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Damn you, Netgear.
So our Easter work schedule was pretty manic, perhaps more then expected. We have 3 new ICT work areas now, and they have seemed to fit in quite well, no drama there – infact with WDS in place, it was Read more…
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Expectations
Unrealistic expectations from users is a common theme of tickets and conversations in any IT support team. Our users, as consumers do, demand that products work to their exact specifications. Unfortunately, the world of IT isn’t like that – it Read more…
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Projects Update
So it is getting closer to Easter, an unusual time for me to have big projects on the go, but with our new financial year as an academy running alongside the academic year, Easter, and not the summer holidays is Read more…
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Fighting talk
Having an IT team to manage is something relatively new to me, I’ve had a tech to manage for nearly 4 years, but I now have a senior tech and 2 technicians, and a 4th I line manage at one Read more…
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Why iPad’s just don’t work in Education.
I am not a Windows fanboy. I may have a new Nokia Lumia running Windows 8.1 as my new phone, Windows 10 on my laptop, just ordered nearly 400 Windows 8.1 tablets, and manage over 1200 windows devices – but Read more…
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Changing Primary ICT Provision
When I moved from a secondary, to a middle school (years 5-8) I was faced with a primary phase network. By a primary phase network – I mean a network with one thing bolted onto the other, kept going by Read more…
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Windows 10 – Why it is so important for education and beyond
There has been a familiar pattern from Microsoft in terms of OS’s recently, one good (XP), one bad (Vista), one good (7), one bad (8). So Windows 10 is important. Microsoft’s largest customer base is corporate clients. Yet, with Read more…
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Project #000000001
Well, at least project #000000001 that I have blogged about. It’s a biggie too. That OS, everyone has been moaning about as being a failure – Windows 8.1 – well, I have a plan to role that out. To some Read more…
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Blogs are so 1999
I started this website in 1999. So, some 16 years later, after it being the home of my own company for the last 7 years – I am giving it another shot as a blog. 120 characters on the twitter Read more…