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Considering their price, I quite like them. Sophos took about 8-10 minutes to install (not great, but overly slow either) and given the choice between using these, an Android device or iPads in a classroom, I would go with these. That said, I wouldn't be in a rush to put them out there. They only really become useful with a case/keyboard combination, and I can see those going missing, or being broken at a rapid pace. I will be using them as a student take home device (for students who have no access to IT at home etc) and I think (hope!) they'll be really useful for that purpose.

I'd swap the RAM and cores set aside for your File Server to your SIMS server and vice versa, but otherwise it looks feasible to me...

Downloaded this for the PS3 last night, question is whether I'm going to be able to get hold of the TV from the girlfriend long enough to complete it!

Generally I would clear Tartarus in one night at the start (there are natural 'breaks' to stop you doing the entire shebang) then spend the rest of the time exploring and building up social links and your skills (determination, bravery, intelligence and the other one). You're then prepared for whatever is thrown at you, but the game gives you fair warning as to when to expect something to happen, so you can't go too wrong with it.

Well, there's also: Suikoden 1 and 2 - JRPG PSX classics The Atelier series (remade for the Vita) LittleBigPlanet Tearaway Danganronpa 1 and 2 - A very weird Japanese game with Phoenix Wright like gameplay mechanics, ish. And various others, heard the Uncharted game is good to, but I've only played the PS3 versions. But I did buy the Vita purely for Persona 4 Golden, the other games were bonuses!

Get a Vita, and then get yourself Persona 3: FES and Person 4: Golden, the latter I would rate as one of the best JRPGs I've ever played. It does need to be Persona 4 Golden though, as they add in a whole bunch of extra stuff over and above the Playstation 2 version. Otherwise you could try Devil Survivor on the DS or the 3DS version, it's a similar universe, but very different gameplay.

RM offer that service, and their guidance notes were pretty helpful. I didn't have to do it from scratch though, as I inherited a tenancy from our county council and in the end I didn't need a any direct support from RM, just the notes.

Anyone know how to do this with codes from MVLSC? I had hoped 'Add features to Windows 8.1' and sticking in our Windows 8.1 Pro key would do the trick, but it hasn't. This article suggests it should work, but I wonder whether the laptop has been built with another language... The laptop in question is a HP Stream 11 (Nice bit of kit, aside from the horrible trackpad), and whilst i'm not too shy about rebuilding it from scratch, I would prefer to keep HP's software if possible. Anyway, any thoughts, suggestions welcome!

Dabs are selling it for £149.98 So very tempted...

I borrowed the survey put up by @bossman Three questions, essentially asking to be rated on Response time, Professionalism and Quality of work. Not sure whether to embed the link at the bottom of our Spiceworks support tickets, or to fire it out once a year to all staff in an email.

Does anyone know where Clickview is picking up a school's email domain from? It's picked up our old County email address domain (which was used by all schools in our County), not the one specific to our school and I can't access ClickView as that domain name was killed off a few months back.

Give @ict-direct a shout, they might be able to help with older kit...

Well worth a look at the HP Sprout, really cool tech!

First I'd heard of ITIL, and thank you for the the link to the NEOS training website, my appraisal is coming up and that looks like a perfect training requirement. I'd be interested to know which companies people have used to give them FITS/ITIL training?

Disable fast boot worked for me on netbooks that were hanging coming back to life after sleep.

Yes, I agree that the school is covered, but does that actually help the student? If the school doesn't monitor student use of Social Media, and neither does the parent, then that leaves education alone, which has been stated before is questionable as to it's impact. That being said, I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea that schools should be policing/monitoring student's use of social media sites (and I doubt most schools would have the man hours to do so effectively). Maybe you and @Garacesh are right, and it should just be blocked within schools and on any device that the school purchases. It's certainly the solution most schools go with (including my own) I'm just not certain that it's the best solution.

Sorry, I should have been clearer, and said that if the Skype had been blocked, and the student accessed Skype at home on their own device. But yes, I remember that (extremely long) thread from a year or so back. I made a summary and showed SLT, I don't think it made much of a difference. Students are still able to use their own devices here, which as you say, would come under those three Laws.

If nothing else its certainly been an interesting question to explore, so thank you for the reasoned debate @Garacesh

But we don't just block facebook, we're blocking everything with social media connotations (Twitter, Skype, IM etc). And by blocking it, students can't investigate it with a teacher on hand to give guidance. By the same token, it offers schools that level of protection (it can't happen on our network...) but I'm not convinced this attitude is one that actually helps students and e-safety. I do agree though, students could be massively distracted by Facebook, but then students have access to Facebook through their phones (or at least, they do here, we don't ban mobile phones). For some reason, staff allow students to listen to music in lessons too, so perhaps my school is a little different to most! I don't have a solution, I'm just not sure an outright ban on social media in schools is the best solution, but maybe it's the only way schools can go.

