[Cafe] Fwd: Article for messenger

[simonlimb at burngreave.net]

Hi All,

yeah, I see what you mean somecoolpc, glad to be put straight;-)

What needs doing in order to get this bank account sorted?  As  a potential
signatory is there anything I need to do, like provide ID, contact the bank,
etc?

As for what to spend the money on some ideas could be: 

-A good quality set of tools (£100)
-A good quality set of diagnostic software & hardware (£200-400)
-KVM Switch(es) (£10-50)
-Network Switch (£20-30)
-USB to IDE convertor (£30)
-External HDD for data transfer (£50-100)
-A printer for printing help info for people (£40)
-Lockable secure cabinet(s) to store it all in (£???)
-A workbench around the edge of the room (£???)
-Rent (if necessary)
and lastly...
-Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Milk & Biscuits;-)

Let me know what you think.

Simon



Quoting Gareth Coleman <gareth at sublime.org>:

> Yup thanks for the suggestions - agree with all of them apart from last one
> - personally I would tend to agree with somecoolpc's point that when overrun
> windows update will often not work or at least be very slow. However it
> would make more sense to put it up a bit so that installing firefox comes
> after. Revised body text follows; any more comments or improvements please
> keep them coming.
> 
> Also any concrete ideas as to what to do with the money? Once we have a bank
> account we get both the original grant (£5K) and then new one (£1k).
> 
> Much love
> 
> Gareth
> 
> By far the most common sort of problem we encounter week in and week out in
> the cafe is a computer overrun with unwanted programs. A lot of this is
> related to internet activity, and can result in unwanted pop-up boxes, your
> 'home-page' on the internet being hijacked, or your computer running slowly
> or crashing. These problems are caused by programs such as viruses and
> 'spyware' - software that secretly installs itself in your computer.
> 
> In this, the first in a series of advice columns, we'll give an overview of
> the way we go about cleaning up and then preventing your computer getting
> clogged up again. We use a total of 6 different programs to clean up and
> we'll go through each process in detail over the coming months. We've chosen
> each program because they are FREE as well as effective.
> 
> In the cafe we start by using AVG - an anti-virus program that's free for
> personal use. After using that to clean up any viruses we use two spyware
> removal programs - Spybot and Ad-Aware.
> 
> We then use a built in feature of Windows called Windows Update. It connects
> with Microsoft's servers and downloads security and other updates for your
> computer. It is very important to do this regularly as bugs are discovered
> in Windows all the time.
> 
> We then start to protect against future problems by installing Firefox web
> browser, as an alternative to internet explorer - it is much less vulnerable
> to infection by spyware than Internet Explorer. Last but not least is a
> firewall program - ZoneAlarm. This protects against hackers and other
> attacks from the internet.
> 
> You can get more help and advice as well as links to download the programs
> at burngreave.net - just click on the cafe link. And if it all seems a bit
> daunting then pop down to the cafe one Saturday and get some help over a cup
> of tea!
> 
> (body=320 words)
> 
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