Chris_Cook

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What version of osx and osx server are you running? You should be able to point a web browser at the update server (something along the lines of http://your-mac-server:8088/ iirc). I would also check if the server has downloaded all the updates yet. I think the list is in server admin somewhere. This will take some time to complete. Also, do you have any proxies set up? You may need to add an exclusion for the mac server.

Even the IT crowd version ( ) looks a bit tame now...

Unemployment isn't a valid reason for rioting and arson, but it still needs an overhaul. Being on the dole for long periods is really depressing, I've done it. You can get a horrible feeling that your worthless, and will never get a job. Many of the people on jsa (like myself 5 years ago) need some practical help to get through the application process, and to get over issues of low self-esteem and low self-worth/ability. There are jobs out there, I've got a number of friends who have found jobs over the past two years. I can't see why, if the government and the job centers took unemployment seriously, people should be on jsa for more than a few months at a time. When I was on it, all I had to do was go in every 2 weeks and say what I had done to look for work, little evidence of what I'd actually done was needed. I was offered help with cv writing and interview skills, but this wasn't conditional like I think it should have been. If you got someone working with the unemployed person for a couple of weeks, help them apply for jobs, and make them actually go through the process, these people could get jobs, and I reckon fairly easily too. I think at the moment, if an unemployed person can do a job that they are offered they should take it, there is no reason why they can't move on if something better comes along. In most of the world, if you refuse to work, you starve & die. I can't see why in England that people feel they can wait for the ideal job to come along, although having said that that was sort of how I felt at the time. The job centers just need to be a bit firmer. Maybe we need fewer people doing degrees, and more doing apprenticeships and vocational training. Perhaps businesses and organisations need to take more of a lead in providing apprenticeships, and not wait for the government to dictate what they do.

Possibly, depending on the amount of data. What are the macs being used for? if you're using 10.5 or later, you could use time machine to backup to an external disk or nas box.

I've yet to hear a good reason not to put antivirus/anti-malware software on a mac. I think if they have access to windows shares, and users can use memory sticks/email on the macs, it should be installed. Many schools will have site licenses for it anyway - I think all london schools are licensed for sophos, arn't they? So there shouldn't be a cost argument. We haven't had any performance complaints that we can attribute to antivirus in our media and music departments. It should also help minimise any panic when someone does come out with a significant virus or trojan for mac. I don't think (self-propagating) viruses are the only thing to be concerned about either. There is other malware that will be filtered out, and there is the potential for a malicious user to try something nasty.

We had a very similar issue when we replaced an office computer. We could never get it working with the keyspan device (which seem otherwise very good). The issue was finally resolved with an internal pci or pci-express serial card. I don't think it was that expensive, about £15 iirc.

What authentication methods are you using? We have had some problems with laptops not connecting because they failed the radius authentication. If you log in to one of the problematic laptops with a local account and watch it try to connect. We have found some wifi drivers don't work at all well, and have had to hunt down different drivers to the ones that the manufacturers list. Our Toshiba M40s and Samsung NP210+s where particularly bad for this. The M40s wouldn't talk wpa2, the 210+s where very slow and hung when trying to do a windows update. We have also found we have fewer problems with windows 7 laptops than windows xp.

I don't think this is possible with the default code. It might be worth posting it as a feature request on the mrbs mailing list. You might be able to do something similar if you create a new html page with 2 (or more iframes) each one having an area. You could then see the computer rooms from a separate area as well as the rooms from that block. Something along the lines of: Your browser does not support iframes. Your browser does not support iframes. You would need to figure out what number the areas are internally. The number is encoded in the links at the top left of the pages. Ours are 2 and 4. However, i don't think this does what you've asked for.

We use periods - thats the reason we choose it over other systems. You could have periods for specific times, like an "after school" period, or "8:00am-8:30am". If you do go down this route, you would need to plan it a bit, because adding a period at the start of the day is a bit tricky.

I would suggest starting with Skype, as the cost is very low. I've done a couple of conferences for our languages department which worked well. It did cut out at several points, but it did the job. Given that we were connected to a school in Burkina Faso, I thought the quality was really good. All you need is a cheap web cam and a microphone. You may even have these on an iMac or laptop already. We have an expensive VC unit, but that hasn't been used much, maybe 4/5 times since i've been here. Our kids seemed to really enjoy it, and I think they got some good experience of talking to native speakers of other languages. I think its a great way to engage the kids, provided you don't spend too much money on it. Its a break from the dull routine of school for staff as well as well as students. As with all new(ish) technology in schools someone needs to be proactive to get it used. The teachers need to know its available, and someone needs to make contact with other people to set up the conferences. Otherwise it is just going to sit there. Another issue with expensive VC systems is that schools in poorer areas can't afford the hardware of a dedicated system, so you may struggle to find partners to communicate with.