But if the school had blocked Skype, nothing would have stopped her, or other teenagers, from accessing those sites with their own devices. Admittedly the school would not legally responsible, but there's still a failing of safeguarding, but now it's not within the school, who will pick up on it? I find it an odd disconnect between the school teaching e-safety, and to be wary of social networking, but rather than allowing students to utilize social media in a safe, monitored environment, schools restrict access of anything to do with social media, and so students experiment at home, with no supervision or guidance, just some vague memories of a powerpoint presentation showed to them in a PSHCE lesson once. Yes, the school could have legally covered themselves with better technology, as @abillybob suggests, I just don't know if that's solving the problem, or pushing it away onto the parents.

If Skype had been blocked in that school, would she have not continued at home, where it may not have been picked up at all? We're moving into a time where filtering and monitoring student devices is going to get harder as 3G/4G and now 5G is becoming more and more ubiquitous. We're being told that to keep students away from mobile devices isn't in keeping with a 21st century education, yet at the same time very little guidance is being given on student BYOD. Education would definitely be an answer, but as @Ephelyon says, can we ever be sure that the education a student receives is taken in and acted upon? My major concern would be that this is happening with a lot of teenagers, and no amount of school filtering/technical know how is going to help when it's the students own devices that are being used.

Backstory I spent some time reading around http://www.edugeek.net/forums/internet-related-filtering-firewall/145867-google-moving-ssl-searches.html and Google's enforced moving all searches to SSL and the issues this was causing for Web Filtering. Fearing that our web setup would again force me to block Google searches, I read through and found, to my relief, that all would be well. Or so I thought. I have redirected our Google searches to enforce Google safe search, using the Google VIP However, two pieces of information came together and made me realise that I needed to make a change to the network or face the possibility of uncomfortable questioning. The first was that Ofsted are asking questions about web filtering, with this specific issue in mind (google-moving-ssl-searches Page 5l And secondly a post from @Irritable Tech Google-safe-search which reminded me that I had, in fact, only set the redirection to Google Safe Search for google.com and .co.uk as these were the only two domains that the students ever used. Of course, with BYOD, even with SECURUS onsite, I couldn't know for sure that students weren't using other domains for their searches on their phones or other devices around the school without Securus (iPads, tablets etc). Then came the mammoth task of adding all 190 or so countries to my own DNS. I don't have a proxy filter, instead relying on our Palo Alto provided by Virgin, and the Web Filtering inbuilt therein. For the most part it does a good job, and with SECURUS backing it up, I'm sure it will pass any Ofsted/Child safety inspection. However, for all it's good things, it can't force Google safe search without the DNS 'hack', which I have to do on a local server. I started entering them one by one, and figured it would take me the best part of a day, and thought there must be a better way. Command prompt could do it, but I figured that Poweshell would be the best bet. Technical Bit - How to add lots of Forward Zones and Host A Records using Powershell First up, I needed to know what commands would allow me to create Forward Look Up Zones - Technet - Add Zones to DNS via Powershell In this case, I needed Add-DnsServerPrimaryZone -Name "www.google.com" -ReplicationScope "Domain" -PassThru Next, the code to create an A Host record Add-dns-a-records-via-powershell/ Again, the code required is Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA -Name "." -ZoneName "www.google.com" -AllowUpdateAny -IPv4Address "216.239.38.120" So, two pieces of script, now I needed a list of google domains - Google supported_domains And to combine them all, I needed Excel. Paste the list of domain names into Excel, then copy them again, and this time paste - special - tick transpose to get a nice long list of domains. Place into Column B. In Column A type "Add-DnsServerPrimaryZone -Name "www" and then in column C type "" -ReplicationScope "Domain" -PassThru" (without outside quote marks) Then in column E type =A1&B1&C1 This should mean, in column E, you'll get the text "Add-DnsServerPrimaryZone -Name "www.google.com" -ReplicationScope "Domain" -PassThru". Extend the series' in Columns A, B and E all the way to the bottom of the domain list. Then copy colum E, paste into Notepad and save it as 'DNSZones.ps1'. That's part 1 sorted. Part 2 is similar, just in Column A make it "Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA -Name "." -ZoneName "www" and Column C "" -AllowUpdateAny -IPv4Address "216.239.38.120"" (again, without the outside quote marks). Extend the series and copy Column E into notepad and this time call it 'DNSAHost.ps1'. If you're feeling brave, you can run the scripts on your DNS server, ensuring to run DNSZones first, then DNSAHost, but I would copy one line from each file first and run them as a test. All going well, you should have every Google domain covered and redirected to safe search.

I would set the rows on the right to a fixed height so that the comment box on the left is as big as the biggest comment available (1000 characters?). I don't believe you can set the rows to resize dynamically (unless there's a macro out there that will do it), so I would just ensure each comment box is the maximum size allowed, that way they'll all look uniform and will make any issues with page layout a lot easier too.

Any idea which update? Fairly certain all security updates are applied on our machines and it's still working for us (I'll check tonight!)

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