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If one believes the ads on various job boards, there are loads of jobs going in Warwickshire for Linux sys admins - I've responded to 70 of these ads and have not heard a peep. I suspect the agencies are just touting for cvs.

Check your licence agreement before you do anything; you may not own the hardware. If you do, it's only a rack mounted box so you can chuck in anything compatible. When we upgraded from the CF-250 to TVT-250 the Bloxx man simply dropped a new hard disk in, restored our config and we were good to go.

Does anyone have any experience? http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-MINIBK It looks to be the same hardware as those sold as KL-PC701 - I don't know the actual manufacturer.

Or perhaps the reason is that BECTA have used them before. The company did some work for BECTA on e-portfolios.

I bought a motorbike on ebay and scored an absolute bargain. You can usually go and view a vehicle advertised on ebay before the auction ends, it just depends on how far you want to travel. You may or may not get ripped off; that is one of the "joys" of ebay.

You could do worse than look at http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ and http://www.k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Using_VNC_to_shadow_clients

Is there any reason that you aren't participating in The SchoolTool Project (http://www.schooltool.org) rather than starting a new project? Many Open Source projects fail because once the initial enthusiasm wanes, they become one or two man projects and these individuals don't have the resources to drive the project forward. The Shuttleworth Foundation are supporting SchoolTool, and I think a product will emerge at some point.

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/2777701332c4dc2b.png I like being "Uber Cool" but I wouldn't descibe myself as a "Light-Weight" or perhaps the test can dermine my physical size? Scary! I'm not a fan of either sci-fi or computers. Give me Russ Meyer films any day of the week

Thirty years in IT and every job has been a result of newspaper ads by the company or school concerned. I've sent my CV literally hundreds (and probably thousands) of times to agencies and I've never had an interview as a consequence.

We have two of the Amstrad NC100s which students with broken arms use sometimes. At home I have Windows 3.1 running on my P4 2K 512MB memory, which has removable disk packs and it flies - it boots and is ready to go in 23 seconds. FC6 on the same machine boots to login in 37 seconds and 20 seconds after I login, the desktop is ready to go. W2K takes 2 1/2 mins to login and 5 mins after login, the hourglass has finally gone away (this is a bare install too). I've given up completely on the W2K disk and reformated it for Linux from scratch. My first computer was a Commdore 64, which I has when I was at Uni. The uni had a Cyber 173 and several PDP 8s and 11/Es - great boxes. When I was in high school I built my first computer, which didn't involve running off to a shop, buying a few boards and plugging them together. Oh no, it involved soldering relays to a wiring loom; it was an electromechanical device. This computer, known as Junior Arithmetic Calculator and Kinetic Input Evaluator (aka JACKIE) could add, subract and multiply (division involved far too complicated circuitry) and has a whopping 8 bits (thats BITS) of memory. The design was a variation of the original JACKIE featured in "We Built Our Own Computers" a splendid book. I redesigned some of the circuitry from the original and changed it's name a bit. There are some scans of the original design here: http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/we-built-our-own-computers/index.html If I can ever find a copy of the book at a sensible price (ie not £50+ which is what they usually go for), I intend to do JACKIE the second. If anybody comes across a copy, please let me know.

We too have two, both running the standard o/s. A pupil with a broken arm is using one with no problems and the other is my hack m/c, which did have Fedora on it but now is back to standard in case we get another broken arm. Feedback has been excellent - they just work. The final paragraph of this story http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39373621,00.htm explains why they are so rare. It also mentions touch screen is a possibility, just like the many hacked ones available on ebay.

I can send you pysnmp-3.4.3.tar.gz if that helps.

I know how to setup CMIS under Windows XP (which works OK) but somebody has come up with the bright idea of running XP on a MAC using VMware Fusion and then running CMIS on that. Has anyone tried this and have you had success? It sounds like a recipe for a disaster to me, and I have grave reservations about stability. I personally think it is best to run CMIS on an XP box and keep the MACs for what they do best, which is running OSX.

Can we please have the forum to which the thread relates listed on the recent posting list on the homepage?

