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  1. The crux is whether the radiation under consideration is ionising or not, rather than the power output. Radiation Basics | Radiation Protection | US EPA Ionising radiation is best avoided where possible. We can see from the EM spectrum that UV from sunlight is damaging to the skin's DNA, while there is no evidence that radiation in what we call the radio spectrum causes damage. There is an enormous nuclear reactor in the sky, and the damage to DNA from its radiation far exceeds that of any WiFi kit. Though of course with the weather in the UK, it might be a little difficult to believe.
  2. The Microserver option is a good choice. Here's a nice free NAS OS with lots of features. OpenMediaVault - The open network attached storage solution
  3. Electrical devices should be kept out of reach of mynahs.
  4. Have you enabled remote connections to SQL? This area of SQL is visited so infrequently, it's often overlooked. How to configure SQL Server 2012 Express to allow remote connections | Roman Kagan
  5. Nice and fresh. The old font was looking a bit dated. It's good to freshen up your image with contemporary trends every so often. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3050613/googles-new-logo-is-its-biggest-update-in-16-years
  6. This is interesting. There's a case going through the courts in Massachusetts. I'd be interested see what proof is forwarded as part of the complaint. Massachusetts boarding school sued over Wi-Fi sickness | Network World The PDF of the lawsuit is here: http://ftpcontent3.worldnow.com/wfxt/pdf/WiFi-lawsuit.pdf It's heavy on anecdotes, but light on research. Hmmmm.
  7. Keep it up! This is What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Exercising
  8. That's one hell of a mess. One theory doing the rounds is that the fireman weren't told about the nature of the stored chemicals. The water they used to extinguish the fire hit a cache of something that must be kept dry: lithium, sodium, or such like.
  9. DIY steadycam! http://www.edugeek.net/forums/jokes-interweb-things/96928-all-you-amateur-video-makers-cheap-steadicam.html
  10. I discovered BoJack Horseman over the weekend. There's no way this should work, but it does and I love it.
  11. Did they configure the OS, data files, log files and temp dbs on separate LUNs? If not, it could be a SAN bottleneck as everything is trying to read and write down one IO pipeline at the same time. I'd use SQL Activity Monitor to get an overview of how the SQL system is running. If you're lucky, something will jump out. http://www.sqlservercurry.com/2013/04/activity-monitor-in-sql-server.html
  12. I watched Common last night. (Currently on Netflix) I thoroughly enjoyed it. Common (TV Movie 2014) - IMDb
  13. Almost certainly Powershell will be to tool of choice here. I've done loads with Powershell and SQL and it works like magic. http://sqlfool.com/category/powershell/ There are lots of Powershell cmdlets for Exchange https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998225%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx
  14. I might misunderstand your requirements, but why not set up a Linux server (Centos or Ubuntu server, say), join the server to Active Directory and use Putty on the Windows clients to allow the students to log in with their AD logins. Done properly, the Putty sessions would give them their home directory and their work would be saved centrally on the Linux server. The students can log in via Putty from any machine to access their work.
  15. You will need a satellite signal meter (I got a cheap one from Maplin). You will also need to set the skew of your LNB - this is often overlooked and can lead to picture problems if it's not set. http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/LNB_skew.htm Sky dishes must use Sky LNBs - you can't mix and match the dishes and LNBs, they have to have the correct shape as Sky dishes are short-wide as opposed to the universal tall-narrow. From the offset position, a tall-narrow dish looks round from the LNB's point of view. http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/lnb.htm#oval Try and use reasonably good cables. Rubbish cables might give you the same electrical characteristics as good cables, but remember their job is to carry gigahertz signals and junk cables can attenuate high frequencies, more so over long lengths. As an aside - the 'strength' your receiver will report is the strength of the signal from the LNB to your receiver (not from the satellite to your LNB). This is different from the 'quality' which is how free the signal is from errors.
  16. Spectrum owners will love this. This is a labour of love and really well done. The Spectrum Show
  17. Exactly. Even worse if you use a file server's desktop. [ATTACH=CONFIG]31474[/ATTACH]
  18. Well, ignoring the subject of roaming profiles, there are good reasons why you shouldn't store files on the desktop. Explorer will attempt to generate a preview/tyhumbnail of the files, or parse its metadata every time you logon. If you have a large bunch of videos on your desktop, this will impact on performance as the preview is generated. Worse still, if the file is not parsable or its corrupt, explorer might hang for a while before it gives up. This is less of a problem with modern hardware, but it's still good practice to keep the desktop for icons and shortcuts only. Performance aside, is the desktop backed up? If not, the work is at risk.
  19. You've only supplied one row of values in your insert statement. I think you should be using the insert...select construct rather than the straightforward Insert. MySQL :: MySQL 5.5 Reference Manual :: 13.2.5.1 INSERT ... SELECT Syntax
  20. It's almost certainly by design. Although it's perfectly possible, and sometimes desirable, to store unicode characters in a database, searching and sorting is a nightmare as an accented 'n' is a completely different character code than a standard 'n'. These two 'n's are worlds apart, as far as the ordering is concerned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Latin-1_Supplement
  21. By coincidence, I had a graphics disaster in the week. Once you know how to fix it, it's quite straightforward. It's probably falling back to the VESA mode. The most promising fix is to purge the drivers and do a simple reboot. sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx* Then reboot. That should remove all the drivers and the kernel should hook in with a probed driver, just like a boot from USB or CD would. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/149837-what-did-you-learn-today-5.html#post1339613 For further documentation on the graphics system, I found this very helpful. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/VideoDriverDetection?action=show&redirect=X%2FTroubleshooting%2FFglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver
  22. Fifa president Sepp Blatter: I’m not corrupt and will go to heaven one day. Well, that's convinced me. Faultless logic.
  23. This is simply astounding. A car navigation system that was operational 10 years before GPS came online. All geeks should read this and be amazed. Who Needs GPS? The Forgotten Story of Etak's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
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  24. The original smartwatches: Casio's history of wild wrist designs | The Verge
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