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That maximum includes all memory - so if your graphics card has a gig - only 2 gig of system ram!

There's a bug in abtutor that stops monitoring (logging security data via a policy) on terminal servers / thin client sessions. I had this issue confirmed with another member on here. Connecting to and watching ts screens is not a problem - works ok, but it's the logging-monitoring that I want.

Ideally it would be centrally accessable - ie run an app on a machine and receive aggregate dasta from all stations regarding use. The shortcut idea is ingenious, but not what I want to do. I have spiceworks, but I'm not impressed with it. I don't use softgrid. I run a combination of ranger and a demo of abtutor (won't be buying it yet though as the terminal service monitoring doesn't work for me - which is mainly what I want it for). Would be so useful to see at a glance where the money was well spent and where it's wasted.

try changing the user agent to see if it makes a difference. Changing User Agent in Mozilla Firefox

Nope. Private.

I imagine it's something like office@ or admissions@ no?

'accidentally broken' eh both virtualbox and vmware are awesome - prefer virtualbox though.

you can run php & apache (&mysql) on windows using wamp.

tried playing with magpie? Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser

If it uses fopen, I don't think php uses http_proxy for that. I had a similar issue with a local rss cache I wrote for a flex application I'm building for our digital signage. You may find this useful: This feature has been added to PHP 5.0.0 Example Usage: $context = stream_context_create( array('http'=> array('proxy'=>'tcp://proxy.example.com:5100') )); $contents = file_get_contents('http://www.somesite.com/pat/to/file', false, $context); Source EDIT: Instead of poking around in oscommerce - you could write a php proxy script using the above and redirect oscommerce to check the proxy url?

apologies - its my 5725 that has the geocode. I have them flashed with the debian 4 build so it displays 5735 on the screens when booting. They appears to be going for around the 230 mark without offers currently which is a heck of a lot more than I paid for mine in the 3 for 2. I got TC + 19" TFT for roughly £250 a set. It's still cheaper than the jack ones - albeit not by much and I wouldn't purchase them at that price. I had a good hunt for benchmarks and couldn't find anything to compare the speed of the machines. Incidentally, it appears AMD has sold off the Alchemy processors to Raza to go all x86 with their product line. It's a heck of a shame we never went Risc in desktop machines 10-20 years ago, although I think the move to web delivered applications makes it more possible for such hardware change in the future. The ARM PRoc are much more energy efficient.

I was referring to the t5735 which have an AMD Geocode NX 1500 processor which is Athlon based and runs at 1GHz. They also ship with 4 times the ram. I don't have benchmark data on these two cpus however.

In order: Drives Connection RAM (to a point) CPU I think that CPU only really comes into play with a lot of data where you have excessive packet fragmentation - that's where the switch(es) / connection will help. I also think individual drives can transfer sustained between 30-60MB/s, so using some form of RAID striping for performance is to increase that. SAS is best suited to this sort of work - yes more expensive than SATA, but price isn't an issue. I think that PXI interface can handle about 6BG/s data throughput, but well before that point your 1GB ethernet connection is the bottleneck. Then there's DFS and other methods of clustering to load balance. I guess it's dependent on whether more than one person is likely to be transferring 100GB of data at the same time because ultimately your client station's ability to read this from the local HHD and transmit it over the network will be the bottleneck if you aren't pushing separate files concurrently. IN that case, spending tonnes on the rest is a waste -> you'd be better off buying more storage for the price.

HP thin clients are much cheaper than that. Don't forget that the HP's come up on a buy 2 get one free offer or similar every so often. I think my last batch worked out at ~£130/140 per TC inc vat. Standard price is 169 + VAT without offers. And they are better spec than the socket jobs. + They can be mounted on the back of the TFTs. The HPs draw about 20W though...

