AngryTechnician

GAAAAAH 95% AND FIREFOX CRASHES. AND THE SERVERS DON'T SUPPORT RESUME. One of the many reasons I despise Firefox's faster release schedule is that I've seen a LOT more crashes, starting with version 5. I'd dump Firefox tomorrow if IE or Chrome had sidebars.

Started out similar to the above but now it's at 250k and dropping. The ROW has cottoned on!

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Fix: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/home-access-plus/88277-silverlight-error-2108-due-splash-screen-missing-unable-loaded.html

If you;re lucky and there's not much difference between the two computers, you may not even need to do the repair install. It's also my experience that any machine that has had a repair install run will never be 100% again, so I tend to treat it as a last resort.

They are recreated from scratch at every logon, and only those pointing to valid targets are created.

We're on x86 here, and have deliberately only bought machines with 3GB RAM the past two years as a result. Will look seriously at going x64 with Windows 8, especially as we've recently scrapped all our shoddy HP printers that had naff x64 drivers. I know at least a couple of machines that may have to stay x86 due to older software. I seem to recall our Finance software still has some 16-bit code, unbelievably.

If you have ESS/SA then you should have complimentary TechNet Plus subscription that allows you to install for evaluation purposes. I haven't read the exact terms so not sure if it only covers lab environments. Worth a look though. Edit, yep lab environment only: You should be able to test it yourself, just don't let normal users loose on it.

You can use YouTube in school. You don't need ERA to use YouTube in school. ERA is about making recordings. The hint is in the name: Educational Recording Agency. It also only applies to broadcasts. Seeing as YouTube is a) on-demand, not broadcast, and b) does not provide a method for recording their videos (unless you use a third party downloader which is against the T&Cs), there is no way you could need ERA. Full info on what the ERA is actually for here: The ERA Licensing Scheme

Sounds like a KS3 ICT assignment if you ask me! "Produce a system to randomly generate fictional user records with the following columns in a spreadsheet..."

1Gbps should be plenty. With decent compression you should be looking at no more than about 5Mbps per channel, and if it's sent over the network using multicast you should never be using more than 5Mbps per channel regardless of the number of viewers. We have 58 TV and radio channels broadcast on our network (including 4x 1080p HD channels), and even if all of them were being viewed simultaneously on a single network segment, it would still only use about 90Mbps.

Profile corruption can be caused by a lot of things, but the only time I've seen it on a large scale it was due to a particular version of Symantec Antivirus locking the registry hive during logoff and preventing it from being copied back to the server properly. That affected all accounts though, not just pupils. It took a lot of hours with ProcMon and strong drinks to figure it out.

If you've identified the differences (e.g. the login script), try removing the login script temporarily and see if the problem goes away. If that doesn't solve it, try disabling your GPOs one at a time to see if one of those is to blame.

Good to know they saw the error of their ways!

Anyone using AB Tutor seen this message before or know how to get rid of it? AB support are ignoring me and I was wondering if it was something simple before I ring them up and shout at them for bad spelling. "A product type change has occurred, you must restart AB Tutor for these changes to take affect." Pops up shortly after launching the program. Started after we upgraded to version 6.6.2 and continues up to the latest version. Never saw it on 6.5.2.

Google Groups for Business. Included with Google Apps for Education, may well meet your needs.

I'll try and chip in with more later, but I just want to say you've exactly described my dream job right now. If you'd like someone to do it all for you and run it once it's done, I'm available.

It's under SMART Hardware Settings on the second screen.

You still need to set the option for it, this tickbox just enables the 80 Point option that is usually hidden. The option is in the normal Control Panel settings under Orientation/Alignment settings. Should be right underneath the 20 point option.

Open C:\Program Files\SMART Technologies\SMART Product Drivers\SBDiagnostics.exe Find this option and tick it: You should then be able to select 80-point alignment in the normal options.

If you do this, make sure the policy object cannot be read by users, or it may create the potential for someone to discover your Administrator password as per this post: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/security/88997-exploiting-group-policy-preferences.html Recommend you create a separate Group Policy Object with the security filtering set to Domain Computers only (not Authenticated Users, which is the default).

On the more obscure side of the featureset, VLC 2.0 also has partial support for DVB-T2 EPG data (in previous versions the data was completely garbled, now decodes some of it and omits the rest).

I don't want to go into specifics, but it exposes parts of staff personnel records to every other member of staff, which in my opinion is something a member of staff could rightly complain about.

#1 most important aspect? Data Protection Act compliance. In our current MIS I have had to disable one module because using it would put us at risk of a Data Protection complaint. Luckily it's not a critical module, but the company have shown little interest in fixing it. They have literally told me they don't see it as a big problem.

Something like Small Basic is dead easy to deploy, at least in a vanilla environment, as it has a single MSI and doesn't need admin rights to run either the IDE or the compiled output. Sadly it is not well regarded by some programming teachers as it doesn't have things like strongly typed variables. If you don't have a stick up your butt it works well for introducing programming at KS2/3. In the past I have deployed Visual Basic Express 2007 using App-V and that worked very well. Doing the same with any of the Visual Studio 2010 Express products is significantly more complicated, but Microsoft published some steps here last August. I haven't tried it yet myself. A lot of the problems I see teachers discussing is where there is a network policy of not allowing 'untrusted' .exe files to run from network shares (i.e. students My Documents folders), which scuppers the running of compiled output. Personally I think this is an unnecessary restriction, and in my experience is used as a sticking plaster for poor workstation security, but I'd be interested in hearing if others think there is a place for it.