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We had a similar issue when we made USBs read-only using Bitlocker. Our inelegant workaround was to move our IT rooms into a separate OU without the Bitlocker read-only restriction, and instead block all USB storage devices in those rooms using a Sophos policy. When the teachers want to use Microbits (they're only really used in an after school club here now), we pull that IT room from the Sophos policy, which removes the restrictions for all USB storage devices. It's not ideal, but it works for us.

I'm enjoying FH4 a lot. I'm still making my way through the seasons (I just got to Spring before stopping for the night) and I just started driving around Edinburgh last night. One thing that is a little annoying is that because there's only one Festival location at the moment, you can't fast travel from place to place unless you start buying player houses, and they appear to cost a pretty penny... I've only seen Edinburgh Castle as a player house on that side of the map so far, and it's 15m credits! I never manage to save that much in these games!

You can choose your spoken name? Ooh, must've missed that!

Perhaps I'm just at the point where it opens up, then. I've got a selection of races in different categories now, rather than just the one it wants you to do. I'll probably end up exploring a bit rather than progressing though!

Yep, Forza Horizon 4 is beautiful, and rock-solid performance on PC too. I think I just escaped the hand-holdy section before I had to call it a night - I'd unlocked the option to buy cars, finally! I also lucked out in one of the wheelspins and won a Forza Edition Lamborghini Aventador, so I look forward to trying that out tonight.

To be fair, it's nowhere near as ridiculous as Gears of War 4, with its ~110GB download... But I'll get FH4 started as soon as I get home!

I've heard the PS4 controller is better than the Xbox One controller, although I don't own a PS4. The Xbox 360 controller is better designed than the Xbox One controller, in my opinion, but my old 360 controller for PC is worn out, so I just use my Xbox One controller for PC as well these days. I've never managed to get it connected wirelessly to my PC, but any micro USB cable works perfectly. I imagine I'll be spending most of my evening downloading Forza Horizon 4. I loved FH3, once they fixed the stability and performance issues on PC. I'm hoping they've put into practice what they learned from FH3's launch!

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. She looks very happy in those photos and 17 is an incredibly good age. My family and I lost our dog at a similar age, so although we were braced for his passing, it was still a culture shock being without a dog. It took us a year to realise we needed that companionship back in our lives, and 2 years to finally get another. My thoughts and best wishes are with you.

The Incredibles 2 - If you loved the first one from 14 (!) years ago, you'll love this one too. There's a number of parallels with the first film's story arc, which is my only complaint, but it's a great sequel to a franchise that shouldn't have been sidelined for so long.

I started my 4th week last night, which has stepped up running time significantly! Last week was 2 90 second runs and 2 3 minute runs, and this week, it's 2 3 minute runs and 2 5 minute runs! I really felt it after, but hopefully, it's worth it.

I saw this thread way back, but completely forgot about it! I'll be starting the 1st run of my 4th week tomorrow. I'm really glad I've started, and I'm a bit surprised I'm 4 weeks in already!

Adobe confirmed last week that it's a problem on their end, and told us it was fixed on Monday. However, we're still seeing the problem on those PCs with no trial period remaining. Are you still seeing the issue occurring? We've found that uninstalling and reinstalling the CS5 suite doesn't help, and the only way to get them going again is to completely re-image.

Thanks Wakka - We haven't yet contacted Adobe, but the re-image seems to have kicked those PCs back into gear. However, it's now cropping up in other places around the school. It seems strange that some PCs are affected whilst others aren't, we've been trying it on our PCs in our office and we haven't once had the same issue. I'll get in contact with Adobe as well.

Hi all, We've had a small number of PCs today that, when opening Photoshop CS5, flag the license as not valid. It'll still say it's invalid after re-entering the correct license key manually. We have a site wide license for up to 500 PCs, and we're fairly sure we're not over that amount. I'm trying a re-image on a couple of PCs to see if that works. Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks in advance!

I've been working my way through slowly, until the weekend just gone... I completed Halo 2 on Friday night and started Halo 3 straight away, finished that on Saturday night and started Halo 4, then finished Halo 4 on Sunday! The campaigns seem to be a bit shorter as you get to the more modern Halos. That being said, I think the Halo 3 campaign is still the best in the Master Chief story arc so far. Halo 2 was great, Halo 4 wasn't too bad, it had good moments and some great environments. I'll be starting Halo 5: Guardians whenever I get the chance, and I can finish off what we have of the Master Chief arc. Then I might go back to Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST if I fancy it.

If anything, I'm the reverse! My mate and I are struggling to find anything co-op or multiplayer we want to play, so I've been making my way through the Halo campaigns until something jumps out at us. We always seem to have a lull around this time of year.

I saw a report that VATS is real time for Fallout 76. In other news, in my quest to play through all of the Halo campaigns again on Heroic difficulty now I have Halo: Master Chief Collection, I've just finished Halo: CE (the first). It was more difficult than I remember and really shows its age in storytelling and level design. One level took me over 2 hours to complete (Assault on the Control Room), and later on in the game, you have to do that level in reverse... The tedium really set in. By the halfway point, I was ready to start Halo 2 already! I almost immediately started playing Halo 2 after finishing Halo: CE and I'm really enjoying it. Everything Halo: CE did badly, Halo 2 gets right (at least so far!).

Not Poundland, Poundworld! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44436435

I'm fairly sure they said "Continuing Master Chief's story" but I could be wrong... It'll be interesting to see what they do with it, but it looked great!

I'm on a high this morning! Lots of awesome stuff announced yesterday.

Well, they have multiple studios under the Bethesda Game Studios umbrella... If Fallout 76 is not a traditional Fallout (which is likely, considering Fallout 4 was only a couple of years ago), then it may be that one of the other studios is working on Fallout 76, leaving the original BGS studio to work on Elder Scrolls 6? I doubt it too, to be honest, but quite a few people I follow on Twitter have mentioned this.

Thanks, I've just tried bypassing our filter and it still doesn't work (although a site that is definitely blocked works fine)... Oh well!

Hmm, interesting. It's not even getting to Media Player for us. Thanks for that!

Hi all, I wondered if anyone can play the audio on this British Library page: Auschwitz It doesn't seem to work for us and the teacher is asking why. Looks like an older web page to me, so it's probably deprecated. Thanks in advance!

I'm hoping Microsoft announce a Halo 3 anniversary update included as part of the Master Chief Collection - I've just started playing through the campaigns from the beginning and Halo 3 is the only one they haven't yet released a 10 year upgrade for, and it's overdue now. A more unlikely hope is that we might see something Star Wars that isn't Battlefront-EA-Cash-Grab announced... And of course, I'd love Elder Scrolls 6 to be announced!