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This is the way. Lots of our teachers commented about how good that setup is. The 'space' in the middle is also useful: fill it with some desks to gather around for demo's or non-computer work.

yeah. Confirmed. If I log out I get: I guess they are trying to claw back all the money they sank into it.

I don't have this problem; ChatGPT and Gemini will both summarise external sites for me. (is this because I have company paid GPT?)

Reason 408 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure NSFW

Most of the Google exports are in an open standards format, so it should be as simple as scripting the download and uploading. This will get all the data, https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM . Find the equivalent MS tool that imports and you should be good to go. (assuming the MS API's are as good as googles)

Run their system compatibility check, then fix accordingly IMO https://syscheck.bridge.psiexams.com/?filters=system:bridge,version:standalone,code:chromeext&lang=en%20

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/ It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

Somehow I misread the title as WhichMis - BromCom sues third authority in Wales

I don't believe warranty on server hardware is necessary, I'd even go as far as to say it is bad practice. My reasoning is as follows: All hardware breaks, it is 100% guaranteed to fail. Warranties on servers re-enforces the idea that they are 'special' and can't go offline - this is the wrong attitude because if fosters a lack of resilience on systems, which should be clustered and have resistance to failure. What we should be doing is treating the servers as cattle and not pets. If a server has a hiccup, don't bother fixing it, take it out the back and shoot it then replace it. Spend the money on more, cheaper servers ( I've clustered gaming rigs in the past for a fraction of the cost of 'server hardware') and forget the warranty. It's a big architectural and mindset change if you're used to having one or two high cost, high spec servers but I believe it's a better choice.

Sorry I don't know. Apparently we have "Google Workspace Enterprise Standard" : I don't know what equivalent edu that is.

Our company did a huge database upgrade this week (ie, entire platform down for over an hour). The work was all done remotely via Google Meet with six engineers on the call. Google made an AI transcript of the entire event and wrote it up as a document with summary and detailing all the pertinent points. It even managed to miss out the waffle. There were a couple of inaccurate points where it didn't hear correctly, but overall I'd give it a 9/10. I was genuinely impressed. A tiny amount of editing and it will go in the postmortem notes (we do a postmortem even for successful changes)

This looks like user damage. On the plus side, they are pretty easy to replace if you have the right equipment. Chances are there is a local electronics repair shop that will do it.

It doesn't comply with GDPR due to the points given in the investigation But anyway it's moot because nobody cares and nobody is enforcing it.

I mean if someone can pull out an up to date license agreement where it says you are allowed to give third parties access to SIMS then perhaps we can clear this up.

That was my understanding. I'm not a lawyer, but what's in the contract is legally binding. No matter how stupid it is.

That's why everyone was so shocked that the CMA didn't seem to bat an eyelid when ESS put it in their contracts.

I'd dig out the license agreement and check whether you are allowed to share ESS's 'intellectual property' with third parties if they are NOT doing a migration. What I read explicitly called it out as a breach of the license /forums/mis-systems/236561-ess-trying-make-harder-migrate-away-sims-2.html#post2025255

third parties can't do this without breaching ESS's T+C ; you're not allowed to give them access to the database..

If you get detained for not doing the homework, or for getting less than 90%, I'm pretty sure my motivation would be to not bother at all.

There's a python app for this: https://github.com/JoshData/convert-outlook-msg-file

That's literally what management consultants are for: When it all blows up, it's not a management failure because that's what the consultant recommended. They are hired to deflect blame for a decision that had already been made. SLT are not willing to plough more money in, reduce the number of computers, or change the operating system. The only thing left to them is to defend that position, so from that point of view the consultant route seems reasonable. Personally I think they should cut their cloth to suite the budget and just ditch windows.

Oh, apparently it's been baked into Google workspace for the last 14 years https://gmail.googleblog.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-got-wrong-bob.html

Back in 2010 we had this solved with this excellent Gsuite plugin "got the wrong bob?" I'm not sure what happened to it? Is is baked into Workspace now?

This is the argument the EU was having with Microsoft, and all those 'bans' on 0365 a couple of years ago - because MS couldn't guarantee they processed the data legally. Essentially because they also have to abide by US law too. https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2024-03/24-03-08-edps-investigation-ec-microsoft365_en.pdf

The hidden cost is the forcing TPM hardware, without the registry hacks. We used to buy 'perpetual' licenses. £30 would do us ten years (the lifetime of the OS), so we could afford to upgrade the hardware. Now it's just a rip off.