AngryTechnician

OK, so something that passed me by until now (partly because I've been focusing on the timeline preview) is the new class of Apps that will be launching alongside it. Spotify is the one that everyone is talking about, but there will be others too. These new apps work a lot like the old ones, but with an important difference - once authorised, they share your activity to the ticker and timeline without any further prompting. This won't just be apps you use on Facebook, or things like Spotofy where you sign in with your Facebook account, but also regular websites (The Guardian and digg are among the sites that will have this at launch). So everything you read on the Guardian goes straight to the ticker. Now of course this will only start happening if you authorise it to, but you only have to do that once ever. I have a feeling we'll be seeing some interesting incidents cropping up soon of people forgetting that they did it, then stuff showing up in the ticker 2 months later that they didn't really want to share ("oh, so you're looking at an articles on the about CV writing, Bob? Looking to move on soon?". Techcrunch also points out that the explanation of exactly what you're authorising is literally small print: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/wporeader.png?w=640 I think we all know how many people will just hit that blue button without really reading the message.

No, just the single photo you select as the cover image for your Timeline. I don't use Spotify so can't comment on what the default visibility is for those.

I've not worked with SIMS FMS for a few years now, but when I did (in 2008) it was awful. Their support mechanisms also seem to be utterly brain-dead: I remember losing 15 hours of my life running their migration tool for going from Paradox to MS-SQL and the entire thing was written with no exception handling, so when it bombed out we lost 2.5hrs progress of data migration and got no error message to tell us why. This happened 3 times, to the befuddlement of the Capita support desk, before I nailed the SQL trace and found there was a public key violation in the original data, because the db schemas differed and that wasn't accounted for in the migration tool. Genius. As far as I am aware, SIMS also does not give you any ODBC access to the backend for running your own reports against it (please correct me if this has changed). I would seriously miss this feature if I didn't have it. WCBS PASS is what we have in my current school. PASS isn't too bad, though it has some... interesting... security issues. Their web version (3Sys) is not so great, because it is largely unfinished and poorly tested. As a result I spend far too much time troubleshooting issues with it than I would like. I know just last week there was a thread about a school migrating from PASS to iSAMS so it might be worth asking them what their reasons were.

I've noticed a few bugs get fixed over the weekend, but the birthdate issue isn't one of them. I've submitted a bug report to them this morning with a complete walkthrough video to reproduce, so hopefully it should get some attention.

Last week at their f8 conference, Facebook announced that your Facebook profile will soon be replaced with the new Facebook Timeline. Now, I know everyone loves to hate Facebook but having enabled early access to it via the Developer program, I have to say I quite like it. And if I like it, so will the kids. It's scheduled to go live to the public from 29th September. So, as well as us all having to modify our Facebook guides/slide decks with new screenshots AGAIN, I've been having a look over the changes that come with Timeline from an e-Safety perspective. My thoughts so far: In general, the new Timeline is designed to encourage users to add more information about their lives than before, including details about past events (you can now post photos and set a date in the past for when they appear, for example). It will launch alongside new apps to surface your activities on other sites (e.g. your listening history on Spotify). These existed before but there will be an increasing number of them. Anyone who has done the TUK training will be well aware of how powerful something like the knowledge of what music a teenager is into for someone trying to befriend them. Cover images (past and present) are set to Public visibility, and cannot be changed to any other setting by design. Places checkins are now collated into a single, easy-to-see-your-movement-patterns map. While there's no new data exposed, it wasn't as easy to see the whole picture before. Ditto for events you've attended that have public visibility. Your date of birth now appears as the first event on your timeline. It is set to Public access (seemingly ignoring the setting in the existing privacy setting), and cannot be restricted. This seems like an oversight to me but that's the way it is at the moment. Hopefully it will change before the public launch. Where I've mentioned what is available publicly, this was evaluated by me using the 'View as Public' function provided by Facebook. I can only assume that this does in fact give a correct representation even though it is a simulated view. More later as I find it...

One (hopefully final) update on the original issue: since rebuilding the server a second time, this time back onto Server 2008 R2 RTM instead of SP1, the server has so far been up uninterrupted for 4 days, which is significantly longer than it ever lasted when it was doing exactly the same backup tasks on SP1. I don't know what it is about my setup that causes it to choke on SP1, and at this point I no longer care. I'm going to hold off trying SP1 again until DPM 2012 arrives.

