alunmjones

I use www.help4freeonline.co.uk , i think all the local high schools use them, they take everything except for Epson and MFP (the ones that come with tube toners) cartrages, compatible or genuine, there phone number is a bit odd but works, the school gets no money for them, but any profit they make, minus a small admin fee goes to the wales air ambulance, they are linked to other charaties in other areas. I have a box from Epson to recycle there cartrages.

we use a system from JVCS , ours is part of the Welsh Video Network and is supplied and supported by them, we have a static unit in a room and we can install software from them to create mini units as needed with a microphone and webcam, we use it to teach french and our kids get tought psychology through it, we have even had one from Cern about the Large Hadron Collider works very well for us, needs to be used more really though You can tell it to autorecord the Video Confenerce for you to download later, no video camera needed.

I was building my own from scratch, was going quite well, id got ldap to work for logins and was about ready to make the content managment bits when i was told that we would be using the school Moodle site and 2 kids from higher 6 would be looking after the external bits. well they did for a little while, now they arnt any more and im going to have to go through it and fix it, its not to bad, but it could have been better as a seperate site i think

Not sure what order im going to do thease in. No installes this year, we mostly have new ish kit in now, though still a few old ones from befor i started working here. Backup and prepare Moodle for next year, Backup and remove higher 6form files from the system, sort/fix/re-master systems that arnt working right, install a new network cable for a new printer, actually 2, need to get a key cut for the cookery store room, move 2 printers around in the science store room, finish making my auto import student script so im not sitting here on the first day back for hours imputting student details. try to tweak the system so it runs faster. thats more than i thought i would have, i think i need to make a plan of attack. i might have Office 2010 to install aswell/Papercut if they get the licences sorted in time Last week and 3 days im off - annoyed the admin officer with this, im off when the results come in, i dont think there will be any problems though

Not sure, i would definately ask an electrician, there is somthing that i heard that says that you should only have 6 double sockets per ring, it probably depends on where else the ring powrs, you might find it runs a very high intensity something or other, best to ask an electrician, i always like to have a pc on there own duble socket

that was amazing, that must have taken a lot of work to pull off

Im using MRBS here, im having problems in locking down new rooms, ive got it hoocked up to our AD and all is fine, but it lets any user in the allowed OU's to log in and book, its got a function to find users in a group and load them as admins, i cant figure out how to modifiy it so i can lock a room down to just maths and admins, or just science and admins extra.

that is one daft law, i use server side for most of my tracking but it still relies on 1 cookie beeing on the client pc, not looking forward to modifing moodle to so this.

I would set up something internal, even have it running on a subfolder of the school website if they want external access, just so you have compleate control of it really, im sure there is a php blogging script available somwhere

I have a HTC HD2 running a modified android now, i still have windows mobile 6.5 installed on it, i prefer 6.5 over 7 but android over windows, ive got it connected to our radius wifi using certificates, its connected to exchange and the job system so as i go about the school any jobs that are added i get instantly, well nearly I couldnt find a proxy settng for it, i have android 2.2.1 installed at the moment, might see if i cant upgrade, there are apps you can get from the market place that says they will let you use a proxy, but i couldnt get them to work, ive set our DHCP server to give my a static ip address based on my mac, then toled the ISA server to allow that ip adress though, its the only way i could get it to work

I’m going through all of our kids folders one by one and changing the permissions, I’ve been having problems with something on the network changing the permissions on random student home folders to Everyone: delete and nothing else. I’m going through them and setting the Advanced Security settings for the folder manually, there has to be an easy way to set them. I did think about using Cacls or Xcacls as i have done in the past but after looking at it, it’s not granular enough for what I need, the settings are far to broad. Before I go and try and develop my own script or something to do it I thought I’d ask. ---- Things it should do ---- Start at the top folder (Year Folder) and look down every folder contained within. Each Folder is a new Home folder of a new user Needs to look at the folder name and use it later Re-set the file permissions to inherit from above and remove the permissions currently set for the user (I have already made the changes to permissions the files inherit from the primary folder, that was easy) Set a new permission based on the folder name (this is where cacls/xcacls won’t work) The permission needs to be Allow everything except, Change Permissions and Take Ownership it should then propagate this down the home folder tree and move on to the next folder till it does not have any folders left. ---- ---- Im not looking forward to doing it manually, i am thinking it will fix the problem im having. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I don’t know how to get vbscript to access the advanced file permissions, that’s really what i need help with, I think I can get it to do everything else, propagation might be a problem though Any help would be appreciated, thanks

an update, im still sure it has something to do with a program that the kids are running on the macs, that for some reason is able to change the permission on the folder, to try and prevent this im going through all of the folders got 850 to do, manually as im not sure a script would do it correctely and modify the users permssions, at the moment they are set to full, im going to set them up so that they gain special permissions on the folder, everything except the abuility to change permissions, im also going to stop owner and system from beeing allowed to change permissions. i probably should have done it earlyer really.

