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Also not exactly what your after but if you have FOG in your school (An imaging program like ghost) you can use that to change the screen resolution.

Could just be a shot in the dark here but I remember when I was trying to resize my partitions at home I had; 1) Windows -NTFS 2) Ubunu - EXT4 3) SUSE - EXT3 4) SWAP - partition for both the Linux OSs and I chucked in a live disk to try and shuffle them around and I couldn't then I found that the live disk had mounted the SWAP partition and effectively locked the drive so I had to swap off and unmount the drive first.

I've also 'heard' that Google just use 'bazillions' cheep/almost free desktops instead of real servers but I think that its just an urban myth... There is a good video here of a Google data center, one of many apparently... I don't see any cheep old PC's there though

Hi all, We host our school website (basically the Edugeek Joomla template ) on site and we recently moved from hosting on an old Linux box to a new server running Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7. I was having issues getting PHP to install/work so I used the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. I got the site up and running but now ldap authentication doesn’t work at all. If I even enable it I can’t sign in with a local account. I just get a “500 Internal Server Error”. The only way to go back in is to edit the sql database to change the ldap plug in to disabled. I have looked around and some post say to edit the php.ini file and uncomment a section, but when I look the line to uncomment is not there… Dose any one know how to get PHP working with LDAP when installed from Microsoft Web Platforms? Or am I going to have to uninstall it and install PHP ‘properly’? Also on a side note dose any one know of a good plug-in that allow students (ldap users) to log in and get a page with the contents of a shared folder? One of the teachers wants to be able to put work up on the website so students that are sick/away can download it, not looking for a full on VLE just wanting to host a few work sheets. Cheers

You might want to check you services and see if 'messenger' is running? I have a feeling it’s disabled by default, I'm sure you could change that on all your computers with a GPO though.

Four in Hand for every day work, Windsor for special occasions...

You can have a lab of computers with the same (or very similar) hardware and push the same image to all of the at once with multicast and they will all run through a setup and get their own unique names and then be joined to the domain and placed in the correct OU.

Controluser Password2 is a good one too, not so much for networked domain computers but if you want a home computer to log in without asking for a password.

Hi all, I recently decided that our current FOG ‘server’ (old P4, 512mb PC with a 500 GB HDD) needed replacing and I had an no name server that was free so I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Server and FOG 0.29 on it, copied our images across and exported the hosts. It all went smoothly but then I got a call this morning saying that a lab of computers wouldn’t boot when I went to look load up the PXE Linux fine, with the ascii art thing that says FOG but then go to “booting from local hard disk” and freeze. They won’t even reboot when I hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete. I can hit esc to skip PXE and they boot with out issues so I removed PXE boot form our DHCP scope for now but I can’t work out why they won’t boot? All the other PCs in the school are fine and they did work when we had 0.28 on Ubuntu 9.10 Server, I have tried to update the kernel to newer and older versions (using the Tab under About>Kernel updates) but had no luck getting them going. Any ideas would be appreciated.

The dll "d3dx9_35.dll" is part of Direct X 9, maybe the game detected a newer version of Direct X (v10) when it was beeing installed and skipped the file? You can try to install Direct X 9 again either from the game disk (Many disks will have a folder called Direct X with the install files in there) or you can download the install from the Microsoft website. Alternatively you can just download the dll and place it in the directory you installed the game (But be carefull some the the "Download dll" sites are dodgy).

Not exactly what you are looking for but if I was going to replace a server and I wanted a snapshot I would use VMware vSphere. If you get the free 60day trial you can take a snapshot on a live 2003 server and make it into a .vdi file. Then if you want to load it up later you can use Sun Virtual Box or any other free/open source virtual machine software.

I just saw a link in the bottom left corner that I could swear wasn't there before that says "Remove background Image" but maybe I overlooked it because it would have been white text on white background.

I'm not really sure where to put this, but what do other people think of the new Google home page? Personally I think it's Google trying to dress up like Bing and I don't like it. One of the things that I like about Google is its simple home page. Not cluttered like Yahoo or with random backgrounds like Bing. On a Side note dose anyone know how to get the "classic" look back? I saw I could change the background to white so I did that but the text (Google logo and advanced search and so on) is all in white too still so thats not great.

I am surprised no one has recommended using Wisesoft's Password Control? Its very easy, with big colourfull buttons and dosnt give the users much they can mess up. We use it to get the Library staff to reset student passwords. www.wisesoft.co.uk

I can't see why not, are you using Grub 2.0 boot loader? or the Windows XP one?