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Anybody used this recently on a 2012 Nexus 7? Had awful performance issues when I last tried (back when @Arthur made this post) but hoping they've ironed it out now?

Are you using Windows 8 (or above)? If so, I'd give Storage Spaces a try; it's software RAID but really easy to manage and means if you have to get a new mobo, the drives will drop straight in an continue working Also, I haven't noticed any decrease in performance in my 2 year old SSD - I don't do benchmarks, so can't give you hard figures, but in day to day use I've not noticed anything

Oops! Try this link: Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century: Amazon.co.uk: Scott Adams: 0000752211617: Books BTW - I noticed some of the reviews moaning it's not a "proper" Dilbert book. I guess that's true; it's not a massive Dilbert comic. Thought I'd point it out in case that's what you were expecting. It's actually one long rant by Scott Adams, with relevant Dilbert comics dotted throughout. If you like Dilbert humour I think you'll love this book

Was thinking that myself. I guess that's why they're so cheap compared to the competition though, they know they have to be cut throat to win back customers... Personally, I'd decide my budget first then find the sweet spot between price/performance in that budget. I have a 120GB at home as it's all my budget would allow 2 years ago but I'd say you need 240GB realistically. I'm at a point now where I'm having to clean my drive every time a moderately sized Windows update rolls out so I can install it. It still makes sense financially to have an SSD for software and a HDD for storage IMO. Hybrid drives I've got to say I'm not sold on. I put one in my MTPC and although it's fairly quick to boot up and load programs, I honestly don't think there's a noticeable enough performance boost to warrant the extra cost over a HDD; stick to a proper SSD and HDD combo

Dilbert, how could I forget Dilbert! Yes, that's currently number 1 competitor. On a related note, I think it's time to re-read "The Dilbert Future" (again)

PM sent. Quickest 'sale' ever lol

Not at all, OK to Paypal £1 for postage? (I'll refund you if it's less than that)

I got given two of these for Christmas so if anyone wants my spare, you're welcome to it for the price of P&P (£1). http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71bPyEzFBSL._SL1500_.jpg VEO Brown Ultra Slim Full Body Smart Case Cover for The: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

For the first time in my memory, I didn't get a calendar from anyone this year! So, any recommendations? It needs to be a wall hanging calendar and safe for work

I'll wait to see what he actually does now... IMO, there's nothing inherently wrong with buying a dream penthouse if you have the money; I know I would! Just by doing that, it doesn't mean he has to suddenly become a jackass...

Amazing property, but whoever developed that website wants shooting! Here's a good article on the story: BREAKING: Minecraft Creator Snatches Bonkers Bev Hills Megamansion From Beyoncé and Jay-Z For $70MM - Blockbusters - Curbed LA

Might go for a "Britney" myself when it warms up...

One word of warning on using macros - if you upload to linked documents, you may find you get nonsensical VBA errors on opening. This is due to the VBA project having a missing reference to IndRepBaseTemplate.dot I've been unable to find a reliable fix for this so far

Are you calculating it? Hit "Ctrl + A" to highlight the whole document, then "F9" to recalculate. There's an option somewhere in Word to do this automatically when printing. Also, if you're typing it in manually, make sure you use "Ctrl + F9" wherever you're adding the curled braces, otherwise Word will interpret them as text, not fields.

All very good questions, I'll have to look in to it. Money is certainly an issue for many of our children you're quite right, this is why we have a relatively high number without their own PC at home, so I am keen to avoid anything that will cost them money. At the same time I don't have a fortune to fall back on myself! Love the idea of some sort of game/competition though - cheap to set up and can raise a fair bit of cash. Daft question (possibly) - would cash prizes be deemed gambling and therefore illegal? I mean, if I were to say that the winner gets 10% of the entry fees, would that be an acceptable prize?

We have about a dozen regulars, fag packet calculation puts that at roughly £600 to buy them all basic starter kits (i.e. the Pi, KB/M, PSU and HDMI cable) Bingo could be a good one to run at lunch time... EDIT: just realised there's no 'thanks' button in this forum! Will dish out rep where it'll let me (unfortunately means if you've helped me out recently, I won't be able to - sorry!)

