tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275417572024-03-20T04:47:40.369+00:00CorylusRamblings of a freelance IT Consultant working for some nice SME's, large organisations, resellers and the usual friends and family!
Bit of a technical, Marillion and King Crimson junky. That's where the money goes - 1's and 0's.
Click on the links on the right for my website or twitter.Peter Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17234986427543872201noreply@blogger.comBlogger835125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-47872549945645414702023-09-13T12:10:00.001+01:002023-09-13T12:10:32.166+01:00Solving slow Intel AX201 WiFi on Surface Pro 7 (and why Microsoft paid for support wasn't worth it for me)<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>TL;DR</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s ToE on a Hyper-V vSwitch. Go to the end for the fix.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">The Long Version<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">After a series of upgrades (I’m not sure which ones) my Surface
Pro 7, whilst working fine seemed to be rather slow when synchronising email/OneDrive/DropBox
files. To my surprise when I looked into
it with SpeedTest my Wi-Fi connection was running at just over 1Mb download and
a measly 0.1Mb upload. No wonder!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">To check the scope of the problem, I connected to other Wi-Fi networks (including a hotspot from my phone) and got the same result.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">So I hauled
out the Surface USB Ethernet Adapter and connected directly – all was
good.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">After hunting around online I found
that I wasn’t the first to see this; and hardware was very much implicated (or
rather hardware not recovering from sleep).</span><span style="font-family: arial;">
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">I tried various solutions suggested, and stopped using sleep mode (I tend
to switch on, work, shutdown anyway).</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">To
no avail.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">So as I had a few years Business Warranty left I placed a
tech support call.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">And this had to be
the worst technical support experience I’ve had with Microsoft ever.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m not sure it ever got to the right team in
the weeks that followed.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It certainly
never got to anyone who could propose a good fix, and I’m not sure that if I had
had a hardware problem Microsoft would have even honoured the warranty I purchased
(because I could find no route that seemed to invoke it).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">I had already rebuilt the computer from scratch using the
normal tools; but despite this I was pushed to do it again, but stay off the
domain take logs and upload them.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">This I
did.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Microsoft never gave me feedback
from the submitted logs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">However *<b>good news alert</b>* - as a virgin build the
machine did have acceptable Wi-Fi performance again!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">So time to bring my machine back to useful operation.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Which (as a major part of my working life)
included recovering Hyper-V VM disks and rebuilding my test VM's.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">At which point the problem recurred.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">On a whim (as pretty much nothing else had touched
networking), I deleted the VM’s and removed the Hyper-V vSwitch. It worked!!
I was able to reliable reproduce the problem by creating and deleting
the vSwitch and checking with SpeedTest.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">I thought this would be good news for Microsoft Support, and
that they might be able to point me at something. However, the Microsoft Support team to who I was
talking said it wasn’t their issue anymore, and suggested I open a new ticket with
the Hyper-V team and to open a ticket with them – I don’t get how they can just
wash their hands and dump me to the back of the queue. But it’s what they did. Apparently support tickets cannot be moved
