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it's not a fully 24/7 streaming service but it might be interesting to look at; School Video | School Radio | Free School Websites | Radiowaves

You miss the point. This isn't about desktop machines. It's about windows, mac and linux laptops, ipads, androids, meegoo, meamo, symbian, iPhones, and all those others system I've not mentioned. At the college I'm based at we increasingly expect students to come in with their own kit and we shouldn't discriminating against them just because they choose not to use windows. Likewise we can't directly control those systems and so need to find a way of still providing safe, controlled, internet access

true but then how many people knew it was there? and how many of them had it quietly set via group policy or ISA? With heterogeneous environments control at an OS level is a luxury

which is awesome if you use internet explorer

you're not thinking as an end user though - nearly all of whom don't know what a proxy is

but surely there's big difference in automagically presenting the user with a web page asking for their username and password versus having the users going to tools>settings>advanced>network, typing the proxy and port number (based on the firefox path)

how about something like this: Multi-functional Firewall Software - Open Source Content Filter & Spam Filter | Untangle.com ? nobody said any thing about unauthenticated

probably because Google want to give everyone the fastest and easiest way possible to hook up to an internet connection with out requiring much input from the user. Also Google like to try and push things their ways. And yes corporate IT have proxies for decades, but that doesn't mean that the right thing/ only way to do things now-a-days. This is exactly the argument we've had here, finally the Admin caved in and got transparent proxying working and now we a bunch more happy customers.

You can't set proxies on android at the moment. Version 2.2 is supposed to let you do this. However what you can do is set your filter etc at a gateway level which avoids the need for a proxy in the first and then plays nicely with android, ios, osX, linux etc

goto frontpage>frontpage settings you'll see sections with drop downs - 1 for logged in users and one for guest users. Select site news in the drop downs and that will display the site news forms posts on the frontpage No need to use RSS

you might want to look at something like phpmotion if you're look at video and pictures

it's probably not best to use NVU at development has stopped on that and Komposer is a bud fixed version of it.

For the thin client part you might also want to look at Ulteo who provide thin client/ web OS with MS program integration An other option would be to ditch the Citrix/ thin client side altogether and use virtual box or similar to run a virutal machine on those desktops that need access to sims. You'd need machine with enough ram and also you'd have to update those vms manually though

comments from others on this post aside here are some linux type ideas - I'll though I'll preference these with the fact I work in a windows only college and haven't had the chance to put them to practise. If you switch desktop machines to something like ubuntu you can install likewise which will let you connect to a windows domain and authenticate to it. This will let you keep your active directory - although you will still need to have cals for each machine that connects. you'll then need to find replacements for programs and get people used to them and used to teaching them - for example a switch to open office is all very well but the school will likely be geared to teaching MS office so there's going to have to be some time invested there. as for the server side; file shareing and web servers are pretty easy but LDAP to replace AD can be a lot of hard work. You might want to look at a system like 'ebox' or 'clearos' and consider something like 'untangle' for a firewall. I'm assuming that you have some good Linux knowledge and experience. I wouldn't embarked on this path with the intention of learning as you go. On other option is to look at the live.edu and google appas for education offerings. This would let you run Linux or windows on the desktops and so long as they have access to the internet you'd be able to access email, word processing and file storage

that's not really a CMS your after then. A CMS will run your whole site. sounds like you need something like Kompozer which is an open source WYSISWYG html editor or Adobe Contribute which makes it easy for users t create and edit pages. But you will probably need to rejig your templates in order to use contribute effectively

joomla, drupal and the other CMS are pretty user friendly if set up correctly so your PR woman should be able to update it - especially if you teach her and give her a good set of instructions. A lot of the CMS system will also include some kind of work flow. So for example PR could add a new article but it not go live until you've checked it for any glaring technical issues.

there is also the zoho suite which could be useful if you don't want to drive everyone into having a hotmail of googlemail account

ubuntu lucid also includes pitivi for movie editing. Openshot is also very good also as well as the gimp there is paint.mono which is a linux version of paint.net I recommend giving Ubuntu or possibly Linux mint ago if you're new to Linux as they are very user friendly and have lots of support on the web. it's very girl friend friendly. Don't be put of by the buttons - you'll adjust to them (or move them as someone else suggested)

Open Multiple Websites at Once With A Desktop Shortcut

manageengine opmanager is pretty good and a decent price You could also take a look at opennms - although it takes a bit of time to get the windows side working well.

if working fine for me both from the college and the my home

for the IE 6 issue my new theme uses this: Pushuptheweb.com Stops having the code for such a horrible browser and also helps make the web a safer place

i really like it - Moodle has a habit of looking old and tired but that themes really nice and fresh. Are the 'standard' pages just course with all the weeks turned of?

You should check out the web platform installer: http://www.microsoft.com/web/Downloads/platform.aspx It makes iis with php much easier to install, it will even install moodle for you. granted it's not as easy as apt-get install moodle but it's worryingly close

one of these devices coupled with a portable bluetooth keyboard and google apps for education could begin to make some interesting changes. Very cheap, no Microsoft, no licensing costs, no viruses and increased possibilities for open source. It could be interesting to say the least.