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Senior Technician and Consultant
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Ramsgate
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I'm currently riding a 2014 Honda NC 750 XA which has about 30,000 on the clock. As I don't drive a car I use it all year round and have been all over the country on it. She's scuffed and has paint coming off the radiator and engine casing but she's a solid bit of kit. Long term though she is going to be replaced with a Yamaha FJR1300 as I want a shaft drive with more grunt for 2 up long distance riding as my fiancee wants to ride pilliuon during the summer months so we don't have to use the car.
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I would agree with everyone else in that an SSD upgrade either 120 if your image size is small enough and a RAM upgrade to 8GB will give them a whole new lease of lifeand they will run Windows 10 just fine. Sent from my WAS-LX1A using EduGeek mobile app
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A primary school that we support is in looking at buying some tablets and I'm in need of some recommendations to take to them. I need to find options for both Windows 10 and Android both options need to have wireless charging and storage cabinets, detachable magnetic keyboards and be as childproof as possible. The only other thing is they cannot be Learn Pads.
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I have been asked to come up with a way to allow 2 schools who use different internet providers to share data between themselves. The other school has already looked at using SharePoint and OneDrive but has ruled it out as they said it was not responsive enough. I have thought about a VPN but the other school uses the counties broadband system and its a real pain to connect through that if you are outside of it.
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Okay I will admit that I have spent too long now doing business support for the firm I work for but now I have been tasked with building designing and building a new school network. This also entails creating all the group policies for staff and students from scratch. What I'm after is a bit of a cheat's guide to help me speed up the process as I am having to do everything from printer and share deployment through roaming profiles to locking down the systems. The school goes from reception up to year 6 and uses a mix of laptops and desktop pc's along with laptops for all the staff. I have also got to document all the group polices used and the impact that they will have on security so any help will be gratefully appreciated.
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Just got back to the office after being out on calls since 9.30 am and covering about 50 miles on my bike. Got asked by my boss if it was raining outside
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We use sage here and the password part is done by Sage itself. When it was first set up it created a random password for each person but you can go and change it.
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The firm I work for switched to electronic payslips in April and so far we have had no problems with them. They are emailed to us as a password protected pdf file and the only person who knows that password besides the recipient is the person who does the wages.
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I'm due an upgrade in January but have been able to upgrade online for about a month but I want a "deal" from Vodafone as I have been with them for 12 years but I can only get a deal on on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus if I call them
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We have already looked and it has to be done with wireless there is no way to run a cable. With regards to interference it is a straight line of sight with no obstructions externally. Internally in the in the target building there are 3 exposed steel roof trusses which my boss is aware of but he says they should not interfere with the wireless signal.
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We cannot run a cable as the people who own the buildings do not own the ground between them so it has to bed wireless.
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I am looking for a simple and cheap solution for an on going problem. We have 2 buildings seperated by about 20 meters of open ground. In building one is a router which has a directional antenna attached to it aimed through a window at a dormer window building 2. The aim of this is to provide wireless internet access to building 2. All the way across the open ground right upto the wall of building 2 you can access the internet via the wireless with no problem. However once inside building 2 you can still see the wireless signal but it is very difficult to connect to it and when you do manage too you cannot browse the net. The ideas I have throwing around are: a) to set up a wireless bridge between the 2 buildings but that would mean replacing the router in building one as the current one doesn't support bridging and then installing a second router and an AP in building 2. b) to set up a repeater in building 2 attached to an omni-directional antenna located as high up as we can get it. Any other ideas or suggestions gratefully received as I have to give my boss an answer by end of work today
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Thank you for that I'll give it a go when I get back to work on Monday
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Thank you I've found a script online that I'm trying to modify as well but I think it is a bit on the complicated side. It seems to work but it uses a lot of variables and seems to have written to backup someones user profile which is useful but not what I'm really after
