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It does sound like a KVM over IP box...trouble is...you need the other one.

LOL. Now if i were to find pics or MP3s of pink floyd...then maybe i'd have to consider leaving them.........maybe that's a bit unethical but atleast they'd be showing some taste

The problem is...no matter how many times you tidy your data cabs. They are always going to end up messy becuase networks are ever changing to suit the situation. I spent a proportion of the easter holiday a couple of years ago with the head of ICT re-cabling the server room. The server cab didnt even have sides on it before we started...there were servers on the floor and cables strung accross the room etc. When we were done it looked so neat and tidy....then some idiot contractor drilled holes through the wall behind it and sprayed brick dust all over servers. MUCH anger.

Well you could use Smoothwall and that old 486 that EVERYONE has sitting in the cupboard et voilla....cheap and fast proxy. I'm sure there is a way to do it on ISA but i think it'd involve adding in a second network card and specifying a new network. Been a while since i've looked at ISA.

Could you put in a second proxy using a frankenbox with the external IP being that of the technicians range and configure it so that only the technicians use that as their proxy? Also....dameware === eurgh. It's built on VNC but eats something like 20% more processor on the machines the client is running on (i forget what it came out at).

The way we did it was by upgrading to enterprise and having separate mail stores. (I think......)

This is all coming down to the point of "boycotting the BBC." There was a big debate at LugRadio Live at the weekend about how to get the BBC to re-assess the use of DRM on the iPlayer and also to do with making it available on other platforms than just Windows XP and the rights of the license payers to have un-restricted access to the media they are providing in return for the license fee for people on all operating systems. It came down to a discussion from the Open Rights Group rep (i think that's who it was) about whether or not us, as linux users, should be boycotting the BBC and how that could even be remotely pheasable. She said it was a daft idea and tbh i dont think that a minority such as linux users are going to manage to persuade the BBC.

OK.... 1) clubbing ftl 2) clubbing in stafford == zanzibar == stabbings in the neck == bad 3) i'm doing network engineering ffs....game students spend time playing games....i spend time engineering networks! and please note that i'm *issed whilst writing this and also that drinking came first in the list!

@spuff monkey...you dont pay road tax if you declare your car off the road with a SORN declaration...bad example The only things worth wating on the TV these days are House, QI and maybe the odd episode of Grand Designs. To be honest, from a student's point of view...not having a TV means less destraction and more time spent "studying" (read drinking / playing with cisco kit).

1)No 2)No 3)Direct 4)Sometimes It's something i've noticed going into university education, that the broadband supply to the university is a lot more stable and you can get access to the status pages for the whole of the UK network for JANET (NOT who i've rated just above). If primary and secondary education recieved the same level of support that universities do from JANET then it would be excellent. But then again...universities do research and are essentially a large company. But i still dont see why schools shouldnt get good service from RBCs just because they arent cranking out research etc etc.

It was great in university halls becuase there was a DC++ hub at the rip-roaring speeds of 10Mbps in half-duplex. Talk about a dated network! It was still great to have it though. Got to make do with bittorrent and DVDs of stuff. Like most of my mates at uni I had to buy extra storage. My desktop PC now runs ~1.3TB of hard disk space. Bittorrent is making it fill up remarkably slower though

Oh.....and I had an arial socket connected to a community antenna that the whole of the halls of residence had access to. My tv was only about 4' away from the socket, if that. They didnt seem to care, but what they didnt do was check my PC for a tuner card (not that it has one). I think you have to have the license for the other stations because they all use the same antennas so part of the licensing goes to maintaining the antennas (I /think/)

Well. Due to the fact that when my year moved into the University Halls of residence they stopped the communal TV license so we all had to get one but I, and a LOT of students, are far too cheap and there are such wonderful things as bit torrent for the few decent programs on the tv. It's understandable if you're buying a tuner device like a freeview box that they would want your name and address because that's all it does...recieve broadcasts. With regards to radio licenses i'm not sure about that because people without tv licenses can have cars...and cars generally have radios. I'd like to see the blokes from TV licensing run out onto the A34 with a clipboard trying to get people to stop so he can give them a fine. I suppose the BBC have to get their funding from somewhere but it's just daft when they're introducing stupid rules like if it's a property with tvs in rooms with locked doors then it needs to have a separate license for each room that someone is living in.

Have any of your members of staff bought a TV for use in school or in their office....or maybe even one of the kids / staff doesnt have a TV license at home but wanted to buy one so stuck the school's address down! The rule is though, as long as you're not using the device to recieve broadcast programming then you're allowed to have one without a license. I know because i was investigated AND visited by the tv licensing folks. They cycle through your channels to see if you can recieve any TV. All they got was static so I was fine (That and i'd already declared that the TV was only being used for playback of non-broadcast media.)

ANYWAY...back to the second life thing. There was a speaker at LUG Radio Live who words at second life. His first words of his talk were "no jokes about flying penises please." (how's that for a spectacular attempt at getting the topic back on track)

I was taught the way kearton is saying it is. I have Bs in GCSE English Lang and Lit but that's about the extent of my skills.

s/professional people/geeks & engineers and then you get the reason for the spelling and grammar!

LOL. It's funny what GrumbleDook and webman say about MUD because one of the IRC networks i use has just bought in a MUD. It's horrid...i signed up and tried it and then never used it again. I hate games...i have no time for games...they are unproductive and just serve to p*ss me off because i'm no good at them. I have a 4U rack of cisco network kit and 4 servers to entertain me...why do i need some online game? lol

Let's face it...if the sysadmin doesnt know what they are the BOFHs arent likely to really.

Live and let die....this is the interwebs after all!

I'm sorry but i've been at LUG Radio Live all day today (and will be all day tommorow), i've had talks from people at canonical, microsoft and novel and spoken to fully fledged linux devs with beards and everything! and this has to be the most rediculously stupid idea i've seen all day. BUY A SODDING FAN!

666 what's that in unix permissions... everyone has read and write?

http://www.instructables.com/id/EM1O9XJF0YPF7M5/ That could be a nice one to do to ALL the office staff......

666 is satan's fax number

Ahhh good old square bearings syndrome.