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I'm more interested in this BBC News - Lightning laser weapon developed by US Army linked from that Article - US Army Laser guided lightning bolt!

I think this looks pretty interesting. I remember from the developer commentary in Left 4 Dead that valve had almost completely automated the conversion between PC and X-Box. making a Linux ports (especially to a locked down version for specific hardware) should be simpler than porting to PS3. Also I think they should call it the GabeCube.

Do you have a link for them? and do they work with Promethean Software?

Hello, We're looking at creating a small group room for our SEN department, the room is too small for a traditional Interactive whiteboard and Projector, and we were thinking of using a touchscreen LCD (probably 40" - 60") Looking on the Promethean website they don't seem to do a wallmount, only a stand-alone table. Are there any touchscreen LCDs available that will work with the ActivInspire software? Cheers

Bee Playing this a lot this weekend, about halfway - 2 thirds through now (I think) All was going well up to a UFO crash site in Nigeria. 2 New alien types (I wont spoil it for those still playing through, but they're both tough!) lost 5 out of my 6 man squad Including my 2 Colonels once of whom had been with me since mission 2 and had 60+ kills. I was absolutely devastated, the last guy only survived by running like a bat outa hell back to the skyranger.

That was my first thought, but removing the AV didnt help As I said I just posted this thread as an Information Thread in case anyone else encounters the same issue, as it took a fair amount of digging to figure this out

Hello all, This is an Informational Thread that may help anyone else who encounters the same Issue I did. The setup was backup to Disk, backing up to a remote Windows 2008 R2 box. Backups would fail after 4GB had been copied (Size of one .bkf file) The job would fail with the following status Final error: 0xe00084f4 - An unknown error has occurred. Final error category: System Errors For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-34036 and the following error Storage device "Remote Backup Location" reported an error on a request to write data to media. Error reported: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. V-79-57344-34036 - An unknown error has occurred. This turned out to be a mismatch between the write cache status in Backup exec and on the RAID card of the Backup location Backup Exec was set to auto, and was assuming write cache was enabled. The Backup location had write cache disabled. Enabling Write cache on the remote Backup location fixed the issue. Hope this is helpful for anyone else who encounters the same error (MOD note - wasn't certain if this was the correct forum for Backup software posts - please feel free to move if required)

Hello all, Thought this might be helpful to some just found this post Friendly names when Selecting the Domain OU in MDT 2010 « Xtreme Deployment which shows how to change your DomainOUlist.xml in MDT to show friendly names e.g. Pupil Desktops\Room1 rather than OU=Room1,OU=Pupil Desktops,OU=somedomain,OU=local Implemented it here and it works fine (as long as you dont mess up you xml!)

How do you launch Guild Wars 2? is it through another download service? I know when I was getting the steam overlay to work with Mass Effect 3 I had to add the Origin client as a non-steam game then launch ME3 from there.

Hello all, Thought I would share this as it has taken 2 hours of mashing my head against a wall getting it working and thought I would spare others a bit of pain This script uses the 'Active Directory module for Windows Powershell' but the key point (that took me ages to work out, and seems mad) is you should not run it from a domain controller! instead I ran it from a member server while logged in as a Domain Admin Import-Csv .\2012Users.csv | foreach-object { $userprinicpalname = $_.SamAccountName + "@yourdomain.com" New-ADUser -SamAccountName $_.SamAccountName -UserPrincipalName $userprinicpalname -Name $_.name -DisplayName $_.name -GivenName $_.FirstName -SurName $_.LastName -Path "OU=year7,OU=Pupils,DC=yourdomain,DC=com" -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString "Passwordgoeshere" -AsPlainText -force) -Enabled $True -ChangePasswordAtLogon $True -PassThru } obviously change the yourdomain.com, path to the OU and default password to suit your school. the CSV should have the following columns FirstName LastName name SamAccountName when run the script will create the users, using their login name as the Display name. No Profile or home folder will be set - this could be added in I think, but is straight forward enough to do in AD users and computers (and I was fed up with tinkering in powershell by that point!) Hope this is useful to someone.

I was looking at this last night when I first saw the ruling. As I understand it, the companies cannot stop you selling on or giving away the licence. However I dont think there is anything that would force them to provide support for a re-sold licence, so you could buy a second hand SIMS licence but Capita could turn around and demand a support fee from you. Same with firms that sell software by download - I dont think they would have to provide downloads to the second hand buyer, or support/upgrades

If you are in a managed service, there should be specific Service Level agreements covering login times etc - if these are not being met then the provider should get people in to sort it or they should be facing penalties. I would suggest keep ringing their help desk and raising calls about these issues every time it crops up (even if you are ringing them umpteen times a day!)

When this came up for us, we got one of those VHS / DVD combo boxes that could copy. We showed the departments how to use it, not to copy copyrighted works and left them to it

You normally get that error at boot, if the keyboard isnt connected correctly or if a key is held down for too long (the machine thinks its stuck, hence a fault)

Anyone else think the ship in this looks like Serenity from Firefly?

found the link Learn With Portals

Last year there was some info from valve about a version of Steam for education, not heard much about it since though.

I've been playing the Multiplayer a fair bit this last week - it is quite fun, hopefully it will be even better when the other maps and enemy types are unlocked. Not tried the single player demo, as I dont want to spoil myself for the full game.

Hmm, well we've just got a new SAN - I wonder if they'd mind if I erm, 'borrowed' it if I won

I thought you just needed to send Bruce Willis up to it, Job done

If anyone is curious just how much they have spent on steam, try this link steam calculator I'm not sure if its completely accurate, but I plugged my account in and was fairly shocked by the figure it produced! newandimprovedelvis steam account if anyone is interested

This begs the question, if you took thin slices of potato, could you make crisps in a laser printer?

Thanks for that, but I already have that setting enabled. Any other suggestions?

Hi, Im just setting up new GPO's for pupils on windows 7, I've got most of the stuff I need sorted but there are a couple of nagging issues still to resolve. Does anyone know how to disable access to 'Manage addons' in IE 9? I've locked down all the settings inside it, but would prefer if pupils couldnt open it at all also, how can I prevent pupils from viewing the properties of a folder? I dont want to disable the entire context menu as they need to be able to create new folders etc. Cheers

Just to dig this post up - I just had this problem with re-directed desktop and start menu folders, the problem was I was re-directing users to a shared desktop and startmenu, but had the 'Grant user exclusive rights' box checked. Clearing this fixed it right away. Hope this is of help to someone.