltham has been rather quietly negotiating for the placement of Neighborhood 5G antennas, as has been the Town of Lexington, with very different public reactions in the two communities. (Walthamians are generally very skeptical about the safety of living near RF emission sources.) 
What a long, strong, sad, strange trip it's been!
-- Bob Primak 
    On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:01:15 AM EST, Jonathan Goode via Lctg-others <lctg-others at lists.toku.us> wrote:  
 
 
 (NOTE: Repeated Reminder with no change to contents.)

 

This meeting will be available inroom 237 at the Community Center and online via Zoom.

 

Our Zoom Meeting ID is 972 61460830. Detailed instructions for joining us on Zoom are at the end of thismessage.

 

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January 24, 2024
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How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work? (28m) and more
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Below are our plans for Upcoming Meetings. Formore schedule information, please refer to https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule 

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January 31, 2024
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Potpourri (short meeting ending 11am) Then group lunch at Bamboo, Bedford (opposite Mitre)
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February 7, 2024
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Space Update (George Gamota)
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SPECIALNOTE  - Links to many of our previous sessions are available online at http://lctg.toku.us/, thanks tothe diligence of Steve Isenberg. This includes our sessions
   
   - LIDAR Mapping  https://youtu.be/UnrI2kbd1HY
   - Hockney-Falco Thesis on the history of art https://youtu.be/0MHE3sGw7ao
   - ChatGPT Part 1 of 3 Introducing ChatGPT https://youtu.be/hA0EA5WZyZs
   - ChatGPT Part 2 of 3 How Smart Is ChatGPT? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkbwGiaIEE
   - ChatGPT Part 3 of 3 How Large Language Models Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luJB6e4f1lw
   - Housing Affordability and Subsidized Housing  https://youtu.be/8tZPcU2QjLw
   - A Bit About Modulus Arithmetic https://youtu.be/SPjRfMNDksc
   - Ukraine situation update October 2023 https://youtu.be/CZ5FZk8jmmE
   - Renewable Energy Storage: Battery Technology https://youtu.be/sVmVyPLwsTk
   - Science Fiction Predictions https://youtu.be/2ow2puzrUxE
   - Millie Dresselhaus and Carbon Science https://youtu.be/Qb3QiaV4eRQ
   - Archimedes and his principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYcf7u1xYA
   - Prominent Physicist Joseph Henry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw8UP59Wemg 
   - Geothermal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9Zq0jUlYI
   - Nuclear Fusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuFzeq8rEP8
   - RSV and COVID Update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynTBLnYw2uc

 

If this email wasn'taddressed to you and you would like to join the group, or if you have a friendor colleague who might also be interested in joining, it's easy.  Ask themto go to the group's wiki page at http://LCTG.toku.us and follow the simpleinstructions under "Join the Email List".  By being a member ofthe group you'll get reminders of upcoming meetings and infrequent relatedmessages. No advertising.  The list is tightly managed.

Membership is free and given that all meetingsare available on Zoom you only need to be connected to the Internet to join. It'sok to join from anywhere you can get a decent Internet connection.
   
   - We, the Lexington Computer and Technology Group, will meet Wednesday at the usual 10AM Eastern Time online, using the Zoom Video Conferencing Application, facilitated by Steve Isenberg. (If noted above, we may also be at the Lexington Community Center.)

There is an instructionpage at https://toku.us/zoomishbut note that the URL and phone number shown are examples.

 

To join our online meeting,sometime after 9:45 AM on Wednesday, choose one of the following options:
   
   - If you have the Zoom application installed, start it and join meeting with ID 972 6146 0830
   - From your browser, go to: https://zoom.us/j/97261460830
   - From your smartphone, tap this: +16468769923,,97261460830
   - From a “dumb” telephone, call 1 646 876 9923 and enter meeting ID: 972 6146 0830 
   
   - Once the connection is established, you may need to locate and use the on-screen controls that turn on the sound and the video. You should be able to see and hear others and they should be able to see and hear you, if you have a camera and microphone (each of which you can unmute selectively).
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