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No idea on a 64 bit driver. But I'd be interested to know where you got a x86 version that works with Win 7

:-D I haven't even left yet and the website is falling apart. Admin staff have taken temporary custody of it to free up my time to sort other things. The links should now be correct (somehow managed to get a line break at the end of the URL within the "/a" tag)

I'm moving on. We only have the one combined Network Manager / Technician role.

The 2 links mentioned are for the D&T workshop technician (which should have been removed by now). The ad for network manager is yet to be posted on the school site, but can be viewed via the link to the Emmaus Recruitment site.

Network Manager LO6 SCP 18-23 (£17,161 - £20,198 pro-rata) St. Joseph's Catholic & Anglican High School, Wrexham. Wrexham, Wales Contract Type: Permanent Required for: as soon as possible Interview Date: 18/10/12 School Website To apply, please follow the link to Emmaus Recruitment on our Job Vacancies page We are looking to appoint a full-time Network Manager to serve the school in providing ease of access and assistance to the school’s ICT facilities for both staff and pupils. The role would suit an enthusiastic and flexible individual with excellent Literacy, Numeracy and ICT skills who has significant experience of working within a relevant discipline. The school offers an outstanding environment in which professional development and quality inter personal relationships matter. Above all we are a Christian school where the learning, growth and personal development of young people is supported through excellence.

Thanks. I didn't think there would be any official guide lines But that is the sort of rule of thumb I was looking for!! Going by most of our classrooms there are not really any desks further forward than the projector anyway, just the odd one or two.

A staff member has expressed a concern that the front row of desks in a classroom are too close to the whiteboard - a 78" Promethean and the front row is about 6 foot away, and I would agree with him. I think it's more of a case of pupils "drifting" the desks about the room during the day than the classroom actually being set up like that. But does anyone know of any published guidelines or recommendations on the minimum distance for a board of this size??

There doesn't seem to be any obvious BIOS settings but 13 of the 15 do have an accessable lid switch, which could be an option - but the other 2 are hidden inside. I seem to remember reading that some of the professional cabs allow them to be updated whilst closed, but can't remember if it mentoned that there were only certain laptops that allow it or some software was involved? I like the option of shelfs and data points but that sort of space is limited in that part of the school for us. Any other ideas would be good

Just wondering how people store and more importantly update their laptops? Appologies if this has been covered, I have looked but not really found the answer I want. We have a bank of 15 for our science dept, which are not always used daily sometimes it can be a week or so between usage. And obviously they build up a number of updates which all install when they are switched on, bringing to me teachers and pupils moaning about how slow they are. We can't afford any form of laptop trolley so that is out of the question. They are currently stored in the ol' school trays in a cupboard. Plugging them in to charge is not a problem and I can connect them to the network whilst they are in storage, but can't WOL and update tham when they are closed But has anyone ever built their own? That will allow them to update the laptop whilest the lid is closed? Any suggestions would be welcome!!!

I would agree with MatthewL especially if you have the 7 - 8 foot tall cabs like we have and especially if they are full from top to bottom. Moving the switches to be in the middle of the patch pannels they connect to will mean much shorter wires and les chance of them getting tangled up with others. It's a problem we have, whenever a new switch is installed it just gets put in the nearest free slot, in most cases the bottom, and more often than not the pannels it will connect to will be near the top meaning long cable runs up and down the length of the cab. So reorganising the cabs in this way will make tham much tieier

Has anybody got a LaCie 5TB LaCie 5big Network 2 and would they recommend it for secondary school use as pupils folder storage. The server is almost full so we need to move it all somewhere! 750 odd pupils 250-270 PCs

I have WOL working over the network on Gigabit capable Cisco switches (I forget the model as I don't have them to hand right now) When the ports are set at 100Mbps WOL works perfectly. But when the ports are switched to 1000Mbps WOL fails every time I'm using MC-WOL for the magic packet and the clients will accept it when the port is set at 100Mbps but not 1000Mbps. And I can't see any settings that are different for the NICs when set to auto 1000. The option for Magic packet is there and enabled both on the NIC in windows and in the bios. Any thoughts anyone?

Cheers all! Some good points there.

Just had an email about this company / person / idea. printersunlimited.co.uk, offering free printers provided you buy their toners. Anyone ever heard of it? Or belive it?

A bit of an update on this. It will now happen with Serif software. The error messages given by serif are much more brief but it is the same problem. A corrupt file. @DMcCoy, Cheers for that it is something to look into, I am aware the server does run a bit slow at times. But I don't see how that would only affect this one room still. Thats the strangest bit of it, it happens very occasionally in other rooms but a couple of times a day now in this one particular room. Which Is perhaps leading me to think It could be GPO related or one of the extra bits of software this room has perhaps doing something. Anyone got any thoughts on this?