PiqueABoo

Uhh? Am I missing something about 21st Century Public Finances i.e. is that seriously what they're bidding for (as opposed to whatever it costs for a handful of schools in Stevenage)?

I think folk who can't make roaming work (it does have some advantages) aren't doing it right ;b Yeah, if you're letting them install random on those laptops you've got to do it that way. -- I tend to worry more about "cold-boot > logon-ASAP > working-desktop" times. Have quite a lot of GPOs and some work to do at startup - can do that on a few years old (not flash at the time) box in around 150 secs. The logon part which has it's fair share of user policies and roaming profiles is something like 20 - 30 secs. Note I've excluded various profile folders from roaming and also use folder redirection for my docs, favourites, app data etc. It's worth adding that AV can have a very significant effect on boot/logon times.

This is research for a PhD so calling them a "researcher" isn't wrong. -- Basically I think it's fine to question things like CCTV levels and usage in schools, same as anything else done with public money for apparent public good ... maybe the answer will be "Don't panic, it's all OK", but a little scrutiny every now and again helps keep things on the straight and narrow. [No I don't trust some schools to get it right all by themselves]

Not that I've watched either zillions of time, but it depends on my mood - they're both pretty good in their respective genres. I guess Aliens is generally easier to be entertained by. Hadn't heard about the Alien prequel - went looking and ran straight into irritating nerdish pedants blathering on about whether it was or wasn't possible to do X, Y and Z and not violate canonicity and so on.. I just don't get it.. as in does it really matter. [see also: Any Dr Who Forum]. Back on topic, Predator never struck me as anything to write home about.

::blinks confusedly:: You mean best in term of prettiest in high def? Or ::shudder:: the best one?

Uh huh - and some of them are a crock including this one, which has the dubious honour of making Reading Tree look really engaging. I've never noticed that kids are quite so programmable. Sprogette is Y2 and past that level of book, but certainly would have got bored in the window when it might have fit (what happened when she randomly picked up one just like that on divorce or something). Charlie & Lola it ain't. And another thing: I don't think they're particularly bothered about what is or isn't "normal" at that age e.g. we haven't had a single comment yet about the lesbian couple + daughter directly across the road.

They've got t'other half, sprogette and me with her freshly destabilized bike walking down the street on the way to somewhere spacious/soft (she figured it out). Currently trying to decide what the facial blurring actually achieves.

What about mono? Not that I've ever looked at it.. According to whom? There is no "industry standard" unless you've got some specific industrial corner in mind. It was certainly quite common, a lot of software houses invested in lot of C++ library code, and dotNet free C++ (or C) is pretty much essential in some dev areas. But I just looked at a jobs site, here are the results: C# : 2898 C++: 1563 C# wins.

I always say C# these days (and that Sharp Kids thing is good).. the syntax works in lots of other languages and most of the effort in making useful code is dealing with the library function calls - the language itself is not that hard unless you have interesting difficulties with the case-sensitivity. A C-type gives you lots of grounding to go play with lots of other languages later, I've always thought VB kind of boxes you in. PS whoeveritwas 1: I'm very experienced and do not like VB - experience isn't a factor. PSS whoeveritwas 2: ASP is not a VBScript thing, all mine pretty much since ASP arrived in the world have been written in (c-type) JScript.

Issue to accomodate: Not all (unanswered) posts are questions.

I expect that might effectively just wipe out the performance increase you get from the AF drives i.e. you will be where you would be without the performance increase of AF? I did read a review with benchmarks somewhere a while back that reckoned the performance was the same on a WD(?) AF drive with their XP 512 byte compatibility jumper in place. Sloppy reporting. All in all I think the correct response is probably ::shrug::

Yes, however according to both common sense and a bunch of apparently reputable sources children who need help crossing roads are not the demographic facing the kind of risks involved in the story you linked. The argument used to explain that is that little kids don't get to go off places by themselves like teenagers do (or if they do then surely there's a risk of trouble in a 1001 other, net-free ways?). That aside I completely accept the point about the ignorance, naive trust of anything (not least socially networking people) on the net and so on, and yes addressing that is certainly worthwhile. But what niggles me about e-safety is context for any given part as above, and perspective: Reality AIUI (I'm open to correction) suggests, there might be more harm-prevention mileage if parents were more savvy about the risks to their children from people close to home. Then again I'm not sure how you'd go about encouraging that and whether it might cause more trouble of one sort or another.. perhaps the stranger-danger angle is as close as you can get.

