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BE CAREFUL if you unconfig the raid and then create a new config (as opposed to importing the config) you will lose all data. Butuz

It confuses the crap out of XP DNS and generally just won't work properly. Also what happens if you end up with wired and wireless connected at the same time? Error. Butuz

Phil I take it this is something Oracle has introduced into the Oracle branded 7110 firmware? My 7110s are still running on SUN's branded firmware and they accept and can use any type or brand of drive whether it be SAS, SATA or SSD. If you do not have an oracle support contract on your 7110 then I feel sorry for you as if you want to create a new support contract they will charge you in order to send an Oracle engineer out to assertain if your 7110 is able to be contracted i.e if it has been fiddled around with, which by the sound of it yours has. Expect the one of cost of this to be as much as, or possible more than the 7110 is worth, plus the standard yearly support contract on top. Oracle are soo nice to education customers. Butuz

Fantastic work Dave. Great video too! Butuz

Great thread. I've got a couple of projectors like this. One has gone really yellow the other pink! Nice to know for sure that it can't be solved by cleaning or a bulb change! Butuz

Holy carp. I think this may be the game that drags me kicking and screaming back into PC gaming. Ive been out of PC Gaming for years and have been very happy with my Xbox 360. The amount I've saved on motherboards procesors and graphics cards has literally allowed me to buy a car Problem is, 64 player and even better graphics thant he xbox is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tempting me :-) oh and an Edugeek platoon of course. Butuz

Please do. The more honestly people post on here the more ammo for the likes of us struggling to find funding Butuz

From next year our ICT budget is going to be capped at 10k per year for new equipment and 1.5k a year for repairs. 400 PCs ~1000 users. We need to replace ~200 pcs ASAP as they are 6 years old.. I don't know why I bother getting out of bed, frankly. Butuz

Non dell drive should be fine as long as its a 10k SAS drive. Make sure its the same speed (i.e 10kRPM). Try to get a 300GB but really size doesn't matter too much as it will just use the first 300GB of the drive. Butuz

So. Here's a question for you. How much space / quota do you give your staff for their My Documents?

That request tracker looks really good. Does it integrate with AD? Butuz

Yes the forum is the best place for questions more people will read it. I recon the problem is to do with the Raid. If you don't want to use raid at all you need to go into the raid BIOS on boot up (usually CONTRL & M when it boots) and delete the raid array. BE AWARE THAT THIS WILL DELETE ALL DATA ON THE RAID ARRAY SO IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT ON THERE DONT DO IT!!!!! Then you need to go into the bios and set the Motherboard Raid setup from RAID back to normal. This way you get up to 4 seperate normal hard drives rather than a RAID array. Windows 7 should install on that no problem. Butuz

Yet another utterly blatant iphone copy that wont be able to be sold in germany. Apple lawyers at the ready!! Sir Yess Sah!!!!! Butuz

SYSMAN_MK: What a guy! Butuz

It's old hat but in my opinion it's still the best/most useful Raid level out of all of them as it allows Raid 0 read speeds whilst still featuring good redundancy and a hotswap drive for extra assurance all the while making most use of your disk space. The majority of data on the majority of servers is Read. Therefore Raid 5 suits. Raid 10 / Raid 6 / Triple Parity Raid are all great as long as you’re happy to not be able to use 50 - 66% of your storage. All of these raid levels only perform well / have much more complexity / overhead on the Raid card too so lets hope you've stumped up the cash for a good one. Butuz

Ahh the good old days when there was no such thing as the school network manager and there was no such thing as security in windows but there was such a thing as money RM Connect 2.x was brilliant. Anyone remember RM File Protector? Like Faronics DeepFreeze only 15 years ahead of the game. Connect 2 was crammed full of innovative RM software the likes of which simply didnt exist anywhere else. What you have to remember is there was no file permissions or any security features whatsoever built into 95 and precious llittle management tools built into NT3.5 / NT4. RM Connect 2 allowed networks in schools to be secure and to be maintained and managed and all by someone that was not an ub3r geek. All gone downhill since 1996 mind Butuz

I say beat the truth out of all three of 'em. People always tell the truth when the pain gets "just so" Butuz

Using Sharepoint Services 3.0 here for our intranet. Free, quick and easy to set up (install on any windows server) and it acts as a default intranet page for students with links to all our internal and external web sites, and then separate staff area with resources directed at staff such as helpdesk email etc. Don't use it for any of the fancy stuff like document storage / workflow / etc as we have moodle for that as sharepoint is a bit clunky for that stuff (IMHO). Just literally use it as an easy to update hyperlink repository. Butuz

I would select a new vendor if possible.. *edit* oh no damn you nicholab you made me post to a 3 year old thread!!! Butuz

Either would be nice! It's actually an old 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R! Butuz

Simple question is: Do you need Flash support? If you don't then the iPad is the best out there. If you do need flash then anything other than an iPad will have to do! Butuz

No the mistake is yours, insurance groups have changed it is no longer the old 1 - 20 system since January 2010 it changed to a 1 - 50 system his is group 19 out of 50. Mine is group 50 out of 50 Butuz

Highlights the main problem for me - your always trusting someone else to make sure things are done right, never actually knowing if any of this stuff is going to work during a disaster (though you have been reassured it will by the salesmen, of course). Then it fails. And oh dear now you know that it may not work. Seems to be a backwards step to me. I'd rather know definitively - we have installed all of this and all of that and tested it and it works. Or, we have this point of failure and that point of failure and it is not cost effective to address it but we know about it and can plan around it. At least we know where we are rather than guessing, and hoping. Butuz

If you expect to get 30-40mpg out of an ST170 you will be seriously dissapointed. I used to get average 29mpg out of my 2.0 ghia and that had about 50HP less. I recon you'll be running 25 - 30mpg in evereryday town driving on an ST170. Butuz

I think the real question Thomas is: "Does your school actually have any say in the matter?" It could well be the case that you are going to get whatever you are given by Your LEA/Consortium/RM regardless of what your technical team wish? I think your team need to have a chat with your head and find out if there is any say in the mater to be had. Butuz