The Idaho PC Users Group Newsletter Volume 29 No. 12 December 2013

In This Issue

2. Dec. / Jan. Events Calendar. IPCUG Publication Statement. 3. December Raffle: Kindle Fire HDX 4. Home Networks -Dick Maybach 8. IPCUG Board Report -Laura Aldridge IPCUG Meeting Report -Brian Aldridge 9. President’s Note -Hugh Stroupe IPCUG Treasurer’s Report -Brian Aldridge 9. Computer Entertainment -Jim Cerny 10. Bits & Pieces Info 11. IPCUG Meeting Location IPCUG Help Line 12. About Us Membership Renewal Form

Hard Drives 101 / Local Backup

Meeting Location! We are meeting at the Lee Pesky Learning Center, 3324 Elder Street, in Boise, just west of Vista, near the Interstate connector. The meeting starts at 6:30 and ending at about 9:00 PM. Please be sure to park in the “back” parking lot and not in the one in front of the building.

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Our Next Meeting

The Idaho PC Users Group’s next meeting is on Thursday, December 12th, at the Lee Pesky Learning Center located at 3324 Elder Street, Boise. Please enter by using the front door of the facility. The meeting location, details, and directions can be found on page 11 of this newsletter. We start at 6:30 P.M. and finish about 9:00 P.M., possibly earlier.

This month we will be doing a Christmas card exchange. We encourage you to make a card using your computer and it will be given to a member of the club.

We will open the meeting with announcements and the usual Q&A session. If you have a question or problem with using your computer, this is the time to ask.

Our first presentation by Hugh Stroupe on “Hard Drives 101”. He will be discussing what a hard drives is, how it came to be, and the various technologies hard drives today are using.

The second presentation will be by Brian Aldridge. He will be discussing local backup in a Windows OS environment. This would include backing up to an external hard drive or network area storage.

Toward the end of the meeting we will be doing our raffle for the Kindle Fire HDX. You have up until this point to get your tickets.

Following the meeting, several members will be at the meeting after the meeting at Denny’s across the Vista Interstate connector, just east of Vista, for conversation and refreshment.

Our IPCUG Board Meeting will be held on December 19th, and is open to all IPCUG members. The meeting is held at Elmer’s at 1385 S. Capitol Blvd, just below the hill from the train depot. Join us at 6:30 PM for a no host dinner, great food, and conversation.

December Raffle (More information on page 3)

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PC User Group Officers

President Hough Stroupe 322-3924 president@idahopcug.org Vice President & Program Chair C. Gregg Bruch 939-5195 vicepresident@idahopcug.org

Secretary Laura Aldridge 477-7117 secretary@idahopcug.org

Treasurer Brian Aldridge 861-0619 treasurer@idahopcug.org

Board Members

LeRoy Morrill 338-9153 Martin Torres 888-1258 Mike Brown 559-1813 Ruth Parsons 495-1166 Rose Wood 375-5938 Please note that several e-mail addresses have changed. All phone numbers are area code (208).

December—January Events Calendar

1st Thursday, December 5th - Boise Linux Group Meeting. 6:30 PM. Gates Meeting Room. Boise Public Library.

2nd Thursday, December 12th - Idaho PC User Group General Meeting. Lee Pesky Learning Center, 3324 Elder Street 6:30 PM.

Saturday, December 14th - IPCUG Breakfast Social. 9 AM, Golden Corral, 8460 W. Emerald St., next to REI.

3rd Thursday, December 19th - Idaho PC User Group Board Meeting. 7 PM - Elmer’s, 1385 Capitol Blvd., below the depot.

1st Thursday, January 2nd - Boise Linux Group Meeting. 6:30 PM. Gates Meeting Room. Boise Public Library.

2nd Thursday, January 9th - Idaho PC User Group General Meeting. Lee Pesky Learning Center, 3324 Elder Street 6:30 PM.

Saturday, January 11th - IPCUG Breakfast Social. 9 AM, Golden Corral, 8460 W. Emerald St., next to REI.

4th Thursday, January 23rd - Idaho PC User Group Board Meeting. 7 PM - Elmer’s, 1385 Capitol Blvd., below the depot.

