Posts by Danny 14

Re: Drivers?

NUC here at home under the TV, it dual boots KODI with a secondary of W8.1, no way 10 was going on it. They are great little machines and perfect for steam streaming or media boxes.

Re: MS : From bad to worse to pathetic

1709 here, our first W10 was 1604. 1809 is being missed out of course, we have a while to see what the next whack-a-mole stable version is.

Re: Freeoffice et al

exchange 2019 doesnt support outlook 2010 but 2016 does. We are now actively looking at transitioning from MS office to libreoffice and using OWA for email with our exchange server. Afterall, if you use office 365 then it is browser based anyway so why not just use OWA? Apart from additional CALs it will be significantly cheaper for us in the longer run.

Re: Scottish passport

and intestines,liver and kidneys boiled in a sheep stomach (perhaps they dont taste nice deep fried?). Mmm hearty breakfast (not a mickey take I do like haggis)

Re: Smart meters do not save energy

spending 13bn on windfarms is a silly idea. There is plenty of generation but not necessarily dependable generation at peak demand. 13bn would be better spent on hydro storage schemes that can be reverse pumped at shallow cheap demand and forward run at peak demand. Paired with windfarms that could generate at 3AM would be great (or nuclear that cant really be shut down).

Re: OK, but why ....

these meters are utterly useless and ive actively told both the rollout board and our provider to basically fuck off and stop bothering me. It benefits me in precisely zero ways. I dont care how much I am using. Im not turning my router or web server off, i have has heating and a tumble drier that goes on when i can be here rather than schedule when im not and could catch fire without noticing. I have LED lights and know what my usage is monthly. Smart meters are an utter waste of money.

Re: They're not knocking ECC

it also doesnt say what happens if you run extra ECC such as dell advanced ECC mode. That is in addition to the chip ECC themselves.

they do, and they have taken up the fight as part of their responsibilities. What more would you have them do? They cant drop a signed contract over this as MS wont have broken any laws until proven.

Re: "Head on a pike"

thing is, individuala can file an ICO complaint. These are taken on a case by case basis. Just because the gov settles doesnt mean john smith is covered under that breach.

Re: Even if data were stored in EU, MS would be still in breach of GDPR.

plus enterprise get a separate set of GPO settings that really limit telemetry (but still not disable) and common users are specifically told in the gpo that they cant disable. That should also be in breach.

Re: "The Dutch authorities are working with the company to fix the situation"

we have started to move to libreoffice. Ironically its because we get a cheaper deal with office 365 outlook (i disable everything else on the tenant). so its 365 outlook and libreoffice.

Re: What about Windows 10 that Office is sitting on?

fine them in holland. then get germany to fine them too. And france.

soon i suspect they will get the message.

Re: Go home, use fiber...

this would also affect tethering. My plan allows tethering.

competition is a lot greater in the UK. The EU is a big help in enforcing change when operators take the piss too.

Re: If only

just run a private VPN on a VPS. Unless you run serious Gb a month (unlikely on cell) then it ia only a few bucks a year.

Re: What century is this?!

i inherited a lot of "select * from table where thing = '" + strinput + "'" in an aspx intranet. I was bloody frightening they hadnt been hit before. Idiots.

Re: Oh boy, ME

windows 10 is still sold on 32 bit machines. Many windows tablets still run 32 bit version.

As an ex RSO sgt I can only say the signals platoon was generally loved by all as we had three commodities coveted by the rest of the infantry platoons: constant electricity, AA batteries and the sat phone (plus the old HF to BT phone - i am talking late 80s early 90s here)

Re: There are no teachers

plus computer science is only an option for years 10 up. You also have to teach yrs 7 to 9 with all the other topics ranging from online PREVENT, government mandated topics, typing practice, basic coding to students who juat want to play sport and arent going to pass english (true stereotypes) . Possibly ECDL to computet illiterates (and staff).

Teaching IT means you also teach borderline maths groups at year 7 and 8 too, expect the odd other IT lesson come your way.

All this under the constant scruiny of attain 8.

I have a BEng and found teaching a big transition in the early days.

the downvotes are coming along as it is an elitist comment. Not every student who takes a subject is entirely up to the task. Computer science needs a lot of maths and a fairly abstract mind. This doeant mean a student should be discouraged from learning.

Not all students are bright and some will never amount to high grades, this doesnt mean you should give up on them. I had one student who got a 4 last year - they were over the moon and so was I as the value added was +1. However, on attain 8 this 4 was given as a bad result even though value added was a major positive. Stats are simply that, stats.

As above, physics on 80% plus simply shows anyone who cannot potentially achieve an A will be taken out and put into single science or double science. Good for stats but possibly bad for student A level entry. All in the name of school stats. I bet the value added on that physics would be net 0 or possibly minor negative.

Re: Practical programming exams? I was doing that 25 years ago.

up until a few years ago I used to invigilate a practical GCSE exam where students were required to make a database to spec, integrate into a simple website using language of choice.

second practical would have a spreadsheet with formulae and a document write up and presentation.

all offline with no internet or email.

Re: In my experience

running python and using IDLE is hardly a massive undertaking. Core2duos with 2gb ram (albeit with an SSD) on windows 10 works well enough. 7 year old refurbished optiplex 760s do the job just fine.

mysqlworkbench isnt resource hungry either and you only need a small server to handle mysql for students.

The issue is the teachers who are willing to learn python. Maybe even start off with a bit of small basic to learn concepts.

Re: Oh, please...

up until 2 years ago the igcse was 2 practical exams and 1 theory exam. It worked well, then it changed to theory only which was a shame. The practical element took some setting up but worked well. We used python and mysql though the exam was supposed to be open ended.

Re: Interesting...

agreed though i usually turn 4g off as my phone runs for longer on H+. H+ guves about 20Mb which is more than enough for everything I do.

I see no point to 5g on a phone unless it is a tether point for a building.

aluminium cable up here. loss is measured in meters rather than km on that. luckily the green box is over the road, we still only get 59Mb out of 80 due to the shite cable. Still im not moaning as i realise it is a lot better then others get.

Re: the number thing is weird

we use a vodafone backup fibre at work. 25 a month and its been rock solid for us. we pipe all the guest internet through the backup and cut that if we failover. router was a standard thomson affair which we put into modem mode and plugged into our pfsense box.