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I would be interested in hearing views from people using fronter, its one thing ive noticed from being involved in it is that there really isn't anyone showing off the sites like people do with Moodle, i guess because of the password needed to enter the sites. How has anyone found the administration of the site? It seems overly complicated to perform small tasks atm IMHO.

Have you tried using the Super Grub disk to either repair the grub install or manually find the right drive to mount? Is it a multi boot system or a system installed with Wubi at all? Super Grub disk is on the ultimate boot cd or you can download from their site.

Windows 7 really is a huge step up from Vista, in terms of speed and the functions available. I acutally havent used Vista since I installed Windows 7 as its more stable and faster than Vista and has some slight GUI advantages, which I do tend to use a lot and miss when I come to work and im using my damn awful celeron 1.5 with 512mb RAM (only just upgraded from 256) with XP pro and SO much RM stuff its unreal lol. At home i use a Q6600 with 4gb RAM

Its native res is 720p meaning it may be able to "do" 1080p but it will be downscaled which im guessing is what RabbieBurns wants to avoid.

You need to edit a file in the etc/apache2/sites-available, called default i believe, in there you should see a reference to var/www that is just the root folder of your virtual apache host, change that to whatever directory path your new site is located in. for example the file will look like (but with a lot more in the centre) DocumentRoot var/www ServerName http://www.schoolname.bham.sch.uk The document root (in bold here) is the one you want to edit with the directory you need it to refer to. /var/www/joomla I have tested this on my machine at home and it works with no issues, you can also add subdomains ie vle.schoolname.bham.sch.uk etc if your DNS server will able to forward wildcards. Below is the article I used to learn these parts of Apache2, its pretty simple when you get your head round it! VirtualHost Examples - Apache HTTP Server

I think thats the reason you would be re-imaging that pc so often I used to work in PC World (don't laugh) and it caused no end of problems with the lower end pcs reducing them to a crawl!

We also need Blackberry's setting up with Outlook mail!! Having issues with the interface being somewhat clunky let alone connecting it in any way! Feel like I have fat fingers now lol From what I have read you are correct about some software being required on the server side. Has anyone been successful at getting anything other than OWA working with one of these devices?

This program is some of the best freeware available, the support for custom plugins is amazing too have been using it for a while now and its quick and simple to use. We are using irfanview here for batch processing tho, reducing those 20meg bmps people love to create

Have you used it yet? It actually seems very stable so far, and for a beta the speed and reliability rival the released OSes. Since its built on the foundation of Vista a lot of hardware seems to work with it out the box and the improvements in speed are huge.

I have been using Fronter so far at my school, have to say the interface seems to be rather clumsy, not very easy to navigate either. Has anyone else experienced it? Moodle has been the best ive tried its simple and the interface is much easier to use and on a def plus its free

I had that prob with teamspeak on Vista, have u tried running it with elevated privaledges? Worked on the beta of vista when i first tried it :s

W7 has been great on my home PC, been running it as the main os since the day it came out! Surprised me how much quicker it was than Vista but still looks as good. The ribbon at the bottom takes some getting used to for sure but the jump lists are really useful and integration of touch and the other gestures to the GUI do really make it stand out. Ive found the half maximise functions great for doing coursework with a PDF open on one side and Openoffice on the other. It found all my drivers on the PC and has managed to update the GFX card and others without a restart which is also a nice change! Media center has had a facelift which is great and now seems to work with my analogue and digital input at the same time. Seems good atm hopefully they dont ruin it before its released!!