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Free WEEE Collection in South West
LeMarchand replied to EssentialRug's topic in How do you do....it?
It was less than a month ago . Though, thinking about it, I think you're pretty close to me - maybe you have more stuff that may have value! -
Probably nowhere near the quantity of data you need, but ours take a bit over 5 hours to do 4 VMs, total 2.6TB (but only a few GB actually transferred) for the incrementals. Looks like the last time I started from scratch it was closer to 9 hours.
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Full trailer.
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Free WEEE Collection in South West
LeMarchand replied to EssentialRug's topic in How do you do....it?
Depending on what you have, Enviro may not be that keen (we're South Coast). When I contacted them they would have done a collection, but more as a "one off" - possibly as when we get to the WEEE stage it's probably going to run at a loss to them! Shame, as I loved the idea of having a bin/cage. Thanks for the other suggestions as our old "go to" has become a bit unreliable. -
If it's just the logon that's holding things up, have you tried the Sysinternals utility? Not tried it on W11 and I suspect that it just does the reg hack for you, but may be worth a go. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon
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iPad won't go into recovery
LeMarchand replied to jblackburnHWGA's topic in Mobile Devices & Tablets
Haven't got any Macs (yay!), but I have found it sometimes takes a few goes to get them into recovery. I normally: Open iTunes on my PC Turn off the iPad Plug one end of the cable into the PC Hold down home and plug the other into the pad Follow the on-screen iTunes prompts, going for "Update and restore" if offered If everything goes through but the pad hangs on the "plug me into the PC" screen for more than a couple of minutes, quickly unplug/plug the connecting cable at the iPad end Wait and pray Sacrifice a child to the ghost of Steve Jobs Normally the iPad will restart and start to update/restore. Teachers can be substituted at stage 8 but their souls have already become corrupted, so you'll need more of them -
Yep, the ending of TLOU is pretty devastating (game and show are pretty similar). Those that have played the sequel: Can't find a pic of the farmhouse at the beginning of the episode to check, but was it very similar to the one in the second game?
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Finished The Last of Us last night - a very impressive adaptation on the whole. I did feel that we needed to see more of The Infected, though; obviously not to the "game" extent of having to shoot/stab or run every few minutes but, apart from the "eruption", they seemed a bit scarce. Loved that they got some of the voice actors to play (mainly) different parts.
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Have used Monkeyjam but now it's Stop Motion Studio, cuz iPads R kewl.
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As no-one has answered, I've never been able to get taskbars or Start Menu XMLs working since W8 (it's on the "look at when I get time" list). I can manually pin in W11 22H2, but it sounds like you mean set the pinned items by GPO.
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Congratulations to EEAAO; 7 out of 11 is pretty good going. More excited that RRR is now an Oscar-winner as this will hopefully mean production on the sequel will be ramped up. You knew it was coming!
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Decided we needed a "day of rest" yesterday and saw two films. What's Love Got To Do With It? (Cinema) Don't worry! I've not suddenly got into Tina Turner. Documentary maker Lily James is surprised to learn that her next-door neighbour/childhood friend Shazad "Clem Fandango" Latif is going to have an assisted marriage and decides to make his quest the subject of her next film. No prizes for guessing what happens. This starts off as a very Richard Curtissy romcom (everyone has impossibly gorgeous houses) but doesn't follow the exact formula. It's sweet and funny and surprisingly moving in parts. I do feel that a bit more weight should have been given to "assisted" relationships that worked, though. If the writer and the director weren't of Asian descent it would have felt slightly racist. We were the only people in the screen without grey hair for some reason. Bahubali 2: The Conclusion (Netflix) We stayed in the same region-ish for our evening viewing. More OTT than the first part including a flying ship, that may have been symbolic, and an assault on a city where the heroes catapult themselves over the walls using palm trees and hook up mid-air to form a kind of barrel with their shields, this didn't entertain us as much as the first. However this may have been because we saw the first a while back and were totally on the wrong page from the start of the film: What we thought was a continuation from the end of the first film was (mainly) a jump back to the past featured towards the end of it. We should have known as evil moustache guy had a grey 'tache in the "present day". I blame it on the same actor playing Dad and Son and both of them having the same character name. Plus Bahubali Snr's power-hungry Mum looks a bit like his paramour (amongst other Oedipal bits). We did wonder why what we thought was the rescued-from-a-cage lady had gone so evil and where the rebel lady from the first film had gone. The last quarter reverts to "present day" and lives up to the subtitle - or did until Bahubali 3 comes along. Anyway, only for fans of the first and even then, make sure you remember it before you watch this one!
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Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.
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Things that could have been improved before being approved...
LeMarchand replied to 6Foot2's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
"FALLOUT remover"* have I slept through the apocalypse, or did it happen years ago and Prince was trying to warn us? *Apparently it's for airborne iron contaminants and the like -
AFAIK you need an MDM to do that list. Not done the folder bit, but the free version of Mosyle will definitely do the rest. Ours just press the "Home" button and they're in. Mosyle set it up for us, but I could look at how they set it up. You need to sign into ASM and check if the pads are in there (they should be) and then assign them to Mosyle if that isn't already where they are in the first place. If you're not a follower of "The Apple Way" prepare for more pain than if THRUSH attacked Del Floria's.
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So you wouldn't help if SLT were asking about someone broadcasting an SSID along the lines of "KillAll:censored:s" or "BurnAllEVdriversAtTheStake"?
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That definitely works (we use it to hide the Guest Network to discourage users trying to swap to it) but I imagine the OP doesn't want pupils seeing the offensive SSID on their phones.
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Can't see an obvious way to check if paid for as I was only given access when I pointed out that I could try to diagnose any problems if I couldn't even sign in! However, this seems to suggest that they shouldn't be logging in the way they are as they have shared devices: Now I need to find out who set it up! Slowly getting somewhere - thanks for the pointers, folks.
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Cost of living crisis 2022 - what have you cut back on?
LeMarchand replied to Ditto's topic in General Chat
Not if you have a meter. -
Didn't they change the scale in 2021? Stuff that would have been classed "A" is now "F" or "G".
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Cheers. It's looking like that if I'm going to get to the bottom of this I may... have to... gointoaclass .
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Hmmmm... if I haven't got the wrong end of the stick, it sounds as if it could be that multiple uses of the same code could be causing a log jam/time out - so the first few peeps might be OK, and then the rest are out of luck? Update: This seems to suggest one code for multiple users is OK - https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/203495019-Student-sign-in-modes. Though I guess they could be using someone else's name after that stage.
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Just had yet another one wanting to review my life insurance. They were floored when I told them my current premium was £500/month as I'd just married a beautiful young woman (I can't believe she agreed to marry an old duffer like me!) and that she had told me that it was very important that we make sure that the other will be provided for should we pass on.
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When your eyesight is as bad as mine, you need as much full screen as possible!
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[tv show] Wolf/Mo Hayder's "Jack Caffery" Coming to the BBC
LeMarchand posted a topic in TV & Movies
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/wolf-first-look-bbc-exclusive-newsupdate/ I read a print article about this singing the praises of the "incredible, original" script - it's an adaptation! I've read the first four of the books and some of the author's other work and this could be good, judging by the cast, but as this is the last novel in a series of seven it seems an odd place to start. I wonder if there are rights problems as books 2 and 3 have been filmed (Belgian productions?) and the first book, "Birdman" was optioned probably before publication date - still can't believe that has never hit the screen. Not the same as the Michael Keaton film!
