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Nice to see them being fair to their partners too. I've only dealt direct and despite only being small fry, I always had excellent service and pricing from them.

Does anyone have any experience/ recommendations for or against inter railing? Trying to plan a coronavirus-proof family holiday and thought it might be a way to hedge against possible travel restrictions. We've travelled Europe by rail as a family before and enjoyed it, but it was planned like a Swiss railway timetable on Excel spreadsheets! Don't really want to spend a fortune and find that we end up going somewhere that everything's closed even though official travel restrictions aren't in place. Thanks

You should do it this year or marry her.... Might get a lot more difficult once we leave the EU properly.

First of all, apologies for not directly answering your question. I think your users might need to put up with some pain while you continue to work on prioritising keeping your network secure. W7 is no longer getting security updates. You need to get off that straight away. As a temporary work around, have you tested Office 2010 on Windows 10? It would make sense to change to a more current version of Office at the same time as you update Windows, but your priority should be network security. Also, docx has been the standard format for 13 years and certainly anything created since you installed Office 2010 should be in docx format. I'd question why they're still working on documents that were created so long ago. Tell them it's an opportunity to produce something more relevant. Office 2010 will also go out of support on 13th October this year. I did move from 2010 to 2016 without problems... in 2016. I would question why you're not moving to office 2019 at this point. To reiterate, get rid of W7 now!

Didn't know you were a teacher [emoji12] Sounds like a very poor system if the security is a password someone else knows and the payslip is an attachment. I know everyone's different, but I prefer electronic documents - I'm much less likely to lose them. Also, ref using a personal email address, I'd take that option if you can. At a previous job I had payslips and employee share scheme stuff with my work email. I remembered to download my payslips on my last day, but forgot about other systems. It was a nightmare to get access after I'd left. Next time I registered with a personal email and retained access to the payslip system for 6 months after I left.

Have been trying to resist weighing in on this, but the way you were dealt with reflects my views on the seriousness of the transgression - and sounds like you've learned your lesson. As you say, it's easy to be pious, but IMO 20 and 30 zones should be most strictly enforced of all. To OP: 43mph in a 30 zone is a lot too fast. Hopefully the £100 is enough to put you off doing it again. It might make you feel better to know that a driver's awareness course isn't free and you'd have to take a day off work to attend, so financially doesn't make that much difference. Unless you've only just got your driving license, 3 points won't make much difference to your insurance premium - but 6 will. You don't need to have your eyes glued to the speedo - having supervised a learner driver quite a lot last year I was pretty much 100% when I suggested they check their speed. I knew when they were doing 33 instead of 30 without being able to see the speedo. Final thought: if you hit a child at 30mph, there's an 80% chance they'll survive. If you hit them at 40mph, there's an 80% chance they'll die.

I had a similar conversation about putting contact details in an image that also contained the school logo and showed them that most schools (and many other email systems) block images by default, so the consequence of them making it "look pretty" was that no one would actually see the information.

What brand of tapes do you recommend nowadays [emoji6]

I'm sure you know this, but just in case you get carried away: Take a back up, test the back up, run P2V and test the result of the P2V by mounting it on a host that is in no way connected too your live network. To answer some of your actual question, I'd be concerned if the school wanted to do this, because of blurred accountability. If there's a problem with the admin server, what's to stop the company supporting it blaming the host server or the way it's set up? Is the provider managing the curriculum server also going to manage the host? Are you certain that they're familiar with supporting virtualized servers. I'd also want to be sure that the school understands that they're getting an additional single point of failure in their network (at the minute, if the curriculum server went AWOL, you'd still have the admin network). Having said that, I think virtualizing servers makes sense and the first one I had started as a P2V of the curriculum server. After you do a P2V on a server, it has all the same roles as it did before, so in your case, you won't need to run DC Promo as it'll already be a DC. Once you've created the virtualized version you need to nuke the original server - you'll have no need for it (reminder: take a back up, test the back up, test the result of the P2V by mounting it on a host that is in no way connected too your live network). Once nuked, install a clean version of whichever flavour of server you choose (I'd go with the latest, assuming licensing allows) and install the hyper-v role. Mount your VM of the curriculum and the client machines will see it as they did before. I'd strongly recommend that the host server only runs the hyper-v role. You also need to check your server's hardware specs are up to the job. You'll need as much memory as you can afford and presumably a lot more disk space, unless you've got loads spare on your curriculum server. It's doable, but make sure you have a fully documented plan and that all parties have signed up to it properly.

