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I am no longer an Administrator on my local Desktop PC

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I joined the club and installed Windows Vista RC1 and now I am using UAC
and no longer need to be logged in as an Administrator all day.  The UAC prompt doesn’t come up all that often now that everything is installed. I tried in the past running as a non-admin on  the desktop, but the experience was just too painful to do that for any length of time. This is pretty good. I got chuckling to myself to as I think I am the one of only people  in the office who logs into their computer as a non-admin, everyone else has admin privileges on their local machine. Thankfully, I am not the IT support for those people. 

I also installed Office 2007 with the technical refresh. I like the new Outlook; and Word and Excel still do what they are supposed too, although I am still trying to figure out where everything is along the top. A little note though if you are using older versions of Office with 2007, then you need to ensure you save the files in compatibility mode. To make this a permanent thing, click on the options in the office pull down menu in the office application you are in, click on the save spot and change the save file type.

I took this picture using the snipit tool in Vista. It’s a pretty slick tool. It sure beats Alt-Prt Scr of taking screen shots.

Dumb Criminal Story

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Well it is Friday today, so here is a light hearted post.

A criminal in Wisconsin was pulled over for having 18lbs of Marijuana in his trunk and around his neck was a portable GPS with all the co-ordinates of his growing locations. The cops plopped the data into Google Earth and now they had a nice road map on how to get to all the locations.

 The full story is here.

Open Source and Resumes

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I was at one of the branch libraries I support, just finished installing Microsoft Office on one of the public access machines. I don’t have installed on all the computers available to the public due to the cost but I did install Open Office on all computers (the price was right).

As I completed the install the Librarian and I got chatting and he mentioned a fellow was in earlier and was saying that the job hunting sessions are recommending people not use Open Source software to write resumes as it sometimes  won’t look right in Microsoft Office. At first I thought it was a load of bull but then I thought about it some more and I think the person might have a point. Most companies are using a commercial product, usually Microsoft Office or WordPerfect. If the company can’t read the file you send then guess what, you are out of luck, so you want to be sure the file is in a format they employer could open. 

So I hit Google and checked what the various sites and recruiters  say. Monster.com suggests ASCII format unless it specifies Word format or something else.  The gals over at suggest a doc format (MS Word) or txt format, (again ASCII). Heather Hamilton, staffing manager at Microsoft also a doc format and an ASCII format. 

ASCII seems to be the one everyone agrees on but if you use Microsoft Word, your probably pretty safe. I’d even go out on a limb and say if you use Open Office, save it in Microsoft Word format and keep the file pretty simple, ie, no tables or any fancy formatting, you’re probably not going to have a problem with using that either.