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I pay Cutter Project to sort our Nagios/Cacti box out - they're good chaps if you've some spare budget.

Yeah - they are lovely quality - being so big - but my Dad was in the Merchant Navy for quite a while and theres a limit to the number of pictures of 1950's Cape Town, Singapore, Hong Kong, Aden, Dar es Salaam harbours & beaches that I can stay focussed for...

Sucks air through teeth noisily "That'll be yer dilithium crystals mate, it'll cost yer"

Beat me to it!

Best of luck with that - you're lucky you've 35mm slides - they are easier to deal with - I've recently done 100s of my Dad's slides - which 2.25 in square - I couldn't find any automated system for them and had to do them individually - *sigh*

We've just converted and gone with Resource 32000 from Corero - its a nice product

If you tell us which format you require - it would be helpful. SUPER can do most things, Format Factory, avidemux, etc

It seems odd that people seem surprised that a patently corrupt body (FIFA) award something to a patently corrupt country (Russia - see the wikileak stuff for confirmation of that) - if you want to be in the game - you've got to play it - either bribe them more - or jump sideways and set up a clean alternative. Its like the problems that arise when we find out that our defence/engineering firms bung countries backhanders to get massive contracts - wise up - its the way of the world - a few million buys a few billion & keeps people in work here.

Good grief - is that a serious recipe? I would've thought it would be too thick to drink and clarty to boot??

Its the old Flexibility/Reliability/Cost triangle - you can have any 2 of the 3 - let them have whatever they want - but it'll either cost a lot to support properly, or become unreliable

What are you going for as a replacement?

1 minute in the microwave, give it a stir, another 45 seconds - voila! Not much of a Christmas present tho'

Not free - but have a look at AB Tutor - its a lovely bit of software - and you only pay for the control stations - not the clients

We have MagicInfo and are just in the process of installing Xibo - as MI is complete pants. Now - just got to find a decent replacement to handle 3x2 video wall we've got - then we'll be free of that Samsung rubbish - anyone used an Eyefinity card with 6 outputs - was wondering if that would do the job - tied to a little PC.

We drop them to an "educational only" whitelisted filter - so they can get to specified educational sites - but not to most stuff.

I'm sure I read that the net effect over the last 10 years was a loss after taking into account sorting out the mess they made... Personally I can't see why there should be any bonuses until all the money that bailed them out has been repaid - given the bonus pots in the big banks are 7-10 billion - I can't see that this would be too terrible.

We use iSpring to convert to flash and embed that. The MagicInfo software is truly a pile of poo and we're just about to install Xibo which should give us a lot more flexibility and improved scheduling.

Surely you have the cocktails BEFORE your evening meal and port after - so non-u

Anyone here seen documentary-log.com site - had a teacher in today asking me to free it up - seems connect to a site called "graboid" which looked very dodgy - anyone know

Hi Johno If you are really struggling - I'd strongly suggest you talk to a firm that can do all this stuff for you. We've used Dataspire Dataspire: Innovative IT solutions provider to public and private sector organisations across the UK. here in the past - and have always found them helpful. You're welcome to come over and see our setup if you need.

I suppose the alternative view would be that they all get charged £10 from the start, but the poorest 5 can't afford to drink and die from dehydration, just to put more of a left wing swing on the analogy.

I always say "Yes, of course, no problem, just as soon as you can give me a letter from the copyright holder saying that's OK" To be fair - a couple have actual managed to do this, but thats all in the last 7 years.

And before you ask - here's one for this year too2010-11-Year-Planner-Academic.xls

I hadn't - but here you go...2011-12-Year-Planner-Academic.xls

Hi - been looking for an excel year planner for 2011 - but couldn't find one in the format I liked - so spent half an hour & did my own - attached if any one has a use for it - I format the days in different colours to show staff holiday/illness, etc2011-Year-Planner.xls