Chris_Cook

£36 per year for the monimoto. There's also the automatrics Mtrack thats a lot more (£144 per year) which I think includes them sending someone out to locate the device.

How about something like a monimoto? The sim card isn't too expensive. Or have a school phone and as others have said use the find-my-phone or google maps timeline. If you've collected their phones in, then it would encourage them to keep and return the school one. Anything physical could be dropped or hidden or disabled if they are so inclined. Maybe this is an excuse to get a drone to track them? This is all bringing back memories of my DofE trip when we lost the map in the days before mobiles...

If you can get the print head out of the printer, then you can leave it sitting in some IPA, or press some tissue against it and leave it to soak. I'm not sure how far you can go before you damage the head. I'd be tempted to try an ultrasonic cleaner, but I suspect that would damage it beyond repair. If its not getting regular use though, then you will keep having to do this. Its probably worth re-thinking the type of printer. A laser or copier are much more suited to intermittent use.

We've got a CNC lathe of a similar age in our DT cupboard. I managed to find the software online and got it running in Dos box, but I've never had the time to try connecting it to the machine. It probably uses G-Code or HPGL or something like that. But which codes and the feed and speed settings it needs would be a guess. You would need some software to generate that code from a design.

I'm not sure of the exact model of midi keyboard, but its a keyboard with usb sound built in rather than just an audio interface. It helps us a lot with latency issues on Sibelius on a PC. But a Mac probably won't have the same issues thinking about it. We also used the UM2 and focusrite interfaces and both do the job reasonably well. You have to try quite hard to find something with bad sound these days, its mostly about the warmth/tone of the sound that comes out when the signal level is pushed towards the limit. Thats where a lot of the higher end equipment really comes in and that's down to personal taste, and what instruments and Genres are being recorded. QLab is good. A lot of shows now have different requirements for queuing music and video files which is where that really excels. The benifits of a physical desk are normally the physical faders for controlling lights especiallly when there isn't time to do a full program. A computerised system takes a lot longer to get programmed up for a show.

Would it work with 2d design? If its an 0181 number that's going to be old. Possibly for Dos or BBC micro.

We use Yamaha for the music keyboards and audio interface. This works really well for us. We've recently got a Boxford lasercutter. That doesn't seem to have caused us many issues so far. One of our 6th form has spotted the same machine on a university trip. It uses a standard Ruida controller internally, so I would be hopeful if that develops issues or needs an upgrade to an opensource one that that wouldn't be impossible. We've got a variety of 3d printers, the Prusa/ender3 type ones seem to work well. We've also got Flashforge Finder printers that have more of a frame around them if you want something more robust. Either way, these really need a tidy area to be set up for them. The Prusa/Ender ones are much easier to get parts and upgrades for on Amazon. One school has recently got a massive Anycubic printer thats really quick. The Black magic stuff looks reasonably prices. I've only used the Atem Mini mixer/streamer though. For stage lighting the Zero 88 FLXs are good for an actual console. There is a visualiser available I think. I'm also a big fan of Avolites, but that's normally out of the budget of schools unless you go second hand. There was a Diamond 4 on ebay the other day that should have a visualiser built in. But that runs Windows XP though, and its huge.

You need to make sure you have some good documentation and labeling once you have VLans. If its only Access points or other switches connected to these ports then that's fine - your Wi-Fi system should take care of putting people on the right VLan. Its probably 1 VLan per SSID. Having a VLan called "Internet" probably isn't the most useful thing, unless that is just for your internet connection. It all depends on how you are segregating your users and devices. If you have PCs (Especially if BYOD) then there are 2 risks - one of VLan hoping where people can jump onto the other VLans, and the other is running Wireshark and being able to sniff some of the traffic (probably only Broad and multi cast traffic like ARP, DNS and its various multicast alternatives). In an ideal world, VLans should only be tagged on ports they need to be on. I'd go back to the installer and ask for some documentation and design.

Are all your card readrs the same? And the device settings on papercut?

We looked into something called Musterd recently that integrates with Net2. It looked great, but its not cheap. https://www.thinking-software.com/musterd

I'd also recommend Trelson if you have chromebooks. With some training we've been able to mostly hand the setup over to our EOs. They tell us how many Chromebooks they need and on what days, we just then make sure there are more than that setup in kiosk mode to load Trelson up. Its up to the EO to setup the sessions and add the students. Its worth both you and your EO each producing a list of what you need from each other, then meet up and produce a shared document you can both work from. Planning is everything for this, and making sure you have the resources you need way ahead of time.

It seems to be a bug with the latest yealink firmware. We had only updated a 1/4 of our phones and the ones with older firmware's aren't affected. You can also disable the DST at the phone by choosing "Menu > 3. Settings > 1. Basic Settings > 2. Time & Date > 1. SNTP Settings > 4. Daylight Saving" (Menu, 3 1 2 1 4) and setting that to disabled. This puts it back to normal, but would have to be repeated next week, or the phones rebooted again.

It saves you from having to cut the inner cables to precisely the right length to get the cable clamp in the right place. This reduces the mechanical stress on the pins. You can also twist the inner wires together (after passing through the plug) so that when you crimp and cut you have one thing to pick up rather than lots of little bits of wire flying everywhere - leaves a much tidier job.

