Tech Tips for BHSEC Students

http://howto.nicubunu.ro/ -Where to find how to make your own Pac-Man character
http://www.bestgimptutorials.com/browse_gimp_tutorials
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimptutorials/GIMP_Tutorials_Learning_The_GIMP.htm
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http://www.winxptutor.com/tweaklogon.htm

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Students are driving me crazy making videos of themselves with our new macs. I’ve been on the lookout for an easy wasy to disable/enable the camera and cense@techslaves.org over at techslaves has provided it. It’s also a neat example of applescript if you’re interested in learning it:
iSight Disabler Version 3, Leopard Support
Btw, I suggest saving [...]

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I’m using the clonezilla server that comes bundled with the drbl-live cd. This is good for cloning (in mass) windows XP and or Linux machines. (Prolly win2k, and some bsd’s too, but I don’t know about vista.) For my purposes I’ve put an image I created with a clonezilla live cd on a usb drive.  [...]

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I work for the New York City Department of Education and run an Edubuntu server. I’m currently using a Dell Poweredge server with a P4 2.8ghz cpu and 3gb of ram. Half of my trafic comes through gigabit switches. The clients are HP D530’s with 3ghz P4’s and 512mb Ram. They’re *much* more powerful than [...]

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You’ll need to copy those user.js files into a place where firefox will look for default settings when it sets up a new user. In Windows we copy this file into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\
These settings will not affect any pre-existing firefox profiles (users who have logged in and used firefox will not have their [...]

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The user.js preference files for Firefox for Windows and Mac are not the same, one being that the Mac script is quite different from the Windows script.
Windows Firefox script:
user_pref(”security.warn_entering_secure”, false);
user_pref(”security.warn_leaving_secure”, false);
user_pref(”security.warn_submit_insecure”, false);
user_pref(”security.warn_viewing_mixed”, false);
user_pref(”network.proxy.autoconfig_url”, “http://proxy.nycboe.org//proxy.pac”);
user_pref(”network.proxy.type”, 2);
Mac Firefox script (Mac Firefox doesn’t have a user.js file, so you have to create one):
user_pref(”security.warn_entering_secure”, false);
user_pref(”security.warn_leaving_secure”, false);
user_pref(”security.warn_submit_insecure”, false);
user_pref(”security.warn_viewing_mixed”, false);
user_pref(”network.proxy.autoconfig_url”, “http://proxy.nycboe.org/proxy.pac”);
user_pref(”network.proxy.type”, [...]

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A graphical reminder to help faculty remember how to login after we change the username to login as ourselves. Part of the problem is they don’t remember their username, which is their first initial and whole last name. This little graphic I made to print up and tape to the front of their computers esp [...]

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