Can you use the box on the right side of the page to get the info you need?

ETA: Meant to say the that page is still trying to load for me (IE) so I don't think it's you.

Dumb Windows (XP) question: I attacked a USB drive to my work computer - it recognized the new hardware but it was not mounted with a drive letter. The first letter available was 'T', with a bunch of networked drives on drive letters 'E' through 'S'. I then unmounted the first network drive and plugged the USB drive in again and it worked. So, does it not work to have a network drive letter that's lower than your USB drive?

I'm not sure, but I've experienced similar happenings with USB drives and external zips and CD-ROMs in the past. Also, sometimes funky things happen with drive letters, where Windows expects to assign a specific letter to a specifc device, and if that letter isn't available, it simply won't assign it one. D and E are big ones for this and so we normally only map drives to F and beyond here at work.

Thanks brenda. The box on the side doesn't load either. Ah well. I'll try again tomorrow, I guess.

Also, sometimes funky things happen with drive letters, where Windows expects to assign a specific letter to a specifc device

I've seen the same behavior. What I usually do is unplug the device with the lowest drive letter, then plug in the new device and assign it the drive letter I want it to have.

I attacked a USB drive to my work computer

Well maybe you should consider not attacking your work computer like that!

After randomly trying for about the sixth time to hope that sticking the AirPort card in again would fix it...it did. So I am back with wireless (thank goodness, as this hotel is wifi, not ethernet!)

Kalshane--I'm going to mark your post and try more things tomorrow. (And if I can make my printer work -- I may try to make my coworker's printer (it's the same same sort of printer as mine) work.

I love Firefox. I have it customized just about where I like it. Here are my extensions:

Forecastfox
Greasemonkey (I use scripts on other websites including gmail and bloglines)
Adblock Plus and Adblock FiltersetG Updater
Gmail Manager (which I like a lot better than Gmail notifier)
Google Calendar Notifier
dragdropupload
Google Browser Sync
Scrapbook (which is so awesome, I paid the creater $$ for this extension)
Tab Mix Plub
Free Download Manager plugin
Flashgot
Unwrap Text

Ok, I googled and I'll ask here.

I want to set the kids in my class up with blogging, with either an aggregate classroom account or individual accounts (not sure which yet).

I need some sort of client for Macs. What I'd love is something that requires me (as opposed to the kids) to approve the postings before they get posted. I don't know if that's possible.

Does anybody know stuff about blogging clients?

Hmmm. I'd say you could make an LJ community, set yourself as the moderator, and hook them all up with individual accounts, but you'd only get control on the LJ community, not their individual blogs.

That's a cool idea, though. Let me do some research. Do you have a school webserver you could maybe set up as your own blogging server, if nothing out there quite fits your specific needs?

ETA: I'm about to try installing it on my own server to be sure, but it looks like WordPress can probably let you at least set up a single blog for the classroom, with you as an administrator. You can install it on your own server, or make a free one hosted by wordpress.

Gaggle will give out filtered blogs to students - I gather that if anything pings the filter, the blog is temporarily blocked and sent to an administrator for approval (you). That might be the best solution for individual blogs. Or, wordpress can perhaps be configured to do it if you can host it on a server yourself; I'll get back to you on that.

Well, Wordpress is definitely designed for a single blog (it's really nice though - I've been playing with it my copy at [link] if you want to take a gander). You could install multiple copies of it in many different directories on a server, probably, if you want multiple blogs administered by you, but that's a huge PITA.

What you really want, I think, is a mini-LJ type place, only you have god powers of deletion. So that there can be a central community journal, and also individual accounts, and one sign-in works for commenting everywhere, posting on the main journal, and so forth. I think there is software out there to do that - can you still install the livejournal software on a server of your own? I don't even know.