It’s finally Friday. Every Friday I try to wrap up my week… finish out lingering work order tickets… do a couple of requisitions… maybe sign a couple of invoices… check out those server event logs that I’ve been wondering about all week but haven’t had a chance to sit down and investigate… you know, wrap [...]
Criteria for allowing personally owned technology devices
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This is a follow-up post to Wireless for personal devices. Here’s a sample of the instructions for criteria: ONE of the following: * Laptops (Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS X) * Tablets (Windows 7, Android, iPad) * eReaders (Nook, Kindle) IF Windows XP, Vista, or 7 Laptop, then must have an antivirus program installed. [...]
Kindle Versus Nook, or Both?
Email from a school librarian – “I had thought about getting two of each of the lowest priced – 2 Kindles and 2 Nooks – to see which company worked best with us. That would mean I would pay $109 for each Kindle (or get the one with ads for $79) and $99 for each [...]
Wireless for personal devices
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Whelp, it’s almost official. Over Christmas break I installed a new wireless network separate from the district’s so that faculty and students will be able to bring in their own personal devices. I won’t get too detailed, but here’s what I did: * Took “old” access points and reconfigured them with new name, new SSID [...]
Moving Library Software – Spectrum to Destiny
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I’ll tell anyone – I’m not a fan of change. Don’t get me wrong though, if change is needed, I’m for it 100%. This week our district library’s are in the midst of moving from Spectrum to Destiny, both of which are in the Follett family. I was in favor of this change. Spectrum was [...]
Google Apps
Information regarding Google Apps. Setup, administration, usage, etc. Google Apps for Education – http://www.google.com/a/edu/ pjones’ Google Doc “Guide for Schools Using Google Apps” – https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1a4th1o6CDOHObMIwLvrFaKQiwmkuHxiZPqtvLAaqRb8&hl=en&pli=1# Other Links: * Google Apps for Education Overview – http://blog.kathyschrock.net/2009/06/google-apps-for-education-overview.html * Google Apps is Expanding – http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-google-applications-coming-for.html * Google Apps Marketplace – http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/ * Google Apps Manager (command line tool) [...]
MOREnet’s Blackhole DNS Setup
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To those MOREnet members that aren’t using MOREnet’s Blackhole DNS servers, I say “Hey, we’re using it. It was easy to implement, and it’s helped us.” And by “us,” I mean “me,” a one person Tech Dept. Anything that saves me time and cuts out problems, I’m a fan of. Here’s what I did: 1. [...]
SPF – Sender Policy Framework
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This page quickly explains SPF and how to implement it. What’s SPF? * An attempt to control forged email * Not about stopping spam but can help with spam! * Gives domain owners the ability to say which machines are allowed to send email for a domain * http://www.openspf.org/ * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework How’s SPF work? Spammers can’t forge [...]
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