SteveBentley

Can't say I've had that problem, but I'm quite new to WDS myself I'm on 2003 server so things may have changed in 2008.

No such thing as reading weeks (officially) here. Induction week was 22/09, with teaching starting the week after. 12 weeks of teaching, 3 weeks off at Christmas, then another 12 weeks of teaching, then 3 weeks off for Easter. Then 3 weeks of exams, a couple of weeks of hanging around waiting for exams to be marked, then resits and that's the beginning of July when the students officially finish. In reality many will have disappeared after the first lot of exams.

You can edit the .wim file with a hex editor and change the HAL string directly. It's not as scary as it sounds! HAL Independent XP Via WDS

Half Term? What's that then?

The alt attribute is supposed to convey similar information to the picture (for the benefit of people who can't see the picture, and particularly screen readers) so will generally be a literal description of the picture rather than a witty caption for it, which the title attribute is more useful for. There is also a longdesc attribute which can be used to give a longer description than the short sentence which you would put in alt. However you don't need to add alt attributes to every picture there are many situations where it's better not to. Take the example of a page which has a list of staff, each with a photo next to the name. It's better to have the alt attribute as either alt="" or alt="*" rather than put the name into an alt attribute on the picture so a screen reader will say the name twice, once from the heading and once from the alt. Equally if a photo has been plonked on the page just for aesthetic reasons rather than because it conveys useful information, it can make the page more usable for somebody who isn't using a conventional web browser if you don't give it an alt attribute. One other consideration - the descriptions you put in alt are very handy for the search engines to pick up more information about the content of your page - most things you do in the name of accessibility are also good for search engine optimisation.

We generally use Saville AV for the projector installs. May not be the cheapest quote you get but the quality of installation and customer service is always great in our experience.

Surely a Vista Bear would be deserving of similar treatment?

Would making sure that wherever she logs on the wallpaper was changed to a "Missing" poster for said bear, or a "Wanted" poster for said bear thief, impact on her ability to teach?

There are some hotel booking systems on Sourceforge which may be adaptable.

I can see it now Kid: Sir, Sir! This PC hasn't got a mouse!

37 hours, full time, 30 days annual leave plus any non Bank Holidays between Christmas Eve lunchtime and the 2nd Jan. Much the same as everybody else has said, the summer is the time when you can rip infrastructure out and upgrade it without inconveniencing too many people. Although that is becoming less and less possible with MSc courses that have students working on projects through the summer. If we get the summer work right - in particular making sure that the student lab image is nice and stable and fast - term time runs a lot more smoothly for everyone. That of course goes out of the window when somebody decides in the middle of August that there is money for new machines and furniture after all and you have to start again...

If you're only printing a few pages a week then it's not too much bother to go pick them up from a departmental shared printer.

Probably quicker to drive round to Scan's trade counter from where you are!

That looks like they've moved your site to a different storage area and joomla is still looking at the old path. Your scripts used to be on \\nas04ent and this is set up within the joomla config files as the installation path or similar (never installed joomla so I'm not sure on the specifics) but you've been moved to \\fhnas01 and so trying to include the file using require is failing. Pretty poor form if they've done that without telling you.

As you want the machines on the domain, you can add this to the sysprep file [identification] JoinDomain=your.domain.name DomainAdmin=username DomainAdminPassword=password MachineObjectOU="ou=roomname,ou=pcs,dc=your,dc=domain,dc=name" And it should add the machine and put it in the right OU during the mini setup. It's a good idea to have a seperate user which has few rights other than the ability to create user accounts for this purpose so you don't have to leave the password of a proper admin account in plain text.

Are these 15 boxes of identical hardware or an assortment? If they are different then sysprep is absolutely vital, although there may be complications if some machines are single processor and some are dual/dual core.

Could also be DNS caching either within the squid box, on your local DNS server or on the client box.

Luckily this match is pretty meaningless from an England point of view as we've already qualified. I can't see the pubs being too impressed though, as this doesn't appear to be available to them to show.

Does anybody know where I might be able to source one of these please? It's the belt that drives the paper pickup on our aging DRS CD360 Optical Mark Reader. The circumference is 27cm (although it's likely that this snapped example has stretched) and the actual belt is about 2mm thick, a spongy rubber type material. I've tried the belts that CPC have, but they're too thin, so slip a lot. Any suggestions for somewhere else to try?

If your current set is serviceable, you might want to just get a cheap freeview box in the short term and hang on a little while until sets which have built in Freeview HD become available. AIUI if you want the HD version you'll need a set top box as the current decoders are not compatible and not upgradable.

Sounds very familiar, my particular department won't be using them again in a hurry.

You might want to consider a Synology NAS box - rather than just being a network storage box it's a proper linux machine, and you can run all of the services you've mentioned on one, with a bit of pratting about. I have mine set up with a proxy so if I'm using my laptop on a dubious wireless connection I can SSH into my box and tunnel all web traffic via squid so it's effectively as secure if I was sat at home

This depends on how you define secure. Most security issues are introduced by users doing ill-advised things. The system of running as a regular user, and entering your password to elevate privileges when required (which OSX has had since day 1) is far more secure than the Windows version (which came along later) and bombarded the user with so many pop ups that most either just click yes to everything or turned the thing off.

Talk to the legal bods who look after your school. IIRC part of the definition of "fit for purpose" is that goods must be sufficiently durable. Of course it's left open to interpretation how durable they have to be, but it would be reasonable to expect a printer to last longer than 14 months.

No, it's down to the seller, as that is who the purchaser has a contract with. The manufacturer's warranty is in addition to the purchaser's statutory rights (Sale of Goods Act, in the case of Business to Consumer transactions), and doesn't absolve the seller of their obligations.