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    Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
  1. The type of train this is based on has a normal operating speed (when on 25Kv) of 100mph. My understanding of the hydrogen train concept is that it would be used for shorter branch lines where it is not economic to electrify. I think the trains would keep the ability to work from the overhead or 3rd rail power supplies as, if I remember correctly, hydrogen is quite energy intensive, and therefore expensive, to produce.
  2. A genuine Swiss Army knife for about £20 - £25 will be fine (said with my Scout Leader hat on!). Just don't buy one from Poundstrecher and the like as they are generally useless!
  3. Same in Staffordshire. We use Entrust but they are being slowly merged with BGfL and we're finding anything to do with BGfL turns to carp :-(
  4. We're looking at doing the same in the future and I've been looking into this. Apparently Successmaker won't run on Windows Server 2012. We got ours via RM but they no longer resell it and it is now offered by Pearson. It will now be a hosted version. The problem is that it is basically an American product which Pearson are reworking for the UK market and it won't be available until at least the beginning of 2016! I've spoken to one of their reps and their tech support and they basically have no clue about it! We're now looking for a replacement!
  5. Is anyone else using iOS devices and OSX 10.9 machines through an RM Smartcache? Both OS's cannot 'remember' the username and passwords to connect to the Smartcache, which means the user has to regularly put them in to the point of being a PITA! Also OSX 10.9 won't connect to secure sites properly or at all (e.g. app store for OS updates). I've contacted our LEA who supply the Smartcache, but they don't know and they probably won't have a solution as Smartcache is now obsolete! We don't have a transparent proxy either. Hopefully someone must have got the 2 to play nicely together! Thanks
  6. Both West Coast and East Coast Main lines are pretty much at capacity now and because of the nature of their building it is extremely difficult to increase the capacity. Improvements have been made by improving the infrastructure and signalling and by having faster trains, but there is only so much that can be done to the existing lines. Because the lines are shared between fast inter city trains, slower regional trains and freight then this also has an impact. You can only go as fast as what is in front of you! HS2 will cost a lot and may not be pretty in places, but it's better than the equivalent motorway!
  7. From trying to do something similar with a Mac server, I found that it's to do with our firewall. The Mac (for reasons best known to Apple) has to contact Apple's servers which then try to contact to contact your AD Server. Apparently, our LEA block the incoming port used by Apple to authenticate against AD. They tell me when the port is unblocked (don't know which though - sorry) it will work. Haven't done it yet though
  8. Hi all, we've bought a Mac Mini server (OSX 10.7) to control our MACs and iOS devices. I'm setting it up but cannot get it to bind to active directory and also to connect to pull over the users etc. Anyone got any pointers on how to do it successfully? Cheers
  9. Recova is very good & free!
  10. I'll be there tomorrow. I'll keep my eyes peeled for you!
  11. Try The Angry Technician's Sample AUP - Wiki
  12. Doesn't that lead to all sorts of licensing issues?
  13. That sounds great. Can you push out individual apps to specific iPads or does every app bought / downloaded have to go every iPad? Also, if you want an app to go to 50 iPads, do you have to buy the app 50 times? Cheers
  14. nawbus

    Fotopic.net

    Yeah, I've gone with SmugMug (odd name though!), which seems to be very good. Fotopic's parent company, Snappy Designs, has gone into administration. However, according to Fotopic's previous owner (as read on other forums) there are one or two potential buyers for the business. Not too sure how good a business idea it would be to take on Fotopic given their now bad reputation!
  15. nawbus

    Fotopic.net

    Yeah I'd seen that as well. The trouble is that Fotopic / Snappy Designs are not saying anything at all. Very ppor.
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