Achandler

Part of the issue (although it was known from the start), is to do with Apple refusing to allow Apps (that they didn't create and can use for their own malicious purposes, or the greater good...) from using low energy Bluetooth in the background. Do we really believe Apple and Google aren't going to use the data to track people and how they interact with each other.

The right to upgrade was removed, but it would still work. If the equipment was old then you could claim you upgraded, didn't like Windows 10 so downgraded back to Windows 7 and now have upgraded again but the hardware is brand new. The keys you can buy for £8 etc are a legal way to get a license. Microsoft don't like it but they ignore it now. Their business model has moved on from the OS, they are about using an OS to get you to buy their online services, Office 365 etc. This makes you a constant source of income, and if you also pay them through buying a new PC then that's a bonus to them.

An EU court ruled about licenses being transferable, even OEM ones, though that seems to be why Microsoft have now gone down the embedded keys to stop in (in my opinion). It came about where Microsoft were basically saying if you buy a new motherboard or processor you need a new license (retail or OEM). They got challenged and lost. Basically old PCs can have there OEM licenses resold off them, so people who mass buy or collect scrap computers, sell them on before the computers are melted down etc. There are also unused OEM licenses sold, where you often get sent a screw or some other piece of hardware to fulfil the T and Cs.

X570 MB, that's a proper board. Good choice though.

@Ditto https://www.awd-it.co.uk/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-quad-core-4.3ghz-asus-b450m-a-motherboard-cpu-bundle.html Seems instock as well

The issue is with your computers, filtering or application as oppose to the sites. We have had issues with the older Citrix Receiver having the trusted certificates included in the program, so couldn't of staff unable to login. That was fun to diagnose why 3 of 300 staff were getting the SSL issue and no one else was. I read quite a lot about this, here is the base article from Sectigo (Comodo came from these guys) https://support.sectigo.com/Com_KnowledgeDetailPage?Id=kA03l00000117LT

That is disappointing caffrey, there is now plenty of hand gel (especially large tubs and dispensers) available. You should at least have access to that.

Maybe it's 100% from the science lab. See if it burns your eyes when you open it!

I wouldn't bother with gloves in a school environment unless you are really use to using them already, mainly because you should be able to wash your hands before and after visiting a computer. You will wear them, touch one thing then another with the same gloves, you need to be really disciplined and use to the discipline with glove usage and you won't be. This isn't being disrespectful to you personally but you really need to have worked in an environment where gloves always is needed, so say an ambulance crew or hospital when they go to a patient, or a research lab. Also are you going to be classing the gloves as contaminated waste or general waste? The exception to this rule would be if you have open cuts on your hands, glove usage then is advisable, I'd still wash your hands and wrists after each visit to someone anyway. Assuming we are talking "teacher" computers or laptops, then insist on anti-viral alcoholic wipes available to people. So the staff can wipe down their own computers before you use it (literally in front of you before they leave it) or you can wipe it. Better to clean and kill the virus then leave it on the device then to use gloves.

A quick look at your CPU choice, everywhere at that price is out of stock. Seems to be due in on Friday this week at some places, then Friday next week at others. Overclockers have it, but its £20 more. With regards to your board and cpu not being compatible, it will almost definitely need a BIOS update which might be PITA without a working CPU, depending on the design of it. Some manufacturers boards still boot to let you bios update and some don't and it varies across their ranges.

The reality would surely be the computers are "protected" for use by those subjects that need to use them. E.G. most computing lessons etc. Limiting the use would then give opportunities to clean the rooms between use, while also limiting the students who use the rooms, and the computers could be use almost 1:1. There may be a detrimental affect on other lessons, and this may also means students move about more though. But students use to be taught without computer access, so in the short term, I am sure it could be done again. As more pupils return to schools, I don't really know what you do.

I don't think you can do even with keyboards per kid, as they are still going to put their hands all over the desks and base units. I'm not sure shared workspaces work well at all. Your best option is gloves and a mask, though it might be unrealistic given the apparent lack of it, going off the news, I haven't tried to buy any myself. Good hand hygiene might remove the need for gloves, but you cannot be sure they have washed their hands properly. But how do you stop any airborne droplets from their mouths without a mask.

Not only synonymous with evil but also looking at things without others knowing. It is like the perfect name for a data company not to have.

Apologies I didn't read the actual contracts awarded and the times and wrongly assumed they had been sensibly designed in parallel.

Surely we accept that the government developing both a decentralised and centralised App is a good thing? It might cost more, but if the decentralised one most other countries were using turned out to be useless, then everyone would be up in arms that we relied on that. One of the more confusing bits is that South Korea has a contact tracing App, that by all accounts is good. The country is pretty widely recognised as a democratic place with decent human rights etc similar to ours. Why aren't we asking for theirs and adjusting it to suit us?

House Alarm seem like the long term option here then.

Have you changed anything since you has a house intruder, you know the like of a house alarm? To alert you if you were unlucky enough to have another break in. Then at least you know that sound from inside isn't anyone. I don't think it is actually something that can easily be fixed to make you feel safe in your home again, I think it takes massive amounts of time and the time varies massively between people. There are people who move homes after a break in because it affects them so badly. Probably not what you want to hear. Someone else might have better advice for you.

I am well aware there is a VPN Client built in to Windows. We would be using it if it did what we needed it to. Except all the same options for the VPN type etc are not available within the Windows VPN Client, when compared to the Fortigate.

We have it, not in a school and I don't like it particularly. It is quite annoying to find things on often, you end up doing about 5 different things to setup the original one for no logical reason. I guess you call it a quirk of the system. It also likes to often tell me that something with that name already exists, when it doesn't, you save a second time and it is happy. The most stupid thing about them is that Fortigate's licensing is ridiculous, an example is the VPN client. Unless you pay extra you have to download it everytime you add someone new, it literally serves no purpose but to frustrate people to buy the more expensive license.

Click the sensor, then at the top is the "Notification Triggers" It will then tell you if it is inheriting the triggers or has it set on itself. You can then look at the triggers and it will tell you when it will email, who it will email and also repeat emails etc.

There are loads of online exam types in the real world, where people are invigilated remotely even. The difficulty would be purely around doing 100-150 at once. But not every subject is done by every pupil so why not use computers for aspects of some exams? Exams like IT (usually all writing) etc are fine for online. Exams where you have to draw or do working out it wouldn't work for. Think the reading and listening exams in languages, often done in classrooms as oppose to a single large hall.

Bit of wind, bit of rain. It's like a slightly worse than normal day in Manchester.

Teeny big of damage that will be made good on what is essentially a building site. It's probably within the T and Cs of the purchasing as well, that they might need to access your land until the whole thing is handed over. The gas board and water people will happily dig holes in front of your driveway (public land) and stop you accessing it without any notification.

Not that it helps but Civica and Northgate are basically Capita from another sector. Buy up what was decent software, ruin it and the support for it and charge more.

Here you go https://www.e-redact.co.uk Seems I missed the e out, apologies!