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18th May 2013, 08:15 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Deterrent for Cats in the garden in General Chat

Starfish does kill cats. I wasn't advocating it!

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18th May 2013, 07:46 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread whos running nix on their main desktop? in *nix

I did this a few years back (2005 IIRC) at the time Zimbra was way ahead of exchange for functionality and ease of use. We've ditched them both now...

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18th May 2013, 07:44 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Deterrent for Cats in the garden in General Chat

A cat hater would tell you to feed them starfish. Cats love starfish. It also poisons them.

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18th May 2013, 10:42 AM

CyberNerd replied to a thread whos running nix on their main desktop? in *nix

I do mostly treat Windows as middleware for servers.

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18th May 2013, 10:07 AM

CyberNerd replied to a thread whos running nix on their main desktop? in *nix

Worked fine on Linux. Problem seems to be that MS don't write any working drivers.

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18th May 2013, 08:47 AM

CyberNerd replied to a thread whos running nix on their main desktop? in *nix

I've been running various linuxes on my main work PC for the last 8 or so years. I recently decided I'd start learning how to use windows 7 and...

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16th May 2013, 10:06 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Any experience with Konica Minolta? in Hardware

Ask me in a couple of years - at the beginning of the contract. MFD's only. No regular printers. In corridors, offices etc. Colour A3. Another...

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16th May 2013, 08:35 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Any experience with Konica Minolta? in Hardware

Only in that their quote was much more expensive than Sharp and Ricoh. We went with Sharp, but it was very tight between them an Ricoh. I know lots...

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16th May 2013, 01:28 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Microsoft Surface in Netbooks, PDA and Phones

An interesting insight as to why the specs need to be so high for MS Products here: "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other...

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16th May 2013, 06:52 AM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Google Play for Education in Netbooks, PDA and Phones

Says it's done via Google+ groups. Last time I looked users had to be aged 13+ essentially meaning KS4,KS5 only.

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15th May 2013, 08:20 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Metro in Server 2012 in Windows Server 2012

OK. Now can I have a few more start menus so they read left to right. On the top of course because I tend to read left to right going downwards. A...

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15th May 2013, 08:09 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Metro in Server 2012 in Windows Server 2012

Kids bring them in. We don't own any. Besides chrome books are locked down browsers and are only desktop environments in name.

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15th May 2013, 07:38 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Metro in Server 2012 in Windows Server 2012

Never used it. Windows desktop environment isn't customisable at all compared to the others I listed. Just simple things like adding more desktops...

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15th May 2013, 05:09 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Metro in Server 2012 in Windows Server 2012

Out of all of the Desktop Environments that I've used I can confidently say that MSWindows is inherently the least customisable of the lot. The...

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14th May 2013, 08:58 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Software that is like SIMS in MIS Systems

Data hosted in school already gets transported to third parties, LA's and Govt. Hosting in a cloud isn't any different from a data protection...

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14th May 2013, 08:31 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Software that is like SIMS in MIS Systems

Totally forgot about FreeMIS!

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14th May 2013, 07:42 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Software that is like SIMS in MIS Systems

The best Free MIS was scholarpack. They open sourced it in summer 2010 and quickly got bought by a larger company who promptly removed all traced of...

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14th May 2013, 06:52 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Google Docs ? Whos allowing it? in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall

edutech4schools As a "data controller" you have to register with them in any case: Register of Data Controllers - Information Commissioner's Office -...

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14th May 2013, 06:24 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Asset Management Recommendations in How do you do....it?

Actually in a similar situation. School asset manager is ridiculously expensive. The problem seems to be that most Free/Open Source asset...

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14th May 2013, 05:47 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Google Docs ? Whos allowing it? in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall

Yes. As long as you tell ICO. ICO are happy with the fact that the data is held outside of the UK on a secure system under the terms of SafeHarbour. ...

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14th May 2013, 05:39 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Google Docs ? Whos allowing it? in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall

120K Google docs in our domain now... Included confidential stuff. We even set up a link directly to SIMS to export live data so that spreadsheets...

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13th May 2013, 09:10 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Spam Filter Software in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall

I've used mailscanner with good effect: ::: Official Home Page for MailScanner - Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter ::: Another thing I don't have to...

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13th May 2013, 08:51 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Google unifies Gmail, Drive and photo storage: all users now get 15GB of shared space in IT News

It looks like it's going up to 30GB per user for apps users: Official Google Enterprise Blog: Bringing it all together for Google Apps customers:...

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13th May 2013, 02:55 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Desperate for reasons NOT to buy HP Smart switches rather than fully managed in Wired Networks

Spot on.

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12th May 2013, 07:17 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Desperate for reasons NOT to buy HP Smart switches rather than fully managed in Wired Networks

yeah. I stream video over an ADSL line. There are plenty of reasons why you might need gigabit on the desktop, but streaming video isn't one.

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11th May 2013, 09:09 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Mifare Cards, Paxton Net2 and integration with other systems in Physical Security

Get the users to do it themselves. Many hands makes light work !

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11th May 2013, 08:12 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Mifare Cards, Paxton Net2 and integration with other systems in Physical Security

FWIW my understanding is that many systems will use 'any old' RFID code. I'm pretty sure that Papercut devices on MFD's can be configured to ask a...

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11th May 2013, 04:54 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Spring release + Server 2003 = Slow in MIS Systems

It's not close to the 22,000 beta testers they have!

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11th May 2013, 03:50 PM

CyberNerd replied to a thread Desperate for reasons NOT to buy HP Smart switches rather than fully managed in Wired Networks

It entirely depends on the setup. 1GB is certainly worth it with a smallish network, but when things get bigger you start needing 10Gb links to...

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