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If nothing exists already for this, I'll look in to the best way I can set it up

Well @Arthur did warn you http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/142923-windows-10-thread-31.html#post1308693

Hope you enjoy it! Be sure to share your work too or at least keep record somewhere; it's a great feeling to look back on shots you've taken and think "wow, I could do so much better now!"

I mostly listen to streaming services (I've not decided which I like best yet, working my way through their free trials) but I do sometime listen to Planet Rock - yeah they do play some songs a lot, but they're pretty good at throwing in songs you wouldn't expect to hear played on the radio too and give it some variety (well, as much as you can within the remit of Classic Rock!) They do a great Blues show on a Sunday afternoon, the Hairy Bikers do a show Sunday mornings which is OK and Al Murray is genuinely funny IMO - hate him as pub landlord but I really enjoy listening to him on Planet Rock. The best presenter by far though is Alice Cooper - plays some excellent music, comes across as a genuinely nice and funny guy and is full of stories as you'd imagine. Well worth a listen on catch up! Live - Planet Rock Radio Player Catch up - Planet Rock Radio Player It's on DAB and certain areas get FM (108.something) but I'm not sure which - Birmingham does!

I recommend this one to anyone getting in to photography - I found it really useful without getting too bogged down in the specifics, and it's pure photography technique (some books focus on a specific camera/brand or certain features, this is all technique that can be applied to any camera that gives you the means to control exposure/aperture properly) Collins Complete Photography Course [Amazon] As the title suggests, it is laid out like a course too with lessons and assignments. Obviously nobody is going to mark your work but you should be able to see the technique working and if you want some feedback on anything, I'm sure there are folk in this thread who would happily oblige (myself included)

Chain pubs yeah, not so much the smaller ones*. It's this practise of employing more staff than you'll ever need then giving them barely enough hours to live that boils my blood - they should be up front with you before you apply; can they guarantee you x hours a week? If not, fine, there'll be students who will appreciate it anyway, but as I said previously, employing people then not paying them is life ruining for those who need the money. I'm glad I've never had to claim JSA, watching my brother and brother-in-law go through it, it's absolutely soul destroying if you're the kind of person who genuinely wants to work, which I believe most people are** * obviously, this is a generalisation ** I know we'd all love to win the lottery but I genuinely believe the vast majority of people want to earn a living rather than live off benefits

The problem isn't zero hour contracts per sé; like you say (and I agree), they can be very useful when you're just trying to fit work in around studying; the problem is that when you're on job seeker's allowance, you're expected to actively seek employment (as you should be) and will be stricken off if you turn down valid job offers (again, rightly so) - this is where the problem starts. You get offered a job with zero guaranteed hours ("zero hours contract") and you have to take it, but in doing so you've now got no money coming in, no benefits, you can't quit because then you can't claim JSA (for 3 months I believe) so you're up a creek, and the whole time you have to sit at home watching the PM and his cronies grinning from ear-to-ear about how they're reducing unemployment and getting people back in to work, knowing you're worse off for trying to do the right thing. My younger brother struggled for years to find reliable work, it was horrible to watch it destroying him. Now he thankfully has a job and is working every hour $deity sends while he has the chance. EDIT: IMO, employers should be made to pay at least the equivalent of JSA to all of their employees every week; it's already a cripplingly low amount of money to live on, but at least people wouldn't be better off not working!

Just throwing a curve ball in here: is it bugging anyone else that in the above poll, all of the biggest party's bars are their party colour apart from Lab/Con which are switched?

It's certainly different, but I can't see the point personally? Teaching them in such a restrictive environment (by today's standards) seems like it could only lead to frustration to me... the reason languages like Python are so popular is because they're easy to pick up, have a wealth of libraries to help you do almost anything with them and literally thousands of peers online to help if you get stuck. Am I totally missing the point? EDIT: also, I don't think I've ever come across an emulator you have to pay for! Unsure about linking to sites where you can find them given the legal grey area they live in, but Google "free Spectrum/Commodore emulator" and I'd be amazed if you don't find something on page 1.

I'm involved in a few coding clubs and always on the lookout for upcoming STEM related "calendar events" (not even sure that's the correct terminology), such as Arduino Day [28th Match 2015], Pi Day [03/14], British Science Week [13-22 March 2015]. However, I usually only hear of these things via word of mouth or because they're annual events. What I'd really like is a public calendar that has all these events listed - does such a thing exist?

