Jona

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Sorry I can't really help, but have you seen this thread? http://www.edugeek.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6563 There are a couple of (maybe) helpful suggestions.... Cheers Jona

Google says: http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/

Perhaphs you should consider blocking all executable downloads.... .msi, .exe, .bat, .cmd, etc for students. I guess you could do this by MIME type or by regex depending on your filtering software. Cheers Jona

You could get an electrician in to replace the facias with something like this: http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/195081 But it wouldn't stop them being unplugged.... May be something like this would do the job: http://www.babysecurity.co.uk/p/333495/clippasafe---socket-safe-electrical-plug-cover-.html Cheers Jona

I'm not convienced blocking google will actually solve the problem as things like the google toolbar, etc are avaliable elsewhere. E.g. http://www.download.com/Google-Toolbar-for-IE/3000-12777_4-10056938.html I think you need to address the more fundemental issues of user's having permission to install software. Cheers Jona

The best way if you want this to be automated is probably to get a Video -> DVD copier. There's lots around but here is an example: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=219555&source=1&DOY=25m1 Then there's loads of software around which will make dvd to your choice of video file (I would reccomend .xvid or .dixv) or you could just make an image of the dvd and then mount it using Deamon tools or similar. One guide to convert dvd to divx is here: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic301015.html This software seems to have some level of automation: http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Media/Ultra_DVD_to_DivX_Converter_163682.html Hope that helps. Cheers Jona Disclaimer: I have never used any of these products, also there lots of legal issues and pitfalls you need to address, I don't condone making illegal copies of copywrite material.

Probably not helpful in a work situation (which is probably why they've done it). But have you seen it's free on weekends at the moment? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/25.html

UltraVNC has a couple of nifty packages for doing this: http://www.uvnc.com/addons/index.html Another alternative is the paid for serivce offered by Fog Creek with Copilot (https://www.copilot.com/)

I've used this before on failed disk's: http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm I've also had limited success on formatted disks but in general the less writing you do to a disk once it's died the greater your chances of recovering the data. Cheers Jona

That tutorial if it works will create a SSL connection here: http://www.my-domain.com:443 I assume you've checked that and it dosn't work?? If you've added (or uncommented) the load module line and SSL isn't working (as in the modules failing you will probably get an error in your logs (apache/logs/error.log). Double check you did all the lines marked in yellow on that tutorial including adding a documentroot. You might also be having a config file issue is WAMP maintains more than one config file.....

I would seem not, are you using a WAMP stack package or have you manually installed apache, etc ? Cheers Jona

Probably for "my first linux" ubuntu is the best option. Although of course there is also Edubuntu - http://www.edubuntu.org/. Although I'm personally a Redhat/Fedora fan boy.... Cheers Jona

Yeh it should be... my bad I blame having too many windows open.... (Original post edited) Cheers Jona

If your using xampp as your WAMP stack you might already have https enabled in apache. Navigate to https://127.0.0.1 to see (although you will almost certainly get a certificate error). If you google setting up https in apache and get that set up correctly and then you can just enable it in moodle as Geoff said above. The file Geoff copied is a apache config file probably from httpd.conf but if you just paste it in that won't work as you don't have the certificates, etc in place.

I guess it *should* be possible to get it working with any bluetooth dongle however making it is another matter all together.... The same dongle is now manufactured by Ezurio: http://www.ezurio.com/products/rs232/ Don't know if avaliability is any better for these but I did find this via froogle: http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/EXUBLU01

Is this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=298596 Any help?

Fair enough, I always use the RMA form avaliable here: http://www.aria.co.uk/Support/Returns+Info And if needs be phone customer services (0870 443 2389).

Intresting, I would say the exact opposite of this... They've always been very good at arranging returns and replacements for us. Just shows you how much experiences can vary I guess Cheers Jona

Isn't that for MySQL rather than MSSQL ??

Here we do it with a "Job" which is configured in Server Management Studio If you right click a database and select Task > Backup You can create a SSI file which will do a backup to a .sql file and you can then set this to run automatically via a job. I havn't ever investigated if there is a way to do it from the commandline (a-la my-sql but I have just found this: http://sqldump.sourceforge.net/). Hope that helps Cheers Jona

I'm a little unclear on what your trying to do some generic advice (sorry if some of it is below you). 127.0.0.1 will resolve to localhost automatically (used for testing stuff on the same machine, etc). Presumably your getting a network ip address find out what it is by start > run > cmd >ipconfig. Provided firewall settings, etc are ok typing this into another machine will access it. Anything more fancy than this you need to edit the host file with a fake DNS record (see above) or put an actual DNS record into your server.... Hope something there helped! Cheers Jona

Are you getting any errors when Syncronization runs automatically? I had something similar to this and as SYNACK said re-initalizing the cache seemd to fix it. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738 Asides from that disable syncronization and then re-enable it?? Cheers Jona

I wrote a youtube clone for a CMS system over the summer and we used RTMP rather than HTTP to make it more easily scalable from one backend streaming server I assumed this was the way youtube did it, but apparently not.... Cheers Jona

I think with youtube it's more complicated than it appears in that obviously you end up with the file as a flv on your machine but it isn't passed to the player over http (because http is rubbish for streaming). ffmpeg can definatly encode flv and to a good quality (well good enough for a web player) if you tweak the settings but we are getting into the realm of uber linux....