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The majority of the case is metal, so exposing the metal behind the plastic doesn't seem electrically unsafe. However, that isn't to say it is safe! The metal is often quite sharp behind those plates, but I'd be surprised if this concerned a PAT tester. We've never had a computer fail for this reason, but generally try and replace plates when they are broken or removed. If a student sees damage in a room, we often find they are happier to cause more damage.

Thanks for posting @CPLTD For those interested the release notes are here.... ZoneFlex 9.3.1 Release Notes | Documents | Ruckus Wireless Support Happy flashing!

Thanks @strawberry I had forgotten about the bulk update tool from wisesoft. It may well help, although I would like to automate as much as possible.

Has anyone got any scripts (or scripting tips) that could help with the following problem? We need to take CSVs from multiple schools and import them into a AD structure. We'll need to generate unique usernames (following a convention of say 5 letters of family name, first initial, middle initial, number). We will need to use the UPN as a unique identifier, so that the next time we run the script it will update the existing accounts, and create only new accounts. Is anyone able to help? Thanks in advance.

Thanks both for your notes. Looking forward to seeing more from @GrumbleDook. I've already published my notes on my blog. ESafety Live 2012 London « Irritable Tech

Just had another look into this... The 7300 series are sold with the fact that you can connect a wired pc and as they suggest a voip phone connected to these ports. Each with a different vlan if required. Is the suggestions that they are more like L3 hubs rather than switches?

They are usable network connections aren't they? My understanding was that they were designed to have a wired device attached to the extra ports? Seems the case on my 7343's. You can assign vlans and the like.

Actually that was wrong. That will let you put anything in front of the domain. Your a records needs to be Mywebsite.Sch.Uk IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER http://Www.Mywebsite.Sch.Uk IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER You could also add *.Mywebsite.Sch.Uk IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER This would also make ww2.mywebsite.sch.uk work also.

Damn auto correct keyboard! *gigabit

You need an A record which states something like *.Mywebsite.Sch.Uk IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER

You forgot option D: fit a wireless card in the workstation. I've used quite a few splitters in the past. They have all worked well and do give 100 meg all the time. I prefer them to little switches that people play with and unplug the power, create loops etc. With a splitter you still get the end device plugged into a decent switch with all the management benefits that brings, vlans, spanning tree, monitoring etc. Depending on your switch gear of cause. Having said all that, we've spent a lot of our time pulling cables to get rid of all our little switches and splitters and ensuring gigantic to every desktop and AP. So option A please!

What are they running in their bat files? If you network has the correct file permissions, this shouldn't really be a problem should it? With everyone banging on about coding in the classroom, if they can do no damage, why stop them coding a script? It's how I learnt when I was at school!

The one we went on was run by a guy called Mike Armstrong near Keighley, West Yorkshire. He was really good, but his web skills weren't. His site was at bushtruck.co.uk, but the only archive I can find is here... bushcraft home of bushtruck It's got a telephone number on there so you might be able to get hold of them? We almost had Adam from BBC country file coming to film us on the weekend too, but they cancelled at the last minute. Must have been a cattle emergency that week or something.

On recent stag do's I have been go karting twice, visited an adventure place where we shot air rifles, did some quad biking and something called "power turns" (basically a car with forward and back joysticks powering each wheel), and last but not least did a survival weekend. The weekend wood survival course was my favourite, and wasn't very boozy. I'm getting married next year, someone suggested the top gear challenge type stag dos. Buy a car for less than £100 and drive it to a destination, doing a couple of challenges on the way. There are companies who arrange them, or you could do it yourself.

Personally I would vlan. I'm guessing from the amount of switches, your network is fairly large? I like to vlan and reduce the broadcast domains on anything bigger than a /22 subnet. I'd also go for a new subnet from SWGFL (we did) because our LEA does not like natting addresses. They like to know what machine a request comes from. Speak to SWgfL they are there to help. They might also get you in touch with a neighbouring school who have had the same problem to fix.

I did the same last night @Dos_Box, searched high and low, which is why I tweeted smoothwall. I find it slightly odd to create the blog when nobody else can see the original information it is supposedly based on.

I've been told that smoothwall got an email from the DfE and will not post it publicly. https://twitter.com/#!/Smoothwall/status/180214849433903105 I'm in two minds about this. Firstly schools may need to deal with the issue of filtering individually, but unfortunately some schools don't have the local knowledge required. [edit] beaten to it again!

It really isn't too difficult to do it yourself. We did. There are lots of people here who would help too. If you do it yourself, you'll understand what is going on in your network better. We decided to spilt our buildings, so we have 6 vlans set up for our curriculum machines. You might go for 2/3 curric vlans Printers Vlan Security Vlan (CCTV, Door Entry, Alarm & Boilers) Servers Wifi? Student Wifi? You need to decide on one of your switches to act as a router, and start looking at configs. One you've got your head around tagged and untagged, iphelpers, and default routes, you really should be fine. What kind of subnet do you use? Is it provided by your LEA/RBC?

Eek! @TheScarfedOne did PM at 7:32pm, about an hour before you I'm afraid @witch. Rearly sorry you missed out. However places are now only £50!

Really? Nobody wants to go for free?

Hello all. I have acquired a free delegate place at eSafety Live 2012 in London on the 20th of March. South West Grid for Learning Trust - Home Park Crescent Conference Centre Great Portland Street London If anyone can genuinely get the time off work and travel to London for the event, why not make it known and I can save you school the £50 fee. I guess if there are a few of you interested, I'll have to give it on a first come first served basis. Workshops include: Teaching Internet Safety in Primary and Secondary Schools Technology in School: The Legal Landscape and the Police Perspective Protecting Your Professional Identity Embracing The Mobile Internet Facebook Safety and Security ‘Playing it Safe’: keeping children safe online with games at home and in education I'm really looking forward to the event, and hope to see a few edugeekers there.

Wow, thanks Luke. Can I take the RAM? Can I confirm the type later? Cheers

OK, sorry for the late reply MYK-IT We've just tried and tested this on one of our ruckus controllers. We have created a DNS entry for our controller - wifi.example.local which obviously points to the correct I.P. address. We filled in a certificate request on the controller including the Common Name: wifi.example.local and ensuring all other fields were accurate. Using the generated file, we applied for a free 2 year edu certificate from ipsCA, once again taking care with the form. Once we received the certificate email, we copied the full certificate text, into a new text document. We then downloaded the Bundle Certificate from here. Using notepad we copied the full text from the bundle file into our new file in the following format. -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- (Your personal signed certificate - wifi.example.local) -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- (the intermediate certificate - the first section of the Bundle File - First line - MIIF8TCCBNmgAwIBAgIUEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACMwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEF) -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- (the global authority certificate - the second section of the Bundle File - First Line MIIGBzCCBO+gAwIBAgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCBsjELMAkGA1UEBhMCRVMx) -----END CERTIFICATE----- We then saved this text file as wifi.example.local.cer and uploaded this to our controller. Hopefully that helps?

I've managed to order one from Farnells, but I don't know if I'll see it this side of Christmas!

We use a couple of these... Samsung LH32HBTLBC/EN Samsung SM320MXN-3 32in LCD disp Black LH32HBTLBC/EN | Servers Direct They have a built in PC running win XP embedded. We installed the Xibo client on them, but they do come with the Samsung MagicInfo software. We have another screen which is just a domestic LCD tv with an ultra small form factor machine running the xibo. It doesn't work nearly as nicely as the samsungs though.