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Питер Друкер (или, вернее, Дракер) пишет, что руководителю, да и любому занятому человеку, важно чётко фиксировать, на что используется время и периодически анализировать такие записи.

Высшие управляющие (для кого, в основном, и пишет Друкер) обычно обходятся без компьютера в своей деятельности - это уже упрощает процесс учёта, т.к. именно компьютер способствует частому переключению между заданиями. Кроме того, они могут прибегнуть к помощи секретаря для выполнения функции учёта.

Что же делать нам, обычным трудягам?
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Когда новоиспечённый пользователь ПК показывает своё чудо, обычно видишь стандартную картину: ОС Windows XP Professional, которую установил продавец или друг (или друг-продавец), на ней пользователь под именем “User”, этот user, вопреки своему названию, имеет полные права администратора компьютера.

И с этим полным набором прав наш “юзер”, не подозревая об опасности вирусов, троянских коней и рут-китов, бродит по просторам Интернет, запускает программы с “базарных” компакт-дисков, принимает непонятную электронную почту…

Этот риск неоправдан и, самое главное, необязателен.

Простой приём позволит пользователю снять с себя ответственность администратора при работе с подозрительными файлами, программами и сайтами, не отказываясь от удобства привилегированного режима.
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Of course, it is supposed to speed up disk access. But long passed the times when absence of disk cache made computers literally unusable. These days cache is largely for mere user convenience - it reduces continual annoying small waits during operator activities. However…
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(or old mail in the Inbox for that matter)

I have outlived a good number of different web browsers already: Netscape Navigator 3.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Mozilla, Opera etc. Sometimes I’d transfer the bulk of bookmarks over to a new browser, other times I’d … just forget. And you know what? I never cared.
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If the monitor you’re using right now is LCD display, chances are it’s got 300 dpi of resolution, potentially exploitable.

Yes, typography quality for on-screen reading can be available for no additional cost. Sounds bold? Take a look:

Opera browser - the pioneer of the browsing sessions concept - now allows saving only the active window as a session.

Previously, if one worked on several projects and wanted to restart the browser for some reason they had to restore all the projects’ browsing windows on browser startup, or…go tweak the saved session file. That’s surely quite a mess, hindering the purpose of focusing on a single project.
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I switch telephone providers every year or so. As MNP (and LNP for that matter) is not available here, I have to switch actual telephone numbers alongside. In spite of that, I try to keep all of my old numbers - gotta like to stay in touch.

Generally that is attainable (however cumbersome and sometimes expensive) by setting up all the “old” numbers to forward calls to my currently active one. In luckier parts of the world, MNP addresses most of the issues. In addition, a new trend - specialized companies providing an attractive service “one phone number for life” - has been put on rails.

On the face of it, the idea seems very alluring. Probably everybody has gone at least once in his or her life through the horrors of a telephone number change by force.
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One appeal of Life Balance has to do with the similarities to GnuCash - my finance accounting tool of choice.

Indeed,

• GnuCash is about money accounting, Life Balance is about time/efforts accounting,
• GnuCash has a tree of bookkeeping accounts, Life Balance has a tree of projects,
• GnuCash has a number of useful reports, Life Balance has reports too, albeit only two: the dynamically compiled To-Do List (frankly, the main product of the system) and … the Balance report.

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Современные цифровые АТС предоставляют множество интересных услуг (”дополнительные виды обслуживания”, ДВО) в дополнение к обычной голосовой связи, в базовом варианте знакомой нам вот уже который век.

Что же полезного можно извлечь из такого ДВО, как “Переадресация вызова“?
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GnuCash team has been famous in the past for their harshness towards anything “Windows”. No wonder - the 1st version of GC was written in 1997 in Motif for X Window System which was (and still is?) light years ahead of substandard Microsoft Windows GUI in terms of professional usability.

It seemed nobody expected them (GnuCash) to release a Windows port. Me wasn’t exception either. So when I had to move from X to MS Windows I also had to keep a subsidiary UNIX machine (thank God, virtual computer was OK) special for UNIX applications, most notably for GnuCash.
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For an application like Life Balance trial period shouldn’t be that short. That was surely the chief discouragement for me when I first tried it last year. I just didn’t feel serious enough entering my tasks into the Outline to see how it works.

So my take is: either you have to get a highly compelling recommendation from someone trusted to make a purchase right away or, Llamagraphics should describe in detail on how to retain your valuable data between multiple trial installs/deinstalls.
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Since my very first days with a GSM handset I’ve been heavily using this little yet essential service - Email-to-SMS gateway. In fact, this part of the mobile package was determinative in deciding to enter then-undue mobile realm.

Fast forward few years to now, and what I see is “Push e-mail” as the hottest topic in today’s wireless business world. The whole enterprises like BlackBerry sprung out of this sole concept - “always-on” email.
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