jmak

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This really gets my goat - and not because of what I may or may not think about leaving the EU! When I go to Europe, I connect to the Vodafone network. All of the mobile operators are part of international groups (O2 > Telefonica, Three > Hutchinson, EE/BT Mobile is slightly more complicated, but they're financially linked to Deutsche Telekom). How is it costing them more to serve me data or calls on a different part of their own network? Profiteering, I call it.

I appreciate that the SAR is essentially a nuisance for the school, but isn't that likely to exclude almost everything that the requestor wants? If you were writing a note/email which includes the subject's name, I would expect the chance of also referring to them by their initials in the same document to be pretty low. In that case the requestor could reasonably feel aggrieved.

Which is why I'm surprised it doesn't seem to have been taken into account by the JCVI. It puts the CMOs in a difficult position and even if they decide to proceed a lot more parents will now have doubts. It was the precedent for vaccinating where there's no expected benefit to that age group rather than using schools as a venue that I meant.

Any idea what the rationale is for giving primary age kids the annual flu vaccine? I'm not aware of a notable number becoming seriously ill every year - I assumed it was to protect the community, especially their grandparents. A possible precedent?

I won (or was in the lead in an ongoing competition) at my last school when I left. The clincher was that it massively reduced the amount of work lost through failing to save/not knowing where stuff had been saved to/moved to buy another child. We used to use Purple Mash quite a lot and Google Docs. Obviously with Google Docs if they're signed in it's almost impossible to lose work. They wanted the kids to be able to view and edit their work at home. We got the parents to support learning to log on. It wasn't particularly secure in Reception as they had printed cards with their username and password printed on them, but at least you knew who'd been using which computer and what they'd done on it. About half the kids could remember them unprompted by half way through the year. Almost everyone else mastered it by the beginning of year 1.

Every time I see this thread title I misread it as root canal [emoji15]

I used to have a single physical server (Dell T410) that I virtualized and split a few roles out. As well as proper backups (professional solution) I used to do weekly backups of the whole VM to disks on-site. No extra actual resilience as I couldn't run any kind of cluster or hot-swap setup, but I reckoned I'd massively increase my chance of getting up and running without any outside assistance and in any case be much quicker in than our external support rebuilding from backups. I had two DCs on the same physical machine which meant I could update and install stuff on one of them without affecting service. Once I had most of the data in O365, I reckon I could actually have got most things running from hyper-v in Windows 10 on a desktop PC. I originally virtualized using sysinterals disk2vhd. Anyway - good luck with your disk replacement.

I can see how that could be an issue for large organisations, although I suspect they price it so that the operational efficiency savings outweigh the costs. For personal use I have the app on my phone to find the three word address and then share it either to a navigation app or my car to get standard gps coordinates and directions which doesn't cost me anything.

The guest portal works well (and creates a dedicated SSID as part of the setup process), but be aware that it doesn't provide the level of security/separation that you should be aiming for. Stick it on its own VLAN and you should be fine.

Thanks - should've known better. It came up at a family gathering and out of 10, I'm the only one who had AZ, so to follow on from the "it's great that we're all vaccinated - apart from jmak with his useless one that only half works" they took great delight in finding out that my batch number matched with the ones that won't let you leave the UK.

How carefully did they check your covid pass at immigration? One of my doses is affected by this: https://www.thelocal.fr/20210705/can-brits-vaccinated-with-astrazenecas-indian-produced-covishield-jab-come-to-france/

And for labelling the various states of (dis)repair: https://www.ryman.co.uk/chinagraph-pencil-pack-of-12 Doesn't smudge like pen or fall off like post-it's I separate power supplies by voltage so that I don't have to look through all of them every time

The one that in seeing a lot of at the minute is texts with inviting you to get a proof of covid vaccination. Texts with a vaguely plausible URL to click. Scum.

It's partly the fact that it's counterintuitive that led to the link being made to the AZ vaccine, as opposed to the generally increased risk of suffering a blood clot from either the vaccine or infection with the virus. From the British Society for Haematology: https://b-s-h.org.uk/about-us/news/covid-vaccine-s-rare-link-to-low-platelet-count/ It's a fairly comprehensive and accessible summary of the original paper that was published in Nature, which was the research that led to the recommendation that under 40s shouldn't be given the AZ vaccine unless an alternative isn't available. The raw numbers are 11 cases per million people receiving the AZ vaccine.

Being an unreformable cynic (just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!), I haven't managed to dismiss my suspicion that someone with a vested interest might be acting in a way that discredits a vaccine that is being distributed at cost which could reduce sales of a competitor that's being sold at a profit, so I'm not massively surprised to see that. However, previous studies have shown that the risk of a very specific type of clotting is linked to the AZ vaccine - immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). It was already acknowledged that either vaccine had a significantly lower overall risk of clotting than being infected with COVID-19. The summary of the Lancet paper (the only bit that's available without being signed up) wasn't entirely clear on how they'd measured that, unless they were using different terminology (does TTS= ITP?). The other point that's not widely reported is that if it's diagnosed ITP can be successfully treated, so one of the solutions is better awareness and diagnosis. Definitely one to watch.

Conquest

Presumably this is one of the reasons that a call from test and trace has a different status to the automated ping from the app. If your mate sure you went out for dinner and sat opposite each other, you'll definitely get the call. If you happened to be following someone around a supermarket and were within Bluetooth range for a while, you're probably not at much risk, but you might get pinged. Some employers of people who are essential workers potentially exempt from isolation via app have come up with their own rules - essentially employees have to make a risk assessment for themselves...

These are really good: https://www.normans.co.uk/products/yamaha-silent-brass-system-for-french-horn

One of the issues with the app is that it has no context. Close contact is defined as "anyone who has had any of the following types of contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19: face-to-face contact including being coughed on or having a face-to-face conversation within one metre been within one metre for one minute or longer without face-to-face contact been within 2 metres of someone for more than 15 minutes (either as a one-off contact, or added up together over one day)" Those are based on indoor contacts and although they count for outdoor contacts according to the app, the risk is much lower. Given the type of event, I'd guess at a relatively low risk for you - although that's not the same as zero.

Self ..

If you could change it, it wouldn't be a backup. If you want to change something, you'll need to restore it - it will then be a live version and you can do what you want with it. If you want to have both versions, I'd suggest either: 1) Restore to different hardware 2) Restore to a VM using Hyper-V running on your current hardware 3) Take a second backup (or copy the existing complete backup) and restore to your current hardware to give you a reversion path if something goes wrong

I'd push for some kind of deal on inventory stock - not sure what model it was that you're after, but whatever car you want at the minute you're likely to have to make compromises on spec. Unfortunately for you, it's definitely a seller's market at the minute as manufacturers can't meet demand.

That's cool. As a teenager I worked in the village shop and post office. The post woman (also post mistress and shop keeper for the whole time I lived there) had a massive elastic band ball in her delivery bag which she said just created itself from loose bands. I always thought there was a PhD in working out how that happened...

That's fair enough. Just we haven't had any indication of whether they're interested in our offer. I'd expect them to say Price is fine, move in date is this I'll accept your offer subject to you providing evidence of income. Then they show us contract, then we sign and pay deposit.