<div dir="ltr">Deja Vu! I'm pretty sure I've said this before about Joe's comments:<div><br></div><div>I've been doing exactly what Joe is doing (with the NUCs this time). The Kensington locks deter <i><u>theft of opportunity</u></i>. I simply lock the NUC to the LCD and have done with it. Tethering the NUC to the LCD makes it highly inconvenient to surreptitiously tuck the NUC into a backpack. However, K-locks will NOT protect against a smash-and-grab or a pre-planned theft. If you tether them to a sturdy object like a desk, then a smash-and-grab thief can pretty easily yank the lock off of the device it's protecting. It will damage the device in the process (not usually fatal to the device), but it becomes obvious it was stolen. If the theft was pre-planned, a pair of pliers will easily cut the wire.<div><br></div><div>WRT the Compute Stick, I'm thinking along the lines of either finding/making a NUC-sized metal/plastic cage to screw onto the VESA mounts or maybe secure the Compute Stick to the bottom side of the desk and just running a video cable up to the LCD. I like the cage idea because we could just toss the Stick into the cage and it could be big enough to coil up some of the cables inside as well to keep things tidy. I'm definitely open to other ideas and/or specific cage options!</div><div><br></div><div>Chad</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>______________________________<br><b>Chad Neeper</b><br><font size="1">Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><br><b>Level 9 Networks</b><br><font size="1">740-548-8070 (voice)<br>866-214-6607 (fax)</font><br><br><font size="1"><i>Full IT/Computer consulting services -- Specialized in libraries and schools</i></font><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Joe Knueven via OPLINTECH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oplintech@lists.oplin.org" target="_blank">oplintech@lists.oplin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If I needed the extra horsepower out of a PAC, I would probably go the route Chad described. (and take my chances on nefarious folks figuring out where the computer was..)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Speaking of NUCs, If you are especially worried about theft, if you go up to the lowest end NUC, plus cheap ram, cheap SSD, you can buy a laptop cable lock like:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-64068F-MicroSaver-Laptop-Business/dp/B00000K4KH/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1494261420&sr=1-3&keywords=kensington+lock" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr>Kensington-64068F-MicroSaver-<wbr>Laptop-Business/dp/B00000K4KH/<wbr>ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=<wbr>UTF8&qid=1494261420&sr=1-3&<wbr>keywords=kensington+lock</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">you’re somewhere between $230-250 per unit all in and you’d have to add 10-15 minutes per unit to install the SSD and RAM, though you’d have something that’d be a lot less likely
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m transitioning our public computers to a mid-range NUC, combined with the cable lock, and have been happy with the results. From what I’ve seen, I think most of the public
don’t even realize that the PC is hanging off the back of the monitor. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OPLINTECH] Library PAC computer equipment<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We just evaluated Intel Compute Stick (~$150) + free Porteus kiosk (running Chromium browser, but can choose FireFox also) and found the combo to work really well "out of the box". Had it configured and up and running inside of ten minutes.
Probably the biggest problem will be finding a way to secure the Compute Stick to keep it from growing legs since it's about the size of two USB memory sticks.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next biggest question is longevity: It has a 1-year warranty. But countering that is the fact that the operating system running on it is a feather compared to Windows, which the Compute Stick is also capable of running. So the hardware
won't be overly taxed and won't generate excess heat (the hardware killer). Plus, the solution is very cheap in both hardware and config time, so even if it needs replaced slightly more often, it's still more cost effective than most other options (in my situation,
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<p class="MsoNormal">I definitely like the combination. I ordered (nearly) the lowest-spec'ed Compute Stick I could get and the hardware is still overkill for the Porteus kiosk software we're looking at using.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for ideas on upgrading PAC computers? We only use them to access information within our catalog and our online calendar and I don’t like the idea of purchasing a whole computer
setup and not using the full potential of the computer. We have had thin Clients in the past and I don’t really like them since they have trouble displaying our HTML page that was set up. A small footprint would be great. Thought about going to the Intel NUC’s.
Thoughts and ideas welcome.<u></u><u></u></p>
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