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 Post subject: Dimrill!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 16:52 
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I seek your sage and onion stuffing! Um, I mean your sage wisdom, yes that's it.

You work in school IT do you not?

I am thinking of applying for "deputy network manager" in a secondary school near me.

Can you think of any advice you could share with me?

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 16:56 
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Hmm. Be prepared for snooty fucking arsehole teachers who know how to use basic excel functions telling you how to configure a CISCO router. Be prepared to give technical advice on the future requirements of the school, only to have them ignored so that they can buy 500 PDAs and give them to the nursery kids to play with. For 5 minutes before they're broken, natch.

Mention SIMS n stuff, they'll like that probably.

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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Podcasts.

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Facebook. Myspace. Peer-to-Peer software.
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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 17:05 
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Yes! Bloody podcasts. And when they bring an A4 handwritten sheet into the office and ask you to "download it" onto the network. It's IQ support instead of IT support, mostly. As the dept manager you'll be mostly changing ink in printers and scrubbing graffiti off PC cases, unfortunately. Bloody kids. Bloody teachers. GAH!

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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i never understood what are podcasts.


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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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i never understood what are podcasts.

Audio files. Um, that's it, really.

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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Yes! Bloody podcasts. And when they bring an A4 handwritten sheet into the office and ask you to "download it" onto the network.


Tell them to Docucast it next time, using that noisy machine in the corner, yes, that one with the basket of guinea-pig nest material stored underneath it.


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I'm SO going to do that now.

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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Grim... wrote:
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i never understood what are podcasts.

Audio files. Um, that's it, really.


just that? another redundant word for the ipod generation?


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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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Where's Mr. Marsh? For this thread, I mean, but also in general anyway.

RuySan: a podcast is an audio file that you download, the difference being that it's usually made available via RSS, so you can have e.g. daily evening podcasts of really hilarious biting political satire from the awesomely funny internet people who tend to use their excellent talents to make such wonders. These then download 'automatically'.

Dimrill, can you confirm for me please that only Macs with iTunes can 'do' podcasts?

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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Dimrill wrote:
Hmm. Be prepared for snooty fucking arsehole teachers who know how to use basic excel functions telling you how to configure a CISCO router. Be prepared to give technical advice on the future requirements of the school, only to have them ignored so that they can buy 500 PDAs and give them to the nursery kids to play with. For 5 minutes before they're broken, natch.

Mention SIMS n stuff, they'll like that probably.



I think I've mentioned before that I could never be a teacher as I can't stand unruly children and hate it when kids are rude/don't listen. Please tell me you don't have much to do with them...

Oh, and thanks for the advice so far.

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:04 
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Dimrill, can you confirm for me please that only Macs with iTunes can 'do' podcasts?

That's where the term originated - you subscribe to podcasts on iTunes Music Store, then when you run iTunes (or leave it running constantly, what the hell) it automatically grabs new editions. Then when you connect your iPod they're copied to it.

These days anything and everything is a podcast, of course - I literally bought a pack of Salt'n'vinegar Podcasts on my way to work this morning.


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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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Spinglo Sponglo! wrote:
I think I've mentioned before that I could never be a teacher as I can't stand unruly children and hate it when kids are rude/don't listen. Please tell me you don't have much to do with them...

Oh, and thanks for the advice so far.

Malc


Depends on the problem you're facing, really. Most of the time the more cretinous ones will repeatedly forget their passwords so will require you to change it. Sometimes they'll bring their memory sticks along and wonder why they're not working after they'd stamped on them a few times. You'll learn to avoid leaving the office between lessons as they just barge you out of the way, not giving a toss that you're trying to carry a 19" CRT monitor down the corridors. Sometimes a teacher may ask you to monitor a troublesome one's internet access during a class, and if you ban them, as requested, your car gets vandalised in the carpark. Secondary schools are great fun.

But this is just me venting, a lot of the time you're sitting on your arse doing nothing and getting paid for it. Plus you sort of get a warped perspective on things as you only seem to deal with the bad kids.

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if you ban them, as requested, your car gets vandalised in the carpark. Secondary schools are great fun.


Man, I never got that when I banned anyone. Or when I reported one of them for disturbing smurf porn.


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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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I got it at my first one which was my Uni placement year. Haven't had it so far in the 5 years at my current job, but I'm hardly at the secondary school.

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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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RuySan wrote:
Grim... wrote:
RuySan wrote:
i never understood what are podcasts.

Audio files. Um, that's it, really.


just that? another redundant word for the ipod generation?


Pretty much, the actual idea of podcasts was that they were like audio magazines, you got a different "issue" of the same thing every day/week etc. This has of course been horribly corrupted.


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 Post subject: Re: Dimrill!
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RuySan wrote:
Grim... wrote:
RuySan wrote:
i never understood what are podcasts.

Audio files. Um, that's it, really.


just that? another redundant word for the ipod generation?


Audio file + RSS feed is closer I think. But yeah, that's pretty much it.


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