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"Correct" format really does depend on who you ask! Unlike spelling or sentence punctuation, there are no English rules for this sort of thing - it really is style. I used to teach RSA Word Processing (more than 20 years ago ...) and the rules then were that you could either use commas etc in the address or not use them but you had to be consistent (so if you had 2 letters they must be done in the same way) As Elsiegee40 says, it's down to house style. Ours is on-line if anyone's bothered (House style) It doesn't deal with addresses but does talk about names - eg J.H. Smith not J H Smith (which I prefer, just like I always use eg in preference to e.g.) I suspect that house style doesn't get involved in tying up the head teacher in the basement but there could be other rules which affect that :-)

One student using 67 Gb is almost certainly bad and needs to be stamped on but I wouldn't say you have to mess things up for everyone by taking everything off line for 2 days just because one person (or even a few dozen people) can't behave themselves. As others have said, you need to have reports on who's doing what; you can then deal with the miscreants so they don't mess things up for others and leave the "normal" people to just get on with life :-)

They're .Net assembly files. Normally part of program installs, I think!

Is this a privacy thing? Can you not just get the original web site to remove the image if that's the case?

Oops! CertMgr (Windows) has the info on certmgr.exe and a link to a download for it. We actually have certmgr.exe on the server in the same share as the certificate - stupidly, I thought that wasn't necessary any longer because somehow I have it on my local machine ...

Not impressed with the Windows 7 recovery. There's a lot more automated options now (so if you don't know how to run chkdsk, fixmbr etc it can do it for you) but there comes a time when you want to do a repair install. With XP that was easy - you just let the setup start, go through to a new install bit and it says "you've already got Windows installed; do you want to repair it". Wait some time and a magically repaired system appears. I can't find any way to get Windows 7 to do this kind of repair; OK, you can just do a fresh install and it moves everything into windows.old so you lose no data etc but it's a pain :-(

Screams maniacally at the mention of mathtype... This is one of the worst pieces of software I've had to deal with ... What we did was to get the software installed and run Word; you get the "macros have been disabled" message. Click the options button and choose "trust all documents from this publisher" This adds a certificate to your local store - you now have to get that onto each machine. I don't know how to do it with a group policy but it's easy as part of a machine startup script. Run certmgr.msc and find the Design Science certificate - it will be under "trusted publishers". double click it and go to the details tab. Use "copy to file" to put this somewhere on a server. Add lines like this to your startup script: if exist %windir%\mt.done goto cert_done CertMgr.Exe -add \\server\mathtype\designscience.cer -c -s -r localMachine TrustedPublisher :cert_done - replace the path with the one for your server etc.

It's definitely important to teach users how to stay safe on line - yes, they may go and misuse that info but that's true for all sorts of "bad" things. I think it's far better that users are aware of risks - OK; some might try and misuse the info but if everyone is aware of how to stay safe it makes life harder for the bad guys.

It depends :-) Is this a domain controller? If so, then don't do it - if you ever need to restore the image you can end up with a complete mess. Even if it's the only DC (and that's a separate worry!), you'll have users and computers who've changed passwords and this will roll them back. If there's more than 1 DC you can get a completely broken active directory. If it's not a DC then there's no real problem with making an image

This vbscript might help. Basically, it looks at each removable device and checks the label. When it finds "MYUSB" it knows the drive letter and runs robocopy from specific folders on the C: drive to the backup device - in the example it backs up c:\work\photos to a folder called pictures on the device and c:\music to a folder called music on the device. The /mir means mirror - it deletes from the device if it's been deleted from the source - if you don't want that then change it to /s /e The /w:1 and /r:1 mean wait 1 second if there's a problem and retry once; by default robocopy wil retry from now until the Christmas after next - if there's a temporary glitch, 1 retry is enough! Finally, /fft says use FAT file times - NTFS is more precise than FAT in file times and I had problems with files copying because somehow robocopy thought they were different even though they were the same; you may not need it. set oShell=createobject("wscript.shell") set oFSO=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject") Set Locator=CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set Service = Locator.ConnectServer(".") Set items=service.execquery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk where drivetype=2") 'dt 2 is removable sLetter="N/A" For Each item In items if ucase(item.volumename)="MYUSB" then sLetter=item.name Next if sLetter="N/A" then wscript.echo "Can't find memory stick; ending" wscript.quit end if BackupFolder "work\photos","pictures" BackupFolder "music","music" sub BackupFolder(sSrc,sDest) sCmd="robocopy c:\" & sSrc & " " & sLetter & "\" & sDest & " /fft /mir /w:1 /r:1" 'fat file time oShell.run sCmd end sub

robcopy needs /s to copy subdirectories (/e copies empty sub-directories)

Those error message don't look like permissions problems (error is generally "can't find file") Turn on installer logging - details here Windows Installer Logging at Registry Guide for Windows and you'll get a logfile from the installer which should help

Not 9 fingers but fingers 9 inches long :-) For a very different article (also on the BBC web site) about Ubuntu, check out BBC NEWS | Technology | Ubuntu readies the Karmic Koala Now just counting the days until I can download Ubuntu 9.10 and wondering if I should go back to running my media centre PC with MythTV (currently using Media Portal on Windows; it works well but life's more fun with variety in it)

And why is that a problem?? :-)

Like it - the register could update an absentee's facebook page "Little Johnny is ... playing truant" :-)

Can you try: RUN "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server-01\Lib-Colour" in place of the addprinterconnection lines?

