Jun 25, 2009

Over 40 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources

Over 40 Free, Must-Have Open Source Resources
by Sam Dean - Jun. 19, 2009Comments (8)

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Occasionally, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational resources are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 40 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.



1. Digital Music, Video Graphics and Multimedia Resources



Sure the world of digital music is loaded with copyright sharks, DRM and other undesirables, but it's also increasingly teeming with cool, free open source tools and applications. Do you want to sync iPods and iPhones to any computer anywhere? How about playing Doom on your own customized OS for iPods or most other music players? Do you need customized music library management for multiple platforms, including Linux? Check this post for 8 free, open source tools for a better digital music experience. It can take you way beyond iTunes.

It used to be that open source video tools were scarce and often fraught with problems--but no more. In this post, we recommend eight top-notch tools for video playback and encoding, ranging from the very flexible SMPlayer, which lets you add subtitles to your videos, to the super-easy Simple Theora Encoder.

Are you under the impression that BitTorrent downloads are illegal or DRM infected? There are plenty of sites out there that offer free and legal torrent downloads to save bandwidth and make file sharers happy. Here, you'll find sites such as Legit Torrents, where you can get free video, games and Linux distros, plus nine other legal torrent sites worth checking into.

Songbird is one of the slickest open source music players available. It just arrived in a final new version. Here we took a look at the final beta version and summarized why you ought to consider this melody maker for your open source arsenal.

In our post 6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP you'll find lots of good resources for leveraging the power of one of the most popular open source graphics programs. The post includes links to a free, full online book on beginning and advanced GIMP skills, and more.









Recently, we came across a great, free online book on the super powerful open source 3D graphics and animation application Blender. If you're unfamiliar with Blender, it's so flexible that impressive, full-length animated movies have been created with it. In this post, you'll find a review of the online book on beginning and advanced Blender skills. The book is called Blender Basics, Second Edition.







If you haven't tried out some of the many open source utilities and apps focused on video conveniences, take a gander at this post. It introduces XVid (a utility that can compress video files at a ratio of 100:1), and many more useful titles.

Open source media center applications have matured substantially, and can now bring tons of premium content to your TV. Here are four excellent, free applications that can quickly start entertaining you.

High-end graphics software is expensive when you shop on the proprietary aisle, but we've collected six cool, free tools here. Quite a few of these are easily as good, if not better, than proprietary alternatives. Make sure to check out IrfanView (which is freeware, not open source, but just had to be here). You'll find more on IrfanView, and other graphics tools, in this post.









2. All Things Firefox

The iMacros Firefox extension is incredibly powerful--an application unto itself, disguised as a Firefox extension. It lets you record macros that you can play back at any time, and the process is about as easy as using a VCR. In this post, you'll find a collection of screenshots that function as a guided tour to using iMacros, including how to use Super Bookmarks--macros that sit right on your Bookmarks menu in the browser, capable of executing task-based scripts of any complexity--or elegant simplicity--you choose. Several readers have gotten this running in minutes and written in with imaginative, time-saving applications for iMacros.

OStatic's Firefox Superguide has been one of our most popular posts. It collects more than 100 ways to get more out of the Firefox browser, including screenshot driven tutorials, and a collection of the very best extensions for Firefox.

Here's a pictorial tour of one of the more useful Firefox extensions we've tried out in a while: VideoSurf. It provides chronological timelines for online videos at YouTube, Google Video and other sites. Jump straight to what you want.

In this post, you'll find two excellent tutorials singled out by Mozilla. The first is a step-by-step recipe for how to build Firefox extensions. The second is a guide to how to use Mozilla's useful Ubiquity command-line tool, and create commands for it.



Do you frequently share web-based content with others via social networks? If so, check out BlueOrganizer, a slick Firefox extension that we reviewed here. It's also very handy to have when you want to search the web for content related to what you're currently looking at. (Make sure and check out Glue, an update to this project.)

GPhotoSpace is a very interesting extension for Firefox that we wrote up here. It requires Firefox 3 and leverages the 7GB+ of storage space that you currently get with a Gmail account for an online photo storage repository. Uploads tend to be much faster than on sites such as Flickr, and there are other conveniences to having your photo management application in your e-mail engine.

