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Excel 2003 opens workbooks very slow across the network
Just had a situation where a user couldn't open a 9MB excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet had heaps of formulas and links. When opening Excel sat there with (Not Responding) in the Title Bar. Attempted a few things in an attempt to fault find the problem: Tried...
Linux MTU Discovery
I keep having to Google how to discover the correct MTU for a link so I'm going to blog about it to save the effort. The command to test for the MTU in Linux is: ping -M do -s <bytes> <ip address> First a succesful MTU test ping: ping -M do -s 1372...
Installing Google Chromium Browser in Fedora 15
This is what I did (you need to have wget installed first. i.e su -c "yum install wget") # as root do the following cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget -nd http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo yum update yum install chromium
Getting Around the Annoying Page Contains Secure and Un-Secure Content Warnings
If you develop a HTML page and source (SRC=) some images or scripts using a "http://" prefixed URL and then try and convert the site to run securely using https a lot of browsers will rightly complain that you are trying to serve encrypted and un-encrypted content....
Tex Resource
I don't use TeX much, but I am a fan of professional quality opensource typesetting and document layout. So sometimes when I try to make a TeX document I end up in a corner wondering how to do something. Just discovered this ==> link http://tex.stackexchange.com/....
Speedtest.net Mobile Result
Test Date: Jul 6, 2011 11:32:50 pm Connection Type: Wifi Server: Sydney Download: 6696 kbps Upload: 765 kbps Ping: 81 ms External IP: 58.168.70.107 Internal IP: 10.254.239.101 Latitude: -32.72635 Longitude: 151.53099 A detailed image for this result can be found...