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HAHA Exactly! We were exactly like that and for about a year we continually explained it was the fault of the wireless. Finally the management caved in (once the rest of the staff started echoing what we were saying) and they ended up giving us the funds to do it properly.

Officially by the textbook we are to turn off all machines in the local area (all ~150). In reality: We get out, and we get out fast. Survival is far more important than any amount of PC equipment.

Aww too bad I do PHP / C++ and not perl.

One of these adverts crashed my browser too! LOL

At our school I wrote my own piece of PHP software to sit on the webserver to dish up files to people from home. Essentially, to use our site they must login (hooked into LDAP) and from there the webserver hooks up to our file server to dish up files they requested / upload files to their home drive. Definitely not supplying the source code for that one though

lol omg wtf! btw fwiw iirc, acronyms are ftw tbh! roflmao

Becta recommend 150:1 if your school is pretty solid in terms of ICT And the staff pretty confident in using it, up to MORE than one tech per 50 machines if the school is full of numpties and failing ancient equipment... Becta Schools - Resources - Managing staff - How many ICT technicians do you need?

LOL @ Spammage. Anyhow, it seems we have a number now so we can start setting this stuff up

Thanks for the info, i'll see if I can find my way into this doobery. RE: E164 number, we don't have one (that we know of) although RM are taking over fifty centuries to get back to us....

Heavy Player of Guildwars here, although I also play Spore. Spore: YuTakami Guild Wars: Yu Takami Since people are listing... Level 20 Elementalist (26 maxed titles). Level 20 Monk (11 maxed titles). Level 20 Ranger Level 20 Warrior (Still in Pre-Searing) Level 20 Warrior (Legend Survivor) Level 20 Paragon (Legend Survivor) Level 20 Ritualist (Legend Survivor) Level 20 Assassin Level 20 Mesmer Level 20 Necro Level 20 Dervish Storage Mules: Level 20 Ranger [upgrades] Level 20 Ele [unique items] Monk [minipets] Monk [armour] Assassin [unique items] So yeah... if you're stuck I can probably muscle my way through whatever it is

How did you get it all set up? We're kinda befuddled at the moment as to what ports, addresses and thingies we need to get this rolling, plus we're not entirely sure how to test it works e.t.c. as we've been lumped the kit and have absolutely no indication on what to do to get it going

Shirt and Tie here, though I'd prefer Jeans + T-Shirt if I could since our line of work pretty much has us crawling under desks and the like half the time. Also protective headgear to save us from the chewing gum under the tables! YUCK!

CTRL+A SHIFT+DEL ENTER. =D

Hmm Weirdness, is the page in the right encoding? (Right click the page, or view menu in Internet Explorer -> Encoding -> Japanese (Auto) if showing Japanese) failing that, I can't think of much more. If you want to test that your fonts installed correctly, you can download the attached test document which I've prepared that lets you see if you can render Chinese, Japanese and Korean, if you've got problems reading this, then theres a problem with your Language installation, if not then it's probably something else. Encoded in UTF-8 test.txt

Something is hardly 'from scratch' if you're simply compiling source code that's already been written for you.... That source code is already a great deal of design and programming right there. All you do is type "make". No brownie points there imho! Although to be fair, congratulations on having a student that can actually compile code and possibly do the odd tweak here and there, but sorry it's not really from ground up. It's like having the source code of Microsoft Windows XP, Compiling it, changing a few theme things and claiming you've made a new operating system. You've not. As for coding for virtual machines (not strictly an OS), not done so but cannot comment, might be possible, then again it might not. Certainly, if you're developing from the ground up something like the XBOX or PS2/3 is likely more simple to develop an OS for than say a PC purely because the hardware is of limited selection (you only have to support a limited subset of devices). Imagine a network running on XBOXES

You will need to install Chinese and Korean languages for Windows XP. To do this: Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options On the Languages Tab ensure Install files for complex script... is ticked and Install files for East Asian languages is ticked. You may need to reboot at this point, but apply and windows will go and install stuff. After a reboot go back in, and check the Advanced Tab, if Japanese, Chinese e.t.c. are not selected, ensure they're selected e.t.c. Apply, Restart and you will be able to see the scripts that you want. Additionally, if they need to INPUT in these languages you can set up the IME's from the Details... button on the Languages tab. As for Vista, it probably comes with unicode/language packs pre-installed, just not the IME's. Hope that helps!

