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Never done it, but guessing: Have the button hidden/disabled to begin with, use a Timer (that fires after 30 secs) pointing at a little function to make the button visible/work?

Reminded of the quite old now politically correct fairy tale book I've got somewhere on the shelves. The Little Red Riding Hood from that is here.

I thougt dead-server detection was what (angry) users were for. ;b To me the whole point of monitoring servers is to try to catch and fix stuff (preferably at your leisure) *before* the box ends up in a heap.

Golly there are some interesting times suggested in this thread. Mine for a result I can walk away from with pride (everything works, no missing details) is around four days **with a helper**. It takes me a good 1/2 a day to install and config the server and that is 99% automated (with ready-made GPOs and MDT for OS deployment[1]) i.e. going a lot faster than someone can click and type. Then you've got extras like backup to sort out, tape labelling, possibly some managed AV, and transfering data can take an age if it's from some chaotic system to your pretty new sensibly organised one. And before you can rebuild all those PCs/laptops you need to find out if anything needs to be rescued from any first, find drivers and so on. When building (and how zippy is that Primary network infrastructure anyway?) chances are some irksome PC/laptop model or other will trip you up for bit until you've tracked down some precise driver version or done a BIOS update or something - this is more often laptops than PCs. Do they have any wireless - that will need configuring. You also may need to do some faffing about to make sure machines that go on IWBs are working happily. And perhaps figure out who does and doesn't need SIMS, who does and doesn't need access to various shares and so on. Then there's a couple of hours to explain it adequately to the people who have to use it. [1] YMMV coz mine are very detailed, but to get the GPOs "just so" took several weeks and they're just for XP. Knocking MDT into shape took a couple of weeks too. In a primary? For desktops it's the apps that count, not the OS - start mixing that and you're making it harder for everyone aren't you? I'd just do XP and work on the school to start replacing any old desktop h/w until it's all up to Win7 (or maybe Win8 if it takes them that long), then rebuild the lot again.

RFCs have to have the overwhelming detail because you ought to be able to completely implement the protocol from them. You can probably find a few less complex guides to a given protocol dotted around, but I can't think of anywhere with a nice collection of these.

I saw a patch somewhere on Symantec which claimed to make the Agent work on 2K8R2. I expect you have to: a) take the Agent installation files to the 2K8R2 server and install them manually, b) then add the patch. Don't know why it wouldn't like that with admin account though... are they member servers? What happens if you use local admin?

I made a little script for that and plugged it into the computer context menu in ADUC along with others for Remote Desktop etc. You obviously need to be running ADUC on a Windows which has msra.exe, but RA also works fine to an XP client.

I use NotePad++ for pretty much everything, *especially* XML where one missed right angle bracket can break the entire document for most dotNet applications.

Maybe, I've had no end of trouble with faulty Exchange-integrated AV scanning over the years (although some of it was MS's fault when they first introduced the APIs). My rule is that if you can get some external party to do the de-spamming & scanning then do.

I'd say all current Windows x86's are arguably 36-bit systems, just with artificial physical memory addressing limits coded into different editions. Although it won't play with physical memory over 4GB, the XP running on this laptop is running with the OS support and the OS page table overheads to accommodate AWE and calls to the API will work. [XP SP2+ likes DEP on by default and that needs PAE] I once worked on a very serious "MIS" (at least as complex as SIMS and definitely with more concurrent users) Server-side was in four logical parts and each one fitted in < 1MB RAM running on a DOS VM. Mid-late 90s everyone went "We must have our data in an 'open' database so we can access it", which of course they never do (or can't because of licence restrictions) and the bloat began. XML did a similar thing to comms bandwidth. The X64 is a very good point (it's the default for me for any new server): I don't know about this round, but there was a very significant memory increase for SIMS SQL2K->SQL2K5.

Has anyone actually read it? £1550 must be the work and the (full) SQL licence surely? Perhaps the scenario is that the school has forgotten it bought the SQL licence itself last time around and only paid county a few hundred for the installation and migration work? Don't forget to amortise the costs: SQL 2008 doesn't fall out of MS support until 2019. If it's going on a Server 2003 then that expires summer 2015, which gives you over 5 years before you have to change anything much, although as GD said it's a good time to check that the server isn't getting a bit creaky. [Capita could throw a spanner in this by demanding a new SQL and/or OS I suppose].

