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[YAAV] Security update available for Adobe Flash Player (v10.1.82.76)
It's that time of the month again. Another update to fix several critical Adobe vulnerabilities (this time in Flash Player). The update can be downloaded using the secret URL you get once you have signed a distribution agreement. Source: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-16.html
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Google Waves Goodbye
The much hyped Google Wave communication platform is to be scrapped by search giant Google. The company blog has announced the user adoption of Wave was insufficient and it will no longer be developed as a standalone product. Wave is expected to remain operational until the end of the year at minimum. However, Google points out that the core technologies used in Wave are are Open Source and this allows for other companies or communities to continue the project. Elements of Wave may also ap
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Karoshi Linux 7 - Released!
The Karoshi Linux team is proud to announce their latest offering of the Linux based server operating and management system designed specifically for schools and education. Built on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Karoshi Linux 7 is now offered in both 64bit and 32bit downloads. The web management system allows you to manage your servers anywhere with an Internet connection, and because we know that system administrators like to holiday and keep an eye on their servers, we have also introduced a mobile ph
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Happy Sys Admin Day
Once again that time of year again. Happy Sys Admin Day from all at EduGeek.net. What are you doing on this special day? System Administrator Appreciation Day
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A little something to help pass the time over the summer
The summer holidays will soon be upon us and the chance of actually finishing that cup of coffee before it gets cold is greatly increased. So what better time to enjoy a game with your colleagues! Watch this space for a set of cards you will be able to download and print out.
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EduGeek Gets The Royal Treatment
Well, following a few emails between ourselves at EduGeek and KenRoyal, he's done a little write up of our meeting at the ISTE Show in Denver. The article can be found on Kens blog, 'The Royal Treatment' here: http://blogs.scholastic.com/royaltreatment/ *And yes, we really did gatecrash SmoothWall's award ceremony (they made us 'guv), because, being Yorkshiremen (and women) they told us it was free beer!, EDIT: and Scottish but I was in less of an itch for the free
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BSF - Building Scrapped for Future (In Places)
Large swathes of the controversial Building Schools for Future (BSF) project have been cut today by Michael Grove, Secretary of State. The list, published here by the BBC, details a list of all BSF projects in the country and which ones have been stopped or will continue. As a general rule of thumb, a BSF project should go ahead if the Local Authority (LA) has obtained Financial Closure. Local Authorities who haven't attained this closure have a very high risk of their BSF projects being stop
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iPhone 4 "Fix" to be Released
A fix for the reception issues suffered by the iPhone 4 is to be released by Apple; to correct the reported signal strength. The company has made an announcement that the signal bar is incorrect and showing "2 more bars then it should for a given signal strength." This means in low reception areas, the phone reports good reception even if it is barely hanging on to a signal. The iPhone 4 has been released in a storm of controversy after Apple told it's users they are holding the phone the
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School Stabbing Leaves One Dead and Another Injured
Police are investigating a possible gang-related stabbing at a school in South London, leaving a 15-year old pupil dead and another seriously injured. The attack occurred at 8.45am on the 2nd July at Park Campus school in West Norwood. A gang of youths waiting in a car chased the schoolboys into nearby Gipsy Road, killing one and stabbing the other in the arm as he tried to get back to school grounds. Staff came to assist but the murdered pupil was declared dead after arriving at hospital.
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Office 2010 Road Warrior Event at Papakura Normal School (Part 1 of 2)
The Road Warrior event at Papakura Normal was well attended attracting at least twenty participants from five separate schools to hear about the new features and improvements available in Office 2010. Part one of this blog entry contains the writeup on general features, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Publisher. The second part contains information on Excel, Office extentions like Ribbon Hero and PowerPivot along with a small amount on SharePoint, Live@Edu and Expression Encoder. I arrived at a
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3...2...1...lzPingLaunch!
lzPingLaunch has been released by one of the site's members, localzuk. It is a small network administration tool capable of launching the tools Ping, NSLookup and TraceRoute plus the remote access tools VNC and RDP all within a few keystrokes. It is located on his blog or available as a download from his site.
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FamilyShield From Open DNS - Free Parental Controls
Today OpenDNS have introduced a new service called FamilyShield, a free simple to use way for parents to protect their children from inappropriate content while online. http://www-files.opendns.com/img/familyshield_logo_small.png By changing the DNS settings on either the router or connected devices to point to FamilyShields servers users will benefit from protection similar to that found in schools. Filter lists are constantly updated so users are always protected. Detailed instructi
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Save Your School Money
At this year’s Sims.net Annual conference Capita in partnership with Verismic showed a new solution that has the potential to save a secondary school with their power bills. The way the software can save you money is by using the tools on the Verismic Power Management software to manage the power on your computer. The software that provides an all in one solution goes far beyond just setting and enforcing power policies it provides a number of useful reports on what each policy is doing and
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Joint Press Release NAACE- Of one mind: ICT in Education is important!