Might also be worth checking the oil level and topping up if necessary. Also check any air filters are clean.

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Has the driver installed properly, and have you updated the firmware on the hub? Maybe try doing a manual install of the driver on one pc and see if it works on that one.

Not Wrong, just very over cautious. Think about it. If a switch had mains voltages present on a port, then thats dangerous anyway. Even if it where connected directly to neutral or earth, there can still be enough voltage to give an unpleasant shock at the end of a long cable. They are designed to be connected to cables up to 100 meters, so differences in earth potential is going to be a common one. Switches and other similar equipment are designed so this can't happen, even with a significant fault. There will be physical isolation of wiring, as well as transformers or a well designed switch mode psu to separate the high and low voltage circuits. This is assuming you don't buy really cheap no-name stuff from ebay which probably won't have this level of protection. In order for 2 phases to be connected via the switches you would need to very bad faults in two separate bits of equipment. Even then, the fuse should blow at one end breaking the circuit. Failing that, the cat 5/6 cable will overheat and melt, which should be ok, as long as you haven't buried it in kindling, or run it through a petrol station. Proper installed cabling should be low smoke and self-extinguishing. The amount of things that would have to go wrong for this to become dangerous make it an unlikely scenario. You will almost certainly have problems with noise and packet loss though. So you do still want to use fibre for these kind of long runs between buildings. There might also be problems with rcds tripping etc. You should get a qualified installer to do external cabling, as there are other importan issues running copper between buildings. Direct lighting strikes being one, properly sealing the entry point into the building is the other main one. A qualified installer would almost certainly recommend fibre, I'm sure.

Surrey Stage Crew (based at the University of Surrey) should be able to help. USSU Technical Services

There is no built in method for this, apart from making a booking yourself as an admin. You can setup a new type of booking in the config file, and edit the css so it shows up differently. We do our holidays and half-term breaks this way, and it works well.

Install wireshark on that pc, and see what traffic it shows.

The time spent sorting this out would probably do the public image of your school some good. Well worth it in my mind, but your line manager is probably the one to check with. Shouldn't really take that long.

We're running windows 7 (pro or enterprise, not sure exactly which) on about 100 netbooks. They run well. The boot-up speed of windows 7 is much better than xp, which is great for portable devices. Wifi is also more reliable. You really want 1 gig of memory, but then I would say you want that for xp these days anyway. I've found anything younger than 3 years works better with 7 provided you get your deployment right and have drivers etc ready.

MRBS should do all of this. You might find it easiest to do a couple of installations side-by-side if you need more levels of organisation than just areas, or if you want to give different groups different access to different areas. There are a number of users on these forums, and the support on the mrbs mailing list is brilliant.

I recently got a scooter (nearly a month ago now). I got a Honda PCX new on zero % finance. I don't go very far (about 4 miles each way). I would recommend taking a test ride before buying, make sure it runs ok and that the brakes etc work. It sounds like you've done your research though which is good. What sort of roads are you going on? You might find a 50cc is a little underpowered, but if its only local roads, then you probably won't need to go very fast. Its nice to have the extra power of a 125 though. You might want to think about reliability, what will you do if and when it goes wrong? Also, if your not going through a dealer, it would be good to do one of those background info checks to see if its stolen or written off.

Please can you start a new thread for this as its not quite the same issue that the original poster has. This helps to avoid confusion when people are searching for answers. Thanks. Essentially you have two options: 1. Use the built-in ldap authentication method. 2. Host mrbs on a windows/iis server and use Integrated Windows Authentication. Option 2 is my preferred one on a largely windows network as it gives you single sign on (sso) for your windows xp/7 users (they wont have to re-enter their password). Please see this link for the mrbs documentation, as it describes all of this quite well: MRBS: Documentation : AUTHENTICATION

@newbiegeek: Please can you describe your deployment some more, specifically, which mrbs version are you running and what are you hosting it on. Are you accessing it from the same pc its being hosted on? It might be that its picking up admin rights from the line $auth["admin"][] = "127.0.0.1"; This gives admin to anyone logging in from the same pc that you are hosting mrbs on. Copy and paste this to your config.inc.php file before any users you have allready put in : unset($auth["admin"]); $auth["admin"][] = "administrator"; // A user name from the user list. You shouldnt generally be making changes to systemdefaults.inc.php, your configuration should go in config.inc.php. This is so you dont lose your settings when you come to upgrade.

You need to add the following line to the end of config.inc.php $auth["user"]["chris"] = "password"; That should add a user called chris with a password of password. You might need to check if you have unset($auth["user"]); in your config.inc.php as that will disable any users set before that line. You will want to add it before you go live to disable alice and bob which should be in systemdefaults.inc.php