ITWombat

When an EduGeek member fails to get a job one naturally suspects foul play. However, as the OP is also a member, we must conclude it was just the luck of the draw. Seriously though, other things being equal, an internal candidate may have the edge because of the familiarity they already have with the organisation.

I have seen this in a few adverts and I'm curious at what they might be getting at. Most schools have been around a while so that shouldn't really be worthy of comment. Do they mean this school has long standing procedures so don't go in expecting to behave like your the first NM of a new academy, setting things up?

Do you think there might be internal candidate? Pay back with

The paperwork might be easier but doesn't a sole trader have unlimited liability? Hope you've got some professional indemnity insurance. What about VAT or don't you have to worry about VAT registration until your turnover is in the 10s of 1000s? As someone said this brave step at the best of times but doubly so in a recession but at least you've got one big customer lined up. Good luck.

Just a reminder that PSexec and all other WMI based remote control methods carry data in clear text (think automated telnet). Also you don't have access to network shares unless you are willing to send domain logins across the wire in clear text.

Congratulations must go to Toyota for managing to sneak Jarno Trulli in a milk float in to the race, under the noses of the FIA. Everyone has praised the facilities at the Singapore track but the one thing they seemed to be short of was blue flags

Ah... so you are teacher ... Quick, someone call security

But I thought that was the definition of teaching as many current practitioners understood it

The key point here is that the means of communication was privately owned. The DPA does not outlaw the use of Securus and similar products which may intercept private communications. So theoretically a student could use the phone to send a bullying text or transmit a happy slapping clip under the noses of school staff but a bullying forum post using a school computer could be intercepted. Teachers can still intercept paper notes between students in class (though privately owned) because they are not part of a well organised filing system. Do searches through bags, lockers, coat pockets have to take place in front of police and/or parents if the student has not consented?

Speaking of continuous service, are strike days counted as a break of service or is non-payment considered as sufficient punishment?

So if I understand you correctly, an employer bares all the cost and liabilities of employee use of a company's email system but cannot specify how it is used? Are employers now required to provide personal email and web access to employees? Is it a case of if you don't take steps to mark out the boundaries of your back garden then a right of way can be established merely by custom?

edugeek is no longer mentioned in the browser title bar. This means I sometimes have to press Alt+Tab lots of time before I find eduGeek again

Every now then you see a job advert where they 'call so-and-so for an informal chat'. I am bit suspcious as to why an employer may want to do this when they're going through the bother of a formal recruitment round. Is this a sneaky way of pre-screening candidates before the interview? Actually is there any obligation for employers to keep applications for a certain amount of time as evidence for audits? They can't use informal contacts as way of side-stepping a fair recruitment process? Should I put on a different voice when I call so that if I do make a complete muppet myself on this first contact, I won't be recognised during the real interview. Sure the interviewer will always be left guessing why Frank Sidebottom never handed in an application . He would be ideal for this job .. well apart from that funny voice

No particular grievance in my case. Employment practices in the public sector are normally very regulated I was just expecting more rules regarding the permissibility of internal appointments.

Ah, so it isn't illegal to appoint a permanent post internally just not advisable.

What are the rules regarding internal appointments? Can employers fill a post using a pool of existing employees only if the appointment is a temporary one (e.g. to cover sabbaticals or maternity leave)?

For while it was nice to be able to see posts over a week. Now everything's gone back to the way it was before. We only see new posts posted between spells of activity on the site. Boo

Is there anything in law which means councils have to respect continuous service at another council. Is it just convention. Can council reset my service based entitlements to zero if there is no agreement with neighbouring authorities?

Well the siren call of more money and more security (they don't do BSF for councils, do they?) has proven irresistible. I am applying for a job at County. Only problem is forms. I'm crap at filling them in. How does one reduce the series of unfortunate events that brought me into IT support in to small boxes. The forms ask a lot of question which I suppose is a good thing. It just makes you wonder how, with such detailed and through vetting, so many muppets still manage to find employment in local government. Anyway, do they still have room for one more

Normally when something on a website works in Windows and not Linux you immediatly think that it's a tie-in to Microsoft Internet Explorer that's not supported by more standards complient web browsers. This time things are slightly stranger. The feature I am talking about is the drag and drop message feature in Hotmail/LiveMail. This works on the latest FireFox browser on Windows but on any of the recent Lnux distros I have tried it on. Now is this because I am doing something wrong on Linux or does Microsoft only tolerate Firefox on Windows?

I have a folder which I want to share locally between two non-admin accounts on the same box. I put the two accounts in a group and then gave that group read write permissions to the folder. The trouble is every time the PC boots/restarts, the folder permissions for the group revert to execute only. This weird enough but the folder was created by one of the group members so presumably that account should still have access to the folder or am I still thinking in Windows.

Surely the distinction between base and extended memory is only a distinction in what it is possible to address in real versus protected modes of Intel x86 processors. The base (i.e. first) 640K of the memory map would still be on one of the RAM modules that were removed.

Most crackers attention is focused against consumer desktops. Even corporate Windows admin are getting better at securing their servers and networks. As I have said in other posts, the *nix secuity model is generally better but let's not get complacent. Don't be like those Mac users who thought they were impregnable until last week. One the whole, Mac OS X is still safer than Windows you still have to be careful what you do with it.

You're not getting my point. Vendor size or more importantly install base, does have an effect how a threat can be handled. So if Big Linux Co. was tardy in reacting to news of a vulnerability, a remedial fork by a smaller 3rd party would not necessarily get wide adoption. Occasionally there are 3rd party patches to Windows vulnerabilities as well but everyone tends to wait for the official Microsoft ones. No I wasn't. Read my post again. I was just wondering why you were criticising Windows and OSX for having utilities to open PDFs, XLS files etc. That's what *nix does too. In fact a major part of the *nix philosophy is the modularization of code so that, as much as possible, particular programs do specific tasks rather than act as jack of all trades.

Script kiddies as their name suggest run ready made exploits. The high level of research interest in Windows by both legal and clandestine forces means there a lot more of these about. The many eyes theory of open source is all well and good but if the bragging rights are all in busting Windows then you know where most of the attention is going to go. What has helped Linux is that the *nix security model does a better job of mitigating the effect of the compromise of unpatched (either by vendor or admin) software. Now you're being contrary for the sake of it. What Michael was alluding to was that Windows 2003 does not start out any with listening services (daemons) enabled out of the box. You have to deliberately choose to make Windows 2003 act as file or web server. This definitely was not the case with Windows 2000 or NT4 server.