Scroll lock still has use in Windows - check out what it does in Excel for example (hint: it locks the sheet so that you can scroll it up and down :-)) print screen will still print to a printer plugged into LPT1 if you're running DOS. Old people like me will remember that you used to have to load a program called "graphics" in DOS if you wanted to print more than text (not really graphics - just the bars and lines that make up squares etc) Don't think sysrq has ever done anything on a DOS or Windows PC - I think it's a throwback to some IBM mainframes. None of that is terribly useful info but many years of playing with a computer mean that I've learned it; it means that when another system does things differently I have to stop and work out what to do ("pagefault on knowledge"). I generally don't mind that (I like trying to find out how things work) but many (most?) people don't - they just want to use the system to get on Facebook, sync their iPod etc. Is that wrong? Not really sure. An example that's often given is that computers should be like cars; if you've driven one car then you can probably drive another one and most people think that's a good thing but it stifles innovation. When Microsoft introduced Office 2007 which completely changed the menu structure there were howls of protest because many people couldn't work out how to use it. I think that if you've got a computer which basically does what you want then you're not going to get anything from Ubuntu (or any other platform which is different from the one you now use). If you always want to be learning new things then Ubuntu (or any other etc etc) will be a "really good thing" :-)

He is missing the point but perhaps that's because there's a such a huge change in moving from Windows/Mac to Ubuntu (or many other Linux) With Windows, if you want to install an app, you go to its website, download it, double click it, job done and pretty much the same is true for the Mac. With Linux that's not true; you've got to learn about package managers. Once you've done that once, of course, life's pretty easy (as long as what you want is available as a package). If you've never used a computer before then I'm sure Ubuntu's package management is no more or less difficult than anything else the first time you use it. If you're used to using computers but not Linux then it's very different. Go to the Audacity web site - take a look at how hard it would be to install Audacity from that web site. the first thing it mentions under Unix/Linux is source code but there are other links - the Ubuntu one takes you to the Ubuntu web site and (provided you've twigged that Ubuntu 9.10 is also called Karmic) then you can get to a list of packages - but nothing at all to tell you what to do with it!! It's worth reading the whole of his blog; he's not saying Ubuntu is rubbish but he is saying "it would not make my computing life any simpler and more pleasurable than it is now" and I think that's a pretty fair summary.

Depends on how much it matters if they can bypass the "read/only" state; if you're just wanting to stop people accidentally messing up the settings then it's not too hard. If you format the drive as NTFS then you could put a folder which is read/only for users. This isn't a total fix - if they take it home and know what they're doing it would be easy to take ownership of the folder and reset the permissions. I like @sysman_mk's idea of making a CDFS partition; that would really make it r/o but it wouldn't stop people from just wiping and remaking the partition if they wanted to mess things up. The other possibility would be to put a Linux ext3 partition on the drive; Windows can't read this natively but it's easy to install a read/only FS driver (but the determined users will find a way to install a r/w driver as well ...) @michael - gparted will easily partition USB sticks

More dead flies - I took this in a weird museum somewhere in Vermont; there were several pictures made from dead flies!

Are you trying to use it because you've got it and you can't afford anything new? If so, you might be better off looking at Squid which is free and will run happily on Server 2003. this is some stuff I wrote a while ago about setting up Squid on a Windows server and it might help get started.

I live about a mile from Television Centre and I'd say that (in terms of colour) the audience represented pretty well the people you see on the streets of W12. Your "toff middle England types" possibly believe everything is ticketyboo because mass immigration has provided the people who staff the hospitals, schools and colleges; drive the trains and buses; sweep the streets, run the shops and so on.

Felsted School has a pretty amazing history in its use of IT - it was well ahead of many (most?) other schools. You can find out more about its history if you look up Christopher Dawkins who ran IT there for many years. I think it would be an excellent place to work (and I'm pretty sure they'll pay whatever salary they need in order to get a really good NM)

Except he didn't - he said he didn't like niqab (the full face covering). The veil (hijab) is not that much different from the headscarf many women wear. Absolutely, they should abide by the law but we already have different bits of law for different groups of people - think of the rules the Church of England has for its members. Most Muslims do not want Sharia law to replace the laws of England but to enhance it (eg Muslims have far stricter rules about money lending and if we actually used their rules to govern banks we might be in a better state today!) Could be because they want to get jobs and they've got this stupid idea that the UK is a place where people can work for money?? Could also be because they speak some English but don't speak French or Spanish or the languages of any other country they moved through?? I don't think anyone is "scared" to show the flag. I've no wish to show a flag either for my country or anything else and I think many people just don't want to fly flags or have any other jingoistic symbols. I think we should be ashamed of great tracts of our history; we've done some pretty astonishingly bad things in the past but that doesn't mean that we can't show that we learned from our mistakes and we're not going to repeat them. No-one should be hiring people who aren't suitable for the position just to fill quotas - this is just the sort of lie that's peddled by people like the BNP.

Ok; let's be really flash :-) (well, a little bit ...) Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") file = "C:\PATH\" & weekdayname(WeekDay(Now)) & ".html" WshShell.Run file and then you can have "monday.html", "tuesday.html" etc