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Home Networks By Dick Maybach Member, Brookdale Computer Users’ Group, NJ July 2013 issue, BUG Bytes www.bcug.com n2nd (at) charter.net Learning about networks, especially the Internet, can easily become mind-numbing, largely because the field is so full of jargon and acronyms. While it isn't possible to es-cape this morass completely, we can make it somewhat more manageable by approaching the topic in two stages: (1) a single computer connected to the Internet and (2) a home network connected to the Internet. Every device connected to the Internet, no matter its location in the world, has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) Address. This is usually written as four three-digit numbers separat-ed by periods, where the value of each number varies from 0 to 255. Although we usually think of a site's address as being its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), this is just a con-venient representation. When you send a message to a URL, your computer uses a Do-main Name System (DNS), usually a service provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), to find the associated IP address. For example, www.google.com is assigned the IP address 74.125.140.105. You, of course, must have your own IP address so that you can receive data. (You can find it by browsing the site http://whatismyipaddress.com/.) Your ISP assigns an IP address to your computer when you connect it to the Internet using a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service. This means that your ISP must own enough IP addresses to supply a unique one to each user, and normally each home users has only one. If you have only one computer and you plug it directly into the ISP's modem, this is sufficient. Before introducing any more complexity, let's see what we can learn about our Internet connection. Use an Ethernet cable to connect your PC directly to the Wide Area Network (WAN) modem provided by your ISP. You will have to reboot your PC and probably the WAN modem to establish an In-ternet connection. If you use Windows, navigate through All Programs and Accessories to Command Prompt and type “ipconfig /all”. (The equivalent Linux and OS-X command is “ifconfig” or “ip”.) There are graphical programs that show the same information, but ipconfig puts it all on one screen. (The screenshot shows only the first portion the command's output.)

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Fortunately, not all of the displayed data is important, but note the following items. DHCP is enabled and its server is located at 68.114.38.114, and the ISP has used it to

assign the IP address 66.169.52.43 to this particular PC. This address is valid for one hour (as shown by the Lease Obtained and Lease Ex-

pires times). Before the IP address lease expires, your PC will automatically request a renewal.

The hard-wired address of the Ethernet interface in our PC is 04-7D-B-9A-BD-8A. One of the DNS servers at 24.178.162.3, 66.189.0.67, or 24.217.201.67 translates

URL to IP addresses. If ever you lose your Internet access, a good first step would be to repeat the above proce-dure to see whether the problem is in your home network or within your ISP. However, many of us want to connect several devices to the Internet. How can we do this with only one IP address? There are blocks of IP addresses which never appear on the In-ternet, but are reserved for local use. The devices on most home networks use the addresses 192.168.1.x, where x varies from 0 to 255. (The 1 in the third group could be replaced with any number from 0 to 255.) If your network is using the 192.168.1.x plan, it knows that any IP address in this range belongs to a local device and any IP address outside this range re-sides on the Internet. To make use of this, we purchase a router and connect our local net-work devices to it. It has a separate connector for a cable to our ISP's modem. The router, as its name suggests, directs any local messages to internal addresses and sends all others to the ISP, but first it changes their return address to the IP address the ISP has assigned. But this means that all incoming messages have the same IP address; how does the router get them to the correct local device? Each message has not only an IP address, but also a 16-bit

port number, and the router changes the port numbers of the return addresses of outgoing messages. It keeps track of these and when an incoming message appears, changes its address to the appropriate local device and restores the original port number. This pro-cess is called Network Address Translation (NAT). In the figure, our PC generates a message (1) to Google at 74.125.140.105 using Port 80. (It probably consulted an NDS to obtain Google's IP address.) In this case, the ISP has assigned us the IP address 66.169.54.135, and the router changes the return address to this (2) and changes the port to 637. When Google replies (3) to the only address and port it knows, the router consults its records and sees (4) that messages from Google to port 637 should be routed to local IP address 192.168.1.17 and Port

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80. Your neighbor may also be using 192.169.1.17 as the local IP address for one of her PCs, but since her Internet IP address is not 66.169.54.135, she won't get your messages from Google. If your home network includes a router, you should now reconnect it to the WAN modem and restore the original network connection for your PC. Again, use ipconfig /all (or ifconfig, as appro-priate) and compare the results with those you obtained with the PC connect-ed directly to the WAN modem. Again, the screenshot shows only the first por-tion of ipconfig's output. Note the changes. (Ignore the change of Host Name and physical address; this is for a different PC.)

The IP address now begins with 192.168.1, which is a local one, as is the default gateway.

The DHCP server is now our router, which assigns all the devices with IP addresses of the form 192.168.1.x.

