A newer computer with a dual core processor runs cool. No need for it.
Posted By: Update on 2007-03-26
In Reply to: Also plan on getting a cooling unit to park laptop on - tnmt
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I notice that my computer runs better when it is
shut down every night. If I leave it up for a couple of days, it starts acting sluggish. I do not think shutting it down wears on it. Plus, like the other poster said, you do leave yourself open for attack when always running if you have cable internet.
I have a newer computer, 1000 RAM memory? Will it allow more if I get more memory?
i have a newer computer 1000 RAM. Will it allow more if I get more memory? You can email me if you want. TX
Meant to add: It's COR, not core or Core.
I have dual citizenship
British and American and lived in England growing up.
I had a dual boot up setup. sm
I had 1 monitor,
2 keyboards,
2 mouse, 2 tower PC.
It had a button to push to switch over to the other PC.
On 1 PC was their platform and I needed to still access my PC for all my reference stuff I had created.
So on their PC, somehow it was set up where both PCs, my DSL, the internet to use Google and email
Sounds cumbersome, but it was okay, set up at the same workstation, did not have to shift chairs, the keyboards were kinda on top of each other or just in front of the other. Used the same monitor for both PCs.
Here's one site that tells you how you can dual boot Vista and XP.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2194816_pre-loaded-no-vista-dvd.html
You'll find lots more with a Google search.
Anyone ever tried Dual Action Cleanse or any other colon cleansing products? sm
The infomercial was not pretty, and this guy focused way too much on BMs and such, but said that John Wayne died with 42 pounds of undigested material in his colon ... yuck! Supposedly, you use this product and feel tons of energy and all that ... wondered if it was just more hype or maybe someone had actually tried it. ?
Processor
Athlon. 200 GB hard drive, 1024 RAM. E-machines are in my opinion an excellent workhorse, will go on and on.
First word processor. sm
The first WP I worked on had a huge disk driver, I mean the thing sat on the floor, and there is a reason they are called floppy disks. The disks were at least 12 x 12. We were terrified of that thing. We had to "boot up" every morning, while it whirled and grunted and blinked, standing around nervously looking at the thing as though it were an alien ready to attack. Too funny.
It really depends a lot on the processor and such
A lot of what makes the computer good or better is the type of processor, speed, memory, etc. You have to take these into consideration as well. My dad works on computers in Vegas and says they have the least trouble with Dells. Like I said though it depends on the specs of the computer and what all you need it for. I would recommend doing research and checking out information on these things I mentioned. I am about to buy a laptop and I am considering these things as well as the size and weight for that.
Core
I have used this for my personal website for a number of years. It's great and simple.
Is a Celeron M (1.5 GHz) processor equal to a
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Put your bread in a food processor and
....since the original processor isn't in place. nm
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I also worked on a word processor
called a CPT (I think that was the brand). It had no hard drive, but two 3-1/2 floppies (state of the art because they weren't the 5-1/4 or the big Raytheon 12" floppies you are probably talking about - the size of a record album - oops, albums are things of the past too). Anyway, you would put your templates/abbreviations in the A drive and save to the B drive, but if you forgot and it glitched say "bye-bye" to your work! Lots of shortcut/expansion keys though that you could program. The monitor was odd-looking in that it was rectangular and bowed out at you and fit a whole page for your view. Actually, it kind of made sense to be able to see a whole page at a time, it was just ugly looking - lol. We had to go to San Francisco for 2 days of training on this thing. I don't really even remember the specifics of the training - too long ago I guess. It's fun to remember the old cave-man/papyrus days (as another poster mentioned).
Try Core FTP--they are good.
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Core is good, as well. nm
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how about pecan pie, use food processor for the nuts.
or a cheesy-egg dish, ie, keesh (however that is spelled).
before your insurance runs out....nm
It's the Corps, not the core. And, oh my, he DID desert. sm
He just left because he did not like the ways of the Corps? Stupid mistake #1. You can't "just leave" the U.S. military! Certainly not just because you don't like it. This is made very clear when you join and when you go through boot camp. Your hubby screwed up and there's nothing you can do about it now. He should have thought about wanting to be home with his family BEFORE HE SIGNED UP. There are thousands of men in the U.S. military who miss their wives, who have missed birthdays and anniveraries and Christmases, but they don't just walk away, because the men and women have devoted their lives and their loyalty to the United States. Just walking away is dishonorable and should be dealt with as such.
Oh, owie! That hurt. You cut me to the core with that one.
NOT!!!! I don't care what you use as a resource, but I've been assigned the most difficult accounts at my job with 100% on QA scores. Why is that? Hmm, because I don't leave blanks when I can't find a term in a book. Instead, I find it on the Internet. I've been praised for that ability, too.
