steveking

I've fitted an A119v2 and it's good quality. I didn't go for the GPS module, but as you say it's only a tenner.

Mine is wall mounted, and it works fine around the house

I got fed up of years of various rubbish access points and 3 years ago I gave in and bought a unifi ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005VSY0VQ/ ). Coverage is much better than anything I had before, I get full signal everywhere and even in my back yard which no previous WAP managed. It's been rock solid, and I have a limited speed guest AP without routing to my internal network running along with my normal access point. I run the controller on my linux server, but that's not necessary if you only have one AP and don't want to log. I have it mounted in my hallway, and most people just assume it's a large smoke alarm.

I have a mobius too, and it works really well. I bought the capacitor to replace the battery as my old dashcam failed to work properly once the battery had died (I don't think li-ion batteries like the heat of being behind a windscreen all summer, so that meant that it never recorded the last section of video to the sd card). There is a cheap android app which works well with it too. I too have it hard wired to the fusebox, and it's mounted behind my rear view mirror so it's out of sight. It records everything visible (with both edges of the windscreen visible)

Depends for which year group. For year 9 (the first time I get them to use a web server) it's a shared ftp account with a directory for each pupil, and part of the setup instructions are to put their username in the directory box. It's not yet been abused (touch wood, although it's backed up daily so if it was it'd be easy to go back). We use dreamweaver in y9 which is easy to set up with the ftp site. To create the directories it's one line of bash to make a new directory for each username which the network manager gave me as a text file. It's running on a very old box, it'll be some version of Debian and it works just fine. As a teacher it makes marking their work dead easy as I can connect to it from my laptop and then it's one sub-directory per pupil. For A level I have a linux server which runs php, mysql, etc. which is perfect for our A level. As part of our gcse/a level course pupils get accounts on there as I much prefer teaching cs in linux not windows. They can connect to it through putty from the windows clients, or boot into linux directly on the classroom computers. The linux server is running on the old school server, again running Debian.

I also have a Humax box, which has been fine (although you need to press enter more times than really necessary!). It's fine for the catchup stuff live and recorded telly. I really like the skip 2 minutes button which makes adverts almost always vanish with three presses. I also have a nowtv box with plex sideloaded onto it which works fine, although after a server update it's not playing all media so I've been playing with emby which is similar to plex. I think the best way to use kodi is with one of those mini android boxes, but I've not actually tried it for years (it used to be xmbc right?)

My case originally had a PII233, I bought it from CCL in, I guess, 1998. I've only just stopped using the cherry PS/2 keyboard I bought at the same time, and only because my server upgrade means USB keyboard needed :-( The beige case has a black 3.5" front USB port, which looks a bit odd, but sod it.

Mine's skynet too, as my ISP is Sky... also I have openwireless for passers by and guests

We have a few SLRs and also a really small, and incredibly thin, Sony. We use the SLRs for the pupil portraits and general life around school photos (prospectus, visitors, etc.) and often lend out the Sony for trips. We don't get blurry pics with the SLRs, but then the two of us who do most of the photography are 'togs so we know what we're doing. I've taken a school SLR on school expeditions around the world, and it's still working fine - but then I do try and look after it. When we lend non-photographer staff the SLR I just stick everything on auto and tell them not to change any settings. We go for the Canon xxx d range for school kit, it's good enough for what we need (my own is a 5d3 so compared to that the xxx d are a heap of plastic junk!). If you're getting an SLR we get second hand ones from MPB. However, for some reason our school replaced the brick of a Nokia (battery life measured in years, ui a blind idiot can use) with some stupid windows phone (battery life measured in milliseconds, and a user interface so bad that not even a teenager can cope) as the school trip phone, as apparently staff wanted to take photos using it... whoever's idea that was needs a jolly good meeting with a LART!

Our P75 had a soundcard, pretty sure it was made by Aztech... it was almost, but not quite, a sound blaster pro clone... playing games in those days was a challenge just to get everything loaded up and working! Tell a kid about IRQs now and they'll wonder wtf you're on about! They don't know they're born.

Do Citizen still make printers? We had one of them, first attached to a BBC, and then an Olivetti 286, and then to the Escoms. Still nothing as good as the laser printer attached to the mac... the padded apple bag for the laser printer was HUGE (at least to me as a little kid) (I can attach that as Apple don't make printers any more!)

We had a 486 and P75 made by Escom... I tried a win95 preview on the 486, it couldn't cope. They did all come with OS2/Warp as well as Windows (with PC Dos to save a few quid!)

Hi I use backuppc to backup two linux machines, the second one added quite a bit after the first one. The guide I used is: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/588/Introduction_BackupPC_part_1 I can't remember the steps I went through to get the second client working, but I guess I just worked through the relevant parts of the tutorial. I don't remember anything being hard or not working, which means it was probably very simple.

Yes with the calibrating (I have an x-rite display calibrator, but it's very similar to the spider), and also yes for using a proper lab (but not photobox, a proper lab!). The lighting levels in the room matter too, which is why when you're not calibrating the screen the sensor sits under the monitor and adjusts the screen depending on the ambient lighting colour. I get photos printed at dscolourlabs, who are always quick (some photos I sent on Monday afternoon turned up Tuesday morning, and that's normal). They have their printer/paper profiles to download on their website, have instructions as to how to get them into photoshop and will also send you a calibration print to compare to your monitor if you don't have a calibrator. But you really want to use a screen calibrator and use a nice display, not a cheapo lcd. You'll never get good photos from a laser, don't even bother trying to make it better! Print Prices - DS Colour Labs and postage is £4ish I think. (I don't work for them, I just use them far too much)

We have an annual house quiz, and for that I made a flowol program using a breakout board (can't remember what it's called) with some pressure pads as inputs. Only one team can press at once (it auto resets after a few seconds) and makes a different noise for each team as well as flashing the buzzing house's colour on the screen. It all runs off a laptop which is about as old as Noah's Ark which only sees the light of day for one week each year. If I was to do it today I'd probably do it using a raspberry pi or an arduino and write a program to run it. Probably a pi so it'd be easier to connect to a projector and speakers.