What a fortnight! I started back at TAFE last Monday and tried to continue the set up of PCs and new Mac Pros ready for teaching this year. I set up a Windows 7 64-bit box and found that the DET* Adobe CS4 installer didn’t install Photoshop. When you install Adobe CS4 on a PC [...]

It hasn’t been a good fortnight with a close relative passing away quickly from terminal cancer. The morning of the funeral I got a text message – no one could log in at TAFE, the Xserve was down. I ducked in and the server wouldn’t boot. There was nothing I could do so I told [...]

Well, after enjoying Australia Day on Monday dragging my daughters and friends around Ben Chifley Dam behind my speedboat (the only downer was hitting something submerged at high speed and doing some serious damage to the propellor) I returned to work at Bathurst TAFE.
I spent the first day updating my proxy, Mac OS X and [...]

Today was my last day at TAFE this year. It has been a hectic week getting everything cleaned out ready for next year (about 700 GB of student data). This also involves installing new software on both PCs and PowerMac G5s. So I build one PC and one PowerMac G5 and then use G4L to [...]

I had a customer bring in an iMac G5 20″ (OS X 10.4) and new MacBook (OS X 10.5) to the office this evening because they live 45 km out of town so they only have dialup Internet access. The Mac OS X updates for each system were around 600 MB, which is basically impossible [...]

Last week one of the teachers noticed that a student wasn’t paying much attention to lesson and noticed that they had Facebook open. Facebook is one of the sites that is blocked by the Squid/Squidguard Proxy Filtering on the classrooms I manage. I was asked to look into this and to lock out the account [...]

Well, I’ve been out of action for a while. I had surgery that got infected and was having daily antibiotics intravenously which is a real pain. A couple of weeks in bed off work and then trying to catch up with everything has been hectic.
It has all started to settle down now and I have [...]

I’ve been working with the Vista Business box for nearly two weeks is just about at the final configuration. I’ve also got the Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5 install up and working, which was less hassle than the Vista install, so it was time to look at creating images for deployment.
Symantec’s Ghost Solution Suite 1.0 doesn’t [...]

The new computer system for TAFE that I built last Friday is up and running with Microsoft Windows Vista Business 64-bit and dual booting with Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64. This was my first chance to really get into Vista and the overall impression was … underwhelming!
I’ve given a few people for a quick demo and the [...]