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    As well as the George Lucas Edit, there's also a JJ Abrams Edit: (the George Lucas one is the best though)
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    I think the point is "looks cool!" I'd prefer to see someone going at it properly with dual sabers instead, Exar Kun style, though I seem to recall that Anakin may have picked another lighsaber up at some point in the prequels. My memories of those films are hazy from never rewatching after the cinema, though...
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    It's like Madvent come early! Surely "guess the pop culture reference" is a bonus entry game we should be playing?
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    7 Things We'd Like to See From The Star Wars Trailer
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    As much as the prequel trilogy let me down, as much as the title is a vague, wishy-washy, dreamt-up-by-committee non-title... when the Millenium Falcon sweeps across the screen, when that theme tune kicks in, I still get goosebumps. Not sure about the Light Broadsword though, looks a bit like trying too hard to come up with something different...
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    Reckon you might be right; the nVidia 750 is a few quid more and no better. Personally I'd get this Sapphire card from Amazon Sapphire PCI Express R7 260X 2GB Graphics Card (OC GDDR5, HDMI, DVI, DP, 2S): Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories as I've had problems with XFX in the past, where the Sapphire card I had was lovely. Amazon'll also give you free delivery, Scan will be a few quid. EDIT: just to clarify in light of @Arreks' comment above - the 750 and 750Ti are different cards. The 750Ti is a bit better, as said, but more than the 750. Product naming is such fun!
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    Novatech and Stone have been brilliant for us, and though we've not bought anything from them yet, VeryPC are my third supplier of choice. As you say, being able to specify exactly what you want is fantastic - we'll usually state the exact SSD we want used, last time out we needed DisplayPort on the motherboards, we'll look at dual-channel memory... I'd never buy an off-the-shelf PC again. Warranty support from Novatech has been brilliant; not yet needed any from Stone (though their support with the initial order and teething problems therein was great) and VeryPC certainly have a good reputation round these parts. Custom built in the UK. It's the only real way to buy computers for your school
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    The reason you're seeing "success" is because that's not dependent on anything i.e. it's not part of any conditional statement. All that shows is that PHP has reached that point in the script, regardless of what's happened before. I guess you're not seeing the errors it's throwing though, in which case there's something useful you can do to make PHP development much easier for everyone On your server, browse to the PHP install directory (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\5.4) and rename php.ini to php.ini.old. Then find php.ini-development, make a copy and rename the copy php.ini. That will change a load of settings to those more suitable to a development environment, including, importantly, outputting error messages to the browser instead of only to the error file. If you made any changes to php.ini before (e.g. the mail server, as above) make them again here. Restart w3svc to reload PHP using these new settings. I'll put that in the main post above, because damn if it ain't handy. Once you've done that, loading the PHP page should show you what's actually going wrong, and on what line of the PHP script. I got two errors out, from line 12 and line 15 (which was repeated due to the loop). Line 12 was permissions; I added Full Control permissions for IUSR on the local server (i.e. search the server, not your directory when you go to Add Permissions) to the wwwroot folder containing everyone's work folder. The line 15 error was an error in the way fputcsv() was being used - that function actually wants an array as input, and does all the CSV formatting itself, so there's no need to use the loop. Amending the script to fix that problem, and shuffling it to use an IF loop to check if the file could be opened/created before declaring success or otherwise, the script ends up as the fairly similar: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <?php $list = array ( "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", "ddd" ); if($fp = fopen("file.csv", "a")) { fputcsv($fp, $list); fclose($fp); echo("Great Success!"); } else { echo("Could not open/create file!"); } ?> <body> </body> </html> If you still have problems with permissions, use Process Monitor on the server to capture events as you refresh the page, then filter your results to show only Process Name = php-cgi.exe, and look for any ACCESS DENIED results. Open the Event Properties and look for the Impersonating: at the end of the Event tab. I suspect yours will be NT AUTHORITY\IUSR same as mine, though. HTH!
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    Surely, though, surely the daftest complaint of all of them in that article is "Google gets to control the advertising space on Google! That's not fair! Microsoft should be allowed to sell the ad-space on their competitor's web page!"
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    I know it's pro-rata, but it is a bit depressing that the advertised salary for "target practice monkey" is higher than any of us are on for IT support in schools
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    If other companies are upset about how much market share Google has, how about they try and develop products and services that are as good as Google. I mean, c'mon, does anyone here ever willingly use a search engine other than Google? Anytime I accidentally Bing* I end up unable to find what I want, go to Google, get my answer in the top result. It was a different issue when it was MS using their Windows monopoly to push IE, which was inferior to a lot of solutions out there; Google's only advantage is that they're just bloody better. *I always wash myself afterwards, don't worry.
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    Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's MADVENT! Yes. Yes please. I would like to be entered and winning! Thank you much with love.
