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Not being young, I remember all of this stuff :-) Am I dreaming, or did RM (possibly still RML in those days!) do a product called Smartbridge for bridging Netbeui.

Kyocera toner cartridges contain nothing but plastic which makes them easy to recycle (unlike things like HP which have key parts of the printer mechanism in them) Kyocera will take back the cartridges - details on their website: KYOCERA MITA | About Green Card | About Us | Toner Cassette Returns - print copy scan fax It's even a Freepost address for the return - yet another reason why Kyocera is one of the best (if not the best :-)) printer companies!

What are you wanting to do with the user script that needs admin rights? In general, machine startup scripts do the admin type stuff; user login scripts do the personal stuff which doesn't normally need admin rights. To run the script hidden, run gpedit.msc on the machine and go to user config | admin templates | system | scripts and choose "run legacy logon scripts hidden" and "run logon scripts hidden" and enable them. You can configure a logon script for each user by doing: net user /scriptpath: I think that the file mylogon.cmd has to be in a netlogon share on the local machine which adds to the difficulty!

change the line which builds your text string to this: txt = txt & "Drive" & vbtab & objItem.Name & vbcrlf & "Size" & vbtab & strDiskSize & vbcrlf & "Used" & vbtab & strUsedSpace & vbcrlf & "Free" & vbtab & strFreeSpace & vbcrlf & "% Free" & vbtab & pctFreeSpace & vbcrlf You're only writing txt at the end (which is fine) but you're throwing away "txt" after each drive so you only get the last disc.

Are you running mandatory profiles - it looks like it from the server location and the fact that this is a logon message. Assuming that is the case, the problem isn't that you've got old profiles on the workstation but you've got rubbish in your server copy of the profile. On the server, go to the profile folder (c:\windows\sysvol etc) and delete the "local settings" folder completely What it looks like is happening is that you've set up a profile at some point in the past, copied it to the server so that your users can use it but you've included all the stuff that's not intended to be on the server (that's kind of why it's called "local settings")

Who or what handles your email? If you're running on Exchange then you're going to add in new email addresses for all your users (it's not difficult but it's just something to remember!)

I know it's tempting, but if your neighbour is the complete *&!^ he seems, then this really won't help - if they complain to the council about your noise (or other neighbours complain about you) then it really won't get better.

As @mossj has said, universities are very different from schools. I'd guess most people here working in a school are in a team of 2-3 people at most. The university I work at has about 250 people working in ICT and roles are very clearly defined Given that the job is defined as network support assistant I suspect that it pretty much won't involve anything to do with end users - it's about making sure that there's a functioning network. You need to look at the job description but if it mentions stuff like managing switches then it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to give you a switch and say something like "configure VLANS for xxx" or perhaps ask you to do something with DNS or DHCP on a test network (and it probably won't be using Windows!) One other thing - try and find out how their IT is structured. Some unis still work on the basis that every department does its own IT (so their will be separate teams in maths, physics, mech eng etc) whereas others have moved to a centralised model. Good luck!

The idea ought to be that a good browser will try to cope with anything thrown at it but a good web designer will try and only use good code - you've then got a better chance of the browser rendering what you intended. The rules for constructing HTML are very clear and there are many tools available which will flag errors as you write the code and help to correct them (eg even the free version of MS Web Developer Express - http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/) and it seems a shame that people say "rules don't matter" I'd guess ignoring rules like this is just another example of David Cameron's "Broken Britain" :-)

There's 2 reasons really - the first is about the fact that it's something that you might want to use loads of times and you don't want to have to change the value throughout the script. The second is the fact that you're saying that the value can't be changed - this avoids making errors where you accidentally change something. Take an example, you're writing a script which is going to connect printers on a server. Let's suppose the server is called server1. You could list all your printers as "\\server1\printer1" "\\server1\printer2" etc but then when you get a new server you have to change all those references. If you have const sServer="\\server1\" at the beginning and then lines like mapprinter sSever & "printer1" then all you have to do is update the const value at the start. It can also make scripts more readable - you don't get bogged down in long string literals but you have a meaningful name (although that's also true for using variable names)

I don't write that website - I just moan at the people who do :-) Actually, this is (apparently) all down to Oracle and the web systems they supply - if anyone was thinking of buying a web site based on Oracle Portal I'd guess it makes sense to look at their website first - [invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/index.html - W3C Markup Validator with 91 errors and 25 warnings. Validation for the last website I wrote says ""This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Strict!"" [Valid] Markup Validation of http://techinfo.cnwl.ac.uk/ - W3C Markup Validator

Not sure what you're using to test but if the validator at The W3C Markup Validation Service says your web page is wrong then it is wrong! HTML has a (fairly!) simple set of rules and W3C kind of knows what those rules are. What can cause problems is that an error on one line may not be picked up (eg a missing end tag) which makes it look as if it's the next line that's wrong. The point is that HTML should be parsed by browsers in the same way; if the validator site can't make sense of your page then neither will the browser. Of course, whether it matters that you're not following the rules is another issue. For a school website I'd hope that valid HTML was used - it makes it more likely that screen readers will work as will the variety of browsers that people could use. For a company intranet you might choose to accept that there are errors because you're going to insist your users work with IE7 and you know that the errors don't matter on that browser.

