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Hypnotically awful. I'll raise you one Jan Terri video.

Absolutely. If the dice had rolled differently, the guy would have been under the wheels and it would be murder.

Ah, a bad case of qwertyitus.

There's a new version of MuLab sequencer/audio software for Windows and Mac. MuTools.com There's a free version (which is limited), but volume discounts are available if the free version is too limited. MuLab 4 Docs http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QxhuFy11Z_0

I violently agree. The way the screens flick back and for looks like a schizophrenic operating system. I do hope some consistency is planned.

But the screen is green (not purple) and the icons are on the right (not the left), so it's not like Unity / Gnome 3 at all.

Try using messagebox instead of echos. Next, put messageboxes announcing themselves as the program proceeds as a kind of primitive debugger. If it's a startup script, you can write logs to the registry. It's not clear what you want to do, but I wonder if you can do the task by filtering GPOs by group membership? For example, machines in group '204' will run a certain script, machines in group '205' will run another if you implement policy filtering. How to Implement Group Policy Security Filtering

The software I used definitely converted polyphonic guitar to MIDI, in real time, as I played. It was quite a novelty playing guitar chords, but sounding through a piano synth.

I remember a program ages ago (6, 7 years ago) which converted real guitar sounds to midi by analysing the component frequencies of the guitar. I could play any synth I chose with my ordinary, non-midi Strat and this software. It worked with lead lines as well as chords, and worked really well, all things considered. Sadly the developer died and nobody knew what happened to the source code. A quick search for 'guitar to midi software' returns some interesting results.

Personal preferences, eh! I tried Mint and disliked the menu system - it reminded me of the KDE Kickoff menu which always irritated me. Well, that's the beauty of Linux. I may be the lone voice who loves Unity, but everyone's entitled to my opinion...

If you want to try something that isn't Ubuntu, Sabayon should be the next thing you look at. Hardly anybody knows about it, but I don't know why. It's a tremendous distro. It's got good hardware recognition, and is very up-to-date. Sabayon | Home

KDE underwent radical changes a while ago - it didn't suit me, so I went to Gnome. Guess what - Gnome is undergoing (undergone) radical changes with Gnome 3. I tried Gnome 3, and it's OK. I use Ubuntu with the standard Unity interface. At first, I didn't like it. It was new and strange. I went to/from Gnome 3, not quite sure if I liked it or not. Now, I'm back with Unity and love it. I find it fast, clean and efficient. I can do everything I want in a click or two. For me, OS menu systems seem archaic now. But that's me, I enthuse about Unity but I know many dislike it. Trying to argue with personal preferences is largely a waste of time, but if you don't like Unity, you can change it easily - there's no need to change distros just because you don't like the default desktop environment. For a more traditional interface, you could try the excellent LXDE or XFCE. Installing these interfaces is just a click away in Ubuntu, you can choose your desktop environment when you log in.

You could try this in your squid.conf then further down where you have your re-writes: Edit: I've just re-read your post and you say you don't have access to the squid config. I don't know what to suggest in this case. I don't think there's anything you can do at your end.

I'm guessing you're using Kerberos? OK, unless you get NTLM + basic authentication working (and as it happens I'm working on that problem with Squid), you can allow an exception in your squid.conf for java. I'll post the exception tomorrow. It works for itunes, too. Be careful doing this though, I'll explain by PM if you like as there's a massive security hole.

How many domain controllers do you have? Are they talking to each other? Check the FRS entries in Event Viewer.

1. Yes. 2. I don't think so.

You're right about the Facebook login - not something we'd really want to encourage in schools. But for individual use, I still maintain that it registers about 40 Megafonzies on the coolness scale. A cloudy, but less Facebooky, web centric lightweight OS (what a mouthful) might be PeppermintOS Peppermint OS

That means that there's no reverse record (PTR) for that particular computer. I suggest that your DHCP is not creating PTR records for its clients.

This smells like a DNS suffix problem. Try NSLOOKUP interaactively. From a command line NSLOOKUP See what is says about the Default Server. Make sure there are no errors at this point. Now type SET DEBUG and then type BBC.CO.UK to check. See if there are any errors. Now try typing in a name of one of your servers, see what happens. Try it with the FQDN suffix and without. You can test the reverse-lookup resolution by typing in the IP address in the interactive session.

Bummer. This has happened to me twice, both hit and runs. Out of pocket for the first one, but with the second time, a neighbour witnessed it. Even with those details it took 18 months to resolve the case. It's a pain in the cheeks, but you've got to look on the positive; cars can be fixed, and no-one got hurt.

What does Event Viewer say? Compare a working with a non-working machine, see what the differences are. I must say this is ringing a bell; I think I had something similar when I set up a Windows 7 system. I'll see if I've made any notes (I often do!)

Care to share some instructions for our proxy-encumbered brethren?

Crushing blow. *Surely* there must be a way? This article says it's popular with some European schools, which I imagine would use a proxy of some sort. Worth Considering: Jolicloud, Popular Education OS, Reaches 500,000 Users | WiredAcademic

It's seriously good. I've tried a raft of distros for basic netbooks, and this screams along. It's based on Ubuntu with a Chrome/HTML5 front-end. It also comes with all the codecs necessary for the web - I didn't need to install anything else. One thing - you'll need to search for and install a print package to print. Just go to apps and search for 'print'. TBH this really should have been included in the install, but hey ho, I'll forgive them.

Windows ME?