February 2012
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Replacement cycles?
Last week I posted a question on Edugeek.net about a situation I have at work with regards to our network switchgear. All of our equipment was bought under the name of the old managed service provider as part of the BSF contract when the building was constructed. This means that now they have pulled out, the switches are out of warranty effectively, as we are the ‘second owners’.
As I...
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Technology - the solution to all problems?
In its purist form, I subscribe to the idea that technology can and will eventually solve all of the world’s problems. Many of these problems are things like lack of resources or poor distribution of resources. It doesn’t take a massive leap of imagination to think that we’ll eventually be able to resolve those through technologies such as those in Star Trek.
However, at the...
January 2012
7 posts
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BYOD - terrifying or not?
One of the current ‘buzzwords’ in schools ICT is ‘BYOD’ or ‘bring your own device’. Basically, this is a shift to allow pupils and staff to come into your school with their own devices (be they laptops, phones, ipods etc…) and connect them to your network and use your resources.
I’ve seen many arguments against it, and indeed I have presented some...
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All your faces are belong to us
As of today, I’m in discussions to enable facial recognition technology in my cashless catering system. If all goes well, it’ll mean my software is one step closer to being in a form to release! Well, once I’ve finished re-writing the admin software in a web form anyway.
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So, I’ve decided to give this ‘blog’ thing another go, but in tumblr form instead of the usual full scale blog way. Currently thinking that this will become a place where random thoughts will be posted that don’t fit into 140 characters or less.