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I think a last minute deal was always on the cards (no pun intended!). But yes, it's interesting that the day that they made the initial annoucement, Martin Lewis mentioned on his weekly show that the best Mastercard in the market was... Amazon Mastercard. Either way, thanks for the £40 voucher Amazon! lol

Pretty sure you have a month according to the ICO

Did anyone see last night's episode?! That ending reveal!

This. It's almost become synonymous with every reality TV format out there. They just want boisterous personalities who will add spice to a TV show about business. For all of it's perceived interest and success, never forget that this is the show that gave us the ever so wonderful and pleasant, Katie Hopkins! 🤦

This has been a really great series. Season 4 certainly has a series finale feel to it, but let's see!

Just got this email from Stone King if anyone is interested in attending. Register here.

I bought the Ooni Fyra last year on Black Friday for £184 from Selfridges (of all places!) It's an excellent purchase. I had no desire to mess around with gas canisters, so I went for the Fyra, which uses wood pellets to heat the oven. It's really easy to put together and once lit, takes about 15-20 minutes before it's ready to go. I've found that the pizzas cook well at around 500°C. As the main flame is at the back, you put the pizza in, wait about 20-25 seconds, use the metal peel to take it out, turn the pizza around slightly and put it back in. You'll have a fully cooked pizza in just under 60 seconds! Some essential accessories to also buy: BBQ oven gloves - This thing can reach temperatures in excess of 600°C, you don't want to be touching that with your bare hands. I made the mistake of trying to open the flue vent with my uncovered fingers. It hurt, a LOT! Laser thermometer - This helps you see what the actual temperature is inside the oven. Metal bucket - I found that the wood pellets, once burnt out, sometimes clogs up in the back burner or the vent, so you might need to empty the vent after a few pizzas. A metal bucket is very useful for disposing of the still very hot burnt pellets. Wooden peel - To prepare and then "launch" the pizza. Metal peel - To turn the pizza inside the oven and take it out. It's a little bit of a job to clean. It gets very, very black, "sooty" and needs a thorough clean, but otherwise, it's a very enjoyable experience indeed. The only downside - You'll never really enjoy take away pizza again once you've had one of these! 😂

Always jump. You can always reorder at the better offer and return the original. Or you can negotiate the discount.

It'll be interesting to see if the DfE/ESFA are able to stop ESS from forcing this change on schools.

So long as Mastercard are still the transaction handler, Amazon would have to continue to pay them. If Amazon didn't want to pay the fees, they would have to become a credit card transaction handler themselves. Not impossible, given they have the resources to send Jeff Bezos to space, however, I doubt that they'd want to go into this space. It's much easier to just pay the fees. Clearly, their brand power is strong enough to force these companies to give them preferential rates!

Martin Lewis subtly hinted at this during his show on ITV tonight as well...

Yup, I just got the £20 for removing and then re-adding my Mastercard that was already on my account! (Note the American date format!)

I was a bit shocked at the email I got in my inbox yesterday and didn't think it could be true, until I saw the BBC News article. Much like the article says, I'm guessing that Amazon are doing this to scaremonger Visa into reducing the fees. Source - BBC News

I'm also looking for a TV. 50" - 55" with similar specs. Also, it has to have the stand in the middle (not the 2 on either end) so that it'll fit my TV stand lol! You might have done this already, but put an alert on HotUKDeals. That's how I got my 3070 Founders Edition from Scan in August for £480 (inc delivery).

How did you address the issue with FMS? I'm trying to persuade a few of the schools we work with to make the jump away from SIMS, but the issue has always been FMS. Are the 2 exclusive? Are there many school out there who have moved to a cloud based MIS but still running FMS? How difficult is it for LA schools to move away from FMS? I've always been told that the LAs tend to require specific returns from FMS, but my argument has always been, surely an LA can't dictate what software you must run, if it's costly and counter productive to progression. I've always steered clear or been kept out of the loop on finance package conversations, but am interested to learn how to help schools move forward.

He said it was smaller than previous years, but that's just smaller than your average 'normal' year Comic Con standards. Everything was a bit more 'spaced out' but by no means socially distanced. There were lesser stands than usual, but it was still very big and very busy.

My brother actually went to Comic Con last week (or the week before, whenever it was!) It was very, very busy indeed. However, the covid check took very little time at all. There were some bouncers at the main entry doors to ExCeL and they were checking phones with details of the vaccine status or an email with a negative lateral flow test before letting you in. He said it was a moving queue and the whole process took about a minute or two in total. It was similar to my experience at UC Expo, which again, was quite busy, but not as big as Bett usually is.

I think I finally got this working. I checked the setuperr.log in C:\Windows\panther and it was reporting a PartitionID error. The original file had this: 3 [color="#FF0000"][b]3[/b][/color] But it should have been: 3 [color="#FF0000"][b]3[/b][/color] As soon as I made this change, WDS completed a full silent install without any issues at all.

I'm potentially looking at a Catchbox Plus for our meeting room for hybrid meetings. We've already got a TV, so we just need a decent webcam and speakers to add to the setup. Our main issue has always been virtual users not being able to hear others physically in the room.

I tried adding that in, but it didn't help.

I highly recommend taking a look at LGfL/NGfL - It's slightly more pricey than most out there, but the value add you get in the package is phenomenal!

In some cases, maybe... But that comes after. First I need to be able to automate just the partitioning process.

I've finally decided to try to take the plunge to move our WDS implementation from legacy to UEFI. I've done some searching the web and have managed to edit my WDSUnattend.xml to look like this: Never en-gb en-gb en-gb en-gb en-gb domain.com Removed Removed 0 4 3 128 MSR 1 500 Primary 2 100 EFI true 4 Primary NTFS WinRE 1 1 DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC FAT32 System 2 2 3 3 NTFS Local Disk C 4 4 0 true OnError For reference, here is my Image unattend.xml: true %MACHINENAME% Multi Academy Trust School true GMT Standard Time XXXX Domain.com Removed Removed Domain.com en-gb en-gb en-gb en-gb true true true true true Work 1 true true Removed false Removed false Local Admin Account Admin Administrators LLT The build works fine and results in a Windows 10 image, with a UEFI BIOS. I have 2 issues, 1 more pressing and the other for when I can get the first issue sorted. Firstly, I cannot get the disk partitioning part of the Windows 10 setup to run unattended. Every time, on PXE boot, it will pop up with the prompt asking me how to partition the disk. Even with those where the disk is already partitioned correctly. Is there anyway I can automate it to install on partition 4 and format the partition before install, silently? Secondly, is there a way I can automate this entire process for when I am moving from a legacy BIOS to UEFI. Currently, I have to manually go into the WinPE, run disk part, clean the disk and then run the PXE setup, once the BIOS has been changed to UEFI. Can I automate this entire process (Obviously, I will still need to change the BIOS manually from legacy to UEFI).

It's true. Even in rural parts of India, infrastructure development has gone into mobile data and Internet coverage, due to the demand from the population.

Well, during the 7/7 London attacks, we couldn't make mobile or landline calls. Plus, these days, people do all sorts of things like marking themselves safe on Facebook, sending a message via WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter etc. In most cases, you'll probably be outside and unable to access a landline anyway...