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Computer Config > Policies > Windows Settings > Internet Explorer I think. You may need to use the Download Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack from Official Microsoft Download Center on one of the XP machines but I'm sure I've seen it in the 2008 version.

Are the XP machines fully patched, I don't think that they support GPP - preferences - well at all, have you tried using policies instead?

Hey don't tar all the Primary Schools with the same brush, lack of skill can be anywhere and I have encountered my fair share of it in High Schools too. To be fair a lot of the frameworks that seem to be the favourites are also turned to Swiss cheese every few months or so thanks to their popularity and the double edged sword of OSS, people can easily fix it but people can also easily crack it open and use the exact same skills to find holes and exploit them instead. Updates, checking and backups are all requirements when dealing with a website, a CMS especially. I have to say also that some of the prevalence of the hacks in school sites is spear fishing, if your going to find an overtaxed system to exploit that people probably won't report that also has access to a bunch of other machines internally a school is a good target. Many teachers also seem to be an easy target for them as they seem to implicitly trust and click anything that mentions free teaching resources. I have lost count of how many reports I have had of weird stuff tracked back to the user being at this 'great free education resource site' and clicking anything and everything till they get stung with the latest malware. This is one of the many reasons I hate java - as the vector for many of these attacks but they of course require it to use the one in three educational resources that are not actually hidden malware.

A very poorly made point originally and generally as it is not wholely correct and not the whole story. Why can't manufacturers make machines that only 'support' running Windows. Apple has no problem with it. They make diesel cars that only run diesel, and petrol cars that only run petrol - now I know that in the past you could actually make a petrol engine run on diesel after warming it up with petrol. Now this was in no way supported by the manufacturer, required modification as it was not designed to run that and voided the hell out of any warrenty. I know it is not the same at all but if they want to why can't they? Do they need to market them as Windows PCs (which they do already)? Do they need to add a Windows PCs may contain Windows sticker on the side, like the hot coffee may be hot stickers on cups. Not saying that I agree with manufacturers blocking out the option to put other things on but why should they have to develop for a system they never intend to support, is there some UN mandated human right to install Linux on everything with a power cord that I am not aware of. Yes you have brought the hardware but with Windows, if you asked the shop if it would run Linux and they said yes, then it did not you can just take it back. Why can't I install Windows on my blackberry or someone's ipad, they are also computers which have much heavier lockouts than this. Again not that I agree, it's just that all this is because it is MS, everyone else has been getting away with it for years now with no action at all. EDIT: as below it looks like MS has gone out of their way to make it possible for other systems, by turning it off it just removes that extra layer of security that now exists and that they have chosen not to implement.

How many consumers run as limited users though and actually understand the importance of updates. There have been more rootkits etc. floating about simply because the security has got better. Despite all updates I have had to clean up a few rootkits of peoples machines. This is needed, if not now then defiantly in future as they become more prevalent. Malware is still an issue and it is getting more advanced all the time, there are also a stack of attack vectors that have been found and not used (as far as we know) yet. Hell Mac keyboards in laptops supported unsigned keyboard firmware updates while the system was running. Any additional measures are a good thing as I don't want to be pulling a laptop to its constituent parts to individually and safely reflash every little bit of firmware in it to expunge a hardware rootkit. Secureboot won't stop this but will stop one more vector.

Just further to my statement about the engine, it suffered a little on a couple of scenes on my Xbox but that could be my console. The wardens office was the worst offender with the environment bleeding through lighting in little dots that looked like active items when moving. Fine almost everywhere else though and impressive given the scale of the environment and the limits of the 360.

1 is worth it and 2 is still a great game just not quite as emersive as 1.

Probably not what you want to hear but it may not support it at all, 4tb drives have to use a different cluster size which most bioses and hardware do not support at the moment. This is why many are usb interface only so they can bundle a controller in there. A future firmware update may fix it but you may have to specificly look for a raid controller that can support it.

That is the power of dr who though, taking the inocuous everyday things and making them scary, wheelie bins, statues, a drum beat. It is all about using the environment and imagination. Macguyver would be proud.

Nice, fear the cloud. The new companion's not bad either.

Hmmm, finished it, it is as good as the original which is high praise from me, bioshock was the reason I got a console in the first place.

I'd need three, the walls are solid wood, almost like a log cabin and so it absorbs RF like a sponge, kills cell signal too. That is with N as well and Tomato managing the hardware.

