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Laugh is if you search for carrotsex - it doesn't filter it

Just tried it on our student list and it works I created a new list with word carrot in it and then in rule sets-students - search engines - just below the main box - you have to tick to select the list you've created Simon

Another issue surfaced today At one school, the sec checks national lottery (something to do with PTFA or something) and its blocked under gambling and there doesn't seem to be any way of unblocking it that I can find Home | The National Lottery - home of Lotto, EuroMillions and Instant Wins Is this true? It doen't make a lot of sense since other lottery sites are not classed as gambling but my point is that surely in this day and age, a school should be able to unblock something like this on an admin only network. Simon

Anyone managed to get it setup so that a user can override the blocking ? I tried doing this Creating Overrides - Lightspeed Systems Rocket -Lightspeed's Support Wiki which got me to here but when I tried to login just got this So much stuff is blocked so I need a method for teachers to easily unblock as its severely impacting teaching at the moment Nightmare having to do this across 6 schools! Simon

You should get a job with ocl/lightspeed That was exact reason- sync had failed. They've manually done it and going to fix the auto sync My site now available across Cleo land Simon

Spoke to Martin at OCL - the site is showing classfied as Education now at primrosehillschool.org.uk Website Details but still blocked as "ads" is school he is contacting Mr Lightspeed Simon

spoke too soon - site is still coming up as blocked "ads" even though I got this email Got a call in to OCL ref 421462

Got email at 15:12 saying Euxton Primrose Hill Primary School has been placed into education category So thats an excellent response time for a simple request Simon

Great idea Chris I've submitted Euxton Primrose Hill Primary School as its classed as Ads - lets see how long it takes to get actioned to save me having to unblock manually in each school in lancashire Simon

Do any of the recent Android OS updates give any actual real improvements at all. Is it all not just cake decorations nowadays? Simon

Just for those of you unaware of the main stuff I've done on the RPi - I've got Scratch to talk to the GPIO pins ScratchGPIO for Raspberry Pi | cymplecy (simplesi) Simon

I've got previous haven't I I actually got banned by daring them to ban me on Twitter (Schoolboy errror there!) But as everyone knows here - I don't let my lack of polite english and poor on-line networking social skills hold me back from broadcasting my point of view They are (effectively) a commercial company with a reputation to defend and they are trading heavily on the education label and I think I've come to the conclusion that they are primarily interested in fostering a new generation of - me's basically! - bedroom programmers - whereas I've moved into promoting computing/engineering for everyone in primary schools. Now my schools are alright - they've got me. Some other schools have knowledgeable teachers with computing skills and me and them can do stuff. But I want to see help for the others beyond computer programming training. The whole new curriculm CAN be done withouts RPis/Ardunios but in my mind - we would be missing a trick do to so Simon

Last week I posted this over on the main Raspberry Pi forums Unfortunately, in the subsequent "discussions" things went south quite quickly and I was banned (Live by the sword - die by the sword - its their forum - their rules -c'est la vie) (And I had previous - and I carried stuff over to twitter etc etc ) Anyway, as you can see, the management of this esteemed and venerable forum have re-arranged the furniture and amalgamated all the old Pi stuff into the section. So if anyone has any thoughts on the subject and whether we should/can get Raspberry Pi/Arduinos etc into schools to backup the new computing curriculum as I feel that if you can get a computer to interface to the real world - it tends helps to make computing interesting and if pupils are interested - they tend to learn more. (Prodigal) Simon

decided at 2nd school to do it all via WPKG instead of batch script and it works fine id="noproxy" name="Set computer to No Proxy" revision="1" reboot="false" priority="100" notify="false" execute="always"> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v "AutoConfigURL" /f' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v "ProxyServer" /f' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v "ProxyEnable" /f' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v "AutoConfigURL" /f' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v "ProxyServer" /f' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v "ProxyEnable" /f' /> Still very strange with that 1st error - I think it is a genuine old bug that no-ones ever sorted Simon

I'll have to have a play with the ip ranges but I like the idea of just doing an overide once a day (if thats how it works) with a simple password as then no messing around with ip ranges needed Simon

I know - who'd thought you'd EVER hear me me say something good about the Dark Lords! The new lightspeed filtering is transparent to us so now the whole issue of dropbox proxy switching on teacher laptops has disappeared. No more desktop icons for dropbox in school/dropbox on laptop A happy bunny And as well as that it does seem to be way ahead of the old filtering in terms of facilities. I could dod with a guide on how to setup overides though as that looks like the answer to teacher machines being allowed access to say youtube but deny to pupils (I don't use AD) Simon

Tried that in the batch file - no diff I could probably run the batch files lines like yoru example - may try that tomorrow But its a strange error Even the error message is an error Simon

I just added the import to my wpkg packages and it works on both XP and Win7 64bit I could probably take the batch file bit out but I'm leaving it just in case id="noproxy" name="Set computer to No Proxy" revision="1" reboot="false" priority="100" notify="false" execute="always"> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C "%PACKAGES%\proxy\noproxy.bat"' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REGEDIT.EXE /S "%PACKAGES%\proxy\noproxy.reg"' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C "%PACKAGES%\proxy\noproxy.bat"' /> cmd='%COMSPEC% /C REGEDIT.EXE /S "%PACKAGES%\proxy\noproxy.reg"' /> and noproxy.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "ProxyEnable"=dword:00000000 "ProxyServer"=- "AutoConfigURL"=- Simon

That code is cut and paste Did you try it inside a .bat file or just straight from command line it works for me from command line but not inside of a batch file. Thanks for alternative solution though Simon

Up in Lancs we've got to change all our proxy settings and I thought I just knock up a little batch file to do the job (I don't use AD or anything clever) so I did this yesterday REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v AutoConfigURL /f REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v ProxyServer /f REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" /v ProxyEnable /f and it worked fine on a w2k3 server and win7 laptop. So came to next school today - and it fails on XP with To many command-line parameters. Literal cut and past - To is spelt like that !! Google has got me no-where Anyone had this before and know the workaround? Simon PS Why is it the simple things that fail!!!!!!

Just got info through for my first school (simple primary - no ad needed/used) I'm confused as it seems with no proxy setting - I can get on T'internet And with PAC file settings I can get on the internet Whats the advantage of using the PAC file? Simon

Thank you - have you got a good legal department though Si

Might have told the Raspberry Pi Foundation that they weren't doing their job properly maybe? It could have have been (mis)interpreted that way I suppose. Hard to imagine anyone taking offence at what I say - eh? Simon

Not this one - well not for a few years anyway! So like the prodigal son - can I come back and play on here please. I know I left the fold and went out to play with some new friends but I'm now back with my tail between my legs Can we setup a Raspberry Pi section? Can I moderate it so I can ban someone myself? Simon

Just received a PM from an Edugeek sponsor asking about them supplying toner Should I expect more of these or did they just slightly overstep the mark Simon