PiqueABoo

I was just looking and thought that.. whether it's domain or universal local admin credentials, commercial s/w or a free lunch, the answer is always: yes.

Might be wrong but I believe the network NIC can be used for the heartbeat, but it's not something anyone would do in a serious failover system (where you can easily end up using 8 NICs).

That's what I used to say before I became one... ...now I blame it on what they pick up from other kids at school.

You (or at least I) get that feature Management Studio Express, however you can go get ExpressMaint and use it in a simple scheduled task to create/trim-to-last-n backups/recreate indexes etc... it's a very, very handy little app. Or if a DB doesn't have to run 24/7 shut it down as a backup job pre-backup command and start it up again as a post-backup command.

I once got away with: Alice, Bob, Chastity, Des, Eve,.. Mini-challenge: One of them is the odd one out (from an Evelyn Waugh novel I'd recently read)

? Different automation but I did SQL pre-reqs as "Phase 1" a while back and didn't need a reboot for powershell1 (required for Management Studio) or dotNet 3.5SP1, just MSI4.5. [Phase 2 is SQL 2008 Express w. Tools and SP1. Phase 3 is running the Capita migration util etc.]

There was a proper study/survey in 2008 (can't find it now) which IIRC said the *average* male teacher get 10% more salary in Independent sector, average female teacher gets 10% less. Both of course tend to get nicer working conditions, smaller classes, less troublesome kids and so on. The bit that's yet to be tested is how popular it might be e.g. Gove's claim to be 'freeing' schools is a cloak for more control from the centre.

.. ..according to some study of students in the US at least, but I'm not so sure you'll get a razor blade between here and there these days. Apparently empathy levels (college students) have dropped 40% in the last decade or two (and tech might be partly to blame): "Many people see the current group of college students – sometimes called 'Generation Me' – as one of the most self-centered, narcissistic, competitive, confident and individualistic in recent history,"

::formerly oblivious gosh:: Sprogette in KS1 is temporarily thrilled when she gets some house points for "sitting nicely" or whatever, but I sincerely hope she'll have grown out of that by the end of KS2. Why oh why would a supposed adult care about some cumulative rep number?!? I couldn't care less about anyone's rep on some forum, or for that matter anyone's reputation anywhere for anything e.g. whether Joe Bloggs is a "world expert" on Whatever[tm]. Either the stuff I'm reading *right now* is correct, compelling, helpful, interesting to me... or it isn't.. and if I see someone repeatedly asserting sense or nonsense I'll form an opinion of them all by myself based on that. "Thanks" does kind of work in the same way as slashdot in that it's vaguely civilised and makes it easier to spot the more worthwhile stuff in a lengthy thread, but the point collecting just seems a bit juvenile. I think reps are perhaps a bit misplaced on a forum that apparently aspires to be grown up and professional, but yes it's not mine, so whatever to that choice and I'll now go back to ignoring those bits of the screen.

Ender's Game is excellent , Speaker for the Dead is pretty good... not thrilled by some of the stuff since but do you know about the relatively recent, bit more on form, Ender in Exile which sits in the gap between the two? And talking of.. have just finished Drood by Dan Simmons who I suspect may be a bit of an acquired taste i.e. they're usually grounded in, so it probably helps if you've read quite a few classics. For Drood it's Dickens and Wilkie Collins (<= I liked his most famous novels), for Ilium (not fabulous, more one for fans) it was Homer, the Hyperion "Cantos" was Keats (<=you easily get by without that). In recent years I've struggled to find much from this genre that I've wanted to read, well besides the fairly obvious anything by Iain M Banks and Alistair Reynolds.

This was salesdroids right? As in what do they ever know? I'm still a bit gobsmacked, but suspect the reality is that when plucked out of the RM package structure most of their CC MSIs are perfectly usable on a vanilla. It's only going to be a factor where there's some server-side component surely?

I'm not convinced I could get 90 desktops streaming iPlayer without a multi-GB link as the worst bottleneck. Could some of those various people stand up and be counted i.e. tell us exactly what they managed with one (presumably multi-attenna-channel-probably-band GB) AP.

Private Eye today: 'The same little piggies who fed hungrily during Labour's spending splurge are now eagerly sniffing around the trough in what could paradoxically be an equally rewarding "age of austerity". With this week's £6bn in cuts just a starter, Britain's outsourcers are trying to give the impression that taxpayers will be spared the cost of running public services if they are handed over to them. (In fact the services usually end up costing more and getting worse)...'

Wasn't the Great Plan that we would be a world leader in a) Financial stuff, b) IT? Finance speaks for itself. The IT bit was always a complete crock given India and the like ... and everyone said so but did they listen...!! An assertion: The reason good private sector folk don't like working in public sector is less about the money (especially if you get one of those £200K+!!!! jobs), it's the rubbish [bleeping] Kafka-esque system they can't stand.

As a boy, the one I curiously cut open with the obligatory dodgy swiss army knife was more like a booby-trapped explosive nest of elastic band stuff. Not something I was minded to do ever again.

No hype whatsoever in that article then..... On one hand I've done much more security stuff and in much more depth than most folk, but either I'm a lot better at it than I give myself credit for or they've seriouly overcooked the "elite" angle. Conficker just wasn't/isn't that thrilling for me. Woopee-doo.. it used an MD6 reference algorithm, turned off WU and so on and so forth.. so [bleepin] what?

