TR2N????

That makes no sence, why not T2ON? the 2 can be made to look like an R then.

also www.tr2n.com is already taken.

I blame

... paris hilton for the lack of IT angle in this story.

As someone who partakes in a morning sausage and bacon roll for £2.20 and a full fryup on a hangover morning, I read this story with great sorrow. So long cheap breakfasts, we loved you well.

@Kane

Wavelength Five!

right .....

but what's the Paris Hilton angle?

Oh FFS

PLEASE SHUT UP ABOUT THE iPHONE!

The constant blithering about it makes me long for Paris Hilton news.

And another thing, it's gone 4pm and you haven't put up the BOFH. Hurry up lads, talk about declining standards

FFS!

This isn't new. I've been doing this for years on the networks I have run. Installed as a scheduled task to run at 6pm, the PC will announce it is shutting down in 30minutes and if there is a user sitting there using the computer they can stop it from shutting down. How is this NEWs?

I agree

...with Xander, complete lack of planning. I demand a free El Reg paper hat

Reality

If you want to see what the technology that the schools are using is like, buy a £10 finger print recognition usb device. The information is 1 way and it doesnt store pictures of the fingerprints.

CJ (ex-school Network Manager)

Yank or Real?

Which billion is this? The yank billion which is a thousand million, or a proper full fat UK billion (or trillion as the americans call it) of 1,000,000,000,000 ?

Ey?

I don't quite understand. Why did they use youtube when the people making the videos could have just emailed them to CNN or transmitted by standard means? Google (yt's owners) must have donated alot of money to someone for the name dropping

Carmageddon on his laptop

JP: "They haven't found a copy of Carmageddon on his laptop and blamed this all on computer games yet..."

Don't be silly, you can't play games on Macs ;)