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Can you view/copy files to/from IPad with it? Si

I've come up with another layout prototype http://www.st-leonards-pri.lancs.sch.uk/calvert.php which looks to maybe be a better arrangement. And to let others start playing, I'm going to separate the formating/display code from the "get a cached feed and parse it to just extract the necessay info" so anyoone else can have play without having to decode my non-structured/non-oo/badly written php Si

I know - but lets face it - one swallow a summer etc .... Si

I've got a "magic cookie" iframe version working on a browser in another school and I'm not logged into the account http://www.st-leonards-pri.lancs.sch.uk/cal/monthly.html (Basically add in extra param &pvttk=magic where magic = string from private XML feed.) so hopefully it'll work within Xibo when I go back in tomorrow

Lets face it - getting the video streaming working at the last conf was a fluke We've not got a good track record with cams Si

Don't want to do that as may contain items that a school wouldn't want public(parents) to see, so need to use private feed Worth trying but I think Xibo won't "see" the browser logged on setting - I'll try it though. Simon

Ah The machine I'm on is logged into the google account - I'll need to find a way around using the private cal feed using magic url wizardry @cromertech Once I get the code beyond pre-alpha - no problem Si Si

My problem now is that I'm getting an error msg about content provider not allowing iframes to be used ???? But the iframe page http://www.st-leonards-pri.lancs.sch.uk/cal/monthly.html is displaying fine on my machine in a browser???? Si

Starting to get there with my google cal display Listing calendar contents But I'd my display to alternate (say every 30 secs) between a region with the above in it and another one just showing the standard monthly view iframe. Can Xibo do this? [EDIT] Sussed out just to add a new element to the region and Xibo jsut sequences them - which is jsut what I want[/EDIT] Simon

All I know is that the GPS on my Desire running 7.0.x was unreliable. (tried several flavours) I know this because I run my own speed limit app which uses GPS constantly while I'm driving between my schools during the day. My app works fine on CyanogenMod 6.1 (2.2 based) but on the 7 series it used to not aquire a lock sometimes requiring an ap restart and then sometimes it just stops updating for a short time (which if it co-incided with a speed limit change wasn't very useful : ) ) Its very hard to find facts through the android bug/issues quagmire (as basically neither Google or the CyanogenMod crew respond publically to bug reports) but I believe it was a combination of hardware and bugs in Android 2.3. As I said, there has been at least one report that its not been fixed yet on 7.1RC @Skyorca - lots of people say their ROM is stable/great- and their battery lasts days (They then proceed to tell you how the've changed their ROM 3 times so far this week

I've temporarily taken over a school with a "proper" W2k3 Domain server/clients (with some sort of Viglen admin tool on top of it ) and a teacher couldn't logon. I asked ehre to try another machine - it worked so I logged on as admin on her machine, deleted her folder from docs & settings and voila - all seems t work again. So I'm feeling like a proper net manager today BUT ... if even I know to delete corrupt profiles - how come ms MS hasn't managed 1. To stop corrupting the profiles in the first place (I don't get any of my normal files corrupted) 2. To just deal with the siutation and delete the profile itself!!!! And it really annoys me when a user has a fault and I need to log tem off and log on as admin to look into it - why can't I have a magic button to override restrictions and let me change desktop res now!!!! Si

I don't know if I can be bothered with the hassle of trying out CM7 again as at least one person says the GPS is still flaky but the 2.3.4 based RC is out anyway. regards Simon

And why didn't you tell me then? Si (I know - if you had to start telling me about all the things I don't know ..... )

@irsprint84 What a clever little idea - I'm assuming you mean unblock it on the filter and then just do something like redirect it to 127.0.0.1 using the hosts file on the pupil machines? Si

Do you mean physical ports or tcp/ip ports??? What I normally have is teacher machines (connected to smartboard/projector) and wired to curric network and teacher laptops that wirelessly connect using same wifi as pupils laptops. @plexer You are of course correct. Just as true is that much of the material that the teachers want to us on youtube is hosted illegally by them - so I'm downloading illegally as opposed to streaming illegally - I'll just have to accept the extra months added to my sentence when they drag me into court

