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The other problem with fire safes is that while the data *may* be safe inside, you've got to assume that the building will be inaccessible - may be partially collapsed etc., so it's still not useful to you.

You might find that this approach is not compliant with FMSiS - I'm afraid I am not an expert on it, but the few docs I have seen talk about sensible password security (not sharing passwords etc). NTFS really fits the bill for this . . . . Sorry to post a 'not the answer you were looking for' answer.

In addition to the above, if you're attempting to log in using a SQL account like that you'll need to ensure that mixed mode is enabled. Have a look at this: How do I configure SQL Server 2005/2008 to accept SQL Authentication? I'm a big fan of using SQLCMD to troubleshoot login issues, as it takes your code/application out of the equation. So for example, you can test that you've got a valid login and that your database is accesible by using a command like: sqlcmd -U tracker -P tracker -S SERVER01\SQLEXPRESS -d edugeeklogontacker You can do this from the server's command line to test that the login is valid, or for full effect test from a client PC (that has SQLEXPRESS or better installed) and also test the connectivity. If it's successful you get a rather low-key prompt 1> If you're wanting to use Windows authentication then things get a little livlier - I don't know enough about the app to know if it supports it, sorry.

I too am no expert, but a couple of other things to consider: Could be the pump has failed. Have a listen. Also, systems such as this sometimes have a 'summer valve', which shuts off the supply to the radiators - big red tap somewhere in the airing cupboard probably. Could someone have been fiddling with that? On the odd occasions I've had to deal with bleeding radiators, the symptom has been that the upper part of the rad is cold, but the lower and feed pipes are warm/hot. Also, has never (for me!) affected all rads at once. I don't know if sludge build up can suddenly kill your circulation or if it would degrade it over time . . . .

My, what an astonishingly bad article. For a start, the author gives us no evidence for any of his claims. It's all very well stating that there's 8x as many men as women with IQ of 145, but I can claim that my left leg is made of cheese – you’re going to want to see some evidence of that before you believe it. He tells us that fewer women have won Nobel prizes than men - while this is demonstrably true, we KNOW that sexism has been at work in academia (see Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for a flavour), and so this in itself isn’t evidence of anything. Oh hang on, here comes some evidence: "Ever since the Frenchman Alfred Binet devised the first intelligence test in 1905, study after study has confirmed the same result." Except that this ignores the fact that IQ testing has undergone significant evolution in the last hundred years, and ‘evidence’ of disparities in IQ between groups has often been shown to be bias in the tests themselves. Add in the fact that the definition of intelligence itself is problematic . . . . . Towards the end, he tells us himself why his article is badly written nonsense: "Thanks to high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone, men are far more competitive and motivated for success than women." So he implies that he’s happy to accept that there are more male Nobel laureates because they are more motivated to produce such work. "As our hunter-gatherer example has already suggested, men and women have also evolved different kinds of intelligence." So in the same article he claims that men are more intelligent than women yet also that the very thing he is measuring varies between the sexes. In fact I think the only thing I think we’d be able to agree on, based on his statements here, is that due to a gender-based superiority with language, a woman would have explained her science much more clearly ;-)

Please, not another round of boaring puns

What a stressful situation. Although you say that you can only advise and make recommendations, are you sure that's how it would be seen if there was an audit/investigation? What does your job description say, for example? As a minimum, make sure your concerns are expressed in writing and can be verified (e.g. official email) so that if bad things happen you can point to it and say: "Look, I TOLD you."

We prefer to call them elbows ;-)

Hmm, unless they are also going to remove HT's employment rights, I think you'll find you can't simply sack them because you don't like them, they have to be failing to do their job - and there's already mechanisms in place for that. Whether they're implemented competently or not . . . . that's the issue.

Virtual PC 2007 does not connect to USB. If USB is a requirement, then you'll need to consider e.g. VMWare.

You can also click Actions > Open with Windows Explorer, which will let you drag across into an Explorer window.

How about setting them to manual, except for the error reporting service, and see if it boots happily - then bring the services up one at a time and keep an eye on the error log?

Is it worth seeing if they'll let you pop over and road test the connection? Much better to find out before the event :-)

Oh I quite agree that this is not uncommon - that's why it was raised at school . . . . . Cheers.

Actually, real geeks love BSD. Oh, hang on . . . . .

While this is all very interesting and a good investigation, why is your member of staff trying to send themself an email? Our e-safety team have just been out beating people for using personal email accounts for work, and I should think the CP staff should be particularly careful about this. Check your AUPs and e-safety policy. If it's work, she probably shouldn't be doing it anyway. If it's not work, it's not your problem ;-)

Applications will sometimes look at the PC's regional settings in order to determine what language option they should use - have you checked your machine's regional settings for hints of Frenchness? On the other hand - it is a beta :-)

Hello Weird is right! Have you had a look through the event log? In particular you should be able to get some extra info about the login error there: For the login failure message, have a look here and see if it helps: http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2006/02/21/536201.aspx

Is it my imagination, or did we see a lot less of Samantha this series?

What is this thing? Does it have a built in backup routine you can run? Does it have USB ports you can plug memory devices into, a CDROM you could boot from? Bit concerned by the statement that it's "not really part of the school" though - does this mean that in the cold light of day it's actually someone else's responsibility?

As it's OEM, they may well send you back to the machine vendor. I spent a very frustrating half hour with them on the phone this morning, laptop on one hand, OEM disk in the other, and the best they could come up with was to send me to talk to Dell.

I've actually bothered to check the logs now :-) This morning our mail system logged exceptions for three different servers, 65.54.190.3x (all registered to hotmail.com), citing the SpamCop blacklist. My friend has a hotmail.co.uk address, not .com, by the way. I've just checked, and one of these three is still on the SpamCop blacklist, so it's not all fixed yet . . . .

I exchange two or three mails a day with a friend on Hotmail - she phoned me today complaining that her mails to me were bouncing this morning. Our mail server was fine though, and it cleared itself up by lunchtime.

Running it automatically is easy enough to do, as Virtual PC associates it's VMC files with the application - just bung a shortcut to the relevant VMC file in the startup folder, and it'll launch after the user has logged in. Problems? Performance . . . . . Virtual PC will inevitably run slower than the host, and you'll 'lose' some of the RAM through running the host and guest. Depending on what you're doing and what your hardware specs are, you could just end up annoying your users. You could try this out of course - try running this way yourselves for a couple of weeks with your applications, on one of the slower machines, and see how it goes..... Accessing peripheral devices will be a problem, as Virtual PC won't connect to USB - so no memory sticks, local printers etc. VMWare does USB, but requires the user to fiddle with the interface to connect the device to the guest. There will also be the overhead of supporting the users, who will probably be quite confused when they accidentally break out of the VMs . . . Refreshing the image to a machine is one thing,but if you want to update the virtual machine image for some reason, you'd need to get it round to all the network stations somehow - and if the VMs are to be domain members, then you'd need to configure them . . . . I hate to be negative, but all in all, I'd fall on the side of working through the problems you're having with automated builds. I think the users would end up cross with you and you'd still have problems, just different ones. The one time I *have* seen VM's used in a similar manner successfully is on tech training courses, where you need a self contained trashable environment.

We've tried getting scots in to run the place, but it's not helped ;-)