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    This seems relevant: BBC News - Vodafone sent 1,000 News UK workers' data to police
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    Don't use WDS, so can't help you there I'm afraid
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    Running DHCP on both servers is usually a good idea, in case something happens to one of them, but when you set up your address pool on both, you need to make sure to exclude half the range on each so they don't clash - sounds like he forgot to do this. For example: your address range is 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254. You add this as an address range on both your servers, DC1 and DC2. But on DC1 you set an exclusion range of 192.168.0.128-192.168.0.254, and on DC2 you set an exclusion range of 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.127. That way, DC1 will only hand out addresses in the first half of the range, and DC2 will only hand out addresses in the second half - they'll never fight over one address. Why do it? Because if DC2 fell over and was going to take a couple of days to bring back up, clients who had received their address from DC2 wouldn't be able to renew. It's then straightforward to take the exclusion range off DC1 so that it provides addresses from the whole pool. It's also some basic load balancing.
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    And a machine for mouse-shaped doughnuts.
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    Oh, we took our web filtering out. The Daily Mail told me it caused cancer by blocking the free flow of carcinogenic bits out onto the internet, causing a build up behind our firewall. Better safe than sorry!
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    The timing of this discussion does seem very convenient given what May was announcing a couple of days ago, doesn't it? The response to terrorism is hugely disproportonate; from a Needs of the Many standpoint, most of the money we invest into security should go into driver education and medical research. As a side benefit, ignoring terrorism would take away it's raison d'être and undermine it. But people are emotional, not logical, and they think "well, I'll never have a crash, I'm too good a driver" because they feel they can do something about it, yet they live in fear of terrorism because it's out of their hands. It's the same reason people are scared of flying not driving, even though statistically the drive to the airport is more dangerous - because if something happens on a plane, you've got no ability to do anything; it's falling out the sky and that's all there is to it.
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    I have a theory on Fireman Sam: the whole place is an open air mental asylum. Everyone there suffers serious delusions and the only way to treat them is to allow them to play out their fantasies. Mike comes from a broken home, and so he wants to be a repairman and fix everything for everyone, despite being rubbish and the world's worst handyman. Elvis was born to a single mother with a rock 'n' roll obssession, and so fixated on Elvis as a father figure; his continuing need for a father figure is evident in his hero worship of Sam. And Sam, clearly, is a broken man; perhaps he saw service in Afghanistan, and failed to save a comrade, or perhaps he has been a fireman all along but failed to save a child and cannot live with the guilt; either way, he has a serious hero complex, and a deep-seated need to save the day and hear the adulation of all around him. In this context, Norman Price is just a boy with severe behavioural issues. Basically, Fireman Sam is Shutter Island for kids. Alternative theory: the only other ginger in the village other than Norman is... Sam. The only reason anyone suffers Norman Price's continued presence is because he's Sam's illegitimate child. Anyway, Jurassic World. I really really really want it to be good, but "genetically modified hybrids!" sounds pretty stupid Giant water dinosaur is cool though!
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    Sounds like he a) doesn't know how to use domain GPOs b) only knows how to use reg keys, so he wants to force everyone down this route so he remains the expert and invaluable to the team, when everyone must approach him as a supplicant, begging for scraps of his great wisdom and knowledge, feeble before his intellectual might. I know nothing of the man and may well be wrong, but you do get types like that in IT. Domain GPO works through the registry, so mechanically it's doing the same thing, except it's much more intuitive, easier to troubleshoot, self-documenting and designed for the job. If you find an exploit that you need to close down immediately, make a GPO change and it will have rolled out in 90 minutes; his method requires every PC to reboot first. Has he got any MS certification? As GPO management is a major part of any MCSA/MCSE course.
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    Oh. Wow. That's about the most condescending drivel ever vomited onto paper. Good lord.
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    Like wearing a 3 wolf moon on each foot... so like a 6 wolf moon!!!
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    I had mine on yesterday, and I have to agree, they are soft, and luscious, and warm... it's like wearing a panda on your feet. The added confidence I gained from the socks and their unreserved praise for me as a Ruler of IT enabled me to go out and be the real hard hitter I was born to be! I woke up yesterday in a one-bed flat in Slough, sobbing into my lone pillow, but thanks to @VeryPC socks tonight I'm going home to my 7 bedroom house off the South coast of France with both of my model girlfriends*! Thanks, @VeryPC! *may or may not be true
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    The problem I had when I attempted that was the Ctrl-Alt-Del options displaying in the same place, and the logo behind them makes them unreadable. In the end, after much trial and error and frustration, I left it with the 'orrible empty box there, because while the form is unpleasant, the functionality is intact.
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    On a 2008R2 Hyper-V host that is 3½ years old, I have used 37GB. All it does is Hyper-V (in a cluster). 11GB is in winsxs, of course. So yes, it will grow, but 37GB after all that time with no efforts ever made to claw any of that back isn't the end of the world. So a pair of 64GB SSDs in RAID 1 will suit just fine. Not that you tend to get decent SSDs in 64GB these days - personally, for a server, I'd go for a pair of Samsung 850 Pros for their monster warranty.
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