I hate DNS for things like this - I don't think I ever really understood it so I just followed the instructions and it did all work in the end. The MS docs are here -http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757041(WS.10).aspx and should help if you follow them through. Plan B is to add something to the user logon script which logs their IP address somewhere. You've then got a much simpler link to who did what (you link IP to user rather than IP to machine and machine to user)

It will probably record it as a "transport stream" (.ts) file (basically, the raw Freeview data) This is MPG2 but it needs to be demultiplexed before you can do much with it such as editing or transcoding. I use Matroska Splitter (Haali Media Splitter) to demultipex stuff: c:\Program Files\haali\MatroskaSplitter\dsmux.exe output.mkv input.ts The output.mkv file can then be easily edited etc. Just for info, Asda are currently selling the Sagem DTR67320t for £97 This is a 320Gb hard disc based Freeview recorder. It has 2 tuners so can record 2 programmes simultaneously (actually, I think it can record anything from any 2 multiplexes) and has a USB socket so you can copy files onto an external USB drive and then watch etc elsewhere (although the "exportation" is painfully slow ...)

How many sockets etc?? 4-6 people working for 9 very full days ought to be able to cable a primary school, surely?? Are you sure they didn't sneak out to the pub when you weren't watching??? Too late now, but if ever someone wants to do something like this again you either need to get it done in phases or have the new cabling put in along side the old stuff; new stuff tested etc and only when it's working do you switch over and pull the old stuff!

Did you actually look at the numbers? It shows a figure of roughly 35% for the UK which means it includes the key taxes on income which everyone has to pay (income tax and NI) plus a bit more to get to that figure. There are some more taxes which most people have to pay (insurance tax, perhaps) but I'd be very surprised if that took you to 45% Assuming that the other countries shown have magically got all those other taxes included and it was just the UK that left them out then we're still looking at the UK being a lower tax economy than some of the others. And while we're hurling insults around, just remember that it was Thatcher and the Conservatives who took VAT from 8% under the last Labour government to 17.5% and "Gordo" who brought it down to 5% on fuel!

At the risk of starting a religious war, the best starting point is the Microsoft scripting site - Script Center They ought to know how to use their scripting technologies :-)

I would configure the printer to use DHCP and reserve an address. choose a hostname for it - set that if necessary on the printer - and then enter that in your DNS Unless something goes very wrong you should always be able to print to it by name (which is normally easier to remember than a Mac or IP - particularly when you go IPv6!)

It's put there by active directory and it's needed for machines to log on, find domain controllers, global catalogs etc. It's also why you must never, ever give out your external (ISP) DNS to a workstation - if the workstation uses that rather than the internal DNS it won't be able to find the servers and all sorts of things go wrong :-)

That's the way the tax system always works. Most people pay tax for things they don't use but benefit from other people paying tax for things they do use (I haven't got kids but a huge chunk of the tax I pay goes to providing schools as an example. At some point I might need major health care - at that point I'll be glad that everyone else has paid in their taxes so that we have a decent NHS etc)

Not yet all gone to India! Dell has some call centres in Scotland, my bank (Smile) has its call centre in the UK, National Savings is UK, Dixons/PC World is UK I'm sure I've read that some of the call centres are moving back to the UK because wages in India are now comparable to the UK

I don't suppose it will happen, but in my dream world the tax would not just provide broadband but help to solve some of the more important problems as well. To make it happen isn't just a case of keying in magic codes at a few exchanges - it needs fibre laying down pretty much every street. Doing that means we have to employ people to do real work - digging trenches, laying fibre etc - for which we pay them a real wage. With that real wage they can then go and rent or buy a decent home and suddenly 2 of the problems that face the UK have at least a bit of a solution. Of course, it may not happen but it would be good to see a government using tax in a really creative way.

Given that the case was loose, it does look like someone has been tampering. DIMMs can come loose if they get hot/cold but it's not common (the clips should stop them moving) Old people like me will remember the good old BBC - the expansion ROMs in these could actually come out of their sockets as they heated and cooled!

All governments borrow money - it's hardly new that this government has borrowed money. It's also one of the myths that they didn't save money when the going was good - they brought down national debt massively during the late 90's early 00's (I think it was under this government that we finally paid off the debt accrued during the second world war!) It's easy for evil lying politicians to slag each other off and for us to join in the fun but it doesn't actually help anyone to understand what's going on and what needs doing. We can criticise this government for selling off some gold reserves but let's not forget that Thatcher sold off just about everything the country owned (telecoms, gas, electricity, water, trains, council houses, etc etc) - all at knockdown prices so that city boys could get rich. Osborne yesterday was suggesting that we should now do the same with the banks we currently own. If we hold onto them for the next five or so years we should be able to sell them off for massively more than we paid for them which will do a lot to reduce the debt without anyone's children paying a penny. Instead, Osborne wants to make sure that more of his cronies will get richer than ever by buying bank shares on the cheap and then reaping the rewards when the prices rise.

When you've got something like this and the progress bar isn't moving, bring up task manager, go into processes and then View | Select columns. turn on I/O Bytes Read and I/O Bytes Written; you should now see that the process is reading/writing data and can be reasonably confident that something is happening. Agreed that this is a very, very slow update - I'd guess it's replacing an awful lot of files!