SteveR

I wouldn't be happy and would feel like I am being taken for a ride if I'm honest. You would be taking on more of a workload and have nothing to show for it. Join a union and seek their advice (anyone that works in a school should be in a union.)

Cheers TopBanana they look to be quite rugged. Looks like I will need to purchase separate Win7 Pro licenses as all the netbooks I have seen only come supplied with XP Home or Win7 Starter.

We are looking to purchase 15 netbooks running Windows 7 Professional. I have my eye on the Samsung NC10 but am aware that it is quite an old model now. Any recommendations? Many thanks!

Thanks all for the replies. I have been running papercut NG on a trial basis and have to say it works amazingly well, our printer use has fallen like a stone and staff members are now more careful what they print. Great stuff!

I already have the mono set to default.. to be fair it is the staff doing the colour printing more than the pupils. Interesting.. A couple of months ago I rang dell to order toner for our 3130cn and when I got to the printer consumables phone system I was greeted by a recorded telephone message redirecting me to a company called Leco Computer Supplies LTD and told me I can place orders from there. We have been approached by a company looking to sell us multi functional printers but to be honest I am not sure where we would put them if we decided on going down that route. How do you enforce the 20 page limit to staff?

I work in a large primary school with 600 pupils and like most primary schools we love printing in colour. We were on a lease contract with a company a few years back that supplied us with a colour Konica printer and toner at a reduced price, but they increased their toner costs after a year or so and we looked else where. At the moment we have a Dell 3130cn which is 8 months old and worryingly the cost of printing from this printer is starting to rise and now is standing at £500 to replace all toner with 9k capacity cartridges. This seems like an alarming cost because in 2 months time I will have to reorder the toner all over again. Working it out is probably around £4000 a year we spend just on supplying toner to this one printer. Would like some feedback on what you are using in your school for high usage colour printing with sensible running costs. Thanks

Never mind done it now! What a hassle to get this going it needed three registry changes Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Slideshow] "PaintInterval"=dword:00000000 "ChangeInterval"=dword:000088b8 "DisplayFilename"=dword:00000000 "MaxScreenPercent"=dword:00000064 "DisableTransitions"=dword:00000000 "AllowStretching"=dword:00000000 "AllowKeyboardControl"=dword:00000001 "MaxFailedFiles"=dword:000003e8 "MaxSuccessfulFiles"=dword:00010000 "MaxDirectories"=dword:000000c8 "ImageDirectory"="LOCATION OF PHOTOS FOLDER" [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Screen Saver.Slideshow] "PaintInterval"=dword:00000000 "ChangeInterval"=dword:00007530 "DisplayFilename"=dword:00000000 "MaxScreenPercent"=dword:00000064 "DisableTransitions"=dword:00000000 "AllowStretching"=dword:00000000 "AllowKeyboardControl"=dword:00000001 "MaxFailedFiles"=dword:000003e8 "MaxSuccessfulFiles"=dword:00010000 "MaxDirectories"=dword:000000c8 "ImageDirectory"="LOCATION OF PHOTOS FOLDER" [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "ScreenSaverIsSecure"="0" "ScreenSaveTimeOut"="300" "ScreenSaveActive"="1" "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="LOCATION OF PHOTOS FOLDER"

Back again This is driving me mad. I discovered that XP uses a different screen saver for the logon, named logon.scr I have tracked down the reg entry for logon.scr from this page How to change the Windows Logon screen saver in Windows XP and made the changes to point the logon screen saver to ssmypics.scr After doing this the slide show screensaver does activate on the logon screen however I am faced with an error of "No pictures found in C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\my documents. This is confusing because I have already configured ssmypics.scr in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ to point to the network share. Any help would be appreciated

Care to fill me in with a bit more info? I am in regedit and checking the settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/control panel/ I can see the other screen saver entries but not slideshow saver, not sure how to go about this if I can't find the entry. Thanks EDIT: Nevermind I got it now!

I want to setup all our workstations with the photo slide show screen saver and have the screen saver load the photos from a central location on the network. We have XP boxes and server 2003. I have came across this: How to create a domain-wide slideshow screensaver GPO by using pictures on each local machine ? : gpo, screensaver, pictures But it doesn't make too much sense to me Thanks for any help

I came across this surprising article stating that the first look of the ion2 has revealed it slower than the current ion! Nvidia Ion 2 GPU Benchmarked As Slower Than Its Predecessor - ion 2 - Gizmodo I've had my R3610 for a few days now and loving it! I still need to install Windows 7 but having too much fun with XBMC Live.

Looks like a great setup! I bet you don't need to have the AC on so high aswell! How well do they handle flash video? - Have you needed to upgrade or tweak flash player?

Let us know how you get on with the evaluation unit, may I ask where you are getting one from?

The atom CPU is comparable to a Pentium M - a processor from 2003. Any Pentium 4 will smash an atom! So those that are looking to replacing there P4 machines in the hope that they will be as fast will be disappointed. That aside the appealing thing about these Revo's are their size and tiny power consumption. What helps the Revo is the Nvidia ION graphics which is able to do [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA]CUDA[/ame] a technology that uses the graphics processor to take the pressure off the atom CPU. Because of this the Revo is able to do full HD 1080p playback, something which the Atom CPU alone would never be able to handle. Flash also now supports the ION chipset meaning the Revo will be able to handle flash content better. I would avoid the Veriton N260G it does not have the ION graphics, something which I think is a must. I am eying up a Revo to be used at home for a media PC running XBMC. I keep swaying between the dual core and single core versions of the Revo. Just can't make up my mind! I would want to dual boot into Windows 7, which I think could do with having dual core. It is said that there is a 20% increase in performance with the R3610 dual core but is about £60 more.. having 2GB of the instead of 1GB would also be handy. How is the performance of the single core R3600 in windows 7 drewp? When you say it runs OK is it a tad sluggish?

It appears they are using portable versions of limewire and other p2p software. I agree with you that disciplinary action is needed, shall leave that for the head to deal with though.