between the teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Disappointed I turned back to the problem.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Knowing the vSwitch was implicated changed
my attack and searched again.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I found
these two articles online</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.tenforums.com/virtualization/167867-hyper-v-causes-extreme-degradation-performance-wifi.html">Hyper-V
Causes Extreme Degradation of Performance on WiFi Solved - Windows 10 Forums
(tenforums.com)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Hyper-V-External-Virtual-Switch-Bridge-Mode-Slow-download-speeds/m-p/1227094#M31808">Solved:
Re: Hyper-V External Virtual Switch Bridge Mode - Slow download speeds on
8265AC - Intel Community</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The latter of which lead me to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/technical-guides/network-optimizations">Network
Optimizations - BizTalk Server | Microsoft Learn</a> - yes I KNOW it’s a BizTalk article – but trust
me, lateral thinking and linking can really improve your fault diagnoses and
fixes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Which finally took me to a broken page link in this paragraph:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC5bL5pKLTuo1z2nM2gCka78XPcrTIH1tcOMCG69qiHzrX7W5wsE17VoAs5o-9xn9uptNXbxTsLoT_oC0eaeyGlDDhB8XFke2RYe718GpfHc6cRwsiKmuvM3UJWrL5Va5YFDqVBV6xaYOkLeP2ps0dw9bn1XihKzxvbtDrlGZWR7-gQXz7S8wF/s708/ToE1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="122" data-original-width="708" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC5bL5pKLTuo1z2nM2gCka78XPcrTIH1tcOMCG69qiHzrX7W5wsE17VoAs5o-9xn9uptNXbxTsLoT_oC0eaeyGlDDhB8XFke2RYe718GpfHc6cRwsiKmuvM3UJWrL5Va5YFDqVBV6xaYOkLeP2ps0dw9bn1XihKzxvbtDrlGZWR7-gQXz7S8wF/w640-h110/ToE1.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">So I just BING’d the title of the article. And got to <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/network/using-registry-values-to-enable-and-disable-task-offloading">Using
Registry Values to Enable and Disable Task Offloading - Windows drivers |
Microsoft Learn</a><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hallelujah!!! Switching off Task Offloading on the network
worked. The steps to take are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Open
Device Manager and locate “Microsoft Network Adapter multiplexor Driver” <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Right-click,
Properties.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Disable
LSO settings 'Large Send Offload Version 2 (IPv4)' and 'Large Send Offload
Version 2 (IPv6)', as shown in the following screenshot.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">When they are disabled I got 75/18 MB out of an 80/20
internet connection. When enabled that dropped
to 1.5/0.1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Postscript</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">I reported this back to Microsoft with the details thinking
they’d be pleased. They just replied
with “<i>We have
escalated your support request to our colleagues in
Windows/ Virtualization and Hyper-V unfortunately they are unable to
assist thru our escalation. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Please,
contact them directly opening a new support request and choosing the support
path from the screenshot below</i>. “<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pathetic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’d
asked Microsoft for answers to these questions – if you know the answers I’d
like to hear from you, I don’t expect Microsoft will reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What is the Multiplexor
Driver (used for NIC bonding) doing in the Hyper-V setup, and how does it
fit into the overall networking picture?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Is this an AX201
specific bug (I have the same chip in Intel NUC machines here)?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Will this be resolved
with a windows update that removes the performance penalty for setting ToE
