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Sixth formers in non-uniform wandering around on a school site of lower school students in uniform was raised as a safeguarding risk to us as you couldn't easily identify who was a student and who was a random sixth-form aged person who'd walked in off the street. So, for the past 4 years, one of our A-level Photography teachers has come in and taken them for us in the photography studio on enrolment day so we can have them printed and ready for use on the first day of term.

But we’re not talking ‘you’ in this context (or are we - what was the OPs intention). We’re talking a public sector body, in the case of the majority funded by public money. From a school perspective, any site I discovered doing this to whom we paid a subscription fee, which was approved based on a given known amount, with or without notice, would have to be passed up the chain to decide on the future use thereof as it WILL impact on budgets in the long-term forecast... how much depending on the use of the site in question. Any site doing this & not requiring a subscription fee, I’d be blocking at the filters for the same reason. It will result in an unplanned increase in expenditure. What I choose on my own personal equipment, attached to a power supply I pay the bill for - fair enough - End-user decision. For a publicly funded body? Different story entirely (imo). Are your students in a position to make the call between seeing ads or low-level crypto? They do not pay the bill for the electric at the end of the day...

Increased CPU load beyond established norms = increased energy consumption = increased utility bill for the school for no good reason (and likely unbudgeted for). Reminds me of the days when folks were getting sacked on a large scale for installing Folding at Home / SETi etc on work PCs without permission, except this is an external agent using up your electric rather than an employee. Most definitely out of order and one for the blacklist. It also can produce an increased thermal load if an entire class is using the site, and therefore has knock on effect on aircon running costs too. I doubt this practice will survive for long...

That whole hazy nomenclature of law vs common law vs statutory law / legislation and regulation does my head in... I always forget! In terms of gov practicing what they preach... here's their own guidance for their use of PDFs. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-publish-on-gov-uk/accessible-pdfs The root gov digital services index and GDS Design Principals makes for interesting reading also... this is a good starting framework schools should be utilising / referring to for clues (assuming things stay as they are with regards us hoovering up EU legislation into UK legislation via Brexit etc) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-to-publish-on-gov-uk & https://www.gov.uk/design-principles & GOV.UK elements At least, that is the general intention of it all anyways.

Knew as soon as I typed 'law' I'd regret it... should have said it's been part of legislation for public sector bodies for years. In same way GDPR tightens DPA, the EU DDA does the same for accessibility.

Am not bothered whether they practice it or not quite frankly. Pointless arguing rights & wrongs of it - s'been law for years... we SHOULD be doing it if responsibility for the website being compliant is in our job spec. The focus on PDFs is unwarranted... from first page of WCAG2 PDF Guidance: "Publication of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0 success criteria and conformance requirements. Developers need to be aware of the limitations of specific technologies and provide content in a way that is accessible to people with disabilities." Just because you adapt procedures to produce WCAG2-compliant PDFs doesn't make the use of PDFs in a given context appropriate. THATs what breaks accessibility. If it's textual content, it should be on a web page as HTML, not embedded in any other document format, unless absolutely necessary. Branding, convenience of production etc are all cited as invalid justifications that won't be accepted should any member of the public choose to take an establishment to task over it.

Nope... not in the slightest.

Technically I should have rephrased it to Windows App rather than Windows Mobile, as ultimately MS are gonna poke their heads up with whatever AndromedaOS is to become, and MyEd won't support that either. *shrug* either way we have at least 3 parents with Windows-based mobile devices who kick off that they can't use MyEd, so just for those our IT Director keeps SLG loitering about.

All depends on the meaning of the term "accessible". In general this comes about as a result of inclusivity due to being a public body. If information isn't available in an accessible and inclusive manner then you are technically in breach of the Equality Act 2010. Any statutory compliance documents must be accessible to screen readers, magnifiers and TTS systems. It's not OFSTED that don't like it, it's Gov that don't like it as technically it's in breach of EU Accessibility Directives. We SHOULD all be ensuring we comply to BS8878 (fka PAS78) and WCAG2 when it comes to any educational establishment's website here in the UK... and part of the BS8878 guidance is not to use PDF files unless absolutely necessary (typically to preserve layout for data processing purposes) as they are generally not considered an accessible document unless constructed in line with WCAG2. See https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf.html Not that I can talk - my place is PDF obsessed... which is moderately better than their earlier desire to post Word Docs all over the web. End of the day, management don't listen / don't care when you tell them, and won't care until the school is sued for breach of the Equality Act. At the moment we've got til 2020 to get our sites compliant with the EU directives that have come into play that cover all of this - see https://webdevlaw.uk/2016/12/05/plain-english-guide-eu-accessibility-directive/ And in case there's any doubt, yes, Academies are formally classed as Public Sector Bodies, so it _does_ all apply to us.

Still only supports Android and iOS - no Windows mobile device app support... so essentially, you have to put something else in place alongside to cover any parents not using Android or iOS.

