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SVN! I believe that real programmers write programs to write their programs for them! That and the use of SED to edit other users mistakes ofc.

rsync and rdiff-backup 4tw Take a look at those, they rock. (I know it's a troll pic, but it DANCES!)

I'ma nano/pico n00b wouldn't use it to code with though

I feel your pain. html2ps and html2pdf - Convert HTML to PostScript or PDF. Supports over 500 HTML and CSS tags and properties. dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter FPDF PHP: PDF - Manual Listed a few in case they weren't all on your list.

try here: Linux C++ Software Development I heartily recommend Eclipse as an IDE btw. I'm not a C++ programmer (PHP, Flex, Python, Java, Haskell et al) but Eclipse rocks for what I do these days wrt to web development and has tools for C++ I understand (see linky). Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling - CDT Article showing how to migrate microsoft Visual Studio C++ projects to eclipse: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecl-vscdt/index.html?ca=dgr-eclipse-1 Good luck!

Aye - CS3 works fine. Most everything works on vista once the magic "run as administrator" is clicked - could tick emulate xp mode for kicks too. Hope that helps.

are you sure it's running? ps aux | grep openvpn and nothing strange in the logfiles? - I don't do gentoo, but purge and reinstall if all else fails? - I don't know how long an install takes - if you're using binaries or building.

firewall (iptables) on the box?

Of course managed services don't guarantee solid uptime and trouble free sailing either, and in some cases would be faster to fix ones-self. *points to a certain dedicated host*

I suggest your webserver requirements and his may be vastly different. EG: runing Zimbra, PHP, SQL, storage size and command line access and scripting for backups.

Just make sure to take it off first.

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I'm waiting for zimbra to support 8.04. Until that happens, I'm staying with 6.06 on the DMZ server. Debian 4 on the rest

a tad larger than I expected I hope to make it to BETT this coming year for the first time, last 3 years had something come up work-wise and I missed it.

Linux+Apache for an easy life. That said, If IIS was a necessity, from my little tinkering, it seemed easier to get a working IIS+MySQL5+PHP5 on server 2008 than server 2003. Still prefer a nix for web server platform for remote console management though.

How much is a stand at BETT?

I've never had luck with audio redirection and vanilla terminal services on server 2003. High Latency (not synced with app) and sometimes choppy sound. I remember reading that this was a known issue - sound is just cack with MSTS (unlike super duper LTSP). Is there a fix that anyone knows? Or are the third part tools (Citrix, 2X) better in this regard (ie: sound like the audio is playing on the TC / up to fat client standard)? I currently have audio redirection turned off because it's not useable imo.

I use 64bit vista home premium at home and dual boot vista home premium 32bit and ubuntu 8.04 32b on my dell laptop. On the whole I'm pretty happy with vista - not had any major issues with drivers or applications, although I've had a few blue screens when using winscp on the 32bit one for large file transfers (unlike xp). I haven't reached the point where I have to wipe and reinstall like I did on xp every 6-12 months, but I think It'll probably happen at some point. That said, I know I'm taking a performance hit on vista, although I have 4gig of ram in the home desktop and want 64bit for the memory addressing (xp 64 isn't fun from what I've heard and I don't want to play with PAE). Took a while to get past the parts they moved around just to make it look like they'd changed anything, but I'm mostly ok with that now. I prefer gnome as a desktop environment to either xp or vista, but I'm hooked into the Adobe Creative suite + a few extras and just plain like the convenience of a large install base platform most of the time. At school all the fat clients are currently running xp pro - but I installed vista on one to test and it ran fine (upgraded them all to 2gig ram last year - 3ghz P4 dell optiplex). Don't know about running vista on the clients - I don't think it would be too much of a problem and the performance hit prob wouldn't be noticable for the use the machines get (Flash/Sherston/low req ed apps). It's one of those try and see things I guess, which is uncertainty you can do without if on a bigger network than mine.

Altiris rocks - just make sure to read the instructions carefully to get it all working You need the dos image not the linux one for pxe booting I found. It means you can set up one device, image it via altiris then deploy it to all the others / select others / none - just keep for archiving. Very useful, even if you only have one room of them. Can also do remote shutdown and wakeup via altiris, although my timed shtdown is quirky and needs looking at

I use altiris with them - a client license is included with each of the thin clients - no further purchase necessary for the server component, and no annual fees. Theres a slighlty different download which is linked from HP.

Have you considered sdsl? I'm looking at that for an option to increase the upload. Also - how does the bonding work wrt contention?

I work in the independent sector, so the time I spend developing such tools is not impacted at all by what a number of LEAs may at any particular time choose to promote. That said, this thread is about a SIMS replacement - not something to hook into sims and act as a VLE - moodle is already out there for that. I'm still on track for making a preliminary release of my system this summer as posted on the website - there's just an awful lot of code to work through. In reference to the security point, I imagine that sensitive data on these systems (even web based applications) will be protected by more than just the system itself - There's no real need to allow external access to many functions so will be sitting nicely behind a bunch of firewalls on a secured network. We all know how good government institutions are at looking after sensitive data though, so perhaps we should take a leaf out of their book?

Another vote for zimbra - works great (touch wood). Just finished migrating and updating from our old remote server to our lan and also run a webserver off the same box. Been using the open source (free) version for about a year now and the interface kills squirrel etc. Major difference to network edition is no live backups, but using one of the os scripts, it rsyncs data live, shuts zimbra off in the middle of the night for a minute or so while it rsyncs the small difference, then restarts it, tar's and gzips the folder and ssh's it to a backup box. Although the spec requirements are steepish (compared to squirrel roundcube etc) and learning how to get it running can be a fiddle, once learnt it's well loved by the other users and me especially.

I have ~35 t5725, but I have flashed several to the debian 4 image (uses gnome instead of ice as before). I set them to auto login as a restricted user and fire up the connection manager which goes full screen so they effectively boot to a terminal services screen. The connection manager is configured (as root) to reload when exited, so if it crashes or is closed, it restarts. There is a shortcut combination that can be used to minimise the screen and give them the gnome desktop, but as a restricted user, they can't do anything with it so not a prob in my eyes. I also have a few setup the same way which boot to fullscreen kisok firefox which cannot be exited. Hope the info helps - I think the image is the only difference between the models (it says t5735 on bootup with that image).

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