Agreed, I don't really think the kids need something different either. Perhaps when the staff see the difference in image quality and realise the pictures will look terrible compared to the Canon's when printed out for display, they'll realise the error of their ways. Until then, it's their money, and the Tuffcams seem to be the crowd favourite, so I'll pass that on to the Nursery and see if they're happy. Thanks all!

Haven't been able to find these, do you have a link?

We have a few digital cameras already, mostly Canon Powershot A495 (or similar) as they are cheap, cheerful, and can take a bit of abuse. We've used these all the way down to Reception-age kids without any issues, but the Nursery are insisting they want something more child-like. Anyone have a recommendation for something that might satisfy them that isn't a pile of old mackerel?

In my view these sorts of tools are best implemented for use with younger children who usually (though not always) lack the cunning you describe above. By the time they're old enough to figure the above out they probably have less restrictive access at school anyway. The best parental control is always supervision, but these are a good second line of defence. Thanks for the guide DB, I've honestly never tried these tools out myself so hadn't seen some of the screens you posted. Hope you don't mind if I pinch some for my next e-safety presentation?

PASS is fairly easy to get data out of as the database structure isn't terribly complicated (though a bit messy), but I suspect there will be a lot of schema differences between the two. I would have thought you would need to liaise with someone at iSAMs, is there a reason they are not handling the migration for you?

Normally the home drive should be mapped without that batch file - for us, just setting it in AD has always been enough, both on XP and 7. Does H: map at all in 7 (i.e. does the drive appear but is broken), or is it absent entirely?

I've actually just made the first of our 'DIY' visualisers using a Logitech C910 cable-tied to an LED poise-style desk lamp. Very easy to position and the image we get from the Logitech is absolutely superb: at least equal to the AverVision CP155 we have, if not better, and the autofocus on the Logitech is quite impressive, even down to less than 10 cm from the thing you're looking at. Software-wise we just open the camera source using VLC and go into fullscreen. Doesn't do everything that the CP155 does, but for our lower school classrooms where they all have a desktop connected to the projector, it works brilliantly (far better than I expected, actually). I might do a set of instructions for making one if anyone is interested?

I found the simplest way to do this for OWA was to edit the default page in the root to put in a META refresh tag. Another option would be to use the URL Rewrite module if you are using IIS7. My first approach was to set up a different HTTP-only website and remove the HTTP binding from the site with OWA on it, but that caused problems with things that expected to find a few things only using HTTP (can't quite remember what now though, might have been something to do with autodiscover?).

I am currently using the Universal Print Driver v5.3 on my one of these, and it does work. I use the PCL 5 version; the others I had problems with. You will need to manually set the following options on the server as the auto-detect doesn't pick them up right: Hard disk: Not Installed Mopier mode: Disabled Job storage: Disabled If you leave these at their default or rely on auto-detect, you will have problems with multiple copies (unless your one actually does have the hard disk option in it). You may also want to use this slightly ugly but working hack to prevent the driver install taking sodding ages when the clients connect to the printer.

Not for me. It had 'Hide all by Game X' but not the option to hide ANY game post from a particular person. That bit has only appeared for me in the last week or so.

IIS 6.0 has a basic SMTP server, costs you nothing if you already have Windows Server 2003 or later.

No, not the Delete account button. I'm talking about the new options you get when you click the X next to a post in the News Feed: http://angrytechnician.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/facebook.png Personally I am looking forward to seeing a clean News Feed without having to completely hide the various stay-at-home-mums I know who seem to play 30 different Facebook games all day between nappy changes.

Just wondering whether you got any further with this eejit? I'm going ahead today with my rebuild onto Server 2008 R2 RTM and am wondering whether I'm still going to be on to a loser.

Working fine on 6.6.2 with Windows 7 here. Do you get an error message or simply nothing happens...?

I uses an internal WSUS server so can't check my 2003 server, but I would suggest having a look in %WinDir%\WindowsUpdate.log to see if there's any more details about what's failing.

My sentiments were the same, but sometimes needs must!

I had a similar problem recently and I couldn't find a way to do it either. I ended up importing the data into Access and building a report instead, which does allow you to group on particular fields and have a page break between them.

Doesn't delprof2 have the ability to run against a remote system built in?

I believe these are the frequencies you need (from the listing in dvb-apps package): T 690000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE T 746167000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 2k 1/32 NONE T 778167000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 2k 1/32 NONE T 802167000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE T 826167000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE T 729833000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM16 2k 1/32 NONE