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Sooo, unless you are in the market for an underpowered laptop, it's all back to the status quo before TAP was introduced?

^This. Isn't Valve teaming up with HTC? So I think you'd need an HTC, and probably something pretty powerful. The M9 when its released perhaps? I know Morpheus on the PS4 isn't due till next spring. If Valve and Facebook (Oculus) are working to similar time lines then I wouldn't bet on it being this Christmases must have, maybe next - if at all. To my mind the one to watch is Microsoft, their HoloLens looks like a more sensible take on the whole VR/3D/Immersive glasses technology.

If you are using an 8-drive RAID-10 array, partition around 80Gb, max 120Gb for future proofing?, for the OS and install on there. Somehow I'm (personally) not comfortable with the idea of running Windows off a USB stick...

I'm not sure there is a normal routine any more. Maybe... BEGIN Check E-mail Drive To Work Make Coffee IF crisis THEN check Internet AND check SIMS ELSE check EDUGEEK FOR hour=1 TO 8 BEGIN IF meeting THEN attend ELSE BEGIN IF coffee = 0 THEN refill IF staff = 0 THEN cover IF crisis THEN check Internet AND check SIMS IF money>0 THEN place orders IF money<0 THEN plan budget IF time = free THEN do project AND check EDUGEEK END END Drive home END

Probably/usually not - but it does depend on how they are set up. I'm not sure if there is an exception for straight LDAP authorisation, but if the device makes use of a service offered by the server then it should have a CAL. An example might be a photocopier scanning to a shared folder. Depends on individual circumstances, but usually very good value. General rule of thumb - if you have more computers than staff then EES is the best way to go for desktop licensing. For server licenses it really does depend on your planned upgrade cycle - EES is usually worth while if you upgrade your server OS/databases less than every 6 years, or there about.

You need to purchase Y number of CAL's. Each device (be it printer, server, desktop, access point) that actively uses resources provided by the server needs a CAL. The only time CAL's are included in the cost are with the Core and Premium Desktop Suites under EES.

Be careful basing you licenses on what is included in the VLSC. Who are you buying your licences from and are they subject to a group discount? For example if you purchase them through your LEA or via a reseller who processes them through your LEA's agreement. In these cases the VLSC will show software licensed to other institutions that have been purchased through the same license agreement and you may not be entitled to use that software for your institution without purchasing additional licenses. First check through filing cabinets and trawl e-mail archives for any records of licenses bought. Then contact your usual reseller and ask them to check their records on what licenses they have sold you. Finally contact your LEA and see if they hold any records of licences you have bought in the past. If in doubt, the best way to cover your backs is to look at EES. It's an annual subscription based on the number of staff employed by the school and can cover all your desktop licence requirements - Windows, Office, CALs, even AV and useful extras like SCCM. Servers always need licencing separately so if you can't find suitable licences they can be included in the EES subscription at extra cost, or bought as separate perpetual licences depending on your planed upgrade cycle. In short - contact your resellers and ask them, if in doubt sign up for EES.

I've been following this on GAF and Eurogamer. Interesting. NX looks like new dedicated gaming hardware. Opinion seems split whether its a 3DS replacement, Wii-U replacement, Hybrid system replacing both, of something else entirely. By all accounts it really doesn't look like NX itself would be aimed at the smartphone market, more Nintendo are working with a mobile publisher to bring new Nintendo games based on existing Nintendo characters to smartphone platforms.

We've had a suite for about two years now. Only recently has the teacher complained about loud fans. I think they may need the old air duster treatment. I certainly don't think the room is loud at all. Still, personally I've moved to and prefer the more complete all in one solutions like their Clip Touch model. Last computers we bought were the Stone non-touch version of that model and have been very well received - pupils and staff love them and we don't seem to be getting the damage we'd seen with more traditional desktops.