Hi all, looking for a bit of advice. I've been running a code club after school for a few weeks and one thing that has become apparent is many of the kids who attend don't have PCs at home. What I'd love to do is buy them all their own Raspberry Pi starter kits so they can take them home and continue learning all the things we do at code club in their own time. The school isn't in a position right now to be doing this, so I want to try to raise the funds to do it myself, however I've never done anything like this before. Has anyone here done anything similar? How did you go about it? Is there a good online platform similar to Kickstarter for charity fund raising? Assuming the fund raising goes impeccably well and I have money left over, I planned to either buy the kids extra materials to help them out (books, electronics kits) or see if the school would store the money for me to go towards doing the same for future attendees to the club - are there any potential legal problems I need to be aware of there? Any advice will be greatly appreciated; I'm hoping to have a plan of action by the new year, then go full throttle to try to raise the cash before the end of the school year

Started a thread on this but thought I'd cross reference here as it's likely to be useful to some of you: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/146988-extract-raw-mark-ums-table-edexcel-converter.html

This one is aimed at the Data Managers and Exams Officers amongst us mainly, though I'm sure if any of you techs shared this with yours they'd be happy! I've been sitting on this script for a while but it dawned on me today others may also find it useful. Edexcel provide a spreadhseet which you can use to enter any raw mark for any of their units and get the UMS equivalent back (from this page: Understanding marks and grades | Pearson qualifications) The problem is, it does this in a locked down spreadsheet, one raw mark at a time. Of course you could enter each raw mark and get the UMS to create yourself a conversion table, but being the lazy person I am, I wrote a VBA routine to do it for me! Copy and paste this code in to a VBA module, then select the level, course and unit you want and the "Convert raw mark to UMS mark" option, then run the routine. You'll be left with a two column table in a new workbook you can use for your lookups wherever you need them. Public Sub EdexcelExtractRawUMSTable() Dim x As Integer Dim EdexcelSheet Dim myBook Dim mySheet Set EdexcelSheet = ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet Set myBook = Application.Workbooks.Add() Set mySheet = myBook.Sheets(1) With mySheet.Range("$A$1") .Value = "RAW" .Offset(0, 1).Value = "UMS" For x = 1 To EdexcelSheet.Range("$I$14").Value EdexcelSheet.Range("$B$20").Value = x .Offset(x, 0).Value = x .Offset(x, 1).Value = EdexcelSheet.Range("$B$21").Value Next x End With Set myBook = Nothing Set mySheet = Nothing Set EdexcelSheet = Nothing End Sub

Just out of curiosity, how many of you give out cards and/or gifts? I'll be honest, I don't do it every year, but a couple of people here deserve more than a handshake from me this year for the help they've given me so I'll be doing a beer run tomorrow

Lol yeah there's certainly a bit of that involved. I know it sounds stupid but I found after a while it's much more responsive with a bit of speed (been playing Strike Suit Zero where the exact opposite is true). Struggling to take out the sidewinder on the 4th/5th training mission but I'll get there. This game could seriously do with proper training missions, these ones are just tiny missions with very little help. I know there are YouTube videos but is there anything more boring than listening to hours of monotone "press this, then that" videos?

for the morning traffic Anyone else playing this yet?

Quick test appears to work (though without SIMS as I'm not in work yet). You'd replace the word "Yes" with whichever character renders a check mark in your chosen font: [table=width: 700, class: grid, align: left] [tr] [td]3[/td] [td]This row has white font and height of 0.01cm to hide it. The value to the left is obtained via SIMS.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]{ If { =SUM(ABOVE) } = 1 "Yes" "" }[/td] [td]Excellent[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]{ If { =SUM(ABOVE) } = 2 "Yes" "" }[/td] [td]Good[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]{ If { =SUM(ABOVE) } = 3 "Yes" "" }[/td] [td]Satisfactory[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]{ If { =SUM(ABOVE) } = 4 "Yes" "" }[/td] [td]Poor[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]{ If { =SUM(ABOVE) } = 5 "Yes" "" }[/td] [td]Very Poor[/td] [/tr] [/table]

The problem seems to be with putting SIMS tags in Word statement blocks; they're never updated. One potential way around it (though I've not tried it so not sure if it would work) would be too put the value in a row of its own (you can colour it white and shrink the row to hide it) then use a SUM to pull the value in to the If statement block. Worth a try?

Ah now I'm with you! I installed updates today, is there somewhere separate to go for joystick configuration updates? Gone through all the settings but couldn't find anything. I hope it's just this ship, otherwise it's gonna drive me insane