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Funny, I agree copper is on it's way out, but I disagree on how. I think with the state of the countries broadband infrastructure and BT's near monopoly on the physical connections, copper will have a slow lingering death. But fibre isn't it's usurper - that's 4G, well 4G's successors at any rate. 4G now is for mobile internet what early 2G was to mobile voice back in the mid 90's. Today I doubt very meny people really use their land lines for telephone communications. Everyone has mobile phones with free minutes (and text). This is the real start of always on wireless internet everywhere, all the time.

Replay is a very good and informative read. Been meaning to pick up the other for a while now, keep seeing on Amazon and thinking...maybe... Actually true Atari aficionados would know that game is probably a not so close second... (not suitable for work!): (Custers Revenge)

Forget Thunderbolt or USB type B. The new standard is USB type C USB Type-C cable with reversible design breaks cover | IT PRO On USB 3.1 10Gbps USB alliance finalizes 10Gbps specification as USB 3.1

See this is what get's me about VGA - ITS PART OF THE DVI SPEC!!!! Old VGA monitors are supposed to work fine through DVI.

It really annoys me when I see PC's still being sold with - VGA, PS/2, RS232C, IEEE1284, IDE and/or BIOS. The PC industry loves to take it's time moving away from old obsolete technology. And yet Apple never seem to have any problems drawing a line in the sand when they need to...

The best side effect of these changes - Weird Al is now legal in the UK

Looks like it might still be passing throught parlament - Intellectual Property Bill [HL] 2013-14 — UK Parliament This is expected to go through. When it does, digital media can be used in the same way as photocopying pages from books at the moment. A kind of "fair use" clause. So long it is for legitimate educational purposes we'll be able to use MP3's in lesson without prior authorisation from the copyright holder, and the "personal use only" text become meaningless. Edit: re-read the link above and it appears to have finished it's passage through paralament and is currently waiting royal assent. So there you have it - fair use.

AFAIK - those settings would be stored in a users profile, roaming or otherwise. How do you currently have user profiles setup? As for the desktop, we use folder redirection which means we can centrally fix what they see and the folder is locked read only. This works very well with roaming profiles. Wouldn't setting any screen resolution options in a GPO automatically lock the settings and prevent users from being able to change them?

RM - 50/100mbps leased line and 10mbps EFM Smoothwall All bought independently Early days, but we're happier than we were under the LEA Hell no - not got the time, energy, expertese to provide for feeder schools.

Oh don't get me wrong. No sense leaving any of the earlier discs off, still some classic tracks to be had across most of them ("Keep Yourself Alive"?), hell I'd be happy to throw in some pre-Queen Smile for good measure. But, when all is said and done, the quality of the song writing was just better post "Hot Space".

Number 3 I've always prefered 80's Queen to 70's Queen. Don't know why, but I prefer bands to spend some proper time in a studio with a proper producer instead of recording to a scratchy 8-track in somebodys basement and calling it "raw". Maybe I listened to too much radio as a kid? Being a Highlander fan (see sig, yes that's where it comes from) "A Kind of Magic" is an essential album in any collection and, despite the difficult circumstances it was recorded under, "Innuendo" contains alot of the bands finest output - period. Sure you've got Freddy's solo career for filler, and Brian did that song for a Ford car ad, but it's Roger Taylor who to my mind is often over looked. His late 80's spin-off The Cross is well worth discovering if you haven't already. If not only for the original version of the post-Freddy Queen anthem "Heaven For Everyone". Of course we shouldn't forget John Deacon's contribution to musical greatness with the, er-um, brillant (wrong word) theme track to the, er-um, brillant (wrong word) 80's movie Biggles - "No Turning Back". Oh dear!

From what I can tell, Curt Cobain went to the same school of song writing. I like movable fifth's - I can play them

I'm not sure if the bill has completed it's passage through parlament yet, I think it might have, but copyright law has recently been updated to bring it closer to the digital age. Hosting MP3's, regardless of amazon's T&C's (or just rip them yourself from CD), should now be legal so long as they are only being used for purely educational purposes within a suitably structured lesson. (So no playing the entirety of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band to get out of any proper teaching). Schools have to walk a fine line between education and public performance - buts that's largely down to interpretation and, ah-em, lesson planning. That said, our music department uses YouTube.

Lol, Thanks @Earthling. I have my ticket Looking forward to it. God this week has dragged!

