Daleus

Yes, you'll just love the crappilot!

The previous admin here must have copied the wallpaper to the machines using a startup xcopy script and then popped a .reg file in students' shared start menu "Startup" folder to set it. I think he feared the AD. It took me a while to realise what he had done, make sure you don't have any silly .reg files applying or something similar.

ha, they're clever. They would screenshot the text and past it into the document and write what they wanted after and before it using the same font. Also.. What about Fedora 10 everyone? what a smasher! *edit, also just thought, they could save the webpage in [browser name here] and open that in word or notepad or anything and take what they wanted*

IE7 rolled out lovely back when it came out. Everything updated except SP3, seeing as all our IT suite machines have *that* network card.

At our primary we have a 8400N, an Epson Aculaser C1100 and a lexmark (bumf that was free from ijt). The 8400N is actually cheaper to run than the aculaser due to the fact that the fake inks are dead cheap and just as good. The print quality is great. However ours has recently started dropping off the network when a huge wad of data is sent to it, but its old and we're just gonna run it into the ground. overall, Fast Speed, Cheap ink, Great quality, and you get to listen to it make the sounds of satan himself as it warms up. cons: Uses ink when you turn it on, uses ink when you turn it off, uses ink when you you walk in the room, uses ink when your curser goes within 50px of the print button, uses ink when you change paper, uses ink if its too warm, uses ink if its too cold, fills the 'ink tray' with ink for the fun. Also, I don't think its *ever* jammed.

Don't sweat it, even if you ran a windows virus in wine, because you're not running wine as su it can't escape your home area.

I can certainly see what you mean there, But ok so upon reading it, you think "Why is it unavailable? I know its online (other machines work), so its a local (to the machine) problem" Which case you check wires, if all up, get onto a local account and see what's going on with the config.

Why didn't you check that first?

I did comptia A+ and N+, what a joke, no harder than my 04/05 GCSE paper on the same subject. (yes 2005, I am only 19). I've been using Red Hat since 7.x (Psy) /8.0, switched to debian and then ubuntu. I've picked up what I need to know, but I have no formal qualifications, It would be nice to have them. However I wouldn't spend time doing something comptia again.

A teacher came to me this morning and enquired as to why her new pupils could not open a document she had prepared for them. It turns out that the new year have a box that pops up when they first run word where they have to type in their full name and hit ok, now that isn't a problem. The problem is that when they click ok, the .doc they double clicked to open word does not open and they have to go back to the folder and open it again. I know this will only happen the first time, after that it will be fine, however is there a way I can turn off office asking for a name on the first run, as these are year 1 students and she believes it will take ages with them. *edit, I read another thread about having mandatory application data folders, I see this doesn't work apparntly*

Thank you for all the replies. The mesh system is obviously the better route, rather than irradiating (and irritating) the entire village.

There was a print job that wouldn't purge from the memory, It sorted itself out after a lot of restarts.

Well, we have the very stable Xerox Phaser 8400. It does the job just fine, however recently it will randomly drop off the network. If I put the power in, all through the 'warming up' phase I can ping it, browse the web interface and do whatever I like. Once it is warmed up and ready I can still browse web interface fine, but as soon as ANY print job is sent to it (even 'wgggaaarrrbbblll' in notepad), it starts dropping ping replies, maybe 2 or 3 then come back on. If I send something bigger it will probably print THAT job but will then no longer reply to pings and the web interface won't work anymore. If I shutdown the printer at this point using the front panel just as its shutting down before it cuts its own power off, I get a couple of ping replies! Everytime I try to get into the web interface I don't have enough time because (any network user) tries to print something and therefore it goes offline again. I checked for IP conflicts, wiring (asin network) as well as resetting the config from scratch. if anyone has any ideas it would be great to hear them! Oh and before I forget, it will randomly print this out, asif it timed out while recieving a print job *edit, Wrong forum? Network trouble so I bunged it in here, if I made a boo-boo, sorry*

