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Even the best filtering is useless, at the last count we had 20 students with iPhone and another 10 with blackberries filter those while the little darlings are at school! Wonder how many kids will get them at Xmas. Soon we'll be at 10% of students with unfiltered access I bet.

It's Xmas on the clients are they connecting via ip or domain name in opendirectory settings?

Once you click start just leave it and let it load don't touch for 5 mins if nothing happens.

Love it too. especially with the iPhone app too

finally got round to testing a shutdown script for our ASUS Eeepc's to clear the machines of user profiles using DELPROF. (would like to roll this out to classrooms eventually) at 1st i tried this as a bat file but it would just sit at the running shutdown scripts, after running it as a VBS and adding a sleep command i was able to see why. it appears its asking if i would like to run delprof (yes/no) so how do i stop delprof from asking to run? Dim WSHShell Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WSHShell.Run "\\servername\NETLOGON\DELPROF.exe /Q /I" wscript.sleep 10000 wscript.quit

i think timzim has just been on a course

Think i've spent over £30k this year from new suppliers i have found via edugeek (ok mostly CPLTD but shhh)

and staff wont write on them in pen!

My bad can't read and can't edit via the iPhone version of edugeek

Install firefox?

Another 1 for Cp joe even did a great job dealing with dell support for me!

Sorry but whats stopping students bringing in porno mags, cds and memory sticks full of videos, pictures etc? This is where some of my points about each school is different, some schools need locks everywhere. Our kids are generally good and alot of our college beliefs rely on equal value and trust. So why should the 98% of students be punished and their chances of being successful in life being reduced for those 2% of students who are bad? tackling students using college resources to do bad things, is not just an IT problem. we are lucky and are getting a fresh start (we're not BSF). The building is being designed to reduce the opportunities for bullying. knock on effect of this is freddy and billy cant go and find a hiding spot to look at their porno mag. If billy bullies freddy there are polocies in place to punish billy. Bullying only becomes a big problem for the college if they cant prove they have procedures in place and that these procedures haven't been followed (or you have a weak head that cant face up to parent pressure). IMO In the case of porn on the internet on a personal laptop.... same applies it only really becomes a problem for the college (or you if you have a week head) if they cant show they/you have put systems in place that reduce risk to students at an acceptable level. If a student is actively trying to bypass systems put in place this becomes discipline issue and i am pretty sure if they are accessing the content while at school they are accessing the same content at home. I'll invite you along when we open next year. we already support Mac OS X, XP, Vista and netbooks running Linux, we also support staff iphones. Use of Service level agreements will layout how far we are willing to support personal devices. As for Office formats, all our machines currently have all compat packs and Openoffice. its no different from today and it will be no different tomorrow. You'll always be in a situation where people have different software.

very nice install indeed!

Thanks for the heads up on the reports!

Just had 2 users outlook installations get corrupted and require reinstalls one was 2003 the other 2007 (hopefully this isn't going to be on more that these 2) anyone else seen this? im wondering if an update has rolled out that is nuking installs?

This sounds like somebody scared of change would say to me, this is something i would expect from teachers! or perhaps this is just down to the wide range of students we all have in our schools some schools need locks on everything others like ours have an open door policy. I wonder if the same discussions were going on when schools gave pencils and paper to students? "oh no little freddy can now draw in greater detail instead of that crappy chalk board!!! what can we do to stop him from drawing high detailed pictures of his favorite teacher and sending them to the local press." "oh no freddy can pass notes around the classroom about bobbies funny looking teeth" The world is changing, We're a One School Pathfinder due to open next October and the network will be designed in a way to facilitate the use of personal devices. We believe that students should be allowed to use their own equipment(ie provide their own paper), if they can afford it, those that cant will be able to book a netbook on loan from our library. Luckily the majority of our students are in a position to have their own equipment. if a student went round posting up posters of freddies favorite teacher or caught sharing drugs/illegal software in the car park or tripping up a student in the corridor every action that is seen as inappropriate if caught/reported should get the appropriate punishment. Its only teaching the kids how to use these tools will allow them to grow up and hopefully use the technology properly in the future.

I think procurve genrally are the best overall for price/performance/warrenty. Not sure what other vendors currently provide but procurves lifetime next buisness day swap out is a pretty good deal. They also do a buy back deal per port when you come around to upgrading the switch in future.

my silence button just broke on my 24 month old iphone 2G, although i blame my teething daughter for that 1! although found a place that repairs said problem for £29.99. (stuck in silent mode grrr)

As a bolt on. £7.50.

I know you pain, we have over 40 different activities students swap every term and its a nightmare to keep track of, we also have 10 activities that happen off site (golf, ice skating, cycling, extra chance to do DoE etc)

if you want to login as a local user type .\username (if its the same as vista)

they have a field day now with the crappy laptop style keyboard! 1st thing i did was dig out all the old chunky keyboards that i'd just put into store!

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2 weeks over here russ.

normal apprenticeship wage is £95 a week or about 4.5kpa so its not that bad!