Nope. I'll just add CC3 vs. CC4 vs. Vanilla won't make a difference... Exchange is Exchange on all of them (except on CC3 you might have bought the RMMC integration to create mailbox when you add users there, but that's not really relevant).

I'm going to call on that one too. How so? I get around a bit and I've yet to see anyone's cheap unmanaged wireless system work ok with > 10 Windows domain clients per AP.

Mmm.. I do JS scripts (ultimately no difference), tried this with essentially the same WMI above and reached the same conclusion for a restart i.e. using an identical reverted to snapshot test VM sometimes it just didn't happen for no obvious reason. Psshutdown annoyed me for 10 minutes coz once again again I forgot the accepteula switch, so I stroppily ended up making a very little unmanaged C++ app to make the system call (same parameters, so must be the one WMI hits) - and it has worked every time. It's a mystery, best I could think of is that maybe WMI hadn't quite got going when I called it in the script which was firing during startup. It wasn't a factor in my tests, but WMI is also one of those areas that can get trashed in a large variety of interesting ways.

Didn't know that existed.. 2010 is still on the to-do list i.e. when everyone else has finished finding the initial bugs. But, the problem is I really want the people who can't manage their mailboxes to get their mountains of old crap out of Exchange - the idea of it being a second mailbox, especially another one that they'll also end up searching (which always used to be and probably still is just a bit of a performance hit) isn't that appealing. MS might want you to keep adding extra Exchange boxes to handle this, but budgets can have other ideas.

[it's too late for a batch file because the D: drive is running isn't it?] A system state backup normally only takes a few minutes. If you can't just do that afterwards then I'd schedule the system state backup for a time you think will be very safely after the D: drive backup has finished with a little (command line) AT job

T'other half is a conscientious good primary teacher.. 12 hours is not unusual (I see it happening, it's real damnit!).. and because they mess around with the curriculum nearly every year, there is not nearly as much mileage in reusing last year's planning as you might expect (assuming you're even teaching the same year).

..which might be (by default) offline cached, but IIRC PSTs are excluded from that default caching(?) This sounds like fun.

Uh huh .. and AFAICT they can do some incredible magic shrinking tricks when they run up against quotas. The difficulty for me: Even when you assume there's an Exchange, you still really need the archiving to a PST bit to get around lots of people's inability to spring clean their mailboxes.

Anyone looked at these in detail and know what they're talking about? Or have you ever encountered a succinct, definitive take on this? Looking at a bunch of servers, on many it's using ~130,000 clusters[1] which is around the 512MB I've seen cited as the default for the maximum size. But looking at some others its apparently using ~1,000,000 clusters which is around 4GB although I'm not yet sure I believe that... does the default size get bigger subject to volume size e.g. if it's say 30GB, you get a bigger journal? In both examples these are single DC systems and some have been around for a while and are getting a bit tight for space. I'm tempted to occasionally delete the USN journal with fsutil, add the magic reg entry and restart the FRS service (a la the usual "journal wrap" error recovery) to see what happens to disk space... would that be a very bad thing to do? [1] They are sparse files so the apparent "file size" in bytes (e.g. the 6 - 9 GB I've seen so far) tells you nothing about the actual space used on the disk, hence the focus on clusters.

I've had quite a few "can you just [prove X is doing Y]?" network surveillance scenarios over many years and I think the only kind of people that will lift a finger in that direction without written orders that also satisfy any of your concerns about morality and legality tend to be crazed-netcops, and perhaps a few very naive pushovers. The scenario in this case is way out of order and IMO any tech quietly going along with it (and the wiki take suggests at least one of them was a bit of an enthusiast) deserves whatever they get.

Interesting. I'm from a time/place when/where you went well out of your way to avoid invading anyone's privacy. Taken as a whole, edugeeks appear to have some serious netcop tendencies and I'm not that convinced the duty-of-kiddy-care and similar stuff wheeled out to justify some of it, does justify some of it.

Uh huh. Have yet to install, but my [standalone] XP pro grabbed this together with the KB979306 time zone update via AU this morning.

But which one is it then? Sounds like TX-L37V10B if it's got DNLA (although the G10B does have an ethernet socket - but I didn't think that was supposed to do anything besides the FreeSat/iPlayer stuff).