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I can personally recommend Perixx as an excellent budget brand, I have this mouse and love it: [Driver Update] Perixx MX-2000IIB, Programmable Gaming Laser Mouse - Black - 8 Programmable Button - Weight Tuning Cartridge - Omron Micro Switches - Avago 5600DPI ADNS-9500 Laser Sensor - Ultra Polling 125-1000HZ: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessori I need to stop reading this thread, I'm psyching myself up for a new build and my bank really can't take that again this year!

What lens do you currently have, the 16-55? While you're learning, you'll most likely find your kit lens (name given to the short telephoto zoom lenses sold almost exclusively with the camera body, usually within the 15-60mm range) is fine. However, even a cheap prime lens will give you much sharper photos than a zoom lens* and many old school photographers will tell you to "frame with your feet" (i.e. move around to get the shot you want, don't rely on a zoom lens). Just be careful you don't get GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) EDIT: final tip to get you started; when taking portraits, get as far back from the subject as your lens will allow; the further away you are, the less visible lens distortion will be apparent, making for a more flattering photo; and always focus on the eyes, not the nose. This is why mid/long range primes are generally a portrait photographer's preference. As with anything though, once you know the rules, you'll also know when to break them if you're going for a certain effect. * unless you pick up a legendary zoom like the Canon EF L 80-200mm - will set you back £1000+ though! A similarly priced prime will still knock the socks of that though in terms of sharpness.

There's nothing a dSLR will do that a good M4/3 won't - the NEX5 is a good camera One of the best books I worked through when I first started was this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Complete-Photography-Course-Garrett/dp/0007279922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420798714&sr=8-1&keywords=collins+photography+course It's "camera agnostic" i.e. it teaches you photography, not how to use your camera. The terms that matter are universal amongst cameras though so with that book and your camera's user guide, you'll be set

Just want to agree with previous posters, SISRA Analytics is much better than old SISRA - if you haven't had a demo, you should. The only major problem we have with Analytics (which we didn't have with old SISRA) is that it's impossible to compare different grade types. This is a problem for us, as we use FFT as a baseline/performance target for all subjects, plus teacher set targets. The teacher set targets are fine, as they match the subject grade type (i.e. BTEC, CACHE, NVQ etc) but obviously all FFT grades are GCSE type. We got around this by converting all grades to GCSE style grades, but it is annoying. I contacted SISRA about this as IMO it should be possible to compare any two grade sets based on points, but was told "you shouldn't set GCSE targets for a BTEC subject*" - they totally could/would not see my point of view, which was a little disappointing. All that said, it is on the whole the best online system I have used, but I always think it's important to understand any potential problems you might have before jumping in to a system. * I do of course agree with this, but the point was not target setting, simply comparison

If you know VBS, I'd write your script in that. OK it won't be as pretty as as designing a form in .NET or AutoIt or similar, but it'll get the job done What specifically are you struggling with? File IO is pretty straight forward in VBS, but I'm happy to give you pointers if you need them. If it's just a general idea of where to start, personally I'd take your original text file and put tags in wherever you need to put form data (e.g. if you need a username, you could put '%USERNAME%' in the place in the text file where you need it). Then I'd read the contents of the newly created template in to my script at the start, gather all the relevant data and do a search/replace on the tags, populating them with the collected data. Finally, drop your generated text back in to a new file and job done

Do you know any programming languages? If so, which are you most comfortable with?

Good little bundle - add me if you fancy starting an Edugeek club on Driveclub (I started one but nobody was joining!) - TeknoVikingJosh TLoU is a fantastic game, first in a while that really deserved it's many accolades IMO And GTAV is absolutely gorgeous

No, because she's not an IT pro so I'd expect her to understand "computer" in the colloquial sense, however I'd expect an IT pro to understand that the microwave does contain a computer. Which can only mean - are you my missus?

My phone is a computer, does that count? Oh and my calculator. And my digital watch. And my microwave... school yerself

Never, as I haven't found a single Metro app that is as good as it's desktop counterpart, let alone better. If I had a W8 tablet, that might change my opinion, but on a desktop it's absolutely pointless. At least Microsoft appear to have agreed on this judging by W10!

You are aware that apart from the OS, modern consoles and PCs are almost identical, aren't you? Just checking.

Not this "PC Master Race" carp again... PC advantages: very cheap games in the sales, *almost* complete "backwards compatibility" (i.e. doesn't usually matter how old a game is, there'll be a way to play it) Console advantages: no messing with settings or drivers, *almost* plug and play I purposely left hardware upgrades out of the equation, as often upgrading a PC any significant amount costs as much as a console anyway so makes that argument defunct IMO I have a decent gaming PC, but now using PS4 for AAA titles until comparable GPUs enter the sub £200 price point, then I'll upgrade (unless a next gen console is out first...). Have both and quit arguing

I picked up AC:U last week (£22 in Tesco on PS4!) and one thing is driving me insane - why the hell can't you move around corners when under cover? Like if you're using a table as cover, you can't move around it, only along it - 'TF is that all about? I ranted at length about this last night to the missus (she's become a fan of AC games since she played Black Flag), to which she replied "don't play it then." Clearly missing the point that I'm going to play it and moan constantly about it

As much RAM as you can possibly throw at it helps too!

