K.C.Leblanc

From the Desk of Vegas 63 Printers, mostly HP colour lasers. Bit over £20k spent About 1200 on roll with 100 staff At the moment we don't do printer credits, the only monitoring we do is using paper cut to spot people who blatently take the mickey.

Please tell me you're not going to laminate it and wear it round your neck on an Edugeek lanyard.

Bappy Smurfday

We've got over 50 Smartboard here and they don't give any trouble and the staff find them easy to use. The only disadvantage with the smart is their surface is relatively soft, so if you forsee furniture being bounced off them it might be worth looking at something else.

It should work with the composite, however scart carries inputs and outputs. It's possible that your scart cable is designed to have the signal input via the composite and outputed via scart. Get one of these (making sure it's the sort with the switch) and a set of cables, it also means you can break the sound off into a PA. http://www.newmp3technology.com/prodimages/scartnew.jpg Your ideal to use the arial connect might work if it's a high end STB. However on most STBs the arial out is just carries the signal staight from the arial (it does not add the enencoded digital signal). It's intended so you can still watch analogue using your TVs built in tuner. EDIT: Actualy your laptop dongal is digital, so you should just be able to plug it straight into the arial without using the STB.

:eek::eek::eek: can I come out from under my desk now? We have a few Canons. They are surtainly robust enough for secondary use.

Department policy requires all stationary is harvested from trade shows, hapless teachers and junior technicians.

This sounds like a great idea. This pen I'm using I actualy brought from home, what's the best way to bill my school for the ink? Oh and remember to bill staff who bring in phone chargers.

We've got a couple of the Musteks, they don't give much trouble, however the quality isn't great. Also the drivers are ancient, they're fine with XP32, but I wouldn't assume they support anything newer.

You should be able to do this with Robocopy.

Or a promotion for board games club.

How about matching Edugeek gaggia machines?

Pro Logic 8, is that like Cubase? If so how does it compare on the ease of use front? But you don't get the monogramed cleaning cloth.

Mostly cheques, my boss is a staff governor so often ends up with a large pile of them to sign. We used to let staff buy stuff and claim the money back, but fortunatly that's been stomped on. There used to be a local barter currency a few years back, but I don't think the school ever used it (I think it was only used to buy organic veg and birkenstocks).

Actually the keypad lock on our office throws me. I can always get in because I know where my fingers go, but I was asked by the deputy head and I couldn't tell her the number.

I was actually doing something with the IT manager of the school next door. I unlocked his PC, opened ProCurve manager, and then realised I couldn't remember his password (the one I'd used 2 seconds earlier to unlock the PC.) The same chap not only forgets his administrator password, he also forgets how to spell administrator.

Sorry to hyjack. Can does OSX have to be run virtualy on Mac hardware? Or can it be used on any VMWare platform? We might need a Mac server here, it won't be doing much so adding it to our ESX would be much neater then buying a Mini Mac.

We got one to, are you in Glocestershire?

We have the daughter of a major day time TV person.

We do this for some admin staff who use Sims a lot. However we don't use it for teachers because of the reasons above.

Well we are due a generaly election in 2010.

Serif Movie Plus X3 will load MP4. If you phone them up they might give you a free evaluation copy.

I think companies need to know. I'd look negatively at a company who marketed themselves that way. Think of all the people on here who refuse to have anything to do with NTS Optomen due to their marketing style.

I hope your two year old isn't idolising FN-GM? We get staff room treats every Friday. If I'm lucky there's mini Curlywurlys.

You can use either PSShutdown or windows built in shutdown command in the log on script. Just set them to log the machine of after a given number of minutes. Shutdown - Shutdown the computer PsShutdown - Shutdown or reboot a computer