There are two DNS servers, one in the router for local devices and one at the ISP for the Internet. (Note that the latter is one of the three we saw when connected directly.)

Zenmap (http://nmap.org/zenmap/), available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, is a very val-uable tool for exploring your local network. Pay special attention in the following discus-sion of how you can limit its probes to your local network, as its activities can look like you are trying to hack any computer it probes. Some system administrators are quite sensitive to these, and using them could result in unpleasant conver-sations with your ISP or legal authorities. The screenshot shows the results of a simple ping scan of my local network. Note that the target was 192.168.1.0/24. My network uses the addresses 192.168.1.x, where x varies from 0 to 255. Each field in the IP address is actually an 8-bit number, and the /24 tells Zenmap that it should not change the first three fields. (Three fields times 8 bits equals 24.) Thus it probes all the addresses from 192.168.1.0 through 192.168.1.255. If we had specified 192.168.0.0/16, Zenmap would have probed 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255, and while this wouldn't probe outside your local net-work, it could take a long time. The result is shown to the right.

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Seven devices are operating; since the first three fields of their IP addresses are the same, I'll designate them by only the last field. Our router is located at 1; 5 is a PC with an Asustek motherboard; 17 is a Win-dows 7 PC, 100 is the Ethernet adapter and 101 the wireless card of my desktop PC; 253 is a wireless access point; and 254 a network switch. A ping scan is quite sim-ple; we are just looking for an answer from each address. We can learn much more by performing an intense scan, which takes several minutes, compared to the few sec-onds for a ping scan, and the results fill several screens. Fortunately, Zenmap can sumarize its results graphically.

Circles indicate computers, and squares in-dicate routers. The colors and sizes of the nodes indicate how many ports are open; a greater number of open ports implies a greater vulnerability to outside hacking. (Green is good, yellow less so, and red could be something to be concerned about.) The thickness of the line to localhost indi-cates the round-trip delay; thick means

slow. (I made this probe from the PC with addresses 100 and 101, so delays can't be measured here.) The square yellow icon is a padlock indocating that some of the ports are filtered, which lessens the vulnerability to hacking. Finally, the square blue icon in-dicates a wireless access point. (Clearly, the detection isn't perfect, because 253 is also a WAP.) The host details tab shows what Zenmap has found about a particular computer.

In this case (the WAP), the operating sys-tem is Linux and the one open port is 80. Zenmap can also show you the route your data takes as it travels to its final destina-tion. For example, let's again use www.google.com at 74.125.140.105. We enter this into the target box and select Quick traceroute as the scan. The screen-

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Meeting called to order by President Hugh at 7:03pm 3 officers, 4 board members, and 2 club members present Year-to-date graphic sheet provided and reviewed.

October Expenses

Newsletter $36.32

Supplies $6.46

Total $42.78

October Income

Membership Renewal $75.00

Raffle $85.00

Total $160.00 Difference Income vs. Expenses: +$117.22 Total current balance: $1,732.37 Treasurer’s report moved to accept by Laura Aldridge and seconded by LeRoy Morrill. Unanimously agreed upon. Secretary’s Report by Laura Aldridge

No board minutes from September meeting available

Meeting minutes e-mailed to board members prior to Oc-tober meeting. Changes made after suggestions made by officers and board members.

Secretary’s report moved to accept minutes as amended by Hugh Stroupe and seconded by Brian Aldridge. Unanimously agreed upon. Program Chair report by Hugh Stroupe, as Gregg Bruch was unable to attend.

November meeting

Brian Aldridge with Virtual Machines (Linux running in Windows)

Martin Torres with Virtual Machines (Windows 8.1 running in Mac)

Hugh Stroupe with Virtual Machines (Windows run-ning in Linux)

December meeting

Intro: Mike’s Minutes (To be determined)

Hugh Stroupe with Hard Drives 101

Raffle: Kindle Fire HDX

Brian Aldridge with Online and Local backup Old Business

Hugh brought up the thought of having a “Mike’s Mi-nute” prepared for the middle of the meeting instead of the beginning, so there will be a short break in between longer presentations.

New Business

Discussed the need to have Hugh put on the IPCUG checking account and having the previous Treasurer’s name taken off.

Brian said he will look into continuing with Chase to see if they will charge a fee for the IPCUG account or not, being that the previous Treasurer had an existing personal account and the IPCUG fees were waived.

