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Q. What's worse then Windows ME? A. Windows ME with Active Desktop. ***shudder***

Technically, yes.

Sneak preview video of Windows 8.1 - great new start screen!

The Fantastic Mr Feynman is on telly tonight, at 23:20, BBC2. Rarely has the description of 'genius' been more appropriate. If you haven't seen it, please watch it. If you have seen it, watch it again. Also on iplayer. BBC Two - The Fantastic Mr Feynman

We did something that allows the kids to log-in with their username and connect to the proxy using their credentials Alter the /home/pi/.profile so that when the Pi starts up, the pupil 'logs in' (not really, but it looks like it's logging in) and their user and password is set via export, then fires up the GUI with startx. See if this is of help. The additional code is shown in red text. # ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells. # This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login # exists. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples. # the files are located in the bash-doc package. # the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask # for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package. #umask 022 # if running bash if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.bashrc" fi fi # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi [color="#FF0000"] clear echo "Please enter your school username: " read username echo "Please enter your password: " read -s password export http_proxy="http://YOUR_DOMAIN\\$username:$password@YOUR_PROXY_SERVER:YOUR_PROXY_PORT/" startx[/color]

My first car was an '84 Chevette. In brown. It had a radio.

Go to Google Image search, search for atari breakout. Enjoy.

Before you do anything else, watch the video on this page. You'll be glad you did. The start concentrates on SQL, but there's some excellent advice on SSD technologies. He also gives you links to reviews to choose the best drives based on internal NAND banks, internal controllers, etc. SQL on SSDs: Hot and Crazy Love | Brent Ozar Unlimited

As for chains, I found this: http://www.cantitoeroad.com/chains A chain should be changed before it reaches 1% 'stretch'.

I've been reading up on cycle chain oils recently. There are hugely differing views on what works and what doesn't, some advocate thin agents like WD-40 or GT85, others shriek in horror at this suggestion. I've tried some of the fancy boutique oils and have been unimpressed. Here's an interesting bit of research on chain oils Comparison of chain lubes The initial result shows that the test with WD-40 provides the lowest friction. However, in further tests, the WD-40 is not durable and should not be used as a lube. The winner (in this admittedly small sample) was also the cheapest - the venerable 3-in-1 oil. Yes, the stuff you buy in pound shops. Comparison of chain lubes Well, that research is good enough for me, so I'm back on the 3-in-1. Tip - to check a chain is properly lubed, gently run you finger under the chain. You should see that the rollers in between the links should turn freely - if they don't, you chain is not functioning properly and you are wearing out your sprockets. Free-spinning rollers are essential to prevent wear. Dirt is the killer. Never oil a dirty chain, always clean it as best you can before oiling. Remember, grinding paste is made from oil and grit. To prevent the chain becoming a dirt magnet after oiling, always wipe away excess oil with a rag before use.

Posting here as Edugeek is well indexed by Google and this might be of help to someone with a boiler problem. Symptoms: The fan of a Worcester 24i combi boiler intermittently cuts out. This causes the fail-safe to trigger and the boiler to shut down, and the water runs cold. The fan may restart, the boiler might re-ignite, but cuts out again and the fail-safe shuts down the boiler. Plumber says the best case scenario is a new control board (£150), worst case is a new boilder (>£1,000). I wasn't having any of that so I thought I'd try and fix it. I found the fan fault was caused by a relay burning out. The relay you need is DPDT power relay, 5A 24v DC Man Part No G2R-2 24DC The RS stock number is 366338 http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/non-latching-relays/0366338/ The relay costs less than £5. You will also need a soldering iron and a solder-sucker. DISCONNECT THE MAINS POWER! Electrocution can spoil your day. Make a note of the power connections to the main board. Remove the metal board cover and remove the circuit board (very fiddly task) The fan is controlled by a relay, circled in the photo below De-solder the relay by removing the solder on the 8 joints shown in the photo below Solder the new relay into place, reconnect everything.

Absolutely, being doing so for several years.

I found this very interesting talk (21 mins) about SQL and SSD. This is a must-view. SQL on SSDs: Hot and Crazy Love | Brent Ozar Unlimited

Good point, Vik. It might be an error to overlook the client machines and to focus just on the server.

