Optics

Hi all, We are considering purchasing a booking system for parents to use to book appt slots for open evenings. Has anyone here got any experience with such a system? Are any existing products worthy of recomendation? I'd be interested in your thoughts. Graham

I've got both and for ease of use with regards to managers, the iPhone wins in my opinion. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but I've found ease of use paramount to their success with end users especially for email as Domino said earlier.

I got an iPad while in the states recently, and I really quite like it. Importantly the wife and kids love using it for checking their email and surfing on, so they now leave my laptop and desktops alone . Everyone who has had a go seems to love it, mainly I suspect because it follows the usual ease of use that apple products tend to have. In fact the only people who I know who have reservations with them are friends that are IT professionals, right up to the point they actually use one, then they see how it works and like it, then try the Air Video app out, and order one. I read last night that Apple have now sold a million in a month, so they must be doing something right.

I'm in the US at the mo and can't buy one, let alone the two I had planned on buying, so I'm not surprised by the delay. The apple staff are far less helpful here compared to what I've become accustomed to in the UK. I actually had a staff member tut at me when I asked her to ring another Apple store to check stock. I've spent well over two hours testing them in various stores and I have to say I'm very impressed so far, the on screen keyboard is much better than I expected and there are some superb ipad only apps out already.

Another vote for Clonezilla here

Just in case anyone is planning on getting a eye test, I read in one of my wife's journals (she's an Optician) a few days ago that Tesco are planning on giving free sight tests for all in the near future. You'll be under no obligation to buy specs from them to be able to qualify for the free test. They have piloted it in a few areas and it seems to have worked well.

Cheers for the explanation FN-GM

Same problem, just in the last few days.

I can't help but think that if we have got to the stage where we have to scan everyone through to their naked body, and all the delays and hassles it brings with that, the terrorists have pretty much won.

I'm pretty tempted to be honest, I can see it fitting in with the way my wife and kids would like to use the net, control the room to room music, check their mail quick etc. They dont want macbooks or even netbooks for that matter, they consider them too much hassle. I'm off to the US at the start of April for a few days, so I might pre-order one.

Settings > Wifi > Tap your Wifi Connection > Scroll down > Select Manual and Enter Proxy Settings Proxy is done on a per connection setting, so wont need to be removed for their existing home settings.

First go it worked fine for me, two minutes later and it takes an age to load the page.

Resolved the problem perfectly, thanks very much for your help.

Hi, Over Christmas I have upgraded our Ex2003 to Ex2007 and it all went very smoothly. Our remote users can login fine using the https://mail.Schoolname/owa. The old server used to do OWA through the url https://mail.schoolname/exchange and this is where I'm having a problem. I would like to set up a redirect if possible, so any user using the /exchange url gets an automatic redirect to the /owa url. We dont use an ISA server, so would need to do this via the IIS on the 2k8 server if it is at all possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Graham

Just looking at photos of Prague brings hangover memories flooding back.

I bought one of those (G5), although from a different dealer it was the same machine. Pretty sure they needed PC2-6400 DDR2 Unbuffered ECC. I'll check when I get home as it's my media server.

Congratulations

I wanted to be an Astronomer or Bricklayer when I was growing up, and ended up an Optician who then got into IT. So I guess it would be Astronomer.

I forgot to update this, oops. The actual problem was with the kernel not being able to deal with the USB2.0 controller on the SiS M672/968 chipset. I updated the kernel used to 2.6.30.1 and it works well again now. The latest version of FOG (0.27) also has this updated kernel. Thanks again for your help Geoff. Graham

Hi all, I’m hoping you can help me out. We have recently taken delivery of 40 RM NBook 200’s (Compal SW91) which I was hoping to image with XP in the same way we have started to image all our other laptops (using FOG, all RM rebadged Compal’s of various ages) but I keep getting a blank screen instead of the boot menu. The display just before it blank screens, shows that the PXE has found the server and is trying to load the kernel. PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9AD6:0108 Getting cached packet 01 Getting cached packet 02 Getting cached packet 03 My IP Address seems to be AC10152D IPFromDHCPHere ip=IPHERE:FOGSvrIP:DG IP:SUBNET TFTP Prefix: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/a37a8fc1-99ed-11dd-8015-001eecd14548 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/01-00-1e-ec-d1-46-48 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC10152D Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ AC10152 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ AC1015 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ AC101 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ AC10 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ AC1 Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ AC Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ A Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/ default I’ve tried every kernel available through the FOG update menu, but as I’m pretty much a linux newbie I haven’t even considered making my own kernel as I wouldn’t know where to start. The text only menu just hangs after I type the fog command. I can’t change any BIOS settings other than the boot order, I thought at first that RM had customised the BIOS options, but the Compal website appears to supply the same BIOS. I have a feeling the problem may have to do with ACPI or similar settings, as when I tried to load Ubuntu Live CD, I get the following error.: 2648441 ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5] 2686601 ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5] On the F6 Boot parameters menu, setting ACPI=off causes numerous errors and halts loading, but if set to noapic and nolapic as well as ACPI=off it errors mentioning a PNPBIOS error but then it allows Ubuntu live CD to load as normal and appears to work fine. I’m totally stuck, any suggestions guys and gals? Graham

My colleague has just reimaged all our old 912's for flogging on ebay, and I seem to remember her saying about how the provided wireless driver did not work properly and she had to find another. If the RM site doesnt provide what you need, send me a PM and i'll ask her to send you the driver. Graham

We use a clickview server for our digital video. Can't fault it really. ClickView - the digital video solution for schools

We use wireless for SIMS on around 100 XP standalone laptops, it's usually pretty reliable on our Trapeze network. I'd hate to think what it would of been like on our old unmanaged network. The latest SIMS patch we did (November I think) has made it take at least two minutes before the login box appears though (is fine with a cable), which some users are finding frustrating. Apparently a fix for it will arrive sometime this quarter.

A night at the casino with the wife and friends. First time in eight years we've managed to get a babysitter on NYE \o/

Had the Tytn II since launch and love it