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Also take a look at this: http://www.hudzilla.org/phpwiki

Anywhere near Derby? Any idea on payscale?

Would be great to give something back - count me in - (pursuant to Head's agreement).

R Read W Write C Change (read/write) F Full control

Yup - Just got one & loving it - Now... if only I could get it to load EasyLinK!

User have read/write permissions to C:\Documents and Settings\[user Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ ?

*sigh*

He's probably trying to put the CD in the cup holder....

Probably not - it'd be a good decision... this Gov doesn't do those.

Print Manager Plus - Great app, but seems to develop random "issues" sometimes.

Whilst comments on the dire state of IT pay in schools is a valid topic - it's not really fair to hijack someone's job advert is it? At the end of the day, it's not their fault.

Two Lexmark C912s here - works like a beauty.

If you're getting on top of things, then you must've over-looked something lol

"who is recommended by the education board" - there's your problem right there... What, exactly, qualifies them to know a good IT company?! Haven't used HP for a couple of years, but always got good service in times past.

Yes, when you run SOLUS on the server, it upgrades the Setups - running SIMSApplicationSetup will install the latest client on the PC.

Have you tried running SIMSApplicationSetup.exe from the Setups directory on your SIMS server?

I use FireBug now - http://www.getfirebug.com/ Used to use CSSViewer - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2104 Hope they help!

IT Services Whenever anyone asks for ICT, I send them to the ICT teachers... they generally come back pretty quick rather confused!!!

Problem is - the same conversations seem to keep being had about BSF, but nothing much changes. LEA "uber consultants" tend to be ex. teachers, and, generally speaking (there are exceptions), as such, have absolutely no clue about running school ICT provision. Worse, the majority of them have the attitude that they know everything, and if you don't do it their way, you're making a huge mistake. If they were good, experienced, ICT/Network Managers, who listened to other people, then maybe we'd have a cat's hope in hell. As for the bad management of the school leading to bad ICT - shouldn't this be handled just like any simular problem? We have OFSTED etc., if a school's failing in providing something for it's students, then it's pulled up on it. If it's really bad, it would be put under special measures, with the management taken up by an external team. BSF is floored for the simple reason that it's trying to take a one-size-fits-all approach, and that's just not how the world works. School's should be audited on ICT in a similar way to OFTED. Yes, if a school has cr*p ICT, if student's education is suffering for it, then it should be brought under the control of LEA/PFI, etc. Then the ICT provision gets better, and that's a good thing. If a school already has great ICT, brilliant facilities, network, staff, why decide to basically scrap those staff, scrap those systems, and stick in a vanilla setup that actually degrades the ICT services the students are getting? Why should good schools, our students, loose out simply because of other bad schools? There wasn't any ICT Support consultation when BSF was thought of, because they knew what would be said, because they're just taking the easy route, and not actually thinking about real life. It's quite noticeable when my Head (whose very into ICT, & has a good grasp of it's educational use), talks to other Heads, who don't really care about the ICT the school has, but just wants some bog standard system in that does just what is needed & they don't have to think about advancing it to improve their students education. My Head hates BSF, the one's who don't care about ICT, love it. It's just a cop-out, same as the anti-Grammar school campaign. Let's not try to cater for the diversity of our youth, our country, and our future, let's just lump everyone in the middle ground, we'll drag up the few stragglers, and drag down the successful to our level, so the not so good one's feel better. It's an epidemic - look at politics in general... practically everyone is just moving to the centre ground. Sorry, rant over...!

They had MP & BSF contractor on New24 item yday evening... other half wanted to change channels as I kept hurling abuse at the crap the contractor was spewing!

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/121735/evesham-in-administration.html Warranty's will be honoured... allegedly!

American football, baseball, football mainly. Also bit of basketball, rugby, tennis, WRC, sometimes.

If you find out the secret can you let me know Russ! Been trying to do that for ages, but it never builds, just falls over on Setting Domain Security. Been driving me nuts.

How they drive isn't our responsibility - However, the protection of information, for both legal & moral reasons, is partly ours as the IT people in our establishments. Causing real harm? OK - here's an example for you, it turned out OK in the end, but it shows the point: Teacher comes to us the other day, "OMG, I left my laptop in the car last night and it's been stolen.", "I just remembered I saved my ePortal password in IE, now anyone could use my laptop to find all the personal information of our girls". Now... to me, that could have caused real harm to our girls if that laptop HAD fallen into the wrong hands.

Personally I wouldn't bother learning VBS now, it's been superceded by PowerShell, and will be the foundation scripting lang, command line, and basis for future MS OS's & server apps, as well as working with current versions. Might as well learn the latest stuff. I'd recommend Don Jones's 'Windows PowerShell: TFM' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-PowerShell-TFM-Don-Jones/dp/0977659720/ref=sr_1_7/026-2613378-9023648?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183984272&sr=8-7 If you really want to go down the VBS route though - try http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-VBScript-Step/dp/0735622973/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/026-2613378-9023648?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183984484&sr=8-2 Hope that's of some use!