phil_thebeans

yeah thought you'd like that, can't stay for any more banter as thanks to that last spawny shot from Croatia I'm about to have a f**ckin heart attack

not the good part obviously

See all you unbelievers look what happens when you believe, ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND come on come on come on

Yeah that's right you fully fledged geeks take the piss out of a wounded animal, have some respect and belive anything is possible. Get behind your country!

Check out the other forums to see at least 2 reasons to move away from RM (ks3 online testine and RMEasymail) Buy a new server we recently bought several rack mounted Dell Poweredge 2950, brilliiant kit we got 3 times 73 Gb hard drives, 4 Gb of RAM and 2 quad core Xeon processors all for £2.5k per server they are lightning fast and the best thing is all the technical support (if needed) is UK based.

I love RM easymail! it is often so slow that emails can take up to a couple of hours they (RM) are forever trying to improve it when the reality is that they did not consider the amount of users and the usage when originally providing it for our LEA. This latest example of RM just goes to show how s**t a company they are they are only interested in the bottom line and sewing up all of education with their products. HURRAH for Easymail, HURRAH for KS3 online testing. This latest outage (or should that be outrage) will allow me to convince SMT to go with running our own Exchange server and abandoning this highly unreliable service. It is interesting to note that our own LEA at county hall do not use RMEasymail, can't think why not.

Hello anyone got an idea why my HP 4108gl switch randomly rebooted a couple of times yesterday? I have temporary misland the admin password so will be unable to check logs untill I locate passwords.

Cheers I hadn't been told that by ICT Solutuions, surprise surprise

Yes we are using the active directory version. The problem with neoteris as i understand it is that it only allows access to folders and we want complete remote access to all our systems

Hi all just thought I'd give a different side to the winsuite experience. The early versions were the most awful piece of dodgy software ever built but the latest version is as far as we have experienced very reliable and significantly reduces our tech time as we give all students the exact same desktop plus 1 for adulted, 1 for staff and one for the 6th form. Although I would prefer to go down the vanila route I inherited the system and haven't been able to convince management that there would be a great benefit to the users as unfortunately there is very little concern for our students to experience a real world setup, however the new ICT coordinator is as keen as me to give the kids a taste of what they will encounter when they leave school. So no RM crap or specialist software that they will never encounter we are trying to change their experience so as to prepare them for corparate networks etc. Thank god that the online ks3 testing is not now compulsory as we shall hopefully never put our kids through those poorly designed tests, oh and guess who is behind them RM isn't it? Our local lea (norfolk) has consistently made the wrong decisions regarding hardware for example Tiny, then Elenox (really badly built switches on their desktops and the power supplys failed after less than 18 months, we had to replace over 50%) broadband is a last becomibg reliable although the speeds are poor in comparision to a leased line (for obvious reasons, contention) no remote access to our network for myself or my techie and the caching server they gave us is so noisy that we have had to house it in a remote cupboard ( although we have now decommissioned it as we are useing our own proxy as we had always done) OK sorry for digressing into a rant about my lea but i'm sure all the norfolk techies could agree on some if not all points and as a final dig at the lea i'll leave you with 2 words ICT SOLUTIONS.

We are using software called Webmarshall that allows all browsing to be monitored and also allows for the filtering of content. This product is excellent and allows you to assign users to certain groups eg full access to sys admins and limited accessto the employee who continues to access non business sites, all is highly customisable and can be tailored to meet you requirements. The logs are searchable and will produce queried reports on access and usage. The product is easy to setup and can be used instantly with little configuration , we have ours installed on our proxy and the users are imported from active directory so you can use them in their already assigned groups or add them to new specific webmarshal groups. There is even a real time active sessions window (very handy for on the spot checks) this software is good value for money and very customisable I would highly recommend it.

Full time and my technician is term time plus 2 weeks although when it is possible I get him some overtime for holiday work. Hey linuxgirlie we also get the "did you have a nice holiday" no because unlike you Mr Teacher we actually dont get 13 weeks paid holiday a year and still find time to grumble about the hours.

Managed to get rid of all except 5 machines that we have to use W98 on as RM successmaker is on them and the version we have wont run on anything else (upgrade is £200 per machine). If it aint broke why fix it?

I don't believe we do which is why we are looking at the alternatives. Ben As I understand it Norfolk LEA will not provide funding if you withdraw from E2BN. How are you going to find the money for a similar speed connection (do you have 8Mb?) or are you going to run a seperate line because apparently that will breach the conditions of your aggreement with E2BN?