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To be honest, I’d just contact Salamander and get them to do it. It’s not especially expensive and what money you spend on it will be made back in time saved. I do, however, have a PowerShell script which creates users in AD from SIMS which predates our Salamander install which I’m willing to share if you’re interested.
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Methinks the man doth protest too much
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Coronavirus: General discussion (see opening post for rules)
Norphy replied to Dos_Box's topic in General Chat
I’m not sure why I’ve been offered the vaccine. I’m not, afaik, in a high risk group. I’m only 40, I don’t have any underlying health conditions like asthma or diabetes and I don’t have cancer or anything like that. The only reason that I can think of are that my partner is high risk, so maybe they’re doing it by household, or possibly it’s my ear condition though I find it hard to imagine why recurring cholesteatoma would factor into that. In any case, I’m not going to argue. If they want to give it to me, I’m going to take it. -
Coronavirus: General discussion (see opening post for rules)
Norphy replied to Dos_Box's topic in General Chat
I’ve been offered the vaccine. I’m not sure why, but I’m not going to say no. -
Things that could have been improved before being approved...
Norphy replied to 6Foot2's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
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I don’t necessarily disagree but there is one possible issue here. We bought the matching .academy and .college gTLDs for our schools and so many people just couldn’t wrap their heads around that you didn’t have to end a website address with .com, .org or one of the older TLDs. In the end we registered a load of .org.uk addresses
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I've seen Netflix original TV series going onto DVD/Bluray (The Crown, House of Cards) so films probably will as well.
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I'd suggest a clay pigeon shooting range, that'd be fun. And immensely satisfying.
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2021 -- what anti virus are you using at home?? - and password manager
Norphy replied to mikeprice's topic in Windows 10
Depends on the password manager and the format that it uses to import/export. Lastpass can export its database to a text file and Dashlane can import it. Dashlane can also import from the major browsers, from 1Password, Roboform, Keepass, PasswordWallet and a custom CSV. I moved from Lastpass when they got bought out by LogMeIn and used Dashlane's import tools to move my password database. Considering LogMeIn's record on security, I didn't trust them any more. -
2021 -- what anti virus are you using at home?? - and password manager
Norphy replied to mikeprice's topic in Windows 10
I use Defender as AV, uBlock as an ad blocker and Dashlane as a password manager -
RGB. All gaming stuff needs RGB. It seems to be the law these days. More RGB means more FPS, apparently. In all seriousness, like so many things in life it's a balancing act. A feature like GSync (Nvidia) or FreeSync (AMD) may be useful, with this the monitor only updates when the graphics card sends a frame. It reduces tearing and helps make things look smoother. High refresh rates (>60hz) are nice if your graphics card can handle it. Panel type is an important consideration. You frequently have to trade colour accuracy and viewing angles for low refresh times. TN screens tend to have very low refresh times but poor colour accuracy and bad viewing angles. IPS panels are usually the other way around. MVA panels tend to be somewhere in the middle, although this isn't quite so pronounced any more. In terms of colour accuracy, a lot of cheaper panels use 6 bit colour panels (262000 colours), as opposed to 8 bit (16.7 million colours) or 10 bit (1.07 billion colours). To make up for this, the cheaper panels usually use dithering to hide the difference. You may or may not care. 10 bit panels are comparatively rare and expensive and probably wouldn't be especially useful outside of design, photography or video work. The last thing to bear in mind is backlight technology. Most panels these days use LED backlights, as opposed to cathodes. They tend to be more uniform and consume less power. There are other also some panels which can "zone" their panels and have different brightness levels for the backlight, making blacks more vivid. This is not the same as an OLED screen, where pixels are made up of tiny LEDs, they're still LCD screens. /edit Oh, and input types as well. PCs seem to be using DisplayPort and USB-C more and more while consoles still use HDMI. You will want to chose a monitor that has both. If you're using your monitor with an HDMI source, you will most likely want to make sure that there is at least an audio passthrough on the monitor otherwise you won't get any sound out of it!
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That's why I buy Dell when I buy servers. They don't insist on a support contract to download firmware updates from their website.
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They tried similar with pollock, calling it Colin for some reason. Langoustines are used in scampi most of the time.
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Probably a bit of both. They're not the most robust looking devices that I've ever seen but they're not that flimsy compared to other devices in their price point either.
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Boden.
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Device Firmware Upgrade mode. It's a state where you can restore a firmware to an Apple device without the thing being entirely booted up. https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/DFU_Mode
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If it's been signed out from iCloud, you should be able to turn it off, put it into DFU mode then do a restore from iTunes or Apple Configurator. If it's an iPad with a home button, do that by turning it off, holding down the home button and plugging it into a computer.
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Weather forecasting in general has gone downhill since the pandemic started. The various weather groups used to get an awful lot of weather data from aeroplanes and flights have reduced massively in the last year. The data that they need for more accurate forecasts just isn’t there at the moment. BBC don’t use the Met office any more either; they use MeteoGroup now.
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More like you learn more about her as the series goes on and find out why she is like she is. I really liked Lower Decks.
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Just to clarify this, Instant clusters can still be monitored with Aruba Central or AirWave if desired, it just sounds like this person has chosen not to.
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(Buckle my) shoe
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We’ve got a bit of a flurry coming down here in leafy Beckenham. No sign of it settling but you never know I guess
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Help forum for remote working!
Norphy replied to synaesthesia's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
I’ve got Virgin Media and I have been using AO-VPN since last March and I can’t say I’ve noticed that issue. That said, I’m not using the routers wireless radios, I have an Aruba InstantOn access point handling that.
