Ahh, that's a horse of a different color then.

• I'm getting another flashdrive and guessing who is on it - Lisa
  • Hi, Lisa. Just wondering how the meeting - went (sm)
    • The meeting today - Lisa
  • This account is sounding like both old MT sm - they are disorganized
  • So you get a flash drive with voice files on it you are suppose to transcribe? - Correct?
    • flashdrive - Lisa
      • Ahh, that's a horse of a different color then. - Correct?
  • You know the - (sm)
  • Tell her you will type what is on it, - sm
    • I think you should have charged them - MT with a heartbeat
      • I disgree with you implying she should be - sm
        • If the meeting consists of her staying - MT with a heartbeat
          • Hmmm, let's see... - MT

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Snagged this straight from the Escription site.  Hope it helps.

We have had success configuring both the Belkin USB/Serial Adaptor and the Dynex USB PDA/Serial Adaptor to work properly with a serial Foot Pedal and EditScript MT. Other adaptors may also work using this setup, however we cannot guarantee that they will.

1. To set up the Belkin USB/Serial Adaptor:
   
2. Install the USB/Serial adaptor per the instructions included with the device.
   
3. After installation, open the Windows Device Manager:
   
   
   
   1. Right-Click on My Computer, choose Properties.
      
   2. From the Hardware tab, cick Device Manager.
      
   3. In the Device Manager window, click the + sign next to Ports (COM & LPT). You should see the USB/Serial Adaptor listed there with a COM port next to it.
      
   4. Right click on the Adaptor and choose Properties.
      
   5. From the Port Settings tab, click Advanced.
      
   6. From the COM Port Number drop-down, set the device to COM6. (Any COM device higher than COM4 should also work; be sure to remember what you set this to.)
      
   7. Click OK to close the Advanced window, then OK to close the Properties window.
   
   
4. Close the Device Manager
   
5. Now open EditScript and log in.
   
6. Once you have logged in, click on the Options button in the EditScript toolbar:
   
7. From the Foot Pedal tab, change the CommPort setting to COM6 (or whichever port it was set to above).
   
8. Click OK to close the Options dialog.

Your Foot Pedal should now work properly through the Serial/USB adaptor.

This is what Norton said it was

Norton Internet Worm Protection has detected and blocked an intrusion attempt.

Security - Default Block Gatecrasher Trojan Horse.

FYI

As an IC, I have tried many times to find skilled, qualified people to help me. If I had a dime for every time that didn't work out, I could retire. The fact is, I DO take my laptop on vacations--much to the dismay of my family--but that's the only way the work can and will get done IN A QUALITY MANNER.

Unfortunately, American workers are pricing themselves out of the market with both their hourly wage demands, vacation/sick time, insurance benefits, etc., and the work is going to the lowest bidder. 

i am soon to be married, for the first time even tho "past 35," and am very happy. i am having 4 junior bridesmaids and the ONLY rule i have for them -- they can pick out whatever dresses they love and that make them feel like princesses -- is that there be NO BLACK in the dresses whatsoever.  It's going to be a mid-day, outdoor wedding, plus i feel there's a little bit of jinx factor if black is involved. 

But as far as guests?  black is just fine; what is more beautiful than the little black dress?   go for it!  just my opinion.

It sounds like you will be receiving a letter soon.  Read the link:

https://www.wellsfargo.com/mortgage/account/stabilityplan/?DM=DMIWESERH1

Yes they are greedy and hire the cheapest they can get by with.  They are the ones who took over what used to be transcription companies owned by women.  They saw a chance to make some easy money and that is the bottom line.  They checked us all out, moved in like vultures and offered our clients free equipment, discounted work for a year, and then it has turned into this mess that we see now with offshoring, bickering, low wages, and on and on.  Now they are overcharging the clients that were unfortunate enough to fall for the line of garbage when theyear switched over to the "bigger techno MTSO" who really were unprepared, as far as I am concerned, for what they took on.  Look where we are now, offshoring, and on and on and on.  Sigh. 

Another thing I would like to see is QA departments policing themselves.  I pulled out 22 binders filled with templates, samples, etc. from 10 different sources and guess what I found?  Mistakes by the boatload.  These are samples that were sent out to MTs by QA departments to "go by" - how hilarious. These were companies with great reputations and some are currently in business using the same templates, the same samples, etc.   The temples were to be used "verbatim" and the MT is to insert any changers by the dictator, but all else was to be left.  One had cc as cc's (gasp) and wrong tenses (gasp), 7.0 instead of 7, and on and on.  Some were horrendous and beyond belief and were handed out by QA departments. 

One client that I do business with has five QA people and none of them agree with the other.  They all have their own "style" as they put it.  So, it just depends on who is on if they pull your report for a once-over or you have a blank.  Then,, the politics goes like this:  They all want the MTs to send the QAs you got from other QA people to THEM (the QA person who did not QA that report).  That is like QA doing QA on QA.  Sounds like maybe extra careful?   No, they then send it to their supervisor trying to get the other QA persons fired.  Nice colleague interaction going there, right? 

I only go by BOS almost completely if the work is hospital because of the audits that go on with JCAH or whatever they call themselves these days.  Then, sometimes the doctors don't agree with JCAH and want it their own way, which may not be the way some QA wants it.  The bottom line is I tell them from the outset that I do it the right way, the way the one who signs the document wants it.  That is the bottom line.  If the hospital complaints I refer them back to the dictator.  When I have one of those I put comments on the page for my future reference and that of QA.  I only violate the dictators wishes when he or she wants me to transcribe against HIPAA regulations (like the patient's name, address, and phone number, etc.)  I then comment that the information was dictated, but not transcribable due to HIPAA regulations. 

How can I change the background color on Escription?  I'm running it with MS Office 2003 if that helps/makes a difference.  The white is causing some serious eye strain and by the end of my shift my eyes are burning and I have a headache.  If I can change it to a different/duller color it might helpl. 

THANKS!

To wear black to a wedding is to imply that the marriage is doomed to fail or that you don't approve of the marriage.  You shouldn't wear white either as that's the bride's color.

Then again, what do I care?  Etiquette schmetiquette.  I never did like etiquette "rules" anyways.  Who makes up these things?  And why didn't I get contacted to vote on the rules?  It's after Labor Day, and I am still wearing my white shoes.  Silly Victorian traditions that make no sense at all.  As if we are somehow gauche or less of a person if we don't do what someone else tells us to do.

I use color coding and have done so from day 1.  Have 7 docs and they all have their own color for tapes, letter head, returned dictation, binder etc.   They are no longer names, they are blue/green/yellow/red/purple/clear and yellow/green.  That is the only way I keep their things separate and for sure know who to deliver to what.   Am of the old school and this works for me.   Also have a monthly board that I keep track of their tapes and time off and that is also color coded. 

Only one office is deductible otherwise you could call your entire home an office.