Don't overlook WW Core Program...sm
similar to South Beach but more liberal (unlimited LF protein/NF dairy, unlimited vegies & fruits, unlimited whole grains, pasta/rice/potatoes once a day) with 35 flex points a week. No daily point counting, which to me makes more sense as a life-long plan, as I can't see counting points forever. I've lost 38 pounds on Core without starving and without obsessing over counting points. Has totally changed my life, the way I eat, and the way my family eats. Never ever have to go hungry. Wish I had known 10 years and 50 diets ago how easy losing the weight really is. It's mostly been a matter of patience. The first 15 to 20 came off pretty fast, the last 18 or so a bit slower, but now that I've learned to eat right and simply be more active for the first time in my life, I know the rest will come off with due time. Can't tell you how much peace the Core Program has brought to my life.
So I don't mislead you, unlimited really means "eat to until satisfied" not gorge non-stop. Once you get started, you really learn to listen to your body and cravings more or less dissappear. Hard to explain, but once you are eating a "clean", well-rounded diet on a consistent basis, cravings disappear and it's easy to eat just until satisfied.
Both WW plans, Points & Core, work. My suggestion is to look at them both and pick the one that best suits your lifestyle. Good luck.
Ed Grimley! Ssssssssssssexy to the core!
try the Help files of Core FTP Lite
or try searching the forums for help.
http://www.coreftp.com/forums/
It's really not hard to use at all. It's just like looking at your files via Windows Explorer (on the left side) and the files that you have access to on the right side.
Does anyone has a user's manual for a Dictaphone voice processor? sm
I am new to using a C-phone, and I would appreciate any help. If anyone has a user's manual for a Dictaphone Voice Processor, I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!
Does anyone else freak when work runs low?
We received an email a few days back discussing about a low workload. Also received another email for maybe increased workload on another account. I get nervous and ready to jump when this happens. It's a very bad time of year for this to happen (like any time is a good time). The work is great but the pay is on the low side, especially with my experience (21 years). I took this position some months ago at the referral of another MT I know, hoping this would be it, but I really don't think it is.
I have been browsing the job boards this morning, almost applying with another company, but something made me close the browser, thinking maybe I should hang tight for another week and see what happens.
Does anyone else do this? I'm really thinking I should maybe look elsewhere because I've always thought, work smart, not hard. This pay scale is just a bit too low at 7 cpl.
I think you either need to get a router that runs Win 98 or upgrade to XP nm
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Maybe newer MTs know something I don't
I type mg/dl and Kay Ciel (told long ago KCl could be confusing to someone reading). Have been doing this forever and I'm not sure if it has changed. No one has ever corrected me.
To the newer MTs here, the ones who don't
Ignore 'Shroom. Don't let yourself get into that mentality. Life is what you make it. MT CAN be a very profitable profession. It's not for everyone and not everyone can do it. But if you are good at spelling and grammar, and you can type fast, and you are dedicated to really learning and not just doing a crap job as fast as you can so you can get paid more, your patience and hard work will pay off.
My #1 advice is: Get a job in a hospital transcription department. Not acute care at home for a service. Get a job with a hospital. The pay not NOT be as much as you could make at home for a service, but that experience will prove invaluable. Work there for a few years. Learn the ropes. Learn to do all types of reports - the basic 4 plus everything else. I have worked for a service and for a hospital and I learned so much more at the hospital. The service was about production; the hospital was about quality. They wanted us to really KNOW what we were typing and when there were words no one could get, the MT supervisor would ask the doctor and we would get it straight from them. Doctors would also come down to talk to us and explain things to us sometimes, and that was a big help. I worked at a hospital and a service at the same time and there were so many things (terms) that the service MTs didn't know that I knew only because of my hospital experience.
Now I own my own service. I get all my accounts through word of mouth, partly (actually MOSTLY) from my contacts that I developed back when I worked IN a hospital. I have never had to advertise. I have always been praised for being an excellent MT. The hospital supervisors at the hospital where I used to work know that. When they get a call from doctors or other hospitals asking who they recommend for transcription services, guess whose number they give out? Yep, mine.
When I first started out I didn't make much money at all. But I worked hard and learned everything I could. I never had an attitude like some on this board, that I wasn't being paid fairly, or that someone owed me more money, or that I was being cheated. I worked and gained knowledge and experience, and made sure my quality was excellent, and added to my expander, and developed new ways of using shortcuts, and kept looking for the next opportunity that would move me up a little more.
I never make less than $25 an hour. I usually make $35 to $40 an hour. I have had an occasional hour where I made over $100 - yes, $100 - and no, I am not lying. It was a surgery center account and one day a week I would transcribe routine cataract extractions with lens implantations. I had that I had a template for and all I had to do is pop in the patient's name, right or left eye, and the size of the lens used. I would do one right after the other, over and over, and make over $100 in an hour. Would have been nice to do that all day long, but after an hour I was done with the cataract surgeries. 