We can't control filtering via username - We've got one set of settings for the admin network and one set for the curric. (We are "lucky" to get that - it requires a signed letter - in blood - countersigned by the head's great-great-grandmother just to get that ) And I don't run AD so even if there was some LDAP/AD intergrated techy solution thinghy I wouldn't be able to use it anyway Si

More and more teachers want to use online videos for teaching support but as a default youtube etc are blocked (certainly here in Lancs) in the half-term I set up a teacher friend's latop with real player which has a very easy to use youtube download tool. She downloaded a load of videos for a theme week ,put them on a mem stick and I set up the hall laptop with real player as well to play them back. All good but required a fair bit of forward planning. But we can now take control of most of our filtering and me and and the ict-coords came up with a cunning plan Take most of the filtering off the admin network (only head and school sec on it ) and setup a laptop in the suite and provide the admin network to it instead of curric and then all the teachers can just logon to it and do their downloading and log-off (will set a short screen timeout just in case they don't ) So going to try and set this up next week. When I was talking to the tech at my wife's school, he said they just used a 3G dongle at another school when they needed to do that sort of thing so that's another approach (obvious theoretical security issues/contravening geneva convention etc with this approach but in practice should be OK ) Si

I'm just sitting here at the cusp of changing my own main browser from Firefox to Chrome (due to perceived memory isses with Firefox - I've got a zillion Chrome tabs open and 4 tabs within firefox - Chrome taking up 283/102k virtual/working - firefox using 357/208k ) Anyway, it came to me (through the whisky saturday night geek process) that Chrome would be ideal for my pupils on netbooks instead of IE7/8. 1. It only has 2 rows at the top - giving more room for content. 2. The address/search is combined in one space so much simpler for pupils to search (less clicking and since all other browsers going same way - no problem. Anyone come up against any problems using Chrome on edu sites? Si

Right -gave up on the javascript calendar interface for IE7 and found some code to access a google calendar using php and css works fine in this one: ) Listing calendar contents I just need to sort the incoming data into date/time order and find out how to deal with the "Technician on Site" recurring events (Which must have a different xml structure) [EDIT] Sorted in 10 mins - you can add a parameter to the feed request that turns recurring into a set of single events before the xml feed is delivered to my code [/EDIT] I'll find it a lot easier working in php - mainly because its much simpler to debug it as it just generates straight html Ta for help though Si

Just tried page in IE8 - it looks alright - so just one (or 2 if I try to get it to work with IE6 ) to go Si

...that you can convert a USB drive from FAT32 to NTFS without having to backup/format/restore convert f: /fs:ntfs why doesn't someone tell you these things Si

Not on this computer -nothing happens Si

Lastest I've come up with is that I used Firebug in Firefox to copy the actual HTML body text that FF thinks its getting via the javascript/css/html. I then pasted this into http://www.st-leonards-pri.lancs.sch.uk/cal/calendarplain.html , added in the headers/css from calendar2.html and it looks fine in IE7 which would seem to exonerate the CSS element. So at the moment, I think its the javascript thats not delivering the right content (or at least IE7 valid content anyway). If there a tool/website that will let me view what my IE7 thinks its getting (like Firebug for Firefox)? Simon

But I'd still be hitting UAC I imagine (unless its just running msiexec that is/will fail on me ) I don't run my network as a domain - I just use a W2k3 machines as a file/print/dhcp/dns server with a single client logon so WPKG has been my network Swiss Army Knife (I've used it on Win98 clients and I've still got one Win98 file server in operation (Its virtualised BTW )) ) Si Si

Well, a couple of issues spring to mind, although installing office can be made to run silently, a lot of my others don't (quite a few use auto-it) and I use WPKG as a global program to run all other startup/logon actions such as presenting a dialog to choose your class and map a networked drive appropriately and setting/resetting wallpaper/screensaver etc. What the sort of info I think I need is like the fact that in Win7, I need to create shortcuts to my bat files and set the "run as admin" box checked in advanced tab rather than just run the bat files directly. Or does no-one use scripts nowadays Si