Month: August 2010

With the problems still happening after all this time and the number of users affected it is looking very much like the Window 7/2008 compatible drivers won’t work with Windows Server 2003 print servers. Print queues on a 2003 print server are having serious problems but queues on a 2008 server are unaffected. Next step…

In a previous post I referred to the refocusing of the OLPC project. Part of the reorganisation was to split off the Sugar shell from the core OLPC project, at which time Sugar Labs became separate and has developed the shell in its own right for a number of platforms. Since there is so much…

Well I am doing more work on this today to see if I can get a solution for my Windows 7 users (including myself). And it turns out that print driver isolation is exclusively a feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 only. And I have only one R2 server in the whole school, which is…

It is good to see OLPC is refocusing themselves on an educational project rather than the political aspects of their previous format. At the end of the day it should be schools’ individual choice of what systems they want in their schools and having OLPCs able to run a variety of OS platforms and software,…

As referenced previously we migrated our staff from onsite Exchange Server to Live@Edu in April and haven’t looked back since then. Around 30 staff are hooked on using Outlook 2007 or 2010 to access all parts of their Exchange mailbox on Outlook Live, and using the webmail where necessary. A few staff are sharing their…

Automated software installation via GPO is a low end remote admin tool which does work sometimes provided an MSI file can be used. If the installation is internally MSI based the file can be extracted and used to perform the automated installation, this is easy to do by running the installer executable, looking in %temp%…

A user has had numerous problems with the Print Spooler in firstly Vista and now Windows 7. The same laptop in both cases, each OS was a clean install. They were the only staff user on Vista (apart from myself) for quite a while. Vista print spooler crashed often for them with particular print drivers.…

If you want your thin client to connect through a RD Gateway then it must support RDC 6.0 or later. Even if you aren’t using RD Gateway (for example on an Intranet) it will let you use 2008 RD Services out of the box with NLA enabled. RDC 6.1 client connecting to RDS 7.0 server…

A thrust borer has been here putting in a duct from the street. The fibre will come in. Then it will get connected up. Then it will get plugged in. At the moment you wouldn’t necessarily do it for the Internet because data rates look to be much the same as they are for broadband.…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3979817/A-mobile-teacher-in-the-palm-of-your-hand Does technological advance have all the answers? NO. Each new technology is a mixed blessing. We should not become carried away on the sea of technological development and become oblivious to its hidden impacts. For me there is nothing that technology can do that can replace the intimacy of spending personal time with family…