Published on Sunday February 19th, 2006 .
At work we use to share some Excel workbooks (systems inventories, and things like that). To avoid not being able to open such files because your coworker has already opened it, we always open them in read-only mode. The problem comes when you actually want to make change to the file!
Before we used to close the workbook, and reopen it, this time in read-write mode. Not very efficient, was it?
Recently I found those buttons available in Excel “customize toolbar” options:
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“Update File“: With that button, no need to close and reopen to get last changes made by your co-workers ! Just press the button. Like a “refresh-that-file”…
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“Toggle read-only“: This button reopen the file in R/W if it was in R/O mode (and the contrary if it was in R/W mode)
I found that buttons very useful. Couldn’t work without them now!
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Published on Saturday February 11th, 2006 .
Yesterday I installed that plugin in my blog: WordPress Related Entries 2.0. It tries to guess what posts are related to each of your posts, so you can link your related posts together and supposely ease your readers’ navigation through your blog.
The plugin can either guess the relation basing itself on the title, or use special tags that the author put in the posts.
Nevertheless, in my case I already use Jerome’s Keywords Plugin to tag my posts, so repeating the keywords twice wouldn’t be productive, so I modified Related Entries so it can work with Jerome’s Keywords format. And it seems to be working fine :-).
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Published on Friday February 10th, 2006 .
Here is a new version of my Cacti host templates for Unix systems — read HP-UX, Solaris and Linux machines and maybe other Net-SNMP compatible OS.
This new version introduces the following changes:
* I’ve splitted the “Solaris Linux ucd/net-snmp” template into two separated flavours. That way I’ll be able to tweak the graph templates of each OS according to its own particularities;
* one example of this is the CPU graph template: while in the Linux template it show nice, sys and user %CPU, in the Solaris version it now shows: kernel, wait (instead of system) and user CPU. I’ve also removed nice CPU as it won’t graph on a Solaris box.
* I’ve removed the Detailled memory graph from the Solaris template, as Solaris doesn’t seem to report such detailled metrics . It’ll only be in the Linux flavour.
Feel free to download version 1.2 of the Unix Template Set for Cacti, and use and/or redistribute it under the terms of the GPL license.
You may also check this post on the Cacti forum, for further information.
Open question: Does any of the net-snmp templates I provide (Linux or Solaris flavour) produce good results for AIX hosts? Have somebody tried it?
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Published on Monday February 6th, 2006 .
I recently discovered the Transmission, a podcast by Ryan and Jen about the ABC TV series Lost. The fact is that I found that podcast very interesting, and dynamic.
Unfortunately, the show is over, as they declared in their last episode “Aloha“.
Aloha–
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Published on Friday February 3rd, 2006 .
One month after the release of WP2.0, the WP guys have released Wordpress 2.0.1.
After testing the upgrade process on my “test” box, I’ve just upgraded my blog to 2.0.1.
I was especially bugged by WP2 troubles in handling it’s new builtin cache feature. After doing some tests that used to fail in WP2, I can’t reproduce the problem, so it seems that WP2.0.1 solves the troubles ;-) !
So, while I don’t see any strange behaviour, I will leave the cache feature activated.
UPDATE 04/02/2006: The problems have happend again! SO: 2.0.1 doesn’t solve them. I’ll disable the cache again… :-(
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