Computers
Make Windows7 Network Faster
Make your Windows 7 network faster, article from Window Secrets: Simple change in settings pumps up Win7 networks Windows 7 has many good things going for it, but home networking is not always one of them. But with just two quick clicks within Win7′s Advanced sharing settings, you can improve your local network throughput by as … Continue reading
Uncap accounts arrives in SA
Mweb has introduced uncapped internet accounts for the masses, starting from R219. This is an excellent move for normal home users, schools etc should take the 4GB uncapped accounts, as this is really worthwhile, allowing schools to really make use of the Net as its supposed to be used. At our school we have a … Continue reading
Laptops for Teachers
We have a real fiasco on our hands, it was suppose to begin in July 2009, postponed to February 2010, as yet nothing concrete has happened. Fly by night companies are approaching schools in the poorer areas of Cape Town, telling them that the project is available and ‘forcing’ teachers to sign up. I see … Continue reading
Netbook
Blogging from a Asus 1201n. Having waited for nearly a year for the Dept of Education to get their Teachers Laptop initiative going I finally gave up hope for it ever happening. My HP Pavilion was getting old and I needed a laptop that could be used away from Eskom’s powersource. I wanted a netbook, … Continue reading
Matric Results 2009
The results of Matric 2009 is finally out. Our school (BLHS) really improved dramatically, up from 64% (2008) to 79% (2009). Hope this keeps the Hyena’s at bay. CAT results also improved from 78% in 2008 to 92% in 2009. At the beginning of the year (2009) I forecasted a pass rate of 94% for CAT … Continue reading
Computer Lab 2009
Ten years ago, the school received a Telkom Foundation Lab, consisting of 1 server, 20 workstations and a printer. The specifications of the PC’s were: Pentium 3 Celerons 500Mhz 6 Gigabyte Hard drives 128 MB Ram The above configurations are the mainstay of our Computer Lab, over the years we have purchased more PC’s, received … Continue reading
How to get my Website! An idiot’s guide…
So you want your own website for the world to see, perhaps you thinking of setting up a BLOG, galleries, or have hobbyist site, a family site, a site for your church/mosque, NGO, an Ecommerce site, whatever … Every web site needs to have a unique name (domain name), a place where it is hosted, and obviously … Continue reading