Another article on Excel idioms; this one’s about dates. It’ll be useful for some.
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Clashing Cameras and video conferencing.
I have had Zoom fail to connect to the camera on my PC over the last couple of days. Zoom say to make sure that other camera using applications have detached. I used [ctrl][alt][del] to start the task manager and noticed that Teams was still running. So I used the end task button and the…
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Event Monitoring
My recent problem with the Raspberry Pi is an event monitoring and notification problem. It’s one, that over my career, I have spent a lot of time considering, but today, I only have one server. I don’t think I need or want to afford something like Zabbix, which comes with a series of event monitors…
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Raspberry Pi and messages
I logged into find my disk too full to use. Why didn’t it tell me? Here are my notes.
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Jamstack
I am advised that this is the really hot tool set to build websites with. Here are my notes.
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Swapping Norton with Windows builtins
Things improve! I have just uninstalled Norton Ultra to replace it with the windows 10 builtins; previous experience has made this seem hard and risky. Hopefully not now it would seem.
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Logitech K380
I bought a Logitech K380 for use with my phones and new tablet. It’s manual is here, and it connects to the tablet with a US keyboard configuration. This can be reconfigured using the Android setup bluetooth screens. … To pair/connect, press one of the yellow buttons until the white light flickers, make the client…
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Instant Ink
I have finally succumbed. I have subscribed to HP Instant Ink. What’s not to love? Ink arrives, you run out, you replace the cartridge, rinse and repeat. The good news, it doesn’t start until you insert an instant ink cartridge, the bad news, they won’t report on your usage until after you subscribe and the…
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Kindle device names
KIndle might be the best way to read .pdf books, now I have a tablet, but uploading them is not as easy as I’d hoped. Here are my notes. …
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Responsive web sites using CSS
I decided to simplify my site at davelevy.cc and make it look like a linktr.ee page. This is best done using CSS and so I used some very simple HTML, and a bit more complicated CSS. I used the viewport declarations and @media queries. (It’s not perfect yet and needs some more work). Here are…
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NEC blogs, an aggregator
I made an aggregation of the NEC blogs I could find, it’s not finished as I need to install some margins, make it responsive and possibly reposition the meta panels. I looked at my snip, Planet (Venus) themes (CSS) and revised it slightly, otherwise here are my notes. …
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Two pane search of this blog
I want to build a custom search page for my whole blog space, you’d think it was easy, but it seems not. I am looking to parameterise the use of keywords or tags. Here are my notes and links.
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Home IT spring cleaning
I need to do some spring cleaning on my laptop. Here are my notes
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W10 and a new boot disk
If buying an SSD for a deskside windows system, it is best to configure the new disk as the book disk since the SSD will then also provide the swap file location, and the location for most of the software binaries. How might one do this? Here are my notes.
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Cross Border Data & Brexit
The Daily Mirror commented on the impending end of the Brexit transition period and SME compliance with any new data protection rules. They have a couple of Govt. officials and ministers saying that people had better get ready. In my linkedin post on the topic, I suggest it might be a bit late and we…
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