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How to create a stacked bar chart in Excel

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:00:54 +0000

My boss’ management is clamoring for metrics. They want to know, at a glance, what we’re doing and how far along we are. Sounds like a job for stacked bar charts in Excel to me. So here’s how to create a

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Patch management strategy

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:00:47 +0000

Vulnerability management and patch management are close relatives. In most companies, think of them as siblings who hate each other. That’s usually how it plays out. It doesn’t always have to be that way, but it takes some thought and

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Blu Studio One review

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:00:17 +0000

I needed a phone in a hurry the other day when my wife’s Moto E started acting up. We turned to the Blu Studio One, specifically model# S0110UU. This is my Blu Studio One review. It’s an inexpensive midrange phone for

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The ACLU has a point about smartphone security

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:00:59 +0000

The ACLU complained to the FTC that carriers aren’t patching vulnerable Android phones. They have a point. Phones are profitable, and the carriers are trying to have it both ways. They lock down the phones so that we can’t change

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If the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is dead, good riddance

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:08:34 +0000

If you haven’t seen, the Department of Justice voiced its lack of support for AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile USA. I find myself agreeing with Sascha Segan’s analysis at PC Magazine. A leaked letter a couple of weeks ago indicated that

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AT&T buying T-Mobile isn’t good for anyone but AT&T

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:48:26 +0000

I suspect AT&T is going to be allowed to swallow up T-Mobile, but there’s nothing good about this. T-Mobile survived solely on customer service and low prices. Let me tell you a story about T-Mobile. A couple of years ago,

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DNS and iTunes and other streaming media

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:00:07 +0000

There are reports floating about regarding third-party DNS affecting downloads of movies and other media, particularly from iTunes. So, if tweaking DNS settings used to be what all the cool kids are doing, maybe it’s about to become less trendy,

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Secret Service BBS raids from the other perspective

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:24:44 +0000

I've written in the past about the Feds busting people using BBSs for nefarious purposes in the early 1990s. But the only stories I've ever heard were from the perspective of the people who got busted, often second or third hand.

Here's a story from the side of someone who helped the Secret Service for three days in the 1980s.

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