The original subsidy always had an end date of March 31st this year, so they can save some money in the budget without having to announce they're cutting anything. Obviously everyone expected it to continue, but strong hints are being dropped. That leaves two possibilities: 1) They're going to reverse the decision and look like heroes or 2) they don't give a monkey's about making EVs more affordable. It is a bit tricky politically as you can argue it subsidises people who can already afford to buy a new car rather than spending it on schools or health. However tax has always been used to drive behaviour, not just to raise revenue. I think what you're seeing is lots of ideas off the top of someone's head, but no actual strategy.

Although it does disable Bing search, so...

My first driving experience in the States included a near miss caused by me not understanding that rule properly. I was on what was clearly the main road and saw a car stop at a junction from what was clearly a minor road. I didn't slow down as I'd seen him stop... Brown pants moment [emoji51] To bring back to topic... On the upside, seems much more straightforward to model for autonomous vehicles, if far less efficient.

When we had our consumer unit updated last year the electrical spent a long time sorting out earth leakage. Some of it was worn/corroded outlets (sockets and switches) some of it was damp getting into the cables - they needed re-terminating. The new consumer units are *much*more sensitive than your old fuse box would have been. With checking for faulty wiring with a socket tester as suggested above, but kit to test for earth leakage is very expensive and sorting it out is best left too a professional. You'd work out out eventually through applying logic, but much easier to leave it to someone familiar with what needs doing.

Is this the same genius you've been asked to entertain?

A lot of GDPR issues should be driven by policy and procedure, however I can see issues for this scenario. I don't know Arbor, but in SIMS I don't believe there's a way to show the register without showing codes and potentially notes. Even if you only give teachers access to / and N for the current day, you have a potential issue with pre-populated codes and in the afternoon, anything that the office has updated from the morning. If the teacher let their pointer hover over the mark, the note would also be displayed. Edit: this is one for the DPO. You should tell them your opinion and why, but it's their call/problem. If you take it on, you will make yourself seen to be a blocker. If you feel really strongly, you can escalate all the way to chair of governors, but it's not your decision or responsibility. I wouldn't hold out much hope of changing minds unless you can come up with a better alternative...

The Just In Time approach should be possible logistically and then it's a case of pricing it to make it attractive. We have 2 cars in our household, so potentially 48 hours of use per day. They're actually used for about 2.25 hours per day, ie parked for about 95% of their life. One of them is used for a journey to the local park and ride bus for a journey to the local city and that's the quickest way to get there with a bus pass costing less than petrol plus parking. There are several cars per minute passing our house with one person in them which would get me to the bus stop just as quickly. If sharing one of those was available, I'd seriously consider getting rid of one car. However there's no public transport and a return journey by mini cab 5 days or week costs significantly more than leasing or owning a car. The other journey is 26 miles which takes 35 minutes. Google tells me that the same journey is possible by public transport in 46 minutes. The only snag is that the first 14 minutes of that is by private car to the station. The suggestion for the last leg of the journey is 8 minutes in an Uber, which is approaching JIT transport. Using public transport only would take 2 hours twenty minutes and happens once per day to the destination and zero times per day home, so that's a non starter. A just in time car share to the station would work. The Uber/Lyft system could stand in for autonomous cars now and it should be possible to make it economically more attractive than paying for a car to sit stationary for 95% of its life. There are two approaches to achieving changes like this: autocracy or free market. Want to know why it hasn't happened in the free market? Follow the money. Check out the power and influence of oil companies and car manufacturers and the money they spend on lobbying politicians and green washing their image for consumers. 120 years ago, city authorities wanted to get horses off city streets because of the pollution they caused. That change didn't happen because people were told to do something that made their life more difficult. People made the choice because something more convenient (the ICE vehicle came along).

