Show Notes Sunday, December 3, 2006

• Welcome Comments


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• Show Line Up
  
  
• CopCAST Frappr Shout Out - Hello to Sandi who listens from San Diego, CA. I don't know whether Sandi is a male or a female but we want to thank him or her for downloading and listening to the show. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show Sandi.
• The Brotherhoods - The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia - Check it out - it would make a good Christmas gift.
  
• Cop News of the Week
• Training Opportunities
• Job Opportunities
  
• Tech Issues

• Cop News of the Week
  
  
• Two More Fallen Heroes - Rich
• NYPD UC Cop Tells His Version of Recent Shooting - Mack
• Thugs Learn Not to Mug Cops - Rich
• Florida Deputies Have a Tug-of-War - Mack
• Car Thief Makes Bad Decision - Rich
• Preacher Kicks Ass On Car-Jacker - Mack
• A 12 Year Old With Bright Future - Rich

• Training Opportunities


• Each week we try to include training announcements from academies or training organizations.  This week I have listed at bunch of new training courses that we will be conducting at Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy in Salem, Virginai.  Just visit http://www.cardinalacademy.org/trngannounce.htm.  The new courses include:
  
  
• Fingerprint Pattern Interpretation and Classification
• Youth Gun Violence
• Advanced Traffic Incident Management
• First Responder Traffic Incident Management
• Field Training Officer
• Enhanced Threat and Risk Assessment
• Pharmaceutical Diversion Investigation
• The Search Warrant Process
• Basic Reid Techniques of Interviewing and Interrogation
• Advanced Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation
  


• 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
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• 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


• Technology Meets Reality - Rich
• Deathclock - Mack


• PC User's Tip
  

In the past we have talked about different file formats for your hard drive. The NTFS format has several advantages over the Fat format, particularly in the security area. So for the our PC user tip this week, we are going to tell you how to convert a FAT partition to NTFS.

Before, I tell you how to do the conversion, I want to remind you that, although the chance of corruption or data loss during the conversion from FAT to NTFS is minimal, it is best to do a full backup of the data on the drive that it you are going to convert.

We also recommend that you verify the integrity of the backup before proceeding and update your emergency repair disk.

Now on to the conversion. All you have to do is:


• Click '''START''', and then click '''RUN'''
• At the command prompt, type '''CONVERT [driveletter]: /FS:NTFS'''

That is all there is to it. Convert.exe will attempt to convert the partition to NTFS.


• Mac User's Tip
  

For our Mac User tip this week, we want to tell you about a quick way to access various system preferences like the sound, display, and keyboard. All you have to do is hold the option key while pressing one of the function keys. This will bring up the system preferences dialog for the selected function key.

For example, holding option while pressing the “Volume Up” function key will launch the System Preferences for sound.

• 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!