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It will snow Thursday/Friday in Birmingham according to the BBC

How about a spiders web?

*Looks down* This isn't good

Yeah, I actually work in Walsall which is closer still If it does snow I only live 4 miles away so I should make it home ok

It's on the brink of snowing, I can feel it

Yeah, here in the Midlands, in the last 2 hours the temperature has dropped dramatically - It's bitterly cold now and the cars are starting to get frosty I sense snow is coming

lol, posted an alternate link if imageshack is blocked

Oops, fixed

lol... If you plan on logging onto a random video chat room, you will run into people like this guy. http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7717/64445chatroulettefurry.jpg alternate link - http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b0efdfe135.jpg alternate link 2 - http://i46.tinypic.com/154umma.jpg

Looks fun although after my trip to orlando in the summer and getting to test this coaster - Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit | Florida's Most Technologically Advanced Coaster I'm not sure alton towers will be fun for me anymore

This tool is great and so easy to use. I have ordered a "Net top" for home use and they don't have an optical drive so this has been a god send. Thanks for the link as I'm sure it will be useful to others

Hi, thanks for the script. I tried this but the website I'm using it on has a java menu and every time you put your mouse on the menu it causes the snow to freeze (no pun intended ) and then it doesn’t continue to snow unless you refresh the page. Is there any way to get around this? It happens on all browsers Thanks

Hi, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to help me. Basically I am using the following script to create a snow effect: <br /> /*<br /> Snow Effect Script<br /> Created and submitted by Altan d.o.o. ([email protected], http://www.altan.hr/snow/index.html)<br /> Permission granted to Dynamicdrive.com to feature script in archive<br /> For full source code and installation instructions to this script, visit http://dynamicdrive.com<br /> */<br /> <br /> <br /> //Configure below to change URL path to the snow image<br /> var snowsrc="https://vle.queenmaryshigh.walsall.sch.uk/user/74/118004.png"<br /> // Configure below to change number of snow to render<br /> var no = 5;<br /> <br /> var ns4up = (document.layers) ? 1 : 0; // browser sniffer<br /> var ie4up = (document.all) ? 1 : 0;<br /> <br /> var dx, xp, yp; // coordinate and position variables<br /> var am, stx, sty; // amplitude and step variables<br /> var i, doc_width = 800, doc_height = 600;<br /> <br /> if (ns4up) {<br /> doc_width = self.innerWidth;<br /> doc_height = self.innerHeight;<br /> } else if (ie4up) {<br /> doc_width = document.body.clientWidth;<br /> doc_height = document.body.clientHeight;<br /> }<br /> <br /> dx = new Array();<br /> xp = new Array();<br /> yp = new Array();<br /> am = new Array();<br /> stx = new Array();<br /> sty = new Array();<br /> <br /> for (i = 0; i < no; ++ i) { <br /> dx[i] = 0; // set coordinate variables<br /> xp[i] = Math.random()*(doc_width-50); // set position variables<br /> yp[i] = Math.random()*doc_height;<br /> am[i] = Math.random()*20; // set amplitude variables<br /> stx[i] = 0.02 + Math.random()/10; // set step variables<br /> sty[i] = 0.7 + Math.random(); // set step variables<br /> if (ns4up) { // set layers<br /> if (i == 0) {<br /> document.write("<layer name=\"dot"+ i +"\" left=\"15\" top=\"15\" visibility=\"show\"><a href=\"http://dynamicdrive.com/\"><img src='"+snowsrc+"' border=\"0\">");<br /> } else {<br /> document.write("<layer name=\"dot"+ i +"\" left=\"15\" top=\"15\" visibility=\"show\"><img src='"+snowsrc+"' border=\"0\">");<br /> }<br /> } else if (ie4up) {<br /> if (i == 0) {<br /> document.write("<div id=\"dot"+ i +"\" style=\"POSITION: absolute; Z-INDEX: "+ i +"; VISIBILITY: visible; TOP: 15px; LEFT: 15px;\"><a href=\"http://dynamicdrive.com\"><img src='"+snowsrc+"' border=\"0\">"); } else { document.write(""+snowsrc+""); } } } function snowNS() { // Netscape main animation function for (i = 0; i < no; ++ i) { // iterate for every dot yp[i] += sty[i]; if (yp[i] > doc_height-50) { xp[i] = Math.random()*(doc_width-am[i]-30); yp[i] = 0; stx[i] = 0.02 + Math.random()/10; sty[i] = 0.7 + Math.random(); doc_width = self.innerWidth; doc_height = self.innerHeight; } dx[i] += stx[i]; document.layers["dot"+i].top = yp[i]; document.layers["dot"+i].left = xp[i] + am[i]*Math.sin(dx[i]); } setTimeout("snowNS()", 10); } function snowIE() { // IE main animation function for (i = 0; i < no; ++ i) { // iterate for every dot yp[i] += sty[i]; if (yp[i] > doc_height-50) { xp[i] = Math.random()*(doc_width-am[i]-30); yp[i] = 0; stx[i] = 0.02 + Math.random()/10; sty[i] = 0.7 + Math.random(); doc_width = document.body.clientWidth; doc_height = document.body.clientHeight; } dx[i] += stx[i]; document.all["dot"+i].style.pixelTop = yp[i]; document.all["dot"+i].style.pixelLeft = xp[i] + am[i]*Math.sin(dx[i]); } setTimeout("snowIE()", 10); } if (ns4up) { snowNS(); } else if (ie4up) { snowIE(); } The problem is it only works properly in IE7, is it possible to change it to work with IE8, FireFox and Google Chrome? Thanks to anyone who helps Lee

