Show Notes Sunday, October 22, 2006
- Welcome Comments
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- Show
Line Up
- CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to Rhyan who listens from Mack's home town - Timmons, Ontario, Canada.
- Cop News of the Week
- Training Opportunities
- Tech Issues
-
Cop
News of
the Week
- Five Fallen Heroes - Rich
- CA Cop Accidentally Shot By Son Won't Face Charges - Mack
- Third Time Is The Charm - Not! - Rich
- Judge Nixes NYPD Blue At Trial of Cop Killer- Mack
- LE Quote of the Year - Rich
- Training Opportunities
- Each
week we try to include training announcements from academies or
training organizations. This week we didn't receive any new training announcments.
- We welcome training announcements from any criminal justice training academy or training organization. Just send the information to talkback@copcast.net and we will do our best to announce your training course.
- Job Opportunities
- We are pleased to be
able to assist criminal justices agencies in their effort to identify
and hire the best qualified people. If your agency is looking for
qualified people, just send us a little information about the job and
we will announce it on the show. We don't have any new announcments this week
- We
welcome job announcements from any criminal justice agency. Just send
the information to talkback@copcast.net
and we will do our best to
announce your vacancies.
- Tech Issues
- IPods Infected With Windows Virus - Mack
- Sony Says Me Too! - Rich
- Apple and Satellite Radio? - Mack
- TX Cop Fired Over MySpace Page - Rich
- Firefox 2 Out On Tuesday - Mack
- PC
User's Tip
- Open Control Panel, click Tools, and then click Folder Options.
- Click the View tab, and scroll to the bottom of the Advanced Settings list.
- Clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box.
- To manage folder permissions, browse to the folder in Windows Explorer, right-click the folder, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab, and assign permissions, such as Full Control, Modify, Read, and/or Write, to specific users.
- Mac
User's Tip
-
Sharing of files and folders can be managed in two ways. If you chose
simplified file sharing, your folders can be shared with everyone on
your network or workgroup, or you can make your folders
private. However, in Windows XP Professional, you can also
set folder permissions for specific users or groups. To do this, you
must first change the default setting, which is simple file sharing.
You can set file and folder permissions only on drives formatted to use NTFS, and you must be the owner or have been granted permission to do so by the owner.
To change the XP default setting, follow these steps:
-
This week we have a quick and easy Mac user tip. We are going to teach
you how to make your dock invisible.
Choose Apple Menu > Dock > Turn Dock Hiding On (Command-Option-D).
- Closing
- Thanks to our partner RLS Enterprises, Inc. - Your Affordable On-Line Training Solution for making this episode of CopCAST possible. Visit their website for more information about providing internet-based training for your organization.
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- From the crew at CopCAST.....Have a great week!