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They do look very good! Thanks - been looking for a decent, good priced, trainer for my new Senior Tech. Now... if it was just a bit closer!

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli - Copy 3 feet away from me on my bookshelf!! Great book... It also depends on Job Descriptions and Terms of Reference. What is the ICT Co-ord's job? Are they your Line Manager? If so, is that in an oversight, or day-to-day micro-management role? Does your JD state that you're the primary manager for developments in consultation with the SLT, or that your role is merely to advise the ICT Co-ord, and the job of development ideas is primarily theirs? SYNACK is right, it's about politics and power plays unfortunately. There are two types of ICT Co-ords when they've had previous say in technical developments - 1) the ones who did it because the SLT wanted them too, and they're happy to accept that you're a professional, and bow to your greater knowledge, because you're the professional - 2) the ones who, regardless if they actually have a clue or not, want the recognition, and you'll have to pry control from their cold, dead, fingers. They'd much prefer for you to do the hard graft, and them get the credit. There's no getting away from this, but JD as mentioned above certainly gives you a step up the ladder. A lot also comes down to the SLT - If they have an active interest in ICT being a success, they'll listen to you a lot more - If they don't, they'll want to hand it off to another teacher, and let them deal with it.

Yes - was very impressive. Something to try to work into the next DevPlan me thinks.

Thanks - Worth a look. Have signed up.

Also pay attention to this thread - an old one, but timeless Kramer and other members promoting water cooling- you have alot to answer - AVForums.com

Just moved from Symantec to Kaspersky, and very happy with it! Wouldn't touch Sophos with a barge pole - also worth looking at Eset.

It's almost like it's trying to route everything through Google Cache... Any FF extensions?

Do you mean just on that website? By the looks of the error - it seems the session is expiring on the webserver, time limit?

Count me in - all registered.

Wow - congratulations to the both of you!! :-) No feeling quite like being with the woman of your dreams! Here's to a wonderful wedding & many happy years together!

Are you basing this on MB or CPU temp?Grab a copy of "Real Temp" & see what it says. As localzuk says - make sure the clasp/pins (depending on your CPU) are on properly against the chip, also make sure you've not knocked some cables in the way of your fans impeding airflow etc.

No feeling quite so great as knowing what you've got, you achieved through hard work and dedication. Well deserved, congratulations

Ditto - not an issue at all. RM's only interaction with AD/LDAP is to add some schema changes, the rest is bog standard.

I believe you're right - Same reason Ofsted aren't allowed in the Staff Room. It's protected by Union agreement I believe.

