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We have looked for a solution to the same problem. Best we came up with was to download the document as an MS Office file, and then apply a password to that using Office before sharing the file. Clunky, but a solution. Didn't find a way round it for PDFs without buying full-blown Acrobat which is too expensive and much more than we actually need. @dhicks: if the OP's situation is like ours, requiring recipients to sign up to different systems, use specific e-mails etc. will not be an option. We wanted to be able to share PDFs with password to a whole range of different people, in different organisations and using different systems. Some of those have required cajoling to accept the use of password-protected files at all, without mandating that they need to sign up to a specific service etc.

It may be different with different connection set ups then - we are on leased-line fibre, with on-premises Stormshield firewall box. We also have the capability to sync with AD and select filtering profiles by AD group etc. Maybe if you are on the cloud-hosted filtering option it is not possible then.

Hi, We have an Exa connection and use their filtering. You can indeed ask them to exclude a certain internal IP range from SSL filtering - we have this in place and it works. It's the only way we could find for devices without the certificate to be able to browse without error messages.

Beware with this - only certain Paxton readers will read mifare cards. We have various readers installed in 2 or 3 batches and only the newer ones will read mifare. Apparently there are two different types of reader spec?

I would argue that this is not an issue that needs a technical solution. If your staff are using their e-mail through the Office 365 portal, they need to actively logon in order to read e-mails and so surely the solution is if you do not want to receive e-mails in the evening, don't open your e-mail?! I suppose if staff have their e-mail accounts on phones etc they may be getting notifications, but again, if you don't want instant notification of e-mails 24/7, don't put the account on a device that you use 24/7. I decided a while ago that for my own wellbeing, I didn't want work e-mails out of hours, so I simply turned off notifications for that account on my phone.

And despite those reports, him being a 'liver specialist', he's probably more qualified/experienced than the 'general surgeon' you would normally get for a keyhole gallbladder op.

Authoring software should be able to create a DVD-Video from your MP4 file though

My wife had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy about 3 years ago (just over the border from you in West Sussex). Like JJonas, she has only 4 small scars from the instrument sites. She was in and out as a day case with no issues, obviously there was some pain afterwards but not severe. She said the worst part was the bloating afterwards from where they inflate the abdomen to perform the surgery. She was in bed for the next couple of days afterwards and then gently up and about. 3 weeks off work if I remember correctly, but that was the medical advice more than anything else. I don't think she'd recommend it as fun day out, but overall as a necessity it wasn't too bad. And well worth it to avoid the massive pain from the 'flare-ups'. From her experience now, once you are without gall bladder, beware of too much fatty food, and don't be too far from the loo if you do on occasion have a large intake of fat as you won't be able to digest it properly.

Some sliproads, especially on non-Motorways are ridiculous because they are so short. If you have to come to a stop, you've then got basically no chance of getting out into the road unless you've got a car that can go from 0-70mph in 1 second! And don't get me started on lorries - not a chance in hell they will give way to anyone, far too busy trying to overtake each other at 1mph more than the other one.

Absolutely agree. The notion that individual schools will be able to dictate their own terms and conditions is absolutely pie-in-the-sky. Even with small suppliers, how are they supposed to manage having different terms with each customer. It's madness. We questioned a point in the T&Cs with a well-known education-specific provider and also got the "these are our terms, take them or leave them" treatment. It's just not a workable idea, too much is being left to individual schools to sort out.

I'm doing a Windows 10 deployment in the summer and I'm going with LTSB. Can't be doing with all the app hassles and the oh so frequent major updates that take a week and a half! I've been running it on a laptop for the last few months as a trial and I've had zero problems and like Rockpile99 have found it 'rock solid'. Whereas at home the wife and kids all run current branch Windows 10 and have had no end of problems with the 'feature updates'.

I'd be wary of mounting a projector on the lighting truss, depending what sort of lights you are going to be using, and if the projector is needed at the same time as the lights. We have moving-head lights on our new-ish rig, and they cause enough vibration through the bar that it would seriously blur a projected image from the same bar. That might just be our rig, but I would certainly want to test it before committing.

Genuine question: While that is obviously the answer you will get from senior people in education, is actually the case that Safeguarding trumps everything where the law is concerned? Would a Safeguarding concern (not necessarily an issue) actually be a defence for breaching GDPR rules for example? Common sense says so, but then again also can 'because Safeguarding' really be an excuse for anything?

I had an hour experience 'flying' a Boeing 737 simulator for my 30th. Was great. If you are at all interested in that sort of thing, a trial flying lesson is a good experience gift too. Only risk with that is that if you are like me, you'll find yourself trying to think up ways to raise the £10k needed to take it further!

When I was a child, I used to ask why we didn't have 'Children's Day'. I got told it was because it was Children's Day every day!! But then I was a teeny bit spoilt...

I don't know about any of the other suggestions, but the only gift I can think of I'd like now is the chocolate-coated honeycomb!!

Teamed pair of 1GBit links for us

Does anyone have a copy of the installer for the Xirrus Xircon utility software? It's used to connect to the CLI on certain Xirrus APs that don't have a physical console port. Since Xirrus was bought out by Riverbed and it is no longer possible to access the Xirrus support pages and downloads without a current support contract with Riverbed (which we don't have!). We have a few XR1220 arrays that are keen on corrupting their flash memory and it is necessary to use the Xircon software to fix them. I have it on one PC currently, but will be replacing that one shortly so need to get hold of the installer. Would be very grateful if anyone has a copy they would be willing to share, or has a Riverbed support login and could download it for me? Thanks Chris.

We've done it here - had a few people who missed the deadline, but generally went OK. Biggest annoyance to me is that G Suite makes it so hard to fix the problem once the enforcement date has passed without 2FA being setup. Why can't they just force it to be setup at next login attempt rather than just locking the user out completely? Or at least make it possible to set it up for the user from Admin Console? Only way I have found around it is to make an Org Unit without enforcement, move the user into there, get them to login and set up 2FA and then move them back to the proper account again. What a faff!

We give new staff access to the system from the induction day. Obviously at this point the recruitment process is almost complete, jobs formally accepted etc. If we waited for their contracts to come through from the LA, they wouldn't have access until they'd been in the job a couple of months! However, they don't get access until we have a signed AUP on file, and their DBS has come back and been accepted. All the policies and agreements we expect them to read are accessed via the system, so without a login they can't even do that.

I think that's a great way to look at it. To my mind, you have to REALLY enjoy riding and your time on the bike to offset the negatives and the risks. I only wish that I'd come to that conclusion before dropping £600 on a DAS course, getting licenced up, getting big bike...

Those timescales are the case for FOI requests, yes. This is defined in the Freedom of Information act though, which is separate to the GDPR. Subject Access Requests and Data Breach Notifications under GDPR operate with different rules unfortunately. With no concession for schools on the response time.

I've got a T410 that I've specced up to 8GB and put in a 120GB SSD and it's a great little machine. So much 'bang for the buck' as they are really a snip refurb these days. I'd imagine the T430's are even better - very similar chassis and basic design, but the more recent generation processors.

Our advise was to notify up front that any requests during holiday periods would be deemed complex (due to unavailability of all staff involved) and so would be responded within 2 months. This was endorsed by our LA legal team as an acceptable solution. They didn't not offer any similar solution for the matter of breach reporting in holiday times - the standard timescales apply to these at all times.