My Saturday was spent attending the Eurogamer Expo at Earl's Court, London. This trade show was a chance for members of the public and video games industry to show off their future releases and next-gen technology. And it is brimming with technology.
One of the most popular stands was the OnLive service. Recently launched in the UK, the service jumps aboard the cloud bandwagon and tries to offer gamers the chance to stream titles online using a PC or a micro-console. This small box was availa
Just discovered this. If you have noticeable slowness on pc startup or logging in. You can enable "verbose status" that gives me more detail about whats happening.
the location of this option in group policy is:
Expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then click System.
In the right pane, double-click Verbose vs normal status messages.
You can also apply it in the registry:
Locate and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi
Seems to me there's roughly 4 roles that ought to be covered in educational IT support. Whether you have the manpower or the need(re size of network) to fill these roles is another matter but I see them as:
1. Helpdesk ~ stay in the office, answer the phone, deal with incoming people, change kids passwords, make new accounts, tweak the helpdesk, maintain records, keep track of what needs doing,
2. Firefighting ~ roam with a radio, first responder, bring broken stuff back to the office, c
I have been using mencoder to create video from images and it works well
does anybody have any experiance converting images to video where there is a first full image file followed by differential images ?
I would apreciate any help, thanks
Tom
Very soon my country will be using Fronter's VLE. Fronter VLE is asking me as a new client to put up a help desk for all stakeholders (administrators, teachers, parents and students). Does anyone have any experiences to share? What should be included? What is required and what are the implications of setting up a help desk? What are the type of most common questions and who can best answer them (technicians, teachers...?)
I am helping out a friend who has a -- Alienware area51 tower. It had Windows XP on it And I am trying to put Windows7 on it but for some reason this unit does not want to be friendly to me on this. This is my most diffecult unit I have ever worked on.
Here is what I am working with does anyone have any ideas so I can get this person up and running.
alienware area51 big tower
4 gigs of ram
intel D975xBx motherboard rev 304
core 2 duo 1.86ghz e6300
it was set up as an raid but I have ne
Just A quick blog about Rsync on A CentOS 5.6 box, currently I'm using Rsync to backup our Samba Server - all 500 Gigs of it!!
It's going to take a few days but it will have an exact replica of the Samba Server on the Rsync Server and you don't have to have any clients installed on other machines for Rsync to work all you need is Administrative credentials on the machine you are going to Rsync with.
Once I've figured all of this out I will be setting my Rsync box to start backing up automa
One of my Summer tasks has been to get SIMS migrated from our ageing server onto a new Server. I've gone down the route of hosting it on a virtual machine based on a XenServer Host. First impressions are all good so far.
In all the planning of this and arranging for Capita to do the migration, you suddenly realise how many other systems feed off your SIMS database and these too need either migration or re-configuring. These include simple things like the Frog SIMS Extractor right up to our
So, as you will have gathered from my recent blog posts... there is some serious systems change happening at my place!
Quite simply put - without SCCM and Windows Thin PC, there is no way I could have got it done.
THat being said... there were a few times I was pulling may hair out with it! So, this post is a heads up on what might go wrong... and in no particular order...
1. Error 8004005 - Cannot retrieve policy for this computer and a reboot before even getting to task sequence choic
Lifecycle Management
Developing a process
Whether you are using ITIL, FITS or other ideology / tools to help you develop a support service, you will find that you will borrow, adapt, use, tweak, refine and make wholesale use of a plethora of pre-existing examples of procedures. It is a simple fact of life that sharing and comparing procedures is more efficient than re-inventing the wheel in isolation.
However, you will find that there will be occasions when you have to create a process
Couldnt quite work out what to call this blog post - as it ties so many different areas in together.
As Ive written about before - Ive been busy doing a mass upgrade and virtualisation project at my new place. First step was getting the HyperV hosts all set up. That was a breeze, as was the SAN - all bar a bit of waiting whilst it all initialised.