I have, though my machine has an i5 in it admittedly. On a side note, I hate games based on the ARMA engine, the controls feel so unnatural and movement is so weird - I really don't understand how they've done so well!

If the PC will be used almost exclusively for gaming, an i3 is fine. Multi tasking is what will suffer, but that's not really an issue if you're just gaming (at the moment, no game AFAIK uses more than 2 cores). If you can afford an i5 I'd definitely go for that, it's the sweet spot in Intel's current line up for price/performance IMO. An i7 is wasted in a pure gaming machine; save your money.

In that case I'd say you have to submit your census with the error and just put a note on COLLECT explaining that (or contact your LA if you submit to them, they'll be able to put the note on COLLECT for you)

I believe you're correct, however I haven't tried it yet - do use remote play at home though. It's good for certain games, but one thing I didn't think of when I bought the Vita is it only has single shoulder buttons. It emulates L2/R2 with the rear touch screen, but it's bloody awful to use for most games. Some titles actually remap the most important buttons to limit the amount you need the rear touch (Wolfenstein for example remaps aim/fire to the shoulder buttons rather than emulated L2/R2). I found Last of Us unplayable because of this as it doesn't remap, so aiming and firing becomes an awful fumble. Personally, I think Sony missed a huge opportunity with the new Vita. The micro-USB charger rather than proprietary is a big improvement, but I found the original easier to handle because of it's thickness. They should have added in an SD card slot (I know they're still tying to make a fortune out of Vita proprietary cards but who buys them?) and actual shoulder buttons. Would have made it the perfect hand held for PS4 owners. The screen is fine though, I know side-by-side you can see the OLED's superiority, but day-to-day use I don't notice a difference TBH.

I bought a 'fat' Vita a couple of years ago. Had it for a few months, then traded for a 3DS XL. Had that for a year, 6 months of which it never left the case, then I bought a PS4 so I traded in the 3DS and got a 'slim' Vita to make the most of the free PS+ games. So I've sort of become a Sony fanboi by accident! I love Nintendo's first party library, but I just found there weren't many games I was bothered about playing on 3DS. Same goes for Vita really, but having regular freebies means I use it quite a lot.

The issue was that the day they were put on roll was a training day, therefore they had zero possible attendance sessions. The 'fix' was to either roll back their leaving date to the previous term (previous day in this case!) or if they were a Y7, either take them off roll on a normal day and put attendance as 'C', or delete them from the system. I opted for deleting them so as not to skew our attendance, but I use the admissions module to keep a log of where I've done this in case it's ever queried. EDIT: should have mentioned, deleting students does not delete their admissions record if you put them on roll via that. Don't know why this is the case (it seems it should do!) but it's handy in this case

Well I put it on my 2012 Nexus 7 (5.0.2) and it's working great now I did hit a problem trying to flash it though, for some reason fastboot wasn't recognising the boot image inside the zip, causing Google's "flash-all.bat" script to fail after it had totally wiped the device! Fortunately it's easy enough to flash manually: Android Lollipop 5.0.2 nakasi flashing error

Are you offering to pay the difference? That's very kind of you Sunny!

I'd be terrified to use that case - all it takes is one spillage, one brush-past with a conductive object, and boom! It's less a case, more a shelf

The only time I've ever bought any component because of the way it looks was when I built my Steambox, and that's only because it had to sit by the TV so the missus has to look at it every day I bought this case (bloody awful case BTW, don't buy one! I submitted a review to overclockers detailing the many, may problems with the case which was never published, so I no longer trust their reviews): BitFenix Colossus M Micro ATX - Black [bFC-CLM-300-KKLS1-RP] http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/CA-161-BX_82648_600.jpg Anyway, the missus like the minimalist look of it and it was fairly small, so I went for it. The LED strip is manually controlled though, which I think is a total cop out; who can be bothered to turn it on every time?! I've been planning on using an Arduino to make the LED software controllable for a while, but haven't gotten round to it yet. I wish I'd gone for one of these in hindsight, much more fitting for the living room: Silverstone SST-LC16B-M USB 3.0 La Scala - Black [sST-LC16B-M] http://www.overclockers.co.uk/pimg/CA-281-SV_74299_600.jpg

When I saw this headline pop up on Twitter, I had to double check that I hadn't inadvertently started following the Daily Mail! Devon farmer forced to cull aggressive Nazi-bred cows