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Looks like you've solved it now, but GPOs are obviously not being deployed fine - your previous message says "The Group Policy client-side extension Folder Redirection failed to execute. Please look for any errors reported earlier by that extension" - ie, the GPO is being read by the machine but not being applied. The other message about off-line files is probably irrelevant but you don't want offline files on a roaming profile share; it will just cause grief. If it goes wrong again, the first thing I'd do is run gpresult - if you do a gpresult /v > c:\temp\gp.txt you'll get a file showing the results of group policy application. Do this on a working and a non-working machine and you will hopefully see what's gone wrong.

Pretty sure it won't work - the connection is made in the security context of the user, not the printer. could the machines and printer in in that 1 room go on a different subnet? I think you could then use IPSec to only allow communication on that subnet to the printer (although I've never done anything like that, I think it could work!)

Actually, it sounds like the way some companies used to work (not sure if they still do) My dad used to work at British Steel and they did have a cap on how much electricity they could use (I think mainly in winter when the systems were heavily used). The last college I worked at had regular power cuts because too much electricity was being used - a fuse out in the substation would blow and we'd lose a chunk of power (think it was mostly the yellow phase which went) I've never noticed a cap on my virgin line - I don't regularly download multi-gigabyte files but I have done without any apparent impact. Perhaps it depends on where you are and what the rest of the street is doing??

This web site has a load of scanned BBC manuals etc including the DFS error codes. Error 14 is "track 0 not found" Given the age of the disc, it's probably damaged if you know it used to work in that machine. If it's just a random set of discs and drives then it's possible you've got 80 track discs and a 40 track drive (or vice versa) - this will give track not found errors Have you got any blank discs you could try formatting? That at least would tell you if the drive is working OK (command is *form80 0 or *form40 0 to format disc 0)

We (Imperial College) use it internally - we run a Helix Server for streaming a variety of things and have just upgraded to the latest server and client. Not sure who uses it for broadcast type stuff - is any of the BBC radio still using it?

I think Virgin are actually pretty good generally. I went with cable back in the Videotron days; then became ntl and I think briefly it had the Telewest name in my area before Virgin became the only cable company. I've had no real problems with either phone or broadband since Virgin took over compared to absolute nightmares with ntl. I'm only on 2Mb but it is rock solid at that speed and I'm not really desperate for any more so will just wait happily for my free upgrade :-)

Nothing if you don't mind stealing. It's not really an "alternative" - they just "steal" the Real DLLs and repackage them.

ECDL is very focussed on using applications. I wouldn't say it's critical for an IT manager but it's certainly useful and even the advanced level is not terribly difficult. Even if you don't spend your time supporting users of office apps you are likely to have to use them yourself - spreadsheets and databases are pretty vital tools and you're likely to get involved in writing reports and making presentations. Understanding that you can lay stuff out without just pressing the tab key loads of times will make your life easier and make it look as if you know what you're doing :-)

Not free, but Microsoft Mappoint will do this and much, much more

I remember having similar problems with FreeBSD and read various recommendations that you just make a symlink to point to (say) libssl.so.7 this feels horribly wrong but it might be worth a try :-)

I think you've got a fix, but if that doesn't work, you should be able to just set a reservation in DHCP - the printer will ask for an IP but will always get the same one because you've said "give IP a.b.c.d to MAC 00:11:22:33:44:66:77"

Don't know pricing now (it's a new product since I bought it and MS pricing and licensing is so wacky that there's no point in me guessing - it's worth asking your MS dealer for a price because it wasn't expensive.) You don't need virtualisation support - if the processor would run the package "native" it will run in in Softgrid. It's worth trying it - I'm sure you can download an eval.

How are you changing the SQL service account? If you do it in the services MMC then the account will get "log on as a service" right but won't get added to the security group called something like SQLServer2005MSSQLUser$COMPUTERNAME$SQLEXPRESS (probably "2008" for SQL 2008) If you change the account in SQL Server config manager then it makes the group changes.

Key difference from VNC, remote desktop etc is that the code is executed on the local machine, not on the server - this means that it doesn't need any kind of big server infrastructure. It does need an initial connection to the server but it then caches the programs locally. There is an option to require a server connection when it's running (eg for license checking; not relevant for open source!) but it can run completely disconnected. Softgrid is now replaced by Microsoft Application Virtualisation - the new name perhaps gives a better idea of what it's about. Key thing is that you're effectively running the apps so that they're isolated from other stuff. This makes it much easier to get things working - no worries about DLLs which might conflict etc. Upgrading also becomes very easy - you upload the upgrade to the server and as soon as a client connects they get the new version. Another benefit is speed of install - Office 2007 takes under a minute to run the first time it's used - much faster than any other kind of deployment!

Just the form or all controls on the form? If it's just the form then create a new project, save it and then run windiff or similar to show the differences between your form and a default form. You could do this for each control but it starts to get to be hard work. Of course, the easiest way would be to just go back to your project plan which will list all the settings you're going to make to the controls :-)

I've mentioned Softgrid before and how it can make it easy to deploy apps (including Open Source). This post goes into more details and I think it's a really good way of getting stuff onto the desktop quickly and cleanly.

Don't completely understand what you're trying to do but it looks like what ASP does using "htmlencode" - googling for that with PHP found this page which suggests that "htmlspecialchars" might do the tidying you need.

run exmerge and basically follow the prompts in the GUI; have you tried that and got stuck? Exmerge can be pretty complex (especially if you use the command line options) but the GUI should be straightforward. One point; if you burn the PST to a CD I think Outlook will fail to open it - it needs r/w access. If all you're doing is archiving then that's no problem but when you come to use it and just drag it onto the C: drive, remember to set it read/write or it won't work.

It certainly works in VBScript - that's how I add new fonts to machines in a script. I'd expect it to work in VB but I don't have VB6 to try it :-(

What switches did you use? I always include /b /w:1 /r:1 (use backup privilege, wait one second on error; retry only once) and log the results. If anything goes wrong (eg file with unreadable permissions and you didn't use /b) then the default is to wait 30 seconds and retry (I think) 1,000,000 times. You could get a very long nap out of this :-) (but the nice thing about robocopy is that you can hit CTRL Break to interrupt, change the switches and it will then get back to where it left off pretty quickly)

It might be interesting to do this with male and female gay people and images of people of the same and opposite gender.

I think @synack has answered this but I can always try and muddy the water :-) Some things in Windows are only read at startup or logon - the list of available fonts is one of those things. When you install a font by dragging it into c:\windows\fonts (or adding it with control panel) you not only copy the font to that folder but you also add a registry key giving info about the font and (most important) tell Explorer and all other interested processes (eg your VB program) that there are new fonts available and that they should re-read the list. This idea of "telling" processes what's going on is called message passing - Windows (and most other modern operating systems) work like this. Messages can be passed from any process to any other process and can also be sent to the "top level" process which will then notify everything else that a change has happened.

You don't actually need a reboot; what you have to do is send a message to the top level window saying that there has been a change of font(s). That's what the tektips web page is doing (although in vb.net; this page has a VB6 example which will be easier to crib!)

It might even be worth it :-) The sudo stuff is a bit like "run as administrator" in Vista; sudo -s is like running a command prompt as administrator.

What a load of killjoys :-) Surely, the whole thing is being done to get a bit of publicity for Warrington and Virgin Trains. No-one is actually being stopped from kissing; no-one will even care. It's classic of "Daily Mail" type attitudes that we assume the world is out to get us! When someone vaguely official does something like this we can't see that they're just trying to lighten the mood (and, frankly, if you're at Warrington Bank Quay then the mood probably needs lightening!)