Anyway, don't sit there thinking you are never going to make any money in MT. Don't listen to the people who want to bring you down. Don't waste time thinking your glass is half empty. Look at the opportunities that are in front of you and start taking them. Maybe you make 8 cpl now. Do the best work you can do for that company. Be valuable to them. Become an asset to them instead of a liability. And when you find something that's a little better, do the same thing there. Work your way up.
After you get the experience (hospital preferably), keep working and honing your skills. Then decide "Okay, I am going to spend X hours a week working on getting my own accounts." Maybe 4 hours every Saturday. So you set aside that time and you think of points you want to make to potential clients. Set up a business number or a separate phone number to receive business calls. Put a business message on the line so if you miss a call they can leave a message. Figure out how you will receive dictation - dictation system, TASP, or whatever. Make flyers. Drive around and check out potential clients in your area. Go through the phone book or the little blue book of doctors in your area and start sending out flyers or walking door to door. Every Saturday spend 4 hours doing the next step. Decide you'll send out or deliver 20 flyers a week, or whatever you want. You may not see results right away. Don't get discouraged, just devote 4 hours a week to it, every week.
There is money to be made in MT. You have seen people on this board tell you how much they make. They didn't answer an ad for an MT school on a matchbook and suddenly they are making $35 an hour. It takes time and patience and a good attitude.
From a newer MT
who does not have an extensive medical background and is only an average typist, this profession has been very stressful for me and not very lucrative.
I do learn something new every day however.
I think it takes a lot of prior skill or extra-ordinary talent to make it worth getting into for short the short term.
I am guessing it will take me a good couple of years to do halfway decent financially.
If this was something worrisome I would think they would have already ordered a core biopsy.
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the Core FTP site has a client version that is --sm
free to download. I have used it for two years now and have had no problems with it. It is HIPAA compliant.
eMachine with Athlon XP2400 processor, about 2 years old now. No problems.
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I use Avast...it updates almost every day and runs in the background....
all the time. If I get an email attachment within attachment from forwards, it checks all of them before I even open it. It's a free program, too.
I agree with you, but big business runs this country now,
Runs and fragments, my pet peeve with testing sm
I will be honest, I am not that well versed in which is which, but I know an incomplete sentence when I see one. The thing that tickles me is that the companies who make the most of knowing the difference will hand you a VERBATIM account. If you are an experienced MT, you tell me...verbatim means you type out all the sentences as you hear them...run ons, fragments and complete, regardless.
It is nice to have someone on board who really knows their stuff and I understand this. I think it is appropriate to test for things you know that an MT is going to encounter, rather than whether or not she can identify when her verbatim account is dictating in incomplete sentences. Appropriate use of a commas versus semicolons, knowing when to chain together disparate thoughts into one sentence and when to break it up, and knowing how to spell seem far more important to me.
I am in the middle of taking a test for a national company. They handed me 6 voice files, all over 3 minutes long, to transcribe as a test. Yes, they are going to take me over an hour because I have bronchitis right now (ugh I feel awful), but I consider this about the best way to assess my skills. It will give my perspective supervisor a valid way of seeing how I do things on the job.
I just took 2 IC jobs, just in case one runs out of work
I have the other. I am starting with one that is great in NC (have friends there), and it does have the contract, but I contracted at the less amount so if I do more that is great and then I can get the bonus. The other one out of ME is also wonderful, and neither have restrictions on schedule just want to know about what you will do every couple of weeks and if you have something come up they are still flexible. After taking a week or so to decide, and seeing as well the notes on here about lay offs elsewhere, I decided to do the 2 IC, and also will probably volunteer at the local library, and sell on e bay last (too much work LOL). Good luck to you, but if you don't need benefits because someone else can provide them for your family, I'd personally go with the more flexible status than promise my whole life away to a large MTSO and then fear the threat of taking benefits away or sudden layoff. That is just me. And after a lot of thinking about what I personally value. My family and my paycheck to support my family. Good luck to you.!
The bottom line is if the work runs dry, then
It's not rocket science.
a must-read for newer MTs --
i think i might just try the 1/2 day goal method myself --
very kind of you to take the time to outline your ideas so well...
ya'll come back!!
Which one did you get...the older one or the newer one?
The ergopro is the newer one and has a USB connection. The older one has a PS/2 connection. The older one is far better in my opinion. Lot of good reviews on the older Belkin board on both Amazon and Newegg. Excellent key touch but it is a loud keyboard just to warn you. I loved it and still continue to use it but I found that it was harder for VR because it is a big keyboard so I using a smaller split board now. The only disadvantage to the Belkin ergoboard older model is the key markings wear off quite quickly.
