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Thanks to all for suggestions. I don't have a microwave so I couldn't test that (though I'd have thought some apple would have been required too?) - and for all those suggesting the airing cupboard . . . with the installation of a combi boiler a few years ago, mine is sadly no more. Should have mentioned that the first thing we did was whip the battery out . . . happily the radiator did the trick and the device is back to its old self. And while I am glad I am not buying a new BB, I am even more so not to be buying a new iPhone [kerching!] ;-)

Per procedure, I placed it in a plastic pot full of rice, wrapped that round with cling film and put it on a radiator for a couple of hours. Just checked it. Now I have a Blackberry full of water AND rice.

Hello. Is anyone able to recommend PAT testers in the Herts area? The last bloke we got in (despite being told not to touch the servers) pulled one out, dislodged the (PS/2) keyboard and mouse plugs, put them back in the wrong sockets and then disappeared without saying anything. Cue panic when the server wouldn't boot.

You can buy widgets like this: SIM Reader and Writer : SIM Card Readers : Maplin Electronics I've never used one, and picked that particular link purely because it was the first one the search returned.

Greediness is correlated with available biscuit volume. Let me explain. Here at work we once had a cake tin that was about 40cm high (it had some huge Italian cake in it to start with). As an experiment we decided to see how many packets of biscuits we could get in it - I can't remember now how many, but it was a sufficiently large number that we had to use Value ones in order to make the experiment affordable. It was a LOT. We took bets on how long the biscuits would last. Some people estimated time to completion based on an average consumption of biscuits per person per day, but those of us who have experience with doughnuts knew better. Doughnuts work like this: - someone buys some doughnuts - people help themselves - as the number of doughnuts decreases, people are less likely to take a doughnut - eventually you've one doughnut left - someone cuts it in half and takes one piece - nobody eats the final half, and it is either thrown away by the cleaner or found behind a desk several weeks hence So some of us applied the doughnut model to the biscuit tin experiment, and this proved to be correct. Half the biscuits vanished in moments, and as the days went past the number of biscuits taken per day decreased, until after quite a long time there were two and a thin film of crumbs left. Conclusions: Firstly, Value biscuits aren't too bad when dipped in tea. Secondly, people don't want to be seen as greedy, so modify their consumption based on the resource available. If there's a lot, you can have a lot; if there's not much, you should have not much. In other words: from a full packet, six hobnobs is nothing. Go on, have another. But if you take the last one, you're a greedy swine.

Lovely moment in the playground yesterday at the end of the day when, as he was escaping from the classroom, an excited year 6 shouted across to his mum to ask whether it had arrived in the post that morning. She replied that it had, and that she'd been playing it all day. He was unamused.

I'd have thought bets were off re: Internet filtering? Various phones these days operate as wireless hotspots, so if you've got one of these you can hook your tablet or laptop up to the Internet wherever you are. SMT should not sign up to this on the assumption that all Internet access within the site will be through the filter.

I've a couple of Edimax adaptors at home and they work fine (though aren't subjected to anything more strenuous than Youtube and Club Penguin (*not* by me)) - this is on Windows 7 64 bit.

I've never used CSNewMedia but it is a name that keeps cropping up whenever this top is raised. Although a little more expensive than you mention, I've had a couple of VPSs with Eukhost for some time now and I've not had any problems with them, and their support is pretty responsive.

You'll be able to find the port in use by examining the relevant entry for that server in the tnsnames.ora file. Your proposal is risky because: - you'd be exposing the database server to the Internet, meaning it will be very insecure - if the database is across the WAN from your application server then the performance may well be quite poor You'd be better putting the application server in a DMZ attached to the DB server's network, thus protecting the Oracle server and improving bandwidth between the two servers.

Never mind all that . . . . today we learned that there is a Pylon Appreciation Society (Pylon Appreciation Society - Pylon Appreciation Society).

;-) . . .

