PaulBM

We implemented a script to delete the TMP variable, which fixed Timetable printing... but then, the users we fixed couldn't print from Internet Explorer or Outlook! So be careful, deleting the variable TMP is a SIMS cludge but it breaks other areas. We're just hoping that the update to SIMS to fix this problem is not to delete the TMP variable. They wouldn't be that silly would they?

Thanks a lot... this has calmed down all our staff. Good work Penfold. Now perhaps SIMS can catch up. I'm still totally amazed that after all this time they can fall foul of the space in a path name problem, I thought all Windows programmer knew of the potential problem by now.

I'm pretty sure if you enclosed all the Divs in a container and set it to position:relative. You can then use position:absolute on divs within that container and their absolute positioning will be relative/contained within the main containing div... if you follow that rambling. I've used that in the past to position text on top images for example. Oh and you may need a z-index to make the overlapping div appear on top of the others. I'll try it out if I get a chance today.

Attached is a photo of the fault. If you look closely at the four fixings that hold down the heatsink on the CPU, you'll see that the furthest two have lifted out of the main board. This leads to overheating and shutting down of the machine. We found others with only one post out of the main board, these work fine for now, but will almost certainly fail in due course. If you have AL51 laptops badged as RM or otherwise, I'd recommend you check them. It's very easy to check. 1. Lay the laptop out flat with the screen folded down on the desk. 2. Remove the plastic panel that contains the power button. It unclips from the left side. Using the slot, a coin or screwdriver can be used to start lifting the panel. 3. Remove the screw holding the keyboard down, in the top left corner. 4. Release the spring click that holds the keyboard down in the top right corner. 5. Carefully lift the keyboard and fold back, to reveal the processor and check the mounting posts. When you have reassembled the laptop, close the screen and check the plastic covers over the screen hinges, they normally need pressing back into place.

A quick glance at the CSS, using webdeveloper plugin for Firefox, it looks like a float problem. Items in div.flower will need clear CSS set. Or a div after those items with clear:both; set at the bottom of the .flower div.

I have opened a support ticket with Mindjet. Today I received an email with a link to a zip file containing a Large Scale Deployment Guide pdf and an msi. Fingers crossed.

One of our ICT teachers has bought a site license for Mindjet Manager Pro 7, but it looks like it's going to be a low scorer in our proposed software ranking system. Especially when it comes to RM CC3. Has anyone managed to get this working on RM CC3?

Has anybody had any experience, good or bad, of setting up an information display system around their school? It looks like we're thinking of having a few screens at key locations around the school. Ideally updated by various members of staff from their PC's. Any information on suppliers and different systems available would be most welcome. There are several systems around, few seem ideal. Thanks.

We use the Intel Pro drivers and install the drivers using the following shortcut... "Setup.exe" PLC=True Toolkit=True This installs all the options, including the important Pre-Logon service.

Thanks for the Update. After requesting the hotfix and applying it to the Deputy Head's PC, still only page one printed. We found a Samsung printer and removed his HP 1005, now he can print all the pages in his documents. So our problem is HP related.

I've been wondering about Windows Updates too. We have a WSUS machine here, I couldn't spot any likely candidates, but I don't think they'll be labelled, 'Update to mess up HP Laserjet printers printing'. Another printer has just been reported, it will only print the first page of a document, which is exactly what happened to our Deputy Head's PC.

Update on the Epson... printed test pages from both PC's and they just sat there, then I noticed 'Paused' in the title bar of the printer window. That's how easy it is to overlook the obvious when you have an ongoing problem. Still have one PC here that refuses to print after repeated spooler cleans, un-installs of drivers etc. It's a Laserjet 1000.

We've having problems with local printers here. It started about a week ago, when one teacher reported that their local printer didn't work. Since then we've had about 7 or 8 cases of print jobs just disappearing, not being printed, but not reporting an error. Until today it seemed only the 1000/1005/1020/1022 HP laserjets were being affected. Today an Epson C1100 that is shared between two office worker's PCs has the same problem. We've just tested the printer on another PC and it's fine. It seems to be a fault with the print spooler. Some of the PC's reported that the 'print spooler was faulting' in Event Log. Some I've managed to fix by using cleanspl.exe from the Windows Resource Kit, some just needed the drivers removed and reinstalled, but some absolutely refused to work and have needed a re-install Windows. It's almost virus like, the way it's slowly going around the system, but Symantec AV hasn't thrown any alerts anywhere. Has anyone else experienced this? And more to the point has a definitive fix.

We're getting this happening on some users too. It doesn't happen to many people, interestingly the office staff had it yesterday, and they're on desktops with cable network connections. I recently changed some of our logon script drive mapping to use an ADM rather than the old vbs. Also on many pc's I'm seeing a second T: drive copy of our S drive Sims network drive.

I've used Eclipse for ages now, at home and at work. It's great and meets all my needs and best of all, the c:\eclipse directory can be copied to another PC and just works. Having recently dumped Vista in favour of XP again, moving Eclipse was a doddle. There are many plugins for other languages. I have PHP, Javascript and CSS plugins that handle colour coded source code and syntax checking etc.

Does WDSearch appear in the Tools section of WSUS? If not, where does it lurk? I can't find it on our WSUS server, which is a good sign.

localzuk which server package did you choose and there seems to be 4 major clients, Spark, Psi, Exodus and Pandion, anyone of those better that the others? Just wondering if it's something that might be useful in school. AD authentication would be great. Only problem I could see is messages popping up during lessons, when teachers might have their PC on a whiteboard.

What about using puTTY and it's tunnel system? Use puTTY to connect with SSH and then tunnels can be set up to push remote desktop from the remote pc to the school pc. Only the SSH port or a custom one of your choice if you like has to be opened on the school firewall. Tunnels need to be port 3390 on the school pc, Remote desktops listening port. Also you can configure remote desktop to only allow connections from specified domain users for extra security.

Following all the massive problems we've had since the latest CC3 update over the summer, this program could well be a life saver for us. I'm trying it now, we have hundreds of failed packages across over 200 machines!

How about PDF's? I used FPDF very successfully about 2 years ago to produce invoices, it probably has even more features now.

Kained, can you give us a bit more background on this, it sounds very interesting. We use SIMS here and I'm looking at creating a graph for each student showing their progress from before secondary school through to their year 11 GCSE stage. The staff would like the visual aid a graph to instantly show whether the student is above or below their predicted grades. Our current plan is to export data to a spreadsheet and then parse a csv version of it to create the graph images, that could then be automatically imported into their report templates, using mail-merge. At this stage it is only a plan (we're not sure how cunning) and will require a fair bit of programming. I seem to remember reading here somewhere that accessing SIMS data with SQL is not recommended or supported? Your thoughts?

On the same subject, a while back I modified this to make it a little bit more appropriate... http://easttown.co.uk/images/students-password.png

Can you give us a link to the INCO site for your school?

Are you talking Windows updates or SIMS updates? We use the simsperm.bat to give the teacher the necessary rights to allow them to install the SIMS updates. The S drive is mapped via a logon script. We use WSUS server for our windows updates.

IE6 is a real pain for adding extra whitespace. The box model behaves slightly differently. I think I would try a CSS reset stylesheet first. There are several around that basically reset all tags margins and padding to 0. Then you're starting without any defaults that the browser may have. This is my current cssReset.css * { margin:0; padding:0; } table { border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0; } address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var { font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; } ol,ul { list-style:none; } caption,th { text-align:left; } h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { font-size:100%; font-weight:normal; } q:before,q:after { content:''; } abbr,acronym, img, fieldset { border:0; } Also I seem to remember something about overflow: too, if only I could remember exactly what it was.