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We still have one of those, though our other techie, Tallan, has adopted him as his own and is very protective over it It gets used as a whiteboard rubber usually. The last time I saw it, it was lying in a biscuit tin. Which I haven't seen for a while...

One student was in our office earlier this week and thought our mini fridge was cool (wouldn't expect it to be warm!), and didn't know what Mad Cow's Disease was and thought we'd made the name up. We also have small Unison stress pigs suspended from the ceiling with paper wings mounted on their backs (flying pigs!) which is an amusing topic of conversation (sometimes) to those who notice

A good number of years ago, Bossman and I used to have about 3-4 travel mugs of coffee a day. Never did usss any ha-arm *twitch*

UT2003/2004

I've found FileZilla more resilient and reliable at FTP than WinSCP, but WinSCP excels at SCP connections

The log file location can be found by clicking a button in one of the tabs in the Properties window of the site/folder in the IIS management console. That's not very specific, because I can't remember It'll be there somewhere though.

Even with small fingers, it doesn't behave like tablet/touch interfaces should. Take scrolling, for example. You still have to drag the tiny scroll bar (usually) at the edge of the screen - no pointing in the middle and moving your finger up or down. As Dos_Box said, W7 in its current state just doesn't cut it

Have you checked the IIS log files and/or turned on debug mode in Moodle?

Having used both the RM Slate and the iPad, I think the iPad is the winner, but largely due to the operating system used being tailored for the device, rather than shoe-horned into something it was never designed for. The RM Slate was an awful and clunky device to use when running Windows 7. Clicking and dragging behaved just like regular Windows, and dialogs, buttons, controls and text were sized for the desktop. It's just not orientated towards being used on a device of that type. The keyboard experience was also pretty rubbish. It could be a much better device running a proper touch-based OS. The iPad is a very nice piece of hardware with OS and decent screen size to match. However, it does have its limitations. No memory card support without the extra cost and adapter, no bluetooth file transfer OOTB, and so on - the usual Apple-manufactured restrictions. Having said that, the overall experience is great if you can get the apps to match. I think the bottom line is, tablets need a tablet-specific OS to get the most out of it and achieve the most adoption amongst users.

You scored 32/100 for economic capital. Your financial resources are lower than the average person in the UK. You scored 100/100 for social capital. Your social network is wider than the average person in the UK. You scored 50/100 for cultural capital. Your range of cultural interests is about the same as the average person in the UK.

sippo: Steerage class

Brilliant!

The C level is the average height of the ocean's surface.

I don't just want to go on a definition quoting rampage, but perhaps it might be a good idea to see what one source defines them as to encourage debate I think the definition and the boundaries between classes is blurred, it's difficult to pigeon hole a person under one specific class. Middle class A top-class doctor or surgeon, for example. Working class From shop workers to school support staff, maybe? Source: Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary

Do you work for a living? If so, then surely you would be working class?

It definitely won't work with red and green on the same subnet, as it acts as a router/default gateway as well. As far as I know, it won't work with just a green interface.

Alis_Klar: Yes, totally transparent. Proxy is running on port 8080, and authentication configured as Windows. Domain/PDC/BDC are just the simple short format (no dots or IPs).

Yes, green and red only. Green is our LAN, and the Red is a mini-DMZ comprised of the Magicbox (ISP router, for those not in Durham LEA) and legacy video conferencing equipment.

For proxying, I can recommend IPCop as a self-contained installable distro, with the Advproxy and URLFilter addons. We've been using it on the same desktop-grade box since 2005 - rock solid and just works.

Yes, you'd need another box for web content filtering - it's not advisable to run anything else but Zimbra on the one server. But yes, it copes very well with spam Zimbra's 'groups' are called Class of Service (COS for short) and allow you to set a variety of features and options that are available to users in that COS.

I moved the school over to Zimbra in 2008, following 6 months on-and-off testing and planning. Once set up, it's easy to use for both users and administrators. I did some bits of documentation but they may be out of date now. I'd advise checking the Zimbra wiki when doing anything, especially stuff by Ajcody - he's a bit of a community guru. Users and distribution lists are created and updated automatically via 2 scripts - one VBScript on our AD server to export users, groups, account status to CSV, and the other Perl script on the Zimbra server to run the Zimbra command-line provisioning tool to create or modify users from the CSV file. To make it even easier for our users, I developed a C# application which used pre-authentication to automatically log the current Windows user in.

Do you have any benchmarks or information to back this up? We run CC3 and are soon to upgrade to CC4. Both networks have per-user (hidden) shares and we don't notice any difference compared to other servers.

Don't go... Make a bolt for the main exit!

Yikes! Stuck one of my old 'blog' URLs into the wayback machine. Reading my posts from 2002 is scary!

Brilliant photos, I love stuff like this. Thanks for posting