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Our group of academies is looking to manage their lettings more efficiently, and the person responsible has asked if we can buy this piece of software. Features | Community Lettings Brilliant, does what we want, bit pricey, but the big problem is we operate across multiple sites and while we can get routing setup between them, for a program such as this it's going to be awkward to make it work properly when you're not at the host site. So anyone know of any good web based alturnatives to this product, as it'll be much easier to make it work across all 3 of the sites it needs to if it's web based! Mike.

Yes it's a fairly well known problem, and is all to do with the cable linking the LCD screen to the motherboard, and the tight angle it has to take between the screen and the computer. Over time it simply breaks because of the opening and closing of the lid, and results in white screening or the backlight not coming on or a few other problems, but they're all caused by the same issue. Google NC-10 screen problem and you'll see loads of reports of it. If you can get hold of the cable that links the LCD to the mainboard, then you can repair them simply by replacing this, although I understand they're hard to get hold of. Mike.

I need to write the 'custom' option for the program, I'll try and do it over this weekend for you, been looking for a good excuse to do it.

They recently employed a new network manager as I was interviewed for the post, but just missed out on getting it as there was a slightly better candidate on the day. Good school to work in by all accounts, I certainly felt at ease there for the day I was there. Time of change for ICT there, so could be a good opportunity for someone.

If we have a HDD with errors it gets replaced, as once you get one or two faults on a disc more quickly follow in my experience. If your equipment is under warranty, then HDD faults should be covered. Manufacturers like Dell, HP etc. have their own diagnostics utilities which will test the HDD and generate fault codes which you can then give to their support, they will then replace the drive no questions asked normally. For other manufactuers, we use one of the many utilities on the Ultimate Boot CD that analyses the disk for faults.

Because it's defined by the 'European Broadcasting Area' and not the traditional boundaries for Europe. European Broadcasting Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Check e-bay if you need a shed, there's always sheds on there. My dad picked up a great condition 6ftx4ft shed the other week for £45 which is dirt cheap! To be fair, the actual savings you make once you factor in everything are fairly small, but the taste of home grown veg makes it well worthwhile, along with the satisfaction of eating the stuff you've worked so hard to grow. Mike.

All I've sucessfully grown this year is grass . . . . No not that sort silly, I sowed a new lawn!

Don't worry, I didn't get one anyway.

Whenever we've had fibre accidently damaged, we've always had the entire run replaced rather than repaired, as repairs just increase the db loss on the fibre. To be honest it's un-necessary to put specific figures in the contract. As I understand it, if a contractor is working on-site and causes damage to your infrastructure, then they are under obligation to arrange repair or replacement or to foot the bill for the repair or replacement, unless the school specifically accepts liability. If you want to be doubly sure, rather than put a specific figure in, you could put a clause that states in the event of damage being caused to the fibre optic cable, the contractor is liable for all costs associated with the replacement or repair of the cable and just leave it at that. The problem with putting a specific penalty figure in is you might get it wrong and be grossly under or over even if you do get an estimate, where as leaving it open ended like this gives more flxibility in both directions.

Honestly? It wouldn't have bothered me, infact I haven't finished watching it all despite having it on my PC waiting to be watched. Probably won't get watched until the winter, as Summer's there's to be taken advantage of and not stuck indoors watching TV.

With the greatest respect to everyone who watches them, but I think it's quite sad that people care so much about these shows, just an example of how much that little box in the corner rules a lot of peoples lives these days. I don't have a TV that's capable of receiving a broadcast signal, and my god it's the best thing ever. I do ocassionally watch shows, but normally buy them on DVD to watch when I want or ocassionally watch on-line, but I rekon I watch less than a few hours of TV a week (unless you count films, I watch a lot of films) It's not always been like that, go back 3 years and I watched a lot of TV, but when I moved into lodging with someone, they didn't have a TV for the first few months I was there as it was a brand new flat and they literally had nothing, and I grew to not miss it and started finding other things to fill my time. Then when I eventually brought my own house I did sign up for sky TV, but found I just never watched it ever so cancelled it and never looked back. TV just bores me now, it really does brainwash you as well, particulary the advertising, but you don't realise that until you stop watching it for a length of time. Must admit thou life on mars was a good series, and bloody prison break that hooked me in - both of those were watched on DVD thou. Mike.

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It has to be a capital S, that's what I programmed it to look for. I should have been more clear on that maybe, but I have typed it with a capital!

There's a very lengthy document discussing the legal and copyright issues involved. http://www2.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/reports/IPRreport.doc

You don't need to make changes to the XML file yourself, run the program from the run box with /S at the end and it puts you into 'settings mode' which allows you to change the way the program runs. Infact until you actually make some settings changes this way, the XML file doesn't even exist I don't think. Mike.

I hate to say, but you've got that the wrong way round. You need a big aperture (A low number) and ideally an DSLR with a prime lens which goes down to f1.8 or f1.4 to get the best results. For example: Taken with a aperture of f5.6 http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j29/mredman/Image-7339.jpg Taken with a aperture of f14 http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j29/mredman/Image-7341.jpg The technical term for it is Depth of Field. A wide aperture (low number) gives you a shallow depth of field, where as a small aperture (high number) gives you a large depth of field.

If anyone's interested in the exact details of how they retrieved the origenal archive, there's a very long, but quite interesting article here. The Domesday Project

In 1986 the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of everyday life across the UK for future generations. A million volunteers took part… Now, 25 years later you can explore the archive online, see the pictures, update the information and make your mark on this fascinating record of our collective history. You can browse the archive and contribute to the 2011 version here. BBC - Domesday Reloaded: Explore, compare, update and share the Domesday Reloaded archive And an interesting article about how they managed to extract the information from the now obsolete laserdisc format that was used to store it. BBC News - Domesday Project reborn online after 25 years Mike.

I can't rmemeber now, as it was over 2 years ago. I remember being suitably impressed by what it would do, then seeing the quote we got and deciding that we could live without it for the money they were asking. It wasn't silly money, but it was more than I was prepared to pay.

Insurance is there for a reason thou, and if there is a real ligitimate reason to make a claim then you should (in my opinion) What annoys me is people who claim for things that are relatively minor but put on an 'act' to make it seem worse than it is, and win large amounts of compensation in the process. A fractured ankle is a fairly serious injury, and could have long lasting effects, so in this instance I think the OP should claim, particularly if the school were neglegent and knew about the problem but didn't do anything.

I've looked into it, but we couldn't really afford it, so never looked into it any further.

I gave up with this in the end, and created a new user group for 'guest wireless users' and setup a new rule in IAS to auththenticate this group without the use of certificates. Not quite a high security, but it works. We only have a few users requesting this access so it was the easiest option in the end. Thanks for your reply thou @tadavis. Mike.

Yeah there's something up with it from this end. Must be skys fault. C:\Documents and Settings\Mike>ping en.wikipedia.org Pinging text.esams.wikimedia.org [91.198.174.232] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 91.198.174.232: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=56 Request timed out. Reply from 91.198.174.232: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=56 Request timed out. Ping statistics for 91.198.174.232: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 94ms, Maximum = 100ms, Average = 97ms

I can't seem to get it at the moment, anyone else? I'm at home on sky broadband and everything else is flying along as ususal, except wikipedia which flatly refuses to load at the moment.