... and 1 man's quest for more freebies.
Years ago I was stung with losing my hard drive without a decent backup. This was in my early days of IT and thought Windows XP would create a DVD using the built in software, oh how wrong I was!
Since then I have been sure, almost OCD, to backup regularly, recently onto an external hard drive. 5 months ago, a good friend of mine posed the question about the best backup solution possible:
“Permanence, Security, Integrity, Accessibility, Redundanc
Hello again everyone! Yep - Im still here, and after a little career break - back at it again. I spoke to quite a few people about Deploying Windows 7 (particularly including Bitlocker) on the EduGeek Stand at Bett (where I lurked with intent for most of the show)... so here is my complete guide to how it is done...
1. Make sure you have got SCCM set up properly.
Sounds simple doesnt it... well its often not quite as simple as it sounds. So, part one is going to deal mainly with getting SCCM
For the past 4 years I have been meaning to attend BETT. I have always had a professional and personal interest in the new, the exciting and the ingenious; BETT has always seemed like the perfect demonstration of all of these from the biggest and smallest players in the education/technology game.
I will not hinder this article by detailing my planning and journey to the event, but I would like to say thank you to Tony Sheppard among others for a series of extremely useful tips as to how and w
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I bought, and, unwisely, didn't check carefully at the time of purchase, a portable SmartBoard S340-1286 from someone on EBay.
When I eventually got round to looking at the thing some months (yes, I know...) later, it turned out to be missing the power supply and also a lead which would have a USB plug on one end (to connect to computer) and a plug a bit like a network plug on the other. Dealers tell me that spares are no longer available for this board and I wondered if anyone out th
... know everything there is to know about every electrical appliance there is, has ever been and will ever be. A knowledge of computers enables you to communicate with washing machines, the hoover, an old VCR machine or a DVD recorder.
Sadly that’s not I how roll. I played with computers when I was young. My career drifted along until I joined the IT department. I stayed there because I got on with my line manager, he offered to train me up. I enjoyed the work, I enjoyed the pay rise more. I
Some may remember my previous post about what bored kids do with their time afterschool. Recently, the cousin to the confectionary based caterpillar turned up. I present to you, the Tiny Paper Snail.
Only school kids can take something so simple and make you go awww.
http://www.edugeek.net/forums/educational-software/57581-strange-problem-eclipse-net.html
Every time I do an upgrade I forget about this
Hooray that I thought I might have posted the answer on here, and I had.
Dear All
I have attached a paper I wrote a while ago on the effectiveness of a BSF project. I know BSF is dead but it does highlight some issues relating to IT outsourcing and other school IT issues. I have taken out some sections as they are either not relevant or may be a little too contentious. Perhaps the conclusions (Section 3) might be the most useful.
Dave O
http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/
you have to type in the words attached to the ships in order to destroy them, so good for encouraging fast typing and spelling accurately. I sent it to our learning support department as they run a typing class after school for weaker kids.
A while back we realised that our tape backup system was not going to last forever so we decided to look into alternatives.
A NAS box is one solution and can be put together fairly cheaply if required so I decided to see if I could build a simple unit and perform a backup using symantec backup exec. We also wanted to snapshot our Xen server for safety.
Here is the documentation of a hassle free experience with NAS and FreeNAS:
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Zenithink ZT180 EPad Review
For a good while I had been looking for a mobile/portable device to act as a storage and display mechanism as well as a ‘quick internet access’ method, to use both at home and at work/on the road. For my family also I wanted the device to allow us all to check emails, facebook, news, bank balance, etc. at a moment’s notice there and then. There were several technology choices available:
I am already a happy iPhone customer, but the unit I find is too small to be u
It's funny how you like some things and not others. For instance I don't like Sigur Ros, {gasp} but I find the "Go" album by Jónsi pretty damn awesome. I'm very particular about melodies...
We'll Edugeek is not going to save the planet with our 20,000th odd ranking! In fact the majority of working done is investigating the evolution of the milky way.
http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_team_graph.php?pr=bo&id=12712374
How to Look Younger Without Plastic Surgery
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110105102719.htm
It's a matter of having ones perceptions habituated , probably surrounded by kids has the opposite effect tho....
Understanding the 10 Most Destruct
If I was going to make myself a new pc (which I do every 2 or 3 years)
here is what I would make myself before Overclockers UK adds the extra vat to its product range (after this week I think)
£65 - mobo - Asus P7H55-M Intel H55 (Socket 1156)
£91 - case - Antec 900 Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
£81 - memory - OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C10 2000MHz Dual Channel
£140 - processor - Intel Core i5 650 3.20GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156)
£60 - hard drive1 - Kingston SSDNow V-S
We've come back this term with a whole load of machines complaining that Windows 7 is not genuine. How nice; after all the money we spend with Microsoft and the various backflips we have to do to get our KMS server working correctly we're being accused of running illegal software!
It would turn out that during the Xmas break I created a new Prism Package which was the new SIMS Update installation. Rather than let SIMS update itself this time round (because it doesn't always work), I thought
Taken from ComputerWeekly - interesting article!
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Net neutrality is a basic value of the internet according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, accusing Facebook and Apple of threatening the web's future development.
Writing in an essay for Scientific American, Berners-Lee named Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendster, among others, as sites that threaten web innovation by "walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the web".
"The web as we know it, however, is bei
I have a theory that we can categorise how comfortable our users are with IT based on the characters out of the Garfield show. Do not worry I am not saying that all your users eat lasagna all day (but that maybe the case I wouldn’t know). Lets take each main character from the show Read More At My Main Blog Here
On the EduGeek forums,
I wish you all a very merry Yuletide and the best of wishes for 2011.
Keep Working hard and take care.
cpjitservices - IT Engineer
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There are many ways to implement a successful 1:1 laptop scheme, below is a list of areas to consider. Each school, college, educational establishment will have its own factors, special areas to consider, below is my list of things to consider.
After the list below, I have included a paragraph of information related to my own specific experience of implementing a very successful Apple Macbook Pro 1:1 scheme. It should also be noted that my school charges a
Holidays for IT support in education are usually full of server and system upgrades as the staff and students are not in and this enables us to take the system down. However at Christmas we get one or two days at the most. This is due to the bank holidays and IT support staff, heaven forbid, wanting to spend time with their families.
Take these few days to do the few little jobs that you have been meaning to get sorted. Below are some suggestions to help you on your way (of course I would n
