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Again, it's convenience. The light bulb one has an interesting security use though - away from home? Turn on the lights at night, off again when you go to bed. Looks like you're home. Not necessary - just convenient. I agree wholeheartedly RE the network security issues though, which is why when I do get around to setting up some home automation, I'll be doing it myself so I can make sure the device security is up to scratch. Most worrying for me is that wireless home alarm systems are now incredibly popular and lots have been found to employ zero security, meaning if I wanted to break in to a house, I could rock up outside with a cheap DIY RF transmitter and turn the alarm off. Worse yet, few of them have any kind of protection from interference, meaning you could take the even less sophisticated step of flooding the atmosphere with radio signal and blocking comms between sensors and the alarm system.

Don't own an IoT fridge myself, but it'd be damned handy if that Cortana/Siri/Calendar reminder was added automatically when my daughter used the last of the milk for her cereal so I knew to get some on the way home rather than scream blue murder that there's none for a cuppa when I get in. Of course nobody needs it, but then you don't need most technology you use every day - it's about convenience.

@GrumbleDook's response really needs more visibility, he's spot on. As usual, the article based on a research paper is misinterpreted/misunderstood drivel. Also doesn't help the research paper is based on an abstraction of data from some other research. Also, they're talking about "browsing the Internet", not "spending time on a computer" which can be two wildly different things. 1 hour on social media != 1 hour using Wolfram Alpha (for example)

Very odd - you say you're doing this on a server, are you Copy/Pasting over RDP? The only thing I can think is there's some strange memory issue in RDP causing the file to get jumbled and perhaps zipping it brings it below the size limit before this happens? Or maybe it even handles it differently if it's not plaintext? I don't think it's a SIMS issue...

Are you opening the file, selecting all the text and copying that, then pasting it elsewhere? Or are you copying and pasting the file itself?

Yes I've had a similar project in mind for some years now - never the time! In my mind, the ideal system you'd simply describe your template, pick your courses for it and it'd generate all aspects/resultsets/templates for you. Changing would mean changing the master template only. One day maybe Just be very careful around IDs - I forgot to change the ID on some templates once, ended up replacing a load of existing templates with the wrong ones!

You would think so, but unfortunately not; it's a manual task If you're tech savvy, you can export templates to XML, edit them and re-import them, so some tasks can be sped up (got to be extremely careful though, you can quickly mess up your DB this way if you make a mistake!). However even that option won't help here as the 'Additional Student Info' columns aren't included in the export.

Before I start, I know this is not an ideal world and ultimately you're going to have to do what you're told, however... I'd argue the case that you absolutely shouldn't do this. In an increasingly digital world, I feel we should be educating children best practice from day one - that means not writing down your login details and sticking them somewhere anyone can find them. Even making their passwords very simple (I know it can be tricky with young children) so that the teacher can work it out based on something as basic as their surname, teaching them to remember passwords and not share them is important. My 2p

Schools already have the power to do this if they so wish to do so... am I missing something?

I've had very positive experiences with powerline adapters, they're certainly a very easy, relatively cheap way to build a decent network infrastructure around the house. I have heard horror stories of them not working but I've not experienced any issues myself in the 4 or 5 properties I've used them in. That said, if you can afford to have Cat6 put in, I'd definitely do that. Yes, it will become redundant eventually, but as Cat5 has been the primary network cable for over 20 years now I think Cat6 is pretty safe bet! WiFi is practically essential too, but generally I wire anything that can be wired. @mthomas08 - the Wifi in Ps3/4 is infamously poor

I can't see how it would be conflict of interest TBH - at the end of the day, as the DM you simply produce data based on the facts - if you twist those facts to your own gain then yes, of course that's wrong, but that would be true of any job. There's no reason you can't be a DM and Governor as far as I can see

The problem with ridiculous pixel counts is that as impressive as they sound, there is a limit as to the actual resolution produced by the sensor. So although it may cram 250 MP in to the file, on an APS-H sensor I can't imagine the perceivable resolution being much better than a camera taking 50 MP photos. Add to that the fact you'd need an incredibly high quality lens to get close to that resolution, which would be many times more expensive than the camera itself, I can't help but feel this is just a bit of a headline grabber rather than an actually useful "breakthrough". It's like mobile phones boasting 10MP cameras - yeah, the file may be 10 MP, but a lot of it's just noise an interpolation when you zoom in because it's taken by a sensor the size of pea - a 15 year old, 4 MP dSLR would take a much better photo.

+1 (but not really, because it doesn't work)

I wish I had done. I moved home nearly 3 months ago (informed them a few weeks before) and I still don't have a phone line. Virgin not available yet either

Every few weeks?! Clearly, you've never suffered a BT Homehub!

I know we award points to houses for sporting events, we've been working around it by splitting the points amongst members of the team or assigning them to one member. Adding house points "properly" would be very handy!

Don't add 'dummy' students - it'll mess up your numbers on roll and they'll be included in your census return which will cause you all kinds of grief! There's no way AFAIK of assigning points to a house, however one workaround could be to add an Achievement type specifically for it (e.g. "Whole House Point") and then add this to the house prefect (assuming you have them of course) Then you could filter any reports on that Achievement Type if you wanted to see the student's own points or just the whole house points. One downside to this is that as it's not possible to filter the Achievement points field in Individual Reports, you'd get an inaccurate total on the prefect's report.

Which version of Exchange Server are you using on-site?

Sock update: I am wearing last year's socks today. [They smell a bit]

Except that the line: Options -Indexes denies directory listing entirely! Don't you just love Apache and it's many methods Personally, I think simply turning off directory listing is enough; there hadn't ought to be any files on a web server you don't want accessed via the web, otherwise why are they there?

First of all, you're misunderstanding "Suppress Duplicates" - all that does is prevent info about a single instance of an entity being reprinted; in your screenshots for instance, the resultset 384 in template 5546 is linked to multiple GroupIDs, but the resultset and template info is only printed once. I always untick "Suppress Duplicates" as it simply makes it more difficult to parse the output. Another thing to note is that the focus of your report is really important; here, your focus is resultset. Because of this, all subreports will only display any data if they are linked to their 'master' i.e. the resultset. In SQL terms, each subreport is essentially a 'LEFT JOIN' on the focus/table EDIT: actually, it's more like an 'INNER JOIN' unless you check the 'Include records with no such entity' in the subreport's options, then it's a 'LEFT JOIN' So, what that report is actually telling you is that A01_PE is linked to template 5546 using the resultset 384 I'd argue that your report focus ought to be Template here, as what you really want to know is which templates are using which aspect/resultset combinations. Resultset focus will work but feels logically wrong to me. Also, with resultset as the focus it means that if in future you add any aspects that are not linked to a resultset, they'll be excluded from your report entirely as they'll have no linked 'master' TL;DR - untick "Suppress Duplicates" to regain your sanity!

Hence "if it was actually"

If it was actually Irn Bru, wouldn't you end up with it caramelizing around the CPU/GPU?

True - you'd usually explicitly state blocked file types rather than allowing individual types. The above regex can be edited to allow the most common types quite easily if you want to continue whitelisting though, something like:

You need to set up Apache to disable directory listing. To do that site wide, add this line to your httpd.conf in the VirtualHost section (if you don't see this, put it in your Directory section): Options -Indexes In the same section, to limit the available file types available to HTML only, add the following: Deny from all Order allow,deny Allow from all PS: been a long time since I did this so test it before taking my word please!