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Fire Extinguisher Student Jailed

A student from Brockenhurst Sixth Form College was jailed for two years and 8 months today for throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of the Millbank building.   Edward Woolard, 18 from New Forest, took part in demonstrations by student protesters at 30 Millbank in late 2010 against University fee rises. He is reported to have thrown a metal fire extinguisher from the roof of the building, narrowly missing Police officers guarding the Tory HQ below.   Mr Woolard's defence claimed the acti

Learning Without Frontiers 2011

We are now into the 3rd day of the Learning Without Frontiers conference at The Brewery, London. Chris, Shaun and I have had a fantastic time and so many interesting conversations it is hard to say where to start.   Firstly, we have to a massive thank you to Graham Brown-Martin and the team who have allowed us to take part. In an off-hand comment about free stands he kindly not only offered EduGeek some tickets (and a discount for others) but he also asked Chris if he would like to have a stand

What to expect from EduGeek @BETT2011

I thought it would be best to let you know all about what EduGeek will be doing at BETT 2011 (Stand G89) so even if you can't make it you can see the sights     Live standcam from the, well, stand, curtesy of the Mobotix camera which will displayed on the homepage so you can follow the action live, with a shoutbox beneath for you to send us messages in real time   Manning the BETT Technical Help Point, where you can get information and advice on where to look for the products and companies

My 1st St@tus Scam

Facebook has been targeted by the My 1st St@tus scam spread not only through the social network itself, but also via Twitter.   Users are being tricked into clicking a link that claims to find their first ever Facebook status and post it on their wall. The post contains randomly generated content instead of the user's first ever status but one thing remains constant, they all have links to a malicious survey.   When filled in, this survey allows the scammers to sell personal information on and

Joyous Christmas post spam on EduGeek

Those of you that were checking edugeek over the festive may have noticed the mass of spam posts appearing on the site. At the time there was no obvious reason for why the spam bots were able to get around our reCAPTCHA protection but apparently reCAPTCHA has been cracked according to http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/google-recaptcha-cracked/ which explains a lot. That link came from vbulletin themselves as we were not the only ones that were hit by the spam post plague. I have since implemen

Our secret 30,000 members competition!!

We have been rather sneaky recently. As we knew we were to hit 30,000 members we decided that it would be good to run a competition to celebrate the fact, however simply giving a prize to our 30,000th member wouldn't be fair as existing members could create multiple accounts in the hope of winning (as if you would be so sneaky!). This also would not be fair to long standing members who have contributed a lot. So we ran a secret poll using the following criteria.   The winner must:   1. Have mo

EduGeek is now running nginx

I have switched us over to trial our nginx (pronounced engine-x) setup. Please report any issues found in the Site Problems forum.

EduGeek Admins Elf Yourself Chrimbo 2010

Those running Chrome Dev

Please note there appears to be a bug in Chrome V10 (developer channel) which means you dont see any forum tabs when browsing the forums. Until Google resolves the issue please switch to another non-tabbed theme by using the style selector at the bottom of the page or clicking the icon if you are logged in.   This has been fixed by google now, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/dev-channel-update_16.html

Sophos Anti-Virus version 7: End of life

Before March, if Sophos is to continue to protect your networks, and you are running version 7.5 a major version upgrade is required from 7.5 – 9.5.   7.5 will be discontinued from March onwards   Products Affected:   Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 7.x EM Library 1.3.x Enterprise Console 3.x Sophos Control Center 2.x   The desktop message will read:   Sophos Anti-Virus 7, EM Library and Sophos Control Center will be retired at the end of March 2011. You should upgrade computers ru

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all you 'geekers out there

Well, it's the end of another year for us all in Edugeek land, and it's finishing better than ever, with a bit of globetrotting mixed in during the past 12 months to spread the word. I'd like to thank all of you out there for your support and feindship over the past 12 months, especially those who have made it to the confs, BETT and the ISTE show in Denver. We will always have time for a chat with you should you need to bend our ears or just have a chat. So it just remains to wish you all well

Microsoft Education White Paper - Baby steps into the Cloud

Gerald Haigh, an education writer and journalist, is also an ex-head teacher and as a result he still has close contacts within many education establishments. It was because of this that we asked him to interview a wide group of people about the use of Cloud services in education, which meant understanding what's going on today, as well as what the future might look like. The results of this work is now available as a white paper - "Baby steps into the Cloud - ICT as a service for education"