This piece of extremely specific Howto information is brought to you courtesy of my #vExpert trial license for VMware Workstation 11. I think Workstation was my first experience with VMware, back in the 2.x days. That or I was using vmware-server v1.x as a desktop virtualisation thing, as well as… Read More
I recently upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S4 mobile phone to Android 4.3 and immediately noticed issues with Chrome. It would flicker, and show a blank, black screen when going into the “exploded tab” view that shows you all your open tabs. Selecting a tab, and scrolling within a window, would… Read More
Neverfail have a new product coming out, their first in 12 years. It’s called IT Continuity Architect, and it’s a backup and DR quality assurance tool. What does it do? You tell it what kinds of systems you have and how important they are (usually done with Service Level Agreements,… Read More
I’ve been up to my eyebrows in business simulation preparations for my last MBA subject (woohoo!) and it got me thinking about ROA and current trends in IT. The simulations have been about manufacturing companies (cars, now sensors) where ROA is an important measure of company performance. I’d argue it… Read More
My article went live on iTNews late on Saturday night, and it got picked up by Slashdot yesterday. As we saw, the predicted results were as good as expected, and got more accurate the higher up the order we went. As promised, here’s a more detailed explanation of how I… Read More
I’ve played with R a bit more, and figured out how to find intersections and draw overlap graphs, like this: This shows the overlap between the probabilities of the number 1 and number 2 song are correct. The line at 634 is the point at which the probabilities meet. You… Read More
You may have heard by now of a neat little project called The Warmest 100. Online marketer Nick Drewe and some of his friends and workmates used some clever insight, and some simple statistics, to attempt to predict the outcome of this year’s Triple J Hottest 100. I’m putting together… Read More
I’m apparently a project manager this week, coordinating the installation of some gear that I can’t talk about. I have plenty to say on the topic of project management, but this isn’t that kind of post. This post is about statistics and contingent probability. In fact, it’s about cumulative probability… Read More
I’m procrastinating finishing an MBA assignment, so here’s how to get your shiny new Telstra 4G dongle working under Linux. I use Ubuntu, but these instructions should help you on other Linux variants as well. This process worked for Ubuntu 11.04, but I haven’t tested anything else. Let us know… Read More
Get hold of a personal finance program of some sort. I use GNUcash, but it’s probably a bit industrial for the casual user who doesn’t know accounting. There are a bunch of online ones like mint.com. Get out all your bank statements for the last financial year. Enter them all… Read More
