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Its no cheaper abroad...apart from the wine. 10 days in a caravan at Lake Garda in July/August this year £2300 without flights

Hop on a train and go up to Alnmouth in Northumberland. Takes 3:30 hours but to be fair it'll take you that long to get out of London. Fantastic Northumberland beaches IMHO, great food, hotels and pubs at North East prices.

The education support grant given to LAs to support schools is also being slashed 75%+. This means all the LA school support workers will be made redundant and schools will be forced to pay market rates to private organisations for these services. What cost a child clinical psychologist or Education Welfare officer? Then there's the little problem of who will do admissions, currently supplied by the LA and funded by the ESG. Anyone fancy doing that chore every year?

AC Cobra for the weekends and Renault 5 Turbo2 for weekdays

55 schools backed up via WAN to a SAN using Backup Assist and another 10 using Backup Exec to tape.

I'd rather have a physical 2nd DC rather than another DC on the same HyperV host otherwise its still all the eggs in one basket. The 2nd DC doesn't have to be big, any old PC or server will do, you just want something to have a copy of the schema, GPOs, DNS etc, just in case.

You might want to have a look at what's coming in the next OS upgrade. It seems finally that Apple recognise that iPads really aren't good in a multi user environment. Education - Preview - Apple

Hi We've setup Smoothwall Express 3.1 as transparent web proxy for IPads but SSL traffic is not getting through (I know why). There is an add on which will allow this to be circumvented. Has anyone done this is yet and if you have where did you get the add on? cheers

We ended up with dozens of schools with this problem. Sorted very quickly by adding a new group policy with a script to uninstall the KB in startup and shutdown. Any PCs that had the problem were just warm booted and the GP did the rest.

It may be worth talking to a nearby/feeder secondary to see if they have spare kit. I see a lot of kit cascaded down from secs to prims to help them out.

Ha..60 schools to look after so the busiest 6 weeks of the year..

Wake up Shower, shave, s**t Get dressed travel to work pickup bacon sarnie and apple juice on the way at desk...30 minutes total

Amazon firestick and then you can also put KODI/XBMC on it... http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_on_Fire_TV

the first race was ...well, a bit boring to be honest. If there's no major changes this is going to be a very poor season. On a different tack I 've been watching the Formula E on ITV4 and last weeks race at Miami was spectacular. Nail biting stuff from start to finish.

Never had that problem with any installation. Is the server a standard build?