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  1. Re:Nice summary! on China Plans Manned Space Mission This Month · · Score: 1

    woefully vague units like "ton"

    What the hell? The ton is 1,000 kg.

    No it isn't, a tonne is 1000kg.

  2. Re:Resolution on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 2

    I have a 24" Dell (1920x1200), which has the rotation built into the stand it's supplied with. Certainly no problem with stability here, even on a crappy IKEA table! The base has a decent weight and footprint which probably helps, and I seem to remember from putting it together that the base weighed more than the monitor itself.

  3. Re:sky on British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic · · Score: 1

    Same, on their LLU broadband

  4. Re:More Nostalgia on Millions of Brits Lose Ceefax News Service · · Score: 1

    Every freeview box and TV with it built in that I've ever seen has had a subtitles function (usually a dedicated button on the remote). The digital subtitle text is much sharper and easier to read .

  5. Re:Learn, folks on Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    IMAP =)

  6. Coming from a UK student... on How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology? · · Score: 1

    I am a sixth form (year 13) student at a state school in the east of England. Reading about the state of IT in US public schools like this absolutely astounds me!

    In my school there are approximately 1200 students and 200 staff including support staff.

    This is the equipment they have, roughly:
    600 desktop PCs (all less than 2 years old, dual core, 2gb ram, dell optiplex machines)
    120 dell laptops for staff
    200 HP laptops for use around the school (mainly in science labs etc.)
    75 iMacs in media studies and music classrooms
    15 Macbooks for media staff
    Active whiteboards in 75% of classrooms (100% of science labs)

    It all runs off of Windows servers using Active Directory, they have a proper server room with racks of fileservers, web filtering server, AD server etc., and the system runs flawlessley.

    They also have a WiFi network for student laptop use, which runs through the schools proxy server for filtering.

    The contrast between the two education systems astounds me!