May 25th, 2007

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A Censor too far?

Yesterday, the Internet community website scene came under attack. Students at Keele University in Staffordshire were using websites such as MySpace and Facebook to criticise their lecturers at the University. There were apparently groups dedicated to the lambasting of lecturers if a video report on the BBC’s news website is anything to go by.

After discovering the goings on of their students on these websites, Keele University aim to draw up a code of conduct for using these community websites. However, it must be remembered that Keele do not actually own Facebook or MySpace and are therefore trying to censor their customers in effect from being critical of their lecturers on the Internet.

There has been a similar case recently about the website Rate My Teachers where teachers have been outraged at some of the comments posted about them on the website as shown by this news report. But are such criticisms wrong? Would anyone otherwise be aware of the students’ (and in the latter case pupils’) views about those who teach them?

Of course the flip side to this is that

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Building a Windows XP Image in BDD 2007 Part 2

This post will go over adding an XP WIM image to your BDD 2007 server and installing XP from a WIM based build.

First make sure that your Windows XP was properly installed.

BDD will bring your through the basic install launched from the GUI.

Next you will see the text based installation:

Finally the GUI setup portion will commence.

BDD Light touch wizard will execute the tasks specified in the build Tasks tab.

Sysprep will run on the workstation once all the tasks are completed. This may take a while. Also I have noticed a small bug where you sometimes have to manually set the current window context to the System Management Server dialog box. If you notice it’s taking a long really long time (30 minutes +) Just click in the Window.