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With Kyocera's, the first part of the error code is actually the error - i.e. in your case '7002' is the service and error code. The figure after the semicolon is simply the page count. I had an odd issue a few weeks back with an FS-3830N bringing up a service code. Tried swapping out mainboards on it to no avail and even swapping the same model printer in it's place caused the same issue. Turned out it was a few stuck jobs in the print queue causing the issue. Never even thought to check that - may well be worth it, before chasing your tail.

Hiya all, I've after a laptop with one of Intel's ULV processors. Having decided specs and a budget, I've narrowed it down to two models, a Toshiba Satellite T110-121 and a Dell Inspiron 11z. The Toshiba is £299.95 from dabs.com and includes a free USB optical drive. I can get the Dell for £310 from a local supplier and it includes a 500GB hard drive, but no optical drive. From a purely cosmetic point of view, the Toshiba is a nice glossy black all over, whereas the Dell is white (black surrounds around the keyboard and screen). If I buy the Toshiba, I'll need to upgrade the hard drive (easily done) as I need more capacity, but I'll add a 7200RPM drive for better performance. If i buy the Dell, I'll need an optical drive, so either way, it is swings and roundabouts cost-wise as the optical drive or hard drive are similar price-wise. Which of the two brands would you guys pick? I've put loads of Toshibas in service at work and they've been very robust. Do any of you guys forsee adding a 7200RPM drive to the Toshiba being likely to cause heat problems? Would a 5400RPM drive be a better fit in terms of heat? I've got till Monday to make a decision - it may be that my local computer supplier can't get any more stock of the Dell machines, as they are open box, so my decision may have been made for me, but assuming I have the option, I'd appreciate any advise. Thanks, Neil

Thanks for the advise thus far - some very useful pointers/information. Cybernerd, the Google IMAP migration tool looks interesting, but I don't think it is going to work for us, as It's Learning uses GMail as their platform and not any of the supported platforms mentioned on the page that your link refers to. The link to Cloud Campus is helpful too - as we are talking possibly 150 or so staff accounts only (pupils are currently at Live@Edu), the costs would not be horrendous if they could move mailboxes from NetMedia. Any more ideas on mailbox migration would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Afternoon all, I've been asked to look into the feasibility of migrating our current e-mail service from the current 'It's Learning' platform, which is based on GMail to a full-blown GMail solution. The reason for this consideration, is that we are finding It's Learning's implementation to be seriously half-baked and lacking in functionality, such as no access to Google Docs or the vastly superior and easier to use Google Calendar. Ideally, we'd like to take our entire school domain name 'priory.portsmouth.sch.uk' and repoint it to Google's offering. However, I have a few queries which I'd appreciate it if those in the know could assist with. These are: - Do Google offer web hosting or will we need to find a separate web host for our school website - How easy is it to request DNS?MX etc. record changes for a .sch.uk domain? - Is there an easy migration path for e-mail from the It's Learning GMail implementation to a 'vanilla' GMail platform - i.e. transferring of messages etc.? - Are the management tools in a 'vanilla' GMail environment feature-rich - i.e. can you place users into groups and is there a function for importing user accounts from say a CSV file? I think that's all for the minute, but I may be back if anything else springs to mind! Any advice would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Neil

Thanks Pete for the quick reply. I've just sent it through mxtooolbox.com and on the black list test, I get the following result: Your ISP BT-UK-AS BTnet UK Regional network/AS2856 is UCEPROTECT-Level3 listed for hosting a total of 25886 abusers. See: Detail Return codes were: 127.0.0.2 Any ideas how to get it 'un-blacklisted'? There is an article about BT here: UCEPROTECT®-Network - Spam Database Query SMTP tests come back clean - i.e. it's not an open relay - thankfully! MXToolbox.com has some nice tools - a very handy website to remember. Thanks.

Hi all, I've set up an Exchange 2003 server at home. I have a registered domain, which points to my static IP provided to me by BT Business (my ISP). Reverse DNS is set up and appears to be working, as I can send/receive mail from GMail without any issues (something I couldn't do when I tried this sometime back and had not got BT to set up reverse DNS). I can send mail from an account at Live@Edu (we are using this for our pupil e-mail, but I've also got my own account set up for testing purposes). However, mail that I send from my Exchange server back to the account at Live@Edu does not get delivered - be it a newly created mail messae or a reply. I suspect using Hotmail would yield the same results. Any ideas would be much appreciated on how to sort this one! Thanks in advance!

Thanks - I'll try another switch tomorrow as well. Could be a dodgy port that is causing the issue. It is very strange that the machien can ping other machines by hostname, but not access resources or the web.

The time etc. looks to be fine with the machines. No services have been disabled - in fact their configuration has been kept intact by HDGuard (similar product to Deep Freeze).

Thanks - will give that a go.

Yes they are. all other clients on the same switch are running fine.

Hiya, Wonder if anyone can advise here? I'm having a problem with a couple of XP clients one our network. Both are unable to access any network resources - despite having correct TCP/IP settings as assigned by our DHCP server. However, they are able to ping machines on the nework by hostname. I've ruled out network card issues - tried both on-board and PCI network adapters. I then tried to take one of the machines off our domain, which went fine. However, when I went to re-join the PC to the domain, I get the following error: "The system call level is not correct" The other machine with a similar issue, which I have not yet removed from our domain brings up a The domain PHONEIx (being our domain name) is not available". Any ideas/solutions would be much appreciated! Cheers, Neil

Ditto - I did have an old Dell OptiPlex running Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003 and IIS for a while in order to host my own website and e-mail server, but after issues with my mail server being treated as a source of spam by Hotmail, Gmail etc, I decided it was too much hassle. I use a Buffalo LinkStation Live 1TB for storage duties, the BT Business hub as my internet gateway/router/wireless access point. The NAS, desktop PC and laptop (when it is at my desk) share a gigabit switch. VMWare Workstation is on the desktop (a Core 2 Dup E8400 with 8GB RAM) and it does the job pretty well for testing OS's. Connectivity is provided by BT Business Broadband and I have a static IP. I get around 7.5mb, which I am pretty pleased with for ADSL. Beats the 1.6mb I got at my last place. I don't miss the extra noise (as the server was in my living room) and hassle of running my own dedicated server. The LinkStation also offers iTunes and DLNA server support as well, should I wish to add a media streamer at a later stage. Currently, I use the second output on my PC's graphics card with my TV and a digital audio connection to my hifi to stream iTunes, iPlayer, Spotify and any other video stuff from the PC.