If you can connect to the main switch and send/receive fine, then the problem must be local. The beginning of your post says 'sending and receiving pop3 emails' but from the error you have there it looks like the problem is just sending, not receiving - is that right? In which case it looks like it's an SMTP problem. It seems odd that setting change would happen to two smoothwalls at once (assuming the problem occurred with both as of the same moment . . ?) - so do you have any other security things in place that could be affecting this, e.g. desktop firewall profiles? Does a send/receive work if you turn off any desktop firewall?

I'd noted that this app: PC Inspector - kostenlose Software fr die Datenrettung von CONVAR - Die Datenretter. (click on File Recovery 4.x) had been recommended on Edugeek for USB recovery. It's worked for me on the one time I've tried it, never compared it with anything else though.....

Yup, I didn't explain that very well!

I am not sure I am convinced about their opening a port onto your server being a danger to the entire infrastructure, but I can appreciate their not being crazy about the idea. A halfway house could be implementing Terminal Server over SSL, which will require an additional server at your end (sat inbetween the TS and the Internet), but the users will still be able to use a bog-standard RDP file to connect. Here's a good guide: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Configuring-Windows-Server-2008-Terminal-Services-Gateway-Part1.html

Hello Previously this was covered by FMSiS, which was pretty rigorous but didn't specify 3 quotes at all times (section 4.2, here: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110202132017/http://www.fmsis.info/uploads/G3A.doc) - rather that things were being done 'appropriately'. Some places will have a lower limit than @dezt, for example. FMSiS has now been replaced by a much smaller document, which is as far as I can tell a large checkbox next to the statement, "Are you doing it right? Are you? Are you *sure*? Well that's OK then", but has the same gist. The important thing is to demonstrate that you have been diligent, and can back up your purchasing decision (e.g. why didn't you get three quotes, why didn't you just get the cheapest one).

There's a few Windows -> Mac guides around, e.g., Switch 101: On Windows, I used to... - I reckon these would give you a starter as to what are likely to be the FAQs, plus a head start on the text. Also: A Windows User's Guide to the Mac OS

What a fascinating question. I also don't know, though there's an interesting snippet here: HowStuffWorks "Social Learning in Macaque Troops"

Couple of points on this are: - the study found that people knew they were in real life - people reacted with their conditioned response - in other words, if you were, for the sake of argument, about to murder someone, then you'd try to do it by attempting to press some buttons. I'm not going to worry about this until we start reading about people being battered to death with Wii remotes or strangled by joypad cables. Slightly better coverage of this here: 'Game transfer phenomena' and the problem of perception | Technology | guardian.co.uk And quite a nice Mario-themed discussion here: Consensual Hallucination : The Last Word On Nothing Right, lunchtime. I'm off to buy three identical pieces of fruit and some ammo.

Hi there. I am not a MySQList but this looks like the error you get from SQL Server where it tries to compare two columns of incompatible collations (i.e. in a join). So, column tableA.column is utf8_general_ci, tableB.column is utf8_unicode_ci, and your're running a SQL statement that attempts to join on these two columns. In the SQL world the fixes are to either change the collation of one of the columns or to alter your query so that it's specifying the collation to use. The thing to do is *probably* to change the database collation, but it might be worth googling ' change database collation' and see if you can find horror/success stories on doing this . . . .

Check the account that the SQL Server service us running under - that'll need permission to the folder (likely to be system or network service, depending on the install).

Sorry to answer a question with a question (particularly as I have no idea what the answer is), but I wanted to ask if you've consulted your LA about this? Our has a visual impairment unit who specialise in supporting kids in schools, and I've known them come out and do an assessment of a child in her classroom and be able to make IT-relevant recommendations based on their observations of the child's needs. I've had a quick google and it looks like these guys (Hearing and Vision Support Service - dorsetforyou.com) are an equivalent bunch in your area. To throw an idea at your question - it looks like you're just wanting to view the classroom computer's screen on another device - something like VNC would work for this (looks like there's Android and IOS viewers now) so that may work - you might have a security concern about this tablet being able to view the computer only when appropriate though..... Or at lower cost, add a second monitor to the PC (though that would tie the student to a particular location in the room).

Clearly this man has spent too much time watching Batman.