I do this, but the marksheets don't come in to it on my side, they're just for data entry. I then set up reports to export assessment results to a CSV (I created a category "DB_EXPORT" and put all the aspects I wanted exporting in to it - actually there are multiple categories now but you get the idea ) The CSV is then imported in to my SQL DB using a couple of scripts; all this done as a scheduled task. Unfortunately, I found SIMS to be inconsistent in the way it exports CSVs, enclosing some fields in quotes and not others, which SQL didn't like, so I wrote a wrapper script that cleans them up. Just make sure that the column order of your SIMS report matches that of your table and it'll save you a lot of extra manipulation - I use the Aspect name to identify the subject (I have a mapping table for user friendly names when displaying the results elsewhere, but you could just as easily run this import to a temp table then do the aspect->subject mapping while transferring the data in to your live table). Oh and test it on a small subset of your data to begin with - running the SIMS report on a couple of hundred aspects and about half a dozen result sets takes a good half hour here! An example script set (and the BAT that runs as a scheduled task) are below: REM update_results.bat - this is setup as a scheduled task to pull results from SIMS in to my SQL DB each night commandreporter /user:username /password:password /report:ZZZ_EXPORT_RESULTS /output:results.csv cscript CleanCSV.vbs "%CD%\results.csv" sqlcmd -E -S SERVER\SQLEXPRESS -I -i "UpdateResults.sql" echo Y | DEL results.csv '========================================================================== ' ' NAME: CleanCSV.vbs ' ' COMMENT: Uses Excel to strip unwated quotes from CSV data ' HOW TO USE: CLI - cscript cleancsv Path/To/File '========================================================================== 'Check arguments If WScript.Arguments.Length <> 1 Then WScript.Echo "Usage: CleanCSV Path/To/CSV" WScript.Quit End If Set myExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") myExcel.Visible = False myExcel.Application.DisplayAlerts = False Set myWorkbook = myExcel.Workbooks.Add() Set mySheet = myWorkbook.Sheets.Add() Dim arr(99) For x = 0 to 99 arr(x) = 2 Next Set QT = mySheet.QueryTables.Add("TEXT;" + WSCript.Arguments(0), mySheet.Range("$A$1")) With QT .TextFileCommaDelimiter = True .TextFileColumnDataTypes = arr .Refresh End With myWorkbook.SaveAs WScript.Arguments(0), 6 myWorkbook.Close myExcel.Application.Quit /* UpdateResults.sql Takes processed CSV from SIMS and imports it in to SQL DB */ USE DatabaseName; DELETE FROM Results; BULK INSERT Results FROM 'results.csv' WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR=',', ROWTERMINATOR='\n', FIRSTROW=2 );

If I'm understanding correctly, you have a PC and the Pi connected to the same monitor, but the monitor won't let you switch between the two - correct? Does the Pi function properly if you unplug the PC from the monitor? If so, there may be nothing you can do but unplug the PCs from the monitor when you want to use the Pis I'm afraid. Have a dig through the monitor's settings for anything hinting at a preferred connection or automatic signal detection, but you're probably out of luck; some monitors just don't handle multiple sources well unfortunately and will switch to a source once they detect a signal, not necessarily the source you want!

@Tesla @LeMarchand - just out of curiosity, did you both install the GB or the US version? Updates were one of the few things I didn't have many problems with using the US version (I've had more issues using GB versions of previous betas so stick to US versions now)

Perhaps that person wouldn't have spoken to anyone about it and died anyway, or perhaps in talking about getting a bracelet with friends/family/colleagues, one of them would have told him to go to a doctor, where they'd have spotted the condition early enough to save his life. Let's not get in to hypothetical scenarios though; you can invent one for just about anything and they prove nothing.

I've not been to any of their festivals before, but I've been to others that were exclusively tribute/cover bands and watch those kinds of bands regularly. I don't see why it should be a problem to be honest; you're paying a fair price [usually!] to watch some talented [usually!!] musicians playing songs you know you like [usually!!!]. I've seen some fantastic tribute bands over the years; The ZZ Tops, The Ramonas, Twin Lizzy and Rhapsody are some of the first to come to mind; and when they're really good, you can be forgiven for feeling like you're watching the real thing At the end of the day, where else are you going to get that gig atmosphere, with those songs being played live in front of you in an intimate setting without paying thousands for a ticket to see the original band (not to mention half of them are dead if you're in to 70s rock like I am!)? TL;DR - go for it! And while I'm here, a photo I snapped watching Rhapsody (Queen tribute if the name didn't give it away) at Mock Fest II - they were excellent, highly recommend you watch them if you ever get the chance (and like Queen):

