jamesb

Obviously it was for his stunning philanthropy.

Great, so when HTML5 is officially specced in, oh, three years at minimum we'll no longer need Flash. They might even have a standard at the time scale they projected - by 2014. Of course that's just HTML5 - a lot of the stuff that gets talked about as HTML5 isn't included in the specification at all, and companies which say it's part of HTML5 are either misguided or misleading. Of course, Silverlight is also hit by the plugin ban on the IWhatever's, which is the bit that's causing me problems at the moment.

Isn't that a licensing audit? Last copyright audit I suffered through was about deciding what to try and enforce copyright on, licensing audits are a different matter. Probably the terms are used to mean the same thing in different areas.

Umm... It's supposed to help you go through and work out which bits of intellectual property you have that you should be protecting, but aren't. I don't really see how it'd benefit a school, unless someone wants to start copyrighting their own lesson plans to prevent others from using them. Do you have some sort of super-important process or bit of intellectual property which could be commercially sold? Edit: Might end up being one of the shortest audits ever recorded.

Similar spec androids are generally about half that price - and you can even do what you want with them rather than what you're told to do.

That worked, yep. I've actually given up on the hidden list idea now, I decided I was trying too hard to make it easy on myself (make sense of that if you can) and am just writing a fully custom solution.

Can you imagine how a public case would go? Whatever happened there'd be riots. And the most information that his 'friends' might have would be 'he's vanished'. Sure, conspiracy theories would crop up, but since they always do I don't see why a government would worry. Alternatively it could be 'he dies of salmonella poisoning', or any of a host of things depending on what they wanted. If they're willing to break the law in order to get what they want, there's no reason for them to bother doing it in such a stupid way as trying to corrupt the justice system of three countries and one multi-national union.

From what I understand, a secret court session is fairly standard in these sorts of cases in Sweden. It may also be that they wanted him for questioning to build a stronger case, or dismiss the case as unworkable, but now their hand has been forced and they've decided that the evidence they have is enough to press charges. Which requires it to get into the hands of the public in the first place.

What experience do you have? What's the budget you're looking at compared to the deadline for when you want to be qualified by? Where's your Caps Lock key?

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'will release damaging secrets if killed or arrested' | Mail Online - first result from Google, among plenty of others. I'm not baying for his blood. I simply think that he should answer the charges brought against him, and shouldn't be let off, defended and seen as a hero simply because he happens to have founded a high-profile organisation. Which would surely mean that, since Sweden are now involved, it's now harder to get an extradition by the US. So you're saying that now all information is freely available? Then why do we need wikileaks?

Dear tech_guy, It does sound like you have a problem. There are two approaches you can take here - one is to remind yourself that you were just taking it easy on her, since she's a child and can't handle defeat as well as you. This would allow you to feel magnaminous and highly virtuous about the fact that you are clearly inadequate in everything, as demonstrated by your lack of skill in Wii Bowling. Your second option can be taken to the extreme with ritual suicide, or if you lack the guts for that you do have the option of selling all of your electronics, any other property, and becoming a hermit or monk (dependent upon belief) until your shame is forgotten by the world at large. Love, Agony Uncle

Good question - it doesn't. The extradition would now require the approval of both Sweden and Britain, not just of Britain.

Probably not to the point of trying to blackmail a government, no. Nor would I be busy seeking out publicity when keeping below the radar would be a more sensible option. The problem is that if he's found guilty, people will call foul on the trial without a second's thought - as they're already doing. There's no consideration that there might actually be some charges to answer here, just reactionary nonsense defending him and claiming conspiracy and corruption. Honestly, if they wanted to get him, they would have by now and I doubt it would've made any headlines.

I could do with friends like that...

I see someone scared of the allegations against him, and trying to dress it all up as conspiracy for sympathy. It's interesting that he made a comment about being 'the founder of a not-for-profit', yet managed to meet the £200 000 bail which he claimed was excessive. It's also worth noting that, with an extradition to Sweden, it means any extradition to the States would require not just Sweden, but also the UK to give permission, meaning that it makes it harder for them to try anything (in theory).

I tend to be skeptical of such things when the 'victim' of the supposedly fabricated charges has gone to such lengths to avoid facing those charges, including threatening to release information if he is made to face them. If he'd simply claimed that they were fabricated, I'd be less distrustful, it's the fact that he tried blackmail that concerns me.

Am I the only person left who thinks that he really should be answering the charges of sexual assault and rape brought against him, rather than trying to blackmail governments in order to avoid being sent back to face those charges?

Because they're probably trying to kill off 32-bit applications, or at least encourage people to switch to 64-bit.

Not so much a development question, but more of a head-keyboard moment which may amuse some of you with a more schadenfreudian sense of humour, I have just successfully create a SharePoint feature which creates a basic hidden list for user management. However, having waited twenty minutes for the solution to build and deploy (which it has done, perfectly successfully), I've realised that I've got no actual way of checking whether or not the list exists, as it's hidden and has broken inheritance so that no users can access it (only accessible via code). So now got to either go in and unhide it, and hope it exists, or stop debugging and write a deactivation handler to delete it in order to try debugging again - after putting in something to log whether it's succeeded.

Just don't ask how many times I've been caught out by the difference between 0 and null.

Try if ($exists -ne $null) rather than 0.

You might almost say a text book discussion. Yep - absolutely. What's the management overhead for the device? Does it require additions to the system in order to do a certain task? Are there obstacles or drawbacks? Are there any particular benefits and reasons for using the device, or is it just doing technology for shininess' sake? What are the costs, and what are the savings? If we are talking about how they get access to the tool itself, then that is why some people are seeing the cloud as a viable option, whereas others are making use of existing investment (eg citrix systems) to make tools available. Most of the time when a word processor is needed it is not to learn how to use it in ICT lessons, it is to do a myriad of other things. Yes, the core principles and skills need to be there, but once they are who cares what is used? With infinite resources, anything's possible. Few people live in a situation where they have infinite resources, and therefore it is entirely reasonable for them to say "I have me and two technicians to deal with the 400 laptops, 1200 desktops, 18 servers, countless printers, scanners and accessories and so no, I cannot spare the resource to set up a Citrix server so you can get on to the network with your iPad - go use one of the desktops or laptops or find a way to get me enough resource to manage what we already are managing without being massively overcommitted, and then we'll look at new projects".

And the students without a computer at home? Without the fancy smartphone? Without the iPad? How are they catered for? What happens if you have an influx of such students, do they need to share the computers you have or work out some kind of rota system to get access? You are doing a one size fits all approach here, you're just changing the focus so that the target you're catering for is those who have access to devices your services are set up for, you're still excluding a group. There're always going to be both costs and benefits to anything like this, unless funding becomes available to provide all students with suitable devices. You're seeing it in a rather strange way then - if I were a student and got out a different textbook, mid-class, in order to read and work from it rather than working with the rest of the class there'd be a problem in the eyes of the teacher. No one's talking about taking the device off them when they go home, or reading their own textbook when they're not mid-lesson and should be working with the rest of the class. My issues with the national curriculum, class sizes and standardized teaching notwithstanding I can certainly see where the problem comes in here. Capacity for imagination and training often go hand in hand - there is a lot that can be done with just about any technology, but if you never get any training or time to experiment then none of it's going to happen.

If you want it to be externally accessed (i.e. from the internet) then you'll need to publish it as you would any other website, which will need a static IP address and the like. If you just want to have people from the school able to access it, then a VPN setup is all you'd need. What's the actual scenario you're going for?

TMG will probably be the easiest option in that case. I assume you've already got a static IP address and domain name?