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Will be ordering 10 more of these to replace broken ones. Out of the 50 I oredered in 2013 I still have 25 or so still working. The main thing that fails as I said in prev post is the 3.5mm plug end. This is strangly weak as other parts are re-enforced. Another factor wich has helped them last longer is that we do not leave them out all the time. We keep them in a box and they are put back as soon as a group are finished with them. Here is a pic of them.

+1 for Refurb HP Server kit. If your worried about hardware failures for these prices you can afford to get two servers and have a failover cluster with hyper-v. Also on backup software would reccommend ALTARO for hyper-v backup. Works flawlessly and is much cheaper than VEEAM.

At least you can rip a DVD. VHS copy for a 90min film takes 90 minutes. I know audio tapes can be copied faster than real time have no ideas how professional mass VHS duplicators did it!!! As VHS uses helical scan on wide tape. Must have been a nightmare back in the day.

Chuffed!! Found a place in Burnley selling them at £150! Just googled also had Hitachi EDA-100 which was recently damaged after i bought new lamp for it. So can use new Lamp in the refurb unit plus I know for sure the existing mount will work Happy days!

I have 4 spiking Promethean IWB's and it is proving a pain to get a replacement PCB. Will be replacing with LCD touchscreens in a few years but in the meantime I need some cheap refurb IWB's to replace them. Not fussed about make needs to be around 78" (2m) diagonally in size.

Remember the Casios don't require filter cleans either so very low maintenance. I am replacing with lampless as old projectors fail.

Hi, I have a Hitachi ED-x10 which is working OK but I want to take it down and move elsewhere. No remote either!

Anyone know if the Smart 6065 with SMART’s "proprietary DViT® (Digital Vision Touch) technology" has anything approaching the Surface Hub in terms of touch accuracy. How does the board detect you have red or black pen? In the old way just detecting that the pen is out of it's holder? The Surface touch will start at £5000 in the UK http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/134225-microsoft-surface-hub-to-cost-5k-and-that-s-just-the-starting-price

2nd hand Promethean Boards anyone? Looking to replace some (x4) faulty (or intermittently faulty)(spiking or not detected) ProActiv (purple) boards. Anyone know a supplier of used boards? We just need to get through a looming ofsted as a short term measure. In the longer term we will get touchscreens. Preferably need the older type as we want to use our existing wall hooks and cabling. Are the circuit boards for these still available?

sorry to hijack, since refreshing our clients to Win 7 64bit have had some boards which refuse to work or will spike. Solved some by using serial connection, ferrite cores, 32bit windows or a combination of the three. Also had builders in who re-sited some boards neccessitating USB extensions and since then even more issues. Have 2 boards which still spike and 1 which refuse to be detected using serial connection and USB adapter. Can't afford new boards or touchscreens as projectors only 1 year old. Also am using USB extensions on many boards with work ok 80% of the time USB Superbooster Extender Is it worth trying to source 2nd hand ActivBoards (so i can hook them on the existing wallhooks) or get new Promethean board or are the Hitachi/genee board (or anything to get us through looming OFSTED in Janurary) Can you get the circuit board replaced if that is the issue?

Seems same as last friday. Although through cached dns it seemed semi on. As we hadn't lost connectivity just a proxy server. Bgfl filtering also blocks third part dns traffic such as 8.8.8.8 so no dice there. Could actually get to bbc (404 page) via their IP address but CSS and JavaScript obviously don't load

Its back everywhere I believe

You don't have to use the same MIS and finance package. We were... CMIS + CMIS Finance then SIMS + FMS then -Academy conversion- SIMS + CMIS then now ScholarPack and PSFinancials Unfortunately we still have to keep CMIS to access previous financial years data. I wouldn't reccommend PSFinancials as they are more focused on coporate needs than education.

Would you rate the Keene Extender?

@Oaktech Do you know if the remoguard mirror works well or is it hard position it correctly so the projector picks up the IR signal? Have you any experience of using them? Guessing this depends several factors such as remote IR transmitter strength, IR receiver strength and line of sight/ambient light issues. Would only be buying for the hall initially but if they work well would get them for all 25 classrooms.

Thank for all your suggestions. I wanted to avoid the full blown control panel setup due to cost and complexity (stuff to go wrong). Like the Remoguard but bars going across seem to interfere with actually pressing buttons. Like the mirror feature though. Will have a google to see if there is something slightly different to the RemoGuard.

Hi, We have some issues with remote controls going missing occasionally. I've just had an idea to solve this. Wall mount the remote and use an IR repeater to control the projector/device. Infra Red Do edugeekers think this would be feasable?

Surely any laptop under 10 years old has battery management that stops damage to batteries due to always being on charge?!? Certainly any Li-Ion batteries. Charging Li-Ion batteries should only be charged to 80% for optimal life. Explaining the Do's and Don'ts of Battery Charging - Battery University Apple (United Kingdom) - Batteries - Why Lithium-ion? Surely the chip in the battery is capable of doing this automatically?

A funny but scary look at Computer Security from James Mickens Another great video of his

Every School in Birmingham gets Policy Central Enterprise from Link2ICT but I wouldn't recommend as its needs java and like securus has to be tuned to avoid false positive words such as assessment and assembly cause alarms to go off!! Is updated for extremist words now. Personally If we weren't getting Policy Central for free I would look seriously at Impero

I recently had a need to know if my windows update scheduling was working on my servers. I cobbled together a startup script to send an e-mail to myself. This was just a quick and dirty method that took no time at all. I realise if I had more time there are better ways of doing this without resorting to third party tools etc. set hostname="C:\WINDOWS\system32\hostname.exe" %hostname% > %hostname_results%# for /f "tokens=1" %%x in (%hostname_results%#) do (set host=%%x) del /f /q # > nul 2>&1 \\domain.sch.uk\SYSVOL\domain.sch.uk\scripts\blat.exe -to [email protected] -f [email protected] -server smtp.mailserver.org -s "Server %host% rebooted" -body "This server has been rebooted possibly to unstall updates" Credit for the clever bit to add the hostname from Packetwatch Research You will need to download BLAT and copt it to a share (used sysvol for no real reason) You could add blat to a folder in your path such as c:\windows \system32 if you wish I then just used a GPO to add a startup script for the servers in the correct OU

Correction the surface hub has not infrared. Woo! But probably too expensive for interactive whiteboard use as Surface Hub is aimed at large corperates who spend big bucks on their conference rooms and specialised video conference equpment

For writing with a stylus/pen a old school activboard is better than a avtivpanel or CleverTouch. There are still no affordable 30" + capacitive touch screens available due to the limitations of capacitive technology. Was hoping the surface hub was capacitive but I read that it is infrared. Although the new PerceptivePixel tech in this device is exciting and should be a huge improvement ober exisitng large format touch screens. http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/meet-surface-hub-microsofts-take-on-videoconferencing/ Any ideas of how much better the Surface hub will be over a CleverTouch or Promethean activpanel? I'm dissatisfied with the state of IR tech I have used i.e. an object breaks the beam of light 0.5cm above the glass ad that is concidered touch detection when i havn't touched the screen Also parallax is an issue. I wonder how much of an improvement the surface hub is? Hopefully MS will have some hubs available at BETTto see.

This topic has come up before but there is a new tool I found today for stopping accidental drag drop events on shared folders. http://broken-e.com/dragdropconfirm/ The other way to do this is to not add you file servers into the intranet group in IE which results in a security warning which is a less elegant solution.

Another evil trick is enabling VoiceOver. Nearly smashed an iPad that had this enabled before i googled how to operate an iPad with VoiceOver.