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petectid

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  1. Yes DVD is the best way to go then if your drive goes tits up you still have your image for use on the replacement.
  2. This is very important, you cannot have a meeting with the head and minute that meeting yourself because there would be no other person to guarantee those minutes are true. Been through a similar thing myself, was told by the union that because I went along with it then in law an agreement existed between myself and my employer. Is is not the case now that your employer is the school and the reason you get a local authority pay cheque is because the school contracts them to do the pay system. Anyway cannot remember the term he used to describe what had happend but it all amounted to compliance, you should never change your job title without having a union rep involved. Unison did manage to get my back dated pay for this new post, then I left.
  3. Ours have just been tested here, I always thought it was the way the appliance was attached to the mains that determines whether it is tested or not. A dishwasher with a plug top is tested put if it was powered through a fused connection unit it would not be tested. Because most switches are plugged into sockets using a power lead that can be disconnected at the socket and the appliance then there are two tests one for the lead and one for the switch.
  4. I'm presently looking into doing this using Citrix Secure Gateway, quite a way off yet but one thing I have been told is there are licensing considerations that must be taken into account when giving access to suites like Microsoft Office. Although the windows session is running on your windows server, the actual client device needs an office license so it ain't just a case of assigning say 20+ office licenses to the server and restricting connections to office. You have to buy a license for each client device that uses office.
  5. That’s the whole company; it is loosing money by the millions. The most successful side of its business is its mp3 player but Apple has 78% of the market Creative shares what is left with a number of suppliers. The company in desperation to make funds has decided to sue Apple over the interface used by the iPod, its estimated that this kind of action could take up to ten years to resolve and would be very costly, eventually it will financially cripple Creative as Apple have deep pockets and will hold out. The ironic thing is that most mp3 players use this similar interface so they would have been better going after a smaller company, if they won then there would be precedence for a legal case against all users and licensing for the interface would then need to be paid to Creative.
  6. If you want to by a Creative Mp3 player be quick as this company is in financial dire and may fold before Christmas.
  7. Download a trial version of Nero this will burn ISO images, do not know much about Roxio software and ISO images.
  8. Is the image good, did it come with an Md5 checksum if so run it to see if its okay.
  9. Can you not simply redirect Google images, you can deny access to Google images, redirect requests to Google images safe? Does your local authority not block Google Images and just give you google safe searches?
  10. petectid

    Securing macs

    This was true, but the attention of the virus coders is slowly turning to both the Mac and Linux, though the number of viruses out there is still minimal the threat is increasing.
  11. You can still use the Firewall Client but you will also need wspcfg.ini files placed in the appropriate directories on the Mail server. But as Ashok suggests the mail server should now be a Secure Nat client, as you no longer will need to mess about with ini files.
  12. Do the IP addresses need to be on different subnets, ie external and internal? If so do they use the same port 25?
  13. Is your Mail server configured as an ISA server Client?
  14. Our little darlings were using a program called netsend lite. See Here
  15. Therefore if you have a school with a 1000 users and only 350 devices you intend to buy a thousand CALs when you could get away with buying only 350, one per device, this is still using the Per Seat mode of licensing (sometimes referred to as "Per Device or Per User").
  16. I think you will find this information current Michael, if you look under the section headed Per Seat Licensing it starts "With Per Seat licensing (sometimes referred to as "Per Device or Per User")". This suggests that there is no difference between Per Device or Per User licensing, therefore when you choose to licence Per Seat you can either buy CALs for your Users or your Devices. The only other method of licensing is Per Server though in a school environment this choice would be unusual?
  17. But none of us will because the government’s plan, supported by Mr Owen Lynch Chief Executive of Becta, is to farm all these services out to contractors, as they believe that the job will be done better this way. Owen Lynch made these points in the Educational Guardian back in 2003. Companies like Capita will win these contracts as they have this government in their pocket; one of their Directors was even caught up in the cash for peerages allegations.
  18. When the servers are initially setup you have a choice as to the type of licensing you are going to use either per seat or per server. The per server option you need one CAL per workstation. The per seat option you need one CAL for every server you wish to connect to therefore if you have three servers used by all your workstations you would need 3 CALs per workstation. Once you choose to deploy a Microsoft server product in Per Seat mode, your choice is permanent. See also here for a better explanation.
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    Draft Printing

    The Manual for this printer suggests that print quality can be adjusted as below Changing the print quality The printer driver automatically chooses settings for your document to optimize the quality of the output. However, you can change these advanced settings, such as raster compression or scale patterns (WYSIWIG). ● Windows: Gain access to the Print Quality settings by clicking Details on the Finishing tab. ● Mac OS: This feature is not supported. There does not appear to be anything else? HP hope you will use those expensive consumables up as quickly as it is possible.
  20. Yep ISA can block download of content by both mime type and extension, you add a content group to a site rule and deny access. I do not know what there now called under the latest version of ISA I believe there are some changes in the naming of objects.
  21. petectid

    Draft Printing

    Can you not just set the printer on the server to draft that way all documents sent there should print as draft. If Staff do not like this when they print then set up another printer pointing to the same physical device not set as draft, you could even give them priority over other users.
  22. Is that good Geoff? lol
  23. Is your DHCP server issueing the required information about the TFTP server? Its IP address? It could be that your TFTP service may not be running?
  24. petectid

    Ghost Problems

    Have you tried increasing the buffersize using the same named switch. You can set this from 1 - 32kb. This has worked for me when using sis900 NCs, add this switch and increase your buffersize.
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