You've not heard about reading then? Sure, Linux is one of our more favourite Open Source OS's out there. But in the context of my original post: Open source operating systems are written by a great deal of talented designers, programmers and system architects. They are carefully designed in order to tackle the problems as I outlined above, and each person does their bit to just a small section of the overall product. My post was discussing the sheer scale of things that need to be considered to actually make an operating system, commercial or otherwise. It is no trivial thing to 'knock up' an OS, but I never said it was impossible. If it was impossible, we would not even be chatting on here today

To write an OS from scratch you have an immense amount of work on your hands. You need a thorough understanding of C/C++/Assembler and how hardware works and you will need to cover all kinds of things including: The Kernel of the OS. Writing a bootloader and all the fun that goes into dropping it into the bootsector. Writing support for a massive range of hardware devices and enable them to work with your OS (Drivers e.t.c. for anything you can possibly throw in the box, literally millions of devices). Write a filesystem, or make your OS work with existing filesystems (ex2,fat,ntfs e.t.c.). Handle network operations to support existing protocols (TCP/IP, UDP e.t.c). This, and thousands more things are required to DESIGN an OS. You need to account for absolutely EVERYTHING before you start even coding anything. Once you have a solid idea on what to do, you need people to make it happen. Writing anything other than a crude simple limited OS for specific hardware will require a vast amount of time and work. Even then, with all that designing and coding you will need to test everything thoroughly and procede. I've not even touched the surface of the water with things an OS needs. Security, look + feel, customisability, e.t.c. An OS is an immense piece of software, this is why people work on them collaboratively and each work on a small chunk of it.

Strongly disagreeing with teaching creationism unless it is made painfully apparent that this is what some people BELIEVE and not necessarily what ACTUALLY happened. It certainly doesn't belong in a Science lesson.

A PHP Solution: To use: link to PlayVideo.php?playfile=yourvideofilehere.wmv PlayVideo.php classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701' standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>

What was it replaced with in HTML 4.01? I mean, the draft for HTML 5 appears to only have shown up today on the w3c.... So really pretty much most web browsers are gonna handle HTML 4.01 in the real world, and it is rare to fully remove deprecated functionality within two or three major versions.

This is because your browser seems to have an embedded thing for word docs (eww). IF what you're asking for is for a download prompt for the word document rather than have it appear in-browser, attempt the PHP below (passing in the path to the file and filename) and see what happens with that. The header is what defines if the file downloads or if it shows up embedded in the browser, setting this up right (my script may need tweaking as necessary) will force a download rather than display it in-browser. If you REALLY want the word document to show up in another window, you will need to ensure the link to it include target="_blank" as others have mentioned. I see no reason why this wouldn't work as the launch target is always triggered before the url in the href parameter is passed. Here's my PHP Code for manually dishing up files. Be sure that this code is the ONLY thing that runs on a page (i.e. make a download.php and hook in the file to download e.g.: Download("c:\mydoc.txt","mydoc.txt"); Any whitespace that is additionally exported (or indeed any html) will corrupt the file. function urlcode($stringname) { return str_replace(" ","%20",str_replace("'","%27",$stringname)); } function Download($f_location,$f_name) { header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($f_location)); // MSIE doesn't play ball, it requires spaces to be %20 if (eregi("MSIE",$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) { header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . urlcode(basename($f_name)) . '"'); } else { header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . basename($f_name) . '"'); } readfile($f_location); }

We use LAMP here, developed ground up by myself including CMS and so on

I would create a virtual machine for all of this and deploy the image / VM software around.

Technically not valid as you don't return a value when you exit the main function with a declaration of main as having an int return value (Although may compile depending on the compiler used). I would reduce like so: #include void main(){ if(printf("Hello World\n")){} }