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I was talking to one of our software vendors about application compatibility, and they said that not many of their customers had asked about Vista. I guess there is nothing new in this. Not everyone will go to the latest and greatest. Not every school will have the ability to re image lots of computers…

This article describes a fix to IIS7 configuration that will allow PHP 5.x to run on a Windows domain controller. The problem was first described in this article here. The fix also affects the operation of Windows Server Update Services, if you have it in operation on the same server. The issue for PHP is…

Today I spent a lot of time working on and testing Group Policy Objects. It was rewarding for the following achievements: We had a situation where our staff users, who had no policy for MMP snap-ins applied, still could not open those snap-ins while they were logged in as a local administrator of their own…

From this point forward this blog will be about computing and technology only. Most of the other subjects previously posted here will appear on my new blog instead.

Here’s our Teach-IT 2C141 up in our building. We installed it yesterday and I’ve spent part of today doing a little tweaking. The reason we picked this is the ceiling you can see above – how high it is, and its slope. It would have almost have needed scaffolding to get to the ceiling, and…

Once upon a time, budget projectors suitable for classrooms all came in budget configurations. They were all intended for ceiling mount with a distance to the screen of 2.5 – 3 metres. If you wanted to come in closer than this, you either paid a lot of money for an odd looking Sanyo, or you…

The shift to 10 Gigabit networking presents an opportunity for the industry standardisation bodies to rectify two glaring inadequacies in the design of the standard data connectors which are based on consumer telephone equipment and as implemented are, by design, clearly unsuitable for professional uses to which they have been put in the case of…

At least two weeks ago I took my keyboard apart to clean it, and only just discovered today, weeks later, that the / and * key on the keypad are swapped around. Easter is upon us and I’m off for a well earned break. The next lot of photos in my album are likely to…

It so happens that last year we had a bit of a change of scenery at our school. Our faithful volunteer Linux sysadmin, who happens to be the system architect of a well known software development platform, decided to bow out because all his kids have gone through school. This set the scene for us…

Last time I wrote that I had a lot of stuff to catch up on with the resumption of broadband connectivity after the 5 week absence. This week was not a good time to achieve that catchup, because on Monday I decided to install Windows Vista on my home PC, and as a result have…