3. In Our Linux Toolboxes

Keir Thomas, a noted Linux author, has made available a free book online: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference. It's very good, and has already been downloaded over 150,000 times. You'll find information for beginners, and more advanced material.







Some people love Linux but just can't use it full time. In this post, you'll find a discussion of free virtualization options that can put Linux right on your Windows PC or Mac.



What if you want to put Linux and Linux applications on your USB thumb drive? Here, you'll find instructions and a huge collection of useful tools for making it work.







Are you upgrading a Linux box? Our own Reuven Lerner--a skilled and experienced developer--has a guide here to a large collection of resources for SELinux--which protects Linux systems from security threats.

Ramesh Natarajan is giving out free copies of his ebook, Linux 101 Hacks (the password "linuxrocks" starts the download). Though it targets a farily experienced audience, it looks like a handy reference for those common command line tasks that arise every so often -- but not often enough that you completely recall how to do them.















Do you have a need for warding off patent trolls who may threaten your idea or patents with dubious patents of their own? Linux Defenders is a brand new organization, with some heavy hitters backing it, working to ward off patent trolls. Check out our writeup here.

One of the chicken-and-egg problems that keeps some users from trying out and becoming skilled at good open source applications is lack of adequate documentation. How are you supposed to learn effectively without it? The good news is that for a whole lot of open source applications and operating systems, there are good, free books you can get online. You'll find tons of documentation for nearly every Linux distro at Linuxtopia. See this post for details.

4. For Developers

On the web development front, our post More Than Five Top, Free Tools for Web Developers has been very popular. It discusses Piwik (open source web analytics software with useful plug-ins from the community), Kompozer (a very popular web development environment, especially for CSS fans), and OpenX (a free, open source ad server for monetizing your site), plus several more.







Cloud computing is all the rage these days, but did you know that there are many open source infrastructure tools for cloud computing that can provide free flexibility, cost savings, and more?Especially if you're a developer, try these five examples.

Webinars have increased in popularity in recent years, and this post rounds up seven resources for finding free ones on open source topics. You can sit in on educational webinars on MySQL, Drupal and much more.

Want to view videos and presentations on Google's free offerings for the development community? We wrote up how you can find a slew of them here, on topics ranging from Google's AJAX APIs to using Google Gears.

5. Apps and Resources for Them

Along with free, open source software, there are many good, visual tutorials for top open source applications found free on the web. In this post, you'll find a whopping sixteen of them. You can brush up on web development skills such as CSS and AJAX, become a graphics wizard with GIMP, and learn how to install and master any Linux distro.

Drupal is one of the most powerful open source content management systems around, and many sites run on it, including Fast Company, The Onion, and OStatic. In this post, you'll find six great resources for learning more about Drupal, including an interview with Angela Byron, one of Drupal's top evangelists, and a free chapter of a book on Drupal development.





Want to put a bushel of free open source applications on your computer or even on a USB thumb drive in one, free download? You can find out how to do so here, and dive right into everything from the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications, to Thunderbird e-mail, to open source calendar applications. Many of the applications are guaranteed to be ones you've never heard of, but they're all hand-picked by folks in the know. You get hundreds of applications--all free. For Macintosh users, you'll find an equally good one-download offering at MacLibre, as we discussed here.







Do you use Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail application? If you do, or you're moving to it, check out our list of the best add-ons for Thunderbird.







Are you thinking of getting a netbook? They've become hugely popular and come with various flavors of Linux and lots of open source applications installed for very fair prices. Here are some good pieces of advice and links focused on ideal applications for netbooks if you're in the market for one.

Looking for a killer open source word processor? AbiWord is a top-notch one, and we took the brand new version for a spin, which you can read about here. Among other things, it now works much better with Microsoft Office files.









In addition to OStatic itself, where can you go to evaluate and kick the tires on open source applications? We found six sites looking into--many with user ratings for useful FOSS products--and you can check them out here.



