Basic checklists for users on the road, part 3
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Mobile Internet users should perform several specific tasks before and while traveling to ensure that data is safe and minimize the chance of any serious problems. Before leaving, the mobile user should make a paper list of key POP phone numbers for the area he or she will be in and check that all key programs, such as Dial-Up Networking, are there and working. The traveler should be carrying all necessary modem paraphernalia and copy crucial files from the office system and LAN to the portable PC's hard disk. Common tasks to perform when traveling include logging in and checking E-mail, checking key Web sites and Usenet newsgroups, and performing regular uploads if important files are being created and updated. Some users may make Internet-based phone calls and check weather reports or make travel plans over the Web.
Publication Name: PC Portables Magazine
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1095-5070
Year: 1998
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When the road is your office
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Traveling users without a printer can get a hard copy by faxing a document to their hotel's fax machine. Windows 95's Deferred Printing feature will queue all desired documents for later printing. This way, a user need not remember all the documents she wants printed. A mobile user should back up all files to floppy disks. Larger files can be compressed with PKZip or other compression utility, which should be kept on a floppy with other utilities. PKUnZip should be taken, too, in order to uncompress files. The utility floppy should have antivirus software. Before leaving home, a portable computer's hard disk should be backed up and its batteries should be fully charged. Safeware (www.safeware-ins.com) will insure a portable computer to $5,000 for $69 per year.
Publication Name: PC Portables Magazine
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1095-5070
Year: 1997
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Modernizing your company's PCs
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Businesses often make penny-wise, pound-foolish decisions when it comes to computing. Invariably, upgrading old PCs to low-end modern systems makes economic sense. For example, an accounts payable/accounts receivable manager at a small business labors over Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with a five-year-old 386-based PC. Spending $2,000 for a Pentium-based PC with 16MB of RAM, 1GB hard disk, good monitor, Windows 95 and Office 95 could make this manager much more productive. Indeed, if this new setup only worked 25% faster than her old one, the manager could save an hour a day. Even if the manager only made $30,000 per year, the new PC would pay for itself in less than seven months. In addition, there would be tax advantages to buying a new system.
Publication Name: PC Portables Magazine
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1095-5070
Year: 1997
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