Month: April 2009

  • Short Throw Projectors and Wall Mounts

    Once upon a time, budget projectors suitable for classrooms all came in budget configurations. They were all intended for ceiling mount with a distance to the screen of 2.5 – 3 metres. If you wanted to come in closer than this, you either paid a lot of money for an odd looking Sanyo, or you…

  • Network Cable Connectors: Can the design be got right this time?

    The shift to 10 Gigabit networking presents an opportunity for the industry standardisation bodies to rectify two glaring inadequacies in the design of the standard data connectors which are based on consumer telephone equipment and as implemented are, by design, clearly unsuitable for professional uses to which they have been put in the case of…

  • April Fool

    At least two weeks ago I took my keyboard apart to clean it, and only just discovered today, weeks later, that the / and * key on the keypad are swapped around. Easter is upon us and I’m off for a well earned break. The next lot of photos in my album are likely to…

  • The Big Stuff: Exchange, ISA, Sharepoint, Terminal Server

    It so happens that last year we had a bit of a change of scenery at our school. Our faithful volunteer Linux sysadmin, who happens to be the system architect of a well known software development platform, decided to bow out because all his kids have gone through school. This set the scene for us…