H:
for your personal data. only you have access to files stored here
(more specifically...)
M: for group-specific data. Data stored here is available to other
people in your group, but not to those who aren't in your group
(more specifically...)
S: for shared data. Data stored here is available to everyone in your
organisation
(more specifically...)
web browser (Mozilla)
no printed book available yet.
'Mozilla
Keyboard Shortcuts' is worth printing out.
Some of Mozilla's most useful features you may not be aware of are
- search from the location bar
- type
into the location bar your search terms and an option should appear
below the location bar to search Google for them, you can select this
by pressing the up arrow once and pressing [Enter] or by using the
mouse.
(if Google is not set as your preferred search engine for this feature
then its possible your preferences have been lost, or have been
changed; you can change this preference using Edit -> Preferences
-> Navigator -> Internet Search -> Default Search Engine ->
Search using -> Google. Google is by far the most useful search
engine but if you prefer another, or want to use a specialist one, this
feature can be so customised)
- tabbed browsing - [notes: good example of their use is when
researching using a search engine, they close from left to right so you
end up back at the search engine, you can have one browser window open
per group of tabs. can bookmark a group of tabs. beware there isn't yet
a mechanism for stopping you closing a window and losing tabs, though
you can use History to find where you were. tabs can be most
efficiently closed with a middle mouse click]
- pop-up blocking - pop-up
windows are predominantly used for commercial advertising, where they
annoyingly get in your way of fluidly using the web. In your copy of
Mozilla they are suppressed by default. However, some sites use them
for features you may actually need, so if a web page doesn't work as
expected, try using Tools -> Popup Manager -> Allow Popups From
This Site. An icon displayed in the status bar indicates that the
current page had a suppressed pop-up window.
- middle click a link to open a
tab in the background -
- text and graphics zooming
- Ctrl++ to zoom in and Ctrl+- to zoom out
word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation (OpenOffice)
Email (Pegasus Mail)
If your organisation has paid the author of Pegasus Mail and Mercury
for a support contract then a manual should be available which can be
printed.
System-wide address books and
distribution lists
When you've created an address book, if you move it from your own
mailbox (they have the extension .pmr and .pm! and live at
\\MAIL-SERVER\mail\%USERNAME%) to \\MAIL-SERVER\mail\address-books then
they'll be available for everyone else on the system. You can do
the same with distribution lists, which have a file extension of .pml
and should be moved to \\MAIL-SERVER\mail\distribution-lists.
CD writing (Nero)
Print off the 'Brief Instructions' that come with the software
Plain text editor
(NoteTab)
Print off the manual
(PDF)
image editor (The GIMP)
Get a printed book (there are a few available) or 'GIMP - The Official
Handbook' is available on the
web
as well as in print.
compression (7-Zip)
Right click on a zip or other compressed file,
choose '7-Zip', then 'Extract'
anti-virus (F-Prot)
The RealTime Protector should be running at all times; you can see its
icon in the system tray (beside the clock). This scans files as they're
used. If you want to do a complete scan of a selected disk you can run
the OnDemand Scanner or other scanning options from the 'security'
section of the Start Menu's Programs section.
If the anti-virus program reports it has found a virus, and reports
which virus in particular it is, and the virus is not in email (all of
which can be deduced from the on-screen report), then by the time it
has informed you of it the virus will have almost certainly already
been removed.
The operating system
(Windows 2000)