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I may have discovered a bug in SIMS v7.159, though I am yet to confirm this (it's certainly affected my SIMS, not sure about other!) Importing the CTF using the "Add Ks2 for Existing Pupils Only" method overwrites all of the included students' ethnicity, changing it to "Information not Obtained". Could do without this 2 days before census! Thought I'd give you all the heads up.

Easily solved by adding a nail to the equation IME

Putting the health & safety hat on for a moment Make sure you (or any kids you get helping) are wearing goggles and gloves when you do this, those platters are like glass when broken and tend to explode in to thousands of tiny shards!

Would be lovely to have a specialist machine of course but if £1 a disk is too expensive then buying a machine makes no sense. You can buy a hammer for £5, works out at £0.01 per disk and will take you an hour at most. Once the platter is smashed there's no recovering data, no matter how fancy a gadget you might have used to smash it!

If they're 'Modern'/Metro apps, then kiosk mode is what you're looking for: Enable Kiosk Mode in Windows 8.1 - Yash's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

I found this site got me up and running pretty quickly: Regular Expression Tutorial - Learn How to Use Regular Expressions

In a similar vein to my last post on here, I hit a bit of trouble importing NCA Tools' CTF in to SIMS .net, but thankfully the solution is simple Importing NCA Tools' KS2 CTF in to SIMS .net - Geek Josh

You also have to sign up to woto, create a page and implement a method to send an email to the specified address (skim reading that's how it appears anyway)

I'll be keeping an eye on this - could really do with a new laptop tablet pair of socks

2GB max! it's 4 years old and a netbook so I'm not expecting miracles lol just need it to get me through code clubs for the next few months until I can buy a proper laptop @ICTDirect_Dave £15 sounds good to me!

Thanks, I wasn't going to cross post but I will have a better chance! Finding the memory isn't the problem, it's the cost - nearly £25 for one 2GB stick of crappy old RAM stings!

Turns out it's actually DDR2 PC2-6400 (SODIMM) I'm in need of - does anyone have any going spare? http://www.edugeek.net/forums/classified-adverts/142440-ddr2-pc2-6400-2gb-sodimm.html

bumped for the lunch time traffic

Happy to help

I'm trying to squeeze another 6 - 12 months out of my netbook while I save for a new laptop. I'm going to put in an SSD and also want to upgrade the memory. However, the prices being charged for this memory are a bit steep IMO, so I'm here with my cap in my hand hoping one of you fine folk have some lying around gathering dust that you'd be willing to sell to me fairly cheap?

It may be that the code needs to be loaded before the image, which would of course happen if the script was in the head. If that is the case then you should be able to get around it by importing jQuery, then putting in a little script to add in the image when the page has finished loading (i.e. inside $(document).ready()) Something like this (untested, but should give you the idea) <br /> // Author: Edvin Eshagh<br /> <br /> function show360Simple( divContainerId, imageUrl )<br /> {<br /> show360( divContainerId, imageUrl , 200, 20 , 1);<br /> }<br /> <br /> <br /> function show360( divContainerId<br /> , imageUrl<br /> , imageWidthInPixels<br /> , moveIntervalInMS<br /> , moveSteps )<br /> <br /> {<br /> <br /> var o = document.getElementById( divContainerId );<br /> <br /> o.style.backgroundImage = 'url'+'(' + imageUrl + ')';<br /> <br /> o.style.position = "relative";<br /> <br /> o.innerHTML = '<div style="width:20%; height:100%;position:absolute;"'<br /> + ' onmouseover="show360Direction(\'' + divContainerId + '\',-2);">' + ' + ' onmouseover="show360Direction(\'' + divContainerId + '\',-1);">' + ' + ' onmouseover="show360Direction(\'' + divContainerId + '\',0);">' + ' + ' onmouseover="show360Direction(\'' + divContainerId + '\',1);">' + ' + ' onmouseover="show360Direction(\'' + divContainerId + '\',2);">'; show360Direction( divContainerId, 1 ); setTimeout( "move360( '" + divContainerId + "', " + moveSteps + ", 0, " + imageWidthInPixels + ", " + moveIntervalInMS +" );", moveIntervalInMS ); } // show360() function show360Direction( divContainerId, iDirection ) { eval( "show360_" + divContainerId + " = " + iDirection ) ; } function move360( divContainerId , iDirectionStep , deltaX , imageWidth , refreshInterval ) { //if( deltaX > imageWidth || deltaX<0) {iDirectionStep *= -1;} deltaX += eval( "show360_" + divContainerId ) * iDirectionStep; var o = document.getElementById( divContainerId ); o.style.backgroundPosition = deltaX + "px 0px"; var evalFunc = "move360( '" + divContainerId + "'" + ", " + iDirectionStep + ", " + deltaX + ", " + imageWidth + ", " + refreshInterval + ");"; setTimeout( evalFunc, refreshInterval ); } // move360() // here is where jQuery might save you $(document).ready(function(){ show360Simple( "myhome", "/images/txb5_money.jpg"); }); Maybe put a loading gif here EDIT: I changed it a bit based on the example in your link, so if you've already tried it I apologize but try this new version! EDIT2: missed a bracket (I hate Javascript)

What's stopping you from using the JS you posted above? It doesn't have to be in the head, you can put it in the body

Do you have to use that font? If not, try other similar ones like Arial, Verdana, Century Gothic (which is not at all gothic, btw)

Definitely an improvement, but I think the character spacing needs increasing a bit; if the letters look like they're touching "close up", this effect will be exaggerated at a distance so not good for a banner (I'm by no means an expert on the subject, that statement may be twoddle)

What are you using to design it in? The kerning is all off on the text... (unlikely to be your fault!) @SYSMAN_MK is the expert designer around here!

I only need one for my netbook (personal). Never mind

@abillybob - if you're willing to sell one of those DDR3 sticks cheapy cheap, I could do with one...

Given the nature of the script, my guess would be that you need to set the necessary permissions on the directories you want to be able to browse in order to give the client access to them. Is it on a Windows or Linux server? Never mind

Have you considered two, smaller monitors rather than one huge one? I find it incredibly useful to be able to have summary analysis on one screen, then pull up detail on another. It's doable on one screen (WinKey + [left/RIGHT]) but not as easy.

Less creative but more practical: donate some to an electronics teacher? The cables inside CAT5 leads are great signal wires... not as fun as some of the ideas above mind!