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I've noticed the brummie count has been going up a little recently. This is good

Get a straw. Or if ross noble is to be believed....rest a sandwich on your knee

Thanks for the tip. I /do/ have a retainer somewhere. I popped the rubber o-ring off the end and lost it when I was showing my mum. I'll have to get a steel one with a small ball because the ones i've got at the moment are blackline ones...seemed to go better with the black glasses than steel. Hopefully i'll have my next piercing come the new year.

You can buy clear retainer studs which are kind of discreet

That or WITCH has gone up north and given him a kicking.

My labret stud doesn't wear away my gums but I have chipped a couple of teeth a little bit so I've got to train myself off playing with it when I'm frustrated with something. I can't leave it out for more than a few hours at a time (three or so) or it starts to close up. I had it done almost 5 months ago now but I'm considering taking it out because of industrial placement next July.

@mrforgetful I keep mine in my wallet if i have to take it out

@mrforgetful surely your stud would fall out of the pocket in the shirt every time you bent down? Dress code at my old place for paid ICT staff had used to be trousers, shirt and tie. Even the site manager wore that sort of thing. But in the years i was at that school i'd seen the site manager go from care taker unblocking drains to quite a fancy office and doing stuff with building projects. etc. As a student tech I obviously just wore whatever I was wearing to VI Form that day...usually jeans and a t-shirt. Paid staff wore general casual out of term time.

I hope it doesn't because I've heard a lot of good things about it and I'd like to get the chance to play with it before it gets scrapped.

*cough* excuses *cough*

Get a bike and get some tyres that are better suited to road as opposed to mountain bike tyres or you'll soon give up because you'll find it too hard on longer rides. I've been taking a house mate, who's after loosing some weight, cycling. Don't chicken out at the steep hills and just try and build up a tolerance to it. I find that it helps keep the gut under control. Of course, mine would be in better control if I wasn't a student and hadn't had both dominos pizza and two curries last week. But....i'm not fat so i must be doing something right. Eat sensibly (ie no snacking in between meals and eat proper meals ... maybe a bit of salad) and get some decent exercise.

You could try contacting a company that do fibre installations and asking them about the necessary test equipment. Failing that there might be someone you can talk to in an engineering faculty at a local uni or something. I'm not sure of the bit of kit you need. Fluke will make something that'll do it for sure, but it's bound to be expensive.

Don't worry about the maths at staffs. I'm crap at maths...and when i say crap i mean...REALLY crap. There are two options for first year maths. Fundamentals of Maths (or something like that) or "Quantitative Methods" in semester one and "Balancing maths" in semester two. I did QM and BM which basically is targeted at anyone that's not done maths since GCSE as a way to get the first year maths requirement to go onto the second year. They're taught by Pat Lewis and the way she teaches them is really good and basically trickles the knowledge into your brain. (It helps that you've only got to maintain a 40% average in your first year to pass and that your first year doesn't count to your classification so you've just got to pass it).

Sorry, I've not read what other people are saying because originofsymmetry has listed my degree at my university as the first in his list so i skipped to the bottom If you come to Staffordshire uni and you do decide to do the network eng course you'll do your CCNA, Cisco fundamentals of network security, Cisco IP Telephony and I /think/ you do your CCNP too. I know I start mine at the end of this year (my second year). There is a fair bit of maths content, not too much programming, there's some C in the first year and some shell scripting but that's about it, you'll get to use some industry standard engineering software like Matlab, Maple, Multisim, Pro Engineer for CAD work. The Cisco labs are awesome. A good number of IP phones have just been bought along with some PoE gigabit switches, we've got lots of pretty routers and the network security rack has recently been expanded too. Also, if you want to crack your way into industry the industrial placement year, whilst optional, is a great way to do this. I'm applying for placements in the industrial sector at the moment and the uni placements team can help you with this when the time comes.

Or, not only run nagios...run cacti too and get some SNMP graphing on the go. Great for monitoring hard drive space in all those servers you've got and network traffic on switches etc etc.

I know that I used to keep contact details for placement opportunities, copies of letters I had to send to people and a database of contacts in my network home directory, so there is a possibility for a DPA issue if say a placements/career advisor were to open those files to see what industrial placements I'd applied to etc to open the wrong file and get my boyfriend's mobile number and address etc. I think that the OP on TES would be better served with having some kind of centralised work drop off, which, in my opinion would be more efficient than them going round all the student's in their class' home folders scouting out the work. Also you could put it to them that they're paid not to be sat searching around on the network but to be processing this work that they're after in the first place. So, as it was suggested on TES, maybe a VLE or even e-mailing in the work would be more appropriate as it's going to save them time and increase efficiency.

If it's there it'll be libapache2-mod-alias or something. I dunno. Just out of interest, when you run a2enmod you're not typing the .load bit are you? You just need the bit before the extension like alias or ssl etc. You might wanna take a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-4466.html to check whether you've followed the right method for your SSL setup.

Then search for it. sudo apt-cache search alias

Have you tried to apt-get the module?

Iain is right. You can't use name based vhosts with SSL. So your SSL vhost should be on a different port and the server name you give it is irrelevant because it'll be accessible on all domains that point to that server on port 443. Make sure that you've got 443 in your apache listen-on-ports file or whatever it's called. Make sure that you've got the NameVirtualHost *:443 HOST STUFF To get alias mod into mods-enabled directory you need to run the a2enmod command from within the mods-available folder (you'll need to use sudo) and then restart Apache. It's been a while since i used Ubuntu Server i will admit, I'm on FreeBSD for my servers now and it's got a different method for managing modules etc. under Apache.

As an aside I seem to remember once being told that equipment that is mounted in a rack (ie, static kit...not portable like switches and servers etc) doesn't need to be tested. What's the stance on this? Does it actually need to be tested?

Not just certifiable...some of us are certified too

I have a feeling that there's some product of Sophos' that will do it. Not entirely sure though. Some people prefer not to use Sophos products but you could give them a bell.

Primo PDF we used and I still use it at home for uni.

I've never done reverse proxying using IIS but I use it on Apache in conjunction with name based vhosts. I've got a bit of documentation on how I setup Apache on my freebsd server at home and it has stuff for reverse proxying. I don't know if this is going to be a comprehensive aid to you but you're most welcome to look. http://jznet.biz/doku_wiki/doku.php?id=freebsd:apache22 (Btw...that's hosted on a box that's reverse proxied onto the internet)