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Hosts have 16GB, 'servers' run in containers and use anywhere between 32MB and 1.5GB for RAM heavy apps. looking into scaling these vertically so the machine learning can work out and dynamically scale the size.

There's also a hidden saving with web based MIS in that it unlocks a school from local apps: freeing up tech time, (windows) licencing costs and allowing older or cheaper hardware.

Raspberry Pi on the TV, as I guess the CCTV already has wifi for your phone.

Perhaps you need to review that decision and get something that you can manage your Linux/Windows/Mac estate with.

Do both, it's a pretty common model. Most school techs will struggle to deploy and manage a full stack applications without vendor support. Others, as you've seen here, will contribute to bug reports and fixes. Larger companies are unlikely to come and steal your lunch without buying out the core development team. It's a good way to get momentum on a project.

I'm usually very supportive of @dhicks posts, but on this occasion I would disagree. Writing a wrapper script to fix an upstream issue isn't the way to resolve it. Unfortunately with closed sourced systems, the only way to fix is to raise a bug with the provider. Ultimately a wrapper script is just going to add complexity to the environment and make solving issues harder. I would advocate pushing back to ms to get it fixed, or perhaps, if the issues are genuine pdf corruptions then identifying and fixing those files.

even better, get three companies to come in and advise !

I would expect it will be free on provisio they get the business

No, but depressing that they will trust a third party over existing employees. Similar stuff happened all the time in the University I worked at. I moved on to a place where I am trusted.

yeah. EAP-TLS these days. MSCHAP is past it.

Ebay waived a lot of the fees recently for private sellers.

Infrastructure as code, for updates gives us: A testing environment with the same server config gets deployed to test the updates prior to changing the live server (it's all VM's, so why not as it costs next to nothing to do this) An audit trail for who made the changes and when A review process by other techs, both to authorise the changes and inform others that the change is being made Deployment frequency stats A rollback method for bad changes.

Sorry, it's not available on windows - I just assumed it would be for some reason.

Just delete them with the installation script and deploy that witht he GPO. Pyenv is my goto managing python installs https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

It's almost like they you an account manager...

The only way to elicit a response is via their PR team on Edugeek.

Pick your favorite linux distro, configure it to: autologin auto login to wifi (the hardest part, since you're going to need keys and not individual accounts) Run an X session with chrome in kiosk mode there's some scripts knocking about to do this on github

I think you'll need to get a fallback system (use paper or something?) in place. Can you escalate it internally, someone from legal in the LA/MAT ?

Sounds like you were right the first time: Arbor is sending the correct information and the sharp PoS is just dropping it. I'd be inclined to go back to sharp and argue for a bugfix as the product is dangerous.

I've always found sed (stream editor) really good for this, it's about 50 years old but still getting updates!

I'm *totally* on board with using the best of breed solution on a per application basis, but to intentionally create a divide between staff and student tooling seems completely the wrong way to go about it - the teachers need to be able to use the applications the students are using. If something is better suited to students learning it's the teachers that need to adapt.

It's a rather subjective question because it depends entirely on the quality and specification of the items when they were first bought and the workload that is expected from them. On a good spec/quality PC/mac I'd expect to see 10 years. Perhaps 5 on a laptop and more for a Chromebook or macbook. Even old servers end up in failover clusters, and kernel support rarely gets dropped - perhaps after 20yrs? Rather depends what the server is doing I think. Networking gear is a bit easier, we know that Neilsens law predicts 50% growth of internet bandwidth every year, so knowing what your new kit can do now makes it easy to extrapolate what it needs to do in future, or until the support for zero days runs out.

Jupyter notebooks do this too, you either run it locally or on a central server using jupyterhub edit links: https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/ https://jupyter.org/

Beagle Bidco LTD £41M turnover apparently, and they bought RM Integris

That's literally why I got the steamdeck - plug it into a kb/monitor/mouse and it's a fully functional desktop pc. I've used it for work one time when I forgot my laptop.