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Key thing that I picked up in Squid is that it processes the lines in order. As soon as it comes to something which matches "allow" then it stops. In your example "allow localnet" comes first so anyone on "localnet" can do anything and that's why reversing the logic works - you're now saying "allow these sites" and "deny everything if they're not on my network"

Strictly speaking that's probably OK (with provisos on how long you keep it). I suspect that in reality a tiny number of people will do that so no-one really loses money (and ultimately it all comes down to money) What you can't do is lend out that DVD compilation to anyone else (I think even for free) and that's the key difference from P2P (which is easy so lots of people do it and money is possibly lost)

Not saying don't ever do that but don't do that if it's critical that the machine is up and running again before you get to work in the morning (unless you start at 0430 :-)) 99 times out 100, the automated shutdown and reboot will work fine. The one time it doesn't work is when it really, really matters that the server is up and running first thing and that will also be the one day when your bus doesn't come, the alarm doesn't go off or whatever :-(

I have done it but not for some time (and I seem to remember it was just part of a disaster recover planning exercise rather than because it was needed!) What's gone wrong? Is it one server that's gone out of sync or do you think that there's bits of stuff wrong on multiple DCs? If it's just one server then it's probably quicker, cleaner and "nicer" to dcpromo down the faulty server, wait a bit (say 30 minutes) and then dcpromo it back up. That way you rebuild sysvol on that server and don't touch any other DC

The cable companies used to tie you to a specific MAC address. Wouldn't expect to see a "disconnected" message if this was the case but it's just possible. On the Windows 2000 machine, what's the default gateway (do an ipconfig at a command prompt) - it'll probably be something like 192.168.0.1 On the same PC, open a web browser and try to browse to that address - not sure if the set top boxes have a web interface but if they do then this should get you to it. Are there any options for things you can configure?? Can you take the XP box next to the set top box and try it with a short lead directly into the set top box? I know the lead appears to be working but something is obviously not right so it's useful to try eliminating stuff!

I think that enforcing the law re: videotapes is pretty unlikely. Enforcing the law regarding P2P downloads of video is much easier - it's happening now and for what might be thought of as legal videos (programme is shown on TV; someone records it using their TV card and shares it)

Even if the switch was sold on ebay in good faith as a working device, it really needed selling with its cables. As far as I know, there's no standard for the connections on the 25 way connectors; eg if your leads are connecting the monitor to pins 1-15 but the KVM is wired so that the mouse and keyboard go on 1-10 with the monitor on 11-25 then it's not going to work. Not sure if you'll be able to buy the correct cables separately but cables like this used to make up about half the price of the KVM so they're not likely to be cheap :-(

They're just ripping you off - sadly, quite a few companies (particularly in the area of telecoms do this; I should have kept the quote for a phone system which included charges of about £5 for each mains lead!) Videk sell the adaptors you can use; they're less than a fiver. If these phones are extensions off your switchboard then you need the PABX type. If they're direct lines then you need the master and if they're shared with another line (2 or more phones sharing 1 line to the outside world) then you need secondary.

it will work - it's more or less what I was suggesting above. Not sure why the writer of that post is doing it; their message is in the Ghost Solution Suite forum. Assuming that they have that product then one of the "solutions" is renaming based on MAC address etc - effectively they're just reinventing the wheel rather than doing a bit of RTFM :-)

err??? I wrote "10 megabytes" in full because I didn't want it confusing with megabits and I really did mean megabytes. Would you have preferred me to write 100 megabits???

You're going to have to have some way of deciding what each machine should be called. If you use the Ghost console then it allows you to build what's essentially a database of MAC addresses and the names you want them to have; you then run Ghost from the console with sysprep configured to just give a random name. After the mini-setup, ghost runs a task to rename the way you want. You can do something similar without the console. For example, sysprep will run the commands in a file called cmdlines.txt; if one of those (eg) looked up the MAC address in some central database then it could force a machine rename (eg using netdom - this can rename and join to the domain) It depends on how many machines you've got to do whether it's worth while building your own solution. Of course, if the problem is that he wants to call them PC01, PC02, PC03 and you want to call them kermit, scooter, waldorf etc then there's probably no technical solution :-)

Does anyone have experience of using the Equation Editor and dealing with poor text spacing? Attached are a couple of examples. In the file "good" is what the text looks like in the editor. In "bad" is what it looks like on screen when you save and exit from EE - the spacing goes to pieces. Sometimes just resizing the containing box will fix it but not others and this is a 200+ slide powerpoint show with many, many equations per slide so I don't really want to do them all manually! Is there any VBA code which will go through every object and (say) resize it by 1 pixel (hopefully this will trigger the "fit nicely" algorithm!)

Videk have a good range of cabinets including small but deep server type cabs.

if the server is running off a standard 13A socket (or could temporarily be setup like that) then it's probably easier to just measure its consumption - any kind of estimates will be just that and could be miles out (depending on what your server actually does) Maplin have power meters starting from a tenner.

Microsoft log parser can read most web log files (not just IIS but Apache and anything else which logs in W3C log format). You can query directly against the text files (or, probably better) import the data to a SQL database and then do your own queries. There's some good stuff here about how to use log parser.

