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I can't believe this is even a question. Of course it's ok. Old Head: would always pretend he knew what he was on about because he didn't want to admit he didn't understand it. Result: frustration, annoyance, avoidance. New Head: will keep asking questions until he understands enough to give an answer he's confident in. Result: respect, trust, happy staff. "Dunno, but let's find out" is my answer to most questions I'm asked. I don't need to know everything, I just need to know how to find it out, especially in this day and age of having the internet to act as an outboard brain. I've read articles about how the internet is changing our memory: we remember less for immediate & accurate recall, but we are aware of more knowledge and remember how to retrieve it from online. Net result: we know more, with a few intermediary steps. We are all, already, cyborgs, only lumbered with inefficient interfaces ("fingers").
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If your DNS changed and you don't know how or why, run a virus scan. I've seen compromised servers get altered DNS settings before...
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I think the expectation is that you never pay asking price for a house. You won't sell yours for the full amount, but nor will you buy at the full amount. Only £5k down is a mighty fine offer, I reckon; we accepted something like £15k off our last one, because we were buying our new one at about £15k under as well, so we wanted the sale. I think my parents have ended up taking £22xk on a house they first put up at £250k. £190k on £195k is really pretty good. Also worth saying that houses either sell in the first few months, or they don't sell for years; all the interest in them comes when they're new on the market, from people who have saved searches on RightMove etc. The level of viewings you're getting now will most definitely die off, probably around the end of the year, with maybe a brief spike in the Spring (that's house buyin' season!). If this is the only offer you've had, and it's a good offer, take it.
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...and end user = David Brent? Technically in charge but bloody useless and annoying and no-one can work out how to get rid of them? Explaining the difference between RAM & HDD: tell the kids a 6 digit number, then get them to recite it back to you. That's RAM and memory retrieval. Now tell them four 6 digit numbers and get them to tell you what the second one was - can't do it, cos they ran out of RAM to store it all, they can only remember the last one (any smart bottoms who do remember it can be explained away as having more RAM). Then tell them the numbers again, but let them write it down. Then when you ask, they can read it back; that's a hard drive. Bit slower but remembers it without any risk of data corruption, except for physical damage. And if they go home tonight, go to sleep and come back tomorrow, they couldn't tell you what the number was from their memory, because RAM is volatile; but they can still read it from the paper HDD, because magnetic storage persists.
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Cheers. Do I need to recreate the action entirely using New-FsrmAction or can I do something like $Notification = New-FsrmAction -Type Command RunLimitInterval 0 and apply it to amend only that setting? For future Google warriors: example 2 in this link is proving useful https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj900585%28v=wps.630%29.aspx
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Ok, next question: how do I set the Interval Limit for the file screen (template) so that it fires every time a file is detected, instead of ignoring repeats for sixty minutes after an event? Can't spot the PowerShell command for it, can't see it in FSRM GUI, can't get filescrn on the command line to do anything.
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DHCP dish out different IP ranges per VLAN
sonofsanta replied to tj2419's topic in How do you do....it?
Yes. Absolutely. Depending on the level 3 switch you have as your core router, you need to configure your DHCP relays. All this is for Comware (i.e. 3COM, HP5800/5100 switches). Core config: dhcp relay server-group 1 ip 192.168.1.1 dhcp relay server-group 1 ip 192.168.1.2 where the IPs are the addresses of your DHCP servers. Then on each VLAN interface Vlan-interface2 description Cab2 Workstations ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 dhcp select relay dhcp relay server-select 1 The IP address there is the default gateway for that VLAN followed by the netmask. Description is whatever you want. The last two lines tell the switch that addresses are assigned by DHCP, and to forward DHCP requests to relay server group 1 - which you set up above. Then on your DHCP servers, just set up the ranges - e.g. Cab2 VLAN, start 192.168.2.10, end 192.168.2.255, 255.255.255.0 mask, default gateway 192.168.2.1, and any other options as required. When the switch passes the DHCP request along, the server will know what range it came from and assign an IP as relevant. I normally start my DHCP ranges at .10 so there's a handful of addresses available for static assignments. -
Didn't go into the fanzone (I think that's what the enormous crowd was queeing for); we left Lincolnshire about 3:30 and actually made it into the stadium at about 7:15 (followed by twenty minutes at the bar before giving up because we hadn't moved). I was both delighted and distraught that Nick Easter got a hat trick and man of the match. It's brilliant that Nick Easter of all people was our best player, it's like bringing Chris Moyles on the pitch, but honestly, what was the point in playing him? Fine for Aus where you want your strongest team here and now, but that game should have been used to give young players a run out and experiment. We're not going to be taking him to Japan at 41, are we?
