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Please sign my petition
I’ve made a petition – will you sign it? Click this link to sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/130496/sponsors/ohqhhcgyIVZG1P3xmGU My petition: Petrol stations must offer the option to purchase fuel with a CO2 offset eg +1p Driving my car contributes to global warming because burning fuel produces CO2. I would happily choose to pay an extra penny or…
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New features in Excel 2016
Excel 2016 has a lot of new features to wow the power user including support for cascading IF statements and a better CONCAT function. There are also a huge number of improvements to the Pivot Table function as it integrates even more closely with the Power BI tool. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-Excel-2016-for-Windows-5fdb9208-ff33-45b6-9e08-1f5cdb3a6c73?ui=en-US&rs=en-001&ad=US Anyone who works with Sales will…
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How long does it take to reset Windows 10?
My own laptop has broken so I needed to borrow a new one from work. I took a pre-used Microsoft Surface 3. After I had transferred my data and applications it began behaving strangely. I ran and found that there were errors. Therefore I decided to reset the Microsoft Surface 3. “Reset” is a feature…
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What matters is WordPress and Office 365
Two years ago I placed a bet on what matters in IT and I said it was WordPress and Office 365. I think I won. WordPress powers 25% of the web and the new REST API coming out later this year will drive that upwards. There is a good article that discusses this here. Office…
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A review of Reformation Europe’s House Divided
I am a physicist by training and inclination and as the biologist Hans Zinsser noted in “Rats, Lice and History“, physicists often have a strong interest in theology or as he might have put it “often go off the deep end”. Reformation Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch is a magisterial review of European…
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Playing Ark Survival Evolved on a Microsoft Surface 4 Pro
My son has challenge me to an Ark Survival Evolved death match (this can only go one way) and although my Surface has 256 GB storage I don’t really want to use it up with large games such as the 40 GB Ark. In an earlier post I discussed installing a Class 10 U1-3 Micro…
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[Fixed] Cannot delete Windows 10 temporary files
We have many HP Stream devices and these have only 32 GB of storage. Windows 10 is a compact operating system and this is enough, particularly if you are mainly using them with cloud services. However there is a known bug in Windows 10 where sometimes Disk Clean-up (from disk properties or Settings > Storage)…
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How to restore a Surface image
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently published a definitive guide to backing up your home computer in which I say that home users should not rely on System Images for system backup because restoring them is so unreliable. This does not apply to corporate users who often purchase large numbers…
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How to add a static IP to a Virtualbox on your laptop
I believe that all development should be done on virtual machines because of the ability to backup and restore them as simple files. I use my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 as the host and and have two guests; a Windows 10 development box with IntelliJ and PuTTY on it and a Bitnami WordPress appliance that…
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Windows 10 static IP bug
— superseded see updates below — I am running Windows 10.0.10586 and have recently started to lose internet connectivity. When I run the trouble shooter I get the message “One or more network protocols are missing on this computer” This can be fixed by this command netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt (see my earlier post)…
Dr James Bayley 