EduGeek.net today released a joint statement supporting the letter sent to Rt Hon Michael Grove MP in which the importance of ICT in Education is stressed. Attached is the letter and joint release. If you wish to get further details or comments from EduGeek.net then please use following contact details. --* Russell Dyas Tel UK 020 8133 4179 Tel UK Mob: *07884071535 Tel US 240 764 47 07 SkypeID: rdyasuk [email protected] EduGeek.net - The Front Page Naace Press Release Join
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Milestone launches new IP solution
Milestone has launched a new IP CCTV solution designed for small businesses and educational establishments called Xprotect Essential http://www.cctvcore.co.uk/22-06-2010-milestone-launches-xprotect-essential-for-smes.html
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Skydrive and Office, Live
Users of Microsoft's Live service now have the Redmond firm's answer to Google docs available to them. Visit http://office.live.com and you can access Skydrive, an online cloud-based service allowing you to store documents and access the web-based 2010 versions of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote. The service is free to use and requires a Windows Live Passport login. Testing today did reveal LA filtering succesfully blocking the social media aspects of the Live service while still allowing
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EduGeek Goes to Denver
In one weeks time. Shaun and I shall be in Denver, Colorado on the EduGeek stand at the ISTE Show (ISTE Conference 2010). We are primariliy there to meet up with our US visitors and counterparts to find out why, considering we are on of the largest tech support sites in the world, and certainly one of the largest and most successful online communities, we still don't get much interaction from our US visitors\members. US traffic accounts for the second largest group visiting the site with (ou
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Apple Adds Malware Detection
Security firm Sophos has reported that malware detection has been added to OSX 10.6.4 (AKA Snow Leopard). The update detects the HellRTS trojan which disguises itself as iPhoto, an image editing application bundled with OSX. However, Sophos have reported that the malware detection only works on downloads from the Internet and does not cover all the various items of Mac-oriented malware currently in circulation. The article also showed a video of malware being succesfully run from a memory sti
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EduGeek at the Ruckus Big Dogs Conference in Marbella
Well, I’m back from Spain and am now in the office busying myself by paying bills and catching up on email etc. I have to start off by thinking Ruckus for having EduGeek at their Big Dogs conference in Marbella (and even one of our members was there as a guest of another company!) and getting to meet all of their staff from Selina Lo (the CEO) David Callisch (VP of marketing and MC of the event) right over to GT Hill (who likes to be called, simply, ‘GT’) their resident wireless uber techy who
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EduGeek Refresh Desktop tool
I have developed a tool which I thought could be of use to all of you out there. It is primarily designed to refresh the desktop wallpaper at set intervals which may not sound like a big deal but in certain scenarios it will be of use. If you set your desktop background to a shared background for example of the school logo you will notice that if you change that image (keeping the same path) desktops wont be updated with the new background until you log in and out. This limitation means that yo
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Announcing the EduGeek Logon Tracker
At the conference in Chorley we have announced a new piece of software for you all to use for free. It was developed by OP Software by request from us as we saw a need for a proper solution in schools. Its primary role is to log users that login to your network. The EduGeek Logon Tracker allows you to: Limits concurrent logins to 1 Uses MS SQL database for storage of tracking data Web based frontend for reporting and searching Web based login spy for real-time login tracking Web site
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New Graphics Forum
EduGeek now has a new graphics forum for anything design or graphic related. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/edugeek-graphics/ Whether you have found a good resource website, needed some help with updating your schools logo or have something to you want to share with the community then this is the forum for you. We will be moving any current posts that relate to graphics in the coming days. We hope members will find it useful.
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Shiny new ranks are live
(SYSMAN_MK) sent me over the final designs for the new ranks and I have put them live right now. Thanks again for all the hard work. Enjoy all
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Ruckus Big Dogs Conf in Marbella - June 10 - 11
EduGeek has been invited to speak at the Ruckus Big Dogs Conference in Marbella on the 10 - 11 June 2010, and......so have you, only you don't have to speak, and Ruckus pick up the bill for your hotel and food Now I guess that some of you think theres a catch, well there is. Firstly, you have to be a Ruckus customer/user, and secondly you have to pay for your own flight over there (circa £100 return from the UK). So if you want to meet the Ruckus guys, Net-Ctrl and EduGeek get yourself over to
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Conference Co-ordination
There is now a wiki page for co-ordinating lifts, finding out who's staying at the Ibis, and so on. Please review it, add your own details, etc. Conference2010 - Wiki
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