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Saw this on IGN news this morning. I'm impressed! Now I know for certain Oculus Rift and Sony Morpheus are beating down the wrong path. This is the VR experience I've been waiting for. Put this together with Kinnect 2 and you've got a very powerful bundle, MS have a serious edge over the competition with this. Now, my only questions - does it work with Skype? Can I send a video of my head?

One thing I forgot to add - I think having a basic understanding of FITS/ITIL, not necessarily having the qualification, is essential to the role. From my experience the job is 90% people, budget, change, process management and 10% network management.

I'd be interested in reading other NM's responses to this. For my part - I don't have any formal qualifications. I have a 3rd Class Honors Degree in Applied Computing (programming databases) and 3 years experience as a secondary school Tech/Senior Tech. Was lucky enough to walk into the perfect NM post 6 years ago and pretty much learnt on the job. Given the pay, previous school IT experience tends to be the sole job requirement although it'd be nice if you have a degree as well. I've seen one or two posts go to people whove had second/third line network support roles in industry. I'd say Network+ and a Microsoft server cert would put you ahead of most of the competition applying. The best thing to do is read the job descriptions of a few of the old NM posts that have been advertised in the jobs section here.

There at least four separate issues here. It's a knee jerk reaction to confuse them as one overiding issue and assign blame accordingly. 1) The behavior of the adult in question 2) The behavior of the child in question 3) Education provided to the child from parents and school on grooming and social networking issues 4) The school allowing access to skype/social media on a pupil device during lessons In situations such as these there's enough blame to go around for everyone involved.

I bought a Dell uSFF refurb off an Amazon dealer just before Christmas. Core2 Duo, 4Gb, 1Tb, Wifi, Window 7 license. Little under £150 for the lot. For your budget I think a similar refurb would give best value for money. Certainly could get a much better spec than I did for similar money if you look at mini/midi tower cases instead of uSFF.

I think there are more important problems to worry about in that scenario than how quickly the network can be rebuilt. We have off site backups so it'd be a case of a judgement call by the head what computers/servers are needed straight away. Next business day purchases from off-the shelf suppliers. And what can wait for insurance payouts and permanent accommodation. I think requisitioning some laptops from local primary schools in order to get a copy of SIMS functional would be the only real priority.

Our DR says, since all out servers are VM's, we'd commandeer an ICT suite and use the desktops to host the VM's until the server room is recovered. It'd mean being 1 ICT suite down, but that's better than no computers at all.

touche! I see plenty of space in rural America and Australia. Maybe we should blame other countries immigration policies for our over crowding?

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We need houses...

Looks like Outlook will only connect using Outlook Anywhere which requires a proper SSL cert, this could be a bit tricky. Any ideas why I can't get POP3 to connect? The services have been started on the server and POP3 is enabled for the user account. Do I need to set up any send or receive transport hubs for use with POP3 connections?

Anyone have any ideas why I can't get the two to talk to one another? We have an Exchange 2013 server that is working. Sending and receiving e-mails. Users connect via the OWA just fun. No issues at all. Our Finance team need to run Outlook locally instead of use the OWA so the finance software they use can send e-mails through Outlook. I've installed Outlook 2013 but what ever I do - Exchange, POP, IMAP, SMTP - I can't get Outlook to communicate with the Exchange server. Anybody able to hold my hand and guide me though this one? Cheers.

QWERY for Word, DOVAK for Excel - I thought that was the norm !?!

In some ways I think that's the point and why most of these types of discussions are pretty moot. You pretty much need the right mixture of everything. I think that's were The Last of Us gets its reputation from and, for me, where Tomb Raider failed. Sure when you peel everything away the core gameplay in The Last of Us was nothing groundbreaking, and perhaps might be mediocre. However it was the right gameplay mechanics, the right attention to detail, that when mixed with that story gave something special.

Just a point of note - The Playstation controller is an evolution of the SNES and before that the NES controller. Pretty much came about thanks the the failed SNES-CD deal in the early 90's that directly lead to Sony developing the playstation. The Xbox controller is an evolution of the Dreamcast controller, which itself is based on the 3D controller sold with Nights on the Saturn. Again it comes about because Sega and Microsoft worked quiet closely on both Dreamcast and later XBox. Dreamcast was based on the Windows CE OS. AFAIK Gamecube was released after both PS2 and XBox so it's controller has little to do with anything and is Nintendo weird anyway.

I'm one of the few that actually preferred the original XBox controller to the Controller-S, although I do only have Controller-S's for my current XBox Gonna have to e-bay a solution to that! Which beggers the question, what makes a good game? I'd put those three above everything else, followed by controls and then gameplay mechanics - ordinarily. Graphics, resolutions, refresh rates, etc, are all way down on my list. Probably why I'm happy with consoles. See, I hated the Tomb Raider reboot. It felt like a over zealous rail shooter that relied far to heavily on QTE's.

I'd be honest and say I always thought the analogue sticks on XBox were in completely the wrong place which is why I've always preferred DualShock, however... I bought a wired 360 controller for my emulation rig and I must say it feels a lot better than, dare I say it, even the DualShock 4! The buttons all feel a lot more responsive, there's a definite click/action to them. And the triggers... But, I'm willing to just put it down to being a new controller out of the cellophane. Once it's got a bit of wear then will see what's better, then we'll see...

The Last of Us is the single greatest game of the past 2 years. If you've never played be prepared for a gaming experience that will make you wonder why you ever thought a gaming PC was a good idea And GTA-V. Possibly the second greatest game of the past years. (is it available on PeeCee yet?) Seriously £339, with both of those games (and DriveClub, meh) - that is one hell of a bargain!

PS4 - FTW (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PS4-The-Last-Remastered/dp/B00I9WW9YQ)

They're x86 based processors, it's Windows 8.1 professional. So yes to install office, join domain and license with EES. Boot from pen drive? depends on how gimped the UEFI bios is. It's the Arm based "Surface" ones you need to worry about.

I'm going to have to see if I can use my 28days holiday in once continuous block next Chrimbo. Time it right around some bank holidays, add in weekends, and I might just have time to 100% it and get bored of playing out my Jack the Ripper fantasies...

Java...

See everyone says that but I don't buy in to it. I think I might have been brainwashed by Mark Cerney's keynote when the PS4 was launched. Games haven't really, or indeed shouldn't really, need to push the CPU that hard. As @sonofsanta pointed out, the difference between i3 and i7 for most games isn't really that great, it's all benchmarks and ideal world statistics. It's the combination of multi-cores and GPGPU compute that's important. And since both consoles are x86 based and have gone down the exact same route in that regard, I'd expect (for ease of porting between platforms if nothing else) PC games to do the same. It's quite a canny design when you think about it.

My personal opinion, which is why I'd champion the AMD FX series, would be to look at cores over reported speed/performance of the CPU. It might not help with some 2 core CPU heavy games around at the moment and performance might suffer against an i3 or i5, but think long term. I'd take my que from the console designers. Both X1 and PS4 use a lower powered CPU with a lot more cores and higher powered GPU. I think the consoles will have an influence on PC games so more CPU cores and GPGPU will become the norm. Likewise I think 2Gb graphics RAM will become restricting since the both consoles use unified RAM and thus can allocate a lot more to graphics. For my money a cheaper AMD CPU with more cores married with a mid to high range GPU with as much graphics RAM as you can afford would be the best option.