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Hi everyone. first of all. let me explain my situation.. we have our exchange do an automatic backup to our domain controller every morning at 2am.. im trying to make a VB program that checks the "Last Modify" date, and compairs it to our date.. If: dates = the same then kill the application Else BIG RED SCREEN WITH WARNING TEXT ON i will set it on my "startup" folder, then every time i log on, WOOO problems im having: Getting the modifyed date(and being able to strip the time off the end of it(we don't want to compair time! times won't match, only the date will!)) Getting todays date(and once again stripping the time off) i need your help, if somone to tell me how to get these 2 dates into a string it would be amazin! i have honestly tryed for hours! iv only just started Vb.net, so im not majorly clued up on it all yet. some help??? cheers!!

Yeh, his tutorials are cool! im intending to buy his full website tutorial video's. there not really fast pace like they are on youtube!

if your anything like me(unable to read full through a book) i highly recommend this: http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/ he has allot of free tutorials and if you was to buy his others, they look quite apearling! tell me what you think. i like it(although he does rabbit on somtimes hehe)

well first of all. the system is built into a standard rackmount case. http://www.chenbro.com/assets/2008/01/20/systn1451422938.jpg i love this case to the MAX! it is then fitted with a 1TB HDD per a caddy in the 24 hot swap. all HDD's all connected to Raid, and we usualy just install the OS on a 500GB sata HDD connected to the M/B with no raid or nothing... slim line CD rom/DVDRW/etc.. a zippy 3 module redundent power supply so 2 running the system, 1 ready to switch in if either goes down(hopping both don't go down at the same time usualy fitted with a supermicro or tyan board.. really loving tyan ATM. although they released a board that had a caddy fitted to it, that you connect loads of sticks of ram to, because it took like 12 per a caddy(a caddy per a CPU socket) there wasn't enough room on the M/B so they built this caddy, that you fit the ram into, then it slides into a slot that looks like the same connection as a PCI X.. a VERY VERY unstable motherboard, allot of hardware errors due to the bottle neck in forcing 24GB of rams data through this PCI X connector(it was the connector used for PCI express, not actully PCI Express! don't get them mixed up..) it was a nice system. these 5U cases, and the 1U cases are my fav!! and yeh. this was pretty heavy aswell! but will fit into a standard rack. as long as its screwed down and not some mobile one!

only thing is, you have to create profiles. so it would require the students going onto the same DS(or games cart) or require teachers guiding the kids how to delete the old profile and create a new profile.. or a techie hehe you can also do math multiplayer over wifi. seems a good idea, as said though, as long as they don't get broken! would love to hear how it all goes!

iv worked with networkable projectors before. i always found them to be HORRIBLE display quality when running visual over the network! unless ur using the standard VGA and just managing em via the network?

i think it was around 15-16,000 it had 2 raid cards in it costing 400 each. 3 hotswap redundant power supply, built into a chenbro 5U case(that is close to 2 grand itsself..) i really really really don't know what it will be used for! i hate to think hehe. backup of the entire internet maybe? lol

first of all, the fact you already run a server that has 2003 on it. makes me beleve that you might aswell(unless you intend to sell it?) buy 1 server and then demote your old one to print server and possibly a intranet server(i can't see it needing anything high spec to run a WAMP/iis for a school ur size) as for server spec.. i think people in the edu sector will know more then me. unless u want a quad socket quad core AMD server with 24GB of ram and 24TB of HDD space? lol..(thats what i built a couple of weeks back for work..)

iv seen projectors with com ports and some of the time USB aswell. they might(doub't it, as the post above states its all about money!!) if there is resorces on the internet you might beable to code somthing todo it??

its just making myself stand out enough to actully get to the interview stage! once in a interview. i feel quite confident in knowing i will be able to prove myself and my eagerness to learn thing i don't currently know.. a fact i forgot to mention was depending on wage in comparison with living costs in the regon, i am also able to relocate to anyway within the UK! infact with recent events in my life(my girlfriend walking out on me) i could think of nothing more better then a new start! i e-mailed william, and i think i will follow up the e-mail with a phone call in the afternoon tomorrow... keep the posts comming..

its not a big suite lol. 15 workstations allot of ports though! they have already brought a new switch.. just a unmanaged 24 port netgear switch.. i think im just going to have to link the 2 switchs together via the uplink port and just patch in the remaining unpatched computers, will this work? i know its not the best way of doing it. but without stepping on toes and doing allot of rewiring(im not the techie there! i mearly help out) its the only solution! i wish they ran all of the suite into a patch panel aswell would be so much neater.. will take some photos when i do it. gonna do it sometime this week. so keep the help and sugestions comming guys. helping loads

totaly off topic. but love the folders on ur desktop called hacking lol. esp love the txt file titled warez.txt hehe

hmm. if i created it in visual basic wouldn't the file it displays be hard coded in though? i want it cycle through. and also update when new flash files are added to a directory/list.. yeh you can get a visual basic window without no minimise / close buttons...

if you don't get any PM's then i will have em off ur hands. just want somone who needs em more then me to have the oppitunity first.

edging on a picture frame? door stops? ummmm prop for a keyboard where some little kid has pinched one of its feet? umm useless idea's? thought so..

