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This Saturday, July 26th, 2008 there will be construction work done.
The High School will have electrical work done that will take down all
electricity in that building. We will need to power down
equipment that will impact any network or e-mail. This weekend
most of our services will be down. We will bring all services
back on line this Sunday. We should be operational on Monday
July 28th 2008.
All services will not be available this weekend which includes e-mail
and access to network folders.
We are sorry for any inconvenience.
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Source: http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/emailscams071707.htm
FBI
Warns Public of E-mail Scams
The
FBI today warned the public against three separate Internet scams that
continue to flourish through spam e-mails. The warning comes after the
FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a rising number of
complaints from citizens over the past few weeks.
In one
scam, an e-mail recipient receives an electronic greeting card containing
malware (malicious software). The cards, which are also referred to as
e-cards or postcards, are being sent via spam. Like many other Internet
fraud schemes, the perpetrators use social engineering tactics to entice
the victim, claiming the card is from a family member or friend. Although
there have been variations in the spam message and attached malware,
generally the spam directs the recipient to click the link provided in the
email to view their e-card. Upon clicking the link, the recipient is
unknowingly taken to a malicious web page.
In
another scam, fraudulent e-mails misrepresent the FBI and/or Director
Robert S. Mueller III and give the appearance of legitimacy due to the
usage of pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letter head, and/or banners.
The types of schemes utilizing the Director's name and/or FBI are lottery
endorsements and inheritance notifications.
The
third is spam e-mail which claim to be from an official of the U.S.
military sent on behalf of American soldiers stationed overseas. The scam
e-mails vary in content; however, the general theme of each is to request
personal information and/or funds from the individual receiving the
e-mail.
These
spam e-mail messages are hoaxes and should be immediately deleted.
Consumers need to be wary of unsolicited e-mails that request them to take
any action even if that means just clicking on an attachment. It is
possible that by "double-clicking" on attachments to these
messages, recipients will cause malicious software — e.g., viruses,
keystroke loggers, or other Trojan horse programs—to be launched on
their computers.
For
further information on computer safety tips please visit the FBI website
at www.fbi.gov and the IC3 website at www.ic3.gov.
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Helpful Hints
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Winston Churchill once said, "A lie gets halfway
around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants
on".
Wow, isn't this statement so true when it comes to the
Internet and email these days.
Ok..we've all received them in our email in boxes at one
time or another. A forwarded email from a friends, sisters,
Aunts brother. Some of us believe if we forward this email to
"at least 15 people in our address books", we will soon have a
tremendous windfall or have good luck for all of eternity, etc. So,
before you forward erroneous email information, no matter how good it
looks, you must ask yourself two questions:
1. Where do I find the truth online?
2. How do I check the facts?
Here
are a couple of websites that can help you sort fact from fiction and
outright lies:
For
sorting through urban legends and dubious emails there is no better
website than: http://www.snopes.com/
This
site is dedicated to stomping out “eRumors”
that show up in your email: http://www.truthorfiction.com/
So,
the next time you receive one of those emails, especially the ones
that sound WAY too good to be true, now you know where to look
to find the truth before you decide to forward.
*Courtesy of the Mid Hudson Regional Information Center
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How to Clean Your SmartBoard
You can use any non-abrasive cleaner (such as
Windex glass cleaner or Expo cleaner) and a soft cloth/rag. Spray
the cleaner on the cloth/rag and then wipe (as opposed to spraying the
board directly). Many people use standard dry erase board
cleaner. For stubborn stains, use isopropyl alcohol (IPA)
to clean the writing surface. Never use abrasive chemicals or
cleaners to clean your interactive whiteboard.
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Excel's Autofill*
One of the best tools in Excel is Autofill.
If you are not familiar with Autofill, try this:
- Open up Excel and type Monday in any cell.
- Now, being very careful with the mouse, (you should still be on the
Monday cell) put the mouse pointer exactly on the bottom right of the cell
where you see a small dot. You should get a "hair line cross",
when you see this click and drag with the mouse to the right about 7
cells.
- You should get Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, etc.
But what if you only want Weekdays? You can Autofill using the Right
mouse button! Autofilling using the Right mouse button will give you
a menu of options where you can choose "Fill Weekdays".
Autofilling a date using the Right mouse button will give you options to
fill: just weekday dates, increment the date by month, or increment the
date by year. Autofilling the series 1,2... using the Right mouse
button will give you options to continue the series linearly with 3,4 etc.
or fill using exponential growth where the numbers double each time:
1,2,4,8,16,32....
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Here is an answer to a very common question:*
Question: I have about 4,000 sites bookmarked and arranged into folders
etc. The problem is that I want them arranged alphabetically. I can
arrange them any way I like in Windows Explorer, but that arrangement does
not affect them when I click on the "Favorites" in IE. I think
they did it automatically in 5.5, but it is really cheesing me off having
to keep dragging them manually into alphabetic order.
Answer: You'll be delighted to hear that there is a fast shortcut to
accomplish this task, a way that you can very easily sort your Favorites
in Internet Explorer. This will also work in Firefox's Bookmarks
folder. Here's the trick:
1. click on the Favorites menu in Internet Explorer.
2. Right -click on one of the Favorites menu items
3. See that bottom choice? Choose Sort by Name and voila!
That's how you do it. You can also do this within individual folders (I
hope you don't have 4000 bookmarks in one massively long list!!) and
solve
your challenge.
Hope that helps you out!
PS - This trick will also alphabetize your programs in the Start | All
Programs list. Just right-click on one of your programs and select Sort By
Name. Folders will be sorted first and then individual program names.
*Courtesy of the Mid Hudson Regional Information Center
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