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Oxenfree currently free for Gold on XboxOne, really enjoyed it over the 5ish hours it took and will replay for additional options/endings etc. If you like low-pressure exploration and character interaction/narration give it a go. Wanted to get Destiny 2 on release but didn't had the cash. From what my workmate has told me it is an epic grind for gear... not so sure I want to bother now tbh, much as I enjoyed the first one. Maybe once the DLC comes out and there's more stories to play.

Deadpool and Triple9. Deadpool was off-the-wall fantastic. See it! Triple9 was a "The Departed" wannabe with no charm. Avoid.

I watched "John Carter" on Netflix last night. Horrible, horrible movie. Badly paced, awful acting, costumes looked cheap, CGI all over the place, doesn't stick to it's own internal rules, and almost every scene was a ripoff of another movie. Eurgh.

How about banning staff from charging their own mobile phones at school? Bet that would save a fortune

I've got around 100 staff, most of them at 40Gb or less, a few at close to 100Gb after 7+ years of working here and accumulating stuff. My server is shortly to run out of space, so I've grabbed a couple of 10Tb NAS boxes that I am going to archive everything onto as soon as I get them. Each person will then be told that from now on their Home drive is for the current year's work only, and the everything else will be found in their new Archive area; if they want something from their Archive to be available at home they can put a copy back into their Home drive, but if they reach their storage limit then it'll be up to them to trim it down, not more expansions for anyone (there just isn't the disk space). When it comes to non-work related files I'd say some good advice would be to check, update & enforce your AUP with management's help. There should be NO personal data on a school computer (that's made very clear to everyone here). I don't care if you don't have a laptop at home and just bought the newest iPhone and need to sync it, the laptop is NOT your own personal device, it's the property of the school as is the server disk space, and the backup disk space, and I'm not letting you take away Gb's of space from other staff&students for your (frankly, awful) music collection. Putting quota's on disk space is a good idea as well. Here they are set at 40Gb (going to reduce to 20Gb once the NAS is in place), if they go over their laptop forces them to come and see me. To date all I've done is up them another 10Gb's or so each time, but from this point on I'm going to have to be stricter and get them to sort out what isn't needed anymore!

We've got Clevertouch here, and are about to get more. Everyone loves them, they all want one for their classroom over the summer (good luck with that one! lol)

Plus the afore-mentioned built-in right thumbstick (thumbstub?), faster wireless connectivity, better battery life, and for some games (Monster Hunter 4 being one of them) better graphics due to the newer hardware.

I plan on getting a N3DSXL asap for that very reason! 30th birthday on Friday, let's see what happens...

MH is definately not a game I'd like to play on a small-sized DS. After putting in 110+ hours on it via my 3DS XL I can say it works great on the larger screen. Whatever you are playing on I highly recommend getting the CirclePadPro attachment that adds the right thumb-stick, it makes working the camera SO much easier.

It sounds like the picture file for the background is not being picked up from the AppData folder. By default in windows 7 the picture for the background image goes in C:\users\[[username]]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\ so I'd guess that is not being transferred to the server with the profile info on logoff. Do you redirect the AppData folder to somewhere on the server? Maybe try doing that and see what happens?

Each member of staff has a folder on my file server called [[username]]. They then have a mapped drive U:\ mapped to \\servername\staffwork\[[username]] Their Documents folder is redirected to the drive U:\, similarly folders like Music are redirected to U:\My Music, Pictures to U:\My Pictures and so on. On their own laptop the U:\ drive is set to be available offline so they can use it ouside of school. If they log on to another machine, they get access to their work but it doesn't have to be downloaded or sycn'd to the machine first.

Most days I try and bring things that won't get demolished in the first 2 minutes. Today I have a pack of Trebor XXX Spearmint mints. They are way too strong to eat one after another, so they'll last the day and keep my breath feeling fresh too! We're a "Healthy Eating" school so we have fruit freely available to us, problem is with 120+ staff members odds are good that a couple of times a week it's someone's birthday and the staffroom is filled with cakes!

Last game purchased; Destinty (PS4) Last game completed; Probably Tomb Raider, most of the games I'm playing lately don't have an "end" really (Destiny, Smash Bros. 3DS, Monster Hunter 4 3DS)

Hi all, If this is in the wrong place, apologies! I have 4 users who all on Windows 7, all connecting to our Windows 2008 R2 Print Server for our "Finance Printer". Thing is, I can only get TWO of them printing to it at any given time - as soon as I add/update driver/remove&readd the printer to a 3rd user, one of the other 2 machines stops printing to it! It's driving them (and me!) insane... any thoughts on this? I've looked for options like "number of concurrent users connected" and so forth but can't see anything that could be causing this... HELP!

Testing of new ideas that would otherwise impact users during term-time. Updates to servers and server-run software such as MIS which would cause downtime in term time. Archiving of last years' work, creating new profiles, setting up new machines for September's new staff. Physical cleaning of all equipment (depending on how much you have this can be a few hours, or in my case, a few days!). Virtual cleaning of equipment (either re-imaging, re-installing, updating, defragging etc.). Any maintenance or upgrades requires to office-based PC's, again so it doesn't cause downtime for those users. Being pro-active and actually going around and testing existing things, pre-empting faults. Updating the Hardware Audit, what's gone, what's new, is everything asset tagged / watermarked / etc. Research and personally-conducted CPD - a lot of people forget and/or don't realise that we work in a fast-moving industry and have to keep ourselves updated, sometimes we need a few hours to pour through online manuals, or on occasion we need to teach ourselves how to do something (*gasp* am I suggesting we don't already know EVERYthing! )