AngryTechnician

My intense hatred of VGA splitters means that I've been slowly replacing all our desktop machines that are hooked up to projectors with ones that have a second monitor output for the projector, like most laptops have. When you're buying a new machine anyway it doesn't add too much to the price, and it's been well received by teachers as they can switch between duplicate and extended desktop for when they want something up on the board for the kids to crack on with but have their reports open on the main screen. If you're not up for replacing the machine you could always crack the case and stick something like this in it.

I got it working (just) by visualising it using App-V, though we have since started phasing it out anyway. You might also try Cameyo if you don't have App-V. Several attempts using other methods were a dismal failure.

VAG = Volkswagen Group, from the abbreviation of the parent company name Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft.

You guys are the reason there will be manual checking of these registrations! P.S. Have started saving for .bofh

The biggest problem MS face is not being able to dictate the hardware in the same way Apple can, and Windows tablets will be no exception. Half the reason Windows gets a bad rep is because some manufacturers insist on loading it onto sub-standard hardware with 3rd-rate drivers. Vista was the biggest victim of this: almost all of the problems I have ever seen with Vista installs were down to a) too little RAM, or b) half-baked drivers. When Microsoft tried to certify particular hardware as "Vista ready", all that happened is Intel whinged so much that their tinpot graphics chipsets were excluded, that Microsoft caved and crippled the requirements. The result? Customer lawsuit, and a lot of bad rep. Then when hardware isn't the problem, it's interference with the software by vendors. Back in the day, Creative Labs almost singe-handedly scuppered Windows Media as a serious competitor to the iPod by insisting on building their own terrible software for use with their audio players, instead of just using Windows Media Player. This was at a time when Creative had superior hardware to the iPod, something they could only dream of now. And how many of us are sick with the amount of bloat and c**pware loaded onto almost any Windows machine even today? We all know to just reformat and start fresh, but your average consumer doesn't have that option, and their experience suffers as a result. Microsoft don't stand a chance of "cleaning up" unless they seriously reign in the idiot vendors who think they know better, and they face an uphill struggle to do it. Good luck to them, I say. They'll need it.

For the new caddy to have USB 3 support it's almost certainly an entirely different SATA to USB chipset from the old caddy, so frankly all bets are off regardless of how good the old one is. No caddy manufacturers make their own chipsets, so the new chipset might not even be from the same company as the old one. I would be pointing fingers at the caddy before even thinking about anything else being the issue.

Would be cool to see an animation on that of the continents shifting over the millennia.

According to CFNetwork Error Codes Reference, kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork 303 corresponds to: Not sure I agree with the diagnosis if it only happens with Safari, but Apple aren't exactly going to accept blame for an error, are they? Edit: It seems that has been mentioned before on here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/home-access-plus/59485-home-access-plus-39.html

An opinion I share. Some food for thought on this: Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada | The Economist

"I'm Being Managed" was my favourite. When I was there I once had 3 different managers in the space of a year.

If the schools are in different DNS zones you should be able to have 1 per DNS zone, I would have thought?

We are. I use Google Apps Directory Sync but there are technical and security considerations if you want to sync passwords. You have to install a bit of software on your DCs to capture password changes, and then get everyone to change* their password so that GADS can pick it up the first time. Plus if you are worried about people brute-forcing passwords, you'll also need to implement a workaround to hide the captured password. It's not exactly point and click, but it's still easier to set up than Live@edu password sync. Any other questions, fire away. * They can 'change' it to the same password they already have, so long as your domain permits password reuse.

Tried updating the network card driver? I've found the the in-box drivers don't always work well with all variations of chipsets.

That's the one I tried a couple of years ago. It's rubbish and their "Money Back Guarantee" is a scam.

That setting only applies to all users on Server 2003. On 2008 it was changed to a per-user setting. However, there is a per-user Group Policy setting to control it: User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer, Maximum allowed Recycle Bin size

Thanks for the responses so far. He is already using a LCD, though it is an older one and due to be replaced in the summer. The classroom does have fluorescent tubes, and I will ask him whether he seems to have more problems with the lights on or off. That said, lights off would make the screen appear brighter which he currently says is one of his chief concerns. As an independent school we only get limited help from the LA, especially when its staff-related rather than pupil, but I will chat to the Bursar about getting someone from occupational health. Part of the reason very little has been done so far is that although manglement are aware he has epilepsy, there's been no written diagnosis submitted to the school and I don't think they are aware yet that he has specific issues with computer use. Both of those will change very soon as he was already planning to notify the school formally, and I've encouraged him to do so ASAP.

One of our teachers recently let me know that he has problems using his class computer for long periods due to epilepsy. From my brief chat with him the problem is a combination of screen brightness and general 'busyness' of the detail on the screen. We've already turned the monitor brightness down as far as possible, but it could do with being dimmer still. Unfortunately, neither of us have much experience dealing with this, so I'm after some advice. Does anyone have recommendations for hardware or software solutions that can reduce the seizure risk of a computer user who suffers from epilepsy?

The latest version I've just downloaded from PiL is 1.01.2008, and the transform posted earlier works with that on my system. What version do you have, and what error are you getting?

Yeah, and then right underneath that it says: Misleading a little?

I think these guys called me today, wanted to send me a free MP3 player as "thanks for assisting with a survey" to my home address. I only took the call from reception as I was bored and felt like telling someone to bugger off myself for a change, so I wasn't really paying attention to the name of the company, was definitely a three letter name though. Not that pushy though, in fact they hung up almost immediately when I replied that I wasn't interested.

Yes, those are very handy, they work with LUP too in fact. Though the Dell one is a bit hit or miss, I've had many a driver update package fail to install on large numbers of machines. Never broken anything, just simply not installed.

There are indeed limits to what can be made into a an MSI, but if you're planning to use SCCM, that's not necessarily a limitation, because SCCM can deploy .exe installers too. SCCM is a bit of a PITA to set up, as you've already discovered, but I'm told that once you get it right it's very good. An alternative - the one I'm using, in fact - is to use Local Update Publisher to add your own updates to WSUS, which is both free and not very hard to set up at all. That only covers updates/application installs though, not image deployment, but I thought I'd mention it as I've had a lot of success with it.

Interesting, though sadly not that surprising. Has there been any media coverage of this, it's the first I've heard of it?

The installer uses an advertised shortcut for no good reason, which requires Windows Installer to execute the first time a user runs the program. It sounds like you might have Windows Installer heavily locked down for users which would prevent this from working. As I said, there's no good reason for this, since the alternate language installations use non-advertised shortcuts that point straight to the .exe. Attached is a transform that does the same for the English language installs, and should fix your problem without you having to create the shortcut yourself. Fix Shortcuts for All Users.zip

Personally I'm not convinced the enforcement of this will come to much. Given the still rather 'slap on the wrist' nature of most DP prosecutions, and the almost non-existent prosecutions for DDA non-compliance, why would this be any different?