Once that was done, it was time to get the roles onto each of the nice new HyperV Clients. An SQL cluster, a pair of SCCM servers, and Forefront
If I had met someone in the mountains of Austria, Switzerland, or even Canada - or any other places well known for their snow - when I asked them where they learnt to ski / snowboard, had they told me "Australia", I would have laughed in their face. Before I came here, I thought of Australia as that place on those aussie shows, where the sun shone 24/7..
This weekend gone, I finally made it to the aussie ski slopes.. "dont expect much" I was told.. Granted, I knew New Zealand is famous for it
In modern society, technology has its claws deeply imbedded in every aspect of our lives, TV is interactive. Facebook, Twitter and the internet are instantly accessible via smartphones, fridges order your groceries via broadband and your mp3 collection is streamed wirelessly to all the media devices in your house. It is unsurprising that the use of technology is integral to the day to day lives of modern teachers, from record keeping, to the planning and delivery of lessons.
Over the last ten
I am setting up a new s008r2/7 network.
One of my final tasks is to get All Programs to show ONLY the folder structure applied in \\server\share\start_Menu
I cannot find a page where it describes what the required folder structure is for the share, or what setting to enable/disable to hide all the windows generated programs while stillalowing you to display the configured programs.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks
OK - so some of you now know I moved on from my last School - where I was very vocal with Sharepoint and later SCCM.
Well, now at my new Academy - we are going to get down and dirt with virtualization as well. You may have seen my last post about SCCM and AppV; and also Windows Thin PC - which is part of the story, and also our testing and QA process.
Whats going in then? Well, to sort out the underpowering on the Server side - incoming 2 x Dell R710s with 300gb Raid and 128GB RAM; and an
Last year, the school moved away from cc3 to a vanilla Windows 2008 R2 network. But I still got some cc3 .INI files, which I thought if I remove them, will stop some components of the server to work.
help please????????/
Hi All,
We are a large sec. modern who use AM effectively through a system of templates to monitor progress. One area I am struggling with is how to calcuate whole levels of progress.
We ask the staff to enter termly assessments in a sub-level, targets are also in sublevels. I then take one away from the other and divide by two to get number of sublevels progress from target. I am unsure how I can calculate whole levels when our grade set is in sublevels. It's not as simple as saying if yo
So... Windows Thin PC (Windows Embedded Standard 7 - for its full name really) is now out, whats the story?
Its the replacement for Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCS... ie its a cut down version of the current Windows OS, designed for older PCs to make them last a bit longer. You can use it to make a "Think Thin Client"... ie Autologon, start an RDP session and thats it.
And thats exactly what Ive done with it.
So, hows it all set up, and what do I think of it? Well - it installs in t
We are moving away from our LEA supplied broadband solution so the next step is to replace our ageing cachepilot. Having used the cachepilot for over 5 years now I can safely say its holding us back on creating a fast reliable internet service.
We looked at a number of different options for school wide filtering proxy including:
Equiinet Cache pilot
http://www.equiinet.com/
I've used the latest firmware version and I find it incredibly slow to scan and respond to webpages. It uses so
Well I decided I need to brush up heavily on my server skills as I havent installed one in nearly 2 years, so I am going to get a base unit running with the following
Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
System Centre Configuration Manager
System Centre Operations Manager
Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1
Will be nice to have a few things up and running. Got a dummy laptop set up with W7 but it will be the base for the SCCM and SCOM imaging and what have you, as well as the Group P
After 2 days of travel we are finally here in Philadelphia, admittedly in a hotel by the airport 7 miles from the city centre and wondering why I'm wide awake at 5am local time.
I HATE jet-lag
Travel from Preston to London went without a hitch on Virgin Trains and all was well as I made wy way to Kings Cross St Pancras tube station, swiped my Oyster card and made my winding way down to the Picadilly line to get the tube to the hotel at Heathrow. Mere meters from the platform the emergency al
Laptop House Education Show: 17th June 2011
After a break of two years, it was time for these guys to have another Trade Show. Like last time, they didn’t disappoint! So, first for a bit of an intro…
Laptop House are an independent IT equipment reseller founded in March 2002; and based just outside Stoke on Trent. They are able to supply major brands including Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer, Sony, Apple, Fujitsu & IBM, Promethean, Bretford, Smart and many more.
Also on offer are additiona