@fiza - I noticed you stopped before having to spell 'pompitous' (I googled it ). @Chipie -

Depends on size of school/network and budget available. FC is great, but I've seen switches come in almost as much as we paid for our entire storage array (16x SAS and SSD's included). Our network is a little non standard for a combination of budget and legacy setup reasons - we use two Windows 2012R2 servers with loads of drives in each and got them to mirror each other with various technologies such as Hyper-V Replica and DFS-R. If I was to start again from scratch I'd do things a little differently... For context we are a 700 pupil school with around 250 clients and 30 virtual servers running across 3 host servers. I'd have a JBOD array connected via external SAS to two head servers running Windows Server 2012R2 Storage Spaces and Cluster Shared Volumes. Personally I'd use 2Gbps bonded NICS to connect the head servers to the virtual hosts using iSCSI. For a school our size or slightly larger that should provide plenty in terms of speed and reliability, especially if you use SAS and SSD drives in the JBOD, and should come it at an affordable price. When I got quotes recently about £10k-12k was average for this type of set up. That was with one head server, so nearer £15k complete?

We pay the spoon subscription so can get the latest silverware. We've decided to stick with Spoon v7 for the time being, although Spoon X is looking promising. Still we get a lot out of the subscription since we get good access to the rest of the cutlery as well under the subscription. With Cutlery Assurance we get a really cool tool that lets us repackage yoghurts and use them with any Spoons thanks to the virtual pot technology

2 Bing, 3 Google. Then tried a Bing search on Bing itself. The results look fugly, so I'm back to Google

I thought claims of a media stunt a little far fetched, does this show really need to drum up publicity to increase audience share? (note - I haven't seen any viewing figures for recent episodes, just imagine they are relatively healthy). Then I saw this: BBC News - Jeremy Clarkson approached BBC bosses about 'fracas' The last line... See this petition, see how popular we are, give us more money?

Oh, wow - I missed this yesterday. Truly gutted. Before his time.

Looking at the console now: MSI, appx, app, appv-4, appv-5, xap, mobile cabinet, ipa, apk, OS X, exe's, bat, just about anything that can be launched via the command line... APP-V is the most impressive. You can repackage any msi, exe, or whatever, into an app-v package that runs in its own virtual environment on the client without effecting the clients registry or interfering with other installed apps.

If you have, or are looking at EES licences for Office and Windows on the client then SCCM is included in the price. Also, if you are looking at EES then MDOP is very cheap on the subscription price and gives App-V which is another option for application deployment. The other thing with SCCM is to look at what else it does, not just package management. Anti-Virus, OS install (WDS), Updates (WSUS). It's a bit of a beast but once set up is pretty powerful and offers a lot of functionality for the price.

*starts petition to replace Clarkson with Kim Jong-un*

Still going after 4 seasons. There was an older USA attempt, but the current run proves its about getting the right 3 presenters, which they have done, and sticking to the UK format. I can't believe there isn't another Oaf in telly land (or can be employed into telly land) that can stand next to May and Hammond and shout POWEERRR every now and then. I like Clarkson, hope it doesn't go, but he is far from irreplaceable. Tanner Fraust, the rally driver teaching May in the last episode, is one of the US presenters, and was introduced as such.

I don't understand this attitude. Again, having seen the American version of Top Gear when they put on BBC 3 a couple of years back, the format holds up very well without them. It's just (!?!) a matter of finding the right group of entertaining petrol head hosts. Clarkson isn't the only buffoon who could fill that role.

That's assuming a) the show is picked up by another broadcaster, and b) it's not Sky. If it stays where it is I can continue to enjoy watching it without any problem thanks. The licence fee is a poor argument. I pay the licence fee. I watch maybe 2 or 3 programs a year on the Beeb, Top Gear happens to be one of them. I detest Eastenders. Since I pay the licence fee I think they should replace all the programs I don't watch with ones I do. And, especially get Eastenders off the air!

But I'm a license payer and I like watching it... ...maybe the answer is to scrap the license? Then 'if you don't like it, don't watch it'

300,000 want Clarkson back: BBC News - Top Gear: 300,000 sign petition supporting Jeremy Clarkson

Not at all. Over reliance on speed cameras, lack of sufficient traffic cops, no regular re-testing, keep taking your test till you squeeze a pass, possibly even the driving age (17 too young?). There's plenty of reasons for our poor driving standards. A pensioner shouting "POWEERRRRR" at a camera isn't one of them

We're having managed wifi installed over the summer (fingers crossed) and have been advised by a couple of the bidders (for the contract) about trying to use 5ghz over 2.4ghz, so this is a thread/subject I'm very interested in at the moment. @VeryPC, do any of your laptops include 5ghz N wireless as standard? If so are you able/willing to disclose starting prices for those models? I think I'm going to be making 5ghz a part of our standard laptop spec when we do our next refresh in October.