You might be able to reclaim some of your credit card charges see http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/credit-card-charges - If the test case goes our way, we might be able to reclaim bank charges too. I think the OFT said £12 was an acceptable fee for processing an unauthorised overdraft. Last month I was overdrawn for 2 days by £30 and Nationwide charged me a fee of £25 and 47p interest. Nationwide are one of the banks in the test case and they are still overcharging it's depositors. I also received a letter last week from LLoyds TSB, saying that as I hadn't used my credit card for a while, they were cutting the credit limit to £1000. Yes that's right - I don't use it and I'm deemed a bad credit risk. The best place to keep your money is under the mattress.

I've experienced this to. Have you tried compiling bochs from source on both machines? We found a marginal improvement over precompiled binaries. Also, there are several bochs settings that you can twiddle which might help, but I guess that you know that,

Can we also have the forum to which the posting relates displayed as in the previous version of the site?

Our eee's connects to the NFS server with no problems. It also prints via CUPS straight out of the box, so it is fully integrated into the network.

This is going to cause us loads of grief. Our science teachers run software which shows simulated experiments (can't remember the name of it off hand) and it only runs under IE6. It crashes under IE7 and refuses to load at all under Firefox. Yesterday I had one user who insisted that she need IE7, as it was the "best browser". It refused to install, saying the cryptographic service wasn't running (which it was). I'm still trying to beat this one into submission; I think it is going to be easier to convince the user to stick with Firefox.

Tit for tat, Microsoft don't like BECTA either http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292043,00.htm

My advice is to forget the dual booting lark, just setup another machine. It doesn't need to be anything too beefy. I'm running FC7 with KDE on a PIII with 512MB RAM and it is fine. Pop along to WH Smiths and get the latest issue of "Linux Format"; there is a lengthy article about running Linux on low power machines. The best way to try Linux is to fiddle. Switch off the M$ box and do everything in Linux. You'll learn the o/s very quickly.

8 years as a systems administrator on various RS/6000s and Motorolla Powerstacks. SP/2 experience too. The P5 hardware wasn't around when I worked on AIX. It really is a great o/s. SMIT is a menu driven interface for systems admin, which works on gui and tty. It provides a front end to the commands, and you can ask SMIT to display the command that you should have entered to achieve the task. A great way to learn the command line. If you run it via GUI, you get the running man (who falls over if the command fails). If you have an IBM support contract, it is brilliant. Your first caller is the receptionist who has 65 chars to enter a description of your problem. You are then put through to a sysadmin, someone experienced but has access to the IBM database. If they can't solve your problem, one of the developers will contact you, and if they can't help you, well your f**ked! The LVM is second to none. You can increase the size of filesystem and you can create or remove mirrors on the fly, assuming you have spare disks installed, or a hot swappable array. One of the systems that I worked on had an Oracle database, running on a mirrored array. Backing up a database is always a nightmare, especially if the database is in use, which this always was. (It was a 7x24 ordering system.) We negotiated a 2 minute shutdown everynight, and during these two minutes, the database engine was shutdown, the mirror copy broken off and the database engine restarted. Next we would mount the disks with the copy of the database as it's own volume; you can create a filesystem, and import the data on the disks. Scribble this data off to tape. Finally, unmout this filesystem and add the disks back to the database volume, and grow the mirror. Great backup system and the data was always safe. This particular array was triple mirrored. The LVM also lets you control the way a mirror is written, either in parallel or serial. Windows only writes parallel (ie both copies at once), which means that if the write fails, both copies are corrupt. In the serial write scenario, one copy will be valid if the write fails, although the update will be slower. After I left AIX, they introduced JFS2 which has even more features than JFS. The only downside of AIX is the cost of the hardware and software, but like everything else in life top notch gear comes at a premium.

Fedora for desktops, file server, thin client server, LAMP box, print server; anything really. I first installed Redhat professionally back in the 5.2 days (and later 7.1 for home use) and I don't see any reason to change after all these years. I've briefly tried Suse, Ubuntu, Mandriva and FreeBSD but I found annoyances in each, which Fedora doesn't have, so I've always returned. If I had my way we would all be running AIX.

We have CCTV in the ICT suites.

A bit OTT perhaps http://www.devlin.co.uk/keyboards/ksr067.html?gclid=CKGAv7P3i5ACFRbOEAodL1bOGA