Open sourcers often collaborate with each other, and if you work with others who are in remote locations, Dimdim is a very powerful open source web meeting application, recently out in a new version. Check out our impressions here. For an alternative from the world of freeware, including a Linux version, look into Yugma.



If the recent series of space shuttle missions has piqued or renewed your interest in space, you'll need some astronomy software to help you navigate the skies from your backyard. There are several terrific open source applications available for users of all levels of experience. In this post, Lisa discusses four good choices.

Are you interested in some of the best brand new open source projects? In this post, you'll find a collection of 10 of the "best rookies" selected by Black Duck Software, including note-taking applications, automated trading software, and much more.

6. In Need of Open Source Work?

Want to sell your open source skills to the highest bidder? Here we covered over 10 ways to get paid for your FOSS wizardry. Also check out this interview with oDesk's CEO (oDesk connects people with open source skills with employers, even guaranteeing work and payments).

Have you suffered a layoff recently? If so, we have scores of good ideas for finding work in the world of open source here. You can find good places to put up a profile of yourself, good sites to visit for advertised jobs in open source, and more.

Part of OStatic's mission is to deliver good educational resources on open source. We hope these free tools and tutorials help you.

Jun 17, 2009

什么是注册公司?_百度知道

一、选择公司的形式:

普通的有限责任公司,最低注册资金3万元,需要2个或2个以上的股东,

从06年1月起新的公司法规定,允许1个股东注册有限责任公司,这种特殊的有限责任公司又称“一人有限公司”(但公司名称中不会有“一人”字样,执照上会注明“自然人独资”),最低注册资金10万元。如果只有你一个人作为股东,则选择一人有限公司,最低注册资金10万元;如果你和朋友、家人合伙投资创业,可选择普通的有限公司,最低注册资金3万元。建议你准备好注册资金3万元。

二、注册公司所需的注册资料:
(1)个人资料(身份证、法人户口本复印件或户籍证明、居住地址、电话号码)
(2)注册资金
(3)拟订注册公司名称若干
(4)公司经营范围
(5)租房房产证、租赁合同
(6)公司住所
(7)股东名册及股东联系电话、联系地址
(8)公司的机构及其产生办法、职权、议事规则
(9)公司章程

三、注册公司的步骤:

1.核名:到工商局去领取一张“企业(字号)名称预先核准申请表”,填写你准备取的公司名称,由工商局上工商局内部网检索是否有重名,如果没有重名,就可以使用这个名称,就会核发一张“企业(字号)名称预先核准通知书”。工商名称核准费是40元,交给工商局。 40元可以帮你检索5个名字,很多名字重复,所以一般常见的名字就不用试了,免得花冤枉钱。

2.租房: 去专门的写字楼租一间办公室,如果你自己有厂房或者办公室也可以,有的地方不允许在居民楼里办公。 你要交房租给所租办公室的房东(所有权人),假设办公室的房租是1000元/月,一般起租最少6个月,6个月的房租是6000元。

3.签订租房合同:你要与你所租的办公室的房东签定租房合同,并让房东提供房产证的复印件。租房合同打印费5份15元,房产证复印件5张2.5元。

4.买租房的印花税:你要到税务局去买印花税,按年租金的千分之一的税率购买,贴在房租合同的首页。例如你的每年房租是1.2万元,那就要买12元钱的印花税,后面凡是需要用到房租合同的地方,都需要是贴了印花税的合同复印件。

5.编写“公司章程”:可以在工商局网站下载“公司章程”的样本,修改一下就可以了。章程的最后由所有股东签名。 假设章程打印5份(股东2人各2份、工商局1份、银行1份、会计师事务所1份),章程打印费15元、下载公司章程的上网费2元。

6.刻私章: 去街上刻章的地方刻一个私章,给他们讲刻法人私章(方形的)。刻章费用20元。

7.到会计师事务所领取“银行询征函”:联系一家会计师事务所,领取一张“银行询征函”,必须是原件,会计师事务所盖鲜章。如果你不清楚,可以看报纸上的分类广告,有很多会计师事务所的广告。银行询征函10元。

