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We use a Juwel AutoFeeder (they're my boss's fish that I just maintain). It can feed once every 24 hours, or in addition 6 hours after the first feed twice a day (so 10am and 4pm every day). Feed size is adjustable (but requires very delicate handling: one notch is a monumental difference in dispensed food). We apparently used to have flakes in it, but they got stuck and didn't dispense properly. Now we give them these pellets which dispense much better. We have some Cardinal Tetras and Denison's Barbs.

You'd be looking at something like the following: Dim input1 As String 'Check if there are any command line arguments. If Environment.GetCommandLineArgs.Length > 1 Then 'Get the command line argument at the second position (in Visual Studio, the first position '0' is taken up by 'the EXE's location - you'll need to check if this is the case in a finished program, I can't remember) input1 = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs(1) 'Compare the input to a string. Uses 'ToLower' to ignore capitalisation. 'A SELECT/CASE statement could be used if you expect multiple arguments. If you could expect multiple arguments 'and aren't sure of the order they'll be in, it might be worth passing these to a function to process, then returning 'a variable for each option. If input1.ToLower = "option1" Then 'PROGRAM CODE HERE End If 'OTHER OPTIONS HERE (duplicate above IF, or convert to SELECT/CASE if it's worthwhile) End If I hope that this helps you in the right direction

You didn't mention what language you are using. In VB.Net, GetCommandLineArgs would be what I'd use. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.getcommandlineargs(v=vs.110).aspx

We had a group for each Intake Year (Intake 2017, Intake 2016...) and a folder structure for work areas that matched. It meant no faffing around moving students around, and if changes were made such as disk quotas etc. then it was a batch job on an intake, as that was easier than moving students.

Andddd..... working in a business that means everyone is in, I can tell you - it's no different for us! Happy SysAdmin day to all, thank you for all your help (and pleasant company), and here's to another year!

Hi Miguel, welcome to Edugeek!

Hi regp, I'm not too sure I understand what you're asking - it may be better to start a new thread, and explaining your problem (for example "How do I export data into Excel using Visual Studio?").

Yes, they have, but it's the same on most of them. It's a possibility....The mouse in question that sparked this in my head today has small plastic pads that the silicon used to be attached to, so it's still raised off the desk.

I noticed this issue in the school I used to work at, and I've noticed it here at this business too - a couple of mice that were purchased as part of a large batch and are all working on the same surface will suddenly not want to work unless they are on a mouse mat (or piece of paper). I've tried cleaning the LED and the focusing plastic (not sure of it's proper name) but haven't got anywhere. I was wondering if you fine EduGeeks had any experience in this matter? P.S. For those with a sense of humour, I have tried offering them cheese in the past as well as removing any cats in the vicinity.

I love the idea of charge points outside peoples' houses. Free electricity for me! Or are they going to be on a pay meter/some kind of PIN allowing use? How secure are these methods going to be? How quickly might they become outdated?

Yep. But did they try using cats?

Wow, I've never tried that before, could you let me know how you moved it? We use Exclaimer Mail Archiver here at our business. Great bit of software with a fantastic array of Active Directory-based permissions. When a user leaves, their team members can still search their external emails (filtering on the Archiver allows internal emails to be separate to external ones, and AD Security groups allow team members access to their colleagues' external archive).

It does require drilling a hole in the front of the ATM - all of the ATM's around here have CCTV pointing at them, and I can't imagine drilling a gap that large in the front of (hopefully toughened) plastic will be the fasted operation in the world...

Watery think you're doing? That's knot a new pun....

Same here for power. Nothing more annoying than a single power socket on a whole wall - I MEAN WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DO THAT​

One of the most useful things in our rebuild was to have two high-level data points just below the false ceiling, one each in opposite corners of the room. These were initially for wireless access points however proved useful in offering flexibility around each room and occasionally into nearby corridors.

Surely you need something that detects if the cell is within the KeyCells range? Although, as howartp mentioned above, you could do something like If Target.Column = 'A' Then instead of using KeyCells.

If I were that plant, I'd go up the wall.

Vanilla. I've never really delved into modded Factorio, although at some point I think the Long Reach mod may be useful.

Started playing Factorio again last night for the first time in a few months. I've spent so many hours on this game, and it's too easy to lose track of time. Before I knew it I'd been on it for an hour and a half late into last night. Wow do I feel tired this morning.

This thread, right here, this is why I miss working in a school. What's a Summer Holiday? (Have a great one folks! )

How about intake year e.g. 'Intake2016', rather than 'Year 7'?

I saw that coming...

Add their intake year into the Description field in Active Directory? Create separate address books for each year?

There was some discussion related to the use of year of admission in this thread http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/185099-account-naming-strategy.html that may be of use. EDIT: Ninja'd in there whilst I was searching