kingswood

lol! :twisted:

Congratulations! I remember holding my second daughter- also weighing in at over 8lbs- and feeling that joy and happiness you get as a Dad. There's nothing like it. Apart maybe from re-installing Windows for umpteenth time in a month...nah...just kidding ;-) Enjoy! Paul

DLINk. Oh boy. Set up a wireless DLINK AP for one admin machine..seemed to work OK. Won't connect to network until *after* login. Too late the hero. Tried everything with this little gizmo (and I didn't choose it) so would love to buy something a lot more robust and powerful.. *sigh* Who cares. It's the weekend. Me. EndRant

Shane *needs* insurance for his electronic goods Ric. Trust me. I actually insured my little Dell Axim PDA when I got it but have never needed it and let the insurance lapse. When I got my iBook from PC World the guy who sold us it also *sold* me on the £9 a month repair/insurance cover which seemed a good idea at the time...except the iBook is one sturdy customer and even with our kids dropping it and mangling it hasn't given up or got a yucky shade of white. So I agree with Ric- have a good think about insurance. You may just spend more on insuring the thing than any claim you would make for a repair. And with Apple giving a one year warranty for hardware issues you are covered anyway. We won't steal it from ya. Even though the school will be making a contribution we promise never to claim on that part of the laptop....hehehehehe....

One and One are good Tony- I have used them in the past. Might be worth looking into their higher rate packages though. Paul

I will be sending mine here: http://www.digital-links.org/ About £3 per monitor from what I have been told, and a great cause too. Paul

Sony are taking orders for their Intel Duo Core laptops- around £1200 (ex VAT) each though! Wouldn't a decent 1.6-2.xGHz Pentium M give you some fair life and with Vista compatibility? If so, I agree that Dell offer some fairly fast and decent priced machines. Paul

Winternals. http://www.winternals.com/ Tis what I said :-)

Try it out and see for yourself. Or do a search on Google. Or even read a site like Paul Thurrots Windows' Super Site and get the lowdown there. Vista has some cool new features.

Yeah- I tried DameWare out a while ago when you first mentioned it. I didn't think it was anything special really- sorry. I still prefer the one I mentioned above.

I prefer Winternals stuff. :-)

Be thankful you didn't win: it's DLINK. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! I just spent this morning working on some D-Link ap 900+ base stations. Not an entirely painless task.

MONAD does look good. I have been using the beta for some time and it's quite easy to pick up and seems a lot more functional than anything else MS have offered in the past.

Yeah- I think we knock the old .BAT files too quickly. There's nothing quite like knocking up a BAT file to map some drives. Oh- and to assign printers- to name two. Those old DOS commands seem really familiar. Whereas with vbs I get put off learning it because of all the bad press bad VB programming gets. Everyone and their dog can do it (they say). Yuck. Paul

Congratulations! My sister lost a baby (premature, didn't survive long) two years ago and is now expecting another--going really well. Great news for you both. Enjoy :-) Paul

You ordered an iMac. They sent you the paperwork. You changed the order. They said they would re-send the paperwork to reflect your new order. You got the paper-work- but for your original (it was probably sent before you changed the order). It's only Tuesday. After changing the order, I don't think it's been that long. What- three working days max? How many people do you think order via MBNA on any given week (and not just from Apple)? Breath deeply and be patient :-)

That's what I meant.

It takes a little longer than a few days to set up a credit agreement like the one you have- especially when you have changed the order amount, product, and delivery address. Try calling Apple again and see what they say. Patience.

On another note: you can use: Repartition= Yes In your [unattended] section. This will tell the process to manually run the GUI phase of install. If you leave this at "No" it will detect a previous version of Windows and stop, asking you if you want to delete etc etc. If you want setup to skip mini-setup, then enter this in the same section: UnattendedSwitch= Yes Paul

"MSDOSInitiated=0" tells the unattended setup routine that the installation process is set to run from CD. If you set this to "1" you will find that your process will stop working around the time that the GUI phase starts during setup of XP. HTH Paul

We run a split site school (since September last year), and though it has been challenging I think the job has been well done. When we took over the new school we inherited a network infrastructure that was totally different to our own, so had the added "bonus" of having to upgrade all the switches and links that mattered. Between sites we had fibre links put in by county with core switches at each end. It costs money, but the speed is fantastic with lots of spare capacity too for future needs. As far as logging on is concerned, if you can re-install the new site's server to be a member of the same domain and make it a DC- that way you will be able to logon on either site (replication is great- make sure your link is pretty fast though if you use roaming profiles or redirected folders of any kind). What we did was to take the years 7,8,9 and have them situated on one site: the server on that site stores their user areas and accounts (that way redirected folders don't have to traverse the link in any case). Logons are then also local. We implemented DFS so that applications and other important files and folders on the upper site could be seen by the server and users on the lower site. Staff can log on at either end and see their work. Years 10,11,12 etc have accounts on the 2000 Server at the upper site and so all their heavy traffic is also handled locally. Makes for a quicker experience all over really. Admin networks are piped through the core switches and then out onto the internet using a NAT box. And internet access for curriculum is sent through the high speed core switches on lower site all the way through to the router on the upper site at 1GBps. We haven't noticed any loss in speed at all. It just works. This might not fit your situation- the distance is quite large. In that case I think a VPN might help- but that will depend on your infrastructure and the speed of your internet access etc. Speak to someone at county and ask them to come in and help you plan this one. If you need any advice or ideas call us and we will be very happy to talk to you. Good luck! Paul

(Staying ON topic): I'm still enjoying Ubuntu a lot, and want to also use Fedora so that I can learn some RedHat network management skills...I'm also waiting for the next release of Ubuntu which looks like it will house a lot of new features. Still haven't had time to look at little Linux projects on the school network- started my HND, attending a 2003 server course soon...still married...still a dad...still training my technician and taking flak from staff... ;-) Paul

How true! Well said sir. Paul

Shut. Up. Already. Buy a Sony Vaio! :-)

Why would you want one? Turn the iBook on. Answer a few questions. Log in. Easy.