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You wouldn't log on to them at all - you set them up on your MDM, and make sure the profile you want applied is assigned to them. Then when you turn them on, they'll automatically connect to Apple, be pointed to your MDM solution, and follow the rules on your profile.

The problem is, law is generally "explicit" rather than implied. So, unless something is explicitly outlined in law, it doesn't apply - unless a case ends up at the High Court and they refer to Hansard to figure out intent (but that is somewhat rare). So, yeah, I think it is definitely one for the solicitors.

None of those are "exceptions" to the law as such. They are licenses that allow use of certain types of media to be used in certain ways. They don't override the terms and conditions of the streaming services. For example, the Filmbankmedia license has the following clause in its terms "Film means any film distributed by Participating Distributors and available for rental or purchase in the form of copyright-fee-paid VHS video, DVD or Blu-Ray at rental and retail outlets in the Territory at the time of, or at any time prior to, the relevant Screening except any Excluded Film". It does appear that MPLC has now allowed streaming movies to be included in its license, however, that license doesn't appear to include any declaration that it overrides the terms and conditions of the streaming services such as Disney+. However, having reread the applicable law itself, there is a clause that may apply to this: Which is from The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Research, Education, Libraries and Archives) Regulations 2014. However, there is ZERO advice confirming that is what this would mean. The DfE have not updated their guidance to include this - in fact their current advice removed their earlier explanations of the law also. My suggestion? Ask your school's solicitors.

Page 5 of the roadmap in the SIMS Workstation section it specifies that they support both 32bit and 64bit.

That is all entirely unrelated to UK law. Those are specific schemes for use by schools. Not general exceptions for education use. I'll put it simply. Unless you can show me, in law, where it states schools can break the terms and conditions and copyright protections of Disney+ and other such streaming services, I'll host assume you're spreading falsehoods. The onus is on you to show that you have a legal right to break copyright law. A generic "but T&L" or "but schools" is irrelevant.

Trying to find the document I based my KB on. The DfE have replaced it with one that has about 1/10th the info in it on their site. Very helpful.

Yeah, UK law has no exceptions for streaming services. T&L has some fairly limited exceptions for DVDs, but that's about it.

Right, I've figured it out. We had some other RFID readers in use previously and these worked OK. However, swapping to these new ones just wouldn't work... The issue is reboots. To remove one type, you have to go to Settings -> System Settings -> Network/Interface -> External Interface Software Settings -> Tap on the "Proximity Card Reader Software Settings" and choose "Do Not Use". Then OK and reboot the machine. Then go back in to the same place, and plug in the new reader. It will register it. Now you have to reboot again. All sorted.

You can, though it'll be a tight squeeze for your cable. The readers we have were bought with mini-USB cables to swap into them for this exact purpose.

Its in the side of the display, but it is a mini USB port, which allows you to hide the connector. There's only about 3 inches of cable showing at all, between the screen and the base. I've got a ticket open with ITS, who support Papercut for us. So hopefully they can figure it out.

Here's some screenshots of what it all looks like. This is where you'd register a USB device if plugged in the back of the copier. Our RFID readers plug in to the control panel itself, via the hidden port on the side, and are hidden under a plastic cover on the machine so you don't actually see them. So, previously, this would all have been in User Tools.

Nope, no Screen Features any more. All features are just in the Settings App - with the display and printer settings just all in that app. They aren't treated separately.

Nope, all that is now in the "Settings" app on the IM C300. The User Tools app just doesn't exist - it isn't mentioned in the User Manual at all. Whereas it still exists in the IM C5500 machines. You can't do the RFID reader installation via the web interface - those settings have never been available via there even on the old SDK/J ones.

SIMS .Net supports 64bit Office.

Everything is 64bit by default these days with Office. You have to go out of your way to choose 32bit. So, I think that means MS thinks 64bit is the way to go now.

So, we have a bunch of these printers from Ricoh - the IM C300, which replaced the MPC307 in their line-up. I have a slight issue though, as I'm trying to get RFID readers set up on them and have hit a snag - the instructions in the latest Papercut embedded SmartSDK manual do not match the system on the Smart Operator Panels on these devices. The instructions (which work on the IM C5500), call for me to access the User Tools menu - this no longer exists on the IM C300. Only the "Settings" app. Am I going mad? Is the User Tools menu there somewhere? The manual for the IM C5500 talks about switching the settings type here but the manual for the IM C300 manual is missing anything about "Settings (Classic)" here. ITS are telling me that the menu must exist, as all Ricoh machines have it, but this machine simply doesn't have it - it seems that Ricoh removed it. So, am I wrong here?

You can, yes. In Devices -> Networks -> General Settings (at the bottom), you can specify which networks are allowed to be used etc...

Oh, and also, the issue with using CCTV cameras is frame rate - most of the cameras I looked at were capped at 15fps. Something to keep an eye out for.

This wouldn't be true for an internally streamed assembly during the pandemic. It would be part of their normal day to day operations, so you would not need permissions to broadcast to within the school. If you were broadcasting externally, then you may need to look at this question though. I am in the process of building a system for one school for their house assemblies. A little more complicated than most due to how they want to do them, but this is how we're doing it: Cameras - Kindle Fire HD tablets on tripods running IVCam. Microphones - existing wireless mics, adapted down and input into the broadcast PC as the sound source Powerpoint/video etc - a second PC to run this, and fed into the broadcast PC via a USB HDMI adapter Then OBS Studio tying it all together. Broadcast will be to an unlisted Youtube page or to VLC via an internal link (depending on the event). For us, we won't be recording these assemblies. They'll be live streamed only. So no long term storage to worry about.

I suppose it depends what you mean about "familiarity". The way you've written it makes it sounds like it is just an issue of a feeling. Except, it isn't - familiarity should more accurately be referred to as retraining costs. Retraining costs should definitely be included in any process (both initial capital cost for retraining, through training courses, and longer term access to training materials and ease of training affect the overall cost of a product). I suppose I wasn't very clear in my post last night. What I am more referring to is the fact that Trusts each have their own finance policy based on guidance from the EFSA/Academies financial handbook. The £40,000 amount you have mentioned is just that - guidance. It isn't what the law itself says. MAT finance policies may choose a different amount (indeed, many have actually set that amount at a lower level too). Of course, they would need to justify that, but if it is defined in their finance policy and complies with the law itself, and the EFSA have not said anything, I cannot see that it would be a problem. Also, when going out to tender, this doesn't mean you must go to full open tender every time. A restricted tender can be run whereby the suppliers you wish to hear from are invited to tender rather than publishing a tender for all to reply to (imagine doing that for something like a batch of Chromebooks, you'd get dozens of replies, wasting everyone's time). There is also the concept of a negotiated tender, when an open or restricted tender either didn't work or wouldn't work.

A lot of this seems focused on organisations going to tender? Not all schools are going to have to tender for an MIS. They are just not all that big. I don't think our entire trust looking for a new MIS would be big enough to hit the EU tendering amount.

Space criminal finds out who his dad is. Ends up in hospital bed after dad chops his arm off.

Child tortures 2 criminals in his house at Christmas.

Man retires with his dog, but his old job keeps bugging him so he shoots a lot of people.

They're rolling their stuff out in Taunton too. One of their guys lives across the road from me and parks his van there. But they're not rolling it out in the village we live in, which has about the same population as Beaminster...