8.去银行开立公司验资户: 所有股东带上自己入股的那一部分钱到银行,带上公司章程、工商局发的核名通知、法人代表的私章、身份证、用于验资的钱、空白询征函表格,到银行去开立公司帐户,你要告诉银行是开验资户。开立好公司帐户后,各个股东按自己出资额向公司帐户中存入相应的钱。 银行会发给每个股东缴款单、并在询征函上盖银行的章。公司验资户开户费20元。

注意:公司法规定,注册公司时,投资人(股东)必须缴纳足额的资本,可以以贷币形式(也就是人民币)出资,也可以以实物(如汽车、房产、知识产权等)出资。到银行办的只是货币出资这一部分,如果你有实物、房产等作为出资的,需要到会计师事务所鉴定其价值后再以其实际价值出资,比较麻烦,因此建议你直接拿钱来出资,公司法不管你用什么手段拿的钱,自己的也好、借的也好,只要如数缴足出资款即可。

9.办理验资报告:拿着银行出具的股东缴款单、银行盖章后的询征函,以及公司章程、核名通知、房租合同、房产证复印件,到会计师事务所办理验资报告,会计师事务师验资报告按注册资本收费。50万元以下注册资金验资费500元。

10.注册公司:到工商局领取公司设立登记的各种表格,包括设立登记申请表、股东(发起人)名单、董事经理监理情况、法人代表登记表、指定代表或委托代理人登记表。注册登记费,按注册资金的万分之8收取。填好后,连同核名通知、公司章程、房租合同、房产证复印件、验资报告一起交给工商局。大概3个工作日后可领取执照。注册公司手续费300元。

11.凭营业执照,到公安局特行科指定的刻章社,去刻公章、财务章。后面步骤中,均需要用到公章或财务章。公章50元,财务章50元。

12.办理企业组织机构代码证:凭营业执照到技术监督局办理组织机构代码证,费用是80元。办这个证需要半个月,技术监督局会首先发一个预先受理代码证明文件,凭这个文件就可以办理后面的税务登记证、银行基本户开户手续了。

13.去银行开基本户:凭营业执照、组织机构代码证,去银行开立基本帐号。最好是在原来办理验资时的那个银行的同一网点去办理,否则,会多收100元的验资帐户费用。 开基本户需要填很多表,你最好把能带齐的东西全部带上,要不然要跑很多趟,包括营业执照正本原件、身份证、组织机构代码证、公财章、法人章。

开基本户时,还需要购买一个密码器(从2005年下半年起,大多银行都有这个规定),今后你的公司开支票、划款时,都需要使用密码器来生成密码。公司基本帐号开户费20元,密码器280元。

14.办理税务登记:领取执照后,30日内到当地税务局申请领取税务登记证。一般的公司都需要办理2种税务登记证,即国税和地税。费用是各40元,共80元。

15.请兼职会计:办理税务登记证时,必须有一个会计,因为税务局要求提交的资料其中有一项是会计资格证和身份证。你可先请一个兼职会计,小公司刚开始请的兼职会计一般200元工资就可以了。

16.申请领购发票:如果你的公司是销售商品的,应该到国税去申请发票,如果是服务性质的公司,则到地税申领发票。 开始可先领购500元的发票。

最后就开始营业了。

四、注册公司的费用:
1、工商局工商名称核准,40元
2、公司办公室房租6个月,6000元
3、租房合同打印费5份15元,房产证复印件5张2.5元
4、租房的印花税12元
5、下载公司章程的上网费2元,公司章程打印费15元
6、刻法人私章20元
7、会计师事务所的银行询征函10元
8、银行开立公司验资户开户费20元
9、会计师事务所办理验资报告500元
10、工商局注册公司手续费300元,信息卡120元
11、公章2个120元,财务章1个60元
12、技术监督局办理组织机构代码证148元
13、银行开立公司基本帐号开户费20元、密码器280元
14、国税税务登记证60元,地税税务登记证60元
15、兼职会计工资,200元
16、申请领购发票,500元
合计:8502.5元
如果不算房租、会计工资、发票,则合计1802.5元。

