Network World: How one network exec persuaded coworkers that the network is not always to blame.
Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler talk to NetQoS customer Josh Hinkle of the American Heart Association about how his organization improved application delivery.
Josh pointed out that they wanted to get to the point where people did not always assume that the network was the source of every application degradation issue. With this in mind, they set out to implement better alerting and reporting and to improve relationships with partnering technology departments. They also set out to lower the mean time to repair (MTTR) a trouble by quickly identifying problems. …
One of the interesting aspects of Josh’s situation is that he implemented some of the same tools from NetQoS as did the other reader. Josh, however, described an environment that is much more cooperative than the reception described by our other reader.
We also had a chance to talk to that other reader, if you’ll recall.
Ars Technica: Apple: Firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones “permanently inoperable.”
Remember yesterday’s post about the iPhone “sucking on purpose?”
Apple said that a firmware update to be released soon will “brick” iPhones that have been SIM-unlocked.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week reiterated the company’s stance on unlocked iPhones: Apple will work against them. “It’s a constant cat and mouse game,” Jobs said.
Hey, Steve, you know those cartoons, where there’s a big cat trying to catch a little mouse – let me ask you something. Do you think anyone ever roots for the cat?
Microsoft.Public.Excel: Bug in Excel 2007
In Excel 2007 (but not in previous versions) multiplying 850 by 77.1 results in an answer of 100,000, not 65535.
What’s even stranger is this: Suppose the formula is in A1.
=A1+1 returns 100001, which appears to show the formula is in fact 100000 and a very Serious problem.
And if you multiply be say, 2 you get something else:
=A1*2 returns 131070, as if A1 had 65535. (which it should have been)
=A1*1 Keeps it at 100000.
=A1-1 returns 65534
=A1/1 is still 100000
=A1/2 retuns 32767.5
Using MAX() on a range appears not to see 100000.
Or, in other words: Excel 2007 has a big problem. How big? No one knows, because they calculated the size of it using Excel 2007.
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