I used to work on a market stall selling copper and magnetic bracelets. We regularly had customers coming back to tell us how much they'd helped, some swore by the copper, others by the magnets, some that one on each wrist was best, others on their ankles - we even had some claiming success with magnetic necklaces! Is there any scientific evidence to support their claims? No. None. However, I do believe that they "worked" as a placebo because they were so popular; "if it works for Joe and his wife, it's bound to work for me!" Now I can see why this can become dangerous ("Jill lost loads of weight taking those pills, I will too if I take double!") but unlike pills off the Internet, copper/magnets are not going to kill you. So, placebo effect or not, I don't think there's anything evil about selling something harmless like a bracelet to people who believe it's helping, especially when that belief seems to be enough to actually help. That said, I think chemists/pharmacies selling anything that hasn't been proven to work reliably and repeatedly under scientific studies is highly immoral; they should, in my opinion, stick to selling actual medicine and leave the homoeopathic stuff alone. Their stocking of it implies scientific proof. Incidentally, and against my better judgement, when I was suffering from severe knee pain following a serious assault a few years ago, I tried out copper/magnetic bracelets/anklets. Didn't make a blind bit of difference for me, but then I didn't believe they would in the first place. As they say, the mind is a powerful thing.

Hold Shift while booting the Pi to bring up recovery, then look for the "config.txt. option in the drop down menu (sorry, this is from memory) The text file that opens up is a config file that runs at boot. Scroll down until you see hdmi_safe_mode (or similar, the file is commented) and enable it. Save and reboot. If that works, you can then experiment with setting the resolution yourself in that same file (accessible via /boot/config.txt when running Raspbian) until you find a reliable one at decent resolution. I had to do this with a class load of them myself using HDMI/DVI adapters. Good luck!

I ended up ditching it on my laptop and returning to 8.1. I know it's still in beta, but it felt a lot less stable than either 7 or 8 did this late in to development to me*; each update seemed to decrease stability too! Doing a fresh install would improve stability until the next round of updates. It's a shame because as an OS I think it's great, they've hit just the right balance between "traditional" Windows and "modern" Windows, although I still feel Start Menu is a bit clunky; there's minimalist design then almost total lack of visual hints; the latter makes for an unpleasant UI experience. I hope the instability is just down to the pace at which they're pushing in new features and improvements and that the dust will settle in time for general release, but based on my experiences with the OS so far, I'll be giving it a good couple of months after general release before I upgrade again. * I'm afraid I have no hard figures to refer to here, only personal impression as a user of all the OSs during their beta stages

I published my first watch face and would love any feedback you may have: Pebble Gaptime

Totally agree - I missed the part about it being a portfolio website! VPS' are great if you want total control but a pain if all you want to do is get a website up and running quickly.

Will definitely give PebbleAuth a go - was hoping something like that existed! One thing that is bugging me about notifications - there doesn't appear to be a universal way of making them private. I use Textra for SMS and let that send the notification itself, as it matches the privacy settings in app. WhatsApp however has no privacy settings so every time I receive a message, it's displayed on my watch for all to see - potential for fallout there is risky! I thought I might get around it with some Tasker scripts but I don't know if it's just my phone or the way I'm setting it up, but it doesn't seem to trigger the action every time which is annoying... any tips there? @halbaradkenafin - jealous! Pebble Time looks awesome, I'm going to wait until it's been out a while before I take the plunge on that one I think though. I had no intentions of buying a Pebble to be honest, but I got it for $180 (roughly £120) in Florida so thought it was as good a time as any to get myself one

I only manually patch things when it's a major security hole like heartbleed, the rest of the time I have a cron job that automatically applies security updates every night. My VPS has Debian installed, but there are lots of other options when you set one up, including cPanel which seems to be used by most hosts. Oh and I have it send me an email when updates have been applied with details of what was updated and any notes from the logs.

Does he want a server that "just works" or that he has a lot of control over? Reason I ask is I use OVH and get a VPS for about £2 a month - means I have complete and utter control over my own virtual server. Great from a security POV - as soon as something like heartbleed gets reported, I can remote in and patch it!

I picked up a Pebble Steel while I was in the US last week and I'm loving it, but feel like I don't really know what it's capable of. I love that I can have custom faces (I'm coding my own at the moment, will share when it's done) and I'm using Notification Center to customise which notifications make it to my watch, Pebble Tasker to run a couple of simple customisations, Music Boss for the customization options... What apps do you find most useful?

Actually they're wrong; her birthday is June 30th.