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You seem like a nice guy too, there's plenty of us on here who'll like mb2k01 will share information with you no problem at all. Take mb2k01's advice, it's very good.

I'd name the files by number and then use a random number generator + .jpg Something like Random number batch file - Programming - Forums - www.atomicmpc.com.au I suppose you could in theory read the directory contents into an array and do it that way but this would work fine, how often are you doing it?

You'd end up with awful stretched images if it was to expand 800x600 to fill a 1920x1080 screen though. I guess I'm not really bothered because I tend to be installing linux / solaris so it's not a big deal for me after the initial installation. How does it know it was successful though? If you take something like debian it will 'eject' the CD at the end of the installation which does indeed unmount the CD (iirc?) so it's not VBox's fault if Windows doesn't do that. Understand and respect your views though.

Not heard of any update as yet, we're touch wood not too affected as yet. (IE becomes useless after 5 mins of use so close/reopen window).

Well thought of, we've experienced these problems with PCE ref IE and the winsock stuff that's changed.

Don't want to derail this thread too much so if you do wanna chat drop me a pm. I'd do a clean install given the problems you've had, plus you can use ext4 out of the box if you want to give that a whirl. Mounting internal disks is a doddle either via command line if the gui decides to not want to work but I've had no problems and my main machine (when it was on gentoo) had 4 hard disks.

It can't fill the whole window until the drivers are in place for it and by default I believe it spawns as a small window so it does in fact fill it, not a full screen with small image (unless you maximise the window but I believe vmware does the same). I love the way to mount/unmount isos during use as it is, I find it utterly perfect, what doesn't it do that you'd want? Agreed on your last point though, I think that's a good idea too.

How often is a lot? IE crashes if you give it a dirty look, wouldn't worry too much about that unless it's several times during a user session. Explorer crashing on the server though is a bit more worrying though, usual questions: 1) All windows updates installed? 2) When did this start happening, has anything changed around the same time, new printers, or software? 3) Have you gave it a reboot for good measure?

Wouldn't bother with trying to get the agent installed. Would instead try installing samba and granting a user permission to / which you can try to connect to from back up exec and back it up that way. Failing that, rsync it from the ubuntu box onto the backup exec server and have it back up the local folder.

I found 8.10 to be an awful experience, 9.04 much better and 9.10 a dream.

Been running it on my work laptop for a couple of weeks now and it's impressively quick, cautious but thinking about moving my gentoo desktop onto it now! I'd try another ISO too mate, it's an odd un.

Can't please everyone though, and the county would have been slated for leaving 'schools behind' later on when the funds + associated economies of scale weren't available any longer.

Refining how? They are very open to contribution of ideas etc.

Hi everyone, Just a quick thanks to cooper for his drivers CD, lots of fun stuff on there to be getting on with. Awaiting the confirmation on flight booking but looks like around the 4th/5th Dec time. Have started the fun injections .... pin cushion. Very grateful for everyone's offers and if they stand please do get in touch. Thanks again.

Not had any problems with VLC or Totem but having just upgraded to KDE4 on my machine here it's put in something called Dragon Video Player which also works fine.

What spec is the pc and do you have all of the proper drivers installed in addition to the advice above.

Congratulations

A jock here crack up works for me

Upping the memory should be relatively inexpensive, pci gigabit card will help as well. Lean on some of the local secondaries for someone to pop down and have a coffee with you and a look one afternoon as sharing ideas between a couple of heads on the ground is always good. I wouldn't replace it for the sake of replacing it but if you're running into problems and it's not redundant (disks etc) you could be in a spot of hot water depending upon how reliant everyone is on it if it failed, that's grounds enough for most arguments. Windows disks won't be a problem, Neil at Ramesys should sort you some out for a few pounds assuming you have a license for it (whch i'm sure you will) and then CALs etc for each user/computer.

You're very welcome mate, might be worth dropping that down a bit or at least making sure mysql isn't publicly accessible as currently it will now wait 5000 seconds before closing off / rejecting an invalid connection (ie, a telnet host 3306) Glad it's working

I'm sure I posted an update to this thread with instructions on how to up this! (eyes the database) ok, in /etc/my.cnf under the [mysqld] section put connect_timeout = 5000 then save it, restart mysql with (/etc/init.d/mysql restart) and try it again to make sure the timeout has increased to that silly high number. (then try your fog stuff) If it still doesn't work I'm a little stumped!

Run mysql -u root -p (on the local box is fine) or use -h remotely. In the mysql shell type "show variables;" Let's just check what your connect_timeout is set to. (mine is set to 5)

You'll need to post a guide price mate else the mods'll crack up.

From the remote box you'll need -h mysql -h ipofmysqlserverbox -u username -p Have a look for my.cnf (probably in /etc) and try upping the connect_timeout in there. Which distro are you using and I'll see if I can find where it lives. I've been reading from here mostly if you want a nose there.

Might be worth checking: Speed of network uplink (if it's saturated and connecting to a remote mysql server this could happen) May be worth editing my.cnf to increase the timeout from 10 seconds (default) to something higher as apparently this error is badly documented as a timeout! Finally, they recommend checking whether the connection is indeed being dropped on the MySQL Server itself, log in as root to mysql using the command in my other post and then type show status like 'abort%';