UK Weather – 140 Years Visualised!
With our interesting November weather it couldn't be a better time to look at how our weather has changed in the last 140 years...
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How to Make Bubble Charts
Flowing data posted nice and clear instructions on how to make bubble charts using R. It's a great post, and I thought it would be a good thing to show how to create the same chart in Tableau. Readers can compare and contrast the ease...
The Joy of Six: One Against the Rest
This is the third post on simple tricks that are available in version 6. This one represents a common request we get. The client says "I want to compare the performance of x against everyone else." What is x? Well, it could be Customers, Departments,...
Tips, hints, etc.
Ok bloggers and bloggees. I recently ran into this issue while rebuilding an E-series Dell Latitude. Let's say your hard-drive on your Dell Latitude E6500 laptop needed to be replaced due to multiple disk errors reported on it. After you rebuild (aka completely format and reinstall...
The Joy of Six: Add an “About” Box
You may have seen my response to an Information is Beautiful post. Here's the viz I used in that post: Wikipedia banner testsThe effectiveness of donation appeals on Wikipedia Powered by Tableau This uses sheet tabs to create an "About this viz" tab. It is good practise...
How to Backup McAfee WebWasher Unit Configuraton
Anyone who has had the privilege of administrating a McAfee Web Gateway (WebWasher) will know that with consistent use of these devices, their configurations tend to become more and more detailed with white list entries that you have input because users will from time to time,...
A FireFox add-on to be worried about – Firesheep
There has recently been released a new FireFox add-on to help people gain access to other user's accounts. It is not the traditional attack that most people think about where they get your username and password. This new add-on for FireFox works against the cookies...
How to Import Communication Settings into an UnManaged Symantec Endpoint Protection client from the Management Console
Situation: So you have an UnManaged Symantec Endpoint Protection client that is either not updating itself correctly or is not communicating with the Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console. Here is how to migrate the correct communication settings from SEPM to the SEP client. Solution: 1st Step (Exporting the Communication Settings...
Customizing the User Registration Form in Drupal 6
If you are coming to Drupal from another cms, right away, you appreciate the flexibility of Drupal's theming system. I wanted to take advantage of this on a recent project and create a custom form for the user registration. If you have been using Drupal...
ShoreTel – Checking Work Group Voice Mails
There are several good ways to check the voice mail for a workgroup in shoreTel. Here is a list of them, and some notes on getting them to work. The manual way - You can press the voice mail button on your phone. if it does...
Using a VPN with Windows 7
USING A VPN WITH WINDOWS 7: Greetings once again Bloggees: This month's tip is for using a VPN in Windows 7. For information about setting up a VPN in Windows XP, please refer to our blog, "How to setup Microsoft VPN." _______________________________________________________________ To review, a VPN is a Virtual...
Software install gives “setup has detected that your computer needs to be rebooted before continuing” error message.
If you get a "setup has detected that your computer needs to be rebooted before continuing" error message while installing software, and a reboot doesn't do the trick, try the following: Modify the Windows Registry Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry...
