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I'm no lover of Publisher, but I always cringe when I see someone trying to do DTP work in Word because it just looks awful. If they're suggesting that people change their workflows to Word and PowerPoint for this kind of thing, I hope that they actually make it possible.

There's no reason why they shouldn't. I was involved with a new build for a Sixth Form College about 10 years ago now, and even back then we had Mitel IP phones which had gigabit passthroughs. The Avaya devices they used in the last MAT I worked for had gigabit passthroughs as well, and those were old devices seven years ago when I started. There's no excuse in this day and age for Fast Ethernet on any new device.

I suppose that's the point of the exercise! Having a massive splodge of orange on the TFL map makes you think that things are more interconnected than they actually are. Hopefully this will clarify things a little. Come to think of it, they could probably do the same to the DLR as well...

I have a variation of this Eastpak backpack for this kind of thing. I like Eastpak bags, they're well-made and last well, and they're not horrifically expensive. A long time ago, I used to work as a sales drone for a now (happily) defunct mail order computer reseller. Towards the end of their life, they turned into something of a graveyard of other defunct computer brands, several of which you thought "WTF did they buy that?". Anyway, when I worked as the sales drone, we used to get reps from various vendors come in to do training on their products. Something that a rep from a laptop manufacturer (may have been Dell, I can't remember) said stuck with me. The owned-branded rebadged Clevo/Kapok laptops that we sold came with bags, and theirs didn't. We mentioned this to the rep and she said that she never used laptop bags because it made you an obvious target for theft, especially in busy cities. Pickpockets would just cut the shoulder straps and snatch the laptops away before the owner of the laptop knew what was going on. Admittedly, this was when a laptop was a major purchase (£1000+ 25 years ago was a different prospect to the £300-£500 a typical corporate laptop is probably going to cost these days) but to this day I still carry my laptops in rucksacks when I'm out and about as they're secured to you with two shoulder straps, and you just look like someone with a backpack on rather than someone who's carrying an expensive item.

I'm watching the Star Wars films with my son. He's going through them for the first time and we're going through them in story order because why not? We've just watched Revenge of the Sith Honestly and surprisingly, not as bad as I remember it being. Yes, the dialogue is pretty awful at times and both Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman are especially wooden at times but overall the film was entertaining. Easily the best of the Prequel trilogy. Rogue One next!

So it's the exclamation mark then. Got it. I didn't do maths past GCSE, I don't remember that being in it

Can someone explain the maths to mathematically ignorant me please? I don't understand how a sextillion comes out of that?

When I was a young child, whenever Dad's Army came onto the TV and my grandparents were round or we were at theirs, it always used to be a favourite game of my nanny to say "He's dead", "He's dead" whenever the credits came on. At this point, it was only Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee left so there were more "He's dead" then "He's not dead". They're all gone now 77 is no age either, such a shame

Either way, 2019 is out of mainstream support. It doesn't make a huge amount of sense not to upgrade to 2022 considering it's been on the market for, what, 2-2.5 years?

I think what Roberto means is not that Hyper-V as a feature is deprecated, it's that Hyper-V Server (the free hypervisor product that MS used to have) is no longer being published and that the product is now out of mainstream support. On top of that, Server 2019 mainstream support has also ended. It will get security fixes for the next five years, but nothing else. He's advising that if you want to continue using Hyper-V, you should use Server 2022 Core with the Hyper-V feature enabled or use Azure Stack HCI. Assuming that you're running Windows guests on the hypervisor, there shouldn't be much if any license implication. None at all if you're using Datacenter.

Just make sure you save the configs on them before you reboot. Dollars to doughnuts, someone has changed something on at least one of them and forgotten to save it.

On the one hand, yes, I suppose that’s true. On the other hand, given the most likely use case for this thing is storing weird documents and maybe the occasional MP3 file and suchlike, the quoted 70MB/sec is likely enough for the majority of people. It’s unlikely someone is going to buy one of these things and instantly put 256GB on it as soon as they get it.

I expect he's using OpenCore or something similar to hack it on there. I looked into it a while ago for my 2010 iMac and decided it wasn't worth the headache

PRTG is good if you have the budget for it, it’s very good value compared to its competitors but that’s not the same thing as being cheap. Zabbix, as already mentioned, is also good but you would have the possible overhead of running a Linux system and/or container to run it on, which you may or may not be familiar with. There are various prebuilt appliances out there based on Nagios too, might be worth looking at.

If memory serves, you can use up to 127 of them in a single cluster before you have to use a controller. They may have upped that by now; I haven’t used them in about three years. As long as they’re all on the same firmware version and all of the APs that you’re running are capable of running that firmware, I don’t foresee any problems.

My first monitor that I owned was an AOC 14” monitor which I ran at 1024x768. It ran at a 60hz refresh rate which, on a CRT, was an entirely different thing to having 60hz on a TFT. In recent the first time I bumped a monitor up to 85hz. That felt good, I can tell you. Anyway, I run a 27” 1440p monitor as my primary and a 24” 1080p as my secondary. I’m tempted to get another 27” but it’s not a high priority right now.

I'm sorry, I've been out of education for the last two and a half years and I honestly don't remember for sure. I think that when we updated to whatever the current version was back then, we could do what we needed but this is three jobs and four years ago now

There have been a few just recently.

They're owned by Mike Ashley and most of the time they seem to be concessions inside Sports Direct stores anyway. I'd say they're most of the way there already.

There's an article on the BBC website about her and her thoughts on the Gruffalo: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clw8p81e3evo Essentially she's saying that she feels that the Gruffalo hogs a bit too much of the attention and that she likes it when people single out her other works and say that they're their favourites instead. Which I can kind of see, to be honest. So with that in mind (and I appreciate this is one for more recent parents and grandparents here!), what would you say your favourite Julia Donaldson book is? I'd say either The Highway Rat or Room on the Broom.

The T610 can be rack converted: https://dl.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-t610_reference%20guide_en-us.pdf Whether you can still get the kit, however, is a different question!

Let's see... 1. Definitely keeping Apple One Dashlane Netflix Disney+ Web hosting 2. Possibly getting cancelled/occasional renewal Amazon Prime, thanks to new ads. We will see. "Enhanced" bank account which includes mobile phone insurance, travel insurance etc 3. Cancelled in 2023 Paramount Plus 4. New Subscriptions in 2023 Ordnance Survey OSMaps app, tracks walks and shows walks other subscribers have done

You're thinking it about it backwards there. Chances are that if the receive connector is the problem, it's expecting mail from your old IP address instead of your new one. The DNS record that your devices is pointing at is besides the point.

It's probably one of the Exchange Receive Connectors, at a guess. Have you checked those? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow/connectors/receive-connectors?view=exchserver-2019

She also appears to have a remarkably long arm and at least eight fingers on one of her hands. Is the book satirical?