Busybub

Personally I swear by FSP and Seasonic PSUs. Read an interesting article a while back in Custom PC which tested 20 different PSUs from different manufacturers, these came out on top for reliability (actually delivering stated power), and efficiency (80%+) - helps when they are actual PSU manufacturers rather than rebadge jobbies which case manufacturer PSUs probably are.

Cheers mate, very helpful!

Got one on order and need to spec a ceiling mount for it. Can anybody confirm the size of the threads for the arm mount points and how many there are? Cheers

Can you turn off the lights at that end? Got any curtains or blinds? If not, sounds like you're going to run into problems. If the light falls onto the wall you are projecting it on, 4000 probably won't be enough

Buy 2 identical RAID cards, keep one spare

Cheers guys! Yep, looks like it. Must have been one of the files I was trying to delete... kids are trying to hide files by renaming them... Turns out that it was just my profile on the server, deleted it, and logged in again, problem solved after minor heart attack!

Here's an interesting one. Just logged into my file server, and have discovered that the file associations are completely messed up. Seems to think that everything is associated with Paint. Can't open a command window, can open regedit, can't open internet explorer: "Paint cannot read this file. This is not a valid bitmap file or its format is not currently supported" Any thoughts?

Display screen equipment regulations?: Display Screen Equipment (DSE) - Regulations and guidance "The Regulations apply where staff habitually use VDUs as a significant part of their normal work. Other people, who use VDUs only occasionally, are not covered by the requirements in the Regulations (apart from the workstation requirements). However, their employers still have general duties to protect them under other health and safety at work legislation."

Hmmmmm, I haven't tried barbed wire or rigging them up to the mains yet... Let me know if you have any luck

pod Desking Products Think the quote I got on a Hexacom jobbie was about 3k though

You can get vandal resistant keyboards with trackballs made from steel. Last time I checked they cost upwards of 300 quid each. You would need to use a router to cut out a hole in your desktop to fit one, and it does nothing to stop them taking a compass to it, and scratch the living daylights out of it. Better off having a more consistent policy of catching and punishing the ones who actually cause the damage, and laying down some responsibility to individual teachers who are in the room at the time the damage occurs. Besides, mice and keyboards are cheap and they do a good job of distracting kids from punching holes in monitors... Some students will have a go at whatever they're given. Better to replace cheap ones than expensive ones!

I would replace your existing RAID mirror with a bigger one if it is otherwise running OK. Ghost your server as is. Replace the existing drives with a larger pair, format in RAID BIOS, ghost the image back, resizing the partitions as required. For all intents and purposes the server should be recognised as it was previously. Worst case, if it goes wrong, you still have the original pair of discs that you can plug back in.

Anybody know of any Bursar jobs in the South East? Preferably North or East London? Not for me BTW... Cheers

I see it differently. It's only a disaster because Labour doesn't have the guts to make rational redundancies going into an election. If Labour hadn't increased the size of government and allowed the creation so many non-jobs (The TaxPayers' Alliance - Burning our Money: Non-jobs), thereby commiting to a certain level of public spending, there might be enough to give the rest of the public sector workers the payrises they are worth. What has changed in the last decade that requires so many more state employees? (other than Labour showing how inefficient they are, and how ineffective they are at securing value for our money) Perhaps a plan by this government to artificially reduce the underlying rate of unemployment? 50% of schools leavers should be in University too apparently... cynical? Me? On the other hand, Labour would probably screw us even if there was any money available because they would probably squander it somewhere else, ID Cards anyone? We can all blame bankers, but when it comes down to it, we need them to prop up our pensions. If Labour had given the FSA (which they created) some teeth, and actually taken notice of domestic and international warnings of our spiralling levels of debt, maybe they wouldn't have sat around doing nothing while bankers do what they've always done, and will do in the future unless somebody steps in and regulates them more tightly.

Guess it depends on the school. The one in question is one of the best in it's borough. If we handed out iPhones here, they'd get completely trashed...

In 2 rooms, I'm using two active extenders (powered through USB voltage) with a regular 5m USB at the end, plugging into the smartboard - 15m. Never had a problem. Specs on the extenders say you can have three, and based on my experience I would happily add another if it required it. In another room I have USB-Cat5 extenders using a 20m run of cable that gives regular trouble.

Given the ridiculous cost of replacement Tosh lamps, we've started replacing the projectors when they fail. Pays for itself next time the lamp goes.

Hmmmm, I'm on 32bit as well. A coincidence?

I downloaded all the main drivers from Intel and Broadcom, matched the chipsets and tried XP and Vista drivers. Seemed to work OK, inc DHCP as I imaged my 620 once I had activated the license. Picked up the sound drivers from windows update after trying to run some drivers I found that didn't work.

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Other than locking down boot devices in BIOS, I would disable their access to unnecessary drives wherever possible through group policy and by physically unplugging any optical or floppy drives. When the BIOS battery on some of our computers die, a lot of the settings are returned to factory defaults including installed drives and boot order. Also, investigate software restrictions on USB drives, using USBDLM to fix the assigned drive letter(s). Check all of your computers for keyloggers plugged in between the keyboard and socket on the computer.

Just ran some quick tests: Presumably you have set Authenticated Users or Administrators to Full Control in the share permissions? You need to remove both of those groups and specify others such as Domain Admins, and the specific user groups defined in your AD; students, teachers etc.

AB Tutor version 6 Also has a built in voting function, keyword scanning with screen capture... absolute bargain!

Teachers need more feedback. I remember our last ICT teacher moaning a great deal about the levels given for the KS3 test, and no other information about which questions the students answered incorrectly. It would help to have some facility where the test administrator could log on and have access to the answers that the students supplied, so that teachers can assess where they went wrong.

Absolutely! Lost count of the number of times the KS3 test has crashed out, been competely unrecoverable, leaving the kids with no marks at all. Also with questions not appearing in Midyis/Yellis CAB tests. There is then the hassle of rearranging to take the test which could be an issue in itself if our facilities operate near capacity.