注册资本最少3万元。

注册登记费按注册资本的0.08%(1000万以内),0.04%(1000万以上的超过部分)收取

营业税:销售商品的公司,按所开发票额的4%征收增殖税;提供服务的公司,按所开发票额的5%征收营业税。

所得税:对企业的纯利润征收18-33%的企业所得税。
利润收入在3万元(含3万元)以下的税率为18%,利润收入在3万元以上10万元(含10万元)的税率为27%,10万元以上的为33%。

五、注册公司的相关说明:

1.注册公司会不到半年时间,最快需要20天时间。地区不同注册公司的费用也有所不同。

2.要注册一个公司,首先想好经营什么,怎样经营好,再来注册。要不,注册了也没有用,注册了公司是需要很多成本的,不是一件“好玩”的事情。

3.注册个体简单易办;而注册公司要有章程、合同,要验资,程序挺多的。 在投入不是太多时,还是注册个体为好。

4.前期可行性分析调查,建议你自己认真的考虑一下

5.公司必须建立健全的会计制度,你可能担心自己不会,怎么办?刚开始成立的公司,业务少,对会计的工作量也非常小,你可以请一个兼职会计,每个月到你的公司帮你建帐,二、三天时间就够了,给他200-500左右的工资即可。

6.每个月1日-10日按时向税务申报税,即使没有开展业务不需要缴税,也要进行零申报,否则会被罚款的。罚款额度超过一天100元。营业执照办理下来后一个月内必须办理税务登记。每年3-6月年定时年检营业执照。

7.对企业所得税,做帐很关键,如果帐面上你的利润很多,那税率就高。所以,平常的购买设备都要开发票,你吃饭、坐车的票都留起来,可以做为你的企业运作成本。

8.营业税是对营业额征税,不管你赚没有赚钱,只有发生了交易,开了发票,就要征税;所得税,是对利润征税,利润就是营业额扣减各种成本后剩余的钱,只有赚了钱,才会征所得税。

9.有限责任公司可以注册分公司。

10.开办费是指企业在筹建期间发生的费用,包括筹建期人员工资、办公费、培训费、差旅费、印刷费、注册登记费以及不计入固定资产和无形资产购建成本的汇兑损益和利息支出。筹建期是指企业被批准筹建之日起至开始生产、经营(包括试生产、试营业)之日的期间。

Jun 13, 2009

How To Submit Your Website To Bing & Google For More Traffic

How To Submit Your Website To Bing & Google For More Traffic
Jun. 11th, 2009 By Karl L. Gechlik

SubmitHeadWith all the hub bub about Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, I decided to check out what the process is to submit your blog or website to Bing and compare it to the Google process.

By submitting your website to a search engine, you are making sure they include you in their indexing of the web. It can’t be a bad idea to get this done quickly and while the site is still getting its act together.
How To Submit Website to Bing

First things first, just like all Microsoft products, if you want to interact with it you will need a Windows Live ID. Then, you will need to visit this site:

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/WebmasterAddSitesPage.aspx

BingSubmit1

All you need to do is fill out your website’s complete URL in this format: http://www.asktheadmin.com and if you have a sitemap, you can insert its URL in second line. Next, you need to input your contact email address and select if you want news updates for webmasters.

That’s it! It is as simple as that. While you are in there, you can have Bing verify that your Robots.txt file is being read properly as well as a website verifier and keyword research tool.

After you have submitted your site, you will apparently see an influx of traffic from Bing in as little as 48 hours! If and when you do submit your site, come back and let us know in the comments, how it has improved your site’s traffic.
How To Submit Website to Google

The process is almost identical to Google, as we will see now. To submit your site or blog to Google, you would visit this website:

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

There, you will need to log in with your Google ID.
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Once you are logged in, you can type in your site’s address and click on Add Site like you see below:

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You may also add a site map and get it verified. Verification involves adding some code to your Index.html so that Google can crawl it and make sure you are who you say you are!

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Have you submitted your blog or website to these or other search engines? Which has brought you the best results? Share them with us in the comments!

Tried Bing? Not sure it’s better than Google? Find out by reading my post on Bing vs Google.

