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+1 An itteration on this is to have AI document code, or write unit tests. Once you've written the code AI is extremely good at reading it and turning those instructions into legible text for your future self to understand what you were doing. It's not currently so good at doing it the other way around!

I think that's probably the way to do it: get the device details from RADIUS then do an API call to inTune to check it meets the requirements before proceeding. Danger with this approach is that if the API call fails then the default would be to block authentication. Another method would be a periodic script to check InTune for a mac blocklist and update the UniFI using that.

It takes the MS users longer to respond: They have a lot more work to do.

oh that looks perfect. Dockerfiles, helm charts and even ansible playbooks included. Couldn't have asked for more. Thanks.

Hi. What do you guys use for item inventory these days? I need software to inventory components as they come in by bar code scanning. Requirements are: Web based frontend Postgres/mysql database but also support for lightweight databases such as sqllite Actively developed open source support for labeling customisable fields It would need to run in containers with high availability, so ideally comes with dockerfiles/helm charts but I can do that myself if not. It seems a very simple thing to knock up which makes me think there's probably loads out there that meets this requirement, so just wondered what you are using?

The bbc reports that (in London) 40% of people work from home on a Friday, so it's plausible this is contention related. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8ew0jrjxz9o

There's a Data protection insights Report that Google workspace produces, some predefined content detectors for Data Loss Prevention and you can build your own more detailed ones. https://support.google.com/a/answer/9646351?hl=en&sjid=10767302151888428388-EU&visit_id=638721185229709484-1260030628&ref_topic=9646660&rd=1 I think the Google conditional access ( called Context aware access ) is actually rather granular, and you can write your own rules, apply them to certain groups, or combine DLP with CAA so you can block certain context from certain locations or if the device isn't up to (security) spec. I think that most people don't get into the weeds of *both* systems, so those familiar with one will extol the virtues. Google is at a disadvantage here because a lot more schools will pay Microsoft for the higher level features (because they have always done so) yet tend to have their Google workspace on a lower paid tier.

This is completely wrong. First point is that teaching isn't about using tools, it's about learning concepts. Second point is that I worked in University (Google and MS) and now in industry. The University was also a teacher training hub, and they exclusively taught with Google they considered it to have a pedagogical advantage of ease of use for (school) students esp with Classroom. In the company I currently work at, we are 100% google and the companies that we deal with, about 80% are Google and 20% MS - but we tend to deal with 'tech' type companies and not the type of longstanding institutions that stick with MS. So yes students will be encountering Google products in their careers.

BT should give you the pppoe connection details if you ask for the username and password. Then you can use whatever device you like. Most contracts state that you can use your own equipment, if they want to talk you into using their equipment complain to Ofcom. edit: look here https://business.bt.com/help/article/broadband-and-internet/getting-started/can-i-use-my-own-broadband-modem-or-router/

You're citing reduced equipment costs with M365, at the same time saying you have no chromebooks ?? Can't you just let the teachers decide what they will use, it's not costing you anything if you've automated all your setups.

I guess that makes sense, not many parents are going to want github auth Rails is decent, so lots of options there. My only foray into Ruby was with ERB templates in Puppet, so I'm not likely to be much help if/when you do the OSS thing (please do), but I'll happily do the pipelines

oh yeah, they're teeny. I didn't notice from the picture.

Just get the bypass and keep it all running IMO.

Ideally, it would be on three phase

You'd normally plug the UPS into a bypass so that you can failover or do maintenance on it. Don't plug the servers into the wall, you negate all the surge protection. The bypass is designed for this. https://www.serverroomenvironments.co.uk/apc-smart-ups-vt-maintenance-bypass-panel?gad_source=1 edit: I linked to a manual bypass, but you should have an automatic one incase of failure.

Based on my personal experience with their laptops, I might have chosen a different term for their entry-level model, but it's not one I'd use on Edugeek for fear of a ban.

I've done this in the past at two different places, one using mahara (opensource, site linked to moodle). The other with Google sites. Google sites is probably easiest, or you can pay for mahara too now.

The LA is still responsible for planning and building control.

This really shouldn't be hard. I was under the impression all the major frameworks support social auth. I've certainly set this up before (in Django) and it was a few lines of code. What backend framework are you using?

With regards to Android apps on Chrome:There's been a lot of rumors recently that Google will merge Chromebooks into Android. I think this makes a lot of sense: A single ecosystem to manage, easier for Google to compete with ipad. It also opens up the possibility of using a phone in a desktop computer roll if android gains the ability to act as a Chromebook.

Almost certainly an infrastructure/wifi issue. I Previously worked in a large secondary with 1:1 chromebooks and this was never an issue for us (we were able to mandate a wifi and ISP renewal prior to getting 1:1). We'd have a class of 30 cold boot and be online within 30 seconds. Teachers would set this as a 'competition' in class, as an 'on-boarding' exercise and to test things out. FWIW the WiFi comes up before the login session, then quickly re-authenticates to the logged in user. With regards to the isolated machine: Chromebooks are very simple, it takes a few minutes to refresh a Chromebook ( or about 15sec to reset to default). If neither work then delete the users Chrome plugins. If that doesn't solve it then it's a hardware issue. That's basically all you ever need to do with a Chromebook. It's not really viable to give students 'developer access' root on a Chromebook if you also want to manage it. It might possible to setup some sort of hacked environment where you could manage them with puppet/ansible and also have the Chromebook management. I'm a seasoned Linux admin and I wouldn't attempt that. Ultimately, giving root access allows the user to bypass any security you put on the device. At best you'll end up with environment that you can't support and the students will run rings around. You'll loose all the simple management advantages of running ChromeOS. A lot of the apps do have decent web-based alternatives though; for python I'd recommend Jupyterhub which you can host on the cloud yourself and pay per hour. Don't know about the right click - never had an issue. The computer labs: I would be inclined to replace with Raspberry Pi 500's - about £90 each for a decent machine capable of coding, browsing, writing essays etc. These you can manage without giving root access.

To me, it looks like the SanDisk logo has some missing bits. Not very encouraging for data storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard - nothing fancy like USB or bluetooth. Seriously though, ducky are pretty good. https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Keyboards choose anything with cherry switches

zero trust principals in reverse

I'd agree with Bromcom, they have more experience with this than SLT. There's never a 'good' time, but Summer term is usually a bit less hectic than the beginning of sept, notwithstanding exams. There's less pressure on the provider as well, so issues will get fixed faster.