I'm afraid I can't offer any help with finding the jobs but the work experience will help; you'll find many jobs are advertised asking for experience and this at least gives you a little of that. Make sure that you can write about what you've actually done; give examples of how you've really helped to make the school work well.

Can I just check a couple of things. From what you've said, I think you're saying that it's OK with a small number of clients but it starts to get slow as you up the number of clients? If that's the case, then I suspect that the software on the client is probably basically OK and it's something to do with the server or the network. You now need to do some step by step troubleshooting (and that's always hard when everything seems to be falling to pieces!) If you look at performance monitor on the server, how much CPU is being used when it starts to go slowly? You've got 8 cores so you ought to be seeing all 8 in use - if something weird is going on then you might be seeing 1 core running at near 100% and the rest doing nothing (don't expect that!). If you're seeing all 8 cores looking busy then that suggests that the server is not up to the job - add another one (although I appreciate that's a shed load of money you might not have) Have a look at the network bandwidth into the server - add a trace for network interface bytes received per second and bytes sent per second; do it for each card. Given that you've got a 100Mbit switch between the server and clients, you're not going to see more than 100Mbit but you might be seeing close to that. If you're seeing 50-60Mbit then that suggests that the network is saturated - you need to put in a gigabit switch. Back in performance monitor, look at Physical Disc and check the average disk queue length. This should be tiny (less than 1 normally; if it gets to 10 then the world is about to end :-)) I'd be surprised if this is the problem but you haven't said anything about the discs so it's conceivable that they're too slow. You can also look at RAM used on the server but this is often confusing - Windows will use all available RAM for caching etc so just because you see all RAM in use doesn't mean you need more. (If it's 32 bit Windows then you can't have more than 4Gb; if it's 64 bit then you can put in loads but it may not help) Hope that helps but you really need some metrics to indicate what's going wrong. Good luck!

Certainly lets me submit feedback (I've done quite a few - positive and negative) Not sure if they're associating it with my license key or if it's just going into a big anonymous pile for someone to read and try to digest!

Putting "mis-information" on the screen is obviously wrong; putting useful information on the screen seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do and I'm not quite sure why some people seem so hostile to the idea of providing a service to the school in which they work.

The privacy issues are important but I can think of other things that a teacher might want to communicate to students in their class - eg a reminder that course work is due in, perhaps info about the free space they have left in their home drive, print credit available and so on. I'd take this as an opportunity to learn how to do something new and jump at it. I'd guess some people just aren't so keen to learn :-(

I'm guessing her Verizon CD tried to run a Windows app which obviously won't work on Ubuntu. If she's got (say) a USB ADSL modem that needs drivers then she might not be able to get on the Internet with Ubuntu and that modem but Verizon ought to have been able to offer a router as an alternative. Similarly, although she can't run Word, she could have had Open Office - I wonder why no-one suggested that to her??

Check out Brightcode - they've done quite a bit of this sort of work and I'd definitely recommend them.

Not just for visiting London but for any cheap tickets, the National Express web site is good This shows you the range of tickets available for a journey and allows you to find (say) just the journeys with £10 single or whatever. It's also much quicker if you want to browse a few days than the Trainline web site. Late Rooms is quite good for finding hotels all over the place. A quick check finds the Leisure Inn in Bayswater for next weekend for about £40 per night. This isn't the most beautiful bit of London but it's not bad and it's walking distance from Hyde Park, Marble Arch and the rest of the West End. If you can get a family train ticket for less than £80 then I'd do it - that's only just more than the cost of the petrol and it's much, much less hassle and almost certainly quicker now that the works on the west coast mainline are finished. If the children are under 11 they travel free on buses and tubes; from 11 to 16 it's still free but they need a photo card - there are details of all the costs on the Transport for London web site. I'd be stupid to say that London is the best city in the UK, but there is a huge amount to do here which is free and worth doing. The big museums (Science, Natural History and V&A) are pretty impressive (they're just round the corner from me and they're always busy!) but there are loads of others to visit if you want something a bit different. A quick Google found an A-Z of London's museums but there are also places like the South Bank where you can just wander along from Westminster to the Tate and beyond.

It's not uncommon that profiles will get left behind - people hit the power button, machine crashes, wind blows the wrong way etc :-) How big a problem it is depends also on how many people use the machines - if they're only used lightly then you won't see much problem but if every machine is used (say) by 20 people a day then it doesn't take a high percentage of problems to have half a dozen profiles left at the end of each week and this would rapidly mount up! The simplest thing to do is to have something in the machine startup script which just cleans up dead profiles - the MS utility delprof is good for this.

You really want to make sure that the machine names have unique stems which are the same length (whether that's 3 or 5 or whatever characters) and then you can do something like: $stem=LEFT(@WKSTA, 5) select case $stem="ENG01" or $room="ENG02" $printer="\\Server\English" case $stem="LIBRA" $printer="\\server2\library" case $stem="MATH0" or $room="MATH2" $printer="\\server\maths" endselect AddPrinterConnection ($printer) SetDefaultPrinter ($printer) If you can't do that, can you find the OU the machines are in and use that as your identifier to determine the printer?