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...