I’ve been doing some research on K-12 Data Warehouses. At our most recent administrative meeting, data analysis was of big interest and I’m fairly sure that this is going to be one of our big pushes this year. So far… Read More »K-12 Data Warehousing
Just found out that there is a command – ExtendOEMPartition – in sysprep that will allow you to expand NTFS disk partitions. From the Microsoft site: Using Sysprep to Extend Disk PartitionsWhen installing Windows XP Professional, you might find it… Read More »Using Sysprep to Extend Disk Partitions
Tom Hoffman has an interesting post about free software being highlighted at NECC. All of the projects he mentions are worth checking out if you are not familiar with them: K12LTSP SchoolTool Cando Edubuntu A good listing of K-12 Open… Read More »Free Software in Education
It’s been a while since I talked about my demo of the Lightspeed box, and I wanted to give my take on it. The demo unit I evaluated came as a 1 U rack server, and setting it up was… Read More »My review of Lightspeed’s Total control
I came across this post on Joshers Weblog and it fixed a bunch of problems for me. Disabling the soundcard was a great help – I’ve been trying to get audio to work for about a month, and the solution… Read More »Sysprep across multiple machines
I came across this post on Mecworks’ BLOG, and found it very interesting. I already used a couple of these extensions, but the rest are worht checking out. Thanks Marc! ————————————— Firefox is one of the best, if not the… Read More »Recommended Firefox Extensions
Ran across LinuxISOTorrent.com this week. It’s a comprehensive list of torrents for Linux distributions. It’s useful for me because the torrent search sites I use to find Linux torrents keep shutting down (because of legal reasons) or are blocked by… Read More »Linux Torrents
When first having bandwidth problems, I was wondering if purchasing a proxy server (like a Cisco Content Engine) and a bandwidth limiting/packet shaping (al la Packeteer) would be what I would have to do. I was also looking at a… Read More »Network hardware thoughts
mkeadle.org has a nice how-to on file, domain, and ad blocking with Squid. I found it extremely useful in setting up my squid box and thought I’d share. I used webmin to set up the ACLs, no no text editing… Read More »Basic Squid setup with file, domain, and ad blocking
Like I said in my earlier post, I used a Fluke OptiView to find the protocols in use and what machines were having “conversations” over those protocols. Unfortunately, my budget won’t allow for the $25K to purchase my own so… Read More »Troubleshooting internet usage p2:How I used Ethereal to troubleshoot our network utilization