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Post by MartinT on Jul 4, 2019 5:15:45 GMT
I'm as confused as everyone else.
More worryingly, I remember all those packages in your photo.
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Post by speedysteve on Jul 4, 2019 7:42:15 GMT
I'm as confused as everyone else. More worryingly, I remember all those packages in your photo.  You are older than you look Martin! |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 4, 2019 8:48:11 GMT
I still remember installing Windows 1.0 and wondering "what does this do?"
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 4, 2019 9:25:39 GMT
While you lot were struggling with Windows I was delighting in running Desqview on a 286
and fielding questions like
Why do you want more than one programme up at once ?
(It's easy enough to close the prog you are in and open another)
What is the benefit of cutting and pasting from one programme into another ?
Speed isn't everything - was another crazy statement
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Post by MartinT on Jul 4, 2019 10:21:17 GMT
Concurrent DOS was pretty powerful for its time, too.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 4, 2019 12:20:47 GMT
My knowledge of DOS commands served me well over the years, as did knowing Windows keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things we're talked about before where the user looks on in wonderment as you open and close windows etc. when their mouse "is dead" and everything on their screen is "frozen." We were both magicians once, Martin, and I know you still are at times.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 4, 2019 13:15:10 GMT
My knowledge of DOS commands served me well over the years, as did knowing Windows keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things we're talked about before where the user looks on in wonderment as you open and close windows etc. when their mouse "is dead" and everything on their screen is "frozen." We were both magicians once, Martin, and I know you still are at times. He always insists on getting his wand out and waving it about |
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Post by Slinger on Jul 4, 2019 13:52:01 GMT
My knowledge of DOS commands served me well over the years, as did knowing Windows keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things we're talked about before where the user looks on in wonderment as you open and close windows etc. when their mouse "is dead" and everything on their screen is "frozen." We were both magicians once, Martin, and I know you still are at times. He always insists on getting his wand out and waving it about I'd heard he was a bit of a wandy-waver.  |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 4, 2019 14:57:46 GMT
My knowledge of DOS commands served me well over the years, as did knowing Windows keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things we're talked about before where the user looks on in wonderment as you open and close windows etc. when their mouse "is dead" and everything on their screen is "frozen." We were both magicians once, Martin, and I know you still are at times. I *love* rescuing a machine with a dead mouse by just using the keyboard. Users look on in awe, unable to comprehend not using the mouse. These are the same users who need the mouse to move between username and password when logging in. I keep silently mouthing 'use the TAB key'! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 4, 2019 15:33:10 GMT
My knowledge of DOS commands served me well over the years, as did knowing Windows keyboard shortcuts. It's one of those things we're talked about before where the user looks on in wonderment as you open and close windows etc. when their mouse "is dead" and everything on their screen is "frozen." We were both magicians once, Martin, and I know you still are at times. I *love* rescuing a machine with a dead mouse by just using the keyboard. Users look on in awe, unable to comprehend not using the mouse. These are the same users who need the mouse to move between username and password when logging in. I keep silently mouthing 'use the TAB key'! Even if you show them they still don't get it. I've walked away from many an argument on keyboard shortcuts |
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Post by Slinger on Jul 4, 2019 15:37:06 GMT
A friend of mine was a programmer and he tells of a training course he got sent on when he moved into banking, programming in IBM's RPG language if memory serves.
The "class" were being introduced to the latest innovation - GUIs, and mice. He'd used mice before, at his last place of work.
He says he couldn't stop laughing as almost to a man, on being told that this "mouse" was what moved the cursor around the screen, the class picked up their mice, placed them on their monitor screens, waggled them about a bit, and declared them to be "broken."
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 4, 2019 15:41:22 GMT
Utterly fantastic
That could have damaged severely if I'd seen that.
Might have laughed myself to death
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Post by MartinT on Jul 23, 2019 17:30:06 GMT
I'm rolling out Microsoft Active Directory Sync, Office 365, SharePoint and Teams ready for the staff and students in September. This is proper paradigm changing stuff - from interactive whiteboard straight into the class folders, no printouts. Available anywhere on all devices, even on a phone. All the lesson notes, conversations, collaborative drawings and annotations, assignments, submissions, links, scraps of information and the ability to video/audio conference with the class, all held in Azure servers. Teacher scrutiny? No need to take any books home. Just open up the Team (class) and mark it. Teacher wants a bit of best practice? Just ask the Team (teachers). If I want input into my strategy? Just ask the rest of the (leadership) Team. Backups? No need, none of it is on-site.
Microsoft are leading the charge despite Google Classroom having been around longer. How much have they invested in education? They have given me 9.5PB of storage space for the school. Oh, and 500,000 staff licences. Scale the infrastructure required to handle that level for all the schools in Europe.
It's really jaw dropping working with them at this level.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 23, 2019 19:00:25 GMT
Sounds very big.
Big price ?
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Post by MartinT on Jul 23, 2019 20:30:20 GMT
Not really - our Open Value Campus Agreement will transition into Microsoft 365 A3 for Education but the price will remain at around £5k. That's a lot lower than for a business of the same size.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 23, 2019 20:45:28 GMT
That's one thing I will say for Microsoft, they've always given price-breaks on educational "versions" of their software. Of course, were I a cynic, I might mutter something about " catching them young," but I'm not of course, so I won't.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 24, 2019 9:48:29 GMT
Makes perfect sense.
Cynical maybe
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Post by MartinT on Jul 24, 2019 9:56:17 GMT
If Microsoft are catching them young, what are Apple doing?
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 24, 2019 10:00:09 GMT
Ripping them off royally from what I see.
I seem to be the only non Apple punter in the family and even I have a hand me down iPad.
The kids, not so young, have Apple phones, iPads, watches, at least one has an Apple TV
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Post by seanm on Jul 24, 2019 12:12:05 GMT
Martin,
I read about your rollout with interest.... what happened to the fireFly VLE?... My interest is that I am once again moving job having completed my 2 years in Northern Cyprus. I am pondering my options for the future... I am spending too much time moving between exam boards and different (or missing) VLEs.... I am considering publishing my resources myself in an exam specification neutral way once and for all. Situation is confused by the next gig being in China... many things such as dropbox and google are not directly accessible.
Cheers
Sean
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