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Another masterpiece.

Show off If not a firewall, a webserver, caching box, music store, dedicated storage for your department, dedicated storage for media students, possibilities are endless What spec is it, and what do you *think* you could do with it?

Happy Birthday to all

What exactly did you update?

Another "worked for me too" ... :/

Strategic curricular? or strategic service/provision?

ah but on which end? ;)

Well ventured sir.

Is the time in sync? Are you using 2003 or 2008?

Nice idea but

For the small amount of data you have currently you could probably do a full back up of everything nightly and it would finish in time but yes, daily incrementals would be fine. For a complete copy, yes, ntbackup (included with windows) will do this, also make sure you have the system state.

Congratulations to you all

My personal view would be to have RAID in the server so it's tolerant for a disk to fail without any need to manually restore/etc. For back ups, I'd be looking at using something like Backup Exec (other people will have more ideas for this) so that in the event the server did fail, you would install a base copy of the OS, install the backup exec agent, restore the lot and reboot. (In theory). - Whether you go for a tape drive, or some kind of removable hard disk is up to you really but I think RAID would answer your quick restore need whilst being realistic for the 'worst' case scenario.

Have you tried System > Administration > Hardware Drivers to see whether Ubuntu prompts you to install fglrx or radeon drivers?

Hi Matt, I always stick with APC when I buy UPS' simply because of the proven reliability and the PowerChute software is easy to configure/maintain. To get 25-30 mins you may need to pay a bit more. For example, a APC Smart UPS 1000VA will do 6.1mins at full load but you can measure what you're currently pulling and adjust that as necessary. You can move the scale around depending upon what you're after. Backups wise, do you need to entertain SQL or Exchange or any fun things? - How much data are you envisaging needing to back up etc?

Never apologise for wanting to learn fella.

Make a file called .wgetrc in your home directory and put in the confirmed as working http_proxy= line and then try wget. If you want to do it for all users, edit /etc/wgetrc.

You can use -forever

It's possible, have a nose here.

Ah, er, I'll have a quick nose through sql, hang on.

Was this the wwwroot in moodle's config.php? Is it all images? (even the moodle ones)

Yep, that's pretty much exactly what ours was minus the automatic running. We had some exclusions such as *.TMP, Temporary Internet Files etc that we didn't want cludging the back up up with as we were backing up their 'profile' in effect with everything that had been redirected which included cookies etc.

Hi David, I've used x11vnc to get past the 'I can't use vnc until I've logged in' problem in the past, it appears to spawn a separate X session in some fairly clever way. - Might be worth a look. Or, There's some discussion here about making GDM allow vnc logon. Mind you, that's for fedora but I'm sure we can make it happen! I have an LTSP set up here if you want me to have a nose too.

Phew fella, be careful there; not training people for the fear of them leaving the school is scary territory, I left because I didn't get any training! EDIT: Share the knowledge, if one goes on a course they should be sharing the knowledge and best practice amongst the team so everyone benefits. (Ok, they have the bit of paper that says they did the course but you all retain the knowledge)

I see. If the pay rise was for the introduction of netbooks, and extra laptops, mac's etc that's where I'd delegate the responsibility to them for. I had one of my guys look after the 'suites' specifically ensuring they were up to scratch, damage handled etc. Sit down and have a chat with them in a team meeting and see what they're interested in whilst remembering work isn't always fun!