Hugh suggested meeting at a different location for the board meetings, being that it is a distance for all members to drive. Brian said he will talk to Jer-ry, owner of Jerry’s restaurant, to see if it would be possible for the meetings to be held there monthly and if there would be a fee.

Meeting adjourned at 7:37pm by President Hugh.

The meeting was called to order at 6:30 PM by Presi-dent Hugh Stroupe.—26 Members were present. Announcements were made by Hugh:

Linux User Group Thursday, Dec. 5th @ 6:30 PM, Gates Lab, Boise Public Library

No-host breakfast Saturday, Nov. 16th at 9:00 am, Golden Corral, Boise.

Board meeting Thursday, November 21st, at 7:00 PM, Elmer’s, Boise. *Week early

“Meeting after the meeting” tonight Denny’s Question and Answer session: Member John asked about steps suggested in previous question answer for fixing issues with Shockwave on his computer. Previous minutes were referred to for answers. Brian Aldridge started the evening with a presentation on VirtualBox in a Windows environment. He went through the process of creating a virtual instance of Xubuntu x64 and explained how virtualization works and what various options would do in the setup. Gregg asked if he would be able to virtualize an old computer to save the programs and files. Brian explained the steps needed to do this. Martin Torres demonstrated Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX. He demonstrated how an application menu is created in OSX from the list of applications available on the Windows 8 install. He also showed an instance of Linux running simultaneously with the Windows 8. Martin enabled Coherence to show how applications can be run without showing the Windows 8 interface. Hugh Stroupe demonstrated VirtualBox in a Linux en-vironment. He showed Windows Server 2012 and Win-dows 7 running simultaneously. Hugh showed the steps of installing “VirtualBox Guest Additions” for adding seamless mouse integration and drivers for virtualized hardware. Hugh enabled Windows 8 seamless mode which, like Parallels Desktop, hides the background and allows the application windows to be dragged around the screen independently. The meeting was adjourned by President Hugh Stroupe at 8:55 PM.

October 24th IPCUG Board Minutes

- Laura Aldridge -

November 14th IPCUG Meeting Minutes

- Brian Aldridge -

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shots show both the text and graphic re-sults. In this case, our test message made 16 hops on its way to Google, although other tests would provide slightly different re-sults. You can also view these results graphically, but I find the text output easier to understand and to be more complete. There are other network tools, but Zenmap is included in the Parted Image toolkit (discussed in my April 2012 article, availa-ble at http://www.bcug.com.), which I al-ways have it with me. There is extensive documentation for this useful program on the Zenmap Web site, accessible through the Help menu button visible in the screen-shots.

Taking a few minutes to explore your home network will remove much of its mystery and could prove valuable in solv-ing future problems.

Computer Entertainment By Jim Cerny Director, Sarasota PC Users Group, FL August 2013 issue, PC Monitor www.spcug.org jimcerny123 (at) gmail.com Are you old enough to remember sitting around watching the radio and listening to The Lone

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Treasurer’s Report Brian Aldridge

Balance October 31, 2013 $ 1732.37

Income

Membership Renewal $25.00 Raffle $75.00 Total Income $ 100.00

Expenses

Newsletter $ 36.32 Kindle Fire HDX 7: $206.33 Total Expense $ 242.65

Balance November 30, 2013 $ 1589.72

Well the Holidays have hit us head on, along with winter. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and for those so inclined a Happy Hanukkah. For some of us Christmas in almost here. The giving and receiving of presents. Just remember the reason for the holiday. Be safe and secure on these next few weeks as there will always be someone celebrating a little too much. So watch out for those that enjoy themselves too much. Please give us feedback on what you may be interested in for future presentations. Contact any of the officers. If you have something of interest to the group let us know and we will let you give a talk, demo or what ever you need. Have a safe and Happy Holidays Hugh Stroupe

President’s Note By Hugh Stroupe, IPCUG

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Always check our website for up-to-date information on meetings and special announcements at www.IdahoPCUG.org where you can also download the latest copy our newsletter. (About Us page) We will also post important announcements of events and other items of interest to the PC User community. Many times there has been a community event that we have not been able to get out the word and details maybe posted there along with our events calendar. Be sure to visit our website often.

