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Running old cars without the space to work on them is a difficult balance. That old Golf would almost certainly been saveable with a welder and some time (that seems to be most of what I do now!) but no good on a driveway. I wouldn't do that job on the i10. You start coming across things like the subframe bolts seized in, brake hardlines corroded, power steering pipes corroded, and it gets out of hand. The car isn't worth enough afterwards to justify - buying another with a year's MoT would be cheaper.

Does Clive run a motel?

Indeed - same holds true for both! Great cars with some rust issues!

Yes, that clutch sounds like it’s at the end! What you have to consider is what sort of car your sub £1000 resale value (due to the clutch!) plus the £1500 potential cost of replacement would get you. £2500 buys another old banger, but an unknown one. If that then explodes within a week, you’re even worse off. Clutch + DMF has become an expensive job, but being a Mazda you may well see the full benefit of getting it done with longevity. I had them done on my old Mondeo, got another four years from it and sold it due to creeping rust underneath. That was 7 years ago, and it’s still going (and the MoT history isn’t bad) at 275,000 miles!

Mine is on a DC. Due to the low system requirements I lumped it in like DNS and DHCP. It in-place upgrades fine too if you like to play that game.

In bangernomics, there’s a sweet spot. I’ve only ever run old bangers, so I know it well. Does it need-need a clutch? Can it be nursed on?

Coming soon - James Bond cast as an American maverick spy, working for the CIA. He is made of gleaming white teeth and tan. MI6 are bumbling fools they must contend with. Suddenly, explosion! James Bond punches a helicopter (forget shooting it with a pistol from 300m). Awkward sex scene and future lawsuit. Credits. Looking forward to it - will be a must see.

For integration, if any of your services can work with a provider like Wonde, that can help - it becomes the middle man for data so the integration becomes their problem. For example, we also use Class Charts - if we moved to Bromcom and carried on with CC for some reason, we shouldn't need to change much.

I have had them replace motherboards in the past for non-charging, but none looked that bad. They seem to have got stricter since I last sent one though.

Allowed for staff, Applockered for students. Staff expected to follow common sense, which is not always applied.

I don't think this is much of a thing. Windows 10 22H2 had a mimumum official support of 5th gen Core (2014), but it works perfectly well (if slowly) on early Core 2 stuff. AMD support goes back to 2013 models. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-10-22h2-supported-intel-processors This may impact your Cyber Essentials stuff, but those of you who meet those specs wouldn't be running stuff older than 5 years old anyway. The rest of us will shrug.

Ideal ChromeOS spec. Godawful Windows spec. We're a Windows/M365 school but adding Chromebooks to our estate was easy and cheap.

Not sure why I wrote Mojave. Must have got too much into the timeline grid. I meant Sequioa. MacOS 15.

Pretty much as above. You need a security group for this - which is why I based all of our email lists off security groups rather than distribution groups back when I set up Exchange 12 years ago. I've always used the ECP to set it but as that's now gone it's a bit fiddlier. You can also manage this with Powershell.

Pretty much universally 22". Desk space is often limited for larger.

If your Macbook Pro has an Ivy Bridge CPU (which would fit the timeline) you can run MacOS Mojave on it with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. It is a great piece of software, and can get some more life out of your perfectly decent old MBP. That's not the root issue here I suspect, but it will give some more reassurance of compatibility. Make a USB with 10.15 installer on it if you want to roll back.

Even if this is the right thing for the school, and you have no way out of the contract, I would implore you not to do this. Let some other poor mug try, perhaps. You need an SQL Server license, unless the DB is small. Plus CALs as required. You need to maintain that under the SIMS roadmap. You need to manage SOLUS3 and updates, which was always a right hassle even when you get it to be stable. You also have that data to backup, protect, maintain and stress when it breaks. If someone told me to do this, I’d sub-contract it or run.

It's fine, they're just developing another cohort that hate maths. While I can sort of understand the reasoning (students 'need to apply more effort', standards are too low, able students aren't being pushed) if I was a parent there I'd be cross.

Welsh rugby gets me ranting, and that's not from being a fan. I think his departure is a symptom of rot far deeper into it.

An update/reminder for this: When setting the proxy settings in the proxy file in configfiles, you need to specifiy address, port, username and password. Yes, even if you don't use a username and password. The software is that monumentally ****. If you don't put them in, it'll do the update loop. I want it on the record that the ******* ***** that wrote this **** can go and . And I hope it hurts.

Probably M4 or M3 coarse thread like a case screw. I have some Lenovo ones that are similar. See if you can find a small nut that fits them, then use that as reference for a replacement. Our Tech department is good for this!

Our students are removed from the Global address book. Makes finding them harder for staff, but they can look up their usernames on our systems. The wrong staff still get emailed if the names are similar though, and this has lead to some hard fails (Mr/Mrs Bloggs, both in the same department).

Kind of. No message - the fire alarm needs an input from a relay (which is the same as a fire call point effectively, and the fire system interprets this as 'trigger lockdown'. It then doesn't drop the doors, but it sounds a different alarm. We don't trigger Paxton from the call points, we trigger the fire alarm and this triggers Paxton through an input relay on one ACU. Net2 then handles this trigger to lock the doors.

It's either a case of working with Virtualbox (it can be done centrally on one host - but it's a beast on resources) or using Entra licensed VMs (Azure Labs mentioned above), which will be much less work but it's expensive. Do they have a curriculum ready so you can see what fits best?

What are you looking for, an old mini ATX unit that’ll run XP well? Longevity wise, something like an old HP DC7900. They came in SFF and desktop form factors. I mention them because they are absolute cockroaches - I have rucks still in use. Bang in a SFF AMD 5000 or 6000 series card where the drivers will have a chance of working. With a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of DDR2 with an SSD boot drive (with its own garbage collection rather than TRIM as XP doesn’t have it), it’d fly. Cheap too.