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-USB to IDE convertor (£30) thats a tad pricey anyways they normally come 
with the external Hdd

On 9/5/05, simonlimb at burngreave.net <simonlimb at burngreave.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 <http://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)
> >
> > --
> > No virus found in this outgoing message.
> > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 
> 02/09/2005
> >
> >
> >
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