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I'm guessing you mean the site that has the media downloads so that you can reinstall a licenced copy rather than a piracy site. If so I think it was something like digital River or something. @Arthur may have been the one that posted those links. Edit: Or I could hit refresh and check that someone has not answered already

Not sure about how it compares but there is this: Ubiquiti AirView2-EXT Spectrum Analyzer USB Dongle | Tools | Go Wireless NZ Ltd it only does 2.5G though.

Shiney, they have reskined it.

That does depend on how they have implemented it, chrome is Googles second attempt to make their own OS and running it without a virtualisation container has to make it more than a little of a mess, just like Java. All of these browsers are little mini Cesers trying to eat their hosts and become an OS in their own right, ChromeOS, Firefox for mobile. By trying to make a document format into a programming language they have attempted to switch the power base. It's funny because in their quest they have always gone with the universality of access and now there is all of these sites that 'only' work on Chrome or Firefox. They are worming their way in with the exact same practices that everyone got pissed at Windows for but suprisingly are all for this new order of the same thing perpitrated less efficiently by their favorite companies.

Is is four years old, if so you may be looking for an alternative Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted - Slashdot

Happy Birthday Mattx

But nessisary for limited users when programs blatently abuse the privilage, just restoring the natural order and making sure that users don't stuff their profiles full of malware and cack then come complaining that they can't use CoolSmileyFaceBrowserX to do their rolls and complaining that their email has been hacked. If the goal is to have a standard working system that people can actually use to get their work done you want to exert at least some control. If you just want to provide your users with whatever baubels they can be tricked into installing then that is your perogative. As above chrome updates every few days so the hash will change each time, you'll spend your whole life chasing file hashes for their latest capitilisation or logo change.

Rename to MyCoolNotAWebBrowser.exe and run, done. Block the whole temp folder (for limited users), it is a security risk anyway as it is where half of the malware nests.

But it is against the way Windows was intended to handle such things, it behaves like malware and why should Windows be Linux. For the environment it is targeted at it is skirting the rules and the mere fact they targeted it to get around the wishes of the organsations that own the computers in the first place is a tad less than ethical.

We do for some individuals but it frankly is a pain compatibility wise, persists in its mental update cycle, tries to build in everything including the kitchen sink. Funny how to make the web browser the answer they have to copy and build in every single answer into it (PDF, Flash, new protocols). It also persists in trying to get you to sign it into google, there is a corporate version but from all accounts it is a pain to get it to push out without it choking over updates or similar.

Does it matter? Even if they just mishandle it (the searchable issue that GAPS had) that is a problem, the fact that the data is accessable. You don't print out your confidential staff records and stick them to the schools windows, or even store them in a folder in a room that contractors can wander in and out of, they usually go in a locked fileing cabinet.

Google actually designed it this way to get around locked down accounts so that users could bypass the wishes of the business that they were emploied by. This I find massivly smarmy to start with. Almost worse is that because it sits in the profile and updates every 26 seconds it can end up using lots of bandwidth and expanding user profile size, users then start wineing that it is slow - their own fault etc. There is applocker or program restrictions that you can run through GPO which can prevent programs from running from certain locations or with certain names. This could be a goo way to stop the dirty thing.

Oh they are trying, when everything is cloud based they have all the switches and can do whatever the hell they want and you have very little if any recourse. You can also just as easily point 2013 at your own sharepoint box which you can have globally reachable and host locally, or at least on systems you can control.

I have some of the same concerns, there is a big difference between locally hosted software that you have administrative control over and the system, storeage and software being totally controlled by the external provider. I always like to keep a plan B in reserve for if and when these providers decide to change what they offer or how they offer it. It's not so much the homework that is a concern but if you put your admin services and email on it there is a much higher risk of personal information flowing over it. I also trust MS much more than Google when it comes to data, their gear gets attacked by haters every second of the day and there core business is not data mining. Google has its share of people after it too and this has resulted in various gmail users being detained in China, their initial cloud stuff leaked like a sive when they accidently turned on searching for several entire university domains. All providers are going to have issues but I'd rather not end up on the wrong of the search algorythm.

I get a 330ms ping to edugeek and that is way faster than it used to be.

So what is your new phone?

We had some 3750s that I pulled out a little while ago, still worked great but we expanded. Up time of a couple of years when I pulled them, rock solid. I think they were 7-9 years old.

I can't get that on fixed line speed, there again I can't even get 3G where I am now so I shouldn't be supprised. It is way fast for the southern hemisphere.

For timeing you can probably cheat a little, just rewire one of those remote flashes that detects the main flash to fire so that it triggers a shot, the hardware is really quick, as long as the lighting is close enough to trigger it you should end up with some decent shots.

Have you tried this: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/110305-microsoft-releases-massive-slow-boot-slow-login-hotfix-rollup-kb2775511.html

I think the plan now from Google is just to copy everyone elses services, become the best/most used then retire them out from under everyone. Perhaps they are trying to teach people a lesson about the cloud.

There is a policy buried somewhere that prevents users from deleting printers, I'd first check that that has not been enabled, then, if not I'd use a script. GPO and GPP are very hit and miss with printers despite the MS advice. This http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/22950-solution-map-printers-logon-scripts-windows-7-vista-without-uac-prompt.html plus Printer Addition Based on Location - Wiki will probably be able to sort the issues. Here we use a big fat VBS script that checks user groups and station names then does what is required for that session. GPP is great but for some stuff it is just flakey.

Ouch, that'll teach you for not wearing your Apple gloves (like radiation gloves only thicker). Did something similar with a cd once, it got jammed, I pulled it upwards and it shattered and ended up in my hand. That CD drive never worked again, they are right, blood is thicker than water and waaay harder to get out of electronics.

Maybe this is the first new horseman, IT becomes extinct in a mass overdose and the world collapses from their lack of facebook and inability to fix anything themselves... the end is neigh