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I doubt it. I've been to the Hermitage and there was the usual selection of nude sculptures and paintings on display. Very nice it was too! OT. While I was there, I was told off by one of the uniformed guards for taking a picture of the stairs. I apologised and pointed out that she looked very smart in her uniform (she was very beautiful in any case) and she let me take a picture of her at the foot of the same staircase.
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blocked here
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You are not alone. The new version is pants, especially setting up student accounts.
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[news] Tony Blair's creepy Xmas card
unixman_again replied to sparkeh's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
The Internet Reacts To Tony Blair’s Christmas Card | The Poke -
We do something similar with our online application system. Applications are written to a MySql Db which is then extracted to a spreadsheet (one sheet). I have a macro which explodes this sheet, to one per student and calculates application scores. The macro was quite easy to write and they can fiddle with the master sheet, press the button and all the exploded sheets are all recalculated at the click of a button, cunning labelled "Press".
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I've seen this with wireless mice when the batteries are on the way out.
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There are loads of examples on Intructables - here's just one Sound Reactive LED Strip
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I guess I'll cross that bridge if it ever happens. Most people I speak to about mobile phones, say "I only use it in an emergency". Apparently phoning a loved one to say "I'm on the train" is an emergency.
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I don't use a mobile phone at all; I got rid of it 12 years ago. I'm in good company, as Tom Stoppard and Paul Merton don't either. To paraphrase Ambrose Bierce
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I feel the same about festive nuts, esp brazils. I eat brazils all year round.
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Do you lock your office door in schooltime ?
unixman_again replied to sjpage10's topic in General Chat
At least you don't have a horses head sticking out, which would mean you'd have the smelly end in your office! -
Do you lock your office door in schooltime ?
unixman_again replied to sjpage10's topic in General Chat
Ours is open during the day but locked before and after school time. It's a Paxton card lock. Ideally, we should lock it when the office is unattended, but it isn't feasible. The server room off our office has a combination lock, so the servers are secure. When the office is unattended, lowlife could come in and steal stuff, but so far this hasn't happened. The only theft from our office occurred after hours when the door was locked. It was probably one of the cleaners but it couldn't be proved, however the suspect cleaner was dismissed, on other grounds. -
Looking at the W7 shutdown command, it says : /t xxx Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds. The valid range is 0-315360000 (10 years), with a default of 30. I've issued a shutdown for 10 years time and I'll report back to the panel on the success or fail in due course Seriously, did the M$ bods really think about the max value? I guess they did, but it does seem excessive.
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Resurrecting this thread A Map Of Britain's Rudest Place Names | The Poke There are a lot of bottoms in Blighty. I'm sure there is a joke or two there, but I won't sink that low - oh dear I did!
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Quotev.com - one to block?
unixman_again replied to BassTech's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
It isn't blocked on our filter, and there has only been one access in the last 7 days. That was by me just, to see what the site was. Our students clearly aren't interested in it. Unsurprizingly, the top hit is google. Second place is liverail.com, which some might find odd. Not me, as over the last week, there have been lots of cancellations on the Stratford line. -
BBC News - Amnesty releases anti-spying program for activists OK so it's probably of little use for us professionally, but it might be useful on your home machine.
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Moodle problem - Cannot access at all
unixman_again replied to witch's topic in Virtual Learning Platforms
I've seen this happen after a Windows update. After rebooting the server, check the perms on the moodle dir, and check IIS hasn't spat the dummy. -
When I'm trying to identify a font, I use Identifont followed by https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ followed by What Font is
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[video] Jumping A Lorry Over A Formula 1 Racing Car
unixman_again replied to 6Foot2's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I don't think it is as impressive as Remy Julienne's "Dangerous Crossroads" from 1991, which sadly isn't on youtube. I remember watching it on the TV just after they did it; I'd love to see the program it featured in again. -
We use the Magazine template from https://www.gavick.com/joomla-templates.html We also use one that I wrote; it's not all that difficult to modify the Protostar template. There's a load of pretty good ones at http://www.joomla24.com
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[tv show] New US shows - Constantine & Scorpion
unixman_again replied to LeMarchand's topic in TV & Movies
Ah yes, the one copy of the software, stored on a disk that was going to be overwritten in a couple of hours. Great date centre that doesn't do incremental/differential or generational backups. I'd like to own his laptop, which seems to be able to connect to every computer. Last night it was able to connect wirelessly to a 30 year old main frame. -
[tv show] New US shows - Constantine & Scorpion
unixman_again replied to LeMarchand's topic in TV & Movies
Longmire can ony be described as brill. Scorpion, is carp. Take the first ep; since when do aeroplanes have 30m cat 5 cables, that you can dangle out the bottom and connect to a laptop? -
Moodle problem - Cannot access at all
unixman_again replied to witch's topic in Virtual Learning Platforms
The AD connection is in Site administration > Plugins > Authentication > LDAP server The gotchas are Distinguished name and Contexts, probably the former.
