April 2006 Archive
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- Shellharbour Interactive Curriculum Web Site Links
- (Tuesday 11th April 2006)
Maths, Spelling, Typing, and other intercative curriculum support sites for use by students. Also some sites that provide worksheet generators. (Thanks to John Akhurst for these!)
Nigel Kersten's AFP Tips'n'Tricks- (Tuesday 11th April 2006)
A site for the techies - describes a variety of tweaks for your Mac OS X 10.4 Server to improve the performance of AFP, especially under heavy load. (Don't try any of this if you are not sure what you are doing!)
Boot Camp- (Thursday 6th April 2006)
It's official - Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta to experiment with on your Intel Mac.
Mac OSX 10.4.6- (Thursday 6th April 2006)
Provides some major fixes, according to the Apple overview. Including auto-shutdown from the login window, and a fix for MS Word saving to networked Home directories. Hopefully the blue screen at logout too!
NSWTF Year 10 CSA Bans Lifted- (Wednesday 5th April 2006)
Following developments in State Parliament, undertakings given by both the DET and the Education Minister, and feedback from schools, the NSWTF Executive has lifted the ban on the Year 10 Computing Skills Assessment (CSA) test.
Easy School Reports - Online Demo- (Monday 3rd April 2006)
With the new DET student reporting system generating much discussion in schools, the Sentral people have put a demo of their server online, including the ESR student reporting module. Gives staff in schools without a Sentral server a chance to try it out, with the server automatically resetting all info every hour. I will advise when a similar online demo of the DET's "official" student reporting software is also available! -
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