Post by johnhowe on Feb 26, 2010 14:16:39 GMT -1
February 20th 2010
We started the morning with a discussion and explanation of Blogs and then using a free tool within Google selected Blogger from the Google Home Page Menu to build a demonstration blog.
Bear in mind that the idea of a blog is a personal page and is predominantly used as a diary. A sample site was started and will hopefully be completed during the week and the URL will be published next Saturday.
The security software recommended by Barry, Trusteer Rapport was discussed and looked at. The easiest way to find out more about this software is to type Trusteer Rapport into your search engine.
David Bristow had had problems with putting his machine into Hibernation and then being unable to wake it up. This proved to be a major headache and checking out this problem on the Internet I have found that this is a known problem without a known solution. The best advice is not to put your machine into hibernation.
The following is the definition of Sleep and Hibernation
Sleep is a power-saving state that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically within several seconds) when you want to start working again. Putting your computer into the sleep state is like pausing a DVD player—the computer immediately stops what it’s doing and is ready to start again when you want to resume working.
Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk, and then turns off your computer. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power. On a laptop, use hibernation when you know that you won't use your laptop for an extended period and won't have an opportunity to charge the battery during that time.
Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers. Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate—it puts any open documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work. That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep. Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers.
If you wish to check all the fonts available on your computer a very useful free utility is Cfont Pro which once more can be found and downloaded by typing Cfont Pro in your search engine.
An annoying problem with your printer can be caused by print jobs being in the printer memory and the printer continually trying to print these jobs. To clear the printer memory select Printer and Faxes from Control Panel or from the Start Menu and select the printer. Click on the Printer to open the print queue.
Once the print queue is displayed individual print jobs may be cancelled, paused or restarted. All jobs can be selected by the normal Windows method.
We started the morning with a discussion and explanation of Blogs and then using a free tool within Google selected Blogger from the Google Home Page Menu to build a demonstration blog.
Bear in mind that the idea of a blog is a personal page and is predominantly used as a diary. A sample site was started and will hopefully be completed during the week and the URL will be published next Saturday.
The security software recommended by Barry, Trusteer Rapport was discussed and looked at. The easiest way to find out more about this software is to type Trusteer Rapport into your search engine.
David Bristow had had problems with putting his machine into Hibernation and then being unable to wake it up. This proved to be a major headache and checking out this problem on the Internet I have found that this is a known problem without a known solution. The best advice is not to put your machine into hibernation.
The following is the definition of Sleep and Hibernation
Sleep is a power-saving state that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically within several seconds) when you want to start working again. Putting your computer into the sleep state is like pausing a DVD player—the computer immediately stops what it’s doing and is ready to start again when you want to resume working.
Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk, and then turns off your computer. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power. On a laptop, use hibernation when you know that you won't use your laptop for an extended period and won't have an opportunity to charge the battery during that time.
Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers. Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate—it puts any open documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work. That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep. Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers.
If you wish to check all the fonts available on your computer a very useful free utility is Cfont Pro which once more can be found and downloaded by typing Cfont Pro in your search engine.
An annoying problem with your printer can be caused by print jobs being in the printer memory and the printer continually trying to print these jobs. To clear the printer memory select Printer and Faxes from Control Panel or from the Start Menu and select the printer. Click on the Printer to open the print queue.
Once the print queue is displayed individual print jobs may be cancelled, paused or restarted. All jobs can be selected by the normal Windows method.