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EduGeek
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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EduGeek
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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Articles
Zero Day Windows LNK Exploit
UPDATE: Microsoft have released a patch to fix the vulnerability here. Remove any temporary workaround provided by antivirus companies before installing it. Thanks to ajbritton and Arthur for the heads up. Sophos have released a tool to block the CPLINK exploit present in all versions of the Windows Operating Ssytem from XP onwards. The exploit utilises compromised .LNK files (AKA shortcuts) to run potentially malicious code on a system by merely viewing the icon of the shortcut in a folder,
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EduGeek
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
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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EduGeek
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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EduGeek
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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EduGeek
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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EduGeek
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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Events
ISTE 2010 - Done and dusted
Well, we’ve finished, and with sore feet had a last meal with the guys from SmoothWall (fish and chips/sausage and mash being the order of the day) before we parted ways as they are flying down to Charlotte today to their US offices at early o’clock this morning. The show finished at 2:30pm and we were still sat on our stand at close to 7pm waiting on one last box to finish packing away. It turned out it had been damaged, repaired than not returned to the crate store. Was the ISTE Exhibition
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Events
ISTE 2010 - Walk to the EduGeek stand
Here is a short time lapse of the walk to the EduGeek stand from the main entrance to the hall. It was recorded on iPhone thus there is a little bit of shake. Enjoy
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Events
ISTE 2010 - Robo Football
We happened to catch these guys having a play with robo football so we thought we would show you the vid. This was recorded on iPhone 4, sorry.... it should be HD soon once youtube processes the file.
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