In this issue:
- Comittee Support and Minutes Management
- What on earth is an UNC?
- Elastic Margins
- Driving cars in Excel?
- Uniplex has released it's first standalone mail server
- PaintShop Pro Shortcuts
- Business Continuity Best Practices
- To make sure that words stay together
- Subject: Re: women
COMITTEE SUPPORT AND MINUTES MANAGEMENT
North Somerset goes to Cairo
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We are pleased to announce that North Somerset District Council are going to be the first local authority to go live with our new CAIRO committee support system.
With new legislation taking affect for local government this year changing council committee structures as well as "e-govt" legislation too many councils are looking at new ways of supporting committees and council members.
CAIRO (Committee Assistance, Internet Retrieval and Organisation ) aims to provide a number of key benefits to any local authority:
1) Simplified retrieval of committee minutes, agendas, reports and decision notices - direct to members or to the public through the internet.
2) Managed support for documents, from draft to approval stages through to archiving, to simplify member services operations
3) Support structures, such as attendance records, calendar publishing and full security.
4) Direct publishing to the Internet.
If you are interested in further information about CAIRO, then please call Simon Walden on 01242 25500 or email sqw@c2000.com
See http://www.c2000.com/products/cairo for more information
WHAT ON EARTH IS AN UNC?
Other ways of seeing other computers
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On most Microsoft networks crucial folders, typically on the server, are shared out as a drive letter, so you might have a "P:" drive for PUBLIC information, or a "U:" for users say.
Well, that's fine but that setting is local to a particular PC and may not be set on other PC's in your organisation, or maybe you need a more permanent reference to a file without the vagary of is the share set up the same every time.
Well, Microsoft introduced a long time ago a concept called "UNC" which basically means you can use double slash, computer name, slash to point to any file on any computer you have access to:
For example: \\computer_name\AnyFolder\AnyFile
So, here in our office we use \\w2000\shared_data as a public folder all the time.
Another common instance for us is when we ship Access applications - the application database is always separate from the data database (if that makes sense) and the application needs to know where the shared data is, we will always use link tables to \\NTserver\application\data.mdb
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
You've probably noticed that the margins of headers and footers in Word are elastic and stretch to fit whatever is entered. But what happens if you want to fix the margin size.
Select File, Page Setup and in the dialog box enter a "-" before the margin measurement and it will stay fixed. You can do this to top or bottom margins.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
DRIVING CARS IN EXCEL?
Anyone remember horse racing in ucalc?
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Yes, its another "easter egg" but this one is even cooler than the Excel 97. If anyone remembers the old Spectrum Spy Hunter game then you will love this.
By the way, you'll need to be patient to get this setup right.
1) Start Excel 2000
2) From the File menu select 'Save as Web Page'
3) Select 'Save: Selection: Sheet'
4) Check the 'Add interactivity' box and click Save
5) Close Excel
1) Load the saved HTML in Internet Explorer
2) Scroll to row 2000, column WC
3) Select row 2000 (makes the whole line active) and click tab until WC is selected again
4) Hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt and click the Office logo in the upper-left
5) If you have Direct-X the spy hunter game will start with all the coders names! If you don't have Direct X it won't work.
Now, you can use arrow keys to steer, space to fire, O to drop oil and H for headlights - have fun!
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
UNIPLEX HAS RELEASED IT'S FIRST STANDALONE MAIL SERVER
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Uniplex has released it's first standalone mail server, using the tried and trusted technology that has powered Uniplex Advanced Office for many years, with their new IMAP server, support for LDAP servers and a new method for Unix mail
pickup.
Designed to be a compact but incredibly powerful system, it takes up less than 3MB on most platforms.
Many enhancements to the IMAP server, introduced in Uniplex V9.10, have been made, including major speed improvements and improved MIME resilience.
In addition, a Web Mail client has been developed to allow a completely brandable, customizable front end for your customers or staff to access their UMS or V9.10 server based email. Support for LDAP, Database or user's own address books with import/export makes directory maintenance a snip.
At Centreline 2000 we'll be trying this out and let you know how things work out for us, users sites have already told us that it works well and solves a number of problems around PC/Unix integration.
See http://www.c2000.com/uniplex for more information
Here are the quick keys to turn PSP's various toolbar palettes on and off:
Press to display and hide the Color palette.
Press to display and hide the Histogram.
Press to display and hide the Layer palette.
Press to display and hide the Tool Options palette.
Press to display and hide the Tool palette.
Press to display and hide the toolbars.
Press to display and hide the Overview Window.
There are also two special keys: Press the key to hide and/or view all the floating palettes.
And when you've lost a palette, or can't grab it to move it around: Press the + + keys to center all the floating palettes and toolbars.
See http://www.justkiss.com/psp for more information
BUSINESS CONTINUITY BEST PRACTICES
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Business Continuity Best Practices
I recently read an article by Reinhard Koch in Disaster Recovery Journal (www.drj.com) which concluded with a page that contained 9 rules I think gave some good strategic pointers for disaster recovery plans:
1) The Board of Directors annually reviews the business continuity program.
2) The responsibility for business continuity rests with a top executive (MD or FD).
3) A distinct staff, with associated budget, performs the business continuity activities.
4) The business continuity function spans all aspects of the organization.
5) Business continuity planning is a continuous process within the organisation.
6) The organisation maintains a comprehensive backup policy that includes all vital records.
7) Recovery strategies are in place and are based upon the impact that the loss of a business process would have upon the organization.
8) A recovery strategy-testing program is in place.
9) The recovery manual that documents the program is reasonably current and available under all circumstances. The document is so structured so that an outside technical expert, unfamiliar with the organization could execute technical recovery strategies.
Just ask yourself: Will your data survive even if your building doesn't?
See http://www.c2000.com/papers for more information
TO MAKE SURE THAT WORDS STAY TOGETHER
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To make sure that words stay together (eg: "Mr Jones" or "Office 2000"), press CTRL-SHIFT-SPACE between words in place of the usual space. This means that the words will never be split over the beginning and end of a line but will always appear directly next to each other.
CTRL-SHIFT-SPACE adds an "hard space" or a "non-breaking space". This basically makes the space work like any other letter in your word. Indeed Word will not recognise two words joined in this way as two words - it will always treat them as one - even for spell checking etc.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
Topic: Re: women
From: nospam@mailops.com (John Murphy)
Newsgroups: uk.education.staffroom
Bev wrote dis
Why Its Better To Be A Woman:
We can get rid of leg hair without pretending that we do a lot of cycling/swimming, or any other sport that would require aerodynamic legs.
We absently hum tunes from musicals without anyone being suspect of our sexuality.
We can wear platforms - which is why there is no such thing as a 'short woman's complex'
We can date teenagers without being called dirty old perverts.
We get to flirt with systems support men who always return our calls, and are nice to us when we blow up our computers.
Our boyfriend's clothes make us look elfin and gorgeous - they look like complete idiots in ours.
We can be groupies. Male groupies are stalkers.
It's cool to be a daddy's girl. It's sad to be a mommy's boy.
We can cry and get off speeding fines.
The thrill of surprising people by being good at darts......and pool.....and football.
We live longer, so we can be cantankerous old biddies wearing inappropriate clothes and shouting at strangers..... men die earlier so we get to cash in on the life insurance.
Taxis stop for us.
We get drunk quicker and cheaper.
We've never fancied a cartoon character or the central figure in a computer game.
It does not enhance our social standing to understand the inner workings of a 'ruck' (or any other rugby thing). But we look INCREDIBLY cool if we do.
We never recognise ourselves in aspects of Mr Bean. Ever.
And finally... We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing.
See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
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