Use the free Adobe DNG Converter... see The best Camera Raw Tutorial Download link: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/adobe-dng-converter.html

Not heat related, this one... just general handling. Mine’s lost it’s AR coating all round the edges and where keys touch the screen at corners when closed - see https://i1.wp.com/www.atpeaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_7047.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1

Keep an eye out for coating coming off on the screen on that one... October this year is the close-down for being able to get the panel replaced under recall (was February but apparently they extended it again)

Technically the license granted for the production usually strictly forbids filming and selling to parents as a breach of copyright. On that basis, it shouldn’t be an issue you have to address. Otherwise, you’d be keeping an audit log of illegal activity, which would make you even more liable as you’d be hard pressed to claim ignorance. I’d be contacting the school’s DSL with a link to http://www.nncee.org.uk/attachments/article/225/A%20Guide%20to%20Child%20Performance%20Licensing%20May%202016.pdf so they can check things from that angle, and asking whoever’s responsible for the organisation of each production to share copies of the permissions license they purchased for that particular production with you first prior to allowing any filming to take place.

A lot of the Mid2012's were subject to a factory recall on the GPU, which would begin to desolder itself if it got too hot... once this process began, behaviour as you're describing was regularly experienced. Mine ended up horrendously flakey before I finally got round to taking it in for sorting out. When it behaved, all was well, but sporadically it'd switch off and reboot. Sure-fire tester is Unigine Heaven benchmark. If when you run this the MBPro immediately conks, then it's highly likely that it's GPU death. The factory recall to get the logic board swapped out for a replacement ended in February last year I think...

NationalTrust (well, Digitas LBI, who developed the site for them) specifically use slick - the last carousel you'll ever need (a quick right-click > view source revealed that simple nugget of info). For alternatives, just google 'Ken Burns jQuery' (Ken Burns popularised with the whole pan/zoom concept using stock archive photos in his video documentary work, so the technique is generally named after him). And if the company designing your site couldn't work that one out for themselves, I'd seriously be shopping elsewhere.

Did you use the "non-free" install images that include firmware support for non-standard devices? Index of /cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware Shouldn't be necessary but just makes life more convenient... Destructions for R630 but should be fine for R530 at Installing Ubuntu 14.10 on a Dell R630 with PERC H730 hardware RAID 10 - mmmm (uBuntu, but should also work for Debian)

Go to ePortal, view the SSL certificate via the web-browser, it'll tell you the company that issued it (i.e.: where your employers purchased it from). Contact them for a new SHA-2 based certificate. If using a self-generated certificate, then that's done entirely locally on your server, and just needs a new one generating and installing. See https://jetsupport.jetreports.com/hc/en-us/articles/235636308-How-To-Create-a-SHA-256-Self-Signed-Certificate for instance.

We talking eUKHost Ltd per chance??

/me Looks at my 10-point multitouch trackpads and monitors that I've been using for years on OSX... Tell Clevertouch to shutup with their "concerns" I'm afraid. Problem is entirely outside of OSX/MacOS (i.e.: their drivers)

Ossett Academy & Sixth Form College are on the look out for a Data, Systems & Exams Manager - £30-35k/pa, Full-time, 37hrs per week. "The successful applicant will be responsible for the leadership, management and development of student data across the Academy & Sixth Form, will be responsible for managing all aspects of Academy examinations, and take a strategic lead on Academy information systems and provision of statistical analysis. The successful candidate will be suitably qualified with excellent analytical skills, demonstrable organisational and leadership skills, with an eye for detail and precision in delivery of objectives." OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE POST: Lead and manage all aspects of the Academy Information Management System (SIMS) across the Academy and Sixth Form. Manage a team responsible for data, timetabling, and Academy Examinations, and ensure the day to day operations of systems, all data, assessment and curriculum information is accurate and up to date. Lead on provision of statistical analysis of student data and examination information. Lead on provision of statistical data for external bodies including DfE. Contribute to partnership working with other schools and academies. To uphold and promote the Academy’s child protection and safeguarding policies and procedures and ensure they are adhered to by all staff. To promote the safety and wellbeing of students. For the full job spec see: http://www.ossettacademy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Recruitment-Brochure-Data-Systems-and-Examinations-Manager.pdf Closing Date 30/3/2017, at noon. Interviews to be held week commencing 3/4/2017.

No right or wrong answer really... Personally I'd say encode to H264 compatible MP4 files using Handbrake. Video: 720x576 @ 25fps... shouldn't need more than 1Mbps max / target datarate. Ideally constant bit rate, not variable. Audio: 44.1khz, mono, 16bit, AAC audio, 112Kbps tops. The above should be more than enough to not lose any significant quality but keep the file sizes down.

Those suggesting MovieMaker - Windows Live MovieMaker (i.e. part of the Windows Essentials 2012 package) has been discontinued (as of Jan 10th 2017)... see https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/18614/windows-essentials In short, if you don't already have the Windows Essentials installer package downloaded, you can no longer get it from any official sources. You're reliant on someone on here sharing it with you, however, better to go with an alternative in the short-term until the Creators Update is released in April.

Have a look at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1196353 & https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions No real straightforward answers, but if you've run out of space unexpectedly, find out what has consumed that space unexpectedly... as your server may have been compromised. First thing to do would be to check output of 'df -h' to find out what partitions you actually have. If /tmp isn't on it's own partition, that'll be your first place to start emptying. Next place would usually be to check /var/log for excessive sized log files that can be handed off to storage elsewhere on the network / downloaded... and if it indeed turns out to be the case that logs are swelling and eating all your space then you'll need to look into the server's log rotation strategy, and then WHAT is filling those logs. (And usually /var is on it's own partition also... to prevent swollen logs from crashing the system).