The need to unpivot data is a common requirement. There are a number of reasons as to why. I and my customers are primarily using Excel on Windows and so the examples below are shown in excel and rely on excel functionality.
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Wajig
Wikipedia says, “Wajig is a simplified wrapper to Debian’s package management system dpkg/APT. Wajig provides the functionality of apt-get, dpkg, dpkg-deb, apt-cache and other tools. These tools launch as a subprocess. Wajig also provides extra functionality beyond that of the stock apt and dpkg tools.”.
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Analysing the 2015 General Election
I am fed up hearing about the PLP’s 9m votes mandate. A large number of these 9m votes will have voted for Labour candidates that lost. So I decided to calculate the number of votes cast for the PLP. So something for both political geeks and excel nerds. Here’s how I did it.
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Site Blocking
The BBC have got themselves a change in the law to charge a licence fee if you use internet devices to watch BBC’s on-demand and catch up content. This was originally written before I restated my No TV declaration. Their web site makes it clear that mobile devices are covered by any licence paid irrespective…
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Fedora 24
This is quite different, in particular the System V init files don’t work any more and so I need to implement a systemd solution to mount the virtual box shared folders. I think these need to run after the vboxaddclient service. Some documentation suggests that LSB compliant scripts will work. I am about to stop…
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FOAF
I have just repaired my FOAF file. I used the following resources to do so. Others are still campaigning for an open web, so I will stay there too. If I know you and want me to hold your entry in my file, please make a comment or email me with your “See Also” URL.
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International Association of Privacy Professionals
The International Association of Privacy Professionals is setting its stall out to be the worlds key privacy professional accreditation body. It has four accreditations, the most senior of which is experience only. Here are my notes about its resources.
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APM
Seems like the Applications Performance Monitoring landscape has changed since last time I looked, here’s some links, including a route to the Gartner Report.
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Yet another wordpress theme
I need a fifth blog; I am planning to reimplement my ello feed in wordpress and so I checked out some themes, simple, sosimple, libretto and minnow. I went live with minnow.
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Digg Labs Visualisation (2007)
While transcribing my Sun/Oracle blog to this space, I coped an article which pointed at now defucnt Digg Labs visualisation tools, I said, I also took the opportunity to publicise/review some of digglabs visualisation experiments. big spy, stack and swarm. I have posted the screen shots I used here.
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Some thoughts on No SQL
A problem at work led to me run a few quick queries to determine if MoSQL was the way to go, we had some legacy code constraints and some legacy skills constraints.
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Rural Broadband
This is not a good story, it seems v. opaque and I think they’re between regulatory regims, which means the subsidy is gone.
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Naymz & Klout
I am mailed once/month by Naymz who tell me that they have discovered something interesting about me. I often login to see, but it rarely seems to be that interesting. I have not connected all my networks to it, keeping it out of Yahoo and Facebook which I treat as mainly private networks. This week…
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Windows 8.1 apps
Microsoft are encouraging the use of online accounts with windows. Not everyone wants this. I was asked by someone without an account, who uses so-called local accounts how to get into their mail when challenged for a password.
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Etherium
I attended a webinar on Ethereum, they argue they have extracted the block chain management functionality from bitcoin and implemented what they call a consensus machine. Here are some links that I was pointed at or found.
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