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Had a great view of the UK Paper Plane Championships on Saturday night: The players on the field must have been so confused as to why they were getting cheered at completely random points; little did they know we were all cheering a paper plane made from an England flag successfully making it to the pitch. Best I saw was from the South Stand (where I was sat) making it all the way to the entrance tunnel at the halfway line. Second half was a bit better, but in the main I'm actually quite annoyed I missed two of the best games of the tournament in SCOvSAM and AUSvWAL in travelling up to Manchester. Organisation in the stadium was terrible as well--Park and Ride was overwhelmed and they had to announce that travel was free, because the queue for the two ticket machines was so huge. Queue for the bag check was about 10,000 people big (not kidding). And the bar! With 50,000 people at a rugby game you could basically sell beer as fast as you could serve it, but they had no idea what they were doing. One of my friends went to the bar ten minutes before half time, and didn't make it back until fifteen minutes into the second half. 45 minutes to get a round in! It was summed up nicely by the KFC at the Park & Ride at the end of the day: they ran out of chicken. At Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Coming soon: introductory price of $40 to convert your Free account to the new Standard account because we're closing Free Accounts. Then your renewal will be $90. And if you want to cancel, you need to do it through a support ticket, there's no actual button or automated process to cancel.
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Pros: I need never administer the Exchange box again. Free installs of Office for all users through Student/Faculty Advantage. For you: migration from 2013 is about as straightforward as migration can be; I had to do it from 2007, and to be honest even that wasn't too bad. Cons: Microsoft occasionally add "features" like changing the default Reply button in Webmail to Reply All, or adding a new Clutter folder that starts hiding everyone's email. That's a delight. Office365 and your install of Office applications aren't really related, to be honest. Office 2010 is licensed through EES for us, we've just carried on using that; 365 is only used for Exchange Online.
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They can be handy, though; some places want emails from an email ending .sch.uk or .ac.uk to prove you're in education. We still use our .sch.uk as our primary address, but have a .org set up identically and set as a proxy address for everyone in Office365. Best of both worlds, the only downside is having to use the long address to log in to Webmail the first time (when you click Remember Me to save yourself the trouble in future).
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So, er, seats for Saturday night at Manchester may not be quite as good as Tuesday's were in Leicester: Why yes, that is about the furthest seat in the stadium.
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Took 'em long enough, didn't it?
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Peeple is the ‘Yelp for people’ app your mother warned you about
sonofsanta replied to MrKJLS's topic in e-Safety
Looks like some of the uproar has sunk in: Source: Peeple, the unreleased app the Internet loves to hate, pushes forward | Ars Technica -
MySQL Workbench lets you run SQL commands, as well as lots of other tools. It's an MSI so easy to deploy We have it set up with a WAMP server onsite; you can skip the PHP bit, though it's the work of minutes to set up. I wrote a guide up. You can create individual databases for each student and assign permissions if you want to be certain they can't wreck each others work.
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As I'm sure you're all keenly aware, it's only two weeks until Back to the Future Day In celebration of this auspicious date, the National Space Centre are holding a special night of celebration, including the Prom Dance from BTTF 1 & 2 (complete with rock 'n' roll dancing lessons and 50's band), a vintage market & fashion show, Science of BTTF workshops, something about building a DeLorean and vintage 80s arcade machines. Tickets are only a tenner National Space Centre - Back to the Future Night
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[website] Which IT Crowd character are you!?
sonofsanta replied to abillybob's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
Anyone getting less than Moss should hand their hob nobs in. Unacceptable. Honestly. -
Who did you pick in the end? I was there with my Dad and a couple of friends, as Leicester is fairly close (as these things go in Lincolnshire...). Decided we'd support the Canadians, which was looking like a great call at 50 minutes in and 15-0 up. Fair play to the Romanians though, that was a hell of a comeback, and they earnt it with graft. Not bad seats either
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I'm astonished some of these get through the healthy schools guff, there's all sorts of restrictions there. As for me... well, our school canteen was given an award just before Summer by the D of E. It's officially the best in the country staff training days are a delight.
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What I love most about this post is how it sounds exactly like the preamble to an email trying to sell me pills for certain male problems.
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Internally hosting websites and Smoothwall
sonofsanta replied to Danp's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Email is an MX record, websites are A records (or CNAME for extra entries against a single IP - so mail. might be your main server name, and you'd have m. as a cname for when you're too lazy to type three extra latters). In other words: email shouldn't be affected. -
Burgess has been given an off-field yellow for that tackle now (doesn't mean anything now the game is over, as far as I can tell), and Hooper has been cited for his shoulder tackle on Brown. BBC Sport - Rugby World Cup: Australia's Michael Hooper cited
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[windows software] Office 365 Assign license through Powershell?
sonofsanta replied to Zezima's topic in Licensing Questions
+1 that man It's usually the name you signed up with, so whatever appears before .onmicrosoft.com in your Office 365 address. -
Still can't quite believe we're out. Fair play to Aus, they completely outplayed us and showed us up for what we were; even if we'd got to the quarters, there was no hope of us going all the way. Serious questions to be asked of the coaching team now. I don't know if Lancaster will go, with his six year contract, though he may fall on his sword; but I think Farrell and Rowntree will be out. Our scrum can't be dominated like that by the Wallabies, and our ball lost to turnover so much; and the passing by the backs was sloppy, indecisive, slow. Why were we still playing new centre partnerships for the first time in World Cup games? Lancaster himself said he'd have the squad settled and decided by 2013, ready for this. It doesn't matter how good your players are, if you can't play together as a team you've got no hope (e.g. Scotland the last five years, a problem they're finally overcoming). Whoever was in in 2013 should have been in, line drawn, job done. Oh well... two matches to watch live this week, Canada v Romania tomorrow then the funereal procession that will be England v Uruguay on Saturday night.
