ITWombat

So you choose .net on purpose?

Are you sure? What about edugeek.com?

I don't expect many people want to mess with a former soldier either

@GrumbleDook How did the teachers take to having a non-teacher as an assistant head? One less place at the trough. They must have loved that

@richie If things are that difficult at a faith school then the rest of us are doomed

The DHCP lease export only covers dynamicaly addressed machines. In most cases e.g that will be enough but if you need information for static address then you may have to go down the nmap route as above. Alternatively you could ping and arp to the same info.

A few answers: 2. The origins of evil has taxed the greatest minds throughout the course of history. 4. It does when it's on the outside of the bottle. 10. Same as the speed of light. 15. Teaching and learning. 18. Yes. 25 Less likely to get arrested.

Has any one ever made a claim on a warranty for deffective tapes or CD-Rs. Do nomanaufacurer's write long warranties because they know it will be too much bother to claim versus the expected payout.

As the pleas from SpecialAgent show, experienced MIS admin don't grow on trees. It's not unexpected that software companies get around this problem by taking the scripted call centre approcach to field all the RTFKB questions. This will allow the true analysts to deal with the real difficult issues. That said school ICT techs probably have the advanatge in being more knowledgeable about MIS issues than MIS support staff are on technical ICT issues.

This can't be true or one of your students has just discovered a very serious security vulnerability in Microsoft Office. System is the Windows equivalent of the root user in Unix. If someone one can get to run a command shell in the System context they own the box, game over, end of story. The only protection might be to disbale unisgned macros from running in Word. Alternatively you can use a disk protection product like Deep Freeze or Microsoft's Shared compuer toolkit.

Nooooo! Helping out probationary techies is one thing but non-geeks too? That's our day job, isn't it? It woud change the nature of EduGeek.

Think of the bigger picure. Edugeek could become a geek portal. You always menion the other sites. A list would be nice. So far all there is on the wiki is ICTTechnican.com

Is that because you feel that US opinion is under represented on the web?

When you say the 40GB isn't recognised do you mean the BIOS or just in Windows Explorer? If the latter then it might be just a case f partitioning?Open up the Local Desk Managemenr section of the Computer Management console and see how much of the disk is used. I suspect you will see a blue section saying "6.9G healthy C:" and a grey section with "33GB Unused"

Eh? If your are using NTFS partitions this shouldn't be possible unless students have been deliberatively given elevated permissions to common folders i.e. for Windows 98 style applications. If the partitions are NTFS were they converted from FAT/FAT32? If so common folders permissions may need to be tied down again as they inherit the looser seettings of FAT.

I see theres an 'own boss angle developing.Unfortunately I can't expand the list of poll options or I would add

It just struck me as odd, why some hard core geeks use Ubuntu and/or MacOS X. Now Geoff made a point about getitng tired of waiting for packages to compile in some based distros. OK but why Ubuntu and not straight Debian? Similarly MacOS X. Most of the Apple Mac and Mac OS X's attractions are based on being easy to use for people with little IT knowledge. This is not the tpical description of computer geeks is it. I suppose there's access to a wider range of commerical apps and/or peripherals but if that's the case then why not dual-boot or VM windows?

I have always been slighlty puzzled as to why some of the very talented members on this site decide to work in schools and not seek their fortune in the private/corporate sector. It's not like we are avoiding office politics. So why do you put up with: - being under paid given the importance of IT in moden schools - cringingly IT iliterate but oppinionated school staff - SMT who thinking that some white elephant can take them to the top of the league tables - SMT who think they can get a modern IT infrastructuure for a pittance - students bent on the destruction of public property - teachers who think pupil behaviour is technological problem - being forced to shackle future citizens to the Wintel Borg collective Ok there is some exageration in the above list but you would have faced some if not all these impedements and yet you still turn up for work year upon year. Why?

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Thanks Geoff. I kind of suspected that was the case. So it would be major outlay to spread remote access beyond a few key staff to all staff and students. SSL Explorer may need more capable hardware as it uses a web server, Jetty, implemented in Java rather than a native one such as Apache. As for remote access CALs does this also apply to WebDAV access to file severs?

Do IPSEC and SSL VPN servers need partiuclar hardware requirements or is it mainly browser based SSL VPN solutions (.e.g SSL Explorer) where server performance under load might be an issue? Do you have to buy extra CALs for file, mail and database servers as with terminal server accessed from outside the school LAN?

I like what Dos_Box and his merry persons have done with the site but why stop at being a self help site for school ICT techs. EduGeek could become a whole a geek liefstyle site. In time companies would have to consult us to gauge the oppinions of the geek demographic (alright the mainly British education sector ict geek demographic).

BHS reckon mine's 30 inches. What's yours?

Are there particular settings you use on switches and computers to optimise the speed of remote control programs, especially if your controlling a whole room of computers.

You often see on this forum that schools seem to think they can get the moon for a pittance when it comes to IT. Well the commercial sector is not completely immune from this delusion either. I recently saw an advert for a Systems Co-ordinator/Network Administrator to work in a poultry processing comany. For a salary of £20,000 p.a. they want someone who has masters degree in Networking, sound knowlegde of accounting or finance with experience of the Sage Line 50 accounts package and be conversant in some foriegn languages. In the role you'd be expected to coordinate with the Accounts and Sales department where you would manage and integrate a production and weighting system with the accounts package. All this while managing the company network and providing IT support. Now I know the job is in Preston and that the cost of living is meant to be cheaper up north but 20K! Come on! For someone with a Masters? Unless they confused an MCSE with an MSc