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I had 8 Red Bulls to do an all-nighter at university once. It wasn't nearly enough!

LOL for Irony? I don't know about Grommit, but THAT line from you *IS* trolling. If theres anything on here that can cause a really nasty reaction among the people on here it's about BSF and how its going to screw everyone over.

That TUPE vid is propaganda at its finest. How does one exactly transfer the exact same local government pension scheme really? RM are a private company, they're not local government. I smell lies.

The 404 page found on dirk-hoeschen.de HERE!

Doesn't quite work for me (because your regex doesn't allow for ip addresses that aren't all triple digits), although ([0-9]{0,3}\.){3}([0-9]{0,3}) does. This will match any IP address, but isn't 100% valid because it can include addresses like 300.562.24.999 which obviously aren't valid Assuming you have a regex engine to filter with of course!

The easiest option is to make them both the same network and have one as a second domain controller. The next easiest option is to keep them as two entire seperate networks. However, to have a 'two seperate networks, but not really GUV' type scenario I think what you want is a trust relationship between a couple of domains. I'm a bit sketchy on the details since I've never done it before. I don't think a trust relationship synchs users as such though but may do authentication type things for you, like I said, not my area of expertise.

Not sure what ejay needs permission wise, it may worth being isolating a test machine and trying things such as allowing write access to things like the folder ejay installs to, or some such stuff. Ejay is probably made without administrative levels in mind so (stupidly) assumes that everyone is admin, so either allow everyone with high access level (not recommended) or try and find out just what priv needs to be poked and work around that.

We don't use activsync or anything like that, just basic OWA access to their email. The systems not fully in place yet (the majority are still using easymail) but we hope to roll over soon! I don't think we'll have much problem with firewalls or the like, it's just knowing which domain name to register the certificate for since theres so many blasted domains in the equation

It's all about getting the hits. If they truely obscured the answers then the goog spider would definitely drop them off the bottom of the list. Still it could be worse, from what I hear they used to get a lot of hits from people looking for an expert sex change until they changed their domain name slightly

Gahhh! Okay so here's the problem: We've set up exchange and got outlook web access and all that lovely stuff. We've made our own temporary certificate which of course makes IE scream 'ITS DANGEROUS JIM, DONT CLICK IT'. Of course, everyone must accept the certificate in order to get into their mail. Well, I've been tasked in getting a genuine certificate for the server to shut up this message, except I'm not entirely sure of: a) What certificate to get *exactly* b) How to go about installing it (although this is not the big kicker). Here's our incredibly fubar setup: Our Internal Mail Server uses a smart host at SWGfL for delivery. Our outfacing website (.org) REDIRECTS to a subdomain of our SWGfL website (.sch.uk) which is bound to the IP of our OWA webserver. Our email addresses all use the domain name of the outfacing website. RIGHT! So what certificate must we install onto our mail server in order to have it all work from our .org site? Do I use the domain name of the .org, or the .sch.uk or something else? *headache* Many thanks in advance.

What a shame Theres lots of fun to be had around a school if you have the time for it and look for it, mostly in the Arts departments though . I'd get myself on the drum kits in music and break out some beats if I had the time for it (haven't played for a while now!

Exactly: "Hi, I'm from your ISP. We're having severe connection problems today. It could take us the good part of the day to fix, sorry for the Inconvenience". What's that? Network down? Oh boo-hoo!

Go to the Gym, practice some squash, or basketball or some other activity to keep yourself amused for a while.

Generally, contacting the developer of the game won't get you much info, it's the Publishers who publish the game that hold all of those sorts of cards. Generally speaking unless stated otherwise in the EULA that comes with the game (and typically on the disc itself) the game is a per-client arrangement. Therefore, if they want it on the network they will have to buy multiple copies of said game. As for public playing of games, I would approach an Internet Cafe and see what their take is on it. Many Internet Cafes generally allow for playing of games, it'dd be interesting to see if they suffer the same issues. But I would take up all your argument with the publisher of the game, since they're more likely to respond since game publishers are mainly marketing and legal bods. Personally I don't see them having a problem with you using it for Educational purposes. After all, you're not making a commercial gain from their game, so that just leaves you with the public/private thing. That said, You saw it on Commercial TV right? So what are *they* doing to broadcast this game across the nation?

I should write a compiler for this!

You'dd probably stand a much stronger argument by presenting fact in a concise and easy to read manner to inform people as to what BSF is, and what the potential advantages and disadvantages of it really are. By making up stories people (political numbnuts) can just point and say 'none of it is true' and actually be technically correct by saying so.

Crimson Editor and a whole bunch of google-based training on HTML.

We were outsourced to a company with regard to our website despite having extensive in-house expertise to do exactly the same at much less expense. Yes, we do outsource but no, we don't agree with the decision.

£150 for a meeting? Sorry, no can do, it's a significant chunk of my monthly wage instantly gone.

It does, thanks. It sounds like a slightly different to the scenario presented by BSF though. With BSF even 'Company A' gets taken over, which is a baffling move to be sure!

Never thought about it. But knowing me, probably the benny hill theme!

That sort of sounds like an additional tier ontop of an existing LT to me? Or am I misunderstanding that?

Did someone say EduGeek Party? Lets boogie!

I wasn't suggesting that and it would probably be just as poor an idea as outsourcing technical staff. However, purely from a BOFH standpoint I like the way you think!

What you've just said strengthens my argument. Management generally override a lot of NM's, undermining their expertise and knowledge, and only the most fortuanate are able to get onto the LT. It is not exactly like every NM can insist to their LT that they should be their equal and on the LT too, and chances are a lot of NM's would be laughed at for the mere suggestion. One could argue a managed service will not allow a LT to do this however it is still not an ideal solution and would still punish those that want and CAN make a difference. What's really needed is a serious shakeup of school management. Appointments of ICT Managers (not just a random Teacher) who have strong understanding from both the Technical and the Educational side of things and put in place guidelines, policies and targets that must be met and adhered to, providing a measurable outcome from the end of it all. Spending huge amounts of taxpayer money for someone else to deliver the ICT provision just trades one set of problems for another and doesn't really help solve anything. A LT that doesn't give a damn about Technology and doesn't utilise anything the NM offers is still not going to with a Managed Service. A Managed service can throw technology at a school until they're blue in the face, it doesn't stop the school from using Typewriters instead. This isn't a problem with network managers or technicians, this is a management problem within schools and doesn't seem to be addressed with BSF whatsoever.