Not as often as they should be. I'm planning a trip by train to Italy this year. Flying would be much cheaper. Same for a trip to Paris for a colleague. I used to regularly travel to Glasgow for work and it was almost always more expensive to take the train. I choose to take the train as I'm happy to make the compromise of traveling less often.

And this folks, is good advice. The most expensive cables Shimano offer cost about twenty quid for a set. I sometimes nearly forget how to adjust gears because they stay in tune for so long. (Not true obviously, because I have to fix bikes for people who won't spend twenty quid on cables, but my bike hardly ever needs adjusting.) They also make even cheap gear mechs work better.

You like a can of worms don't you [emoji57] Hub gears have come a long way since Sturmey Archer 3 speed. Shimano have a range (aimed at commuters) which have up to 11 speeds and take disc brakes. However they're heavy and there's no option for user maintenance. Also if you damage a wheel, you'll need a replacement hand built onto the same hub which isn't a cheap prospect. They're missing a truck by still using an oily chain. I've thought for years that a drive belt would be much better; no mess, less wear, quieter, but they've never caught on. They're also up against incremental improvements on a design that's over a hundred years old: I went from a five speed with manual down tube shifters on my first proper bike when I was about 10 through first generation indexed thumb shifters 15 speed, then trigger shift 27 speed and now I'm back to 11 speeds single chain ring on my latest bike. I thought every one was brilliant when I got it and can't believe that you can have an 11 speed block that's accurate with a really skinny chain and a ridiculously shallow dish on the rear wheel that's reliable and doesn't break every time you hit a bump. After a crash last year, I bent the derailleur beyond repair, fixed it up as a single speed to get to a bike shop (10 minutes) and then replaced the whole mechanism in another 20 minutes. All good as new and continued with my ride. Having said all that, I reckon this is the future: https://www.bikeradar.com/news/shimano-gearbox/ For those without time to read: gear box built into frame near bottom bracket (crank set) with option for integrated motor assist and then belt drive to rear wheel with single fixed gear. Shimano reckon they can make it light enough to fit to road bikes. Unfortunately I'll probably be on a mobility scooter or in my autonomous flying car before it actually happens...

Hoping to buy my way out of digging by installing conduit [emoji6] SWA is supposed to be about 18" and about 24" under a flower bed. That's quite a lot of digging!

I'm hoping someone can advise on regulations for burying electrical cable. I keep finding stuff that says if you use rigid metal conduit, it only needs to be 6 inches deep, but I have a feeling that's USA regulations. I need to replace the electrical power supply to my garage. It used to be overhead and when I had problems with the supply in the house, I found that it was just taken as a spur of a normal socket and run with normal twin and earth! A few years swinging in the wind and - who knew - water gets in and shorts the whole house. I'm going to have an electrician connect it up - it's a new circuit, so I know I'm not allowed to do it, but I am planning on putting conduit in the ground with a draw wire. Having dug a trench for utilities before, I know it's going to be hard work, so don't want to go deeper than I need to. Thanks in advance.

^^ This. So much this. Telling the time is assessed in primary school maths. It has nothing to do with most of the GCSE subjects being tested. If you need to, test it in one subject, not all of them. Doesn't have to be an IT solution; there are plenty of countdown clocks available. Even for those who can tell the time, it's easy to make a mistake when you're under pressure.

Cos you only get five activations per user.

That's one each for >60% of the world's population!

You can do this in group policy if you install the Google Chrome ADMX on your DC. Took me a couple of goes to realise that they differentiate between start up page (the page the user sees when they open the application or a new tab) and homepage (the page the user sees when they click the "Home" icon).