Its not so much of an issue these days with modern RJ45 connectors, but in the past the IDC style punch down connectors were better suited to solid core cable, and RJ45 to stranded cable. RJ45 plugs on solid core tend to fail over time unless the connection is really well supported. Personally I prefer to use IDC/punch down where-ever possible, and keystones are much quicker although double the cost for the parts). I think the time you save with keystones pays for itself quickly and means panels can be re-organised in the future if needed, or if the endpoint isn't known at install time. Normal modules are ok for the desktop end. Pass-through RJ45s are amazing though. I wouldn't bother with the old style. The couplers that go in panels are more suited to AV racks where there might be a patch cable to the back of a bit of kit deep in the back of the rack and you just want to present it on the front panel.

"medium strength" is what you need to look for with threadlock. Not all manufacturers use the same colour code. There are also higher strength maglocks available, the common ones are only 180Kg holding strength, I think we found some 300 or 600 KG ones last time there was a problem. But its better if the lock pops that the wall falling down. These will have thicker screws/bolts.

Its also worth selling it in terms of missed lesson time. How long are users waiting for logins/restarts/crashes etc? 5-10 mins every lesson is a lot over the course of a year, plus it leaves the rest of the lesson unsettled. Its worth timing these and agreeing a limit with SLT. Set it out in terms they care about. Also how much disruption would there be if there was a cyber incident?

Its going to be tricky, but are there any hobbies or self taught learning you can add? Do they help friends and family with computer issues? Any Saturday jobs or anything like that? If its a school job, are there any other skills he has that might be useful to the school? Really at this stage you need to show an eagerness to learn and do the job. A phone call to the company might go a long way to showing that. Even if its just asking if they have received the CV, or asking if he could talk to someone in the department to see if they can help him get started. That would tell me a lot if he was looking for a job here. It might not be enough to be successful, but you never know.

The symbols can be changed with the "Change Token Type" button on the right hand side. From the net2 side, I don't think they make much difference unless you use the role-call / Clocking in/out feature. I've not tested all of them though The card IDs are probably going to be the same number in big and little endian format. If you can get a phone with an RFID/NFC reader and an app, you can probably get the Hexadecimal format and use the formulas elsewhere in this thread to do the conversion. The other option is if you have the paxton mifare readers on the doors, they have a usb reader that can be used to register cards. Also, you can get an android app for net2 that lets you register a card from a door reader. Paxton should have guides for setting that up.

We have similar problems at our secondaries. Apart from this one room where we have so few problems that we often forget it even exists. I don't want to pick on the other staff, but the teacher who looks after that room is old school (in an excellent way) and deals with things. They've been to us twice in the last year or 2 - once for a mouse, and once because the PCs are getting on a bit now. Cover lessons seam to be the problem at the moment. Especially on one site. We've now asked that cover lessons aren't done in computer rooms unless there is a member of the department there.

We also use Synology with a variety of camera manufacturers (Hilook/hikvision, Arecont, Axis, Sony, Synology, and a selection of no-name analog DVRs). Hik cameras have great image quality - I've not seen many other cameras come close unless you spend a lot more money. At least not from the more acceptable NDAA approved brands The synology cameras are good and integrate really well. They are a bit more pricey, but should auto update the firmware from the NAS / DVR. The resolution is lower on paper, but good enough for general usage. The camera settings can be done from the synology software without logging into each camera directly. Some systems now support edge recording which might be an option. This can be for redundancy or as the primary storage. You would still need some sort of central software to access unless you only have a couple of cameras.

We had a demo of Musterd recently and that looked good, although not cheap. https://www.paxton-access.com/integrations/musterd/ We were mostly looking at the fire roll call side, but it looks like it can do HR stuff too.

You could try Bela Interactive: https://www.belainteractive.co.uk/epages/Store2_Shop1656.sf/en_GB/?ViewAction=View&ObjectID=10498033&PageSize=12

An upside down 1u rack shelf might do a similar job for a lot less. But I never seem to have the space in the rack to use either. Its probably great in a new rack though. Normally I just slide the switch in above whatever is already in there, then reach round with one hand. I can then get the bottom 2 screws in finger tight and that's enough to hold it in place while I do the top and tighten with a screw driver. Bigger switches might be an issue, but then I can normally take the side off the rack and get someone to help for a couple of minutes. You can use kneecaps or your belly for a 3rd point of contact on a ladder - basically lean into it. HSE says this is fine for brief periods if there isn't a better method available. Its important to have manual handling training for bigger switches and servers, as these are normally a team lift. There's nothing to say this can't be done by hand if there is no better method reasonably available. What I wished I'd done racking up one of my older servers was marking up where server rails aren't the type for sliding out and working on the server in place. Dropping a server is never fun.

It looks like one of these. https://www.amazon.co.uk/PATCHBOX-PBXEXE-Setup-exe/dp/B0784R2HKK I've been tempted to make one in the past, but never bothered so far.

Have you got anything setup to stagger the update deployments? There are some settings in group policy for this.