Everything feels like it's just going backwards. The internet is a horrible place, IT in general is a cesspit and ignorance can only get us so far.
I've been working in IT now for 29 years. Obviously things have a changed a lot, some for the better, much not, and this is probably the modern equivalent of "In my day, this was all fields...". And the one thing that inspired me to write this down, other than a change of medication for "anxiety" for the first time in 20 years is trying to just
A recent thread regarding a popular network management, monitoring & user safety tool has prompted me to scribble another blog post rather than dilute the thread in question. Nothing more needs saying on that, certainly not from my part; I have a habit of putting my foot in it and don't wish to keep doing so
Whilst reading up about who these people "reporting" the security issues are and what they do, I stumbled across an odd mentality. It seems to form around "free speech" and many beli
Firstly, I should make it clear that this isn't a "pro PC" "anti Console" or other sort of platform bias. I've been doing a fair bit of investigation and prodding around with information from before and during E3 whilst I help look after someone's PR for it.
What does someone want in a console?
Get home from school/work/the pub and you want to relax.
Feet up on the sofa.
Controller in hand.
Unwind with game of choice.
That game "only" cost £30. The console was a max of £200.
Everyone's
A non technical review of a server OS, you say?
How so?
Let's start simple.
This thing is rapid. Even on a hard drive, it's lovely and quick. But that's where my joy ends.
Yes, it's a server OS. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me change the colours to something that don't make me think I'm using a Tomy My First Server.
I'll say that again. It's a server OS. So why am I hovering over nothing to bring up menus of nothingness in an entirely counter-intuitive fashion. At no point does intu
Well, what a busy time. First week was quiet. Second week when people noticed things were not where the thought/used to be, thing's got rather busier!
The little niggles aren't anything that would interest anyone. We've worked through a fair amount of software deployments, and I'm really pleased with SCCM - deployments aren't quite as easy perhaps as RM systems but they're so much better. And so far *all* of the packages created for RM systems just work when imported as applications into SCCM
Wowsers. Sitting here now glad today is over in a sense.
It's not been a bad day - users thoughts seem largely positive or non-existent. NM made it very clear at a training day session that we've got a whole new network built from the ground up and there *will* be glitches, there *will* be niggles and there certainly will be missing bits of software. As and when you find those bits of software that used to be buried away deep in the depths of the old system, give us a couple of weeks to get thr
So, it's the last Friday of Summer and our task is far from complete.
Not sure why - bad planning, bad luck, best intentions etc. It'd certainly have been easier if we were allowed to stay for full days but on the other hand I think all of us were appreciative of half days when it was nice out!
We were severely held back by an email hack; we believed at first it was easy passwords but further probing of the staff involved showed this wasn't the case. That was about 3 days of only half conc
I've been quite clear on my stance regarding the "Assange Issue". The guy's intelligent, but not intelligent enough to know to expect consequences from his alleged actions, and not intelligent enough to realise how bad his recent actions make him look.
I'm not personally too fussed on his actions. He did something naughty which showed up someone else to be doing something naughty, that someone else being someone with the power to punish him for it.
That's not a particular problem. He deserves
And things are looking surprisingly well. Few stumbling blocks but nothing to write home about.
First week was always going to be a bit iffy as there were still a lot of staff in. But a great opportunity to build the majority of the ICT suites and break the back of the heavy moving.
But why, why oh why did we have to do that in the one week it's constantly 30ºC?
Despite the email updates and reminders to staff we still had one member of SLT complain when I reminded everyone that Friday w
Didn't get a lot done today, and probably not as much as I'd have liked yesterday with it being the end of term but mostly because some esteemed colleagues were leaving (some of their own accord, some not so much). It's hard watching people that were so obviously well respected and regarded by staff and students alike being pushed out especially when those people have made your own arrival into a new place of work so much easier by offering a listening ear or making you laugh. So the last couple
Right, I've had it. I've had it up to my eyeballs with the media and countless thousands of moronic sheep whining about the Grand Prix currently.
"OMG we can't get in!" "We can't park" and "It's ALL SILVERSTONE'S FAULT".
Why do people get a bit annoyed (understandable tbh) then after seeing someone else's annoyance, automatically attach to their state of mind and change from a sensible human being into a mindless moronic sheep. Sheeple.
Some thoughts for anyone who moans or thinks about
The question is thus.
You may not hold a person against their will. You may certainly not hold a person against their will to make demands of another.
Therefore why on earth is it legal to hold the general public hostage to "make a point" to your employer?
And stop that comment you've already started typing.
I am simply trying to understand one simple thing about striking unions, and yes this is regarding HMRC today. I'm no politician so excuse any ignorance shown here.
I'm not against
It's been a mixed bag, in the last month or so. Started off with a week off - fantastic BT managed to completely murder a phone line install which should have taken 10 minutes. ISP (Sky) were quite good to be honest, considering they were the man in the middle between me and Openreach they handled it quite well. I hope they kick BT's backside because Openreach really is laughable.
So, back to school and the proper good gubbins has arrived for the first of two new servers - shiney new Intel ped
I'm confident enough to say it'll work well. But there's always that little nagging doubt in the back of my mind; the bit that says OK, this was my idea and the majority of implementation and testing is down to me and me alone. If it goes wrong, I'll never hear the end of it!
Anyway, after many successful years of CC3 (I only joined about 16 months ago, personally though) our school has decided to take the bull by the horns and update just about everything. A choice that started in our depart
This blog post comes courtesy of a thread elsewhere on Edugeek as well as ideas brought up from one of the schools I support.
I'll start small. A couple of weeks ago, one of my HT's attended training at a local academy. This academy rolled out iPads for all it's pupils. Naturally he liked the look of this but with a diminutive budget, asked what I could do along the same sort of lines but for half a class.
The logistics were easy enough, just under £6k buys 16 ipads, a dock/box/sync/charger
I rarely blog or speak too much of personal experience outside of the world of geek-dom, because it generally makes me uncomfortable. I am comfortable speaking about computers, technology and the foibles of the human mind, particularly Autistic Spectrum Disorders, because I know them reasonably well and still have the capacity to learn more about them, always finding out new things.
However as a parent of a 1 and 3 year old, I'm starting to be able to add "parenting" to the above list. It's n
I think most people are already well aware of my opinions of Apple as a company, and sometimes this also derides confusion as to whether I also "hate" their products too, so maybe a little detail without a thread are in order, for those that care to read.
I have a HUGE amount of respect for a company that can get into that level of being, where their products' names are used synonymously (is that a word?) to describe larger groups of products in the same way that Hoover did. Is that a good or
First blog post, but this is a subject I don't feel comfortable butting into other threads with or a forum thread of it's own, It's entirely opinion and as a result, people are free to reply with their own opinions or ignore it
My thoughts on "The Cloud" have always been fairly negative, and it's highly unlikely my opinion will change on it until the UK's internet infrastructure is 1. up to it and 2. when 1. is able to do away with the home computer as a fat client.
I will and do talk ab
