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Starting to get worse in the West Midlands. One of the community channels on Sky have a live camera out in West Brom where a cars been set alight.

I'd assume on a newspaper somewhere

Birmingham's closing up early again. BCU have just shut, I'm glad the missus left early today. Even my local Tesco have locked up their side security doors, and I'm in the suburbs! I hope they don't postpone the cricket tomorrow

I thought it was seeing a lot of chopper activity. It had to happen sooner or later, any excuse for some looting.

*bump* I would assume most schools if they had any would have thrown out a good 5 years ago. Worth asking though!

Ok £50 for the lot!

My garden is entirely organic. I just let it grow and never do anything with it! Much to the disgust of my neighbour whose garden looks like Monty Don owns it. I like having it as a wild garden, we get loads of animals in there. Local cats, foxes, hedgehogs and the blackbirds nest in my ivy bush.

If you're an educational org go to SSL Certificates SSL Wildcard SSL Free Certificates SSL Server Certificate 256 bits they'll give you a two year cert for free (which includes wild card certs). The only problem is that Firefox doesn't recognise the certificate authority. IE and Windows with the latest Root Certs update pack does.

If you're an educational org go to http://certs.ipsca.com/ they'll give you a two year cert for free (which includes wild card certs). The only problem is that Firefox doesn't recognise the certificate authority. IE and Windows with the latest Root Certs update pack does.

If you're an educational org go to SSL Certificates SSL Wildcard SSL Free Certificates SSL Server Certificate 256 bits they'll give you a two year cert for free (which includes wild card certs). The only problem is that Firefox doesn't recognise the certificate authority. IE and Windows with the latest Root Certs update pack does.

But you missed out Win 2K which was perhaps the best thing they've ever released! Anyway the new reboot Trek movie is technical an odd number (and 13) and it was good!

Which is great if you're a secondary school or college with all that money over the years. I only have one decent physical server, but the expectations to run more complex products such as TMG and Sharepoint Foundation. I have to run HyperV on the DC, as well, I haven't got anything else. With budgets the way they are at the moment, this isn't going to change for a while

Both are fine. The DNS just doesn't seem be transfering and when I try and demote the old DC I'm just told it can't find any other DCs in the forest. It seems like there are some real problems with this entire setup, so I'll start it again. I think now even if I get it replicating away, there are probably many more problems hidden away.

Ideas folks? I'm still can't get full replication (even after demoting and re-promoting. I can get DNS running only on new DC but in AD U&C advanced mode the AD dnsNode still points to the old DC. Hence when it's off AD tools won't connect and I've not got a SYSVOL or NETLOGON. I'm at the verge of chucking all this in and rebuilding the domain from the ground up (not that much hassle anyway, all the client machines - every last one - need to be re-imaged before the end of the summer, along with brand new GPOs) I only have 2 problems 1) The LEA is part way through a Sophos encryption install and 2) I would have to re-create my SHarepoint sites.

Finally moved the roles. Turns out Sophos Endpoint was doing something funky - despite the Firewall being off and Sophos Tech Support saying it was nothing to do with them! I'm now having replication issues, namely SYSVOL and NETLOGON. It appears to be a DNS error, although my DNS looks fine. I've even deleted all the entries and rebuilt. When my old DC is off (which has no roles now) no AD tools can connect to the directory, and the DNS doesn't seem to run properly. With it turned on the AD tools connect (only on new DC as it should be, as there is no AD DB on old DC) and the DNS works fine. Any ideas?

Hi Folks, I have a selection of mostly HP OEM inkjet carts with some third parties thrown in. Total for the lot is £100 - buying the OEM ones new would cost almost £300 at current cheapest prices! Collection from B13 Moseley area of Birmingham. OEM Carts: HP 940 XL Cyan (1) HP 940 XL Magenta (2) HP 940 XL Yellow (1) HP 940 XL Black (2) HP 88 XL Magenta (1) HP 88 XL Black (2) HP 88 XL Cyan (1) HP 88 XL Yellow (1) HP 07A Black (1) HP 17 TriColour (4) HP 21 Black (1) Third Party Carts: HP 17 TriColour (2) HP 45A (1) HP 336 & 337 (1) HP 21 Black (1)

Both are happily replicating between each other. Both are nameservers. Hence why I'm stuck on this!

I'm the process of rebuilding my main server from 2003 R2 to 2008 R2. As part of it to keep my AD intact I have a secondary domain controller running 2008 R1. It's been in for months. In final prep I was going to transfer all the domain roles over from Svr1 (2003) to Svr2 (2008) and then back to Svr1New (2008 R2) However when I try to transfer any roles I get an error saying the FMSO holder is not able to be contacted. But it's online and running fine. My DNS look fine, and I can ping each server from the other. So I'm a little stuck on what to do. I know I can take the old server offline and forcefully sieze the roles on my secondary DC and then transfer them back - but that seems a harsh way to do it. I'd prefer to do it gracefully than to sieze them. This is really annoying me, as all the results I can find on this deal with a dead DC going offline in a disaster and then needing to sieze the roles. The only post I can find regarding a graceful transfer where this error occurs with the orginal DC online deals with DNS. But my DNS seems fine. Any ideas folks? If not then I'll just have to take the old DC offline, sieze the roles and hope M

C:\DOS C:\DOS RUN RUN\DOS\RUN Had to be done In honor I've fired up DOSBox and Star Trek: A Final Unity. That was a pig of game to get running

Pffft my first proper computer was an Acorn A3010 with no HDD and a whole 2MB of RAM.

I thought the same. I assume USB3 will be majorly faster than a stock Intel RAID chip though?

I just ran DiskMark on my drives and was surprised that my RAID data array (1) was several orders of magentude faster than SSD or USB3 on read. Surely this is a bug?! Speeds attached as PDF Drive Speeds - DiskMark.pdf

More than likely the US and Israel maybe a CIA/Mossad project.

Ok. Not a major problem. Only the SLT want it, and I can re-create them a new account. Anyway ticket open with MS. I'm sure there's something they can do at their end to sort this.

Hi Folks, I'm having problems with the built in IM on Live@Edu OWA. It works fine, but just for me. Hence the little green icon is on under my name, and I can choose my status. For any other member of staff it's all greyed out. HOWEVER the presence for them in an email lists them as online. If I try and chat using OWA they don't get the message. If however I try and chat using Live Messenger to Live Messenger it works. Sadly rolling out Live Messenger won't work as it's blocked at school (tested at home). I did read that users have to accept the AUP and enter their age when logging on first. I fiddled the options so staff didn't have to do this - politics folks were complaining about the mandatory age field. However if I get staff to go to their Live account page and enter their DoB there it still doesn't work. Any ideas?