Category: NZTekonverse -> Uncategorised

This is my latest acquisition from Trademe, and a very good one at that – the T5720 is almost a current model (not quite) and this particular one was made only four years ago. Although this one, which cost me $83, has 256 MB of RAM, I have ordered some more for it in order…

Back about two years ago when we were fully in the swing of installing projectors in our classrooms, I had to come up with a scheme for getting wall plates in for the VGA cables that connect projectors and laptops. Up until now all that has been available or easy to find has been a…

This photo is of the inside of a well known and supposedly high quality (Australian) brand of plugbox which I would have unhesitatingly recommended to anyone until recently. Observe the earth contacts on the two left hand sockets, which have a much wider gap than the two on the right. The left hand pair are…

Offline Files is a technology that was first introduced in Windows XP. And it was pretty much of a dog back then. We did experiment with getting some laptop users to have it running, because we hoped it was going to make automated backups of their stuff. The problem with the earlier versions of Offline…

This has been a recurring situation ever since we started with Vista and Windows 7. Basically when the user logs in, if verbose login messages are disabled (a GPO setting), they just see “Please wait”. If verbose messages are enabled, they see a number of different messages about policy processing, but the one that is…