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Merry Christmas All!, It's 7:30 here on the east coast of the U.S.

Think about getting my MCDST before June 30 before it retires ... or should I skip it and go for newer ones

Hi George, you know what I saw the other day ... one of ESPN's 30 for 30 films about Red Sox's comeback against those darn yankees in 2004 ... awesome ... but anyway ... have you tried MDT 2010 for deploying windows 7? Just thinking aloud

I went a tech conference at local university, and one of the topics was Windows 7 migration. In fact, that university itself was a microsoft case study for that migration. Attach is link Microsoft Case Study: Windows 7 Enterprise - Villanova University I'll post the most important facts I learned from the Villanova's presentation later. Hope this helps

Anyone going to ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia

Yeah, I live in the US and I don't think they have prepay 3g internet either but I could be mistaken, I know virgin how's prepaid internet usb modem but I'm not sure if it's 3g. For whatever reason, prepay services are not that popular in the US, postpaid is much more popular, or postpaid with no contracts, go figure

totally agree!

I have a B.S. in Information Systems. I receive the basics in most areas of IT, so that I can be prepared for any career I would I pursue in IT. I never thought I would go into help desk but here I am. It's funny how you can think, you might not be interested in field until you actually do it. I'm actually pretty interested in it right now.

I've heard the Sybex book is good and based on amazon review too ...

We were using N Computing in our schools and we have decided to get rid of them across the board in our district. Personally, I didn't tinker with them that much, but, I know there was one major program we couldn't use it for, sunburst: TTL 4, which was necessary program in the curriculum. We are evaluating Wyse thin clients currently. If anyone needs more info, let me know. Hope this helps

The whole model in the US education sector is different since the district are pretty much independent governing school bodies. There are very few standards that are across the board even in surrounding districts. I imagine that are more standards in the UK. Also, I've heard it school administrator who told the IT technician to trace the laptop. As someone who currently works in US, I know all to well the unique of dealing with school administrators who are not well versed in IT policies and for that matter any kind of legal implications that is not directly involved with education.

if you come to philly area, I'll take you guys around my school district and we can go get the world famous philly cheesesteaks. My goodness, just taking about one makes me want to get one right now from south philly

I'm seriously thinking about it haha, or we at least could do rotations or "exchange a tech program" :-)

I actually grew up in the next district over. It was national news here in the US. That school district is the wealthiest in PA (and is part of the famous Main Line) and they provide Mac's to every student that they can take home.

I would def. agree with the other guys here about VMware fusion. I had Parallels, and VMware fusion is better. I recommend Audicity to a teacher because she want to music editing program and it's free. Crossover Games, is supposedly good for running windows game on mac. I don't know much about except it's based on Wine. I learned about these software through article about essential apps for mac ...

I heard crossover is good for games, haven't tried it though

When I found out that I can to do that too ... I was a alarmed too but it has turned out to be a huge lifesaver when the admin password is lost or changed without noticed.

Hi, I work for school district in PA doing help desk. Gareth, I've always wanted to work in the UK, doing IT :-)