Jona

If you have the video's in .flv format red5 (http://osflash.org/red5) can serve them for you, however it's not the simplest thing to get your head round. I've only used it on linux so I don't know how easy it is to use on a windows server. We used the FLV player avaliable here to play the streams http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player

Aberystwyth University Guidelines for potential employers avaliable online here: http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Dept/Teaching/Industrial_Placement/

Well assuming that tutorial is correct stop SQL server process then go start > run > C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BINN\sqlservr -m ??

http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/sqlserver/howto_start_single_user_mode.htm Any help?

Well the low tech solution for your timer not fitting problem might be to get a short extention lead / multi-block which the timer would fit into.... But I'd suggest you probably want to do a bit more investigation into whats causing the problem especially if it happens every night... Could you run some form of monitor / ping to determine exactly what time it goes off and if it's the same every night?? Does the router freeze up completly or just drop the net connection and not reconnect (if so perhaphs there are some auto reconnect type options you could set?) Cheers Jona

Even better! Have you used it Plexer?? do you know if it give you the chance to install some drivers but not other? Cheers Jona

Hey all, came across this the other day http://www.drivermagician.com/ Havn't had chance to use it yet, but I have heard good reviews. Cheers Jona (Note I am not associated in any way with the company selling this software)

I've come across this before, but never found a completly satisfactory solution (other than some video cards just don't seem powerful enough to do this). A short term fix is to switch the display entirely to outputting to the projector and don't output at all to the laptop LCD, this usually fixes it. Cheers Jona

It's quite messy to do nested if's in excel but a good start might be here: http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=225

I'd take a serious look at Ubuntu, if you want to stay with redhat the free version of their server is called Cent OS avaliable here: http://www.centos.org/ The desktop offering from redhat is Fedora avaliable here: http://fedoraproject.org/

Surely if you can VPN then you should be able to use local remote desktop or VNC (once you've connected to the VPN......)?

A random suggestion, if copying is likely to fail, e.g. with long filenames I wonder if using the console would be a better choice, I've always found unix 'cp' to be very capable, but I have no specific experience on OSX. See man cp - http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cp

The answer is technically yes... However I reckon Logmein https://secure.logmein.com/home.asp?lang=en Will work better for you and from experience it's easier to setup (you don't have to tweak as many firewall rules, etc). The answer to the proxy question is pretty much it depends, usually proxies only apply to outgoing connections but it depends how your "proxy" is implemented.

Yeh I'd also reccomend you go step by step from beginning. Sort your IP'S out first. But make sure you have considered the security implications of having an external hole into your normal network.

It could just be that RM's computers are re-branded HP/Compaq ones. Although of course this is just guess work and heracy....

This is incorrect a name server is effectivly the DNS server for your domain and whilst it does provide a round about link to the actual IP of your server it shouln't be a direct link unless you are hosting your own DNS (not reccomended). I would image you would need to the IP address of your router rather than your RM proxy (as that preumably only handles outbound connections). But this should be able to be sorted by looking on your router / calling your upstream provider. Cheers Jona

Hi there, I can't quite understand all of your post so forgive me if this isn't helpful... Seems like you need to start from base principles, e.g. First get your external IP successfully connected to your internal router / gateway (should just be a matter of entering it once it's been allocated). Then setup the link from your router to the server inside your DMZ (should just be a direct mapping assuimg your not NAT'ing for any reason..). Once this is done prove to yourself that would can navigate to the services you want on your server (web, email, etc) from outside your school network using an IP address. Once you've sorted that out you should be able to look at doing DNS to nicely map your domain name to that IP.

I reckon you should make a list of generic boring tasks for him/her to do: Clean mice / pc's. Labelling - PCs / comms cabs, etc Filling software, generic tidying up After that it's down to your judgement really I would definatly try to get them to do any hardware stuff that comes up during the week (e.g. changing HDDs, CD-Roms, memory, etc). You should also try and find some intresting tasks for them to do but a lot depends on the student, maybe just assign them some of your easier tickets / tasks for the week with the instruction to do it and call / ask you when they get stuck?

+1 to RoyG. If a label maker is out of your budget range then a good permanent marker and someone with neat hand-writing!

that sucks, it might be worth installing the software on a Admin (e.g. non restricted machine) to see if you can do the process there. I've had problems with Pro desktop on cc3 in the past for example.

Discussed here: http://www.prodesktop.net/htdocs/dcforum3/DCForumID1/1785.html Don't know if those suggestions will fix it for you, worth a try.

That looks awesome EeEk, I might be being stupid but I don't seem to be able to find the download link on the download page.... Any chance of a direct link? Cheers Jona

I don't think there is a specific ELGG package for USB key, but if you can get an WAMP or LAMP stack onto a usb key see - http://pendriveapps.com/2007/06/01/xampp-portable-web-server/ Then I can't see any obvious reason from a quick look at the ELGG website why it shouldn't install..... Cheers Jona

AJAX is your friend here (with is basicly just asyncronous javascript), This http://uber-uploader.sourceforge.net/ is awesome for *nix. I assume you might have issues on windows due to the perl component. Quick google found this: http://www.sibsoft.net/xupload.html (I havn't used this, so it could be rubbish!) Cheers Jona