How to use VLOOKUP on Microsoft Excel
DaleVLookup allows you to check to see if cell A exists in a range of cells. This might be useful if you want to compare two lists of names, or…
Things from the City Weekly
The City Weekly is a free magazine which seems mainly supported by real estate & classified ads. Things I learnt: ASIS are looking for Intelligence Officers. Hotel guests, get ready…
nPing – Diagnosing Lotus Notes network problems
Update October 2011: nPing can no longer be downloaded, see this workaround. Lotus Notes client didn't work at the Frensham Pond Hotel, when I stayed there. Long story short Ports…
Windows Server 2008 SP1? – WTF???
Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, and it's already at SP1! WTF!?! Yeah. At first glance you may think it strange that a first version of a product would…
And it works under Vista!
Microsoft really have done a good job with application compatibility: That's right folks, it's an application written in 1992. 15 years ago. And it still works. And here's the irony,…
“Ohne mich!” (Without Me) – Some resignation etiquette
Submitted my resignation yesterday, so now I'm at T minus 4 weeks and counting. Having only having resigned from one other job in 15 years, I needed to brush up…
“What’s with all those spam ping-bots?”, says Raymond
Last December, some people started to get annoyed by the pingback-bots, and others were confused by them. What's the deal with those pingback-bots? It's all about fooling the search engines…
“Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers” – with a bug or two FREE!
From the Vista Team Blog ... In my blog post on the subject, I noted that we were going to make SP1 available to customers in stages to make sure…
We also know there are known unknowns – Network troubleshooting
Such as WAN link utilisation. Users were complaining that network performance was slow across the 80M WAN link. How did they know? Citrix users mostly ... So I ask our…
‘Plan now to eliminate “power users”; from your domains’ – or face the consequences.
Saw this today over at Steve Riley's blog Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains ... That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can…