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There's also the irony of the client being called "Administrator". Maybe they paid so much for some consultant to come up wth the silly names that they couldn't afford to employ decent programmers. Assuming that is the correct advice in the first place. There's also the issue of even if you do optimise for one specific app you may get something which is sub optimal for everything else.
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These are the same programmers who think that having write access to the place where the executable are stored is a good idea. With that mentality it's probably not too much of a suprise version numbers confuse them. It's actually more of a suprise that they made it up to V9 as opposed to thinking V2 was V0, V3 was V1, V4 was V0, and so on
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If they'd done something sensible like looking in HKCU\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and used something under "My Documents", "AppData", "Local Settings", "Local AppData", etc even $TMP and $TEMP then this sort of hack probably wouldn't be needed in the first place.
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Such software often appearts to be badly written and badly documented. It might well also help if they designed the software with the assumption of being run from a network share, with minimal requirements on the client machine.
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It's generally easier to bluff people who don't know anything about the issues involved. Also who don't even know the right questions to ask.
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No doubt they'll be taking steps to prevent you from doing so in future. Including making sure that you either don't know the time and venue or deliberatly picking times where you are elsewhere.
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Offsite access to school's MIS for staff - reimbuse costs?
mpe replied to cheredenine's topic in General Chat
Considering what some teachers get up to with their school issued laptops this already appears to happen quite often anyway. -
Offsite access to school's MIS for staff - reimbuse costs?
mpe replied to cheredenine's topic in General Chat
Would they try to claim for carpets, chairs, tables, light bulbs as well as utility bills if they did their marking at home? -
This is the sort of thing which tends to make me think "What were they thinking?" Given that IMHO such a setup is so obvious that there shouldn't be any need to "hack" anything.
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It's apparent default behaviour is to attempt a TCP connection to port 80. Which is going to fail in the vast majority of cases. Apparently it looks for proxy information in HKLM\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies\SMART Board Software\ProxyInformation. Which the app itself cannot manipulate (Possibly they never though to use the settings controlled by the "Internet Options" control panel.) I've tried twice to get an explanation from SMART as to exactly what registry keys are required to get their program to use a proxy. The second time they managed to completly miss the point that the problem is specific to their app.
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If you are lucky. If you are unlucky they'll print the same thing several times, because it "didn't work" the first time.
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If they were in India they may not understand what the terms "power cut" and "mobile" mean. Even though any native Brit would know exactly what you were talking about. Maybe you'd need to use Americanizms like "power outage" and "cell phone". Maybe they'll eventually realise that they need to fix the UPS in the relevent cabinet.
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Even if you were to get such headphones the weak point is likely to be the cable.
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The only way they chould have not broken the law would have been to have prior approval from all of the computer owners. Even with this their spamming and dDOS activities could well be questionable if they affected any third parties. e.g. if an ISP was hosting the email accounts they used. Presumably everyone involved with also be defending Gary McKinnon (and demanding that he be paid compensation for his ordeal).
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My feelings on this are a) If an employee has a bonus proportionate to the profits of a company they should have their pay docked if that company makes a loss. b) Prison was good enough for Nick Leeson. c) Asset forfeiture should have been used before "bailouts" using either the public's money or Lloyds TSB in the case of HBoS. d) About the only knight who appears to actually have any banking qualifications works in the entertainments industry.
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The 17PPM shouldn't be too much trouble. Something like a 4200 TN would be capable of holding the paper. Though you might want something like a 4200 with two additional paper trays, which takes the capacity up to 1,500 sheets (3 reams).
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This is the response I (eventually) got from them. Which dosn't exactly correspond to what other people, specifically GrumbleDook, have been saying on this thread.
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Their filtered proxy has had intermittent issues for years. Also since the unfiltered proxy has been "removed" they have been changing quite a few things behind the scenes.
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Probably you'd also to check out the becta advice on securing data and anything the Information Commisioner's might have put out on the subject.
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The simple answer is no. In the same way that the server cannot assume that its output will be rendered in any specific way nor can it trust anything a browser tells it. About the only thing you could do is try to have the server ask for a password in a way which browser won't recognise.
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But did each bag come covered with a huge barcode lable and instructions on how to fit a screw?
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Well it could be a BIOS password, a HDD password, even a boot manager password.
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Even if it did you'd probably only want it to turn on mondays to fridays
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It depends on the keyboard, I've seen these on PS/2 keyboards. One possible problem with USB is that some boards completly power down their USB ports when in standby. Depends what OS you are using...
