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An irreverent look at IT, architecture, C, economics and anything else I feel like. If you don't laugh at least once per post, I haven't written it properly. Relax!

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia (that's where Canberra is)

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Excel runs the world. If Microsoft removed nested IFs in Excel, every taxation system would transition to a flat rate overnight. Here's ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Western Australia (WA), Australia (that'd be where Perth is)

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If you want to buy property in Western Australia, it's helpful to understand stamp duty liability. Location of Perth, according to C...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Tasmania (TAS), Australia (that'd be where Hobart is)

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Here's my Microsoft Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Tasmania (TAS), Australia. The output of this formula doesn't ma...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in South Australia (SA), Australia (that's where Adelaide is)

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Because I'm a completionist, I feel the urge to write Excel formulas to calculate stamp duty for every state in Australia. Here's th...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Northern Territory (NT), Australia (that's where Darwin and Alice Springs are!)

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There are 244,300 people in the NT, which is about the population of "Foxconn City" in Shenzhen, China. Darwin has the lowest popu...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Queensland, Australia (that's where Brisbane is)

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There used to be a joke that if you wanted to know what Brisbane was like 20 years ago, you should go there now! Having grown up in Brisbane...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in New South Wales, Australia (that's Sydney!)

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Looking at the average house prices in Sydney makes me wonder, why on Earth do I live in Sydney?! Apparently the cost of living is more expe...
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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Excel formula for calculating stamp duty in Victoria, Australia (that'd be where Melbourne and good coffee is!)

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I've been looking for a house to buy which means I don't have Saturday mornings anymore, and my laptop overheats because I have 97 C...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Visual Studio Code for macOS error: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path

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One day VS Code worked, the next day it didn't. The error was xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/Command...
Monday, June 20, 2016

VS Code Go error: package main: burger.go:1:1: expected 'package', found 'EOF'

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If you get the following Go compiler error, chances are that you haven't saved your .go file before compilation. package main: burg...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Comparison of VMware NSX training prices around the world

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So, I'm trying to organise NSX training, and have found some regional differences in course prices. VMware NSX: Install, Configure, M...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

The 7th Guest: Placing eight queens on a chess board

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On the return leg of my Narita to Sydney flight, I was passing time playing the classic DOS game, The 7th Guest. This game was one of the re...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Automating Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) generation for Dell iDRAC

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I've been trying to get Puppet to automate the issuing of certificates to the iDRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) for PowerEdge server...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Certificate Templates not appearing in Windows Server 2012 R2-based Microsoft Certificate Authority (CertUtil error 0x80070057)

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You may have created some certificate templates in your Microsoft Certificate Authority (CA), such as a template for your VMware hosts. Dere...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Errors installing VMware ESXi dump collector: it's probably your complex password!

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The VMware ESXi dump collector installer has some vague error messages. Error 1: Login failed due to a bad user name or password. ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Upgrading Dell PowerEdge R710 firmware without an OS installed (how hard could it be?!)

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I've been automating the firmware update process for the Dell PowerEdge R710-series of servers. The intent of this automation is to en...
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