Show Notes Sunday, November 12, 2006

• Welcome Comments


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• Show Line Up
  


• Mailbag
  
• Public Safety Podcasts
• The CHIEF Star
• Snake Story
• Snake Story Update
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to Fergie who listens from Tralee, Kerry, Ireland. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show Fergie and drink a pint for us.
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Five More Fallen Heroes - Rich
• Missouri Clink is Pretty in Pink- Mack
• Kentucky Cops Shoots Himself While Driving - Rich
• Police Trace Ghost Masks to Track Down Robbers - Mack
• Indiana Cop Saves Cardiac Victim - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcements from academies or training organizations.  This week we don't have any new announcements this week.
• 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 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


• Pot Delivered to Your Door - Mack
• Officer To Be Released - Rich
• Skype 3.0 - Mack
• Flu Pandemic Preparation Website - Rich
• Google E-mails a Virus - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

The Registry is the all-important database that tells Windows how to run. It is a good idea to back it up periodically, particularly before making changes to it. It is also simple to do.

1. Click Start>>Run. Enter "regedit" in the box (without the quotation marks) and click OK.
2. The Registry Editor opens. If My Computer is not highlighted, click it once.
3. In Windows 98, ME and 2000, click Registry>>Export Registry File. In Windows XP, click File>>Export.
4. Select a folder to store the backup. The default is My Documents.
5. Enter a name for the file (such as Registry Backup) and click Save.


• Mac User's Tip
  

If you discover that Spotlight isn’t displaying items that you feel should be showing up, the index that the utility uses to perform searches may have its permission levels set wrong or the index may be corrupted. Fortunately, you don’t have to reinstall Tiger in order to correct theses problems. Fixing the permissions is a breeze:

1. Launch Disk Utility located in '''Applications/Utilities'''.
2. Choose the volume from the list on the left side of the utility.
3. Click the '''Repair Disk Permissions''' button and allow the program to make corrections to your drive. When completed, the message box displays the changes it made to the volume.
4. Close the utility.

If repairing the permissions doesn’t work, you should then consider rebuilding the index. The steps for rebuilding the index are as follows:

1. Choose Apple | System Preferences.
2. Select the Spotlight pane.
3. Choose the Privacy tab.
4. Click the Plus button and select the volume you wish to re-index. This adds the volume to the Privacy list.
5. Close the System Preferences and wait about thirty minutes.
6. Repeat the process of opening the Spotlight preference and delete the volume from the Privacy list by selecting it and clicking the Minus button.
7. Close the System Preference and allow the utility to rebuild the index.
   
It’s best that you keep the computer plugged in and running for the next few hours while the index is rebuilt in the background. To check the status of the re-index, just perform a Spotlight search. If it isn’t finished re-indexing, Spotlight will display the status instead of the list of found items.

• 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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• Send your comments and suggestions to talkback@copcast.net.  If you have figured out how to record audio files on your computer, attach an audio comment to your e-mail so we can play it during the show.
• From the crew at CopCAST.....Have a great week!