wow! never knew you could get IE todo that! learning new things every day!! there is software you can buy (or might be free versions) that actully locks out C+A+D and the alt+F4 keystroke if you want to secure the page fully!

first off, if people have read my previous posts, i don't properly work in a school yet, but i am intrested in how this is done and it might help out a few other people. when i used to attend college, they had some sort of application running that cycled through flash animations and displayed them in a fixed player on the desktop of each workstation. it was used to notify students of up and comming student union activitys aswell as community adverts such as talk to frank and stuff like that... iv looked around for software of how todo it. but as yet have found none. was wondering if any of you know of any software(free??) that does this and is easy to deploy over a network.. im aware with a bit of tweeking you could highly likly do this via some sort of active desktop setting, that displays a page on a intranet.. but id like to know if there is a application that can do it.. Tom.

as said above, you should really be stripping all HTML and using addslash() to all your inputs fields, i usualy do it first thing, about a year ago my mate managed to SQL inject the virgin media website. its risky stuff. and in secondary schools and colleges students are becomming more and more clever!

i have a decent knowlege of networking,(just don't let me near designing a university campus that needs high bandwidth connections just yet! hehe) let me highlight it all again.. we have 2 sockets on the wall in each classroom. each of them sockets are connected(punched down into the back) to a socket in the patch panel. but, due to the fact the switch they have ATM only has 24 ports. only about 15% of all the class's have both sockets working. i am asking for advice on the best way to connect the new switch(that will be used to connect the remaining unconnected classroom sockets) to the existing network. we also have 2 X 24 Port switchs sitting on top of the server, what i beleve these do is provide the network connectivity to the ICT suite(that doesn't apear to have any of its sockets patched in(there are sockets on the walls behind each computer, but i think it just comes out to a RJ45 instead of a patch panel on the other end..)... sorry for any confusion caused

from what i can see, all the classroom sockets go into the cabinet, i really don't understand what the 2 switches ontop of the server do though!!

i never like mixing devices on a IDE if i can. infact. IF i got to use IDE. i don't like putting any more then 1 device per a channel. hurray for SATA though!

If your VM of the server has DCHP then all your other networked items will be issued IP addresses anyway..

thats a point! i had never thought about a switch matrix(thats the term 3com us ) iv got a funny feeling though. that the wrong switch has been brought! a netgear unmanaged 24 porter... luckly, i think i will just set this switch up as the desktop computer switch. in whichcase(as long as cables don't get switched around in class rooms. won't use bearly any bandwidth, due to the fact the workstations(at present) are not domain'ed up. and are bearly used for anything.. wish i could do a better expansion. but due to the fact i don't even work there, i mearly advise and assist. i can't request or demand switches with "this and that" feature....

hey everyone, iv been asked to expand a schools network for them, and require a little advice.. let me explain the story.. the school i help out at in there IT support dept got a new ethernet network installed 2-3 years ago. the installation engineers did everything normaly, installing a cab, patch panel, and a double socket per a class! when it was installed, class's only had 1 desktop per a class, so to save on cost, only 1 switch was installed, and only 1 of each class's socket was connected. they have now asked me in, to install a additional switch and patch in all the remaining class room desktops and the teachers laptop(that is the control system for the interactive boards) so that all sockets in all class rooms are connected. now sitting on top of the server are what looks to be a router(all well a good!) and 2 24 port switchs that are all connected and used..(they have cables comming down the trunking on the wall. oviously you can't explain what this is doing, considering your not actully here! hehe) this confused me though! considering they have a cabinet with a patch panel in... how would you recommend connecting this network up? i was just thinking of patching between the old switch and the new switchs uplink port. and then simply patching 1 socket into the new switch and 1 socket into the old switch per a classroom.... only problem i feel is that this will cause a bottleneck on cable between the old switch(that i was going to patch the new switch into) and whereever this switch is connected.. do you think i should look into the 2 24 port switchs on top of the server more? and maybe re patch it all? whats your views on this. i don't know why ALL sockets in the school wasn't put into a patch panel. and then we simply patch EVERYTHING in 1 cabinet.. HELP???

Entry requirements have held me back, aswell as the fact i couldn't go through another 2-3 years of writing essays. im over all of that now! hehe. the way i see myself(without sound to big headed) is somone who has a large amount of technical knowledge and is dedicated to learning new and existing technology and skills. infact, i pretty much dedicated most of my life to IT! (after a painfull break up with my ex, i needed somone to consentrate my mind on..)(i mean..its 11:40 at night. and i just finnish reading about RIS! lol) i have it all in my head. but no way of proving to people my capablitys.. i feel that i am one of these people who needs to do a vast amount in my job to a degree, i know all jobs have repetition, but id love to introduce new features to a school intranet one day and be rolling out vista (when it stops being shit hehe) over a network the next! standing here, fixing gaming machines day in day out is more like a production line. we have had a big backlog of faulty machines and my company has employed additional staff with no technical background what so ever at the same wage as me, and im a qualifyed hardware engineer, these are your usual "a screw driver goes this way to undo and this way to do up" im forever helping them...(he managed to put a notched IDE cable in the wrong way on a motherboard, please somone! answer me how this is possible! ) i just wish a school would realise my ablitys!!