had no luck in the mac forum so im expanding my search just incase its a windows or cross platform bug. I have 4 mac's set up and bound to our windows server 2003 domain, they link to the users home folders with the network drive location derived as \\(mainserver)\(username) within the users folders are ones for the desktop and documents + downloads. Everything for the most part is fine, the folders are set up with full read write permission for the user that is logged in or any domain administrator. i am having problems where something is changing the folder permissions from the default settings to just everyone with delete permissions. (might not be the mac but it was not happening befor they arrived) this means that when the user logs in to a windows machine which uses the same drive for the my documents and u:\ drive they are unable to access it, or back in to a mac for that matter. i have to manually go back in and reset the permissions, every time i ask the kids what was the last computer they were logged in to they always say one of the 4 macs has anyone come across this before? thanks Alun Jones

I have 4 mac's set up and bound to our windows server 2003 domain, they link to the users home folders with the network drive location derived as \\(mainserver)\(username) within the users folders are ones for the desktop and documents + downloads. Everything for the most part is fine, the folders are set up with full read write permission for the user that is logged in or any domain administrator. i am having problems where something is changing the folder permissions from the default settings to just everyone with delete permissions. this means that when the user logs in to a windows machine which uses the same drive for the my documents and u:\ drive they are unable to access it, or back in to a mac for that matter. i have to manually go back in and reset the permissions, every time i ask the kids what was the last computer they were logged in to they always say one of the 4 macs has anyone come across this before? thanks Alun Jones

we have about 850 kids on rol we have 3 IT Room's used for the IT lessons 29, 30 and 33 pc's 1 IT room for all to use 22 pc's maths have 30 laptops science have 30 laptops English have 30 laptops + 6 pc's Welsh have 6 PC's Business/Inclusion room have 10 laptops another 9 beeing added soon DT1 has 20 PC'S very old, need to be changed DT3 has 25 new pc's Cookery has 12 machines between two classes Art has 7 machines library has 6 machines + librarian machine the support department has 13 machines and two that came up with kids from primary music had 8 newish ones and 8 very old one + 1 new mac there are about 55-60 teachers laptops connected to IWB and projectors about 400 machines give or take a few.

im doing that, im just by my slef and im not always able to constantly look at what websites the kids are going on to, so thought id take a little hastle out of it, i know lanschool can do it when you limit web browsing to a set number of pages, i wonder how they do that.

im trying to figure out if there is any way either in group policy or via a script i can set IE for our students to not be able to look up a website via the IP address, they figured out that they could in the last few days, im blocking them when i see them, im just thinking that there should be an easyer way thanks

im not sure if ive put this in the right sub forum, im using teamviewer to connect from home to a machine to do work remotely and im using it from work to connect to home, from home it works a treat. from work i get to use it for 3 mins and a bit and then it cuts out, i cant reconnect for about another 3 mins then it again runs for about 3 mins and cuts out. if i go to IE during this cutout period i get the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" when i try to go to any website, the rest of the internet from any other machine on the network is uneffected, this will fix itself when teamviwer comes back to life. anyone use teamviewr and have any idea why this could be happening? thanks Alun Jones

im having problems with the toshiba re-rite software we have, its an OCR pice of software for converting paper documents to word, excel, pdf3 and other document formats. my problem is that when i try to scan multiple pages from the same document at the same time to the word output folder it will generate a sub folder that then contains the scanned tiff files. the files within the sub folder gets converted as i expected but to PDF3 instead of word, it looks like PDF3 is the default document type when it cant fine the config.cfg file within the folder. has anyone used the software and know how to either a) get the config.cfg file to propogate down to the created subfolders b) get the toshiba re-rite to find the first config.cfg file within the folder tree structure c) get the photocopier to not create the subfolder and dump the tiff images in to the top word folder thanks for any help Alun

Seconday School + Sixth Form 850 pupils 90 staff Curriculum 480 PC'S/Laptops 1 DC/File Server 1 ISA/Filtering Server 1 E-mail/Web/Radius Server 1 Print Server 1 NAS Box 1 Linux Applience 1 Server that crashed(It annyoed me, and gave me a lot of extra work and a headake), under my desk Sims 1 Server 11 PC's Were thinking about virtualizing at some point, tho i doubt our physical servers will reduce much if at all.

thanks, just having a look at openproject now, looks like what i need

im looking for a gant chart creator or addon for excel that can create gantt charts with incraments/intervals of 1h, i know of GanttProject Home but it can only breake down a gantt chart in to indervals of 1 day. this is for a new OCR GCSE ICT course our ICT department is starting next year, id like something that makes the process of creating a gantt chart as easy as posible for the kids. any advice would be apriciated. thanks Alun

were not to bad here at the moment, were sitting at 25 degrees with just an extractor fan, the council decided we didnt need an extractor fan at one point when they installed a new lift and removed it, the server room temp jumped to nearly 40 the servers and us were not happy, fan was back in the next day, id still like air con, only one IT suite has air con here.

we mainly use comcen, company from south wales, Welcome to Comcen very competative prices and an excelet returns policy, had a few toners that had leaked, they just took them back and gave us new ones, they can prety much get anything you want, we have a mix of hp, brother and epson printers, we get a mix of originals and compatibles toners and inks, no P&P aswell which is a bonus

i just set up a helpdesk here, starting to get the teachers used to it, its the free one form web help desk, its set up to send me an e-mail when anyone submits a ticket, the teachers use the same login details as they would for the computer login so it should be easy for them to pick it up, we still get the odd student sent down or teachers catching us in the coridor, its really inevitable that.