Task 1 – Upgrading the Operating System.
The machine came preloaded with Windows XP Tablet edition, which was a nifty thing to use from my base installation. I launched my installation of Windows 7 Ultimate for this machine, having pre-downloaded and installed all of the drivers (for XP and 7). I have them backed up to a USB stick as well to install after just in case.
So far so good, it upgraded on the base spec of 512mb RAM, 800mhz CPU. Installation took the better part of an hour, when you
I don't know maybe I think wrong but it's ridiculous that the NM has a plan to roll out Win 2008 and Win 7 Pro in the next 3 years.... seems a bit too long to me! by then arn't we going to have another version of Server and another version of Windows I bet we will. I know it takes time to vigorously test a new OS ready for full site roll outs but we've already been testing it for 3 months, although now we are apparently out of Licenses for 7 Enterprise.
At the moment we are running Netware 6
I've been doing a fair amount of rolling out of new systems recently, both OS X and Windows based. While the OS X based stuff has been an interesting look at a reasonably recent and up to date operating system (10.6), it occurred to me that the Microsoft side of things was the same old irritating process of fighting with Windows XP that I've been doing for God knows how long. With Windows 7 now at nearly 2 years old and boasting a full service pack, is it not time for us to ditch an increasingly
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Somewhere, there sits a broken man, looking out of iron grilled window as his fellow inmates drag themselves around the stark exercise yard. Two orderlies stand and stare, one nudges the other one and asks "What's this guys deal?" The other leafs through a file of dirty papers and pulls out a patient profile "Ah yeah, sad story really, when they brought him in he only gave the name 'sparkeh' and a few details about what happened to him, hasn't said a word since, he just sits
Well I’ve spent my first 3 days moving from pillar to post visiting every department in my new workplace watching (and even trying my hand) at almost every job in the company. I’ve seen how everyone interacts with IT and what it means to them in there day to day job. Its given me a good idea of where the issues lie and what are going to be the little day to day issues that I might have to sort out.
Now how many of you had an induction like that? Do you think that going and seeing key people i
I have a laptop that I can connect to works network and wireless, but it will not connect to internet.
Error Message: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.
Updated IE to 8
winwock is working fine
tried static IP and DNS did not work
did virus scan did not find anything
repaired IP (several times)
Any other suggestions!
I've been in my post now for just over three years; I'm loving the job but there is one thing I've noticed since I started here.....
I seem to be suffering from higher than usual amount of colds, sniffles and other such horrible things. Normally, I wouldn't take more than a day off per year due to some sort of sickness, but since being here I feel like I'm taking more.
I guess its working around all these little darlings that does it. But, I just seem to feel like crap at the moment and
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Every so often I come across something that I am astounded that I don't already know. This might be a lot of old chips to you but whilst looking for tips on deploying Installshield installers I stumbled across guidance on making the deployment silent.
As you probably know, Installershield deployments usually come as a setup.exe file. This is not always the case but then you can usually grab the setup.exe and other setup files (cab file for example) from a temp folder when yo
Hello all, this is my first ever newly created posts so please go easy on me if I ...... You know what I mean. Anyway, we are a Staffordshire High School with 2 X CC3 servers and 1 Admin Server and have sacked off all support this coming year from RM and SICT and are going it alone with only an RM software support only contract (which only really gives us Tech articles for our CC3 system and the ability to hotfix the servers to keep them up to date). We still have MIS support for the Admin netwo
Mobile devices are gradually becoming more popular targets for scammers and are crossing over into the realm of traditional Internet scams. Social engineering plays a big part in scamming mobile phones, with a popular tactic being to ring a number, hang up immediately and leave an entry in the missed calls list that will redirect a curious owner to a premium rate number and a hold jingle. They rely on the "Hmm who just rang me?" effect to trick consumers into dialling the number and don't even r
Facebook profiles have become a bit of a commodity these days for crooks looking to cash in on unsuspecting members of the public. From spam messages to social engineering scams, the holy grail for any attacker is open access to a person's profile. From here, they can capture details about a person's private life along with their family, friends, business contacts and everything they require to pull the perfect scam.
On the same note I paid a visit to the Apple Store in London today and the l
So we are now an academy and I've been looking at the future of the LEA supplied broadband service that we have been using for the last five years. The only advantage I can think of keeping it is that everything is bundled and to be fair it does work. But with the advances in video and multimedia on the internet such as iPlayer and YouTube we are consistently reaching our capacity so its time to look at our options.
