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Yes, what is the school meant to do if the terminal server farm goes t1t5 up and their local Citrix guru is suffering fom the effects of a most potent curry.

Are Sophos actually aware of the memory leak?

@rdhawkins Peterborough? So NetSupport is develpoed in the UK?

Eh? So has he hacked your avatar

Aren't Exchange CALS covered under Work at Home and Student Option benefitsof Select and SA?

I was wondering why the site was a bit slow today but after seeing the massive signature images I'm not surprised. Anyway welcome to EduGeek Amir and Mario. Hey Mario did you grow up or spend a lot of time in the UK. Your turn of phrase shows British influnces Anyway, IWB are not as quite important as projectors. Gaining enough experience to use a board as interactively takes too long and adds more to the lesson planning burden.

Woah! Thats a bit strong. Remember it's only software. I don't think one person has died because of Microsoft's market dominance. Also the work done by the Gates foundation will probably do more for the health of children then all Linux distros put together. Too many people on this site think of free software as no cost software. The true comparison would be putting together a stack based on commercial distros RHEL or SLED rather than CentOS. Even programmers have to make a living. It was really sadening when the OpenBSD devs had to go cap in hand to all and sundry to get the money to continue. I mean, after all they had done to increase OS and network security, it was just so heart breaking. Of course we EduGeeks live a monastic exustence only doing the job for the gratitude of teaching staff

Yeah it looks like you have to spend some money if you want to capture anything featuring DirectX

It does but it's very clunky. Basically you prepare the the text boxes beforehand then use keyboard shortuts do display them during recording. Well it is freeware.

Yes Sysman. Get your script out for the geeks

This will be great for virtualisation. You can get more itual servers on the same physical box by cutting down on the GUI overhead. THe lack of .net is blow though. I wonder if they will do SFu for it. Now that would be nice.

Simple market economics. Edugeeks are two a penny whereas convincing a gradutae to forego a lucrative corporate career in favour of teaching requires a few sweetners. Yeah, that's a bit harsh but that's how our political masters are probably thinking.

The difference is intent. You've never come across an ISP which tacility encouraged copyright infringement especially on a public forum. Has any such ISP also said it will actively remove evidence of illegal acts to frustrate any likely court action. But this is probably all hypothetical. Geoff's not his real name anyway

Yes Craig I forgot about Software Restriction Ploicies applied to a user profile (or home area for *nix). The problem is laptops. How is a teacher going to setup a home Internet connection or a printer unless they have admin rights. If they download drivers etc the would probably save it the SFX archive to the desktop. SRP won't allow them to unpack the necssary files.

The thing that made me laugh is that, Paul their knowitall super hacker, kept referring to a wireless router as an "internet server". The mark is not running a web server you muppet!!!. Anyway the program does show a genuine problem. Can your average teacher really setup WPA-PSK let alone a RADIUS box. All remote access solutions should be based on SSL or IPSec.

Yes there is a catch? The hack only appears to be of use to command line freaks. Singhle user mode and auto log-in aren't the same thing Full story at the Register.Hardware site.

That only works up to the point the spyware starts exploiting IE bugs. What's the answer then? Even FireFox isn't compltetly bug free and laptop users won't take kindly to mandatory profiles. This would probably affect all OSes as the bad guy's aim isn't to own the box as in traditional cracking so LUA won't be an absolute barrier.

Now if I said such things they would be all sorts of trouble

You don't know just how geeky that sounds

Spliiting hairs Ben. Maybe a specific country wasn't mentioned but he/she did say Eastern Europe. It's good to avid stereotypes but he/she did indicate limited resources.

If you dson't have a religious objection to closed source software then there is also JustBASIC and KPL. Both are freeware but not FLOSS. KPL is probably better as it provides more bang per line of code which is the kind of feedback younger students will warm to. Lastly, don't forget MSW Logo. For older kids don't forget Visual Studio now comes as part of School Agreement. Failing that there is always the 2005 Express series of languages.

Yeah that would help. Look's like now Vista is on the horizon, XP has been put in the AnnoyWare phase of the MS OS life cycle.

In all the excitement over IE7 Microsoft snuck out a bit of less welcome news. Oh come on MIcrosoft. 50+ updates since SP2 we need another service pack! :angry4: I guess I have to learn how to slip stream updates into my RIS builds.

Yet another meaning of MAC in the computer context. For the unitiated MAC also stands for Mandatory Access Control. This a method of ensuring that an attacker who has compromised a daemoen (or service in Windows speak) does not gain control on other parts of a system. I came acroos this article in Linux Magazine and was wondering if anybody here had a preference. The finer level of control of SELinux appeals to the inner geeek but the KISS principle of AppAmor also makes for better security..

You must be the Gordon Ramsey of educational ICT