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Cxbx, Dxbx and Xeon by any chance? Xeon plays the NTSC copy of Halo and thats it. They haven't exactly progressed in development terms for years. That I know - trust me - THAT I know

You say that, but there's still no sign of an original XBox emulator (that plays more than just Halo)...

But on the other hand - I've played AC:IV. Nothing else of interest on the PS4 at the moment. Currently Playing AC:Liberation HD on the PS3 while I wait for The Last Of Us DLC to be released. New console - long wait for quality games (hopefully not a Wii-U length wait though...). That said this months PS+, Outlast, is good - shame it's first person (does my stomach in).

tragic, but does sound like someone without any immediate familly (children, husband). Human nature I suppose. If one of my Aunts died would I know about it? Only if on eof my cousins posted it on Facebook.

Current gen consoles are just not powerful enough to emulate the last gen so there'll be no backwards compatibility there (the current talk for PS4 is for PS1/2 era only). So, yeah, I think there's probably something there. I certainly don't want to get rid of my PS3 library yet. Maybe Playstation Now will convince me otherwise in time?

Here, here! In fact my PS3 died about 4-5months before the PS4 launch, I had to replace it same day with a new Super Slim! - And I've got a backlog of XBox, PS1 and older games! Too meny games, not enough time

I'm a believer in fine grained GPO's, provides more flexibility. The only thing to warey of here is not going too fine grained. eg. Individual policys for different settings. The greater the number of GPO's you create the longer it's going to take to evaluate those policies. I tend to group GPO's into area of responsibility, eg.. Computers Staff Stoftware Users Students Desktop Users Internet Computers ICT1 Printers etc Then apply all settings relating to that responsibility/level in the one policy. So "User Students Desktop" includes folder redirection, user profile, and other general desktop security (locking access to CMD), settings that apply only to students.

I had a recent thread in BTRD on just this. I've tried just about every method under the sun and they all have their problems. Suppossidly Madatory Profiles are the real solution but I could never get them to work (most likely a permissions problem somewhere). As per what @seawolf said - folder redirection is the key, atleast under Windows 7. The problems I get now appear more hardware/network related than profile related.

But the manisfesto we elect them on isn't based on one policy. The manisfesto contains a number of policies the party wishes to enact during a term of office (now fixed to 5 years). They need time to break a number of policies before you want to hold them to account or we'll be holding general elections every 6 months.

@LosOjos, the reason we have general (and by-) elections is for that very reason. To hold them to account if they don't satisfactoraly live up to their election promises. In that way they are accountable.

Not sure what the current oldest edition supported for upgrades is, but I have heard of schools in the past purchasing copies of Windows 3.1 off eBay for this very reason. Just a thought... (Just needs to be original, retail and with CoA sticker as far as I'm aware)

It's amazing how wrong that actually is. The reason for the referendum was because the Lib-Dems insisted on it as condition to coalition - current system doesn't serve them at all. It's Tory and Labour who constantly vote it down. What's interesting about the referendum is it was "post-legislative" meaning had the people turned out and voted for AV, there would have been no choice but to make it happen. Parliament won't ever do it of it's own accord because, as you say, it the current system serves Labour and Tory purposes. But it is we, the people, who missed the opportunity if we don't like the existing system.

Yep, voter apathy in this country is a real killer. 2011's referendum saw a 42/2% turnout (United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (allegidly)). We complain about the system but given the chance to make real change we choose to stay at home and watch Sky Sports instead.

Is social responsibilty not a good choice of investment? What would you like to happen to you if you ended up on hard times through no fault of your own? Do yo believe in charity? If you give to charity do you have the right to dictate how and where the charity spend your donation?

We use a (very - to us) local company called CableComms. Can't recommend them highly enough. They do all our networking, refuse to use anyone else. Funnily enough, I was talking with Tom (one of the top guys there) yesterday about managed WiFi and he recommended Meru first. They can supply and and install whatever you need.

Won't go in to specifics as the CPU(s) was end of line and I badgered heavily on price But it's from @VeryPC. Novtech have managed similar for me in the past. Both good bespoke manufacturers who know how to treat their customers. As far as I am aware that's still true. Sounds like a bonkers thing to try IMHO. Bear in mind I was talking about running Terminal Server in a VM which doesn't rely on Hyper-V.

