Windows 10 Poll: When and how are you moving your users to Windows 10?

1. When/If you move your users to Windows 10, how will you do it?
     A) In-place upgrade
    B) Clean wipe and load
2. When will you start moving your users to Windows 10?
    A) 0-3 months after release
     B) 3-12 months after release
     C) More than a year after release
     D) Never!
Bonus: What tools do you plan to use?
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sunshinecowgill wrote:
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How are you liking your iBrick? Ive had mine for 79 hours now!

Listen everyone this is important.
DONT WAIT FOR AN E-MAIL!!!
Call them as many times as you can because there is most likely something wrong with your account!
If you continue waiting for that e-mail you have a better change of getting hit by lightning 40 times in a row on a blue sky day. Because it WONT COME since there may be something wrong with your account.
Here is what happened to me- it wasn't pretty. A loyal customer of AT&T for 7 years... the first to ask them about the iPhone in January, the first in line, and the LAST to get activated.
After calling them, I found out these problems- each from a different call, each from a different person.
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and the granddaddy...
6-The idiots at the cingular store accidentally deactivated my sim card in my iPhone.
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My advice if your phone still isnt working... Go to your AT&T store and ask them for a clean blank sim card and start over. I did it and my phone popped on within 5 minutes!!! Waiting around for 79 hours for something that I resolved MYSELF in 5 minutes!!
I hope this helps someone if anyone.
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the iPhone is beautiful
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Turned out that the hangup was me keeping my old Sprint phone on so I could receive phone calls. Within a minute of turning it off, I received an SMS message stating that my number transfer was complete and I could make calls as well as receive them on the iphone. The AT&T support tech called my iPhone to confirm that it would in fact receive calls.
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Audiophilia,
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I am updating this list regularly as I figure this stuff out.

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For many of our Captivate-based courses we show a summary of
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PMBDFW wrote:
> We create Captivate slides for software training.
Currently they have no audio
> (meaning narration, we do have mouse clicks and other
sounds). Some of our
> clients are requesting audio for the new training that
we're developing. It
> seems like a lot of effort for not much benefit because
they want the option of
> turning the sound off if necessary. To give them the
full benefit of the
> training, with or without sound, it seems to me like the
audio will be nothing
> more than reading the caption to them.
>
> Can those of you who are using audio give me some ideas
of how you're using it?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Philip
>
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Thanks again.

No such thing as a "half frame" in video. Audio, yes, video...no. Full frames only.
This is what I used to do:
http://lfhd.blogspot.com/2006/09/online-workflow-overview.html
This is what I do now:
http://lfhd.net/2008/10/22/timecode-calculator/
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Shane

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I have two user accounts on my computer.
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