I think a chapter should focus on how to be safely connected to the Internet. Explain the importance of antivirus software and firewall, and what they do. Also explain that just having them installed does not mean they are functioning (virus definitions need updating, etc). I do a lot of fixing for people who have let their definitions lapse or the software has failed for some reason.
And an explanation of email and viruses in general. Just because an email appears to be from some address you know, or even yourself, does not make it so. Once they understand that the system is inherently insecure, most people are more apt to be more careful with email attachments and check that antivirus software regularly.
Of course, there is no substitute for reading and attempting to comprehend the messages your computer gives you. When their antivirus warns them that their definitions are out of date, they should not just ignore it and assume the computer will magically fix that for them. So I suppose another section could be devoted to explaining that a computer, like an automobile, needs regular maintenance in order to continue to run properly.
If you can write a book that helps this kind of person, you will get hundreds of sales from me:
User: "I can't change my password, something's wrong."
Me: "Well what does the error message say?"
User: "It says it can't change my password."
Me: "But what does it SAY?"
User: "Oh. It says 'Your new password must exceed 5 characters and be'... oh. I see. Never mind."
"Glad I could help."
People think whatever the error messages say are for trained computer people only, not them. Get that out of their heads and you win.
This device doesn't have the contacts/calendar/sync features that the nano has does it? I would like to have MP3, FM, and Calendar/Contacts and possibly email sync (with Outlook). But I was looking for an alternative to the ipod. The only decent one I came up with was the Creative Zen Micro 5GB. http://creative.com/products/mp3/zenmicro/ Comes in a range of colours and there seems to be a few accessories for it. It is usually around the same price or cheaper than the nano 2GB, and is roughly the same size. Anyone have any experiences with that one? Or other suggestions for comparable devices?
Switching to a new layout is not going to be accepted easily, even if it does become a new standard. Especially for us touch-typists. I think a good idea for implementing a new standard layout (I'm not saying this is The One) would be to have a keyboard with qwerty on one side, but then you could flip it over and use the new one (be it this alphabetical fancy coloured one, PLUM or any other). That way qwerty fans could still experiment, while new users (the kids, etc.) could learn the new standard, without having to do any keyboard swapping.
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One thing I like about evolution is that when you are setting up your filters you can filter on pretty much anything you want, including specific headers. This helps for using things like popfile or spambayes filters which use their own specific headers. Aethera only lets you filter on the plain old stuff (subject, body, to, from, etc - no specific headers). Modifying subject lines is so ugly. But other than that, I like how it operates. And importing from other mailboxes, calendar files, etc. seems to work quite well!
The college I used to attend used the same service. "Campus Pipeline" looked exactly the same. That was about 3 years ago that they integrated that. They were pretty proud of it, but all of the Computer Science students complained about it. They expected us to make use of it, check our pipeline mail for updates, etc. When we did complain, we were told that we were the only ones having a problem, and that it worked from all the college's computers, so they had no plans of changing anything.
It just cheesed me off at the time, and I am dissappointed that this attitude is still so widely accepted.
I've also been using popfile for a couple of months. I set it up to filter into 3 categories: spam, work, and personal. Right now it is around 98%, which is better than I thought it would be (especially with the 3 categories; work and personal are often similar in subject). I won't go into its features other than great accuracy, but I highly reccommend it!
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I think a chapter should focus on how to be safely connected to the Internet. Explain the importance of antivirus software and firewall, and what they do. Also explain that just having them installed does not mean they are functioning (virus definitions need updating, etc). I do a lot of fixing for people who have let their definitions lapse or the software has failed for some reason.
And an explanation of email and viruses in general. Just because an email appears to be from some address you know, or even yourself, does not make it so. Once they understand that the system is inherently insecure, most people are more apt to be more careful with email attachments and check that antivirus software regularly.
Of course, there is no substitute for reading and attempting to comprehend the messages your computer gives you. When their antivirus warns them that their definitions are out of date, they should not just ignore it and assume the computer will magically fix that for them. So I suppose another section could be devoted to explaining that a computer, like an automobile, needs regular maintenance in order to continue to run properly.
If you can write a book that helps this kind of person, you will get hundreds of sales from me:
User: "I can't change my password, something's wrong."
Me: "Well what does the error message say?"
User: "It says it can't change my password."
Me: "But what does it SAY?"
User: "Oh. It says 'Your new password must exceed 5 characters and be'... oh. I see. Never mind."
"Glad I could help."
People think whatever the error messages say are for trained computer people only, not them. Get that out of their heads and you win.
This device doesn't have the contacts/calendar/sync features that the nano has does it? I would like to have MP3, FM, and Calendar/Contacts and possibly email sync (with Outlook). But I was looking for an alternative to the ipod. The only decent one I came up with was the Creative Zen Micro 5GB. http://creative.com/products/mp3/zenmicro/ Comes in a range of colours and there seems to be a few accessories for it. It is usually around the same price or cheaper than the nano 2GB, and is roughly the same size. Anyone have any experiences with that one? Or other suggestions for comparable devices?
Switching to a new layout is not going to be accepted easily, even if it does become a new standard. Especially for us touch-typists. I think a good idea for implementing a new standard layout (I'm not saying this is The One) would be to have a keyboard with qwerty on one side, but then you could flip it over and use the new one (be it this alphabetical fancy coloured one, PLUM or any other). That way qwerty fans could still experiment, while new users (the kids, etc.) could learn the new standard, without having to do any keyboard swapping.
One thing I like about evolution is that when you are setting up your filters you can filter on pretty much anything you want, including specific headers. This helps for using things like popfile or spambayes filters which use their own specific headers. Aethera only lets you filter on the plain old stuff (subject, body, to, from, etc - no specific headers). Modifying subject lines is so ugly. But other than that, I like how it operates. And importing from other mailboxes, calendar files, etc. seems to work quite well!
The college I used to attend used the same service. "Campus Pipeline" looked exactly the same. That was about 3 years ago that they integrated that. They were pretty proud of it, but all of the Computer Science students complained about it. They expected us to make use of it, check our pipeline mail for updates, etc. When we did complain, we were told that we were the only ones having a problem, and that it worked from all the college's computers, so they had no plans of changing anything.
It just cheesed me off at the time, and I am dissappointed that this attitude is still so widely accepted.
I've also been using popfile for a couple of months. I set it up to filter into 3 categories: spam, work, and personal. Right now it is around 98%, which is better than I thought it would be (especially with the 3 categories; work and personal are often similar in subject). I won't go into its features other than great accuracy, but I highly reccommend it!
Hey, look at your sig:
"It IS easier to mod you down than to post an inteligent reply."
you spelled "inteligent" wrong. it's spelled "intellagent". Duh.