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CEO Daily Update – 4.29.2020

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Wednesday – 4.29.2020

I hope you find today’s edition of the CEO Daily helpful. If you have tips, tricks, encouraging words, or something light-hearted to share, please let me know and I will try to include them in future emails! Also, I would greatly appreciate your feedback on any of the subjects below!

Wednesday Highlights:

  • Face Masks
  • Hand Sanitizer
  • Customer Feedback
  • Customer Spotlight
  • Tips of the Day
  • Tee Hee Hee
  • CK Inventory Updates

Face Masks:

Inventory Update:

Basic: 10,000 KN95’s and 20,000 disposable masks should be here by Thursday or Friday, I hope.

Premium: 2+ Million KN95’s available to ship now, 3 Million Disposable’s arriving by Friday.

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CEO Daily Update – 4.28.2020

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I hope you find today’s edition of the CEO Daily helpful. If you have tips, tricks, encouraging words, or something light-hearted to share, please let me know and I will try to include them in future emails! Also, I would greatly appreciate your feedback on any of the subjects below!

Tuesday Highlights:

  • Face Masks
  • Hand Sanitizer
  • Customer Feedback
  • Customer Spotlight
  • Tips of the Day
  • Tee Hee Hee
  • CK Inventory Updates
  • Today’s COVID-19 updates

Face Masks:

10,000 KN95’s and 20,000 disposable masks should be here by Thursday or Friday. I have also located a domestic source for masks and will have them on the site soon. Literally MILLIONS of masks are available. They are a little more expensive but are available right away. WILL EMAIL LINKS TO THE NEW MASKS SOON.

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KN95 Masks:
https://www.cablesandkits.com/mc/facemaskkn9503/fam-276/fp-18692/?=PackageQuantity&packagequantity=10

Standard Masks:
https://www.cablesandkits.com/mc/facemask01/fam-273/fp-18680/?=PackageQuantity&packagequantity=50

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CEO Daily Update – 4.27.2020

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Daily CEO Updates from the CK.

I hope you find today’s edition of the CEO Daily helpful. If you have tips, tricks, encouraging words, or something light-hearted to share, please let me know and I will try to include them in future emails! Also, I would greatly appreciate your feedback on any of the subjects below!

Monday Highlights:
• Face Masks
• Hand Sanitizer
• Customer Feedback
• Customer Spotlight
• Tips of the Day
• Tee Hee Hee
• CK Inventory Updates
• Today’s COVID-19 updates

Face Masks:

Update: We are still taking backorders. We have 20,000 KN95’s and 20,000 disposable masks that are shipping to us today. We hope to have them by Thursday or Friday. We have an additional 20,0000 KN95’s coming early next week. Prices are rising due to increasing shipping costs.

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Untangling Network Cable Types

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(This blog is an updated and extended version of a post, by our CEO, we released in September 2009)

 

If you’ve ever installed a network, either for your home, office or business, you’ve probably asked yourself- With so many different types of network cabling, what do I really need?  Is it a CAT5, 5E, 6, 6A, shielded or unshielded, UTP or STP? Do I need a patch/straight through cable or a crossover cable?  With so many different kinds of network cables to choose from, which one is right for your needs?

What types of network cable are available currently?

Cat5 has been replaced by Cat5E as the general standard networking cable in new installations, with the improved signal carrying capacity being the primary reason.  A Cat5 cable can support Ethernet and Fast Ethernet. Cat5E (Cat5 enhanced) supports Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet speeds over short distances and is backward compatible with Cat5.  Cat5E cable also has improved durability, due to improvements in the quality of the PVC protective jacket. It is more than suitable for most data cabling requirements.

Cat6 is one of the newest versions of network cabling, and is very similar to Cat5E, but specifically designed to consistently deliver 1 Gigabit Ethernet. It is used in installations where a Cat6 Certified Network is required.

While Cat5E and Cat6 can support Gigabit speeds, Cat6A (Cat6 Augmented) is certified to 10 Gigabit speeds and is backward compatible with the all the existing standards, and is suitable for industries utilizing high-performance computing platforms to support very high bandwidth-intensive applications. 10G/Cat 6A applications would be server farms, storage area networks, data centers & riser backbones.

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Yet another handy keyboard shortcut

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Ok, I found this one this morning and just thought it was cool. Select some text (using whatever method you desire), hold CTRL and Shift and press either < or > to decrease or increase the font size. This works in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and probably other Microsoft programs as well. I tried it in OpenOffice Writer and it did’t work there however.

Along similar lines, while in a web browser you can hold CTRL and press + or – to increase the font size that is being displayed.