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Interestly same as lot of people I have a good immune system due to working in schools. But for first year after my son was born I had got everything under the sun... Russ

Couch to 5k is based on similar basis to Fartlek... I have just started to get fit again after many years of being unfit. Unfortunately I haven't got time to do any serious running. So going to have to stick with wii-fit and some of the exercise DVDs I have. Russ

The LEAMIS meetings end up on EIS. If you pm your email will forward the email of the right person within LEAMIS so that you get told about them. Also make sure you get emailed with date of the meal. Yes would be good to talk. Russ

Hi Matt yes a cross city/county meeting would be very good. I see you got a date 5th July is that confirmed. Wil make sure I can attend let me know if need help with speakers. @camel In terms of county schools the LEAMIS meetings very useful Russ p.s On another note (post to go out soon) I am organising a meal for Leicestershire/Leicester (and anyone else who wants to come) at local Pizza hut at end of term just a get together..

An interesting find alternative to groundworks and nagios. Zenoss Community - Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Management

Main thing is that if your twitter account is seen having an automated bot post updates they remove account from the search. So it made sense that we split the accounts up. russ

We have for while had the twitter account EduGeekUK which has twitted the posts from our forums and blogs. Recently the twitter name edugeek became available so we quickly grabbed it. We have decided to change the name of the EduGeekUK to EduGeekFeed to describe accurately what this feed does. We will use the EduGeek twitter name to have a more personal presence on twitter.

I went on course/intro day about mobotix and this site was mentioned. Camere de supraveghere - - en Mobotix, camere IP, camere de supraveghere, supraveghere video, IP camera, camere IP65, DVR (digital video recorder), CCTV, DOME, PTZ (pan - tilt - zoom) You can search through 100's of camers. Russ

Useful thanks I can't see the level 2 online (can see in person courses) unless I am being blind?

Mobotix cameras here they are very good. Had police comment how good they are. Did show the footage from cameras used in store that was bombed. Russ

Like Shaun just no way that could of said I could be there at anytime otherwise I would have been there in real life. Russ

James I told you i only do that at weekends ... To much info... sorry...

How about Bacula, the Open Source, Enterprise ready, Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows not used it myself but recommended by other people.. russ

Slideshare Account. EduGeek.net Presentations

slideshare account now setup i am uploading as speak.

I would say the SLT have to make one of two choices buy into RM support or replace the RM network?

To be honest I would always rebuild is just cleaner way of doing it.

Pm sent.. Russ

The Academies programme is interesting really in one day the government in effect has changed whole focus on what a Academy is. As pointed out you get 25K to cover admin costs and you get 10% back which la keep at moment but you will still spend that 10% as not being part of LA means you do not have access to SEN and ESOL services to name a few. So the question becomes can you save and get some of the services that would be done by LA at cheaper rate elsewhere etc. Russell

Right so JE level as it stands is this: - Everyone starts of with level 1. If your job means you do Knowledge and skills at level of IT1 then you go level 2. More levels the more pay. But some areas will have a higher weighting vrs others. So for sake of this you need to Relevant Job Information so at IT1 as junior tech do you do that. But also compare je levels with other je levels in the other job roles. Next Week I am going to go into detail with the doc. Russell

No one is paid at at any level with in these as no pay grades have been assigned (remember this has no relations to any pay grade scheme you are in etc)

I am getting this confirmed but I understand it following: - Competencies that will be defined by IT NOS So let me use real example for the rest: - IT Support 1 If your current Responsibilities matched IT 1 you would be accessed at that level. Then they would look at headings under Job Evaluation Assessment and each one of those is level you would be working at. So for example Knowledge and skills in IT1 is more basic compared to IT3. The JE levels I need to get confirmed but I believe that this is where job fits with the new scale. If that is the case then I have disagreement with the levels and how they match up. Once JE us confirmed later to me I will update. To my mind lets focus on the descriptions etc fairly obvious: IT1 Junior Tech IT2 Senior Tech IT3 - Network Manager What problems there are which there is a number. Russell

Attached for your viewing is draft technical roles released by SSSNB. They are going to be tested against a number of LAs to see how they match up with current roles within schools. UNISON are doing a consultation so see your local branch on how they want the feedback. I have also inquired on how as org how EduGeek.net can pass on your views by way of an official response. Some obvious things need changing but if put your views across then I hope I can get them across to the right people. Regards Russell SSSNB Specialist and Technical Role Profiles - version 4 - 17 May 2010.doc

Just got to say yesterday we had confick outbreak and we managed to clean the network and keep it running got only 4 machines out of order till I confirm they are clean. Russ

Just playing with Cnectd seems interesting wonders how much will cost when comes out of beta. The only problem I have got at moment is getting the Facebook connection to work probably. Russ