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Can you give an example of the content. I'd say it's unlikely that anything exists (free or paid for) which will do the job for you directly but it's the sort of thing which might be easy to script or use sed/awk/grep to work with, particularly if they're reasonably nicely formatted. If you can read them with Outlook then I'd guess you can use VBA - it's possible to step through each message in a folder, get the content and "do stuff" with it. If not, I think you will need to get them into text files which you can process. Next year it would be worth thinking about "what will I do with the data I collect" before you start :-) It would almost certainly be easier to have people fill in a simple web form which submits the results straight into a database but it's very easy for me to say that after the event ...

Actually, I suspect it's Independent :-)

Actually, I suspect it's Independent{/] :-)

It's not rumour - the Labour party doesn't have an income anywhere near that of the Conservative party (fewer millionaires make donations to Labour) Living outside the constituency is not uncommon - David Cameron has his main home in London, not in his Oxford/Abingdon constituency. His attitude to second homes is one of the reasons I despise the man. He was asked about the possibility of having some kind of hotel accommodation in London for MPs rather than second homes. His comment was that he likes to take his whole family with him when he goes to the constituency. Well, that's wonderful and I'm sure they're very happy like that but I don't see why I should pay for him to have a second home when his constituency is commuting distance from London. There are many, many people who have to spend some nights working away from home and would love to take their families with them. The fact that he doesn't see his attitude as wildly unreasonable speaks volumes about his attitude to "hard working families"!

I was going to say I don't know how any one could believe a government (or anyone else) can distinguish between not voting as a protest and not voting because I can't be bothered to make the effort but then some people believe the earth is flat ... You can be absolutely sure that you can be traced - surely anyone who's ever voted knows that??? When you go to vote you have to identify yourself - this attempts to make sure you don't vote twice. The polling clerk then crosses off your name and gives you a numbered ballot paper. They write your electoral number down on a sheet next to the number of your paper. Those records are then kept safe so that if there is suspicion of fraud etc it's possible to find out what actually happened in the election. (I think a court order is needed to link the ballot paper to the voter; not sure how often it happens) Before anyone starts complaining about "big brother" and how this last government has eroded our rights, that process has been in place for the 30 odd years I've been voting (and I'm pretty sure I was taught about it at school which is a very long time ago!)

This just isn't true! It may be that they don't do what you want but to suggest that governments "do nothing" suggests you've take no notice of what's happened in the country during your entire life! I'll leave others to list things done by this government (good and bad) or by the last government (good and bad) but governments pretty much never "do nothing"!

You could put any party name in there and it would be true. What we ought to do is not just say "how much tax" but "what do residents get for it" My local council (Hammersmith and Fulham; often used by Cameron as an example of a good council) has cut council tax for the past 3 years which sounds wonderful. What they've also done is put up the charges for everything else (on-street parking charges but they've gone up massively, for example) They've also claimed more money from central government (which is still tax I pay) and used up reserves. On top of that, their "efficiency savings" have put a good number of people out of work. Of course, those people don't matter - they were probably on short term contracts so they just vanish from the system; there are no compulsory redundancies. On top of all that we now have a dreadful council funded newspaper (if it was the only thing you read about the borough you'd run screaming from the place thinking it was an absolute hell hole) which is putting other local papers out of business - they can't compete with a free council paper. (It wouldn't matter if the council paper was just council news but it tries to cover everything including local entertainment etc and takes advertising which means there are fewer advertisers to spend money with other papers)

Not having a lot of joy with it. Thought I'd try the netbook remix - I've got a Kohjinsha SA5 (low powered AMD Geode but quite a nice little machine with a touch screen so it works like a tablet but can be used with fingers; doesn't need a special stylus) but I can't get it to install. Starts OK but where I'd guess it's starting X I just get a sort of washed out screen (pale purple round the edge and a sort of ragged, rounded rectangle of a whitish colour in the middle). I'd guess I need to install it in text mode somehow but can't find an obvious option to do that. Also tried it on a desktop. That installs OK but fails to find the wireless network card - same problem as I mentioned a while ago; it just detects the wrong card. I know I can fix that so I'll get back to it later but it's just a bit depressing to get nowhere at all with Ubuntu.

@stutzmanryan that's a good idea! In the UK I don't think there are any Radio Shack stores (used to be branded Tandy but I've not seen one for ages!) Many (most?) schools have accounts with RS and they sell what I think is the same stuff Electrolube | Workshop Consumables | Adhesives, Sealants and Tapes | PCB Compounds and Adhesives | Conductive Adhesives-PCB Compounds and Adhesives |ERSCP03B or Maplin have this Electrically Conductive Silver Paint : Conductive Paint : Maplin

The 24 cores will terminate on a patch panel (have a look here for some examples) Videk Online and, as @plexer says, you need 2 of them per connection (receive and transmit; normally just labelled Rx and Tx) The idea of putting 24 cores in one cable is that you make it smaller - you can use one strong sheath to protect all 24 fibres instead of having 24 protective layers which would be very bulky

This page gives the BBC disc error codes - error 08 means "Error 08 (clock error) during a disc read operation a clock bit was missing." which I think means a fault with the drive rather than the disc

I'd love to think you're right but the talk of "efficiency" suggests you're not. the current school model of IT is wildly inefficient - it has too many people paid too much money doing too little (and yes, I am playing devil's advocate!) Do you really need a network manager in every school? Why not one per LEA? You do need bodies in the school to put new machines on desks, unjam printers, reimage machines etc but all these are low skill (= low pay) If you're looking for efficiency savings then the first thing you target is people - they are the big cost. I read on here recently some criticism of a BSF project which was insisting on having (I think) 10% of hardware just kept in store as spares. Sounds daft but having a spare computer which an unskilled person can put on a desk to replace a faulty machine is far cheaper than having a skilled technician to diagnose the fault and fix it - you just ship off the machine to your central place and they fix it. It's not good but it's what I think is coming.

