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{ Monthly Archives } February 2009

A comprehensive how-to set up a wireless network (securely) with Windows XP guide

I wrote this how-to guide a while back, however thought I would publish it on my blog in response to: Stop Internet Poachers from Stealing Your Wi-Fi by Rick Broida. My advice to people is diametrically opposed to Rick’s, so hopefully between the two there’s a solution that best meets your requirements Disclaimer: This is [...]

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Google Earth Update Review [v5.0.11337.1968 (beta)]

The other day I updated my Google Earth installation to 5.0.11337.1968 (beta) and was happy to see some new functionality: Flight Simulator Fly a F16 (a.k.a. “Viper”) or old-school SR22 over your house. As far as I know, this function was previously available to Google Earth Pro users only. Not advisable for those who already [...]

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The weighing twelve (12) balls riddle – which one is a different weight?

This is a riddle that a friend (Carl “Chunky” Benson) put to me a few years back. A few A4 pages of scribblings and I had accounted for an “answer” for almost all possible outcomes (almost), however, I never arrived at a complete solution. There’s every chance that I’m just hopeless at Maths, so prove [...]

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Matching data in a table in Excel® using INDEX and MATCH (- a VLOOKUP alternative)

This article describes an extremely basic Excel® function (well, two functions actually) and is more a test of my new WordPress installation than anything else It describes how you can use the INDEX() and MATCH() functions to look up data in a matrix. Background to VLOOKUP() Many users are familar with the VLOOKUP() (vertical lookup) [...]

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