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No problem. Out of curiousity, what's it for?

Makes sense, and simple enough really. Simple version below. Write-Host "Press 1 for option 1" Write-Host "Press 2 for option 2" Read-Host $command switch ($command) { 1 {do stuff for command 1} 2 {do stuff for command 2} default {Write-Host "Didn't recognise the command"} } If you want to force them to choose an option you can stick the whole thing in a while loop, and use the default case to set a variable so that it'll loop again.

I have to say, I think this bit is priceless. So for the long-term are they planning to fix the elevation of the sun in the sky? Looking forward to the repeat stories next year.

£57.40 for a weekly season ticket for me, purely between home and work without any travelcard benefits. It's not cheap anywhere. There was a reason I only bought an annual one after selling the car.

Heavily subsidised? Are you aware of what an annual season ticket in London costs? If it's subsidised, it's not so much that any normal user would notice. Can I argue that cars are great if you don't live in the south east and your roads are heavily subsidised by non-drivers?

If you're using infopath forms then the same form is used for both. But there is a bit of a kludge you can use to change this (very kludgey, but it works). Create a couple of new content types in the list (New Item, and Old Item for example). Add a workflow that, when a new item is added (the default type) changes the content type to Old Item. Then you can create completely different forms for each - you can even have the new item form allow individual submissions, while the edit item form allows multiple item edits.

Well let's see. 29, and until recently had an 60-reg toyota iQ until I decided to sell it, trading it for an annual season ticket travel card and a small wodge of cash. Now I never get asked for lifts, don't have to worry about petrol, insurance or servicing, can mostly travel for free (unless I'm going outside zone 6) and can read or nap while travelling (unless I'm cycling, obviously). Bit of a pang when I got rid of it, but I feel so much better now.

Done similar before - we're currently in the middle of migrating content between two 2010 farms. Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010 should help. Never had any trouble with it, except for the known losses: Migration Ugliness - SharePoint 2010 Content Migration Limitations - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land If you want the simpler option, a backup-restore is much easier to run through and should work without any problems (again, I've never had any in the past). Just a handful of stsadm commands.

Just as an update, we've now filled one of the roles but are still looking for candidates for the second.

I would've said mousemat, but it's a little small for that.

You mean if they had an absolute monopoly rather than only a partial one, they wouldn't raise prices?

Plus banning cars would pretty much cripple the country. Public transport's pretty much stretched to its limit at the moment as it is - not to mention pricey.

I know, but hopefully I've made it clear. Really the position is aimed at someone who wants to gain that experience and knowledge rather than someone who has it already. There will be some degree of being thrown in at the deep end, but armbands are available.

I'm not after in-depth experience and knowledge, just familiarity and a strong interest in learning more. If someone knows what SharePoint is, can create sites from templates and do basic power-user level work then they'd be suitable.

Would like to move it somewhere cheaper than London, but the company don't seem receptive.

Might help cause fears if you let people know how much radiation they're generally receiving anyway: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Then it's okay - you're not a hipster.

That depends - did you stop doing it when facebook made it cool?

We're looking for 2 SharePoint technicians to work with the current SharePoint administrator on various projects. Exposure to SharePoint 2010 and an enthusiasm and passion for the platform is vital, but in-depth knowledge is not a requirement. You will be responsible for bringing the various projects in progress to deployment, and providing user support after deployment as well as suggesting new business needs that SharePoint can fulfill. You will be a self-starter willing to learn and develop skills as the implementation grows. Customer support or service experience is beneficial. The roles will begin on a three month contract, with the intention of going to a permanent position after the three months are complete. Salary is from £23-£28k depending on experience. Send CVs to [email protected], interviews and start ASAP. Zodiak Media offices are in Kensington, London. For any questions or queries about the job role or company, please contact me either by PM or at [email protected].

If you're going to drop the money for an iPad then you may as well go with the ASUS Prime instead. It gives you extra battery life, and a good keyboard, for the same price as the plain iPad. Also can take up to 96GB of storage (32Gb internal, 32GB microSD on the tablet, 32GB in the keyboard). Plus if you do any development then a tab, keyboard and AIDE (free IDE for Android, on Android) is an essential just to play around with. So...how's that hand warmer doing for you? And your wifi's working alright? Nice to be able to increase your storage capacity by just slotting in a card, don't you think?

On it, and hooked. It's evidently got a fairly wide appeal - my 82 year old grandmother just started up a game with me. Edit: Knew I forgot something - username JamesBored

Just checked, and I can hit both domaindiscover.com and tierra.net from here. Can you get to them by IP address (216.104.160.16)?

Won't happen unless support staff start moving out of education in protest. Once there's actual demand, I'd imagine they'll have to re-evaluate things, but at the moment it seems a popular way to get into IT (and it is valuable experience, a lot of places like to see schools on IT staff's CVs).

I can't agree with this I'm afraid. Yes, there should be a need to get it in in the first place, but once it's in then you need to make use of it as best you can. There is an awful lot that can be done with SharePoint (or similar platforms like Alfresco) to make people's jobs a lot easier, and to add value. Saying that it should only be used for things which you happened to spot before deployment is missing a huge opportunity.

And god forbid you have a pacemaker. You can use any electrical device (unless you've got a white radio noise emitter stashed away). The 'interference' is a myth. If it were genuine, the amount of electrical charge in the atmosphere, constant bombardment by radio waves of all kinds, cosmic rays and similar would be causing much more serious problems than a piddling little wifi connection. It's from the same realm of thought as those who think wifi can cause headaches. Yep, the second bit of that is the correct answer. The first bit not so much. Yes, there is a degree of interference very, very close to the devices, but even the most minimal of shielding will prevent this. You'll notice it in audio because speaker wires are generally poorly shielded - while aerials generally aren't shielded at all (it would kind of defeat the object), but even in Cat5e you won't get noticeable interference with a few hundred mobile phones piled on top. The problem is that the genuine reason is usually poor understanding of pseudo-science. It's like mobile phones at garages. The initial fear was that a phone could generate inductance in the pumps, causing a spark and igniting them. This is obviously nonsense. However, in theory a phone could be dropped in such a way that it would short, and potentially cause a small spark. Of course the fact that cars made of metal, with potentially huge static electric charges, and using an internal combustion engine (the clues in the name) which is reignited inside the petrol station, after pumping petrol, does not seem to occur as a risk. It's about a misunderstanding of risk management though. Flawed understanding and use of statistics is extremely dangerous in the hands of those who can pass legislation. The airlines are saying 'we don't have a clue about risk management, or radio interference, and we've consistently ignored advice and studies showing that there are no effects, but we're flying you about so just put on your tinfoil hat and smile - and if you want to use that Kindle it's a £1/min charge'. Simply put the evidence is now so overwhelming that these rules are pointless (as far as I'm aware there's yet to be a single incident attributed to a mobile phone, and I think we can be fairly sure that a large number of people don't bother turning theirs off) that the FAA would better their case by simply saying 'we don't want them switched on, it's noisy'. At least then it would make sense. The ash cloud was a known, substantial risk. Similar ash clouds have come close to killing people before and caused severe damage to planes. The two situations aren't really in the same league.