Jun 3, 2009

20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know | NetworkWorld.com Community

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No one loves to pay crazy per-user licensing fees, not to mention 15- 22% annual support residuals. (And no one loves the endless, mind-numbing meetings with non-technical financial folks trying to pry budget for these tools from their clenched fists.) So today we're going to discuss tools that are free. However, we are not naming them to this list of "great" tools simply because they cost nothing. These are some of the best lesser-known tools out there.

Of course, whenever we speak of great open source Windows projects we need to acknowledge the obvious players. These are the ones that have crossed over to the mainstream and have given paid software a run for its money. We all know them: OpenOffice.org, Firefox, MySQL, Xen, JBoss, and SugarCRM. These are what I like to refer to as the superstars of Open Source for Windows.

But you don't need me to tell you about the superstars. Instead, I have tested and compiled together a list of 20 great open source projects for Windows that will appeal mostly to the management and maintenance of your network. Some of these tools are just for the desktop and some are just for fun -- because happy IT folks are good IT folks. (They are not locking everyone out of the network while sneaking into the server room with a sledgehammer and … oh, come on! Admit it, I can't be the only one to have had that fantasy!) But enough of my outlandish ranting.

The list that follows is organized by my own personal taste. The tools I think are really the unsung gems are first, with the ones that seem to be far more widely known are last. So, before you flame me with comments about having to click through this multi-page post to see all the tools, I'm going to tell you the names of all the tools up front, and tell you which page to find them on. And, for an alphabetized list of all tools in this post, see last page (p. 10).
Fun stuff: Juice (p. 1); RSSOWL (p. 7 )
Security tools Eraser (p. 1); TrueCrypt (p. 6 )
System or
Net mgt tools FOG (p. 2 ); MRemote (p. 2 ); Paglo (p. 3 ); GroundWork Monitor (p. 4 ). Cobian Backup (p. 5 ); H-Inventory (p. 7 ); NetStumbler (p. 7); jNetStream (p. 9 ); Keyfinder (p. 10); Angry IP Scanner (p. 10 )
Personal or enterprise productivity tools GIMP 2 (p. 3 ); LifeRay (p. 4 ); Joomla! (p. 6); ReactOS (p. 8 ); Thunderbird (p. 8 ); Filezilla Server (p. 9 )

1. Juice Windows Open Source
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
Juice is a podcast receiver and falls into the category of “fun tool.” The first thing that impressed me is its speed. The tool downloaded two podcasts (about 45MB each) in just under a minute. I enjoyed the fact that Juice also came pre-populated with some popular podcasts and the interface for adding your own favorites is simply cut-and-paste. The one thing that takes some work is getting it to work with Windows Vista. Vista is not supported officially although I did find a solution to the error message Vista gave in Juice's support forum. (It was a simple enough fix. I just needed to change the download directory to Documents from My Documents.) Two minutes and I was up and running. Juice is platform independent, fast, and easy to use. If you need something to bring you down from a stressful day and podcasts do the trick, this is a great tool.

Juice



2. Eraser
http://www.heidi.ie/node/6
No, this isn't the1996 movie with Gov. Arnold. I'm talking about a tool for the truly paranoid. If you’re in IT, you ought to be paranoid at least to the proper degree. Eraser is a program that will dispense with sensitive data on your hard drive and do it according to Dept. of Defense standards in overwriting the data using various methodologies to ensure it is not recoverable. I’m certain some IT guys wished they had this tool when they found out how “creative” their accounting departments were being on the earnings reports that led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Eraser can be set to overwrite any unused space on drive. Alternatively, it can be used to delete particular folders, sub-folders, and files. Additionally you can set schedules and create several tasks that can run simultaneously. Right clicking on the tray icon allows you to disable scheduled tasks. Another cool feature is the ability to create a “DBAN” disk. This can be used to bulk erase systems that come off lease or that you donate to charity. (Note: it is illegal to erase the illegal activities of your CEO before the FEDS come to get him and you.) Seriously, this is a good tool. I could see myself loading this onto laptop users' systems and creating a folder called dump and then setting a schedule. I would instruct users to put everything they wanted to disappear permanently into that folder. Nothing more would be required on their part or mine.