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I did this but it took a lot of effort and trial and error to get there! Basically AFAIR, I put the physical drive into a working machine and then used disk2vhd to make a vhd of it and then create a virtual machine and replace the created virtual drive with your old win95 one and then hopefully you can get through all the error msgs of wrong hardware and end up with a running W95 VM I made it eventually but it took a lof of faffing. Si

Wireless netbooks (£200) give you best bang/buck as long as you don't need individual pupil logons. If money permits - keep suite and add netbook/laptop trolley, replace teacher/smartboard connected machines. If you hear of a local secondary getting rid of "old" kit (<6 years) - grab it off them and use them to keep suite running. With the new boy in wireless networking - Unifi - with their £60 per access point and a setup your grandmother could cope with, your looking at about £300-£400 to blanket cover your school. So if you go down keep suite/add netbooks route then you'll have a suite that almost always works as long as you have power You can work in pairs in the suite or add netbooks alongside for a session to get whole class (rarely needed or a good idea with primary pupils ) If you can afford 35 netbooks (and 2 trolleys) then you can have whole class 1:1 (Year 5/6 using word processing/presentation software) or 2 classes using them at same time 1machine:2 pupils. Other advantage of netbooks over laptops is battery life - they are effectively available all day (given a quick recharge at lunchtime) whereas no standard laptop is available for more than 1/2 - 2/3 of a day and thats when you babysit them (Which NEVER happens in a real school) I work across 6 primaries. Simon

I'm just being nosy - you say you work away from home in schools - are you a salesman of some type. Even I with my BYOD mentality would be failry miffed to find someone plugging in a wi-fi ap into one of my networks! And why do you need your phone connecting thru a school - its much more restrictive service than a 2/3G network - only people working for a school would have a need to access local resources via wifi. Si

Just discovered that I can choose and install apps onto my phone directly from the Google Play website whilst browsing on my PC - nice feature - how many years has it been around? Si

I think he'll go with any solution that school tech teams will allow He just doesn't understand that they view VNC as too insecure and open to to much abuse to allow on the networks That desktop sharing app looks as if if might tick all the boxes Si

@witch - I like the simple approach Si

The problem is that the logistics of visually challenged students moving around the school and allocating a VNC viewing session to them just for one lesson that just lets them view the teachers screen in the classroom they are in. Basically VNC doesnt have the admin options to securely deal with making sure that the pupils that need to can use it and the pupils that shouldn't be using it don't. I use it in my primaries where its installed on the visually challenged pupil's laptop but of course security/abuse isn't an issue. Si

its a nice feature but not that great - more of a showing off exercise I wonder how long before some company does what I want - 6months? a year?? Si

I really hope this isn't an April Fool because its what I've been wanting for a long long time! Si

Then go onto maps and drill down to street view Si

I wear an Edugeek polo shirt with my Edugeek lanyard everyday to show I'm proud to be an edu-geek Si Plus its black and us big boys all know how slimming black is

But maybe it could be an idea for the future - term-time only techs looking for some extra holiday work could post on here with location and distance prepared to travel and schools who could do with some extra hands for a holiday project could take them on Si

Well I can't anyway Si

..too late - I'm going to bed Happy Easter Holidays to the ones who start today Si

Its starting to look like the whole printer driver/server windows world is going up the creek! You can't add Win7 64bit drivers to w2k3 servers and now you can't even use "old" printers I'm thinking its going to be necessary to use a few virtual printer server VMs (maybe even Linux ones if they end up being more compatible) Si

Things have been sorted - m25man will be back next week (If you don't know - don't ask - if you do - keep quiet - that means you as well Zak ) Ta Simon

Sorry for the hijack Si

As usual - we disagree It is scaremongering and using a very large sledgehammer (e.g threat of being sued ) if you don't use every and any available device to "protect" children. I have children - I don't use every and any device to protect them from physical and online threats and I don't expect society to go to extreme lengths either. For evil (replace with cotton-wool kiddy culture) to suceed all it takes is for good people to say nothing! This article was written by a commercial supplier who is in the internet filtering business nuff said! Si

You mean they are not real???? Si

PS - I did google the syntax BTW as its 3 years since I did it last Si

@browolf I'm sure you could come up with something else Si

... your restore a netbook using mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/16g gunzip -c /mnt/16g/asus.img.gz | dd of=/dev/hdc bs=1204 And of course, you know there are better geeks when they come along to show you how it could be done with less typing Si

I'll bet it can't make 28mph on the flat with me on board Si

OT Anyone can sue anyone over anything nowasdays but it doesn't make it right That article you've linked to is possibly the worst piece of scaremongering I've seen in a long long time and I'm very suprised that its been published Si

Please don't - don't want any sort of argument/discussion - just wanted to say how sorry I was that this has happened Start your own thread if you feel the need Si