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Disadvantages o
It happens to everyone sooner or later. You get to work with the nagging feeling that you are missing something. Something important, all the way until you pull in to the car park at work.
And realise you have forgotten your wallet.
I have a supply of coffee at my desk, no problem. But lunch may be a problem unless...
15 minutes later after heading off on my break, I have a pound coin in my hand scavenged from my car ashtray. Will it be enough? Where can I get something decent for only
Youtube is the most widely used search engine after Google and few schools ban the use of Google yet many either ban or heavily restrict access to You tube.
Stopping students from accessing music, videos and other content is important but, at the same time, a lot of the content found on YouTube can be very useful for teachers both in the classroom and when setting home work.
Is teachertube the answer or should schools have their own solution?
What is best? Blanket ban or restricted acce
Well I've landed my self a new job out in the private sector starting on Monday. If working in schools has tought me anything it's that things are almost not what they appear to be, and that stupidity if often the cause of many issues. I'm hoping that this new post will be slightly less of the stupid and allow me to get down to some productive rather than fire fighting work.
I've been hanging around here since my first mentor introduced edugeek to me way back in 2007 (ok not that way back, bu
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I hate Flash. I have wasted too many hours of the one precious life we are given attempting to troubleshoot network deployments of this terrible piece of software to garner even a tiny shred of bonhomie. So when I upgraded to Chrome 10 and suffered an irritating series of Flash crashes I was compelled to drop kick my laptop out of the window, book a ticket to Adobe HQ and make my feelings abundantly clear. Probably in a very British way, presenting a strongly worded letter ex
Hi today I've decided to post about Operating systems today as it does kind of follow on from my last post. Once you have your PC built, you will need an operating system the most popular is Microsoft Windows. There are multiple versions listed below,
These are the earliest versions of the Operating System.
Windows 1.0 - Released 1985. Known as MS-DOS Executive, it also came with Calculator, Calendar, Cardfile, Clipboard viewer, Clock, Control Panel, Notepad, Paint, Reversi, Terminal and W
Microsoft Recently released a Service Pack for Windows 7 and it has worked fine until it has been made available via WSUS/Windows Updates for Automatic Install. It has been known to cause a few problems where the system has halted upon startup with a Fatal Error as shown below:
Fatal Error C0000034 applying update operation (Update 282 of 103814)
Many people have turned to re-building the system but there is a fix to getting the system back up and running and it is as follows:
1) When y
Asus Eee PC 1201N (BLACK)
http://www.netbooksprice.co.uk/Asus-Eee-PC-1201N-Best-Price
What can one say, the ASUS EEE PC 1201N is usually a fantastic little net book also it looks great too. I received mine in the post today. It feels really good made and (sorry to get girly here) it's seriously cute!
The screen resolution is brill. Initial create was fast and launching my software via USB appeared to be quick too. I ran a burn in tool as well as other than there being 79 faults within the
As I was such a good girl last year I decided to ask Santa for an Internet Tablet (Having a slight obsession with gadgets and not wanting to be left out of the current trend I thought it was only right!). I knew Santa wasn’t going to buy me an iPad so I asked for an Archos 101.
First impressions of the Archos was how light it was, weighing in at 480g it was a mere feather compared to the RM Slate (slab) that I held for a while at BETT (yes I know, bad comparison as the Slate is pretty much a
Posting this code so that I can remember it/ and in case anyone else finds it useful.
First open the database
[color="blue"]string [/color]constr = [color="#8b0000"]@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data source=database.mdb"[/color];
[color="teal"]OleDbConnection [/color]con = [color="blue"]new [/color][color="teal"]OleDbConnection[/color](constr);
con.Open();
con.GetSchema() will return a list of collections in the database.
CollectionName NumberOfRestrictions NumberOfIdentif
I am currently testing out Internet Explorer 9 64-bit on a copy of Windows 7 Home. Very smart looking, I like the Facebook web slice and the browser seems fast. Visiting YouTube however was less then enthralling as it starts demanding me to install Flash.
But wait, doesn't IE9 support HTML5 meaning Flash isn't required for YouTube? Correct, but it takes an extra step to get it to work courtesy of YouTube putting obstacles in the way.
To enable the YouTube HTML5 player in IE9 visit YouTube
