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Try's Mr G's Computer Club I've been running a lunchtime computer club for nearly 4 years and this is their launch page. Sadly some pages no longer work and quite often get blocked by our proxy server. It needs a bit of an update and tidy up too. NOTE: Subject to change and may well move to another URL in the future. Also try my Game bookmarks on Faviki. Again all subject to change and URL may well move too.

There's now something called BBC iPlayer Desktop. It runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

The Amplifier is a TANGENT AMP100(might be AMP50) Does it matter what electrical sockets all the equipment comes from? How do work out if I will go over 13amps? I have one classroom with: 1 PC 2 Monitor 3 LAN Hub 4 Wi-Fi LAN access point (broadcasts to 2nd half of school) 5 Wi-Fi LAN access point (bridge to main building) 6 VGA Video splitter 7 Scanner (on USB from PC) 8 Amplifier plus connected speakers 10 Interactive whiteboard power supply brick. The cabling for this lot is, erm, a bit chaotic to say the least! Any tips to sort this out would be very welcome? I can't put the cover on the PC as the whiteboard's serial cable is also connected to the power supply brick about 0.75cm from the RS232 socket! (I have now bought a RS232 extension lead so hopefully this will be fixed.) There used to be an ancient laser printer but I've taken it out of the room now.

The PC has two 3.5mm sockets. One inside that is green(G) and one outside that is marked with a headphones(H) icon. I have the following: 1. Dell Optiplex PC 2. A 3.5mm cable that has one black jack and one red jack. 3. An amplifier. Has 4 connections, 2 for the right and 2 for the left. Right and left have one red and one black. 4. Two speaker cables with a jack on one end that splits into two bare wires at the other. Each cable has two wires one of which is marked with a black line. That gives four connections at the amplifier end. 5. The wall socket is marked PC speaker and marked with an L and an R. 6. Video splitter 7. Interactive whiteboard power supply brick. Are the PC sockets G and H the same? If I plug cable(2) direct from the PC(H) into sockets(5) The sound works fine from the speakers above interactive whiteboard. It's just not being loud enough for the classroom. If I plug cable(2) direct to the amplifier. Which input should I use, the choices are DVD, Tuner, CD, AUX1 or AUX2? How do I connect the 2 cables(4) to the wall? I've tried every combination I can think of! Most of the time I either get a high pitched sound, crackle or nothing. In one case get I had one speaker working on the left put but only the right cable was plugged in to the wall socket(5)! Does all equipment(PC, amplifier, PC monitor, video splitter and interactive whiteboard power supply brick) need to come from one power source? There are two sockets on the wall and I have one 4 way extension lead. Is there a diagram somewhere that shows how it should work?

PRS: Educational establishments CEFM: Licensing - PRS for Music: Schools Is it inside your school's curriculum?

We can we buy 30+ headphones possibly with microphones for use in pirmary school. We have a budget of £200. They need to last.

I've been having problems with one of our Dell Latitude 2100's. It just won't connect to our Wi-Fi network. The other two 2100s work fine. I took two home and they both connect but one at a very low speed. The working one always connects at 54Mbs, that other connects at 1 or 2Mbs. At school it will connect if I delete the entry from the DHCP server and take to directly under the Wi-Fi access point. Anyway I've been speaking with Dell technical support and they want me to swap the hard drives over. It means a lot of unscrewing and taking out the keyboard. I'd rather not do that. Is there a way I could take an image of the hard drive and restore the other image from one that works? I have a copy of True Image Home 11.0 on a CD. I also have a spare 2GB USB stick and an external 160GB USB hard drive. Also is there anyway to trace/debug why Windows XP Home won’t connect to a Wi-Fi network?

Some great suggestions. Thank. I've just started to use TreeSize Free to find out where all these files are and how much space they are taking up! I didn't think robocopy could take file extensions: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy]robocopy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

We've run out of space on our back up tape. I want to move off all the multimedia files. I've backed up all our files to our exteranl 1TB drive using robocopy as an end of year backup. I now want to move all the multimedia(.MP3, .MOV, .WMV, .JPG, .AVI) files to another drive but keep the directory structure. Are there any files types I've missed from the list? I also suspect there are loads of duplicate files on the file server. Is there a way to find them? Any ideas?

Have you checked your proxycfg settings? You might need to do a proxycfg -u See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900935 for more details on how "Windows Update client determines which proxy server to use"

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We to have some of those without internal speakers!!! Add the service tag to your "my systems" list on Dell's website and look at the PC's initial config.

There is some good advice at: Data handling security guidance for schools Becta Schools - Data handling security guidance for schools Keeping data secure, safe and legal is a summary document for network managers, senior leaders or staff with a responsibility for securing data. It outlines the key measures organisations should adopt. http://schools.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/information_handling.pdf Dos and Don’ts is a common sense guide that senior leaders can make available to staff to ensure everyone within an organisation knows how they should be helping keep data secure. http://schools.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/data_security_dos_and_donts.pdf Data encryption http://schools.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/data_encryption.pdf Includes information about 17 products including True Crypt Audit logging and incident handling http://schools.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/remote_access.pdf Secure remote access http://schools.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/remote_access.pdf

Yesterday I finished the two day training course for Fronter. I'd love a support group on here.

Well I got it working at long last. I disabled off the WEP on the WAP-4000. The PC connected first time without a password. I enabled the WEP but switched it from "Shared" to "Open" The PC connected with the password. I then looked at the settings in Network.Connections.Wireless.Properties and discovered that there is an option for both "Open" and "Shared" that can be selected. I changed both the PC and the WAP-4000 to "Shared" and it's all working now. It seems that Vista doesn't need that to be done. The PC is current running XP Home SP2 but I suspect without any updated for some time. Can anyone explain "Open" v "Shared" Normally I'd use WPA but the WAP-4000 asks for a Radius server details which we don't have.

If I switch off the WEP key it connects fine.

We have a PC running Windows XP Home that just won't connect to our network. This PC isn't ours as it belongs to the Nursery. To enable them to have net and email access I've been asked to connect it to our wi-fi Network. The PC had no Anti-Virus software (and loads of "issues") So using Sophos I removed the 24 "issues" and Sophos is now working(but unable to update itself.) The Wi-Fi Access Point is a Planet WAP-4000. We're using a WEP with a 26 character HEX key. The USB adapter is Belkin F5D7050 54G USB Wireless Adapter. I've tried Wi-FI confuguration using both the Belikn utility and Windows XP's own configuration. I can see the Network and put the password in but it just refuses to obtain an IP address. The school Wi-Fi network is listed but refuses to connect. My own Windows Vista Home Premium laptop connects with no problems. Any ideas of what to try to do?

Have you tried Tux Paint or Microsoft PhotoStory? Or doing some animations with some webcams and using Windows Movie Maker to create videos. Creating quizes with PowerPoint.

I've run lunchtime computer club for the last 3 years in Y3, Y4 and Y5. The children can do want they want subject to being sensible. In the past after school we've done a series of using Word and PowerPoint plus doing a little work with the DigitalBlue cameras. At my other school we done a lot with Microsoft PhotoStory. I've just finished 6 weeks with Y2 doing an animation club. We bought some webcams and I used Microsoft Movie Maker to import all the photos and create a video from them. After half term I'm doing the same with Y5. I'd quite like to do some work with Scratch too. Maybe with Y6.

In reception we use 2Paint and 2Publish. As a reward and if there is time Simple City always goes down well.