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Be a man - never admit that we are anything less than equivalent to the whole DIY SOS team

There's one thing for sure - GDs never going to be caught out by any sort of auditor or inspector The time to do it! Si

As someone who doesn't normally forkout for software - I've been paying the $9-99/month for 2 years for 50G. If I had to cut-back - Sky and Spotify (and 1st born) would be going 1st It depends what you use it for but I have linked all my technical files/downloads across all the servers in my 6 schools with my home machine and the conveniece factor can't be beaten - its like having you car door opening for you as you walk up to it E.g - changed a common desktop url shortcut and rollout script in one school at 8am and it was all there and ready for me to press rollout at this school at 9:30 Si

And the latest computer popped up a request to run a quicktime plugin Si

I think its a combination of circumstances going on (new homepage/flash/java issues) giving a perfect storm Si

Alternative to the PI - bit more bits onboard and got VGA so can be used with an old monitor Might take off if real raspberry pi can't be made fast enough. VIA outs $49 Raspberry Pi-alike ? Reg Hardware

Not winning at the moment. I'm at another school, done the rollout of the new url - 1st laptop tried it on - the home page comes up with half the content missing and F5 is having no effect :( Going to be a long one! Si

And one 2 machines (win7 running ie9) in a foundation stage, I've had to refresh to get the screen to show up on a sub-page. So (And I know it'll be hard with some foundation teachers ) show them F5 (don't tell them as they will press F and then 5) Si

Heads up for Primary Techs While I've been busy Oftstedding at one school, I've had Espresso issues trickling onto my helpdesk system. I've gone into one of the schools and found the homepage url has changed to http://10.xxx.yyy.zzz/~espresso/primary_uk/index.html Don't know if this a UK wide change or just Lancs/CLEO Si

I think this thread is self evidently oxymoronic Si

My girls laptops are rarely switched off - they use them for media playback at night and just leave them on Si

You don't need ip/mac address correlation to nail them - they aren't that clever Si

Your not category D if your found with your head in a pint glass at 9pm! Si

Bit more of a test this today - teacher suddenly realised they needed Smart notebook on the netbooks (the old laptops had it) but luckily I've a simple smart7 (we don't use 10) WPKG package and I got it installed in the 20 mins she was doing the lesson introduction Saving wmvs from Photostory also worked flawlessly this morning from 17 netbooks (I'd normally suggest saving locally and copying afterwards but teacher decided to go straight for it) And an update on load balancing - all netbooks laptops were deployed in Juniors and the 2 APs serving that part of the school did exceed the 20 limit I setup but thats much more preferable than a client not connecting so very very happy with Unifi now and would 100% recommend them for normal primaries - they are a no-brainer choice for them Hoping to bring one along and run the software on my laptop to show people at the conf Si

There's 4 main categories A. People come up 1st night, stop in Hotel and party till wee hours (This includes most of the Edugeek main team so things are very hard for them the next day ) B. People who arrive early on Thurs go straight to conf, stop in hotel that night and party till wee hours C. People who do A and then give up on Thursday evening D. Proffessionals (e.g Ric) who do both Si

I still need the one on Sharepoint as I still don't know what it is/does? Si

We don't the sort of incident in primaries that requires deep network forensics Si

Just simple Maths/Phonics websites and printing charts from Excel and images from Dazzle so not too strenous My main delight is that NONE of the netbooks hesitated to log on and map the server network drive and run my WPKG startup script Its not unusual that 1 out of 15 in a lesson will not do this and need to be power-cycled (or in my bad Ruckus experience about 1 in 10 ) I did check that max clients/AP was being obeyed Si

Another reason to not use AD Si HOME - One workgroup to rule them all

A (and then B when A fails) - its a defensive HP Printer strategy - they can forget their static settings so its a backup strategy for when that happens yep Si

I'm with ZH on not being essential at all Si

Static helps fault finding - you know what the IP is supposed to be - if its not pinging - its bust or disconnected or switched off - doesn't rely on anything else working. I don't think anyone would recommend reserving IPs for normal client computers - I use them for servers,Access Points (I only usually have about 8 at most) and printers - I give the printer a static ip (See above as too why) and I also reserve it in case the printer forgets its static IP - so its a backup ploy:) The APs can then be simply accessed on their web admin pages via their known static IP - no reliance on local DNS lookups. Si

All went fine Nobody said they couldn't print or access the internet so my job done Si

Got 5 at the moment (primary)- 2 serving the junior resource area at one end of school and 3 others dotted around infants. AP limit set to 20 connections each. Intended having 1 per class eventually but since we only had 20 netbooks last week - I thought these 5 would suffice Head suddenly deciding on Mon that he wanted another 20, Tues I got a quote, we ordered Wed and then we got Ofsted call on Thur and our supplier delivered Friday and I spent Sat/Sun imaging them! (There's a song in there somewhere ) Si

All 40 netbooks in use at same time for some whizzy Ofsted pleasing lessons (plus about 6 laptops) across the school after lunch. I'll either be a hero or a villain ! (20 of them arrived Friday and were imaged over the weekend so have never actually been used before ) Si