Well if it's 2008 you can use GPPs - slap one at the AD root to cover all your machines and use pretty much any targeting you can imagine.

I've just tripped over this which may have been around already, but a search didn't find it: The VLE sucks and this slightly later Future of VLEs

I tried that years ago with and discovered I was now a very small fraction of a tiny percent as good, which was sad I used to be able to do things like wrap around the Asteroids max score. Got outvoted, but I didn't want a WII because I was genuinely *still* sulking over the time several eons ago when I'd been playing one game of arcade Donkey Kong for a few hours(!) and on the n100th time around instead going "Tada! You're Terrific! Game Over [now please go away so I can make some money]" it gave me around 5 seconds to get Mario all the way up those ramps. You couldn't even get up the first ladder in 5 pigging seconds... and when I'd let my bloated collection of lives die, it just crashed and lost my lovely record high score. Mame? It's just not the same as when: a) you're paying, b) you can't flick pennies up the reject slot to mitigate a.

I think there's only a couple that aren't like that, but there is a notably older [career first, then s**t I better have that kid while I still can] demographic than usual. Seven or more activities a week isn't unusual here and some do a lot more. We've just got the two, one of which is that swimming lesson at the weekend coz school swimming is inevitably crap at teaching them to swim.

I haven't got to that bit yet, does it survive system updates etc? We've got a cheap, probably 27th hand game that is a bit scratched and although it works so far, it would be nice to know if everything on there is readable i.e. it won't choke at some point. I did add and use the iPlayer, although sorting the wi-fi annoyed me coz after lots of getting nowhere I had to tell the AP to do TKIP in addition to AES. iPlayer video and sound has a habit of getting out of sync sometimes and annoyingly just pausing it for a bit doesn't seem to help. I think YouTube looks crap in non-expanded mode on even a moderate sized telly (28"), so gave up on that. You mean you're not jumping all over the room smashing the furniture in the first place? Are you sure you got the right console?

I did double maths at A-level and lots of truly evil engineering stuff after that, and I don't understand the questions in some of Sprogette's Y2(!) maths homework. Plus some of those off-the-shelf-homework-sheets-from-hell contain questions in areas they haven't been taught (and won't be for 2-3 years) so I can't always interrogate her for clues on what she's supposed to do. We sometimes write notes to teacher.. I think I might be bad father coz competitive parenting sorely Ps me off and I won't play. Don't know if it's just here, but if any kid in the class does anything then theirs must do it too at all costs, preferably twice as often so they get a better collection of badges/certificates/whatever. Most of the mums, and it is the mums, do a lot of frantic mileage ferrying their kids around a truly punishing schedule of outside-school activities. Sprogette is six years old. It's insane.

I've got an aging digital piano[1], for a long while I relegated that to just a keyboard hooked up to the PC to make the actual noises using some free and definitely better Steinway sample sound fonts made by Warren Trachtman who was a bit of a pioneer in that respect. If you've got audio s/w that understands sound fonts then I used to spend a lot of time hammersound.com which has lots of freebies to play with including, well over a decade later, variations of Trachtman's. [1] 20 years later just one key is now intermittent which never fails to trip me up, looks too hard to fix, plus tech (specifically keyboard action + velocity sensitivity) has improved. Decisions, decisions - do you get the absolutely fabbiest dumb MIDI keyboard hooked up to a PC, or do you get that expensive mid-range standalone digital piano that you can just power on and play (as well as do the MIDI stuff). Whichever route, there's so more choice now it completely does my head in.

I could recite the words e.g. "complicit in" etc., as well as anyone, but it took me ages to construct a mental position where I had the slightest chance of justifying them. To get there I began with the following and essentially extrapolated in the less serious direction: Imagine someone paid for someone else to enact and produce a video of their favourite child abuse fantasy. I've got some numbers at my fingertips. I looked but couldn't find anything but a zillion rehashes of the news agency release so I'm not really sure what to make of it: Unicef also estimates there are more than four million websites featuring minors, including those of children aged under two years. More than 200 new images are also circulated daily, according to Maala, who pointed out the production and distribution of child pornographic images rakes in between 3 and 20 billion dollars (2.04 and 13.62 billion euros) a year. Truckloads of truckloads more business that I'd have imagined you could sneak past global law enforcement these days. But the new image rate (assuming it's not "images of new victims", there are multiple images of the same children etc.) is not as much as I would have imagined. For perspective on the latter, last time I looked on average 25,000 children die every day from mostly preventable stuff in mostly shitty circumstances . [see also Bill Gate's mission - I would never have expected to like him, but if anyone's going to make a difference, plus that recent **10 billion** dollar commitment..]

