Office Word 2011 – An Annoying Little Bug
Today I take a gentle swoop away from networking into the world of documentation. Specifically, I’m looking at a bug in Microsoft Office Word for Mac that drives me bonkers.
Custom Properties
The management of custom properties in Microsoft Word has never been the most elegant part of Word’s interface. The mechanism by which the property values are managed has always been a bit clunky and unfriendly, but at least in the Windows version of Word, it at least functioned as stated.
In Office for Mac however, there’s a bug when you select a property to edit. Since it’s easier to show than tell, here’s a quick video demonstrating the issue.
Now isn’t that a silly bit of coding? Yes, I thought so too! Microsoft just announced availability of the Office 2016 Mac Preview, but sadly Document Properties is not yet available:
If you find out before I do, please let me know!
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Decide!
Last week we talked about orienteering — using models and information to orient ourselves to what’s going on in the network. This is part of the OODA loop, which we talked about two weeks ago. This week, let’s look at the next step — decide.
In fact: Decide! Now! How many hours have you spent thinking through what to decide? Which car to buy, which house to buy, which vacation to take, which… It seems like our life is a continuous stream of decisions through which we must dig deeply to make a choice. Sometimes it makes you want to replace your entire outfit with grey and black. Everything. Actually, we should feel blessed to have so many decisions — at least we’re not considering “eveningvear…” (note the ever fashionable flashlight).
But the last place you want to be is in the middle of a major network outage or attack, spending hours deciding — what was it we were deciding? By the time you get to the fifth pizza and the tenth box of bonbons, maybe you’ve forgotten what you are sitting in that “war room” for. There is another alternative, of course.
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CCIE vs CCDE
Probably one of the mostly asked questions by the networking experts. CCIE vs CCDE. How many times you asked yourself or discussed with someone else about this ? I think many times. right ? I have CCIE Routing Switching and/or Service Provider, should I continue to Design certificates such as CCDE or should I study… Read More »
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HTIRW: Reality at the Mic (1)
We’ve talked a little about the structure of the IETF, and the process a draft follows when moving from submission to draft to RFC… The perennial question is, though — why does it take so long? Or, perhaps — why is the IETF so broken? Let me begin here: the IETF is a human organization. […]
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Estimating BGP Convergence Time
One of my readers sent me this question:
I have an Internet edge setup with two routers connected to two upstream ISPs and receiving full BGP routing table from them. I’m running iBGP between my Internet routers. Is there a formula to estimate convergence time if one of my uplinks fail? How many updates will I need to get the entire 512K routes in BGP table and also how much time it would take?
As always, the answer is it depends.
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