Month: March 2010

  • The week <21-3-10>

    This has been a lot of fun, from looking at how to get an SMS to do reporting, new SMS developments and an NComputing thin client terminal. The SMS market in NZ is having some interesting developments as vendors look to the next generation of web-based systems. Integris’s G2 product which is now standardised across…

  • NComputing L230 Thin Client Terminal

    Several years ago, NComputing released a series of thin client terminals suitable for the education market. These are of two types, the X series connect to a PCI card in the host computer and there can be 3 or 5 terminals connected. The L series connect over a network to a remote host server. The…

  • Nonsensical use of file permissions and temporary files by Microsoft Office

    Rant of the week, and I’ve written about this one before. There must be, for any administrator, situations where you want people to be able to open, read and save files, but not to delete them. You want to protect shared pools of files against accidental deletion, but otherwise people can do anything else sensible…