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A student was asking for more storage space and upon looking at the contents of his documents I came across a folder called ".jagex_cache_32" which was over 110Mb in size. I also found an executable .jar file called "RSBot-228.jar" of around 1Mb. Doing some investigation seems like the RSBot comes from the following website www.powerbot.org and is to do with cheating on the Runescape game. I have checked our SchoolGuardian logs and its not mentioning anything about it so I can only assume that the program/game is bypassing our filters by going straight to our default gateway. Does anyone have any ideas on how to block this site/game? I am thinking along the lines of a group policy that prevents any .jar file from running but am wondering what that is going to break! Any ideas much appreciated, Thanks, Chris.

I'm sure our school is like most in that the teachers like to take hundreds if not thousands of blurry pictures and they all need to be saved to a network shared drive so they can access them for lessons - PE department is a prime example! Now our staff are getting more adventurous and are wanting to use video's for starters in lessons etc. Some are ones they've taken themselves but the majority are of video's from youtube or other dodgy video/tv sharing sites. So there are a number of problems: 1. Need to have these files stored in school as using links to external sites like youtube are unreliable and if its home made video's they don't want to be on youtube for obvious reasons and usually the video's are over 10 mins. 2. Storing all these pictures and video's is going to take up a lot of space - 1Tb? Backup/not? 3. Teachers always want to put these video's into a powerpoint so has to be an easy way of embedding them and powerpoint prefers wmv files which take up so much more space than flv's 4. Need easy way of copying youtube video onto this server (probably as an flv) but then if teachers want to download the video make it so the flv is converted to a wmv so they can embed it to powerpoint. Has anyone found a really good way of doing all that or something similar and of course you know whats coming next, it has to free or virtually free? I look forward to reading any suggestions, Thanks, Chris.

We have a lady who works a lot with Corel Draw 12 to produce large posters with pictures and fancy graphics that could be up to 5metres long and 2 metres high. She then prints them out onto A3 pages and joins them all up. Corel always seems to be crashing or not saving properly or having problems printing, it never seems to work smoothly and I have to spend days trying to find ways around printing. Does anyone use or know of some software that is similar to Corel that will do the vector graphics and large scale prints but that actually works well on Windows XP? Many thanks for any advice.

I can confirm this feature is working on our Frog VLE however had a few issues with various things since the summer upgrade, see forum.frogvle.co.uk for more about them!

I've just setup forum.frogvle.co.uk have a look and let me know if you think its a good idea