Achandler

Its like HP, they sell you a £160 drive (yes identical drive) but with the HP enclosure for only £330

Its to do with FOI requests being able to be back dated for 7 years, emails are considered like letters.

Sacked and made redundant are different things

Well that is the only option I can think of, power down the server (which i would have to anyway) and then move the VHD file myself, then in the Virtual Server point it to the right VHD file again. I was wondering if I am missing some trick to do this. I am assumign with the manual move windows won't check the space free first (it never normally does) and just try to move the file until the drive is full (which it become).

So I'll set the scene. Most servers in the school were virtualised over the last year, with the VHDs being stored on the local hard drives until a SAN was purchased (was awaiting the new budget). So the budget comes and a SAN is purchased and conencted via iSCSI, using Failover Clustering and Cluster volumes etc. I successfully migrate several servers to the SAN through SCVMM. The migration goes from E: to C:\ClusterStorage\.... and all works fine until the following. When I try to migrate the file server, now the file server is approximately 700GB and currently stored on a servers local drive (E: ) I need to move it to my SAN (which has 6 TBs free, so plenty of room) but the way you access this space is through C:\ClusterStorage\... This means when I right-click and try to migrate my file server I immediately get an error of target drive does not contain enough space (which is kind fo true as C: but it isnt C: where the data will end up). I hope the above makes sense. So I'm wondering since I imagine a few people have already solved this problem, how did you or can you think of a way to move the server? Will moving the files manaually work? Any help is appreciated.

The guide there is fairly decent. I will presume that you have a linux box, with apache and MYSQL or Postgre SQl installed. I'm assuming that the bits you are worried about are backing up the database and then moving the files. I would suggest you put the site in maintenance mode and ring CLEO, most providers will an SQL backup and provide you with it, this is the hardest part. Once they provide you with this, you can copy all the files from your current Moodle installation via the FTP site. Once you have all the files and the database, then you can put these onto your new server , firstly copy all the files into place, the moodle files will usually go within /var/www (on Linux), and then restore the SQL database. After you have done the above you may need to change the config.php file to point to the new locations of the installation, the site should now be accessible locally. Then you can go about publishing the website. If you have never used Apahce2 before to host a website, then i would suggest creating a website quickly on the linux box before starting any of this job so you can understand the steps you take to get the website working. If you are using IIS, then i suggest the same, you make a site so you understand the steps. I don't know how much detail you require, or what OS you are going to host it on, so I won't elaborate more, but I'm happy to help.

My biggest concern is the "prefered supplier", this si the sole biggest reason that I think a lot of schools left LA when they could. I would get lots of quotes to get the prefered supplier as cheap as possible to start with. Then maybe use a case study of a local school who has Wifi everywere and highlight its benefits.

Do you want just the server rack? Our server soon is also our office...

Our Ricoh machines work fine. We use GPP to push out the connections, and when a machine is connecting to a Ricoh photocopier it adds a good 20 seconds to the login time (annoying but liveable). I assume you are connecting via print server?

Yes it was said tongue in cheek, but I did go through 3 in 3 years at Uni pushing an old computer to far constantly due to simply not having the money to get a new one. Back on topic, OCZ PSUs are good, mine at home is really quiet to.

Well Michael thats personal opinion, when I was at uni and only bought cheap PSUs I found it extremely satisfying to make them smoke and explodes, thats right you can make bits fall out of them! P.S. I always had 1 cheap one spare. I use to get them second hand from the Uni disposing of old equipment.

Also even if the WDS boot image doesnt contain the right drivers, the machine should still network boot initially. It then fails when you choose to deploy or capture. I have only ever once added drivers to the boot image, and that was for an ASUS Eebox Pc thingy, it needed Jmicron drivers.

Firstly before this gets way way off topic. Have you managed to sort the problem out at all yet? Secondly whereabouts in the country are you? If you are local to some people, then they may well be willing to come help you for half a day.

I believe the newest points are now to the 802.3af standard (well that was stated to me when questioning them on the Ubiquiti forum). I have about 20 of the newer points and I will try one with our PoE switch if I get round to it today, surrently we use the boxes they provide with the points (not a PoE switch and adapter), which is quite inconvenient!. On a sidenote we have now had Ubiquiti points throughout the school (36) in total, 15 of these were added over this summer to improve the current Wifi offerings throughout the school. Our batch of 20 we took a punt on have been excellent, we have not yet found a fault with them. As stated before the software controller does not have an many features as others vendors offerings but then you are paying 4x even 5x the price per point for them and then the controller to! The controller has improved though over the last 6 months and for £75 an AP I cannot see why any school would not consider them. We have ours setup with 2 SSIDs, running over different VLANs, one for guests/ students and one for staff. We don't use the guest portal though so cannot comment on that, although this term we do intend to start having laptop trolleys (urgh) using them to login, so we will put some more strain on them. The current height of users we have had on one point (just people mobile devices/ laptops) is about 38 according to the console with no known complaints, however i cannot say all devices with browsing the Internet heavily for example and at the price per AP I can afford to put a new AP in to help share the load.