4,5,6, 1,2,3 - the original order.

2. Oh I am everywhere, that scratching at the windows, the creak of the floorboard, that's me 3. Fair enough. We don't have 10GBe either but there may well be a place for it, VDI is an interssting subject too, but not overly economical till really cheap client hardware shows up with full acceleration handoff.

1. sounds practical 2. Oh patronising... Look up the CPU architecture and performance metrics on network cards it is based in fact. 3. as above I am only responding to the scaling that you put forward as an example, that kind of seporation is scaled for thousands of users, I am going on your setup. I am fully aware of the fact that most schools are not that big. Again I am just providing alternatives, your view of the one true way just pushes my buttons, you do not allow for any system or schenario that is not your own.

Sandisk make great memory cards, SSDs, hmmmmmmmm, perrhaps not.

1. no, our system is different and almost certainly smaller but not all systems or HD video classes are the same. 2. It is not about the cores, NIC traffic has to travel on the virtual bus and then go into the pool of avalible devices, if you have 16 hosts or even 4 competing for one NIC at some point your NIC queues are going to get expanded if nothing else. The CPUs are another matter, If they are Core I level then there are several hardware DMA channels built in to the cpu. If you are using older CPUs or even have a stack of hosts on each making DMA alls then you could end up with network and other hardware traffic taking the long way round through the CPU instead of direct hardware communication. We are not scaleing to to two users here but dozens or hundreds per instance as that level of seporation implies. 3. You have 4GB comming our of every host which is 12GB/s vs 8GB/s of storage bandwidth for everything going out to the hosts and into the VMs, if nothing else there is potential. It also does get better, 10GB/s iSCSI or even better teamed 10GB/s. There is also the option of multiple SANs to spread out the bandwidth. Now, don't get me wrong, your system probably runs great and may have addressed most or all of the contention issues but you can't take your system and apply it to every system everywhere. You don't know what everyone else is doing or requireing. It may not even be bandwidth but realtime, ultra time sensitive stuff. Anyhow I am just saying that your single use case does not constitute proof that everyone else is somehow wrong or unjustified.

Apparently Aerohive stuff has a bridge mode that allows you to use that Apple rubbish accross subnet boundries despite the amature attempt at a protocol they(apple) use this can help with the long lists.

1. again, in your school. Push some heavy 3D or movie files over that and your calcs go out the window 2. OMG you have taken seporation to the next level in that, I know that memory dedupe exists but that kind of seporation is very specialised. I hate to think of the queues your VMs have to wait in to get access to the network cards propper and all the traffic on virtual DMA mapping. Impressive storage but 8GB shared between that many hosts still provides a bottleneck. We also have a hp 5412 which is a nice bit of equipment but again, every school and implementation is different.

30% usage does not nessisarily mean that that is all it would use and is an over spec, it could easily indicate a bottleneck in storage speed, virtual host CPU or memory queues or contention on the rest of the network fabric. Sure it could mean that in your situation it is all that you need but without all the variables we can't know if this is right even for your site let alone others. 48 servers, what the heck are you running there?? How did you end up with so many?

Thanks, I don't mess with linux that much.

Jack the Ripper might be able to do this, it is the brute force tool to use against the /passwd folder, might have that feature.

Agreed, good luck with it now that Apple is involved though, even though Intel designed the tech though Apple may have designed that specific - no doubt patented - connector. To be fair it would not be hard to be a better connector than micro USB which is flimbsy and forceable in the wrong way - have seen teachers do it more than once. Thunderbolt would be great especially for the future when stuff was avalible, I think they still need USB though just to keep options open currently for all the hardware that is avalible for it. Internal memory card is also great to give it a little more memory. I still think that there should be more with built in 3g and gps.

Shakes fist, iPaditis, dirty manufacturers bleeding everyone dry with their latest useless tat. If nothing else I want something like the x2 with a stylus, 3g and gps. I can buy a cheap usb ethernet adapter if I have to but they have dropped so much connectivity they have made it useless for IT diagnostics. Chained to WiFi and their silly ipadesk expencive adapter for everything. Can't the EU actually apply some of their nany stating to Apple for a change, how is it that they have got away with nonstandard chargers, changing docks and custom dongles. How much ewaste is that, why must everyone but Apple follow the rules. Oh well hopefully with the above it the EU will take a swing at hp and the hipocricy will poil over and splash on Apple.