I'm going to assume that the 50 users will be accessing concurrently rather than sharing workstations. This is somewhat confusing: then I'm going to assume you mean you need a file server for 50 users as per the second quote and that you may be running database software on it as well. I'm also going to assume you're running a windows based network with server 2003 or server 2008. You need gigabit networking the each desktop, and for the sizes you're talking I'd recommend something decent - either HP Procurve or CISCO Switches. (HP do a 48port gigabit switch at around £1500 - HP2800-48G). That said, a 100GB project will take a while to push to the server - if these are being done concurrently, you'll need a faster pipe to the server - 10gig maybe? As for storage space: SATA drives can be had quite cheap to build up to a large amount of storage space. SAS drives are much more expensive, but are better suited to raid arrays and where data integrity is critical. If money is no object - you'll want an enterprise SAS storage system. You're going to want whichever it is it in a RAID array. HP do some devices that can be connected to their servers for holding racks of drives, and I recommend their servers as well. Dells are also good value (perhaps more than HP), but in general HP's customer service is IMHO better than Dell. Your best bet is to phone a supplier (EG: A2Z, Dell, HP directly) and talk your requirements through with one of them. If money is no object, and the sizes are as you describe, what you need may be some serious set of kit. ie: in the '£65,000 for a switch' range of serious kit. That's above my personal experience though - maybe someone else can be more helpful.

WHen schools go BSF am I right in assuming that a lot of equipment will be effectively thrown out? If so are any schools looking to sell off said equipment cheap? I'd be interested purchasing such kit at rock bottom prices for my school.

I want to know what software is being used and what isn't. Is there an easy way to get stats on this?

I run it fine on both vista 32 and vista 64. I have had similar issues as you describe which were due to other software interfering with port 80 (sky anytime) I run it as administrator btw.

I was going to say: If the lan is connected to the internet via adsl say - and the connection goes down there, wouldn't that result in a failure of remote auth on the remote moodle server? But instead: it makes no difference in this scenario because Academis would be running next to moodle on the remote server regardless. -- One thing I do want to tackle is separating sensitive data - webserver is the most vulnerable place to put sensitive material. I had thought of a two part system whereby live has only the data it needs for reporting / interaction pushed to it and whatever else going the other way pulled from it periodically so that sensitive info remains more safely on the LAN. Anyhoo - gone off on a tangent there.

I agree with the point about integration - I'm all in favour of choice. I just needed to clarify that my vision for VLE functionality within Academis is just that - a basic, "featureless VLE" As this wouldn't meet everyone's needs and writing a moodle clone is a waste of resources - I fully agree that integration is the best solution. It's moot anyway - I'm sure that someone will write integration code with moodle. I already have the ability to export year groups in a csv format that moodle can import, although any such integration should/needs to be fully automated as described by penfold.

Moodle is a very powerful system that has been produced with higher education in mind, and the interface does not lend itself well to a more simple use that is better suited to Primary and Secondary schools. Just look at the commercial offerings - they deliver a simple and instantly understandable feature set. I'm not looking to reinvent the wheel, but to solve a different problem than the one moodle is suited to. I would like to see Academis able to export and integrate well with other systems such as moodle for those that require or want a more comprehensive system. There will always be overlap of features - moodle has forums for example, but not at the level of vbulletin (or I have decided to release all of Academis together. Although content is more appealing to me than support as a potential revenue stream down the line ie: test and scorm elearning packages etc. If you read some of the threads I've posted on the academis forums, production of elements is quite modular - so anyone wanting to contribute to the system can work away at a discrete unit / feature that interests them. EDIT: The problem with Active Directory Integration you describe is when you're running moodle / academis on a remote linux webserver and your AD domain is on your LAN.

Academis I'm currently stripping the application and database down to barebones in preparation for an early alpha developer release - system is feature incomplete, but in production use (think second death star in ROTJ ) I would be interested to see how many people familiar with php, mysql (codeigniter a +) might be interested in actual code contribution, security auditing, bug hunting etc, as well as those interested in testing, feature input etc. My roadmap for Academis MLE is to go beyond basic MIS, to also provide VLE functionality incuding SCORM package handling as I think that moodle is not so well suited to schools in terms of usability. Application is targeted at Primary and Secondary UK Schools. Theres a flash demo link on the site above, though I warn you it's not a marketing piece and for those not interested in the content is a real sleep inducer!

Heh, Ramesys also recently tendered a quote for me on an HP Procurve 2800-48G that was about 20% higher than I bought one for.

I heartily recommend the HP thin clients. I use the linux ones, t5725/35 but they do xp embedded and win ce if thats more familiar to you - all can deliver a windows desktop though. HP UK - Help me choose - Compare thin clients

Confirm this is the case with a 2800-48G I had delivered last friday. Doesn't affect me though