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It might be helpful if you told us what Hector the Dolphin does for you?

If the kids have got smartphones, it might be worth pointing them to something like this: https://www.kinoni.com/

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/margaret-ferrier-hung-dry-scripted-092138500.html Oh my heart bleeds. Not. I just think it's a shame that the Recall of MPs Act 2015 doesn't apply here.

Playing devils advocate: Better: Definitely. More viewers: Possibly not Despite the success of Game of Thrones, LOTR and hell, Harry Potter, Fantasy is still a genre which has connotations which aren't necessarily positive and may be off-putting to a more mainstream primetime audience. That's probably why they've used this quasi-modern setting. I still don't like the trailer. I take mavhc's point about not pre-judging a series on a flashy 2 minute teaser but as someone else said, a teaser is supposed to draw you in. This has just made me sad about what could have been. This could have been so good if they'd done what they did with Good Omens and stuck with the source material a bit more. That said, Sky did stick with the source material pretty well with their adaptations but they were still pretty dire. I still think that the Cosgrove Hall animations of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music are the best adaptations of the Discworld that I've seen and I don't think that this new series is going to change my opinion on that. I think another huge problem with Colour of Magic's adaptation was David Jason. He was not the right person to be playing Rincewind and it felt to me that it was four hours of him going "wurrrrgh". Plus they crammed both Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic into the thing, which didn't help either.

Dear BBC. I said don't mess this up. Don't. That looks awful. If you and Amazon can do Good Omens so well, how and why have you ballsed this one up so badly? FFS. Yours disappointedly, Most Discworld fans (probably)

It's dependant on the device manufacturer, sadly.

As already said, Azure AD essentially is a giant ADFS in the sky. It supports SAML, SSO etc. If you're getting rid of your local AD, you don't need to worry about passthrough authentication or passhash synchronisation as all of your Azure AD accounts will be cloud managed. We're using Azure AD as a federated authentication service for various things. The ones that immediately come to mind are: Adobe Pluralsight FreshService Google Apps I'm pretty sure there are more.

Android updates policies are, at best, poor compared to iOS updates. A brand new Android device running the latest OS out of the box is lucky to get three years, whereas iOS devices have been getting five, sometimes six years. Android 9 is already two versions out of date, so buying a new device with that version of Android is only going to get security updates, if you're lucky. This isn't really Google's fault, it's more on the phone manufacturers for not keeping devices up to date and for companies like Qualcomm for not keeping driver support going for more than a couple of years. It's why Google have been separating out core apps from the rest of the operating system more than Apple have. As an aside, I do think it's somewhat rich that some Android fans make fun of iPhone users, thinking that they always update to the latest Shiny Shiny as soon as it comes out. Sure, some do but the reality is that a significant proportion of smartphone users keep their devices for three years or more. As least as an iPhone user, it's safer for me to do that whereas if you want to keep an up to date and supported version of Android going on a phone, you're forced to update at least every three years, if not more.

For that, I’ll do it in FoxPro. Maybe with a FileMaker frontend, just for the lols

Windows- Broken

Aruba Instants are good as well.

It’s always a risk that you’ll brick the machine but in my experience, the risk is pretty small. In 20 years odd of doing jobs like this, in think I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of machines that I’ve killed by flashing its bios. I think that yes, it is important to keep the BIOS/EFI/ Firmware on a machine up to date these days. Everything is interconnected and people are finding security flaws in the oddest of places. Look at Intel’s record with their management engine just recently and the only way you can patch that thing is by flashing the machine’s BIOS. It’s another reason why I prefer to stick with Tier 1 manufactures for computers, their central management tools for BIOS and drivers tend to be better. Dell’s SupportAssist, for example, is very useful.

Not a damned IT error then, is it? It's ":censored:wit using the wrong tool for the job" error. Seriously? Tracking potentially millions of infections across a country of more than 65,000,000 people and they're using Excel???? Dollars to doughnuts, it's a old version of 32 bit Excel at that...

Depends on the service it's running I suppose. Something like this could replace the diesel trains on a lot of suburban routes in places like Birmingham or anywhere that's not electrified. It's clearly not an intercity train but I doubt that metropolitan trains go much faster than 50mph on a good day.

I went shopping yesterday for my weekly shop. Most people were wearing masks but people still seem to have forgotten there's a pandemic on. The amount of people just rifling through produce and touching everything was insane.

If you're using 443, it will be an SSTP VPN. IKEv2 will need UDP 4500 and 500.

Are you using a radius server to authenticate your VPN users? If so, is it set to accept password authentication or is it set to just accept certificates?

Onward, on Disney+. Another Pixar film which turns on the feels, especially towards the end. Doesn’t quite have the emotional gut punch of the beginning of Up but it’s not far off. All in all, I enjoyed it.

Hmm. Looks interesting. Hopefully they don’t tack a happy ending onto it like they did with the last film.

Mine came as well. I got them in red, they’re very bright! You should do face coverings as well!

Doesn't always work, depending on the size of the drive. A lot of USB hard drives also don't have SATA to USB bridges any more, the USB port is built directly into the drive. But even so, it's still worth a go.

It's possible that the more expensive ones might be provided with a better power supply or might come with a better warranty or support but it's likely the actual hardware/circuitry is going to be much the same. I haven't bought one of those in at least five years so I can't provide a specific recommendation I'm afraid. From recent experience though, Ugreen and Anker tend to be the better Chinese brands for this sort of thing on Amazon.

Something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/TeckNet-Docking-Station-Tool-Free-Installation/dp/B00IS7Y96I/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=usb+drive+dock&qid=1601630455&sr=8-5 I've used things that look very much like that in the past. I expect that they all come out of the same Chinese factory so the branding on them is really pretty irrelevant.

Multi story car park? Would that be classed as inside? Lot of grey lines there.

The reasons to move away from Macs are many and legion but honestly, unless you’re planning to run a different OS on them, I think the impending CPU architecture change is somewhere towards the bottom of the list and Nvidia taking over ARM is even lower than that. This will be the fourth time that Apple have changed the CPU architecture on the Mac. The PPC > Intel changeover went almost flawlessly and I expect things will be smoother still this time around because of Apple’s newer developer tools and languages. It’s likely that all of Apple’s major apps will have ARM versions released on day 1 and apps from the major vendors (MS, Adobe) won’t be far behind. Store apps should be relatively swift to follow and Big Sur will be able to run iOS apps. Even when there isn’t a native ARM version available, there will be an x86-64 execution layer to run older apps on them until they’re updated. ARM’s upcoming takeover by Nvidia is even less of a concern; Apple don’t use ARM reference designs for their SOCs, they don’t use Nvidia graphics and they have a perpetual license for the instruction set that Nvidia won’t be able to revoke. They are bringing GPU and modem design in house. Even if Nvidia do stop them from using future versions of the ARM instruction set, I doubt that will concern Apple too much as they’ve got very talented CPU engineers on their team, as evidenced by how far iPhones are ahead in raw CPU performance than Qualcomm, Samsung and Mediatek powered phones. The fact that Apple are marketing the new CPUs as “Apple Silicon” as opposed to ARM is very telling.