You can say things like that until the cows come home, but I will *not* treat it as evidence that he actually did something bad to a child in another country. The individual risk is anyone's guess but he's in a category that represents a higher threat to children than normal. I obviously don't want someone like that in a trust relationship with my child and it's a very short ethical hop to not wanting them in a trust relationship with any child anywhere on the planet. Because there is some evidence of him seeking contact with children when abroad, the police believe they may be able to restrict his future travel - I don't think there is anything else worth saying on this aspect of this story. I don't need one - look at the charges, look at the sentence, look at the quotes from the judge's little speech. Failing that, if it were making=creating originals, wouldn't the media have been **all over it**? I don't have a problem with that, but my standards, especially if I were promoting an ethical argument on this notoriously emotive (and thus muddled) topic, would compel me, same as the law of the land does, to distinguish between someone: a) viewing CP b) raping a child The harm in the viewing is an abstract variety[1] and not the direct molestation that probably springs to most peoples minds when you casually say someone "harmed children". [1] The "to a degree complicit in" argument does work for me in the same way as buying Nike footballs back when they were made with child labour, but you can't claim it's stunningly obvious when it has apparently defeated a few judge's over the years "because they didn't have a victim" in front of them.

If you're part of the system that helps prevent someone having contacts with kids in this country, I can't see you being happy with them doing that elsewhere. You're either concerned about their conduct everywhere, or just paying lip service. I don't think you can reasonably read anything else (e.g. we think he did X), into that unhappiness. This is what I said in an earlier SB thread when someone else was quite reasonably misled by this: AIUI in a nutshell: The original CP relevant law was largely focused on production not consumption i.e. "making" was closer to the usual dictionary sense. Then PCs and the net introduced new problems but the law lagged behind, so around the turn of the century the existing legal meaning was stretched a bit : Viewing an existing image on a computer screen is an example of "making", so is copying say a JPG file from one computer to another. Where can they do that or has that functionality been disappeared? Again, who actually used the site given that it's a teacher's favourite and would any kid of grooming age ( Yahoo Kids! says it's around 11-15 yrs because that's when they get to go places by themselves) want to hang around with lots of Primary teachers on a Primary resources site? Did any students ever upload ther photos? I think that's a perfectly credible argument if you have a blanket policy to deny student access to those kind of features on any site where you find them. But if you have that then why wasn't it blocked already? I agree. Do they (or anyone else) do that?

That, I am fairly certain, is a (safer) derivative of an idea presented in a notorious essay called Assassination Politics written by a US "crypto-anarchist" in the 90s, and which had me in stitches at times. Same kind of deal but the donations go to whoever does the best job of "predicting" the time of someone's death. BUT that wasn't a witty premise for some "noir" sci-fi book, I think you were supposed to take it seriously: It's from that gun-toting, anti-fed, anti-taxes, anti-gov corner of the US demographic that at one extreme spawned Timothy McVeigh.

The principle isn't unreasonable, but the country is usually crap at making these big IT systems. Why is this one going to: a) work, b) be delivered on schedule, c) not end up costing twice what it was supposed to (negating the cost savings that were allegedly it's raison d'etre).

Don't know about that particular one, but when something like 95% of mail is spam+bad stuff if you can get that filtered out upstream then I would. The risk is you won't be in charge of what they filter, but it's not necessarily that easy to be properly in charge when you've got it locally. That's what I spec., largely based on MS saying that's pretty much the maximum for a single Exchange box, however a while ago someone on here said they seem to get better performance out of Exchanges (2007 at the time) with 16GB. But for that number of users 8GB should be truckloads, just make sure you've got some spare slots in case manglement get to like it and later want all the kids to have mailboxes.

When I run the universe I'll be criminalising motoring analogies. That just about works for say putting someone in charge of an orphanage.