Tony_Mc

I am trying to get my head around this, but I feel it is being made far too complicated.... I will re-read.

I paid about 350 a machine i *think*, I will check the invoices.

are you using stand alone or the sims integrated version?

Some of our rooms have the rules of the IT rooms, laminated in matt finish and stuck down. does the job lovely

Hi Simon Currently we are in the intrim service for BSF, I have bought 90+ hp5800 Product Description HP Compaq Business Desktop dc5800 Processor 1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8GHz 1066MHz Form Factor Small Form Factor Cache Memory 3MB - Level 2 Chipset Intel G33 Express Storage Controller Serial Attached SCSI Hard Drive 250GB - standard - Serial ATA-300 - 7200 rpm Networking Ethernet Fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet RAM 2GB (installed) / 8GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM - 800MHz Graphics Controller Intel GMA 3100 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 4.0 Monitor None Optical Drive DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM LightScribe Technology Card Reader 16 in 1 card reader OS Provided Microsoft Windows Vista Business / XP Professional downgrade Dimensions (WxDxH) 33.7 cm x 37.8 cm x 10.0 cm Weight 8.1 kg Very pleased with them, build them up with bartPE, fast, reliable loads of usbs and also ps2 (old faithful) not sure if that is waht you are after but i really rate the ones we have, none have been DOA either, always a bonus Tony

Excuse my ignorance, but what price range is considered low cost? Tony

hero (the game)

Thanks guys cable on the way over in a cab *virtual pat on the back *

Hi guys I could bore you with the problem i have but basically as a work around, i need an SC - LC fiber cable. Is there anywhere in London I can get the above cable couriered to me, that or a fiber converter (SC) Please help! I have a whole floor down due to an old fiber switch. ta Tony

Hi I am in a bit of a pickle. I have been given a memory stick that has 3gb's of data on it. It has many MANY folders on it and thousands of documents. Many of the documents have come up as corrupt, some have no file extension, some have loads of random letters and/or symbols. I have downloaded PCinspector as advised in another thread... which has helped with a few of them. Basically, this memory stick has far too much ACTUAL work on it and has never been backed up. This stick hasn't been backed up as the user requested it not be backed up due to an unfortunate issue at another school. I know i might get a few "serves them right for refusing backup" but all I REALLY need now is an idea as to whether I am even able to get this stuff back... I have never seen a memory stick in such a bad state before but I NEED to get something recovered. This is about as important as it gets. Thanks in advance Tony

Hi Sorry, i haven't had time to read everything so ignore me if this has already been said. we use the SIMS.net Admission number. they are all unique and run through the students time at the school. I am sure it has plenty of flaws but that's what we do (set up before i started) Tony

Hi Pooley thanks for the reply, no, they are not hidden from the exchange address lists.

Hi guys So this is the deal. we have an exchange 2003 server on site, users can get mail by two ways within the school. 1. Intranet page has a link that resolves from their username. 2. Outlook 2003 - set up. I have one user, for whom last week their Outlook stopped working, the error they are getting is "unable to connect to exchange server" (paraphrase) they can get in through the Intranet page but not through Outlook. I have removed their exchange account and tried to re enter but it wont pick up a connection to Exchange. I have checked the firewall incase it had anything to do with that, but quite honestly i am a little baffled. ideas? Tony

Hi guys My Mac knowledge is very limited. ( i have an ipod Touch though ) I have had a user at the school come to me telling me there £ sign on the keyboard (number 3) is now coming up as #. any ideas? Thanks

I bought myself a Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin. http://men.style.com/images/upgrader/gear/products/ipod-accessories/bowers-wilkins-zeppelin_h.jpg it is truely astounding! really is! Tony p.s. sorry; just read what you said properly, ignore me, it weighs a lot.

I have tried and tried but can not see the actual download link!?

Nah the usb is well known for being flakey and they are not in .mpg they are in m2t. I have tried and tried with the usb but it doens't work which is really annoying. I will look into codecs though. ta

Hi It is HDD. Thanks

Help, this is really getting to me. I have googled and googled and googled some more to find out how, when i convert in the Sony camera software to Avi, it is very bad quality and the Media department are chewing at me to get this sorted. Any ideas? I just want a conversion to work so we can use the captured vid from the Sony Cams. Many Thanks Tony

Yes, very much so. It has taken time but I totally believe that they have faith in me and do listen to me. the best advice is never bullshit about anything, if you are not sure tell them that you will be looking into it and also talking to other school is a great talking point to show you really understand what a school needs. as mentioned leave the technobabble down to a min and draw on examples where what you are proposing has been used and show them that is has worked and if it is a bad example tell them WHY, as long as you are honest, open and have every answer that you think will be thrown at you. and don't be a yes person. the amount of respect you can get from a well worded "no" is quite impressive. hope that helped. Tony

by having a desktop PC in the classroom?

nope, every year it is the same yet we get the brunt of it when things are delayed becuase we work on "their" timetable.

Yup, we use wireless for about 100 laptops throughout the school and it works fine. all unmanaged rubbish, well apart from in English where it is managed rubbish due to bad setting up. Thanks for the info about the wireless and login issues from the Nov update, It only clicked today that it was super mega amazing fast on cable and super slow on the laptops. /penny drops.

Hi guys bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question. we have 1440 pupils all secondary we have 200 staff we use RM finance Currently we have a lack of performance on this server, sqlsvr is using 1,477,000 of ram, so 1.5Gb out of 3 Gb available.. anyone have a similar set up ? how much ram should be used up by sql? Many Thanks Tony

Try and do it again, there is normally 3 settings. 1. built in screen 2. CRT/LCD external and built in screen 3. External screen this is clutching at straws though. hmm boot in safe mode, f8 from boot. could be a microsoft update that has fubar'd the drivers, happend to my work machine once.