K.C.Leblanc

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79. We don't need the URL of the web site you want unfiltered. A rough description of what you typed into google to find it is all we need. 80. We're happy to help when you can't work out how to switch on the lights in your class room.

Bah humbug.

Is this just effecting workstations, or servers aswell?

I quite often get "can i put card/cloth in this laser printer?", and then after my reply of "no, it will break it", a disbelieving "but it worked in so and so's printer" No.1 Why ask the question if you aint gunna accept the answer. And no.2 do you not think its abit of a coinsidence that none of the printers you have used will feed paper anymore! Gahhhh, we did actualy have some rocket scientist put inkjet photopaper in a colour laser printer. Very messy.

There's also a Microsoft tool for removing profiles called DelProf. I'm working a my own script, but it's not ready yet.

Depending on you set up, it might be possible for users who have a localy cached profile to log on with the network cable unpluged. Doing this stops GPOs being applied. If there is a proxy specified in the default user profile he'd be able to use the net. Another possibility is he's using someone elses account. Spuid & DansGuardian or an older version of censornet (when it was still free) are two free Linux based solutions for net filtering.

This isn't perfect, but I remember when playing about with a Smart Bluetooth tablet I noticed a lot of students had their bluetooth switched on.

We use terminal services. Works well, and solves problems with teachers trying to bring in files created in different programs.

Sorry to here about your school closing. Good luck in Oz, are you planning to do IT work over there?

You can redirect My Documents using GPOs. User COnfiguration > Windows Settings > Folder Redirection > My Documents.

http://www.netbootdisk.com/ , I've not yet found a network card this won't work with (some evil bugger will probably pop out of the wood work saying it doesn't work with their EISA token ring card).

Agreed, try to get some other teachers to speak to the head aswell.

adding echo %username% %time% %date% >> c:\userlog.txt to your logon script would do it.

We've got about 25, all using the offcial smart USB to serial cable. Works very well (although they are expensive).

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What's happening is if there is a blank line it trys to delete c:\documents and settings. Luckily Autoit has a fail safe. At the moment I'm up to #include Dim $aRecords Dim $DirLoc _FileReadToArray("list.txt",$aRecords) For $x = 1 to $aRecords[0] $DirLoc = "C:\Documents and Settings\" & $aRecords[$x] If $aRecords[$x] = True then If FileExists($DirLoc) Then DirRemove ($DirLoc ,1) EndIf EndIf Next

Cheers webman, Endif sorts it. Or placing the line that starts DirRemove on the same line as the if. I'm going to have to change it anyway. I'm getting errors if there are blank lines in my text file.

I've just managed to break a script I'm working on and I can't work out why. #include Dim $aRecords Dim $DirLoc _FileReadToArray("list.txt",$aRecords) For $x = 1 to $aRecords[0] $DirLoc = "C:\Documents and Settings\" & $aRecords[$x] If FileExists($DirLoc) Then DirRemove ($DirLoc ,1) NEXT The error is "Next" statement with no matching "For" statement.

I'd never spill something on the server, mostly because I don't want to slip up when I'm standing on it. That's the trouble with having toner carts on high selves. Oh ok, it's not a server we use anymore.

I do the same except I put Ghost on the CD rom. Works really well for me. Although I would use PXE if I was able to use DHCP.

Go for smartboard, unless you can forsee furniture being bounced off it. Very easy to use. Very reliable (we've got about 50, and only had 2 fail). Software is in MSi and easy to push out. EDIT: Edit, I've heard horror stories about the price of Hitachi pens.

If your students are as sad as me, try OpenTransportTycoonDeluxe. It runs on a P3-500.

BGInfo is a free tool that can display all sorts of system info on the desktop. I'm pretty sure it can be configured to show the local IP address.