It was an impulse buy off ebay, but I've had my eye on this phone for a while and the usual price of them seemed a little too much.
In this instance the seller had bough a bunch for business use & then decided they weren't right and was selling them off practically new at half price. ~ £35!
I give you the BENQ E72
http://www.cellaz.com/photos/news/4443.jpg
as you can see a very stylish slim windows mobile 6 phone. Benq is not a massively well known company, they mostly make pro
was to put a form on the front page of the intranet that allows kids to report problems.
The thinking behind this is that good kids are likely to be more thoughtful than some teachers but also teachers can tell kids to use it without having to send them out of the lesson with a note. Abuse of the form ought to be prevented by the fact it notifies them and us that we know who they are and where they are. Integrated windows authentication on the IIS site allows the script to get their usernam
how bad my memory is these days! I dread to think what it'll be like in 10-15 years!
Seriously I just had the best idea ever whilst doing something else and totally forgot what it was 10 mins later. I was sat at my desk thinking what the hell was that awesome idea I just had....fortunately I had mentioned it to the rest of the office at the time.
So then I needed to create an email alias. Clear as day I could remember the dialog box I needed to do it but could I find it?....no I could not
The less critical backups are writing to a fixed external drive. The weekly backup is writing to a external drive we swap every week and put in the safe. The disk array of the backup server has approx 1TB free. The drive has been thoroughly de-fragmented. I had intended to duplicate the weekly backup to write onto the disk array too but
When I came back from the hols I noticed I'd accidently left a test backup over-writing 30gb every day. Then I discovered this since 30GB file was really badl
Attached a 1GB external usb drive to the backup server to offload some less critical backups to, freeing up space on the server for more, more critical backups.
I wonder how long it will take to write 588GB (c. 650,000 files!) onto a usb2 drive.....?
According to a recent study, the likelihood of people misrepresenting themselves online is actually very low although is was noted that women are more likely to fib about their weight and men more likely to fib about other subjects such as how serious they are about finding a long term relationship.
Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100308102204.htm
This morning I walked to work, it was lovely, sunny, a slight chill but no breeze. As the weather was all morning.
At 12:20 the other tech comes back from lunch, drenched! The heavens had just opened! The window in our office is mostly covered up so we hadnt noticed the sudden cloudiness!
At 12:30 its snowing with massive flakes
12:40 Sleeting.
13:10 sunny not a cloud in the sky from out window!
So far so good. We've been instructed not to do anything (at all) that might interfere with smooth running of the computers/network. A couple of easy days for us then! We've had some call-outs for projector issues and computers not logging on but apart from that everything seems to be working as it should.
Yes, Ofsted inspection on monday!
I'm not sure how much this will affect us. Either, they'll avoid IT like the plague for more 'reliable' activities or they'll use IT to try and impress inspectors and consequently they'll want everything suddenly fixed.
It occurs to me, that instead of outsourcing IT support, the government could have created a subsection of Ofsted to specifically inspect ICT provision. Seems to me that would have been a better idea.
So says a report on Science Daily
Counterfactual thinking is thinking about things that might have happened that didn't. Counter to the facts I suppose.
CF thinking more typically occurs after an event that has a negative result. The "What if" factor.
The researchers discovered that reality has more favourable meanings when students had actively considered alternative possibilities.
Such a trait would be an advantage in our field. Things do go wrong and the ability to consider poss
I hate it when software changes from something relatively straightforward to something a nightmare. It's easier just to stick to r10 we already have deploying. Another piece of non-uptodate software hardly makes a difference in the scheme of underpatched xp and office2k.
It kind of beggars belief in this day and age that setting up raid is still an esoteric process.
Enter one Fujitsu Siemens primergy tx100 si server. Intention to install as a win 2008 server to run new eclipse library software.
First Attempt: 2008 failing to find hard drives... Realise I needed to use Fujitsu serverview suite to get the OS on.
Second Attempt: Start off with serverview. refuses to install the advanced version of the raid manager, have to use the basic one. Get 2008 on.
OMG, promissor exam software needs to be rebuilt and redeployed again!!!!!
2 days before we've got to run the onscreen tests. Aaargh.
Finally, on my 4th attempt, found a computer suitable to make an MSI on.
Using wininstall LE. I ♥ that little program.
think i've got it right and sorted out now.
Installing ruby on rails on portable ubuntu on my work pc with the exact same instructions as I used at home. but for some reason I can't start the webserver.
it says
rails requires rubygems >= 1.3.2
Gems tells me there's no updates to be had. There's a solution on the ubuntu instruction page.
sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo update_rubygems.
unfortunately after successful completion of the first line, it has no idea who or what update_rubygems is.
WAIT
this time I
it's one of those days....my head is mashed and i've only been here like 3.5 hours.
down to 2 staff. our full complement is bare minimum at best
the less technical manager is off for the day finding out about blade servers
our volunteer helpdesk mom (used be an oracle sysadmin) has gone from 5 days to 2 days a week and not today
our 3rd tech who works primaries in mornings and here in afternoons has been at the same primary all day all week cos their being ofsted inspected. (the same pr
it's always nice to have a day off, (in lieu) although It was cos I was going to the dentist. I've picked up an extra passenger, although it was a bit hairy at the time as he wasnt sure if he'd be able to fill it. Generally I find the dentist pretty relaxing. I mean it just lying there with your mouth open although I could have done without him mentioning the dreaded R-word.
p.s. my new favourite song of the moment is Indalo by Lesiem
windows xp/2003: barely need to think about it
vista: if i click enough buttons I'm sure i'll find something that looks like xp config
linux shell:if i read enough sets of instructions hopefully it'll make sense
linux gui: there's probably an application for it, it's probably fairly obvious what's what in it, hopefully it'll just work
mac: when i find the control panel equivalent, I expect it'll be in there and be even easier than xp
Sometimes I feel like Im the scientist creating the first nuclear bomb but at the same time I've been tasked with running the nuclear bomb facility helpdesk. It's true I'm the person that probably has the most answers but equally, get distracted at the wrong time and we'll all be blown to smithereens lol:eek:
my desk doesnt entirely have a beginning or and end. the worktop starts at one end of the room and goes all the way round to the otherside. I have a section which is mostly my stuff, and is also a dumping ground for stuff people want me to notice. for instance I came in this morning to find a new lenovo desktop plonked squarely in the space between the edge of the desk and the keyboard. as if i wouldnt notice it 2 feet away or something. fortunately the joy of lenovo today is that it deploys fro