The internet tablets are a nice idea, but we aren't just using the laptops for internet, there is also a bunch of edu apps going to be installed. It doesn't matter if the transmitter knocks everyone elses stuff out, as I said we're out in the sticks, and as long as it doesn't knock out candles, they'll never notice. Well thanks for the replies, as long as its technically possible, i'll leave it with him, I'm sure he'll decide against it in the end when he realises his budget doesn't go so far..

our ICT co-ordinator is on a mission. He is going to use the grant we got from the LEA to buy eeepc's (or similar) for the children and let the parents pay for them for £2/week or something similar. Now, we're in a fairly tiny village and as scary as it is, only a fraction of children have internet access at home. So he had this idea, "Can't we put a transmitter thing on the roof", an idea I dismissed straight away, Expensive, Low Range etc etc. Then we saw this The roof of the school looks over the entire village, so something like this would be great, obviously sectioned off from our own network, limited, filtered, mac filtered and obviously WPA-PSK (or some exotic) security should keep it relatively mongrel-free, I thought about connecting it to a smoothwall box. But the big question is, can we put a big rockin' transmitter on the roof? it's not that big in all fairness and only half the size of your average Microwave transmitter/receiver Thanks, Daleus *edit* I couldn't find anything like this on the council website and the main google matches we're regarding "FM" transmissions and prosecution for pirate radio, My Google-Fu is weak today. Furthermore a local hotel in Skipton has one of those beasties on the roof with a directional antenna at another village to give that entire village wireless internet, It was setup by some bill oddie types from the village, so its not 'illegal'

I ordered a new battery from misco for the APC SmartUPS 1000 last wednesday, it hasn't arrived yet, grrr and the bleeping on the UPS has got faster! yaaay

A 1.2 Green Clio! named Geoffrey. yaaaaay It goes like the peverbial off a stick (going downhill...) It's only my second car! the first one lasted a week.

Although newzbin is not peer to peer

Jan 2nd, Due to the fact that if ANY computer breaks over new year its .. "got that new millenium +9 bug I heard about on Panorama (read: Paranoia)" and the amount of posts in FFS will rocket.

Right, Got somewhere! Education Bradford rang me back on the same day I made the call! Very politely told me I was not supposed to have ever had the cachepilot password and synetrix have now changed them all and I was "lucky to have it while you did". Oh well, all good things come to an end

Did anyone watch the 'Silent Bob Speaks' (Kevin Smith Live) DVD's, I really liked those, they we're like tasty chunks of behind the scenes insight. mmm

It seems our crap^h^h^h^hcachepilot has gone senile. The other day the Bradford proxy server for the entire county went down (again) and I called and just asked for an ETA. They phoned back when the internet was working again and got through to a teacher, as I had gone home and guided that teacher into the network cab and told them how to reset the cachepilot. Since then the cachepilot won't accept our password, or the default password (which I tried just incase it had factory reset or similar). The cachepilot seems to be working fine and no one is having internet troubles. I rang Bradford and they said they would "call me back" [read: fob me off] Does anyone know any other passwords it may have set to other than "password", I read the manuals online and they shone no light.

Primary school here, looking to eeepc every child from year 3 upwards, where the parents pay £x/week and its theirs, but they can (and are encouraged to) use them in school if they like. We got one to play with from the 'EBICT' team at Bradford and it had their custom image installed. connected to a windows share via smbmount just fine, connected to printers via the GUI, just fine. However, this image was designed for children and they didn't tell me how to bring up the admin interface, so I managed to jimmy open the terminal via a shortcut.

£1.99 on ebay, '10" laptop case' Also, if you're planning to put Linux on, use Ubuntu 8.04 as every device works out of the box except wireless, and theres a script on the MSI wind WIKI for that. <2 minutes of a job. Ubuntu 8.10's Kernel won't work with that method though, so avoid until further notice.

My uncle in spain uses his to watch sky tv on the balcony instead of sitting in the living room and he raves about it all the time, however I can't vouch for how it would work on a PDA.