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I had a university lecturer who could only open explorer by right clicking the Start button and selecting 'Explore'... We've had staff assure us that their USB pendrive made the usual 'bong' noise when it was plugged in, but never showed up in My Coomputer. Strangely enough we knew it was a lie when we took a closer look at the 'usb' socket in use...! Similar to this, we've had staff coming into our office complaining 'the wireless is broken'. We took a look at the laptop, and all was fine. Turns out they were trying to connect to the school wireless from their home, 5 miles away! One of our primaries had a similar situation because the cleaners kept unplugging the server so they could use their vacuums!

Not sure about setting via GPO, but I've had this same phenomenon setting things manually. I seem to remember that the 'locked' wallpaper is the last wallpaper set with display properties. If you change it via another means (different app etc), or possibly to a JPG or something else that classifies as 'active content' (anything not a bmp, I think), it doesn't apply to the 'locked' state. You may need to look for a different GPO policy to apply this, or maybe use a bmp.

3 Techs ~700 workstations, laptops and Macs ~1500 users 17 servers/service appliances 2 sites (Well, 2 buildings, one campus)

Come on guys, don't be so hard on him: he's elite! http://www.cnet.com/i/bto/20091209/3675717991_f750f4a35f_o.jpg

I've been putting off installing a proper version of 7, since I've been (somewhat stupidly) using the RC on my main project pc I use for video / web work. I've not actually had the time to reinstall everything since the end of November! I intend to have my current DVD project finished in the next week or so, so I can avoid the warnings and shutdowns!

I found out the difficult way (won't say 'hard way' ) what that link was, only to get laughed at as my boss, who admitted he'd clicked it too... ...But didn't put it on any banlists...

We tend to allow personal laptops onto the wireless purely for internet access in lessons, provided they're up to date and have a reasonable AV solution. We don't typically provide software, and if we do, it's within our lisences. Our bigger problem is being told when student teachers are going to be in school; the first we hear about it is when they're in our office asking for login details. We've even had staff call and say "I've been sending emails to the student teachers. Why isn't student teacher X getting them?" "Err, who is X?"

You can diable bluetooth and remove the Finder bar's icon for it using WGM. To disable bluetooth add "DisableBluetooth" boolean "true" to com.MCX.Bluetooth.plist in your machine group(s). To hide the icon, add "Bluetooth.menu" boolean "false" to com.apple.mcxMenuExtras in your user group(s).

A horizontally flipped G4 Xserve. For why?

Has nobody linked to this yet? Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer

I'm guessing most people check out new posts with the iSpy page, which has been swamped by frisky people today, so... *BUMP*

True, it's not that difficult, but I prefer not to use converted versions in final output (which is why I use the workflow metioned above). Plus it slows things down!

We've just encountered a frustrating problem with our suite of iMacs using Safari (4.0.4) and RMSmartCache (2a.9.9). Our SmartCache is set to authenticate users via AD. On the Macs, it cannot do this, so asks users to manually log in with their AD credentials when they request a page. Frustrating for them (largely because they haven't figured out what the 'Remember this password' tickbox does), but it works. The problem we're having is that the Quicktime plugin for embedded videos also asks for authentication credentials for the smartcache box, but never accepts any - it just pops up the authentication request dialog again, regardless of the credentials you provide or the form you type them (username, domain\username, domain/username etc). (FYI, the page prompting the question in Apple - iLife - Find out how to use iLife applications on the Mac., but this also occurs with other Quicktime embedded movies on other sites.) To add to this issue, I've tested the same functionality in Firefox 3.6, and it works correctly. The Quicktime plugin still requests proxy authentication, but it only asks once, then starts playing the video. Has anyone encountered this, or a similar problem before? Does anyone have any ideas where I can look next to resolve this? I'd prefer not to have to roll out Firefox to the Macs, if it can be avoided... Thanks in advance, Andy B

That's exactly the issue I've had to deal with. The compression rate is so high (the datarate is often less than DV), all but the newest PC's can't play it back properly in it's raw format, let alone apply any filters as well. I've resorted to editing with DV versions of my AVCHD files, then replacing them before rendering my final output. I remember reading an article last year outlining one of the BBC's tapeless HD suites. Custom linux builds and huge SAS/SAN arrays, IIRC...

I know this is changing the discussion slightly, but how do you handle /edit your AVCHD footage, laserblazer; what software do you use on what machine? Do you do any pre-processing in your workflow before you edit? I have an AVCHD camera (an early Canon HDD model) and have found AVCHD to be much more of a pain to use than I originally thought it'd be - largely due to processing demands to play the stuff back!

EMBC (Notts) block it for us, categorised as Global List. As it's our policy that we don't override EMBC filters without SLG consent, I guess it's staying that way until someone notices / cares!

I've only ever seen those 'U3'-type pendrives with autorun software, but haven't had too much trouble with them. On our XP system, they seem to appear as two drives: U3Launch (or something) and a standard 'removable disk'.

We use our .sch.uk address. Staff sometimes find it difficult to remember, but there's never been any talk of getting it changed to make life easier. It's not all that long anyway - nowhere near as bad as some I've seen!

My hours are 8-4 Mon-Thurs, 8-3:30 Friday. Typically get in for 7:30 though, 'cos it's easier to get in rooms and move equipment about when there are fewer staff in giving it 'Oh, have you got a second?'. Out the door promptly at the end of the day, though! We have no set arrangement for OT and we usually get it as time off in lieu, but we sometimes have to 'barter' for it; they like it to suit the school, not us. We don't do OT for evening events/parents evening etc unless we've been asked more than 24hours before the event. ...But as I'm only junior staff, there's not much call for OT for me.

I've had reasonable results using this to recover files: PhotoRec - CGSecurity Hope this is of use.

Did you say 'experts'? Ha!

Do you want this to happen automatically when you change the Select dropdown's value, or when you click a submit button? Using a submit button in a form is easier as you should get all variables inside the $_GET or $_POST global (i.e. $_GET['category']) when you submit the form to PHP to handle. If you want it to happen automatically as you change the value, you're gonna have to attach a Javascript function to the onChange() event handler that reads the value and posts it off to the server (php), then handles whatever comes next - navigating to a new page, or inserting new content into the existing one.

Normalisation That sounds like a fairly involved system to build from scratch. Have you looked into pre-existing solutions - there's bound to be some available. Not too sure about online references (I pick snippets up from all over the place, as I end up doing a lot of Googling when I build things), but if you're up for some hard-copy, I learnt a lot from the second edition of this book (now on ed3): PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide. You can currently [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/PHP-MySQL-Dynamic-Web-Sites/dp/032152599X/]get it from Amazon.co.uk[/ame] for a princely £15.

It was previously "while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($tables)) {". Change it to "while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($tables, MYSQL_NUM)) {" and it'll work. Or at least it does for me...! NB: MYSQL_NUM is an option of the 'mysql_fetch_array' command, not something you need to change. The other options are MYSQL_ASSOC and MYSQL_BOTH PHP: mysql_fetch_array - Manual

I've had a quick poke at CESIL's code (couldn't help myself!): It's the while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($tables, MYSQL_NUM)) { line that needed changing. Now you have two options!