on, or default the ToE settings to disabled in a Hyper-V environment?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><br />P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-64601825197866455952021-11-24T17:13:00.002+00:002021-11-24T17:13:37.064+00:00Update on COVID number methods<p>In the charts previously published I have written ICU, I've now realised that the government stats now report people on Mechanical Ventilators (which is not the same).</p><p>I don't know for sure if the measure was changed, but I'm pretty sure last year it was ICU - I just never noticed it change.</p><p>I'll not change the charts (too time consuming), but I will put a note at the top of the posts to this one to explain.</p>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-83505303495539926772021-11-18T14:38:00.006+00:002021-11-24T17:15:04.732+00:00Covid numbers again, after half term...<p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;">*Update - please see my post on <a href="https://corylus.blogspot.com/2021/11/update-on-covid-number-methods.html" target="_blank">ICU or Mechanical Ventilation</a> for clarification of numbers shown</span></p><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;">As ever, the raw data is taken from </span><a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" style="color: #bb3300; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;" target="_blank">UK Government Stats</a><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"> and the numbers smoothed with a rolling 7 day average.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;">Overall Health Numbers (from positive tests to deaths)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">The new(ish) chart - an attempt to map the % transitioning from infection to hospital, to ICU and death with a time lag in the numbers</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAM_6lfNgE8s3Sp0H87Vvzx77NCC3w4HZIlQIkMN-Nsz3_aFgFbwsie86-OYDnsW22eXgNJYxGF41YOt9At7WAFzz5IDcFvy_TjphjaXE77bIfpAUvC8dD8tvfLAjCo-7_738e/s978/07+Numbers+as+%2525+of+parent+in+hierarchy+with+lag+20211021.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAM_6lfNgE8s3Sp0H87Vvzx77NCC3w4HZIlQIkMN-Nsz3_aFgFbwsie86-OYDnsW22eXgNJYxGF41YOt9At7WAFzz5IDcFvy_TjphjaXE77bIfpAUvC8dD8tvfLAjCo-7_738e/w400-h261/07+Numbers+as+%2525+of+parent+in+hierarchy+with+lag+20211021.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span><p></p>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-53785232294964879912021-10-20T18:02:00.001+01:002021-11-24T17:15:43.423+00:00Covid numbers yet again (it's been a while)<p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">*Update - please see my post on </span><a href="https://corylus.blogspot.com/2021/11/update-on-covid-number-methods.html" style="font-size: 12.61px;" target="_blank">ICU or Mechanical Ventilation</a><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"> for clarification of numbers shown</span></span></p><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">As ever, the raw data is taken from </span><a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" style="color: #bb3300; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;" target="_blank">UK Government Stats</a><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"> and the numbers smoothed with a rolling 7 day average.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;">Overall Health Numbers (from positive tests to deaths)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KL8d9mju0fno9bi8WxzJHeVpbENyCK-PGWV6eXx25T2aEEY4jzi7fhiapkyyyXbYQVAxwGz_eXuaPkP3iL59uIMJVOPR1R_ZfwBD28QF-MqmLa3ahmCEjPy_OIZUor0w4ZLj/s978/01+Test+and+Medical.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KL8d9mju0fno9bi8WxzJHeVpbENyCK-PGWV6eXx25T2aEEY4jzi7fhiapkyyyXbYQVAxwGz_eXuaPkP3iL59uIMJVOPR1R_ZfwBD28QF-MqmLa3ahmCEjPy_OIZUor0w4ZLj/w400-h261/01+Test+and+Medical.png" width="400" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;">Testing Numbers (performed and positive)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih95ZTJgQXPQPykSg-WhCCUy08E4nuDNlojD9E1HpEhBluF_tggCcjs-GpqDww1CGjtbdRMs2lAPSX4kIvkDu2TT8D63LEEuakZf5TaYxS7Q9E-gUXHQi-S3SV9qPS57GPDsGF/s978/02+testing.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih95ZTJgQXPQPykSg-WhCCUy08E4nuDNlojD9E1HpEhBluF_tggCcjs-GpqDww1CGjtbdRMs2lAPSX4kIvkDu2TT8D63LEEuakZf5TaYxS7Q9E-gUXHQi-S3SV9qPS57GPDsGF/w400-h261/02+testing.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;">Positive testing rate (+ve tests against tests taken), with second line removing estimated (based on 0.32%) false positives on Lateral Flow Tests (LFT)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dFJc3t55_rcnTThFvGcjGhyphenhyphenxm1ey1_fUrziFOc5ZhoBvwJYSL-A4fqRoejunnylVRG410drpIP-rUQmko95CszOTN8V2qPHoUjdyy52mDx-e6_4wNBTpNLMXJ9k7J7ANreaB/s978/03+%252Bve+testing+rate.