Ranger or other programs? Then came TV, mov-ies, records, tapes, and DVDs. We all have our fa-vorite forms of entertainment and entertainers. I am sure most of you have already used your com-puter, tablet or phone for some kind of entertain-ment, but I thought it might be helpful (i.e. enter-taining?) for you if I gave you a quick overview of the almost infinite entertainment possibilities with computer devices. For the purpose of this article I will assume you have a computer, tablet, or phone connected to the internet. I am sure you will find the following ideas fun and entertaining: YouTube – one of my favorites. You do not have to join anything or get an ID or password, just go to the You Tube website at youtube.com and in the search box at the top enter in anything you like and hit the “Enter” key. You can enter an actor, TV show, name, event, topic, or news item. Be pre-pared to get a list of videos you can watch that can take all day. Rarely is an “app” so easy to use and so much fun! To watch a video, just click on it (or touch it on a touch-screen and it should start play-ing in a few moments. While playing, you can use the controls to pause or drag to any point in the video. Google Earth – You can download this free through the Google website. (If you don’t know how to get to the Google website there is no hope for you at all, please donate your computer today to our refurbishing group.) Google has many tools that are entertaining and fun, but one of my favor-ites is Google Earth. When it begins you see a slowly spinning earth that you appear to be ap-proaching from outer space. Use your finger on the touch-screen or your mouse to rotate the earth or stop it from spinning. Zoom in or out using your fingers to pinch or spread, or use your mouse wheel or the zoom in-out bar. Try zooming in on Disney World in Orlando and you can see the parks and the people. You can’t quite read a car license plate, but it’s pretty close. Many cities have 3D rendered buildings and you can fly right be-tween them if you want. Explore your planet and checkout the many options available. Free games – Whatever games you enjoy you can bet there are computer versions of them. Many are free. On the Google search website, enter in the search bar the word “free” followed by whatever game you are interested in. You will get quite a

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IPCUG HELP LINE Several of our members, listed below, have volunteered to provide help when needed. They will help you out if they can by just giving them a call and dis-cussing the problem you are having. One request is try to refrain from calling them after 9 PM and on weekends. Do not expect an instant solution and it may take a day or two but you are in a crisis... If you feel that you could help by volun-teering, let one of the IPCUG officers know and we will place you on the Help Line list. All numbers are area code 208.

Our meeting location is at Lee Pesky Learning Center, 3324 Elder Street, just off Vista Ave., at the top of the hill. Mary Goff, a past member of the IPCUG, is our host in making the meeting room available to us . Our meeting starts at 6:30 and ends around 9 PM. Please do not arrive before 6:15 PM as the facility is in use. There is a signal at the corner of Elder and Vista where you will turn west on Elder. Located near the corner is also an Applebee's and a gas station. When you get down to the building shown, turn right into the parking lot next to the monument sign and park in the parking lot behind the building (north side of the building). Entry will be by using the front door. We hope you are able to join us at our meetings at the new location and this time works for you.

Our Meeting

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list. Be aware, however, that some “free” games may ask you to register or set up an account. I never do this – I have too many accounts and passwords to keep track of as it is. Some games on the internet you can play with or against other people all over the world. I generally prefer to play against the computer instead of a real person. When you do find a website that allows you to play a game right on the internet for free, you can be sure there will be some advertising. It may be on the border at the edge of the game screen or window, or it may appear as “pop-up” windows. Care-fully click your mouse or tap your finger on the “X” (wherever it is, usually in the upper right) to close the window. If you miss the “X” and hit any other part of the window you will probably be sent to another window with more advertising. But do not be afraid, the internet is all about advertizing you know, just click on the next “X” you see to remove the unwanted window or ad.

TV and Radio Stations – Use Google to find your favorite radio or TV programs (current or from days gone by) and see what you find. Many current TV and radio programs can be viewed or lis-tened to on the station’s internet site.

The whole idea of all this is to consider your computer a window to the world—the present and the past. Don’t be afraid to search and explore, you will find fun and amazing things. Give yourself a time limit, otherwise you will find the hours slipping by and missing meals. Oops, look at the time! I think I just missed din-ner.

Clint Tinsley 375-8356

Ed Works 343-9513

LeRoy Morrill 338-9153

Ruth Parsons 495-1166

Doug Parsons 495-1166

Hugh Stroupe 322-3924

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Please bring this form to the meeting or mail to: Idaho PC Users Group PO Box 191097 Boise, ID 83719 Membership is for a year. Benefits of membership include our Newsletter, all group meetings, our twice-yearly social events, and special User Group vendor pricing on books, hardware and software where available. Please check the mailing label for your Membership Renewal date: IPCUG Member (A 8/1/2006) 2000 Treasure Valley Rd. Treasure Valley, ID 83700

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