daveyboy

Given the chance - you lot would spoil all our fun. Our teachers use usb sticks (department pays) They get a warning about not backing up, viruses, etc, etc and we have a sweep between us. Pound a week, each teacher is 'given' to one of us and when one of your group appear at the door with/without said USB stick broken / lost / viruses, etc Its your job to include 3 phrases from a list in the sentence thereafter. If you manage - you take the pot. (mine last time out at £21). We got fed up of telling people along, long time ago....................

I hate quota's so we dont use them. Just a big stick, and from time to time to time the top 5 users in each year group get to sweep the yards, clear the tables in the dinning hall and clean the corridors. The top five staff get to buy me a bottle of something..........and delete any offending pictures / music, etc, etc

How old is old? we are using Intel D865GLC's If you need any help, just shout........

Old ex workstations (more then 5 years old) with 2x 1tb sata drives, P4, 2 gig RAM, ubuntu server, samba shares, and Daemon Tools. Works a treat........

Daemon Tools. Ace bit of kit.

We get to go on any trip (if we are asked) and we also can arrange our own. Top stuff.................

LanSchool. great stuff

If you can plug in another laptop and it works, then this does suggest the problem is with the repaired laptop. There must be a difference in the two. maybe settings, but keep trying to find any differences. Look closely at the boot process and look in manual /search google for any PXE boot options / key combos for menus. Keep going Girl...

Little-Miss, probably not - but. When the laptop boots do you have a 'ctrl-a' (or some key combo) for PXE boot options before it tries for an ip address? if it does, check these settings against another, good laptop that gets to the PXE menu. You never know......

Just in case... This also gives us a chance to look over every machine. We clean every monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc, etc and change anything broken. we re-tie every cable, and re-image every machine(updated with patches, new software, etc) The damage is noted and if we can, charge the various departments for spares, or forward any problems up the chain for SMT to deal with - and they do - as we charge their budgets for anything we cannot get from the departments. (Headmasters rules) Out of 350 ish machines we probably replaced about 20 mice & 15 Keyboards per year. In four years we have had 1 broken screen (accident) 1 broken laptop screen (student paid for his mistake) and not one broken computer. we have had 2 m/board replacements, 3 HDD's and 2 power supplies No processors gone, no RAM gone. Secondary school, 1300 students. But projector bulbs...... now there is a different matter. As soon as I can, they are all going (including IWB's) for a touch screen LCD's with a glass/perspex front. Just waiting for the right product to come along.

We bought a Clarke 'Bandit' from Machine Mart with a 5 piece toolkit (includes a blower gun). I see they don't make this anymore, but google will tell you the spec's (I'm still stuck in Brisbane at the moment so I cant give the specs - yeah, its horrible out here!) We found... try to keep it light (ours is a multi level school so we have to carry) or wheels. DON'T let D&T or Art know you have it - it will go missing. Make sure you go over the power supplies thoroughly. Buy some dust masks from B & Q - it will surprise you.....

Every summer we blow out every PC in the school. Lid off and a blast from a portable compressor (about 120 quid). all the drives, power supplies, the lot. We think it helps - alot.

Clevo all in one from Stone. Worth a look. Oh, and Tanya is your girl......

I'm currently on holiday in Brisbane - due to fly home on Thursday. Although I'm missing everyone at home, another week or so would be nice............

Steve, thank you very much - I will be looking at this later today.

Did someone have a script to convert avi to wmv (using ffmpeg - I think!) that recurses into sub folders? - I can vagley remember someones post about running it on user areas. Can I find that post? - no. Hummm, must be searching for the wrong thing. Should have gone to a well known high st opticians. If you have, would you care to share?.. Ta muchly.............

as above - Us too (Sib & Cub) on locked down user accounts.....

Kept for 5 years off site in secure storage. Wiped from production servers - the day after the summer hols start - along with their email accounts.

I'm just about to put a DRS CD230 into the store cupboard (losing it forever!). Is this of any use to anyone?

Lanschool Ace.

Yep, we use it here. What do you need to know?

Congrats.

Have you still got the Dragon Flyer?

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