Keep remembering little gems... "I don't need my staff to be working out a bug in the software, i need them to be teaching ICT should be done by experts, not the educators" Show of hands please - when was the last time you saw a teacher debugging software? Yes, your teachers should be teaching, if they're trying to be IT Professionals, you've got some major management problems. Someone needs to tell him he shouldn't be expecting the IT professionals he employed that they should be teachers either, shock-horror, it's a different skills set (staff training, the odd lesson here and there, ad-hoc bits the exception). Thing is - the points you've always raised are perfectly true, don't think that can really be disputed. The question is, is the proposed fix to the problem, worth it if that fix is applied in a blanket approach, harming other areas on the way. If we could cure a very nasty disease, but for that particular remedy for the disease to work, it has to be applied to the whole population, with the side effect that for those not suffering from the disease, it induces a chronic heart condition - Do we go with the remedy or don't we? Do we wait for one without the side effects? A rather poor analogy perhaps, but it's late The answer to your question depends on if you're asking "is it" or "should it be". "Is BSF just about buildings or ICT?" - The BSF we have now? Yes, it is (some exceptions that I'll get to in a moment). Should it be? No, it should be about more. "Has anyone here considered the educational side of things ... curriculum redesign?" - Not really, and certainly not to the extent they should be. If you want to do "this", BSF, if you want to make such a radical change, make it worth partially selling out education as a commodity, really revamp education. Truth is, it's not happening in any major sense. SSAT are coming up with some good ideas, some really innovative teachers are, but they're a drop in a very big ocean. New qualifications/curriculums are being pushed out in the near term, huge changes to syllabuses, but none of them are breaking the mould. Maybe, if it happens, once all schools are BSF'd, and it's bedded in for a considerable time, and IT professionals in schools are remembered like we remember the Miners now, exam boards will change their styles radically (the new diplomas are a start, but it's a slow process), the landscape of teaching will change - but by that time, BSF, certainly with the contract length lockins, will be long in the tooth too. If you need an example - simply watch the video. It's BSF propaganda (nothing wrong in that, we do a similar thing on a smaller scale, their views, our views), but to those of us already doing the job, if it wasn't so serious, re-watch it, and think of it as a comedy, also something we could put together ourselves as anti-BSF! Why? That video is their pinnacle. Of all the material they have, that's what they chose to show-off the ICT portion of BSF. You know what? It's been said here by others, and it's true for us too, we... already... do... that... Home access to file? That's their "WOW-factor"... we already do that. A web-based collection of resources? We already have that, it's called a VLE. Quick response times? We already have that, darn sight faster than 30 minutes. Fix first time? 19 times out of 20, better than them, and that 1 time is because it's either a rare issue, or a bug in 3rd party program. Managed service is going to have that too, unless they're going to write all the educational software themselves. Music technology? Yup, 2 specialist IT suites, a specialist set of laptops, and a state-of-the-art (for education anyway!) recording studio. O, and we've got a similar setup for DT too. Audio-editing outside of music? Yup, Audacity used in IT, podcasting used over language, both English and MFL. O, and we've got our own broadcast channel in school too. BSF will aid innovation, great - show me? Where is it? Because it sure as heck isn't in their video. Prove to me BSF will make a difference to my school, then I'll embrace it. Right now, I embrace it only for those schools, that for one reason or another, are below baseline, then bring in BSF to those schools, and for the sake of those kids, do it now. "when a head is given a choice between a delivered service that actually means that there can be major changes in the way things work at the school and staying where they are ... what do you think they will do?" When a Head is given the choice of a delivered service that actually means that, let me know please, because that's a bandwagon I want to jump on. Even now, most of our teachers have no clue what BSF is, or that it's coming. Most of the other school staff outside of ours I know don't know either. You want to provide something that can facilitate major changes to education? Fine, lets have a huge, multi-year consultation process, let's pull in Head Teachers, teachers from all types and styles of schools, educational IT professionals, the other school support staff, lets rebuild this from the ground up, lets decide how we wish we could educate, THEN we'll sit down and work out the buildings and resources we need for that. Lacklustre PathFinders and the odd PFI build just don't cut the mustard, not if you're talking something as radical is BSF. Then lets not make damaging tradeoffs to save the money - lets make sure EVERY school can tailor it's offering at whatever degree it wants, lets make the MSP ultimately responsible to each school individually, let's make sure that each school has enough IT staff, with enough access and freedom, to let that school innovate. Then we can talk about it being worth turning education into a commodity because the payback is so worthwhile. If a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing right. Of the Heads and SLT I've talked to in my "travels" - I've met two kinds when it comes to BSF, and their opinions on the ICT portion: 1) Those that have limited interest in the school leveraging technology, & would much rather leave it down to individual teachers to go it alone, if they so wish - that have mediocre or worse facilities and IT staff because the Head doesn't want to fund it - These Heads love ICT BSF, finally they get to pass the buck. For those schools, BSF is brilliant, but generally for the precise reason that the Head just doesn't care. 2) Those that breath innovation and the use of IT in T&L, those that will push their staff to use it anyway they can if it aids learning. Those that have someone on the SLT specifically co-ordinating the school's IT effort, that know their IT professionals on the staff, because they talk to them often. These Heads loath ICT BSF, because all of a sudden, their ability to innovate has just been ripped out of hands. See... told you I wasn't getting involved

I've been sitting on my hands in this thread, my novel in the "Computing" BSF thread contains all my responses to the above! But just sticking the video on to listen to again, I couldn't help but mention this brilliant(ly idiotic) statement: "The really appealing thing is to bring in the professionals from outside, that is their role & that is their job, and if they have an issue, they have people they can go to for advice" OK... so as IT Manager that's not my role & my job now? Once upon a time, I didn't work there, and they brought my in, a professional, from the outside! I have people I can go to for advice as well, umm... EduGeek for a start? OK, so we don't all work for the same company, it's more ad-hoc, but surely, if the Open-Source scene should teach us anything???? Yes, BSF will be great for a significant minority of schools who, for one reason or another, have rubbish IT. For that, BSF is great. However, as that video shows, obviously the school they where talking to has had very poor ICT, how about talking to a school that is at the top end of the spectrum with in-house IT? See how they faired - A few threads on here referencing the Head that has refused BSF unless they take the IT out for exactly the reason that it won't improve things and will take away their innovation. Fine, sell ICT BSF for the areas it's truly needed in, but don't just brazenly lie, we should be balanced about BSF? Yes we should, but so should P4S, and they're not, and aren't they supposed to be so much better than us? At least we CAN accept that their are a few cases where ICT BSF makes sense, their attitude is simply, "all school ICT is rubbish, there are no IT professionals in schools, here we come to save the day". Treat the ICT BSF as you do special measures, create KPIs for school IT, force SLTs to make the strategic leadership of IT a post within the school, that MUST be listened to. If schools then fail those KPIs, if money is still misappropriated, then stick them in "special measures", whether that be the ICT BSF, or a centre of excellence school near by, then you end up with all schools at baseline, or better, for ICT, unlike a blanket ICT BSF approach, that means all schools will be baseline, and that's it. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/bsf/16613-tell-us-about-bsf.html#post165963 and http://www.edugeek.net/forums/bsf/16613-tell-us-about-bsf.html#post165964 for my previous novella on this!