For the newer MTs hearing a "v"
would not send them to the "z" section of a book or any website. Maybe a Google search would have worked, but I didn't try it to see.
How about lightening up on the new MTs asking questions on the Word Board. I am not a new MT (20 years), and I've asked questions. I'm not so sure there is a "level of word asking." Why be so brusk and hard on the new MTs? Are you afraid they will take your job? Don't worry there is plenty of work to go around.
I would hope if you had a question on the Word board, someone does not go on another board and post how horribly incompetent you must have been to ask that question on the Word board.
This is a wonderful resource.
I'm a WW plan but highly suggest the Core option...sm
of their plan. No points counting except for a 35 point weekly allowance. Really teaches you what and how to eat in a way that can easily be maintained for a lifetime. Once you are on a few weeks, you can easily identify "trigger" foods that make you overeat and affect your mood, weight loss rate, etc. All without counting points for every bite and very few restrictions on a daily basis.
One of the best things for me, is the healthy eating habits have really been absorbed by my family too. Hardly any junk food of any kind in the house anymore and no one is complaining at all, especially since they've all dropped a few pounds too. It amazes me every time I go food shopping how different my cart looks than it did just a few short months ago. My aunt got me hooked, she's lost 85 pounds in 7 months and hasn't been able to exercise at all due to a back injury.
Thanks XXX. I found a "Microsoft Works Word Processor". You say I save those as files?
I do have a CD drive so if I can buy WORD like you mention, I can load it.
Do you think it would be beneficial in the long run to invest in WORD (maybe buy it at BEST BUY or something) and load it on my computer? I am going to be doing lots of work, so better to use as good a program as I can as far as being able to SAVE stuff - There will be lots of opportunities for macros (or saving paragraphs, etc). Whatever the term is these days to mean: saving lots of words, LOL.
I think you have your results already. Any MQ post runs like wildfire as a rule! You had
55 views on your last poll, and 1 respondent, who felt the opposite! No offense, but isn't that the answer to your poll? The older posted complaints on speed were that it was too fast at the lowest setting! And nobody ever argued with that!
Newer Transolutions employee
Thought I'd put my 2 cents in - I have been with Transolutions for about 4 months now, and I agree with the statements about how nice they are - they really are. I am working really hard to increase my production and get up to level 5, which is the higher pay. Dolfan, do you have any suggestions on that? You said you just stay there no matter what it takes - does that mean you just put in as much time as it takes to get that many lines in? Does it usually take you significantly over your scheduled time? I keep resolving to do that, but then I get tired and end up between level 2 and 3. I am still adding docs to my glossary on a daily basis, so I keep hoping that I will get there eventually.
I agree also about the benefits - I am part time (25 hours/week), but I am earning PTO, holiday pay, etc. When you do have to work a holiday, you get benefit pay, PLUS time and a half - I think that is fairly unusual for an MT company.
The scheduling is flexible, too. I worked for as an IC before, but I actually found that I needed a schedule or I would leave work too late and burn out. But, that is just me.
Hope that is informative, and Dolfan, thanks for any help in advance! (Or any other Transolutions people out there reading this, if you have any suggestions.)
Melissa
Does anyone know if the newer versions of Escription sm
are compatible with Woord 2007? The requirements I received some time ago stated that Word 2007 was not compatible. Wondered if they had upgraded yet. TIA
Core is software to upload and downloads. It's not a hosting site.
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Your taste runs to slender effeminate boys. That's the way it is and how Jude Law
makes a "living" as well as Justin Timberlake. There are those who aren't attracted to manly men and enjoy seeing a pretty boy. BTW, Toby Keith has some excellent tight jeans and long legs and I don't see doughboy but it is relative if you prefer the looks of Jude Law/Justin Timberlake/Leonardo DeCaprio. And he appeared w/o his hat on many times. Not bald by any stretch like Garth Brooks. But having said that, Garth Brooks, dough-boy and balding was hot in his day.
My 11-year-old Boxer gets up and paces all night, runs into walls, SM
I have not slept throughout the night since this started. He is not afraid of the dark, but something is wrong. Guess it is old age.
previous note: "filing job falls through" as in the job runs out of work after
you get it.
Sorry about the expansion question - I forgot your history of 15+ years in the biz and having been a teacher. Sounds like you could be a supervisor in a transcription department or be in sales for an MTSO or a TX equipment company, etc. if you live near a big city???
Might be a newer version. I used Sylcount a while back
I switched to PractiCount myself because it gives a line count similar to that of Sylcount but you don't have to save the files in any special format. When I had Sylcount, though, I definitely had to save them in .rtf format or it would tell me it was not a Sylvan .rtf file and that I had to resave document in that format to count it. I remember because anytime you reopened a file, you also had to save it all over again under .rtf format because it would default to something else. Real PITA!
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