Frog comes with two standard 1TB 3.5" SATA hard drives. One of these backs itself up onto the other one so there is some form of backing up. However we are not satisfied enough with this so we have ordered 5 external hard drives as this is the cheapest option and should do the job nicely. When you say "taking data off site is a big no no these days" could you elaborate because (as a another user pointed out) I have yet to find a good enough reason not to take data off site. Also, our School is made up of old Victorian buildings which are extremely close to each other so storing the tapes the other side of School is not an option for us because if there was, say, a fire it would spread everywhere. Lee

I'm with you. Also I have a better chance of winning the lottery tonight before "my house gets broken into and the data stolen and then the school burnt down"

My School has a policy where it is acceptable to take backup tapes off site. I'd get into more trouble for not having the tapes off site than them being stolen, we always have a backup off site. I'm quite shocked that you don't have any backups off site really.

The data space is expanding so we could use tapes for now but eventually it will get larger than a tape can handle so it's easier to find a permanent solution now. Why shouldn't we be taking data off site? What happens if the School was to burn down (touch wood) the backups would go with it...?

That would mean buying 5 external HDDs (one for each day) which would be expensive and hard to get home.

Hi all, We have recently moved to frog and are looking for a way to back up our servers. Currently frog backs it's self up to another HDD in the server but we want a back-up we can take off site daily. For our other servers we use AIT-3 & 4 tapes and take these home but with frog the HDD is 1TB which is too large for a tape. Has anyone got any ideas we can look into? Thanks a lot. Lee

Yeah, I find this as well it would be a lot easier if it was 2D

I think that Mark Griffiths is cheating too, everytime I get to the top he gets about 80 points higher 5 minuter later, he is just keeping the score low so RM doesn't notice

Phew! just got to the top with 2046 points After I got 1500 it was pure luck I got so far

Hi, We are getting a bank of 16 identical laptops for our School. The idea is that we set one up the way we want it, then image the laptop to a DVD and clone it on to the other 15 laptops. I am looking for some software that does something similar to Noton Ghost which is cheap, preferably free that can restore an image from a bootable DVD if one of the laptops fail. Thanks, Lee

Hi, We have had Scientifica 9 installed on our workstations for around 2 years now without any problems. (We use RM CC3) Since last week everytime the students go onto internet explorer 6, a Scientifica install progress bar appears which sometimes installs and sometimes fails. The problem is that when you press the back or forward buttons in internet explorer the progress bar apprears every time, making the internet unuseable. It's Scientifica 9 by Nelson Thornes - Scientifica from Nelson Thornes Does anyone know of a solution to this issue ? Thank you, - Lee O'Connor

We ordered this one - Toshiba DVR18DTKTB Still hasn't come yet