SteveBentley

Isn't every auto box laid out P R N D 2 1 so that you would only go through reverse if you were going into park rather than into neutral? Every auto I've ever driven has been like that.

Why the hell would he do that?

Virgin is worth a look if they're in a cabled area - the service is great, but I've found the tech support line to be terrible, but that may just be that my expectations of talking to somebody who knows at least as much as I do were a bit optimistic.

Unfortunately we can't get to BETT either - it's just a week too late as it falls during the first week of teaching so it's impossible. Is there any reason why these kind of events have to be held in London rather than somewhere more central, btw?

I wonder if "prove that your label has the rights to put this on the compilation you're accusing me of ripping it off from" will work as a defence?

Although running the SMART notebook on non-smart hardware is a license breach

Don't... I had the equivalent of that situation where we turn up and do exactly what the user claims to have tried and it magically works last night, having called my breakdown service out as my car wouldn't start. He turned the key and it started first time (The mechanic was able to offer a plausible explanation of why it worked for him and not for me, so I don't feel too bad!)

The big advantage of these is that you won't be in a shadow while trying to write on the thing.

Does Office 2010 have any groundbreaking new functionality or is it just another batch of unnecessary and unhelpful interface tweaks, as part of Microsoft's license to print money?

Sounds like you want a shortcut on the desktop with a link to an intranet page which will handle the communications via a PHP/ASP script. You could have the room number as part of the shortcut, so http://intranetserver/emergencycall/call.php?room=5 to call somebody to room 5. The PHP script can then chuck out emails or integrate with other systems as appropriate. In fact, maybe you could link such a thing to something like the EduGeek emergency button type hardware?

SMART do an add-on for existing flat screens SMART - For flat-panel displays or, depending on the size you're looking for, Dell have a touchscreen variant of the Studio One all-in-one PC.

Many of the pictures on Flickr are tagged with Creative Commons licenses, so if your use falls within CC you'd be able to use them. It may well be that there is CC video there too.

The defining feature of a podcast (vs a bunch of mp3 files sat on a website) is that there is an RSS feed which forms an index to the mp3 files, with each mp3 as an enclosure. Software like iTunes, juice downloader, castget (a simple command line linux app) poll the RSS feed periodically and download new mp3 files. To answer an earlier question - yes, juice is good. You can also try subscribing to the RSS feed in your browser - that should give you facilities to download the enclosure (mp3) but software like juice can do it on a more automatic basis.

If you're working from a live CD then there's little reason not to just hit the power switch once you've unmounted any hard drives etc, you're not going to corrupt anything. However, I tend to use the halt command.

This is a 2 year old thread btw guys

Good luck with that

For occasional use it's almost always cheaper to just nip to Boots/Asda/Jessops/Max Spielman et al. Especially if it's so occasional that the ink cartridge has dried up in between uses

Movie Maker support in Win 7 is ropey to say the least.

Our policy is that old machines go to be recycled, period. Mainly due to liability in case somebody gets an electric shock or something. Of course, we never throw anything away that's worth having anyway!

I'm surprised that a mail merge didn't do what you wanted. The other option might be to import the csv as a table of an Access database and use the querying and reporting features in there.

If you can get a couple of hard wired cables (audio plus composite video) installed between the two locations that would be the best way to do it - ideally four cables so that you can have return audio and video from the second hall if required so that the speaker in the main hall can see a show of hands from the second location (on a strategically placed screen) via a cheapy cctv type camera perhaps, or if you're being more ambitious and can set up a radio mic or something, take questions from there. The return feed isn't so critical but if you're putting cable in it's easier to put four in now rather than add an extra couple later. The cables would either be screened video/audio cable or Cat5, which you could use video over Cat5 adapters on (and only need one cable each way.) The advantage of using a direct video connection is that you get decent uncompressed quality, and no latency so having limited interaction with the second room becomes more feasible. You can also look into sharing presentations between the two rooms - an extra Cat5 connection between the two with a VGA over Cat5 solution would be a good way to do it - assuming you can run to two projectors in there. At the business end, what you really need is a vision mixer to switch between your cameras - you can get simple cut boxes like this but the results won't really be satisfactory, because the cuts you get will be non-sync[*] and there will be a couple of seconds' picture disturbance each time you switch. You used to be able to pick up a mixer without needing to take out a second mortgage in the days when enthusiast/high end amateur/semi-pro video makers were still working on tape, but now all the editing is done on PC the only real market for mixers is live broadcast stuff which has a price tag to match, so you might need to keep an eye on eBay for something affordable. You'll also probably need a sound mixer to deal with the mics, computer/DVD audio etc to send on to the other room. Edit: something like [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/DATAVIDEO-SE500-VISION-MIXER/dp/B0018D5BFC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1259337308&sr=1-1]this [/ame]might suffice, but it's still not cheap. It does however have a basic sound mixer built in. [*] A TV picture is made up of 625 lines (we're talking analogue here), transmitted in sequence. To cleanly cut between two sources they both have to be on the same line otherwise it confuses the telly and it takes a few seconds to get back to normal. Synchronisers, built into mixers, are used to delay one source by the amount it's out relative to the other source so you can get a clean cut.

Richer Sounds are doing some good deals on Samsung 32" LCDs at the moment.

This sounds very much like the original problem Witch posted about here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/behind-red-door/44814-teachers-opinions-external.html

I hear that in some areas they have a kind of bartering system, whereby each person in the group can call on the services of another member and "pay" in the currency of "favours", equivalent to an hour's work. So you might spend a couple of hours fixing somebody's PC, you have two favours which you can cash in for a couple of hours' work from the plumber, mechanic, sparky etc in the group.

I have a key that can open almost any filing cabinet...