Geoff

Ping uses raw sockets to send the ICMP messages. Raw sockets are restricted to admin users. This restriction can be easily circumvented with WinPcap.

You mean RDP sessions?

I wouldn't expose AD services like SMB/LDAP/Kerberos to the general Internet if could help it. Tunneling over a VPN is the right approach. Maybe look at why your VPN dies and fix that instead?

from your log file your postfix installation is currently trying to relay via zimbra.wolsingham.internal (IP 10.0.0.6). That server is bouncing the mails because [email protected] doesn't exist as far as it's concerned.

You know the BPI & FACT et all offer nice fat bounties for whistle blowers.

I think you need to document when and how this room has 'issues'. I suggest you physically inspect it at lunch, breaks, after school, etc. You can maybe determine a pattern and start pointing fingers or if you are not comfortable with that then you have a large wedge of evidence to fall back on if the SMT come knocking wondering why half the IT maintainence budget disappeared fixing up one room repeatedly.

If you can't trust your users you have no choice but to monitor them. CCTV the room and hand out detentions for kids getting in without a teacher. You can back up the CCTV footage with login session history too. Double bonus detentions for the kids who figure this out and log in as their friends.

You still have to route this over a VPN, most ISPs block netbios.

I'm confused, what's wrong with keeping the room locked and holding the teachers who use it responsible for when it's left unlocked? If you have issues with damage/vandalism fit CCTV, it'll probably pay for itself within a term.

Also watch out if the router has VPN support enabled on itself. It may hold onto the ports and/or filter GRE even if you disable it.

I doubt the earthquake cares.

All this does is encourage scientists to not monitor/report on seismic events for fear of being prosecuted. Oddly enough this leads to even more dead people than even bad warnings.

Hah, and that's straight after this leaked from BT? BT masks ‘unjustified’ doubling of Final Third broadband bill « Br0kenTeleph0n3 Whistleblower got the sack btw. Whistleblower sacked over BT rural broadband leak | Technology | The Guardian

I've also banned Java on my clients while I was at it. You can only use reparse points for directories.

You need local admin and the machine needs to be running vista or better. NTFS on XP machines can't hardlink across network volumes.

From my login script (I don't actually use this now, as I patched chromium in source to 'do the right thing'). mklink /h "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\bookmarks" "s:\favourites\chrome\bookmarks" mklink /h "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\bookmarks.bak" "s:\favourites\chrome\bookmarks.bak"

As opposed to no flash at all?

Well because Chrome is based on Chromium and Chromium is open source, the security issues are fixed in the public source tree long before there is a Chromium based or Chrome binary release available (because of the open source license). So if you are really paranoid about this you should be building Chromium from source yourself.

Yes, you need the files from here. Use Chrome policy templates - Google Apps Help

Google Analytics is another option. Google Analytics Official Website - Web Analytics & Reporting ? Google Analytics

Is the updated driver in WSUS?

Because you can spend your VP on slots that you can't get quest rewards for (although you do need two rings).

Er no. Tekkit didn't get permission for all of the mods (and still doesn't). Which caused forestry to be coded by Sengir to be incompatible and therefore removed from the current version of Tekkit. Tekkit is stuck on Minecraft 1.2.5 and there is no prospect for versions beyond that. So it's basically a dead end.

Yeah so don't waste your VP buying rings and necks!

Just got Cloud Serpents to Exalted and won the race so there's no need for me to ever touch those dailies again. Slightly dismayed at the news that 5.1 brings even more daily quests for us to do! My other pet peeve is that LFR awards more VP than normal 10man.