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17th June 2013, 02:47 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Spec for a new PDC in a Primary School in Hardware

a spare is good :) over the years i have preferred WD over others. the face that alot of OEM's use them must be a sign that they are either...

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17th June 2013, 11:54 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Which distro? in *nix

alot of distro's dont ship with the require codecs etc for common formats its to do with licensing. adding some 3rd party repo's and you will be...

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17th June 2013, 11:41 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Which distro? in *nix

XFCE is your friend, i cant stand alot of the flashy modern linux GUI's

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17th June 2013, 11:16 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Which distro? in *nix

wiped my win 7 pc (4GB low power athlon) and installed fedora 18 XFCE on it quite please so far some teething issue due to the fact i havent used...

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11th June 2013, 10:35 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Which distro? in *nix

xubuntu works well i have used it on old P4's

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6th June 2013, 04:26 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Spec for a new PDC in a Primary School in Hardware

this if you have to compromise :)

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6th June 2013, 04:21 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Spec for a new PDC in a Primary School in Hardware

for me i wouldnt put SATA drives in a "front line" server not only because of the seek times etc but also alot of SATA drives arent rated as high in...

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6th June 2013, 04:03 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Spec for a new PDC in a Primary School in Hardware

i think the companies who are saying the spec is "too" low are just trying to get you to spend more money... you might find you need to trim back...

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6th June 2013, 08:18 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Released in *nix

has the network config been changed as in the later versions of centos for example you have to manually set the LAN to come up on boot.

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4th June 2013, 03:04 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Spec for a new PDC in a Primary School in Hardware

indeed better to have plenty of space, id also would have like to have a "hot spare" even if it wasnt plugged it for the "just in case" moment of a...

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4th June 2013, 02:27 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Spec for a new PDC in a Primary School in Hardware

put a new server in a small primary last year. used a single socket Xeon HP DL360 with 8GB RAM and R5 (around 300GB in size) not virtual but for...

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4th June 2013, 11:41 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Deploying CS3 in Windows

are you using the deployment tool which Adobe provide for building a serialized package?

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24th May 2013, 12:34 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread checking what patches have been installed in MIS Systems

ok thanks for the help. i was a little concerned that a patch from march was being queried. we have the latest release installed so no need to...

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24th May 2013, 09:11 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Kyocera printers - what are they like? in Hardware

the older style mita series (FS1800 -1920) are imo better made and require less looking after as the major parts (fuser etc) appear more durable than...

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23rd May 2013, 03:46 PM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread checking what patches have been installed in MIS Systems

hmmmm ok running scripts on the actual table seems a long winded but might be my only option... ahh the joy of SIMS lol

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23rd May 2013, 02:52 PM

SHimmer45 started a thread checking what patches have been installed in MIS Systems

as per the title, the lady who deals with the processing of data to county wants to know if a correcting patch has been applied for FSM i think the...

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22nd May 2013, 11:54 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread What are you reading at the moment? in General Chat

sonofsanta ahh i get your meaning from ruined now you expanded on it...

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22nd May 2013, 10:56 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread What are you reading at the moment? in General Chat

how so, i have quite a few friends who have started reading the genre after seeing a bit of the TV show (which is fine but imo you need to read the...

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22nd May 2013, 10:08 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread What are you reading at the moment? in General Chat

waiting for the next game of thrones book. keep meaning to start reading WoT again. not long finished the 1st book in the mist born series by...

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20th May 2013, 11:59 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Adding an AP to the network? simples? in Wireless Networks

i would attempt to another AP which is the same make and model to match the existing AP's if possible it makes it easier to manage them.

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20th May 2013, 10:58 AM

SHimmer45 replied to a thread Best way of allowing Staff to update SIMS? in MIS Systems

staff have raised access on teacher workstations, this have only been needed for this and the previous upgrade. found that a shortcut had been...

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