AngryTechnician

After a bit on confirmation of something here... Our Bursary has a telephone line that doesn't go through the school PBX, but it connected directly to the POTS network. They currently use this with a dial-up modem to connect to our Barclays business banking. We also have access to the newer Internet banking system that works through a browser, but for various reasons that I won't go into, they still need the dial-up. I want to co-opt the line to install a backup ADSL connection into the school. I know from my own experience that even when ADSL is installed, you can still make a dial-up connection through the voice part of the line (even if it's a bit slower). However, given the perceived importance of the dial-up, I'm loathe to just blunder ahead without being sure. To that end, I've stuck an ADSL filter on the line already to test the dial-up with the line frequency filtering in place, before ADSL is provisioned. The dial-up has been tested successfully with the filter in place. My question is this: is this a valid test, or is there something I'm forgetting that could cause problems once the line is actually ADSL enabled?

Yesterday Swindon were up in arms after a QI poll branded them the most ignorant town in the country. Never fear - Bromley is now in contention for the title! Next up: Residents oppose papercraft store over fears it could attract arsonists. Residents oppose bank over fears it could attract bank robbers. Residents oppose delicatessen over fears it could attract the French. Residents oppose Pokemon stadium over fears it could attract Team Rocket.

Anyone used one of these? Are they any good? Mantra Lingua RecorderPEN Reception is thinking of buying one and all I know about it is that it was shortlisted for a BETT award last year. Having had my share of 'award winning' gadgets that turn out to be overpriced junk, I thought I'd see if anyone has any experience with it. Any thoughts?

A lot of older equipment incorrectly marks the S-video sockets as S-VHS sockets, so you're almost certainly talking about the same thing.

Tne problem I have with this is that value for money isn't a big factor in making the list. There are one or two names on there that I have stopped using as suppliers after finding out I can get the same thing a lot cheaper elsewhere, with the same level of service. Unfortunately schools without procurement expertise tend to use this list (rightly or wrongly) as a bible of 'best' suppliers and are therefore loathe to look elsewhere. Also, as Chuckster has alluded to, they should be at least mentioning Buying Solutions (formerly Catalist) accredited suppliers such as Insight which provide discounts to the entire public sector.

I'd also like to have a peek at the admin side of Live@Edu. I know what all the user-facing stuff is, but the process of how I would administer it is a mystery to me.

A quick fix that shouldn't involve a large amount of redesigning would be to make each link box a floating div instead of a table cell. They would need to be all the same height for uniformity, but while you would need to define a fixed width for each one you could have different widths. They should then overflow onto a new line as needed, and you could insert a new one at any position without having to manually reorganise.

When we had this problem, a reinstall from the original setup.exe fixed it. I have to say, I strongly suspect there is something not quite right with the package.

I've seen this with Office 2007 too; in our case it was down to complications with the original install. How is Office installed on the workstations?

I've always been in favour of a single domain. My feeling is that a split system is really only done in cases where whoever looks after the admin side doesn't trust whoever looks after the curriculum side to deliver a secure network. If the security is set up by somneone with even half a clue, there is NO security problem with having a combined network. The only schools I've worked in that had separate networks were those where the LA looked after the admin network in its entirety. You're looking after both, and you've already identified some serious benefits in your first post: really I wouldn't be thinking "why have a single domain", but "why NOT have a single domain".

The switches don't need an IP address themselves to be able to pass traffic - so if you're not seeing them in DHCP, chances are they are configured with static addresses that may or may not be in the same address space as your main network. Or they don't have IP addresses at all, which is possible. Quickest way to sort it would be to grab a console (serial) cable, stick it in the back of the switch, and fire up a direct console session using Hyperterminal or PuTTY. IIRC from the last time I say a 3Com, they even have the serial port settings to use written on the back next to the COM port.

Maybe he thought someone had spilled water on you and you'd melted leaving only your hat behind?

BBC News have a gallery for the story now... and it WAS an HP printer! BBC News - In pictures: Plane bomb plot Clever disguise when you think about it - putting the electronics in a place where you would naturally expect to find them explains how they got through the X-ray scanners. I wonder if a cartridge full of toner looks the same as explosives on an X-ray?

This made the local news again yesterday: Computer system at Durham Johnston School scrapped (From Durham Times)

I know HP are always warning me about buying 3rd party toners, but this is ridiculous! http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49716000/jpg/_49716695_010523542-1.jpg BBC News: UK cargo plane device was bomb - British Government

I generally pick up the knowledge myself via everyday use and guides online, then I deliver training to our staff when I can. However, with only 4 INSET days a year, getting time for IT training is extremely difficult.

Haven't strictly used SCCM but I do use SCE which nicks bits of it. If the updates work the same way, then once they show up in SCCM then all you should need to do is right click and approve them to a computer group - or decline them if you don't want them. The Browser Choice update is in its own category in WSUS, and won't synchronise unless you've elected to sync that product category in the updates settings.

The picture on that page is quite clearly the Casio LED projector with the Casio logo Photoshopped out.

Software deployment in SCE works by adding packages to the local WSUS catalogue. This means software is deployed via the normal Windows Update client. What it sounds like is that the machines have detected the software, downloaded it ready to install, and are now waiting until their scheduled update time to perform the installation. Check the event logs; there should an event that looks like this: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient Date: 22/10/2010 01:12:56 Event ID: 18 Task Category: Automatic Updates Level: Information Keywords: Success,Download User: SYSTEM Computer: uberstation.angrytech.internal Description: Installation Ready: The following updates are downloaded and ready for installation. This computer is currently scheduled to install these updates on 22 October 2010 at 22:00: - Windows Live Essentials 2011 If you see something like this, everything is working normally. You have two options: Wait until the scheduled update time. Run Windows Update manually on each machine.

I'm pretty sure that the newest version of Movie Maker that is part of Windows Live Essentials 2011 supports this out of the box. For the previous version I used the following registry setting: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker AllowNetworkFiles=DWORD:1 Note that this is per-user, so you will need to add the setting for every user.

It certainly worked for me. My understanding is that private properties can be modified in transforms just fine, it's only when used directly on the command line that they are ignored.

To suppress the EULA, add the following property: AgreeToLicense=Yes

That sounds like the message you get when the email address they sent payment to isn't yet registered with PayPal. Check the email address they sent payment to for typos (including whether you yourself filled it in correctly in the listing information).

I've just remembered that Group Policy Preferences can disable devices on a per-user basis (see below for an example). I've not actually tried it per-user so you might have to experiment a bit and see if it re-enables properly for other users, but it would seem like an ideal solution.

Has anyone else spotted that the site scrolls horizontally if viewed with a resolution that is only 1024px wide? You know, the sot of resolution an awful lot of home users still run at? Loving external websites in frames on some of the other pages too.