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£8000 could be well spent ensuring your core servers are up to date. Do you have appropriate UPS systems in place? Also, +1 for managed wireless.

AVG Free, the inbuilt Windows 7 firewall and common sense. Seems to work ok for me.

I think ours has gone from £124k down to £24k. Excellent.

Oh my, I have a bunch of these from when I worked in the IT shop in Cardiff Uni: A customer walks in, straight up to the network cables, points at one and says to me: "Is this one long enough?" Me: "Long enough for what?" Someone picked up two flash drives and asked me which one was heavier. A customer asked me if the laptops we sold came with the internet. I quickly discovered that most University students, not so hot with the common sense.

Just out of curiosity, is that wage pro rata or has the the term time hours already been taken into account. If it's pro rata that's very low for a London position isn't it?

I have a Computer Science degree from Cardiff and I agree with you. Luckily I have had part time ICT support jobs since I was 16 so when I graduated from University at 21 I had 5 years experience in a couple of different places. For me, experience is just as important if not more important than a degree.

We have ~1100 students on roll, about 120 staff, ~450 computers + servers: 4 IT Bods: 1 x NM, 2 x IT Tech, 1 x Trainee FJF tech. 1 Tech for approximately 100 computers, 275 students, 30 staff.

I tried to catch some fog earlier… …Mist.

More like: "404 - Taste not found"

Just under 2 hours (I rounded up as it was about 100 minutes) for my first tattoo. It's Anti-Flag's Gunstar logo with a black cross in the middle.

Brilliant, love it.

There are 4 year degrees, most of which have a year in industry as part of the course. Most Bachelors degrees however are 3 year courses.

Done it mate, I know what it's like at this time of year for third year students so best of luck!

It's not an infinite supply but I usually have a few in the locker for follow ups! It's only NSFW if your brain is that way inclined :-)

If Bulgaria were to invade Turkey from behind… Do you think Greece would help?

Maybe it boils down to price again? A lot of school budgets are being hit very hard for next year so with PC based systems and virtualisation, maybe Apple realised that cannot compete with the price point a lot of other companies use.

I use Windows and don't get viruses or malware because I use Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware (both free versions). I've begun to think that users are at fault for most virus infections. Also, if it was reversed and 90% of computer users used a Mac, I'm sure there would be plenty more viruses knocking around.

I understand the reference but it could be expanded to say that the reason the lotus is desirable is not the engine but the aesthetics and the chassis. The same engine delivers a better performing car because the weight is greatly reduced because of size and lack of features. They also cost a lot more than a Rover 45 but I would have the Lotus every time (if I could afford it!). Apple's design and the aesthetics of their systems are what sell a large portion of them I would say.

I didn't think reputation was supposed to be used if you disagree with the opinion of a member. Nephilim posted a picture which I thought was relevant to the discussion at hand. Don't negative rep someone if you don't agree with their opinion. If he had flamed the OP or said something insulting that would be different but he didn't even create that picture. Apple Macs and Windows PC's are different, I personally would always prefer building my own PC and in my opinion saving some money in the process. However, Apple has proven they can produce decent equipment and Mac's are very often preferred in certain fields such as media work.

A very well worded argument and sums up almost perfectly the reason why I stick with "PC" based systems. I know you can get the Macs that have the monitor built in but for £220 you can get a 24" monitor as well. Also I'm guessing you meant a 1000W PSU rather than 100W?

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: Server Specification • Dell 210L: o Pentium 4 3.20GHz o 2Gb RAM o 2 x 1Tb HDDs in RAID 1. • OS: FreeNAS 7.3 Sabanda (Rev 199506) Running from USB Flash drive Setup Information Installing FreeNAS Required: • Latest FreeNAS ISO: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/stable/ o Download the appropriate “Live CD” (i386 for Intel processors) • USB Stick (FreeNAS doesn’t need much so anything over 512mb will suffice) Firstly you'll need the ISO and a CD Burner. Burn the disk, format the USB key as FAT and then boot from the CD with only the USB drive plugged in and the SATA controller set to IDE mode rather than ACHI. If all goes well with the boot, select option 9 to install FreeNAS onto the USB stick and follow the prompts. After it’s installed, plug in both hard drives and fire up the system, making sure to change the boot option to the USB stick. Once FreeNAS has booted, assign a specific Ethernet address with option 2 (make sure the network cable is plugged in). Network Settings: • IP Address: • Default Gateway: • Subnet Mask: • DNS: Once these have been set you can use another machine to setup FreeNAS via a web browser. It is recommend that Firefox is used as the management system does not display correctly under IE. Point Firefox to <IP ADDRESS YOU SET> and log on using the default credentials of “admin” for the username and “freenas” for the password. The first thing that should be done is to change the password. Navigate to System > General > Password and change the password to the web management console. Ensure other technicians are aware of what the password is. Disk / RAID Setup: Select Disks -> Management, and then add the each drive successively with the plus button to the right. Finally hit 'Apply Changes' and they should all read 'ONLINE'. Next Select 'Disks -> Format' and format each disk successively with the Software RAID option. This preps each drive, allowing them to be bundled together into a RAID array. Next 'Select Disks -> Software RAID', then click the RAID 1 tab and under the management tab below hit the plus button and add both drives to the array. Remember to check the box 'create and initialise the array' otherwise it won't work. Select ‘Apply’ and the array will be created. Next go back to 'Disks -> Format' and select the newly formed array from the list. This time Format it in UFS. It may take a while because of the size of the drives. Finally, mount the array from 'Disks -> Mount Point'. Hit the plus button, select the array from the drop down list and give it a mount name. Add that and Apply Changes and you're done. You have to enable the services to start transferring data on to it. Next - go to 'Services -> CIFS/SMB' and check enable on the right hand side. Save and restart at the bottom before going into the 'Shares' tab and setting up a directory other PCs can find. Note: When setting up the share, you must create it after the /mnt/ directory otherwise you won’t be using the array. Share Setup: Under Services >CIFS/SMB > Settings: Set the NetBIOS name: <Enter a Name here> Workgroup: <Domain name> Description: FreeNAS Server Under Services > CIFS/SMB > Share > Edit button the access list can be set up. Name: NAS_Share Hosts allow: <IP addresses you want to be able to access NAS Box> Hosts deny: ALL Even though deny is set to ‘ALL’, any values in “allow” will override this. Once the shares have been set up, log in to one of the machines you gave access to and try and navigate to the share: \\"Net-bios name"\NAS_Share Problems/issues: Active Directory integration seems to be very fiddly to successfully configure and may not even be necessary for the function of this server. It took me almost no time at all to get that set up and working. There are lots of websites around that are very helpful and quite a few will even give good advice in terms of suitable hardware. Obviously costs can be an issue but because we had the hardware lying around (even though it was basic) we managed to get a good system set up that can cope with some backup operations without issues.

On PC: Audiosurf I cannot recommend this game enough, just get it on Steam. Seriously.

I'd have to agree with most other suggestions and say to get a console. If you wanted Split screen FPS you'd be spoilt for choice: Call of Duty games, Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Left 4 Dead (Might have split screen on PC I don't know) Just a few examples