JRowley

Sure, but that doesn't stop it out right, if a particularly bad child is having a particularly bad day and decides to take it out on a mouse, I doubt very much that any number of staff (SLT or otherwise) would be capable of preventing it unless they were to go hands on, something which is unlikely to happen given the cost of a new mouse.

I have to agree that it is not a technical issue, unfortunately sometimes its just inevitable with particularly bad groups despite a teacher's best efforts.

We use outlook calendars, nice and simple. Not necessarily the best, but good enough for us.

I would probably retire that one and frame it on a wall or something, it's seen enough trauma to live out the rest of its days as a digital photo frame perhaps showing happy memory's of its fallen brethren, the plaque can read 'Never forget #WateryGrave' or similar.

3 days? Yeah they are toast I would expect, you have to get them out in a couple of minutes to keep them alive really. I'm not sure they are worth anything either, the damage will be pretty extensive to most of the components, your basically looking at the value of the metals now, so not much, and even then you'll struggle to get someone to buy them for that level or recycling.

How long were they sat in the water for?

We previously only blocked YouTube on the request of the teacher, however following a minor incident (where a student refused to work unless they could listen to music via YouTube) a vote was taken by the teaching staff and it is now blocked unless specifically requested by the teacher (so the complete reverse). The exceptions being Sixth form students and staff who can access it whenever/wherever.

If your going for 2012 and are feeling brave/adventurous you may wish to take a look at Remote Access(DirectAccess) for your staff laptops/mobile devices. Haven't used it myself but is something we are going to be looking at over the next 12 months. Oh and congratulations on the new network, something a lot of us can only dream of! Atleast that's what it feels like these days.

It depends how much you want to lock it down really, here is the setting if you just want to change what the main shutdown button does: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar\Change Start Menu power button > Restart It will change its appearance so that it reads Restart. You could also disable Sleep and Hibernation through power management GPOs, restrict shutdown to a specific usergroup(s) with User Rights Assignment GPOs and disable lock and fast user switching through System GPOs. Or, as was suggested first remove all the settings and give them a script, but that's not as fancy in my view.

I haven't done it yet, I will be doing it at the end of term most likely. I bought my 20 from 4gon, to answer the other question.

There are 3 of us in an office built for 2, it has a door onto the corridor with the IT suites, and a second door into one of those IT suites complete with windows so we can see in for whatever reason. It's not big enough as we often have visitors and a work experience guy on Tuesday. Our servers are in a server room which was converted from 2 cupboard rooms in one of the IT suites. So yeah a bit snug, my deputy manager and manager are both in here with me so we basically all share the jobs around and swap work depending on each others expertise so its nice in that respect. I envy those of you in class rooms where you can work on hardware without dismantling your own setup first.

Xibo is free if that helps, you might as well try that out first it should do everything you need. Oh, but obviously you would need someone to do the physical installs of the screens - I may have misunderstood the question.

A link for those who are curious, I have no experience with the product myself but if the school required one I would probably push for this. airVision | Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.

Look lets all be honest here, Microsoft are failing to grasp what their users really want, they are just putting the feelers out with this one, trying to get a hold of the err rather delicate issues in hand. This is just impossible...

Lets just hope the NSA aren't able to get their hands on the contents of, sigh lets try this again. Lets hope the NSA wont use this to get a feel of, sigh once more. Lets hope the NSA wont use this to rub the public up the wrong way.... No its impossible /quits

I would change: _Rows.Add(new Row { Name = "Attenuation", Down = reg.Matches(result)[0].Value, Up = reg.Matches(result)[1].Value }); _Rows.Add(new Row { Name = "Noise", Down = reg.Matches(result)[2].Value, Up = reg.Matches(result)[3].Value }); To: try { _Rows.Add(new Row { Name = "Attenuation", Down = reg.Matches(result)[0].Value, Up = reg.Matches(result)[1].Value }); _Rows.Add(new Row { Name = "Noise", Down = reg.Matches(result)[2].Value, Up = reg.Matches(result)[3].Value }); } catch { } Purely because my sky hub doesn't display attenuation or noise statistics on the sky_system.html page, rather than take it out completely this allows for those to view those stats if present (though its a rather hackish/ugly method).

It ended up being nice and neat! I never really bothered trying to trim the fat, but you've done an excellent job of it.

I must confess, while I am quite versed in C# I have never really developed any web applications using it. When you say you try this page in IE and it doesn't work, what is the result?

The TV screen will most like be doing a form of upscaling for it to output at 1080p, even if the input is much lower. You will need both to be the same resolution to have the best experience I would expect. My advice would be to force the laptop into displaying at 1080p, even if the laptops screen wont display it, then see if the writing improves. If so then you can set the laptop back to its native using the TV. Then see about getting the laptop to output in 1080p, though I expect having the screen and the output different while mirroring is verging on the impossible.

I bought Windows 8 for £25 or whatever it was when it came out.

Well, what Capita call 'support' for Windows 8, definitely isn't what I call support for Windows 8, if I can't install it, then its not supported, simple as that lol

Me and a colleague have installed it on our office machines to see how it would play with our existing GPOs. Happy to say it works as intended, no issues. The only difficulty I have experienced is SIMS dragging their feet on a patch to officially support Windows 8, though I managed to get it work by copying the connect.ini to a local folder regardless. Once you get used to just hitting the start button on your keyboard and then clicking on the app you want, or hitting a letter to search for an app. You realise just how bulky and out dated the start menu was. Oh and I have it at home, bought it when it was on offer at launch for £25 or something, what a bargain!

Unfortunately its a BBC service so I'm unable to add channels, you can go here to view which channels are available, though they don't appear to have changed from the ones I listed in the original post. BBC Live Streams Glad to hear its still working

We would be using UAP Pro AP's if we went down the Ubiquiti route so this shouldn't be an issue for us if it only effects the standard editions. Well 1 Gbps port is better than 1 10/100 port anyways, even if the second is fairly pointless in alot of cases.

Thanks for the updates, I've read alot of very good things about this system. Out of interest are either of you using the Pro version with duel 1Gbps lan ports, or are you using the regular 10/100 version.