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CensorNet - The Open Source Internet Protection Solution

If you already have the clients and also have the theory in how you are going to do things then you may be interested in the trial version you can download of OS X Server. This may help to find out whether the mac mini will be enough to support your 6 clients. If it starts to fall over then you know. It all depends on how you are going to utilise the server really. If it is just to lock them down and you auth against the AD and store home dirs on the clients then the mini should be enough. It's only when you go down the route of networked home dirs and AFP shares when you are going to run into problems. AFP loves RAM. The more the better. But with a mac mini A, its hard to install the RAM (but not impossible, i have upgraded 15) and B, can only take up to 2 - 4 GB depending on the intel model. I take it all back. Well the free trial anyhow. Its only available in the US. Stupid small print.

I use papercut. The backend is stored on a OS X Server and a second server install is stored on a 2003 server. This is the best bit about papercut as multiple server installs are allowed as part of the licensing thus allowing you to split your print queues across servers. I would be interested in how you monitor photocopies though

The Public is enough to make anyone "make the switch"

I can just imagine the wonderful selection of desktop themes from the West Brom location

The free way of filtering: Download virtual box for OS X. Download Censornet ISo for filtering. Download manual to help with configuration. Install and configure censornet.

I tend to burn at the speed just below full speed. I usually burn using iTunes or Toast. Don't usually have a problem. I actually burnt a CD Saturday for the car. Not tested yet though

Snow leopard from the looks of it should be a fraction of this if the rest of the OS is like the application sizes bundled with it.

I think that this is due to the dns name. The wiki service on a mac is not the best implemention to set up. It needs to be able to resolve the FQDN of the server. Ideally you would want the server name to be www and in a domain name that you own eg example.com. This allows external sites to find your server and then your server to resolve it's own name and find your user groups. I think that's how it works. Or course I may just be talking twiddle.

GT: mgnicks I've only had it a bit and have Halo 3, CoD Modern Warfare (is it number 4?) and also PGR3 and 4. You can see my 3 year old son playing Lego Batman or Lego Indiana Jones most of the time. I would love to play a few rounds of anything, if i can get him off the god-damn thing

Just out of Interest. How much does it help as a company to have some input into a forum such as this? I mean from our point of view it is just really useful to have companies about that don't jump on the bandwagon and start trying to sell day in day out, but can also send us quotes for any items we may need but also to advise on products to help with a job that we may not know about. Does it benefit you guys a great deal and perhaps a good way to reach your clientele/sector? I just think that maybe more businesses just approach things the same way then maybe less SPAM would be needed. Keep up the good work guys and i may need you soon as well

Call support. They are excellent and helped me sort my box out (same-ish problem) and also helped me optimise a few things and also a quick tutorial on the filtering. Just Brilliant. Definitely a yardstick for other companies.

You usually upload the zipped folder (the one with the XML in) and install. Go into the backend of Joomla and click on the install under one of the menus, can't remember which one and i haven't got access to our site at the moment. find the zipped file and click upload and install. All being well it should install the module/component using the XML file inside.

I posted mine in the other thread you started

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/******************* * Calendar settings *******************/ // Note: Be careful to avoid specify options that displays blocks overlaping // the next day, since it is not properly handled. // This setting controls whether to use "clock" based intervals (FALSE and // the default) or user defined periods (TRUE). If user-defined periods // are used then $resolution, $morningstarts, $eveningends, // $eveningends_minutes and $twentyfourhour_format are ignored. $enable_periods = TRUE; // Resolution - what blocks can be booked, in seconds. // Default is half an hour: 1800 seconds. $resolution = 1800; // Default duration - default length (in seconds) of a booking. // Ignored if $enable_periods is TRUE // Defaults to (60 * 60) seconds, i.e. an hour $default_duration = (60 * 60); // Start and end of day. // NOTE: The time between the beginning of the last and first // slots of the day must be an integral multiple of the resolution, // and obviously >=0. // The default settings below (along with the 30 minute resolution above) // give you 24 half-hourly slots starting at 07:00, with the last slot // being 18:30 -> 19:00 // The beginning of the first slot of the day $morningstarts = 7; // must be integer in range 0-23 $morningstarts_minutes = 0; // must be integer in range 0-59 // The beginning of the last slot of the day $eveningends = 18; // must be integer in range 0-23 $eveningends_minutes = 30; // must be integer in range 0-59 // Example 1. // If resolution=3600 (1 hour), morningstarts = 8 and morningstarts_minutes = 30 // then for the last period to start at say 4:30pm you would need to set eveningends = 16 // and eveningends_minutes = 30 // Example 2. // To get a full 24 hour display with 15-minute steps, set morningstarts=0; eveningends=23; // eveningends_minutes=45; and resolution=900. // Do some checking $start_first_slot = ($morningstarts*60) + $morningstarts_minutes; // minutes $start_last_slot = ($eveningends*60) + $eveningends_minutes; // minutes $start_difference = ($start_last_slot - $start_first_slot) * 60; // seconds if (($start_difference < 0) or ($start_difference%$resolution != 0)) { die('Configuration error: start and end of day incorrectly defined'); } // Define the name or description for your periods in chronological order // For example: // $periods[] = "Period 1" // $periods[] = "Period 2" // ... // or // $periods[] = "09:15 - 09:50" // $periods[] = "09:55 - 10:35" // ... // is used to ensure that the name or description is not wrapped // when the browser determines the column widths to use in day and week // views // // NOTE: MRBS assumes that the descriptions are valid HTML and can be output // directly without any encoding. Please ensure that any special characters // are encoded, eg '&' to '&', '>' to '>', lower case e acute to // 'é' or 'é', etc. // NOTE: The maximum number of periods is 60. Do not define more than this. $periods[] = "Period 1"; $periods[] = "Period 2"; $periods[] = "Period 3"; $periods[] = "Period 4"; $periods[] = "Period 5"; $periods[] = "Period 6"; $periods[] = "After School"; // NOTE: The maximum number of periods is 60. Do not define more than this. // Do some checking if (count($periods) > 60) { die('Configuration error: too many periods defined'); } // Start of week: 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc. $weekstarts = 1; // Trailer date format: 0 to show dates as "Jul 10", 1 for "10 Jul" $dateformat = 1; // Time format in pages. 0 to show dates in 12 hour format, 1 to show them // in 24 hour format $twentyfourhour_format = 0;