Super is just a "friendly" front end to a bunch of open source programs (the company is completely open about this) so what you can do is use Super to start the conversion and then run Sysinternals Process Explorer. You can then see the actual process which is doing the conversion and just run it directly next time you need a conversion.

It always sounds rude when you say "oh, you're too young to understand" and it makes me sound like an old f*rt (which, of course, I am) but it is a real problem. My (fairly young) Tory candidate has a leaflet saying "we will keep mortgage rates low" He doesn't go on to say "just like we did last time" but back in 1992, base rate reached 12% (ie 24 times what it is today) - that was how a Tory government managed the economy during recession. Of course, some things were probably better then - the Times closed down for a whole year while Murdoch sacked huge numbers of staff and moved it to Wapping - but it wasn't a total golden age.

I'd guess you need to step back and think about what you need them to know. Are you trying to get a budget from management in order to implement this? In which case, they don't need to understand the technical stuff at all, just the benefits. As an example, they almost certainly know that the network users can go to any machine and access the same set of files without having to worry how they got there and if one machine is out of order then you just use another one. VMotion gives you a similar kind of thing - the physical server box fails and you can just move the virtual server to another computer just like moving the pupil to another computer. I know this isn't technically correct but it gives a feel for the sort of thing that is understandable in terms of benefits. Hope that helps to get you started!

I've not used RM CC3 but I suspect they've just replaced the standard MSGina (the bit that handles accepting credentials). If you're a C programmer this isn't difficult to do but if you get it wrong then you won't be able to log on at all so it's something to be careful with! I'd guess it causes a problem because you get malicious users (in a school? Surely not!!) who change the login to the local machine and then the next user can't log in because they're not using the domain and they don't understand what they have to do. It's not a big deal but it can be a real irritation.

I like the idea of the 99p coin but could you imagine the chaos in a shop when you hand over half a dozen 99p coins for something that cost £5?? You'd have to redesign tills so that the assistants could key in "99p coin" followed by the number of them!

List the ROMs with the *HELP command Get help for each ROM typically by typing *HELP If the ROM is an application (eg Wordwise) then you just start it with *WORDWISE and then just use it to do whatever. Many of the utility ROMS had a fairly limited set of commands (they were probably only 8 or 16 kilobytes - ie smaller than some peoples signature blocks on here!!)

It was pretty good but this is at least one version ago (not sure of version numbers but I think we had version 3; version 4 was just coming out 2 years ago; don't know what version there is now)

Right click on it to choose between "peek" (what you describe) and an immediate "show desktop"

You might be able to do it in Access but it's not going to be easy - it's not just about filtering data from an existing data set but being able to add items by asking questions ("is it solid or liquid", "acid or alkali" etc) and then either finding an item or saying "this is new; what distinguishes it from item XXX" Doing a quick Google, I found FlexiTree 2 - a branching database for schools is a good example of the software (as an aside, I'm pleased to see Flexible software is still going!) There's also RM.com Shop: Textease Branch CT

I have used it but not for 2 years so it could have changed since then. It worked well for us. It integrates with AD (we had it configured so you logged on at copiers using AD credentials) and the company didn't throw up their hands in horror when we not only read stuff from the SQL database but wrote to it as well. Googling for Equitrac trial software gives loads of hits so you should be able to find one (eg - Equitrac That's Australian but I think Kyocera UK also supply it) I do remember getting a trial version before we bought it.

Be lovely if it was all true but frequently it isn't. Some of the very rich seem to do their utmost to employ as few people as possible and avoid the tax (Cameron has said they won't even have to pay tax if they're employing 10 or fewer people; you can see a lot of companies that used to have 100 employees suddenly becoming several small, 10 employee companies so they don't pay tax) If all the people who have become so rich under Thatcher, Blair and Brown were really employing so many people then we wouldn't have got to the state where half the population is employed in the public sector. They might buy bigger toys but so many of them will magically find ways to make them company assets and avoid paying VAT and the income tax they could have paid because these purchases are offset against profits. There are some rich people who put huge amounts of money into charity - Bill Gates is a good example - but on the whole, poor people give a much higher percentage of their income to charity.

I think I'd use Access rather than Excel (actually, I'd rather use a web based form and SQL server. It's a bit harder to set up but it's much easier to have multiple people entering data - you can even collect directly rather than doing paper forms and rekeying) You don't need to worry about adding up the totals as you go - even if you use Excel you just have a set of COUNT or COUNTIF statements (eg if Q1 can have answers 1,2 or 3 then somehwhere you'd have a COUNTIF for each of the possible values and it will just increment each time you enter 1,2 or 3) Access needs a little bit more work - you probably want to make a form to collect the data - but you've got much better reporting facilities. I assume what you're doing is asking questions like "what do you think of the canteen?" and you'll get back free-text answers. There's very little you can do with these apart from list responses (and this is where you really need to get your survey design right - if you have too many questions like this you get nothing out of the survey because it's just too much effort to correlate all the responses)

One reason to partition the drive is if the server has multiple roles. If it's being used as a fileserver then you may not want the home drives on the same partition as Windows because if your quotas don't work properly then you can get either deliberate or accidental denial of service against the server just by filling up a group folder.