My number 2 - The Finn Brothers New Zealand pop royalty Neil and Tim Finn. Best known over here for Neils stellar band Crowded House with tracks like "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Weather With You", like most great artists (aside from the hard to beat "Together Alone" album) their best work lays outside what was popular over here. In their early days, from about 1975, they were Split Enz. The Enz (as their fans effectionatly refer to them) brought us such greats as "Stuff and Nonsense" and "Message To My Girl". The Enz split in '83 when Tim went on to forge a solo career and Neil formed Crowded House. Tim's solo career is well worth checking out for such highlights as "No Thunder, No Fire, No Rain" and "Hit The Ground Running". Neil too has had a good solo career between Crowded House, Finn Brothers and Pajama Club projects (busy man) but the best he has ever produced musically is - his son, Liam. Over the past two solo albums Liam has, in my estimation, surpassed his father as a singer-song writer. Liam's earlier band, Betchadupa, is also worth checking out in a young, punk, Green Day kind of way. As a bonus the first of the two 7 Worlds Collide collectives gives us tracks from Pearl Jam ("Parting Ways") and Johnny Marr ("Down On The Corner"). The second collective gave us the beautiful "Learn To Crawl" by Radiohead's Ed O'Brian. Edit: almost forgot. New music still being produced after all these years. Neil has a new album out now, and Liam's is released on Tuesday.

Thank god for that! For a moment there I thought the label said Bucks Fizz.

@Earhling. No this is a b*st*rdisation of the Radio 4 desert island discs following on from the Genesis threads. Instead of 8 tracks. We want 8 artists whose complete discographies are indespensable.

You know I have absolutely no idea! Thats a stock image I pulled off google images. The real Synology is currently sitting at home - 15 miles away.

I'm sorry @seawolf, but once again I'm calling hogwash! Done properly there is nothing wrong or restrictive in disk based backups. After a careful risk-benefit analysis (yes one of those again), we determined that we could survive quiet comfortable on a proper disk based routine. On-site we have our main archivale backup's. These go off to a 24Tb rackmount NAS sitting in a remote building away from the main server farm. Backup is nightly, incremental, over fibre. We use Yosemite software that uses the concept of "virtual tape drives" to make encryption and media rotation easier than a straight robocopy script. This backup is primarly about restoring lost work. Compare to tape - it's instant. I've used tape before and the response to lost work was - It'll be restored in a couple of hours once I've found the right tape and fast-forwarded to the correct point. Now I simple say "I'll be restored by the time you've returned to your seat". Instant win. What about if a nuclear explosion somehow took out both buildings? All your backups will be gone - I hear you cry. No fear, aside from the fact if both buildings were taken out we'd have bigger things to worry about than availability of backups, I do take regular backups off site. Once a term to be honest (remember the risk assessment?). I take them home. Full robocopy of home folders, shared storage and every VHD. On an 8Tb NAS. You know what? I've never found one of these too big to carry arround... ...And (you'll love this) It's RAID-5 as well

Wahoo! Another music thread. Quite possibly my favourite subject. I take it we're posting 1 artist at a time then, 8 artists - should keep the thread going for a while. Number 1: R.E.M. If we're talking discographies then I'll always start with these guys. "Automatic For The People" is quiet simply one of, if not THE, best acoustic rock albums ever produced. Most notably the sublime "Find The River". Automatic was followed by the rock epic that was "Monster", and the band just got better with the brilliant "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" and the eerily beautiful "E-Bow The Letter". But of course being an entire discography I'm not going to be limited just their middle-era commercial peek. No, I have their earlier IRS stuff with Stipe mumbling his way through such classics as "Radio Free Europe", "Rockville", and "Wendell Gee". And the modern classics like "Hollow Man" from "Accelerate" or "Uberlin" from "Collapse Into Now". God, and I haven't even mentioned the non-album deep cuts like "Photograph" or "Staring Down The Barrel of the Middle Distance". R.E.M. are a band I can easily listen to on repeat for the rest of eternity. Do I even need to choose another 7 artists?

The percentage of the web that is now either encrypted (https) or dynamic (php/asp) means I very much doubt a web cache would have any lasting effect on your bandwidth. Either look at QoS rules and see if you can reduce streaming, if you think sites like YouTube or iPlayer are an issue, or pony up for more bandwidth.

The NIC drivers needs to be in both. WDS uses a two-part boot process. Part1, the boot.wim, loads up the initial WinPE environment for you to choose which image to install. Part2, hands over to the install.wim to actually install the OS. If the correct NIC drivers aren't available to either .wim then it will fail. If you're getting as far as choosing the image then it's part2, the install.wim, that's missing the drivers.

I'm guessing the default action is for a client to broadcast a PXE boot request and see what responds. Might open a network security hole if someone puts a rogue PXE boot server on the lan?

AFAIK you do have to put entries against DHCP Server or Scope Options 66 and 67 in order to direct the client to the PXE boot server. Option 66 should be the IP address of the WDS server. Option 67 tells the client what file to boot off that server (a basic OS in effect). Ours is set to - boot\x64\wdsnbp.com - this might be wrong as we are using SCCM now. Otherwise, yes the WDS server does need to be told to respond to PXE requests.

Since you're going down the MDT route, take a look at @computer_experts post above as it may have more relavence. I'm going from memory. It's been a while since I set up WDS. Whether or not you need both depends on what your clients are and what you want to install to them. As to what next, I think you right click on the images once they've been imported into WDS and there's a menu option for creating the relevent boot image. Thinking about it now, there might be .wim images in the WAIK download that are needed as well.