Andycat

12 teaching, 5 support here I think. 3 Senior Management.

Same here, excellent service with no throttling from SKY. And £15 a month less than I was paying BT.

We have a second line as the borough one is quite uncooperative. I'll be keeping it under BSF as well. We've had to use it as our only line 5 times this year.

And I think you could easily get a 5 year on site warranty for that money too...

Hi all, Strangish question. I'm being dragged on holiday to Glenbeigh, County Kerry, Ireland in June. It's with Family, incuding inlaws, to a cottage. I'm not a holiday person! I need internet, or a divorce lawyer!! Has anyone experience of mobile broadband around there, or Ireland in general? My laptop has a SIM card slot, and I use 3 over here, so I don't even need a dongle. How would I order it in advance, as you need an Irish address on the sites I've looked at?

And teaching staff here as well.

We've had good deals and support for the last 3 years from Millenium Business Systems, but I don't think they're the same as the ones in the link above, as they are the former IT support Centre, admittedly complained about as well. We've had probably 150 systems, with 5 year warranties, and proven next day on site support.

Some good stuff. AddExchange, SBSettings and Poof! are essentials, for me, anyway.

Thanks once again chaps. It's ordered now! Thanks to Gary at MMC.

Thanks for all the advice! It currently looks like Apple Education Store is cheapest!?

Can anyone quote me on the top 15" MacBook Pro, or suggest where to try for education (school order) pricing etc with accessories/software please? Held off wiating to see if anything was announced last night, but will now buy one. The schools first Mac!

+1 for Blackrain. And now multiple push Exchange accounts!

No you don't need TV I don't think.

I can't recommend SKY enough at the moment. I have been with BT from day one, but recently switched to SKY as BT couldn't get as high a speed as SKY from my Exchange (Weird eh?). Any way, it's £18 a month less than BT for me for BB, all inclusive calls and line rental, I'm getting 13mb downloads with no traffic shaping, and truly unlimited use, with 1.2mb up. I was only getting 9mb down at first, so I rang TS and they did everything they could (including a new free router) to get me up to the maximum speed my line would take. Great CS. I was supposedly on unlimited with BT as a 10 yr 7yr customer, but my connection is far better and more reliable now.

Thanks for Simon for the rapid delivery of a hard to get projector lamp!

Hi, can somebody quote me for 2 lamps for:- Toshiba TLP-S30 Needed pretty urgently! Andy Cattanach, St Wilfrid's, Blackburn

Yes, every BSF is different, as is every School and every Borough's approach. Apparently there are 2 schools in our Boroughs not taking BSF IT, but ARE part of the project.

Lockinfo was the reason I did mine as well, SBSettings is great as well. The cracked Apps are a bonus, not the reason, for Jailbreaking.

50 % of my role is just that, music and theatre, hence the non TUPE. Schools choice.

3GS with 3.1.2 with Blackra1n. Done a few staff ones as well.

Be wary. Stage Electrics and Canford are both good, but the Wireless frequencies currently used are being sold off within the next couple of years, and many currently available sets will become redundant then!

My bad. Was £240+VAT. Been invaluable though for the multimedia side of things. NAD Electronics :: C715 Compact Music Systems

Depends on Money. USB turntables and Cassette decks are ok, but I invested in a NAD amp/Cd player for my PC at work that acts as normal Amplifier/DAB/CD player but also has inputs for Turntable/Cassette deck etc. It has a USB port, and will encode ANYTHING played through it straight to USB Flash Drive . It also will timer record DAB radio to Flash Drive as well. Think it was under £200.

In my case it's ACTUAL Music, not IT and music. as in Recording it, playing it and conducting it! Sorry if there's confusion.

Eyes wide open here pal. I'm managing the BSF process for the school at the moment, and will be the Senior link between the MSP/Borough/LEP and the school after Interim Services, as well as the other non IT work. I CHOSE to stay with the school, in discussion with my Headteacher. I could still CHOOSE to be TUPE'd, albeit only for the next couple of weeks. I'm employed BY THE SCHOOL, not by the council. We're Voluntary Aided, I'm employed by the Governors, as with all other Voluntary Aided schools. I expect to be an average user of IT, not an Admin or the such. The reasons the school are keeping me are NON IT, therefore nothing to do with Northgate (not RM. Where did you get that from?). A MSP has nothing to do with Theatre stuff, Music or any of the other stuff I currently do. They won't "centralise" those things, will they? Because it's not their job. I know this as I was involved in writing the Output Specification for our school/borough, and was on a panel to whittle down the bidders, including evaluating some of the different bids. Don't state as fact things you obviously don't (and can't) know about. Only the school and myself can know my future and situation. You can't pigeon hole and generalise everyone and every situation.