Fire up SQL Activity Monitor and look at the overiew SQL Server Management Studio>Right-click the server>Activity Monitor Activity monitor is a great tool for all us 'accidental DBAs'. Good starting point >>> SQL Server Reference Guide | Performance Monitoring Tools: SQL Server 2008 Activity Monitor | InformIT Activity Monitor

Those figures look healthy.

Missed the bit about SSD - agreed, irrelevant here. I'd put a hard upper limit on the SQL memory usage.

First off, have you separated your OS, Database file and Log file onto different physical volumes? Have you assigned an upper limit for the SQL Server memory usage ('max server memory' setting)? In an ideal world, you can give it all the memory available, and it will release on demand to the OS and and when needed. In the real world this sometimes doesn't happen and a server with loads of memory can be sluggish. Recommened settings (rule of thumb) Physical RAM | MaxServerMem Setting (MB) 2GB 1500 4GB 3200 6GB 4800 8GB 6400 12GB 10000 16GB 13500 24GB 21500 32GB 29000 48GB 44000 64GB 60000 72GB 68000 96GB 92000 128GB 124000 Lots here: How to Identify Microsoft SQL Server Memory Bottlenecks SIMS's queries are often horrendous - look at the activity monitor and query plan to see, including the index hints. I've tried optimizing for ad-hoc queries, but that showed no improvements at all. Well anyway, usual caveats apply, but here are a few scripts from my toolbag. Some are ones I collected so credits to original authors. Check the number of 'runnable tasks'. In other words tasks that have exhausted their quantum, been swapped out, but cannot be serviced because of lack of resources of server. You'll see one row per CPU. This is a simple snapshot, so you'll need to run it several times to get a picture. --If you are seeing lots of SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD in your Wait States, that is a very stong indicator of CPU pressure. -- You can run the DMV query to confirm that: -- Check SQL Server Schedulers to see if they are waiting on CPU SELECT scheduler_id, current_tasks_count, runnable_tasks_count FROM sys.dm_os_schedulers WHERE scheduler_id < 255 --If you see the runnable tasks count above zero, that is cause for concern, and if you see it in double digits for any length of time, that is cause for extreme concern! -- SQL Server 2008 and R2 Memory Related Queries -- Glenn Berry -- October 2010 -- http://glennberrysqlperformance.spaces.live.com/ -- Twitter: GlennAlanBerry -- Instance Level queries -- Good basic information about memory amounts and state (SQL 2008 and 2008 R2) SELECT total_physical_memory_kb, available_physical_memory_kb, total_page_file_kb, available_page_file_kb, system_memory_state_desc FROM sys.dm_os_sys_memory; -- You want to see "Available physical memory is high" -- SQL Server Process Address space info (SQL 2008 and 2008 R2) --(shows whether locked pages is enabled, among other things) SELECT physical_memory_in_use_kb,locked_page_allocations_kb, page_fault_count, memory_utilization_percentage, available_commit_limit_kb, process_physical_memory_low, process_virtual_memory_low FROM sys.dm_os_process_memory; -- You want to see 0 for process_physical_memory_low -- You want to see 0 for process_virtual_memory_low

Recursion is useful for deleting sub-objects (folders, keys, etc) within a branch. In this post, I wrote a bit of code that uses recursion to delete a key branch. If the branch has sub-keys, it calls itself for each sub-key and so on. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/78733-windows-7-user-profile-failed-error-again.html#post700415 Sub DeleteKey (thisKey) 'delete all subkeys objReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, thisKey, arrSubKeys If IsArray (arrSubKeys) Then For Each strSubKey In arrSubKeys 'recursively delete the key DeleteKey (thisKey & "\" & strSubKey) Next End If 'delete the registry key objReg.DeleteKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,thisKey End sub

Just after I posted about LMMS, they've released a new version. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmms/

List of free software for audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sure, got a Rotel amp I bought in 1991. Don't chuck it, get onto the RS site and get the bits you need.

I might get one of these. For under thirty groats you can't go wrong. Against all sense I was an early adopter and bought a truly horrific reader based on Windows CE. It was, and still is, utter garbage, taking about 1 minute to warm up and be usable. It was close on to £200. The day I bought it is still subject to enruement.

They had considered it way back, and came back with this response. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/10045-sims-web-version.html#post102253 Perhaps it's unfair to assume that this is still their stance. ?

No, not by default. To delete files in the target, use Purge as Valyn suggests, or the /MIR switch.