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I don't know about cages, but we've started using Stone Computers - very quick and efficient service. I'd recommend them highly. Also their computers are excellent, with next day on site warranty and they offer managed services so a decent all round company. NB I do not work for Stone Computers, not receive any kickbacks...but if Stone are watching this post, I'll happily receive free gifts!

Audio Visual Technician Ashville College seeks to appoint an experienced Audio Visual Technician to provide technical advice and support on all Audio Visual needs at the College. The post holder will be expected to manage the day to day running of Audio Visual requirements and will work in conjunction with a small IT team in the overall provision of IT services across the college. The ideal candidate will be experienced in audio visual setups including presentations, theatre productions including lighting and sound. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly to cover the needs of productions, assemblies and other events across the college calendar, which may involve some evening and weekend work. The post is offered on a 30 hour per week basis, term time only, at a salary of £15,000 per annum (£20,000 full time equivalent). Ashville College is an HMC, Co-educational boarding and day school of 770 pupils. Job details and an application form are available to download from www.ashville.co.uk. Closing Date: 12th August 2014 Interviews will take place in the last week of August Please return completed application forms to [email protected] The Human Resources Manager Ashville College Green Lane Harrogate HG2 9JP The College is committed to providing a safe environment for its pupils and staff. Applicants for this post will be required to provide proof of identity at interview and will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check before starting work.

We've managed to install it onto CC4 finally - took a while, but the issue was compounded by Smoothwall and it's automatic license checker, once resolved it's working a treat.

I'm hoping so crumpet. I thought I'd try and see if anyone would want some first before trying Ebay...there has to be someone more gullible than us when we first bought them!

Hi all We have a limited Edition RM One EcoQuiet (Collectors Edition) chassis which contains no working parts (Very much like the original unit) - I'm willing to accept bids on this unique piece of history. Prices starting at £1. Happy Bidding! Please note that we accept no liability for any warranty that may or may not be on this chassis!

You can go to Smoothwall directly - Smoothwall - Internet Security and Content Filtering Solutions

Hi there Apologies if this has been answered previously! We're about to undertake a project to install Meraki wireless into our school and enable a Bring Your Own Device Policy and the introduction of Android tablets and iPads. We still want to filter our content via Smoothwall. However, when testing some of our devices we find that we are having strange issues with images not displaying in Google Play Store and or them not being accessible. Is this a setting inside Smoothwall (Which I'm sure it is) that anyone is aware of and more importantly how this could be worked around? Any help would be appreciated! Gareth

Interesting article actually - I have never heard of Misco and wonder how they would compare with the likes of Stone or Dell?

You are certainly very lucky. Unfortunately I have found that RM only promote their own products and will try to shoe horn one to fit your requirements rather than identify one that would be most appropriate. I don't think they understand Microsoft licensing fully or correctly and have noted that their fit for our school has resulted in us overpaying for years and on agreements that are not suitable. I would strongly suggest that although it is working for you, a quick half hour phone call to some of the major software companies would result in your views changing dramatically. As for their support, they are quick at getting back to you, but their solutions do not work - or your support contract doesn't quite cover it. I've found more joy using this forum and google than RM support. However, each to their own I suspect :-)

Definitely more simple - however one that the Teachers have decided should be an IT task - and I for one will not be sending any of my Technicians to lock \ unlock a door! ;-)

Hi I was wondering if anyone has come across this scenario before - and if so how they've overcome it? I'd like to restrict access to a whole computer room for any student login during Lunch time. Is this possible, and if so - how would you go about this? This of course is using the lovely RM CC4... Many thanks

Very good point synaeasthesia. I agree that their services could be the way for them to go, but I do feel for organisations that have no real world experience within their IT department. I have found RM a useful took and they can certainly provide a service - however it is not based around what would be best for the customer but more a "this solution is what we sell, therefore we will shoe horn it to fit your needs". That kind of approach is outdated and I would say is one of the biggest reasons why I think that they will be disappearing quickly from the market as more and more schools appoint IT Managers from outside of education

I agree completely -having just taken over at my establishment in April this year the decision to upgrade to CC4 had already been taken and signed. In my mind this was a serious waste of money, but we will not be in a position to change until next summer now. The current course of action is looking at putting proper infrastructure in place - overriding the current setup of an admin and teaching domain, placing all shares on one area of our SAN as opposed to space being allocated per server (no idea why it was done this way - an excuse to sell more servers than needed?) The difficulty here is changing the perceptions of the existing support staff and showing them there is life after RM

Morning all Just thought I'd get a few thoughts on the above company. I know that they will stop selling desktop hardware shortly and we have just found out our account manager has "left" (Mutual consent or pushed?). I for one am very wary over which way the company is headed and am now actively considering the move to a plain Windows network - which again will present it's own challenges in untangling the "load balancing" mess that RM have created...

I've used PRM before - they're fairly quick and have a minimum requirement of kit before they collect