Welcome to what’s happening in June at The Innovative Training Group
Happy Birthday....
The Innovative Training Group celebrates its first birthday this month!
Happy Birthday to The Innovative Training Group, what they say is true, the first year is the hardest but we have come through. A Celebration will be happening in July, keep you eye on the newsletter for a fantastic celebration and a big thank you for the support of industry and associates.
The Innovative Training Group has expanded their scope of registration....
The Innovative Training Group is proud to announce they have added the following nationally accredited courses to the range of training they deliver:
Certificate II in Financial Services FNS20104
Certificate IV in Business BSB40207
Certificate IV in Business Administration BSB40507
Certificate IV in Information Technology (Networking) ICA40405
Certificate IV in Information Technology (Support) ICA40205
For information on any of the range of courses delivered please Click to contact us
Mum’s and Bub’s Information Morning....
Attend our fun information session with NO babysitters required. Fun friendly environment and learn some new skills. Bring Bub in a pram and toys. Develop skills for your future without the complication of finding a sitter. Learn some great healthy tips to keep you on the go. Guest Speakers: Ross Blake – Juice PLUS+ and Larissa Zimmerman - National Financial Fitness
Ross Blake – Personal Trainer and Juice PLUS+ Franchisee. Learn the great benefits of Juice PLUS+ for yourself and your children. We all know how hard it is to eat the correct amount of fresh fruits and vegetables and then get our children to eat them. Juice PLUS+ bridges the gap and provides great health benefits. We all want more energy and health skin so come and listen with no obligation just information.
Larissa Zimmerman - Director of National Financial Fitness focusing on a healthy Mind Body and Wallet. Larissa has financial Literacy qualifications as well as personal training qualifications. Taking a holistic approach to budgeting, understand how the mind plays a great role in our health and our spending. Come and listen to Larissa’s story on how she went from having 8 part time jobs and a premature midlife crisis to becoming a Director of her own Business and accumulating 4 Investment properties.
Book in today and learn:
Duration: 3 weeks, every Wednesday morning, for 3 hours 9:00am - 12:00 noon .
Fees of $150 Per Person include morning tea and course material.
Next course conducted Wednesday 6th, 13th and 20th August 2008
Wednesday 8th, 15th and 22nd October 2008
Early Bird Special: $50.00 if booked 2 weeks prior to start date - Normally $150.00 Click to contact us
USB Drives / Memory Sticks the pros and cons ...
Advantages
Flash drives are nearly impervious to the scratches and dust that were problematic for previous forms of portable storage, such as compact discs, ZIP disks, and floppy disks, and their durable solid-state design means they often survive casual abuse. This makes them ideal for transporting personal data or work files from one location to another, such as from home to school or office or for carrying around personal data that the user typically wants to access in a variety of places. The near-ubiquity of USB support on modern computers means that such a drive will work in most places.
Flash drives are also a relatively dense form of storage, where even the cheapest will store dozens of floppy disks worth of data. Even a drive avaliable for less than $20 can hold more data than a CD (700 MB). In fact lots of flash drives can store more data than a DVD (4.7 GB), and flash drives with 64 GB storage are now available.
The power consumption of a typical flash drive is very low; the common alternative, the portable hard disk, might take 3 to 4 times the power for 10 to 100 times the capacity. Flash drives have no moving parts, hard disks, on the other hand, require several motors or actuators to rotate the disk platter, and move the read / write head. Consequently, the USB flash drive need not be as heavy, allowing greater portability.
Flash drives implement the USB mass storage device class, meaning that most modern operating systems can read and write to flash drives without any additional device drivers. The flash drives present a simple block-structured logical unit to the host operating system, hiding the individual complex implementation details of the various underlying flash memory devices. The operating system can use whatever type of file system or block addressing scheme it wants. Some computers have the ability to boot up from flash drives.
Flash drives are much more tolerant of abuse than mechanical drives, but can still be damaged or have data corrupted by severe physical impacts.
Some flash drives can retain their memory after being submerged in water, even through a machine wash. Leaving the flash drive out to dry completely before allowing current to run through it has been known to result in a working drive with no future problems.
Disadvantages
Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of write and erase cycles before failure. Mid-range flash drives under normal conditions will support several hundred thousand cycles, although write operations will gradually slow as the device ages. This should be a consideration when using a flash drive to run application software or an operating system.
Most USB flash drives do not include a write-protect mechanism, although some have a switch on the housing of the drive itself to keep the host computer from writing or modifying data on the drive. Write-protection makes a device suitable for repairing virus-contaminated host computers without risk of infecting the USB flash drive itself.
A drawback to the small size is that they are easily misplaced, left behind, or otherwise lost. This is a particular problem if the data they contain are sensitive . As a consequence, some manufacturers have added encryption hardware to their drives, although software encryption systems achieve the same thing, and are universally available for all USB flash drives.
One of the biggest potential pitfalls with USB drives is they will on occasions fail without warning, you will plug it into your computer and the PC or Laptop will simply fail to recognise the device! With the size of modern USB drives people will often have many years worth of pictures, documents and data on their memory stick.
In short, USB memory sticks are a fantastic and very convenient way to transfer large files in a compact and easy to use package, but they can and do fail without notice! So always ensure that you save your data in two places, and have a regular plan to back up all your important files. If you need advice on backup then call the Innovative Training Group today and let us make it easy and help you to keep your data safe. Click to contact us
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