Not an area of hardware that I admitally know much about, but from what I've seen and read over the years, Wacom tablets seem to be the ones that people go for. They've always had a decent reputation.

The Mac Mini definately has optical out. Use a 3.5mm to TOSLink adapter and run an optical cable from the headphone socket to your TV or amp. Thst's what I have done in the past and it works fine. I actually sent audio digitally to a DAC, as opposed to the Onkyo amp I use, as the PC output is used mainly for music and I preferred the sound. For video duties, a DVI to HDMI cable will do the job perfectly - again I've done this in the past to an Onkyo AV receiver which is connected to my TV (which only has DVI) and this has worked without a problem.

For those that are interested, the Sony is an excellent budget Blu-Ray player. Great picture quality and stunning sound quality - I send the audio to an Onkyo TX-SR606 AV receiver as part of my hifi/home cinema setup to process the audio, as opposed to using the decoder on the player.

The other issue that is more likely to push people towards file sharing is choice of music! I'm sure most of us who have been visiting the likes of HMV for years have noticed the continuous down-sizing of their selection of CDs. This, coupled with the demise of other high-street retailers (Virgin -> Zavvi, Woolies), plus the independants, basically only leaves us with one music retalier on the high-street. I've had to resort to downloading music from iTunes at times, as the CD is simply not available to buy. I have no objections or issues buying music legally - over 600 CDs and 100 LPs are in my collection. I also enjoy the pleasure of browsing in a record store, as well as actually owning a physical CD or LP with the artwork etc. than a bunch of files that sit on my NAS. However, if the retailers and record companies (who also have a habit of deleting albums from their catalogues - or only providing them as expensive imports) effectively reduce choice and availabilty, it is ineveitable that people are going to look to other means of obtaining music. In the past it was cassette, MiniDisc or CD-R - MP3 is simply the latest way of doing this. I also wish artists would release more of their bonus/unreleased tracks which can sometimes only be found on P2P sites or via YouTube - if released officially, there are plenty who would buy. What I do disagree with is the current copyright law regarding fair use. If i've bought music legally - either on CD, Vinyl or in a downloaded format, then one should have the right (for their own personal use only) to legally use this in any format they like - be it a compilation from CDs owned or a recording of a cassette or vinyl on CD-R, MiniDisc or MP3. It isn't really practical to walk down the street with your turntable and listen to your favourite album - which may not have been ever released or be easily available on CD!

Thanks for all the advice thus far. Have checked MS's guidelines and cannot see anything that should be causing the problem. Any other ideas would be much appreciated.

Nope - I have a static IP with the MX record and DNS entries for my domain pointing to it.

Hi all, I've recently set up an old Dell Optiplex running Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003 at home for home file server duties, as well as providing a place to host web/e-mail service for my domain. All was well for about a week or so, then over the last few days, e-mail sent to others seems to get rejected or flagged as spam by recipient mail servers. A friend noticed that when I sent him an e-mail to his Hotmail account, my message got flagged as junk. I have just tested with my Google Mail account and mail that gets sent to there is also flagged as spam. I have checked to see if my domain or IP address is blacklisted using MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online - MxToolbox and all looks well. Does anybody have any ideas as to what the hell could be causing this and how to fix it? Any help is much appreciated! Cheers, Neil

Thanks - will forward outgoing mail via BT's server - sounds like it's the sensible thing to do.

Thanks - my domain is registered with BT, so have contacted them. Not 100% sure what I'm doing, so have asked them to make the changes.

Thanks SYNACK for your reply. Have done some more Googling and it looks like port forwarding, opening up only the relvent ports is the way to go, as opposed to the 'all open' aspects of a DMZ. I definately prefer the secure approach! Alos contacted BT regarding DNS pointers - just awaiting a reply back after filling in the required web form. Have asked them to point mail and web to my static IP. I should have my broadband connection active by next Tuesday - having moved house, so then I can get the router set up and the server install built.

Hiya, Just a couple of quick questions regarding hosting one's own domain with BT Business broadband. I've gone for option 2 with a static IP address and my own domain name. The plan is to host my own website, mail server (MS Exchange) and provide RDP/VPN access to my network. I will be using the router that is supplied as standard with BT Business broadband. My queries are as follows: 1) I will need to put the LAN IP address of the server into the DMZ (De-Militarised Zone) of the router settings 2) I will need to contact BT's help desk to point the zone of my primary domain to the static IP address of my server Do I need to enter any other static IP address settings as part of the Windows Server confirguation or is simply adding the LAN IP address into the router's DMZ enough to get my server talking to the outside world - initially by IP address, then as per question 2 above, once DNS records have propergated? Any advice on the above is much appreciated. Cheers, Neil

For those UK-based, CPC would likely be a decent source for those sort of things.

We've found Dell 3130cn printers to be pretty good. About £330 to buy if I remember correctly and decent running costs. The drivers seem to be fuss-free too, which is a bonus - unlike the finicky Epsons that they replaced.