it is on the joomla server but for the vle installation. The vle will be installed alongside joomla remotely using ssh among other things

This was a very useful page. Thanks for this.

Sorry i haven't replied to any of these posts but i never got a mail saying there had been replies.

We are looking at switching to OS X fully on the Curriculum side. We are now currently in the process of migrating all software either to dual platform or web-based to support the VLE. What prompted this move was the fact that we are currently dual platform on our imacs and as a result just costs more than it would running either on its own. Then the AV licensing came up for renewal. I spoke to the Boss and suggested that we investigate a possible move. This is a primary school and so what we are considering is to try and keep things similar (mainly for the teachers) is to install software that is cross platform and start to phase out relying on certain software such as IE being swapped for Firefox, Office being swapped for Open Office. Personally i don't see a real reason to run MS Office in a primary School. They aren't going to be using Access, there's no VB coding going on, no use of advanced macros and even if they do decide to start using macros we could wait for the next version of MS Office for mac which is said to support VB. Another couple of years and MS might release a version for Linux Admin staff will be on Windows cuz Capita can't pull the finger out of their butt and make it cross-platform. If sims had a web-based registration facility then we would be in OS X predominantly now anyway. Take a look at Access-it library software for an example of how cross-platform DB apps can work. Great piece of software if you ask me.

I do actually need a new car but as someone has rightly pointed out. If i needed a new car and could afford one i would have bought one by now. My windows don't work after numerous attempts at fixing them, the Heating system doesn't work, keeps blowing cold. But the bit that does matter the engine is still running as smooth as the day i purchased it. It has around 137,000 miles on the clock and still passes MOTs like nothing. So although i would like to update my '96 reg Honda Accord, it's reliability is making me hold on to it (and the fact i have no cash to buy a newer one) It's a 2.0 litre so a bit bad on the environment but i was looking through a paper the other day and a 318 BMW i assume around the 2 litre mark was cheaper than a fiat panda But overall i wouldn't buy a new car so i can't get the scrap deal anyway can i?

Give simplylamps a call. The guy at Bett told me that they would collect any bulbs whether they had supplied them or not. The lady i spoke to also said that they would collect mine. They didn't supply mine either. The wheels are already in motion but i have yet to get them boxed a to arrange collection.

I think that is called RSA. After this you would get challenged for a password after you type 'yes'? The authentication type i am trying to refer to would be DSA. Using DSA you can opt to not use a passphrase and therefore have an unchallenged connection. This is ideal for using remote backup scripts such as rsync. I'm just unsure as to how it can be scaled for example. Can you stick the private key into the authorised list of keys and then distribute the public key to a select few users thus resulting in them being able to connect to the server without a password going over the Internet? Do you know if SSH secures the password before it goes across the web?

Hello, I have been looking at securing SSH for a bit and have looked at ssh keygen and configuring the public and private key pairing. I tried it on my server at home and copied my public key over to the authorised keys list on the server. I then proceeded to connect to the server using my macbook pro. It didn't prompt me for a password so i assume all went OK. What i am failing to understand is how you can leverage this for others to use. I mean i have said to the server this is the private key that you need to use. But i can't email the private key everywhere surely. Have i got this all wrong? I used the bombich / AFP548 tutorials to do this, but i think i may be mis-understanding how it is supposed to work. Thanks in advance.

are they boot camped? If so check the windows partition as it tends to grow for some unknown reason. I know a couple of mine did.