I can't be bothered fully breaking it down. But I pay half of everything with my gilfriend (mortgage, house insurance, car insurance, life insurance, phone/ tv/ bb, gas/ electricity, tv license, water bill, council tax and all FOOD/ CLEANING etc) and it I put £580 into a joint account per month. We spend on average £40 a week on food/ anything from supermarket incl cat food etc. Then on top of that account I pay my own petrol and mobile phone bill etc.

I would say its fairly accurate. This is my at work one.

Can you deploy this via GPO using an MSI created with Adobe's stupid tool. Thats what you do with CS5, which removes all the popups etc when you first run Adobe?

We have our staff in department groups, meaning the STAFF group has read only permission across all folders. Each department group then has read/ write for files within their departments areas, (this is then inherit within the departments own folder). Heads of departments can also create folders within their own deartment areas. Is that what you are trying to achieve?

The passports have a horrible to get off plastic case, but you can remove it without damaging it. They are probably 2.5in PATA drives, you can buy a connector to attach this directly to you computer (if you havent done already) this will that rule out the samll PCB within the Passport case. I then suggest you dowload Winhex and try to open it, using open physical drive, this can be done on the freebie version. If you can open it here then winhex will transverse your drive and try to show you the data. If you can see the folders then its good news, as you can recover then (but you will need a winhex license). If you can't and the work on the drive is extremely important, then you can make winhex try to find the files using hex, I won't go into this further yet as you should defo try the above first.

Have you checked the permissions on an individual image, so that the right groups can read it. Also use chmod to change permissions and not the GUI,as sometimes this doesnt work.

I suspect it is a permissions issue on the moodledata folder if it is not showing the images from within that course. If the main title isnt showing (or other images that are available on the homepage) then the issue is more then liekly to do with incorrect URLS etc. Open the site and go a page that has an image missing, then right click the red cross and open just that image, this will show you the location is it trying to open. If when you visit the location on the moodle box it is correct, then the webserver mustn't be able to open the filer/ image that is located there so check these permissions. if the file isn't there or the location is wrong then you have a html issue somewhere.

Amazon.co.uk not obligating a buyer to do something is one thing, however whetehr legally they are entitled to is entirely a different one. If you buy anything from a shop with cash, you don't have to read Terms and Conditions, the simple case is that if the item is not as described then you can return it. This includes second had items and not just new ones. The law sates that you can only expect a refund if you return the item in the same condition it was given to you. Please take this to court, lets face it, its just Amazon can't be bothered to make people return items, nothing else.

With Sky, tell him to get the lower one, even if he wants unlimited. Then just go over it to many times, and you get put onto the more expensive one (£5 more). Saves you between £15 and £30 depending on how fast you abuse them, as you have to go over 3 times in a 6 month period.

A local scrap merchant will probably take them off you, and maybe even collect.

eBay/ Paypal usually force the buyer to return the item though before putting the refund through, a proof of postage to the correct address is ok though. They don't steal money from your account and then say haha get the item yourself. Now I don't knwo how much this "white" item was but if it was expensive just go to small claims court as the buyer has stolen from you, make him bring the item to the judge can see if its grey or white. As soon as a letter from a court turns up he'll send it back, tell Amazon that you are taking him to court to, maybe ask the courts if you can sue them for the money. The chances are noone but yourself would even turn up, you'd get your money through a court order. Then if you really want to cause trouble then scan your document and send it to Amazon customer complaints saying you have had to take the buyer to court, won the case as you were right and that you want your court fees returning and compensation for their stupis policy that ignores all facts. Depends how bothered you are but I know someone who did this over an iPod that was described as scratched but the buyer said it didn't say the back was scratched onlyy the front. My friend decided to pursue them (I think as something to do to be honest and to prove a point), they never showed to court ofcourse but he has his money back from the buyer, and he got £50 of Amazon vouchers and the £20 he paid for the court session. Don't let big companies bully you, they don't expect you to go after them so just pay up to shut you up usually.