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Industrial grade AP's can do extreme ranges. 4ipnet do supply industrial access points that can reach 10miles. I've also been privvy to a few projects using wireless at range, and this can be done quite easily. For example: http://www.4ipnet.com/owl800_spec.htm with a point-to-point backhaul, get a decent antenna for this and mesh them all together.

You're forgetting Bridging and Repeating of access points. Look at 4ipnets range of Repeating access points.

Be proactive in the way the laptops are used and managed, For example, maximize battery life to start with; apply power management utilities; keep screen brightness low; optimize for performance rather than best appearance; use 9 cell batteries as a start or just plain old 6 cell; and with the introduction of SSD's, consider investing in those, as they slash power consumption but quite a bit and aren't that expensive anymore

Correct, it is Serial Line IP, and it is superseded by PPP, however you still need to know how it works, what it does and how to set it up. I know, rather barmy, but its what needs to be known. I even got the question come up in my 70-270 exam

Yes, and if they support IAPP you'll find hand-overs almost instant. Our site covers 5 very large buildings, and all our access points are on the same SSID, albeit different channels depending on area and never had any fault with them, hand-over is pretty seemless as well.

Half way through my MCSE, finished MCP, and MCSA, just got 2 more to-go. Half the stuff I've learnt isn't actually relevant, and everythings done Microsoft's way and not your own way which can be hard to grasp, and some of the material is totally insane. I.e. Knowing how to implement SLIP, or which operating systems can Windows XP Professional be rolled back on should you upgrade and not like it. It does however add alot of insight into various things. I now know all the commands for AD, DHCP and the likes, rather than doing everything via GUI. It's also beneficial in the long run. You may want to add that the course will greatly improve your efficiency at resolving issues and planning for the future, if you use third parties this would be the time to say you could do it yourself.

Few national papers over here in the UK and South Africa. Have appeared on Carte Blanche - Prime time show in South Africa Have appeared on a documentary on Channel 4 over here - Something to-do with school, they followed our Year 11 class around the school for a week, was a documentary of some sort. And the funny thing is, even look at the Channel 4 documentary now, my hair style was appalling.

Evening folks, Would anyone have an idea about partition Solaris disks? Currently Demoing Sun's VDI Solution and trying their "Demo on a single box method" However it asks to create a ZFS file store for the .vdi images. When I installed the system, i went through the process of setting sizes for / and swap, I didn't create any other folders as various applications files are stored in various places and thought having everything on the same segment would be best. What I'd ideally like todo is partition the drive in two and use the second drive as the ZFS store for the images of the desktops. Anyone know how this would be achieved, Solaris is yet another beast to get a grasp of, everything looks different, feels different, and acts different. The drive in the machine is a 450GB Sata drive. Thanks! 2. Configure the ZFS storage. Sun VDI 3 (in combination with VirtualBox) uses the ZFS filesystem to create snapshots of virtual machine disk images or to clone/replicate virtual machine disks. The interaction with ZFS is handled automatically and is completely encapsulated within VDI. However, initially you must setup the ZFS storage (more precisely a ZFS storage pool aka zpool). * As previously mentioned, the second disk should be configured as ZFS storage. Simply trigger the following command as root user: # zpool create VDI (In this case, the name of the zpool is 'VDI', but you can also use any other name in your setup. If you do not know the name of your second disk, you can look it up using the format or fdisk command.) * ZFS uses any memory available (up to the limit) for a so-called ARC cache. This can cause issues in a demo setup, because VDI may falsely report that there is not enough memory for starting up any virtual machine. To resolve this issue, adapt the max value used for the ARC cache. For example, to restrict the memory to 2GB, add the following line in /etc/system: set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 2147483648 * Enable the SMF service for iSCSI access (iSCSI target daemon) with the command: svcadm enable svc:/system/iscsitgt:default

Not enough ports!

I can think of a few, specifically Military Manufacturing Installations

Read my reply to TM about our licensing issues with terminal services.

Our Database will not run over Terminal Servers, nor are we licensed to-do this, added the fact, the cost to upgrade licensing could cost us massive amounts.

Morning Folks, Just after a bit of advice really. We're due to open a new remote soon and have a requirement for 5-20 PC's down in the new office, both sites will be connected via site to site VPN on our BT POP 10MB leased carrier. We're currently exploring various avenues to achieve this and one of those is Thin Client / VDI's as we have an in house database system that would prove to intensive for our leased lines, so having the data computed on our backbone would save massive traffic between sites and free up our other services going between sites. I'm currently "evaluating" VMWare View's product range. Have and ESXI server setup, resource pools and the assosciated management applications (VMWare Infrastructure Management, and VMWare View Server) Will be evaluation XenServer / XenDesktop as well. We are just trying to achieve or evaluate a situation where 5-15 Wyse terminals can connect to their respective desktops saved on either platform. Could someone if possible point me in any directions for reading, applications needed and the likes. Still not quite sure what the role of the "Connection Broker" is, and why the terminals cant simply RDP into their respective VDI stored on the server.

Probably showing success on clicking show more details knowing silly GUI's

Go Matt!

You know this 100% before all the facts are shown? You're that confident he isn't being honest and is being mischievous in the background? Maybe the company isn't for sponsorship, maybe a manager has declined this. I can see why the majority of sponsors come on here, they have targeted markets and products, they might have a product only a small minority want, doesn't make them less valuable, as its still a wanted product.

This forum is getting totally out of control. Stop berating people, mocking their ideals and ideas and the rest of it, reply from your prospective and stop shooting everyone down. For the past few weeks I've noticed a growing trend in people berating other people because what they do, want to do and the rest of it doesn't conform to your own standards. The idea isn't idiotic either, if they want to provide incentives for schools for promoting a free product then let them do so, there is no need to question why, or examine business motives for this, and lets not forget there are Private schools here who aren't state funded or granted, they could do with all the help they can get. Specially in a Private school, where the majority of the time IT is downsized and pushed to its limits as spending money to improve services costs a fortune that they can't justify all the time. Everyone just needs to chill, either have something positive to say, or say nothing at all.

Last I heard Edugeek was run using Hamsters? You can find these at any pet store, and IIRC they're quick breeders!

Simon, what water cooling system did you use on the i7? And would you provide warranty against leaks for the first I dont know, few months? Since you installed it yourself

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£2 on its way Good luck!

Demigod - Awesome RTS, various playable "demigods - assassins and generals" multiple setups per character, and mutliplayer which is a hoot. Very good game

Great idea, tender contracts have always been a good way of promoting competition and pricing. I would find it amusing seeing x amount of education suppliers fighting over a tender for a new ICT suite, and you'd be surprised how close they'd get to their profit margins to actually win the tender. It does mean more business for the more established companies that can offer discounts, price reductions without negative profit, smaller companies are either going to have to provide something else, maybe warranty, support, peace of mind, installation, pricing etc.

A job's a job, anyway you get it. I'd rather have someone recommend me and get it, than apply and fail without the recommendation. My grand-mother did this for me when I did casual work at De Beers in South Africa. I had no shame in her getting me the job at all, and I did it well, so they were most pleased. Sometimes recommendations or assistance from internal sources provide better candidates as the source knows all too well what you can do.

In that case, lucky new laptop owners, as I'm sure payments would have cleared by now!