Quote of the day ( admin posted on February 27th, 2008 )

 Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of —
Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
Hovering there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up along delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— John Gillespie Magee Jr., “High Flight”

Good luck to XH558.

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Categories: general

Teenagers ( admin posted on February 26th, 2008 )

Take note – this means you . . .

Teenagers

Just superb.

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Categories: education, general, kids

Random notes ( admin posted on February 23rd, 2008 )

My WordPress updated to latest version after Zen server it was on went down for a couple of days. Zen‘s overall service is excellent, and the cPanel control brilliant for anyone not fully techie.

Great rants to be had here. Just like grumpy old men in realtime. Very entertaining.

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Another anti-spam system. ( admin posted on February 12th, 2008 )

What the heck.

Worth a try.

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BECTA Reports again ( admin posted on January 30th, 2008 )

BECTA has reported more fully on Microsoft and their office products. They don’t like it – a lot of money for little gain for most people. Having just ordered 2 new computers for work (with XP and Office 2007) I will get to see what all the fuss is about at last. Giving Vista a wide berth of course.

These are my favourite bits of utter madness regarding school licensing :-

  • If a school is using some Apple computers that are not running any Microsoft software they must still pay Microsoft annual licence fees for those computers, even though they are running software supplied by Microsoft’s competitor.
  • If a school wants Vista on some computers under its subscription agreement but decides to set up an internet access lab using computers that were purchased in (say) 2002 and that cannot run Vista, the school must still pay Microsoft annually as if it was actually running Vista on those older computers.
  • If a school sets up a small network in its computer science department running an open source operating system such as Linux, to ensure that pupils have as wide a range of ICT skills as possible, it will have to pay Microsoft annual licence fees for each of the Linux PCs in the school.

We can’t switch yet to openoffice for everyone at work because MS XL still has a killer feature (shared workbooks) which we use all the time. Google docs is not an option for us in a small office but does work well between individuals. It is being worked on at OOo, though.

Also this week the French Police are switching to Ubuntu according to The Register. Glad I’m not the sales rep. for Microsoft in Paris right now. Big headache.

We (kids) use Ubuntu at home (currently 7.04) and it “just works” – apart from when they try and run an EXE file from school. No loss there then.

I am still on SuSE 9.3

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Categories: education, general

Error Message ( admin posted on October 10th, 2007 )

This is just a great error message.

Mouse Movement Error

Henry sent it to me.

I know how he feels.

He now uses Ubuntu

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Categories: general, Henry, Uncategorized

Open Office Again ( admin posted on September 30th, 2007 )

OpenOffice Open Office

Version 2.3 now available.

Full ISO compatibility (unlike Microsoft products)

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Mail Server ( admin posted on May 14th, 2007 )

Anyone wanting mail server software should consider ftgate. Compared to MS Exchange it is a fraction of the price for just as much, if not more, functionality. Only works on windows servers.

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Spammers beware ( admin posted on April 27th, 2007 )

I joined the honeypot project to catch spambots.

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ has more details.

@ MEMBER OF PROJECT HONEY POT
Spam Harvester Protection Network
provided by Unspam

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The Eagle has Landed ( admin posted on April 15th, 2007 )

I have broadband at last – took 10 weeks since ordering from Talk Talk, but got nearly a 2Mb connection at last.

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