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The salary for a MP who doesn't hold any ministerial office is a little over £84k. Yes, it's a good salary but considering the amount of responsibility they take on plus the hours most of them work and other factors I don't think it's unreasonable. There are plenty of public sector workers who earn similar amounts of money, if not more, including headteachers, senior doctors and about 10,000 civil servants. Are you planning on cutting their wages as well?

Unfortunately, I didn't get pictures as I was driving but today on the way back from dropping my son off at school, I saw two things: The first was, after almost 15 years of visiting the area and a year of actually living here, a red squirrel. It's the first time I've seen one, it was really nice to see. The other was an eagle of some description landing on a gatepost. It looked to me like a golden eagle, it was about the right shape and colour and it had yellow feet. Really wish I could have stopped and got a picture.

It’s all relative. A traditional satellite service has latency of 700ms at a minimum. I had the misfortune of using a satellite provider when I moved up to Scotland, I never saw latency less than 800ms and it wasn’t unusual to see 1.5s latency. Plus speeds fell off a cliff in the evenings. The 40ms Starlink claim is nothing, not far off cellular broadband.

To be honest, I think Advanced have got bigger fish to fry. They have massive NHS contracts, for one.

£16m for all of that? That seems incredibly low.

You could just go with Jasper Carrott's suggestion and call it Lollipop

Getting rid of an Aerohive system ranks second on my list of good moves in my last education job, not far behind getting rid of CC4. I hated that system, it was utter garbage. IMO.

Eventually, the sun will go supernova. Want to place bets which will happen first?

Kind of disappointed there isn’t a Mr Men character called Mr. Private. Probably only a matter of time though.

Atari of some sort?

Dymo labeller?

For all of its faults (and by Jiminy, there are many, many faults with the thing), Community Connect is a somewhat unique piece of software and you're unlikely to find one piece of software which replaces all of its functionality. I think the first thing that's important to emphasise is that at its heart, CC4 is not a piece of server management technology. It's a middleware layer which is designed to manage endpoint computers and other endpoint functions. For example, it: Deploys software Deploys operating systems Deploys updates Deploys printer queues Manages/monitors classrooms (i.e. RM Tutor) Manages file shares and quotas Can transfer files between servers Creates users in bulk Manage anti-virus, if you buy the right AV software I've almost certainly missed some of its functionality there, but I'm sure you get the idea. There's really no tool that takes all of that into one product, or if there is it probably shares similar problems with CC4 in that it doesn't do any of them particularly well. The opportunity here is to find the best of breed or best value pieces of software to perform those functions, to move away from the bizarre and often outdated way that RM seemed to do things with CC4 (i.e. Primary Site servers, stuffing all functionality onto a single host, that kind of thing), or to evaluate whether you want to investigate new ways of doing these things altogether. For example: MECM or Intune to manage software deployment, operating system deployment and update deployment Standard Windows tools to manage file shares and quotas, or moving to Office 365 or Google Apps for file storage Papercut for printer management and Follow You printing queues NetSupport Cloud or Senso for Classroom management Salamander or similar tool to automate creation of users from your MIS Practically any other antivirus tool out there The drawback is that you're going to lose your single pane of glass to manage all of these disparate pieces of functionality. The upside is that chances are that you're going to use more industry standard bits of tech which you won't be beholden to a specific company for, so you'll be able to go out to market and find any support company to support them or bring support in house more easily as there will be more people with experience with the technology you're using.

There is no technical reason for a UAC elevation prompt to be disabled for standard users on an RM CC4 machine. The last trust that I worked for used CC4 until the techs and I ripped the damn thing out and put something more industry standard in there, and we allowed elevation prompts. As you say, it made life easier for everyone. Elevation prompts are allowed by default with a standard user, and this must have been deliberately disabled. However, just because there is no technical reason, that doesn't mean that the policy isn't there for another reason although I damned if I can see what it is. It's most likely that it's a case of "This is how things have always been done, therefore it's how things will always be done as well".

You need something like Airserver. You can set a password on Airserver itself and when you enable Airplay on the iDevice it asks for the password. This does depend on the iPad being on the same network as the computer though, so if the iPad and computer are on different network segments, you'll have to put in some kind of mDNS forwarding system in. Most commercial wifi systems have that these days.

"Sensible" seems a bit harsh, but it's certainly logical that a business like that will be first in line to fail if people are having to get food from food banks.

For a belt and braces approach, you can disable QUIC in the browser with a GPO with Chrome and Edge as well

Yeah, I think that's the model I remember. I don't know that we got them from RM (May have been Stone) but yes, managing them was as awful as having to use them. Also do not recommend. SHI visible on that. Some kind of Mitsubishi desktop?

It looks familiar, a ruggedised netbook with an Atom CPU in there. I'm pretty sure the college I was working for had a load of them and they were shockingly bad but I can't remember its name.

Is that one of those Classmate swivel tablets?

PRTG is very good, but not free.

You need to set up a service principal in Azure AD, attach a certificate to it and use that certificate to authenticate with Exchange Online. You also need the new EXO Exchange Online PowerShell module (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExchangeOnlineManagement/3.0.0) Full details here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/app-only-auth-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps

Indeedily doodily. Odd machine really, essentially an Amiga 1200 with an integrated CD ROM drive

God damn it. Yeah, that was probably wise. The whole thing was bizarre really

OK, try this: That's more of it. From the early 90s, relatively obscure.