Depending on exact circumstances, that may not be entirely unreasonable - number of adults? number of children? etc. The problem isn't so much the benefits per se but, as my dear Mum found out, making work pay. Ideally tax credits should be bringing the wages of low paid workers upto the same general standard as above. But the rules for applying for them often means people are ineligiable and suddenly it becomes better to stay unemployed than to take up a part time job. In my mind the problem isn't whose getting the handouts, or necerssarilly how much they are getting, the problem is the rules that decide who is eligable for what are just plan barking.

What ever you do, if you're using Hyper-V, NEVER run DC on the host. DC has doesn't like multi-homed network cards (pretty much a requirement for Hyper-V). You'll be in for a world of pain if you do. For back up we do the following. Or storage server (based on SMB shares) holds both VHD's and user data (home drives, etc). User data is backed up using Yosemite Backup - pretty much standard, traditional Windows backup ware. The SQL servers (VM's) run backups into backup folder on the storage server which is then backed up again as part of the Yosemite system. This is our daily, incremental, help users out if they loose a file backup. We also have a NAS box I take offsite. The whole shooting match, VHD images and all, is Robocopied on to this once every term. This is out distaster recovery backup. For Terminal Servers - it's in essence a form of virtualisation all ready. Mutliple users shareing one set of CPU/RAM resources. Depending on the number of users they can often require the same kind of spec's as virtualisation host servers to provide a smooth end user experience. So it's considered a bad idea to vitualise because you're adding an extra layer of complexity between the terminal server and the hardware, and you probably wouldn't be using the host for anyother VM's. That said, Server hardware is getting cheap and powerful. I just got 24 cores and 128Gb Ram for around £2.5k. On this kind of host giving over 4 cores and 16Gb Ram to a RDP server is nothing (which is what I plan to do). With powerful hardware, dynamic memory, and easy VHD backups, I think the traditional "don't run Terminal Services in a VM" mentality has passed.

Yeah, if it was server side I'd expect the same problems to appear in other rooms. It's just that one location. I'll enable the "diable detection of slow network connections" and see if it has any effect. Thanks

Bloody crap iPhone - doesn't support numbers bigger than 999,999,999 - obviously missed off 3x0's when I did the sums

This is an interesting, if slightly outdated (2010) Beeb article on the subject... BBC News - Guide to most costly UK benefits Biggest Welfare spend goes to Tax Credits - propping up crap wages Followed by Housing Benefit - money paid directly to Land lords Then Child Benefit - available to all, even the super rich Finally we get down to disability, income support, and incapacity benefits - the big three this thread is targeting appear quiet low down in the total UK Welfare budget... EDIT: child benefit was stopped last year if one parent earns more than £60,000 (tappered after £50,000). But I think they still get it if both earn less and the total is more (eg. Both earn £49,999 per year - £99,998 + full child benefit) - go figure!

or £1.1 million out of £159 billion (if my maths is correct). Very interesting statistic. So the problem is more the method and ratios of allocating funds - not who the funds are allocated to.

No that's currently not configured. Have noticed another setting "Control slow network connection timeout for user profiles" that might be worth altering? Yeah, that's what got me. All evidence suggests slow network/dropped packets - but the switch so far isn't agreeing.

Okay, a week or so back I started a BTRD thread because a teacher was moaning about what looked like a Windows Profile issue: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/behind-red-door/130835-perfect-roaming-profiles-2.html#post1118049 I've been able to look at the problem a little closer, and it appears to be randomly effecting machines just in that one room. If they log off, log back on - the problem is resolved. So, I'm thinking bandwidth/dropped packet issue on the local switch? Logged on to the switch and reset all port counters so I can make sense of whats going on. Hour and half later... Only the uplink port (#49, 1GBps fibre to core switch) is showing any dropped packets. So far it's dropped 79 out of 1.351 billion. No other ports showing any problems so far, no collisions and no other errors. Where do I go from here?

Heard good things. May break my "no first person" rule and give it a go, it's free!