Monthly Archives: November 2007

Moodle and Gallery 2.1.2

Posted on November 30, 2007 by James Rudd

The Gallery module for Moodle is a very useful addon that allows you to upload images and view them in an easy accessible format. You can upload a directory structure in a zip file and have it recreate that structure … Continue reading →

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AD Explorer

Posted on November 20, 2007 by James Rudd

An LDAP browser for Active Directory. Makes it easy to see all attributes of objects and assists in configuring web applications that authenticate using LDAP. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/AdExplorer.mspx You can connect to your AD server without knowing any LDAP paths, just use … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Boot CD for Windows

Posted on November 18, 2007 by James Rudd

A graphical Windows boot disc containing many useful applications to repair, recover or clean a PC. http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Can also be combined with UBCD for DOS on the one disk. It is based on Bart’s PE Builder boot disc, and supports … Continue reading →

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SysInternals Website

Posted on November 17, 2007 by James Rudd

A great site with a large collection of tools, everything from Active Directory Management and Monitoring through to security, process monitoring and funny screen savers. http://www.sysinternals.com/ SysInternals was taken over by Microsoft so they also have new URL http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ Tags: … Continue reading →

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Folder Size for Windows

Posted on November 17, 2007 by James Rudd

Windows Add-on that adds an additional column to Details view in explorer showing the size of subfolders. http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ Allows very quick very of directories to see space. Main problem is it can take a while to refresh and can be … Continue reading →

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Tech Know Tour 07 – Moodle

Posted on November 17, 2007 by James Rudd

On Wed 14th November 2007, Robert Devlin, Dr. Paul Ganderton and James Rudd presented a talk at SBHS as part of the DET Tech Know Tour. Below are copies of documents from that talk Some other useful links: Teacher Manual … Continue reading →

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XMing X Server

Posted on November 17, 2007 by James Rudd

This is a free X Server that is great for managing Linux servers using SSH and PuTTY from a Windows PC. http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ I wrote an article at Cool Solutions on Remote Management using SSH and X-Forwarding that gives some idea … Continue reading →

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