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Couldn’t agree more with both the above statements. Your site it very impressive pazman and shows it is possible to build something decent with Uniservity. It does however underline the three most important things about a VLE; Content, Content, Content. It does not matter how good (or expensive) the underlying platform is, if the content is poor it will not be used. My biggest gripe with Uniservity is that it is hosted off site. We have nearly a terabyte of student data on our servers. Imagine if that is all placed into “e-portfolios” that can only be accessed via a broadband link! Our LEA has bought into Uniservity and I understand are looking at giving schools 1GB links so they can cope! Fortunately we have a very good SMT who consult with and listen to their staff; we are looking at alternative solutions.

With regard to student CALs. I was told some time ago that they were allocated to a single student and were not transferable. i.e we would need to by a CAL for each new year 7 students every year. Can anybody clarify this. Many thanks.

We combined our two networks last summer. All we did is move the SIMS server onto the new domain and used the same drive mapping. As we do not use trusted authentication SIMS does not care where it is. During testing, we found we could actually connect across domains (from our test domain to the old admin domain), as long as we had a DNS lookup for the SIMS server.

I always knew I was different, but it appears there are others just like me!

We had an interesting fault today. Our Anycomms link stopped working. As we have just moved everything onto a new domain, my first thought was DNS, but Anycomms was set up with an IP address. Next I blamed the county end of the link, we always seem get coincidences like this when we change anything significant. However they seemed to think their end is OK. I am inclined to believe them now days, their service and support has vastly improved over the last 18 months. We are still getting the internet, but out of desperation I try and log onto the router, but I can’t. Odd! Next I try to ping the router, I can’t do that either, but I am still getting the internet, really odd. I unplug the router and leave it for a minute, plug it back in but still cannot ping it. I dig out an old laptop and connect directly to the router, still can’t ping. I Put the laptop onto default sub-net for the router (maybe it has been reset) but still nothing. I dig out the configuration for the router (it was installed before my time) and notice that the subnet mask for the LAN side is 255.255.248.0 (the same as the WAN). This is strange as we use the 10.*.*.* IP range with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 however I now have a lead. The Proxy server is obviously working so I check it, this has a sub-net mask of 255.255.0.0 on both ports! I now have a pretty good idea of what has happened but it does not make sense. When we installed the new domain we set up two new DHCP servers and increased the range of IP addresses that are issued. IT appears that even though the LAN side of the router is on a different subnet to the rest of the network, it can see anything in the 10.0.1.0 to 10.0.7.255 range. Now that we’ve changed the DHCP scope, the workstations (including the Anycomms PC) are getting IP address outside this range and so cannot see the router. They can still see the Proxy server and so can get to the internet. I set the IP address of the laptop to 10.0.0.3 and I could now connest to the router and changed the sub-net mask on the LAN side, everything is now working as it did before. I always believed that sub-net side of an IP address needed to be identical in order for two hosts to see each other, however it appears that if the least significant bits are set to 0 they are ignored. Is this a bug or a feature?

Really!!!

Your absolutely right, it would take you a minute to do two laps at an average speed of 120Mph but it already took you a minute to do the first lap. Most people come up with 180mph reasoning that 180+60 is 240 and dividing it by the two laps giving 120mph. What they have done is taken the average of two averages. In my RAF days we used to produce monthly statistics for the number of engines damaged by foreign objects (FOD, a significant problem for jet engines). At the end of the year the management produced their annual FOD report with an exceptionally low number of incidences per 1000/flying hrs. It looked all wrong to us, we had calculated a much higher figure. It took us a while to work out what was going on, but as you can probably guess, they had averaged out our monthly figures that were themselves averages. We pointed this out and gave them the correct data. We were of course totally ignored, it wouldn’t have reflected well on them if they had published the higher figure.

That is a very good expination Bat looks like I was completely wrong. Having had a little think it would appear you are actually betting on what Monty is left with after your first choice, there is a 2/3 chance of him being left with a goat and a car in which case he must leave the car. Andy the answer to the race track problem is not 180mph!

Here’s another maths problem that is counter intuitive. Suppose you drive one lap of a 1 mile race track at an average speed 60mph. How fast would you have to drive on your second lap to complete both laps at an average speed of 120 mph?

I agree with Jake. It is similar to the coin tossing misconception. The probability of throwing two heads in a row is 1 in 4. Now suppose the first coin is a head, people assume the chances of getting the second head is still 1 in 4, however there can only be two possible outcomes for the second throw, therefore the chances of getting two head in a row is now 1 in 2. The odds have changes because you know the outcome of the first throw. When Monty opens a door you will know the position of one of the goats, at this point there are only two possible outcomes, the odds have changed and you now have a 1 in 2 chance of getting the car, it doesn’t matter if you change your mind.

In the list you can see if the users have read or write access, if they only have read it is safe to kick them off. (The majority of our staff only have read access anyway.)

We also tried it, it did not work.

Yes better than I expected as it gives folder sizes and last modified dates. There is no documentation, on my first couple of runs it failed because it ran out of rows. You need to be careful how many sub-directories levels you enter (-1 appears to be all of them), I also un-checked the 'list files' box. It can take a while to scan, It made me late leaving work! I was using Excel 2003 but I will try it with 2007 next week. One really useful feature is that the last column holds a 'Unique number'. No matter how you sort or chop out sections of the listing you can sort by 'Unique number' and restore the original tree structure.

I've been looking for somthing to do this for years. Directory List

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"Suicide? Thats the last thing I'd do!" (Homer Simpson)

This type of problem can be caused by having too many programs running in the background, run msconfig and thin them out. You could also try updating the CODECS.

You are absolutely correct. We will have to learn to live with it. Or move on into private industry, local government, NHS, etc and learn to live with it there instead

Strictly speaking it is true, email is not available off site unless you make your email server available externally via your ISP. We're using exchange, and our email is only accessible from the school network.

Having to report all faults by email would be very unpopular with a lot of our teaching staff, and is simply not practical if there is a problem in a lesson. We get a lot of 'Oh by the way...." type problems. Asking staff to go and email it would not go down well. Many simple jobs like replacing mice, plugging cables back in and switching stuff on (or off and on again) will simply not be recorded, to do so could take longer than the actual fix. Next thing that will happen is the number of technicians will be cut back because of the low number of calls actually logged!

Some PDFs are protected and others just contain scanned documents so cannot be converted or edited. You can use most OCR packages to import PDFs and convert them to text.

Cow 1: I've just been artificially inseminated! Cow 2: Are you sure? Cow 1: Yep, Straight up, no bull.

(I thought long and hard before posting this – but here goes.) I'm actually Pro static bags, the ones that move around are very difficult to catch!

How come the blue squares are allowed to go outside the white box?