NZ Tekonverse

Have decided to push ahead with this as time permits. It has been “fun” working with the small chassis. For example you have to unclip the plastic side panel next to the power supply in order to fit the power supply cable because there isn’t direct access to it from above – the chassis gets…

About a month ago I wrote about this chassis which I decided I could afford to buy. I have a spare Gigabyte GA-350N WIN8 Mini-ITX board about the place I intend to put into this thing when I get round to it. With just a very quick look at it out of the box the…

Miscellaneous considerations: The difference in pricing between the G6350NL and the G6250WNL is quite small / insignificant. The choice of projector will depend on what aspect ratio you use most often. The G6350 is 4:3 native. This means at 1024×768, if you use a 16:10 source you will only use 640 of the vertical pixels…

Again here is the calculator: http://www.elitescreens.com/index.php/component/content/article?id=264 This time I went for the native 16:10 model EB-G6250. The calculator does not have this model, so I used the similar Powerlite Pro G6050W. Screen Gain 1.0 Throw distance 20 metres Calculator lists 8 lenses but only 6 of these are current with the G6250 model. Of these…

Well, I am working up some numbers for the school gym’s proposed projector installation. Projection can be quite a tricky business because you have to try to work out an optimum screen size for a venue and then with big installation projectors you are looking for the right lens as well for a long throw…

Our next little jaunt in PowerShell will be to learn how to use it to configure Active Directory accounts. For example, you may have a need to change a particular property of a group of Active Directory users, such as the logon script or profile path, when you need to stage a rollout of a…

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/63695412/Tablets-holding-students-back This is a pretty good example of why a tablet is not really suitable for a learning environment. Due to the lack of a keyboard 🙂

The Antec ISK 100 (now superseded by the ISK 110) HTPC chassis is a worthwhile consideration for HTPC enthusiasts. It measures only 222 x 78 x 212 mm making it small enough to be mounted on the back of a LCD display that has accessible VESA mounting holes.A small desktop stand and VESA mount adapter…

So the script got to be more sophisticated and can now create folders if they don’t exist. What pleases me about PS is that it has a full range of file handling functions built right into it and doesn’t require extensions to do this kind of thing I am doing with it. The bulk rename…

As I wrote in my last post PowerShell is a very powerful scripting language that can do a lot of stuff in a Windows environment. I spent a bit of time hacking this script together to support my bulk photo rename. Briefly put the steps in the bulk photo rename were: extract the photos from…