[2-digit-YoE]+[surname]+[FirstInitial] e.g. 08BloggsJ - if there is say a John & a Jane, then 08BloggsJo & 08BloggsJa OU=School +=Users +=Students +=?? Intake (?? being YoE)

The Beta has been one of M$'s most successful betas for a long time - most importantly from a marketing PoV. Shockingly I actually found myself opting to use my W7 laptop over my XP desktop at work today because I found it easier... scary. Yes, you can call W7 "Vista R2" if you want, but that's not so different to Windows 98 being called Windows 95 R2 as well. The majority of OS's are built upon the previous iteration.

Between Orca, MakeMSI & the free version of Advanced Installer ( Free Windows Installer - MSI Installer Tool ), we find we have everything we need.

Been using it fine today...

In business nothing is a slam-dunk. Though BSF is in large part about profit, companies wouldn't get involved with it otherwise. They buy a lot of baseline equipment in en-mass, create a large, generic network, then charge schools a higher price per-head than schools (give or take some) currently pay for their existing ICT, then charge them amounts on top of that for anything which isn't part of the baseline package. Of course, this is a very generic picture, and isn't true for all, but it's the baseline idea. The companies would NOT get involved if they weren't going to make a profit out of education, the same goes for the building firms. Labour wants to be seen giving people great looking schools (we'll ignore whether they actually help, or hinder, education and the technology within), but can't afford it, business can, so business fronts up the money, business won't do ought for nought though, so their pay-off is to charge schools large sums of money over the life of the BSF contract to make both their money back, and getting involved with BSF a profitable enterprise. (to do things that schools can already do quicker, better, & cheaper). Like any enterprise, if they screw it up, they'll make a loss, but that's business.

The plot thickens... On our existing domain we have: 1x Windows 2000 DC 2x Windows 2003R2 DC On our new test domain we have: 1x Windows 2008 DC The trust verifies correctly on both the existing domain W2k3 DCs, but produces "Access Denied" on both the Windows 2000 DC on the existing domain, and the Windows 2008 DC on the new domain. Anyone have any ideas here please?

Evening All, I'm officially pulling my hair out on this one... I'm hoping someone can be me some enlightenment At Easter we're moving our network to W2k8, on brand-spanking new servers. Our current network has 3 DCs - a W2k server as the FSMO holder, a W2k3 and a W2k3R2 box. Previously the network was CC3, and the reminisce of RM's schema updates, etc. remains. So I've decided to do a ADMT move to a new W2k8 only forest. I've got the new infrastructure setup virtually at the moment so I can test methods for the final move. ADMT is installed on the target DC, PES on the source DC, the necessary registry changes applied, a trust created (...that APPEARED to work...), source admins added to the target admins group, and visa versa, PES certificate done & installed. Come to test the PES move, and the ADMT can't talk to the PES move. Come to try to move a computer, won't have that either as it won't connect to ADMIN$. Back to basics with netdom to verify the trust, and behold - "Access Denied". After much head scratching (and curse words), I enable AllowNT4Crypto, thinking that's it, and re-create the trust, which again appear to create fine, but netdom doesn't like it. I've even done the unthinkable and Googled it... and still no clue... either I'm missing something blatantly obvious here, or... Umm.... HELP.... please!

Good read - The idea of giving away say Home Basic for free, and charging for the more fully-featured versions is a great idea though. It would allow them to compete better with Linux, whilst still keeping some revenue for the Windows division...

Agreed - Our Dabs Account Manager is worth her weight in gold, and as such I give them a high percentage of our business. Our last Acc Manager there, was a nightmare, so they got next to nothing!