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I had a headache for about 24 hours after I had my second jab (pfizer) but overall, side effects were a lot less severe than they were after the first jab for me.

Could you buy one of these then swap the CPU with a 6th gen i3/i5 at a later date?

Yeah. Well. I can do all of that and do 1/1 as well. And I know the square root of 1. I’m therefore the winner!

Yes, having less bandwidth in the 6GHz band is a bit of a bugger but it won’t hurt performance of Wifi 6e devices in this country unless you’re in an area with a lot of 6e access points. It certainly doesn’t make it ‘twice as good in the US’. Even here, in a relatively densely populated area in SE London, I can only see half a dozen or so 5GHz networks mostly clustered on the same low channel. 6GHz networks aren’t going to be as good at penetrating walls as 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, so there will be less noise It’s also worth pointing out that we can use 160MHz channels on 5GHz but but the amount of devices that actually do are minuscule. I’m willing to bet that devices using 160MHz channels on WiFi 6 are going to be comparatively rare too.

There are some spectacular dad jokes here: https://badjokesbyjeff.tumblr.com/

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Virtualisation is one thing, emulation of an entirely different instruction set is another. Yes, Parallels will be able to run a VM on an ARM Mac but it won’t be able to run an x86 OS like Windows or older versions of macOS. I’m sure that the ability to run x86 VMs will come sooner or later but there will be a big performance penalty. Ask anyone who used to run VirtualPC on a PPC Mac. I’m sorry but in don’t think it’s likely you’re going to be able to run CS6 on an Apple silicon Mac and if you can, I don’t think the performance of it will be anywhere near acceptable. Your options are: Suck it up and buy a CC subscription Buy an Intel Mac

What kind of MacBook? An Intel one or one with Apple silicon? If the latter, I don’t think that’ll work. If the former, yes, it will work but in my experience Virtualbox is dog slow. You might be better off getting a copy of Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion if you can afford it.

Apparently, just letting the battery drain on one of those Geobooks is enough to make it forget its bios password. Haven’t tried it myself but there’s a big long thread about them on this forum and that was one of the major complaints about them

On the whole, I agree with what people have said here: there isn’t much reason to go Apple when the majority of the software that your music department is likely to use is available for Windows as well. However, I think there is a caveat to that. If something like Logic is already ensconced in the department, there will be a cost to moving to Windows and an equivalent DAW on Windows outside of the hardware and software. There will be training costs for the staff. There will be the costs in updating the teaching resources, both in terms of the course material and any base files you give to your students. There could be disruption to students who are currently taking the course; I don’t know about you but if I was in the middle of a course (any course, not just Music) and the technology stack changed underneath me, I’d be a mite annoyed. It also worth adding that that although a Mac is a lot more expensive than its Windows equivalent, Logic is a lot cheaper to Education than its competitive products and once you take that into account, the costs even out, with lower end hardware anyway. Don’t know if that’s still the case, admittedly. So yes, not saying to use Macs, not saying not to use them either, just try and see the whole picture. Which it sounds like the OP has definitely done. In that specific case, I’d whole heartedly say to use Windows

You can schedule Macs to start up and shut down. Maybe just schedule it to start up at 9am every morning? If it’s already on, no great loss. If it’s off, it’ll start.

I’m watching that as well. Has some similarities to Invincible on Prime, in that it’s about the children of superheroes. It’s a bit, well, dour to be honest but I think it’s worth continuing with, for now at least.

I’ve got separate data VLANs per building or per hub room in the single building schools. Makes it easier to identify where traffic is coming from, plus keeps the size of the collision domains down.

Yeah, but it’s no worse than a lot of the alternatives and a damn sight better than the others. At least it’s not RM.

Invincible on Prime Three episodes in. It's rather good.

I've used PDQ at a previous employer, they've been very good for me https://www.pdq.co.uk/

I have one of their APs, rather than the switches but for what it's worth, I like it. It does the job well and it wasn't too expensive. I like the InstantOn web portal and Aruba aren't charging a subscription for it so that's good. As far as I can see, the switches are the replacement for the old HPE OfficeConnect line. I've used an 1820 at work and I've got an old 1810 at home. They do the job I want from them and for the price the feature list is pretty good. The InstantOn switches can be managed locally or with the InstantOn cloud service. They're never going to compete with the higher end Aruba stuff but they're not meant to.

