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  • Security & Networking Questions for Windows Users – [1]

    Here is some useful information on the security of computers which are connected to a network. This is phrased in a Q&A format to try to give a good understanding of how computer security works, and how this changes when connected to networks. It applies to most versions of Windows but some information may be…

  • MUSAC System Files 32 Bit Installer for Unattended Install

    This refers to the 32 bit system file distribution for Musac Classic Jan2010 Secondary package (2.0.2008.4). There are two different MSIs that could be extracted from the install package to be considered for unattended installation. Since Musac appears not to want to support any unattended / automated installation (it is specifically noted as such in…

  • Print Spooler Problems [3]

    With the problems still happening after all this time and the number of users affected it is looking very much like the Window 7/2008 compatible drivers won’t work with Windows Server 2003 print servers. Print queues on a 2003 print server are having serious problems but queues on a 2008 server are unaffected. Next step…

  • Sugar on Windows?

    In a previous post I referred to the refocusing of the OLPC project. Part of the reorganisation was to split off the Sugar shell from the core OLPC project, at which time Sugar Labs became separate and has developed the shell in its own right for a number of platforms. Since there is so much…

  • Print Spooler Problems [2]

    Well I am doing more work on this today to see if I can get a solution for my Windows 7 users (including myself). And it turns out that print driver isolation is exclusively a feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 only. And I have only one R2 server in the whole school, which is…