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AMC Computers is where we get them from. You can buy 1 or 2 but we found it you get them in boxes of 10 they end up being cheaper.

Around 90 degrees I would say is about right - although a few we did have to bend slightly to around 100 degrees or so but most stay at 90 degrees - including the one in the main hall where the projector is even higher than any of our other projectors. Light beams (including Infra-Red) are not straight lines and spread out. We have over 50 of these installed and all work OK. Try pointing your remote controls to the left/right of you device (either projector, TV, VCR, Virgin Media Box, Sky Box etc.) and you'll see it will still work. If it only worked in a straight line you'd need a sight like you get on a sniper rifle putting on your remote controls and we'd all be shooting our TVs to change the channel!!

No, if you look at the top there's a mirror that the IR beam bounces off. No, the opposite as you use just one finger rather than your whole hand to hold it. After 3+ years of use our students who are not allowed chewing gum still dispose of it in the traditional way of sticking it under a desk!!

Yes it is customisable. You can add different fields and then associate them with a Fieldset that you create. For example I've just added Mobile Phones and created custom fields called Phone Number, IMEI, Carrier and you can also easily created drop-down menus as the choice so I've set a field up that says Contract and PAYG and you select the option from the drop down list. If you set a field as a date when you click in the field a little calendar pops up also. I've then created a Field Set called Mobile Phones and added the fields I mentioned above to it and when you add a new model you can select any of the fieldsets that you've created so when you add a mobile phone it will ask for IMEI number but when adding a Laptop it wont as it's not part of my IT Equipemtn fieldset that I created.

Why would you give them the key? The remotes work whilst in the guards. The keys stay in the IT department and are only used when the batteries need replacing.

If they have identifiable information on them then yes, you should have been encrypting them before GDPR came along. It's not a suppliers job to enable encryption on a computer, it's a Schools/Businesses responsibility to have a Policy on the matter that the IT Department then adhere to.

We use these: They're cheaper if you buy 10+ (or so we've found) and since installing them 3+ years ago no remotes/batteries have gone missing (saving us a load of cash as we used to buy replacement remotes a lot).

Microsoft keep talking more and more about Linux in their Server OS's, even more so with Server 2019 but I'm not really sure if it's simply that they're adding a bit of Linux code to Server 2019 so you can run certain commands or if there is a full blown Linux OS lurking somewhere meaning that you could actually install a Linux based system within 2019 without having to install a Linux OS on your server?

I'm looking at getting one of these: https://uk-store.acer.com/acer-chromebook-11-cb5-132t It's nice and small to use for going around with our PAT testing and auditing kit. Just need to be able to access the URL of our web based asset management system and to be able to use our Symbol/Zebra LS2208 barcode scanner. Will the barcode scanner work with this Chromebook (never used or seen one before) as in affect it's just a keyboard, right? Thanks.

Can you not use SysPrep to prepare the image - I think there is an option to remove the pagefile in that.

Snipe-IT - just started using this after a 6 month test on tracking a small group of laptops and it worked really well showing us the complete history over the 6 months of who had what laptop and for what period of time. It now has over 1050 assets on it from our former spreadsheet. You can add custom fields very easily to it so we shall also be using it to track the last PAT test date so we can easily work out when someones kit is due for a re-test. I've yet to put on our mobiles phones but that will be easy as I'll just create a few new fields to include the IMEI and mobile numbers etc. and then we'll be able to make the old spreadsheet Read Only! All we have to do now is to remember to keep it up to date!...

The answer is that it all depends on what your Schools policies say. For example, some schools say no USB Flash Drives at all, some say they all must be encrypted and others may say they can use them but not for any identifiable data.

Oooh! We've got a Watchguard Firewall we're not using any more so I've just taken a look and it's got a VGA port on the back so I've just opened it up and theres a 320GB HDD in it with 4GB of PC3 1333 RAM in it! No idea what the CPU is so when I get a chance I'll remove the HDD and as there are 2 SATA ports I could bung in 2 HDDs and see what OS will install on it. Just need to think of a use for it now...

They do in New Zealand for example. It works well for them.

Other countries have gotten rid of the equivalent coins years ago. We're so behind the times when it comes to currency, we're very, very late to the game when it comes to polymer notes for example, other countries have been using them for years, they last so much longer saving no end of money by doing so. When we finally get rid of 1p and 2p coins, retailers wont suddenly all put the prices up (or down even) they will stay the same so when you pay using a card it will make no odds. If you choose to pay by cash then it will most likely get rounded up to a maximum of 4p at the most (as we'll still have 5p coins). In New Zealand if you pay by cash (and therefore it gets rounded up) a lot of shops tend to have some sweets at the till so you take a couple of them instead of the 4 cents change you would have previously gotten. I believe that 1c and 2c coins were removed from circulation in New Zealand in 1992 but they are still legal tender, meaning banks will still accept them. This would be the way forward for the UK to prevent the Amusement Arcades at the Seaside from either closing down or swapping out all the 2p coins in the machines to 10p coins!

Silly question, but I assume the OS you have on the computer supports BitLocker as not all do?

SSH and WinSCP are working fine for me Thank you everyone for helping me on my sharp Linux Learning Curve!

What command do you use to access email?

Thank you so much for that! Everything is easy when you know how, and now I know this, file transfers to and from Linux are now easy!

Probably but I've only been using Linux for a few weeks know so what you've just said is literally a foreign language!! I'm copying and pasting the above commands at the moment and just downloaded the software so we'll see how I get on shortly! Thanks all for the replies - greatly appreciated as I'm learning loads about Linux right now on a very sharp learning curve

The websites I've been following use SAMBA or SMB and I've just twigged the reason it's not working is it must be trying to use SMB V1 by default and we all know that's not gonna work if you're on the latest version of Windows 10 due to the Spectre Metltdown vulnerabilities! I'll give the SSH a go in a minute or I'll have to see if anyone knows how to force CentOS to use SMB V2 instead of V1.

I have a Windows PC with a share called LinuxDump on it and I have a CSV file in it that I want to copy over to my CentOS 7 Hyper-V server. I need to copy the CSV file on to my Linux server so I can import it in to my database but I've spent an hour this morning following instructions from dozens of websites and I'm not getting anywhere! Clearly I'm doing something wrong as such a simple thing shouldn't be taking this amount of time so I need some help please?!

Ask your existing IT suppliers if they can get hold of the parts you need and then have a go at fixing it yourself.

I've just followed your instructions and the script completed successfully, however when I open up a web browser I just get 'This page can't be displayed'! I can ping the server so it can definitely communicate with it. I'm not having much luck with this as it's not Rocket Science and I'm following everyones guides/instructions to the letter but each time I try a new version of Linux, try the script or try a manual install I get a different issue each time! With this much bad luck I will not be buying any lottery tickets for a while as I'm clearly on a losing streak!!! [EDIT] I've just browsed to the Admin Console at https://192.168.0.20:9090/ and that works OK so I know I can definitely get to the server OK from my web browser.

Glad you got it sorted. I've spent 2+ days trying to install it on either CentOS or Ubuntu either automatically with their script or manually following any old guide I could find on the Internet. On their website it says it should take 20 minutes! I'm still no closer at getting an install to work after 2 days playing around with it.