I'd certainly try that - one way or another it should settle your (plausible) AD binding & replication theory.

Just looked at the stuff you're talking about because it might be useful one day. There's a manual you can read which says this about New-QADUser: The cmdlet has optional parameters that determine the server and the security context for the operation. The connection parameters could be omitted since a connection to a server is normally established prior to using this cmdlet. In this case, the server and the security context are determined by the Connect-QADService ..

That (earlier more loved version) was pretty much what you ended up with to run your own DNS etc. when you got a business Internet link in the days when it was mostly Pipex for business and Demon for home. Found the Internet guide Pipex give you the other week, inside which was a copy of usage agreement we had to fill out for NSFnet in order to access a significant portion of the Internet.

Got out of bed.

Paper tape is more than 10 years surely, but I've got a souvenir strip in one of those little plastic cases you kept it in. Roughly around 2000 it was.. ..finally getting rid of peripheral cards where a firmware upgrade meant blowing a new EEPROM and swapping it in e.g. early Adaptec SCSI.. and all the cables etc. that went with the initial SCSI generation ..and of course those similarly big/clunky Centronics printer cables. ..I had a DOS machine in the corner for occasionally still useful "this and that" (it had required a Y2K patch though) ..word processors were pretty much the same as they are now ..ditto for Windows but I was seven years into Windows NT family, we didn't do that 9x tat. ..VMWare was a fun new toy ..so were disk based MP3 player/recorders. ..you could no longer fit a reasonably full Usenet feed down a 56Kbps link coz of the recent increases in MP3s and porn volumes (videos were taking off). ..schools, specifically their students (or at least that's who they blamed when you tracked them down) were becoming a significant pain on the net forum I used to babysit. CRTs as noted and I suppose home net bandwidth got much cheaper/faster (I had "free for life" dial-up then which then got charged for!) but I don't think that much has changed in the last decade.

Think I'll depart from this thread with a rant: Reflecting on all this, amongst other things I think there's probably a correlation with age and risk perception e.g. the first time I went to Berlin it was to visit a friend, who was a Russian defector's daughter and thus could ever only fly in/out if she didn't want to be (at best) "involuntarily repatriated", and people still got shot sometimes when trying to climb over that wall. So the wall came down and by-and-by with a massive amount of irony, countries like this one have managed to implement the kind of apparatus to make the GDR and ther ilk look like hopeless wanabees. We pretty much topped the state surveillance league last time they made one, second only to Russia, China and Malaysia. That is not something anyone in this country should be remotely content with. Assurances that there are checks and balances and we're all decent Brits who would never ever abuse this stuff are not enough - history has demonstrated over and over that pretty much anything that exists inevitably gets abused. So it's better to avoid this stuff in the first place wherever possible, but there some of you are justifying it with smokescreen threat-models and exaggerated claims of convenience. That so many schools are apparently so arrogant, or more likely so pig-ignorant, to march straight past the huge ethical difficulties and sensitivities here clutching light-weight fluff about the threats, and points and numbers which doubtless came straight off some vendor's glossy promotional leaflet, is appalling. With yet more massive irony, at the same time as you're blathering on about e-safety you're smugly conditioning our kids to surrender their privacy to technology for very trivial reasons => **FAIL** Right now if I were a fingerprinting school I'd consider doing some proper homework, because if this actually does hit the legislative list with any bite left it will then become much more 'topical' and I suspect you'll really going to need to know what you're talking about.

Do we need that? Assume I'm a minion from the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit of the Great and Tranformational Leader for the Glorious Progressive 21st Century Future and I have a spray paint can with a fingerprint on it that was used by some treacherous vermin to scribble a disloyal message on some back-alley wall. Surely all I have to do is feed that fingerprint into the same algortihms used by any of those systems, and check whether the "number" I get out matches any of the "numbers" in your database (you were all obliged to hand those over to the State BTW). This is exagerrated ... although next to some real times/places not that much ... but it's to illustrate a fundamental principle that apparently hasn't been taught or at least sunk in for quite a while: It's all very well people now saying "oh no we won't do X, Y and Z" with this data, but the **only** way to ensure it it not seriously abused by some differently minded people in future is not to collect it in the first place. Exhibit A is RIPA: We had people saying "yes it does permit that, but we're nice and won't do X, Y and Z .. it's just for terrorists and really scary people" and then we got some dipstick council using it to follow parents around re. their kids entitlement to a place at a school.

Between the EU and Sir Humphrey what these reviews, safeguards, regulation etc. will actually amount to is anyone's guess but I was stilll very delighted to read this bit: The new coalition Government has set out a programme "to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion". Many of the measures proposed will impact the way Britain is policed: - A Freedom or Great Repeal Bill. - The scrapping of ID card scheme, the National Identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database. - Outlawing the finger-printing of children at school without parental permission. - The extension of the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency. - Adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database. - The protection of historic freedoms through the defence of trial by jury. - The restoration of rights to non-violent protest. - The review of libel laws to protect freedom of speech. - Safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation. - Further regulation of CCTV. - Ending of storage of internet and email records without good reason. - A new mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences

The idea of virtual curriculum + virtual SIMS on one decent Primary server is growing on me. DR isn't the only benefit - if you keep SIMS in a separate VM then a) it's not going to get thoroughly trashed by any dodgy curriculum server side applications, printer drivers or whatever, b) You can, if you wish, give it independent stricter security than might be necessary or desirable the curriculum side of things.