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MAIL CONTENT CHECKING/FILTERING |
The whole issue of company email being misused is in the press again. The misuse generally falls into two categories: offensive or abusive and company confidential.
Products like Mail Essentials provide the ability to check the content of outbound mail, (as well as inbound of course). So you could for instance audit for certain words and phrases (anglo-saxon one's are a favourite).
From the audit you may want to "quarantine" emails, that is pass them to an administrator to review before sending them onwards (or cancelling them).
You can also keep audit trails, a log of all outbound mail. This is a function useful for all sorts of purposes, not just mail abuse, but quality control, customer tracking and others. You can also opt just to zap the mail at the server.
Of course, each of these features can be used the other way round to. So you can control in-bound mail in the same way. The more traditional use of mail security filters.
See http://www.c2000.com/products/sec_mail.htm for more information
FILE COMPARISON IN WINDOWS |
Not actually a download this week, as it appears on the MS Windows CD's.
WINDIFF.EXE is a command line program which lets you compare two text files. Very handy, particularly when checking massive files with minor differences. Programmers use this kind of tool when tracking very minor but significant changes that would be easily missed.
For Windows 98 you can find it on the Windows CD, browse to Tools\Reskit\Files.
For Windows 2000 users look on the CD under Support\Tools in the SUPPORT.CAB file.
See http://www.c2000.com/software for more information
THE HIDDEN FACES OF TOOLBAR BUTTONS |
Many Excel toolbar buttons have two functions. Take the Print button - if you hold down the shift key it works as Print Preview.
Increase and Decrease Decimals buttons work the same way
Underline switches to Double Underline
Ascending becomes Descending
Decrease Indent becomes Increase
There are probably lots of others that I've never discovered.
It can be quite useful, it's a shame this isn’t standard across all the Office range and that the icons don't change to reflect the difference.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
MOVING TO WORD HEADERS AND FOOTERS QUICKLY |
Because Word has these special commands for editing the Header and Footer a lot of people don’t realise that once created you can move to them just by double-clicing on them.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
MANAGING FAVOURITES |
You can add favourites of any kind, both Internet URL's and local files to your Favourites list at any time.
1) Right click in the Favourites folder
2) Select New, Shortcut
3) Type or paste the URL or file reference
4) Enter the name for the favourite
5) Save it.
The new favourite is now available everywhere.
Incidentally, you can also organise your favourites while you are in the favourite folder using all the regular move, copy, cut & paste commands, which can be a lot easier than trying to do it through the Internet Explorer menus.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
ADVANCED SEARCHING WITH LIKE |
Like is a special search option in most SQL systems (and Access is an SQL system under the covers). Firstly, it lets you do straight searches:
Like "Walden"
will find anything which exactly matches "Walden", same as "="
But, you can use "wildcards" and this is where the real power of Like comes into affect:
Like "Wal*"
will find anything which starts with "Wal", so Walden, Waldon, Waldren.
Like "[A-C]"
Means find anything which is in the range [first - last]; in this case find anything in the range A to C.
Like "[A-C]*" (note the added asterix)
Finds anything which starts with A through C. A very useful selection
You can also have several series:
Like "[A-C,F-H,K]*"
Comma separated items, finds anything beginning with A,B,C or F-G-H or K
A common example might be:
Like "[A-Z]*"
Finds everything starting with a capital letter.
Like "[!A-Z]*"
Does exactly the reverse, the "!" part means NOT. So find everything which does NOT start with a capital letter. Finds lower case letters, numbers, punctuation etc.
The [] or * can go anywhere in the line
Like "*2000" finds anything ending in 2000
Like "*line*" finds anything with "line" somewhere in the field
Like "*[0-9]" finds fields ending with a number.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
AUTOMATING FTP |
Any of the standard Windows FTP systems can be automated. You need a two control files. The first is a basic batch file to start up ftp, the second provides commands for ftp.
Starting up ftp with a batch file
cd \ftp_folder
ftp -I -s:ftp_commands
This batch file changes to the right directory, then starts up FTP with -i (turns off interactive prompting) and -s - which defines the file of command lines for FTP.
Then your ftp_commands file will look like:
open ftp.yoursite.com
username
password
cd upload_folder
lcd download_folder
binary
put singlefile
mput *html
close
The first three lines tell FTP which site to open, then the username and password you use to connect to the site.
The next two lines (cd and lcd) do a remote change directory and local change directory respectively. This makes sure you are in the correct folders for the file transfer.
The "binary" line, tells FTP to transfer files in binary mode - in other words don't fiddle with them (required if you are handling pictures, zip files etc).
Then you can use "put" to put a single file, "mput" to put several files. You could use "get" and "mget" if you need to retrieve files - for example log files - from the web server.
Finally, don't forget to "close" the connection.
The thing you can’t do with this FTP approach is only upload the changed files, which means it is a bit of a sledgehammer for large sites, but great for small sites or for areas of a site that change regularly.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
INTERNET EXPLORER FOR KIOSKS |
You want to run Explorer in some public place, but you don't want viewers to be able to get past explorer and do anything else on the computer.
You can use Full Screen Mode (Press F11), that removes most buttons, but still leaves you with the windows furniture for closing or minimising the window.
If you run in kiosk mode, then no buttons are visible:
From Start, Run (or the command line) use:
iexplore -k [site]
Your [site] entry can be blank (default home page); a full web address (http://www.c2000.com) or a local web page ("C:\webpages\index.htm").
If you need to make sure the kiosk is secure then you do need to hide the keyboard, otherwise standard windows keys still let you get round it. But if you just have a mouse - or better a touch screen (very cost effective these days) then it's pretty near impossible to break.
How do you close it down? Well, then you do need the keyboard. Alt-F4 (the standard Windows close option will close it down).
SOME QUICK KEYS USEFUL IN BOTH PAINTSHOP AND PHOTO |
Some quick keys useful in both PaintShop and PhotoShop.
Ctrl-C will copy your current layer
Shift-Ctrl-C will copy the merged result of all visible layers
Ctrl-V will paste a new image
Ctrl-L will paste a new layer.
Shift-Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V is very fast way of creating a new image of your merged layers.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
SEEN ON THE INTERNET - A SLICE OF REAL NET LIFE |
Topic: Re: Looking for a PERL Programmer
From: Brendon Caligari
Newsgroups: alt.perl
> Full time position in Philly.
> Working on the Human Genome Project building a database.
> Experience with PERL is a must.
> SQL (Possibly ISQL) Database experience is necessary.
> Experience with C and JAVA a plus.
> Environment: NT
>
> Call us for more details!
>
Is the programmer required for employment or dissection?
See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
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