Author: Dr James Bayley
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Fixed: Office applications give security warnings each time you try to open a file on from a Teams or SharePoint site.
The fix for this has always been to add the https location to the list of Trusted Sites in Internet Explorer. This is not an option for most users because IE has gone away (good). However you can still access the old Trusted Sites dialog by typing “Internet Options” into the Windows 11 search box.…
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Fixed: Clicking a link in Teams opens Edge but you get “Access Denied” due to a profile issue
Edge now supports multiple profiles and you may accidently or deliberately have one or more profiles. You can see the current profile by looking at the profile picture at the top left. “Access Denied” happens when the default profile does not have access to the Team Site. I had this problem because my default profile…
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Why does Microsoft Teams slow down when I share my screen? – A work around.
The traditional corporate laptop is an i5 with 8GB RAM. This works great for most applications except for intense video processing. Historically that was fine but now everyone is using Microsoft Teams users may have problems when sharing their screens. When you share the screen you increase resource use (CPU, Memory, Network) and this can…
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It’s your fault Thames Water pump shit into the sea
Last week I watched an amusing “documentary” on the sewage processing by the whimsical Channel 4 comedian Joe Lycett. Unsurprisingly for Channel 4 his conclusion was that shareholders should pay to reduce the amount of sewage entering our waters by not paying dividends. This is a bit of a straw man because the largest water…
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You can’t use old phones with Virgin Media Landlines
[Off topic 26/11/2024] – This page gets quite a lot of traffic so I though I would just add a quick warning about Virgin Media’s telephone sales practices. If you buy their service you will be called by their overseas sales centre and offered various offers. The sales offers are very complicated and often misleading.…
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Good Turns For Scout Shows (PDF)
I found this book in a second-hand bookshop and I have scanned it and applied OCR for the benefit of the Scouting community. You may find it a great resource for your own gang show. Copyright of text This book does not contain a copyright notice and the forward clearly indicates that Scout groups may…
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Real-world data usage with 4G router
I have now been running my new mobile router for a week and I can see my real-world data usage. I was quite careful and I set my phone and PC to treat the router’s connection as a “metered network” and when I did a 3 hour video conference I turned the video off and…
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How to get home broadband in 12 hours using Amazon and a mobile router
I have got my home broadband from PlusNet for over 20 years who have given me excellent service over that time. The original connection was over the BT copper line to the house (5MB max) and in recent years this was upgraded to Fibre to the Cabinet (~60MB). In the last couple of years Virgin…
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How to plan a student group project
Overview It is common for students to do a group project in the final year of their studies. Outside of Academica it is well understood that the timely success of a project is governed not by the intellect or capability of the team members but the by the diligence and skill of the project manager.…
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Can we fight corruption using crypto?
Here is a very interesting article on how we can fight corruption using blockchain. The author needs help to develop her ideas. What do you think? Comment on the original article or here and I will cross-post it.
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