Everyone receives help while learning new things, even when they don't obviously deserve the patience and faith in their promise extended by their mentors. Many times the help comes casually, interspersed with consistent support from a true mentor.
I received such help, and the best way to repay that help is to pass along help to others.
B I C H O K
Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard
(Oliver Stone)
Bruce Culver's Firearms In Crime (May 08, PDF format) Right-click to download.
MWA Handout (March 08, PDF format) Right-click to download.
Corporate data backup is automatic and reliable and the data is stored off-site for disaster recovery and redundancy. Home data backup is infrequent, untested and one hard disk failure away from useless. Yet family photos and personal e-mail mean more to people than any corporate sales report. Family and friends often don't know how to protect that data.
Home network users are making the same storage mistakes business network users did in the mid-1980s. The IBM XT, with its whopping 10M-byte hard disk, let users keep their own files, defusing the push to use file servers to centralize storage. Decisions about storage locations, file organization and back-up tools - critical for the office 20 years ago - now must be made in every home with two or more PCs.
“Don't judge a book by its cover” contradicts the human habit of quick decisions based on appearances. This means readers assume writing filled with errors, twisted syntax, and confusing logic contains nothing of value. If your brilliant ideas struggle to escape your poor writing, your career advancement will also struggle.
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Questions from panels at ConMisterio in Austin, July 14-16.
I've recently added podcasts to my site (radio interviews). Are there any reasons NOT to add these? How long can video snippets be without taking too long to download?
Podcasts are great and easy to do – new mics with USB cables make it easy.
Audio-Technica ATR35s lavaliere microphone ($35) (mini-plug for your sound card, no adapter needed).
USB mics plug directly into your computer and cost as little as $50
Audacity free software.
Goldwave Digital Audio Editor $50
Who created and maintains your website? How much did it cost you to create and how much does it cost you to maintain?
Domain name registration: $9.25 max per year
Web sites from $1 per month to hundreds. Start low and increase. $100 per year max.
Easy/free Website design programs - 57 Free HTML Editors:
Download.com > Developer Tools > Web Page Creation > HTML Editors, then filter for FREE under license
107 Free Web Design Utilities found on July 10, 2006
Download.com > Developer Tools > Web Page Creation > Web Design Utilities
CoffeeCup free HTML editor
NVU (New View) free Open Source Software HTML editor