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Right...there seems to be a lot of confusion on the internet as to what is referred to as a YAGI. I personally had thought that a YAGI was an antenna with driven elements, reflection elements and another one i forget. As you put it "like TV antennas." If directional antenna's are illegal then how come you can get them at maplins under the wifi section? I have a feeling that it's only illegal if the output is over a certain wattage...i'm not sure on that one though, as Geoff has said i misunderstand radio engineering. I fail to see why it's unsurprising. I might have been really good at it *rolls eyes and dreams* lol

The Cisco instructor said they were Yagis but maybe she was mistaken. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=120136361081&rd=1&rd=1 That's what i've bought. I'm thinking possibly not a good idea now

Hmmmmm. Crud. I dont actually have an amplifier and wouldnt even consider hooking one to it cause that would be just asking for trouble. But no directional antennas. That's a bit naff. Maybe i could get the amplifier and hook it up to point it at the parrot to see if that shuts the bloody thing up. Quick question though. If directional waveguide antenna's are illegal then why do CISCO sell them and why are there two mounted in one of the CCNA labs at my university?

Celebrate it with your fellow techies. Go down the pub for lunch and a couple of pints. A nice relaxed afternoon should follow re-imaging laptops and the like with a decent DVD on the projector and the school PA system hooked up for decent sound

That method is relying on a teacher to remember all the students that are meant to be in their form / class....it's never going to happen reliably. I like Ric_'s idea of talking to the fire bigade because they do check. At uni there is no way for them to check except to see if anyone is left inside. It's happened a few times now where they had to evacuate and they just check inside. At the school I was at they used to still have the OMR sheets for lower and upper school and only the VI Form was on ePortal but they did printouts. I believe they're on total ePortal now.

http://xelix.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=185&g2_serialNumber=1 There...that's mine a couple of months back....there's a wealth of icons and files on it now that need to be removed and sorted away. I've got a nasty habit of saving things to my desktop and never moving them.

Webman...something i'd been meaning to tell you actually. Google search on my name a while back (yes we all do it) bought up your gallery. Which prompted me to check my frappr account for location...which was fine. But it was a suprise to be on your site lolol.

So both vertical or both horizontal. OK Cheers!

Think things to do with media capture, playback, various monitoring solutions such as projectors and crt and tft. Things to do with audio capture and monitoring. Different types of equipment and cables. Media conversions etc. Break stuff and tell them to fix it. That's the best way to test someone on their technical knowledge IMHO.

I've got a wifi bridge that is connecting an outbuilding to a main building where the network is housed. What I've got is the WiFi AP in the main building and the bridge in the outbuilding and the signal was dropping out due to low strength so i've bought a YAGI antenna (directional waveguide antenna / cantenna whatever you are most comfortable calling them). The idea is that i fit this onto the bridge and aim it at the AP. Here comes the thing i'm not sure about. Is the idea that you have the antenna's on different polorizations to each other or the same? So if the small rubber duck antenna on the AP is aligned vertically to the earth (aka perpendicular) is it in vertical polarization? Are there any radio hams or wireless experts reading that can help? lol Cheers

That's all very well and good, but have you tried to get hold of a Cisco IOS legally? They're very expensive. And if it's a school you're going to want to use something that's not legally questionable, so using the IOS that comes wiht the router should allow you to do that.

They're build onboard. You can get modules for fast ethernet i believe but they're expensive. I've got a mate that looked into it. If you're not going to connect more than one router then i dont see the need for the WIC cards. But i can recommend the new WIC-2T ones. They're relatively cheap on ebay and if you're housing them all in the same cab the short smart-serial cables are great

Are you familiar with configuring via the cisco IOS? You've reminded me to power mine up to get some practice seeing as i've not done it in a few weeks and resume my CCNA in september.

I had written a few paragraphs about cisco routers and the appropriate configurations etc. Then the site refused to post anything or do anything so it lost it *anger* Anyway...if you are going to get Cisco kit then the 2600 series is good. The 2610s are what i've got for doing testing on for CCNA. You can forward DHCP i believe, although i've never done it. Beware of the difference between ethernet and fastethernet when buying them from ebay and whether they're single or dual ports. Also whether they come with the IOS or any WICs.

The old network manager lent one of the VI Form a scanner. I dont think he ever saw it back. It's not like he actually asked for it back either though.

Well it /was/ posted under "General Chat" lol.

Spirits......oh dear. Give me pedigree or any kind of ale over a spirit any day. Although, a nice whiskey is can be welcomed.....

Because one of the reasons i suspect my ex broke up with me is cause i wouldnt buy her one for her birthday. LOL @ THAT!

It's odd that you mention INGOTS cause some that i used to work with now works at IRL computers, the company that is run by Ian Lynch.

@ cybernerd. I didn't say that there werent people being paid to dev linux. I said that MANY of the distros are developed by people that arent being paid as shown by the following quote. "No one is being paid to develop many of the distros available" @linuxgirlie Yes, there are a lot of distros available that are easily configured...yet some of these lesser known distros arent to everyone's liking...something more mainstream is prefered by most people i know...for example ubuntu (which /is/ configured easily but i'd rather use debian or freeBSD)

Nonsense. VMWARE server works fine on XP!

I'm sure some women dont nagg and argue guys down. I'm yet to meet one though....... *runs away from the hail of used 9 gig SCSI HDDs the girls are gonna start chucking*

I am still amazed at the fact that windows users are trying to slate an operating system that is absolutely fantastic. Windows is developed by a HUGE corporation that is paying people TONNES of money to develop it. *Nix is free and no one is being paid to develop many of the distros available, and yet, Linux or any of the BSDs are worthy competitors. Maybe it's something to do with people being passionate about what they are developing instead of just being in it for the money. I think that whilst there is a place for linux in education and I think that's a BIG place. There are just some things like directory services and centralised logons that are best left up to windows server due to the fact that it can be setup and running in a matter of minutes instead of hours sat installing packages and doing text based configs. Anyway, lack of licensing costs must please the SLTs somewhere along the line!

Opt out is what we did as opposed to opt in. Reduces the paperwork drastically.

Or the BOsFH will take over! (I suppose it could be BOFHs)