Had to have a PCH COVID test ahead of my operation on Friday Not pleasant but by God, why hasn’t anyone said anything about the snot afterwards? If you haven’t had one before, make sure you take a packet of tissues with you. You’ll need them.

Future Networks are based in Romford I think, our schools are in SE London and we use them fairly regularly. Lynx Networks are in Milton Keynes and they serve London as well. European Electronique are in Oxfordshire and we use them on a regular basis for a lot of stuff. Stone serve schools nationwide.

InstantOn access points are managed by the cloud interface, either through the app or the management website. Firmware updates are automatically made available to your devices and are applied automatically. You're given a window to install them but it happens without user interaction for the most part. Just like with Meraki.

I've had my InstantOn for over a year now and it got a firmware update last month.

1) That's an unfair comparison. The AP-505 is an 802.11x AP, while the only InstantOn AP that costs £100 is the AP11 which is 801.11ac. The AP22 is the closest in terms of hardware to the AP505 and that's £170. 2) The AP505 only £500 if you buy them one at a time from retail. You're unlikely to do for a big wifi deployment. Instead, you'll go to your favourite Aruba vendor and say "I have a big wifi deployment coming up, what can you and Aruba do for me?". They'll come back to you with a price far below list, especially if you're a school. If you're buying lots of them for a large deployment, they're nothing like £500. Probably closer to £200 an AP. I don't like that pricing model any more than you do but it's the reality that we live in and that's what we've got to work with. So, is an Instant twice as good as an InstantOn? Tricky question. They can be used in much bigger deployments. They have more features, such as IDS, bonjour publishing, the ability to tunnel over the internet back to a controller and more, but you not be interested in any of that. It depends on your use case and the size of organisation you're putting the network into. The InstantOn covers the basics well, it supports all the usual authentication types, guest networks, captive web portals et al but you may find them a bit limiting for anything but the most basic of networks.

Aruba have three tiers aimed at different kinds of markets. They have their Mobility products, which consist of controllers and ‘Campus’ APs which connect to those controllers. Controllers can be clustered for redundancy or for additional power. They have features like Remote APs, where access points connected to the Internet tunnel back to their controllers and present a wireless network to a remote site as if they’re connected to your LAN. Optionally, you can have multiple controllers managed from a ‘Mobility Master’ to manage several controllers from a single pane of glass. These are designed for very large deployments, with hundreds of APs and tens of thousands of users. They’re aimed at large enterprises and companies. Below that, they have the Instant range which use the same APs as the controller based networks but with a different firmware. These are used without controllers and can be used in networks of up to 127 APs and thousands of users. Instant APs can be converted to campus APs if the size of your network grows and you need the extra power or management features. They compete with the likes of Aerohive and are aimed at medium sized businesses. Finally they have their InstantOn range which are completely cloud managed and limited to 25 access points per site but you can have a lot of sites. They’re aimed firmly at SOHO and these days WFH workers. They’re priced like Unifi APs and are managed similarly to Meraki but don’t have the subscription fee. All three ranges have their place. My MAT has a Mobility infrastructure with coming on for 400 APs. I personally own an InstantOn AP which I like a lot but wouldn’t recommend for a school other than a small primary. I will say that they’ve gone a bit Microsoft when it comes to naming these things, they could have chosen a more distinct name for the InstantOn range to avoid confusion.

Lynx Networks - https://www.lynxnetworks.co.uk/ Future Networks - https://www.futurenetworks.co.uk/ European Electronique - https://www.euroele.com/ I think Stone do it as well - https://www.stonegroup.co.uk/

The account hasn't been restricted for some reason has it? It might be worth looking under the Restricted Users page in the Security and Compliance centre to see if your new user is listed in there https://protection.office.com/restrictedusers Other possibility - is your new school using a third party email filter? If so, has your new user synced to that?