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dFJc3t55_rcnTThFvGcjGhyphenhyphenxm1ey1_fUrziFOc5ZhoBvwJYSL-A4fqRoejunnylVRG410drpIP-rUQmko95CszOTN8V2qPHoUjdyy52mDx-e6_4wNBTpNLMXJ9k7J7ANreaB/w400-h261/03+%252Bve+testing+rate.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">Positive test percentage since Feb 1st, 2021 *AND* positive test percentage allowing for a 0.32% false positive rate on LTF</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9NU3Vii7Ytje6eRyuVsrH0IDgnTzhwPuFaPKohjlMIdcmXYDRWUz-rHq8NvvtfT3X9NWJWstwF6J70IdaKXFaMvF8LseoBlhU4tHeJIGSvqBVip0xIJmnVEjPE76LZDX4RdS/s978/04+%252Bve+testing+rate+since+1st+feb.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: 12.61px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9NU3Vii7Ytje6eRyuVsrH0IDgnTzhwPuFaPKohjlMIdcmXYDRWUz-rHq8NvvtfT3X9NWJWstwF6J70IdaKXFaMvF8LseoBlhU4tHeJIGSvqBVip0xIJmnVEjPE76LZDX4RdS/w400-h261/04+%252Bve+testing+rate+since+1st+feb.png" width="400" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">Testing volumes and the +ve test rate.</span></p><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hyphenhyphengAOY8MI1b1nAdirD1Fkm7R3Vsz6A9xvh3rfDWy2DDUBJ9vSLGaRw8M66AQQmZF6XK3qqFaX-Sg5cO7n6FeJxdTDljNlsfUl1Ac0xWqVnvGkmoUDk0rrNmMEUtAu_PYPNYa/s978/05+Testing+volumes+and+%252Bve+rate.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hyphenhyphengAOY8MI1b1nAdirD1Fkm7R3Vsz6A9xvh3rfDWy2DDUBJ9vSLGaRw8M66AQQmZF6XK3qqFaX-Sg5cO7n6FeJxdTDljNlsfUl1Ac0xWqVnvGkmoUDk0rrNmMEUtAu_PYPNYa/w400-h261/05+Testing+volumes+and+%252Bve+rate.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">And finally - a new chart - an attempt to map the % transitioning from infection to hospital, to ICU and death with a time lag in the numbers</span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSRCIO6KImNaHGyolGDyrHGglELvFqUkJcZwUo9ujf4KJhjR8i_BbGQubPKW2c7j6I0z-Jlf9GgyMvYe1wlkhTJi9Ub-zdSsGXxrGjTzmJ_NVf3czzQEFTqUxShuiScGzkuP4/s978/07+Numbers+as+%2525+of+parent+in+hierarchy+with+lag.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="978" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSRCIO6KImNaHGyolGDyrHGglELvFqUkJcZwUo9ujf4KJhjR8i_BbGQubPKW2c7j6I0z-Jlf9GgyMvYe1wlkhTJi9Ub-zdSsGXxrGjTzmJ_NVf3czzQEFTqUxShuiScGzkuP4/w400-h261/07+Numbers+as+%2525+of+parent+in+hierarchy+with+lag.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></div>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-83108923195034732642021-06-13T13:21:00.007+01:002021-11-24T17:16:08.257+00:00Covid Numbers to date (and a fifth graph!)<p><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">*Update - please see my post on </span><a href="https://corylus.blogspot.com/2021/11/update-on-covid-number-methods.html" style="font-size: 12.61px;" target="_blank">ICU or Mechanical Ventilation</a><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"> for clarification of numbers shown</span></p><p>As ever, the raw data is taken from <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" style="color: #bb3300;" target="_blank">UK Government Stats</a> and the numbers smoothed with a rolling 7 day average.</p><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">Overall Health Numbers (from positive tests to deaths)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeX8HjSclJ7BxNnQA_gHnUJRl-htr2deNvFRCiSzmyBzSbf3PV7lLpfwLqxQKUKy6dUcdOmTy7M1bApefPAmaWLunF4YZqAyLvTioT5I_3KJiKBIgxTDqTTYdcxCdZkwX0xPw/s976/Covid+-+01+Main+Numbers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="976" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeX8HjSclJ7BxNnQA_gHnUJRl-htr2deNvFRCiSzmyBzSbf3PV7lLpfwLqxQKUKy6dUcdOmTy7M1bApefPAmaWLunF4YZqAyLvTioT5I_3KJiKBIgxTDqTTYdcxCdZkwX0xPw/w400-h261/Covid+-+01+Main+Numbers.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">Testing Numbers (performed and positive)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq85TGuMCOSgy985Ua2lTavZPtvz7iE1rzIwsGWb92cW3Sl0NIMj4AKmIs5zcyIpyYKlPK4WxZpovC3E_ulmvZwhUbusVsZKH9IUt9I2Bt2JABSyLaQWF0fETsbAoiJqxfbUdU/s976/Covid+-+02+Testing+Numbers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="976" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq85TGuMCOSgy985Ua2lTavZPtvz7iE1rzIwsGWb92cW3Sl0NIMj4AKmIs5zcyIpyYKlPK4WxZpovC3E_ulmvZwhUbusVsZKH9IUt9I2Bt2JABSyLaQWF0fETsbAoiJqxfbUdU/w400-h261/Covid+-+02+Testing+Numbers.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">Positive testing rate (+ve tests against tests taken), with second line removing estimated (based on 0.32%) false positives on Lateral Flow Tests (LFT)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRA_soTnsQCb9hpna0gJTXeblez9cshvPka-5suhvekDLL9fh3ySnNvXoBhBhKlooltHGdh4vstUGulgo7r76685Jx7W8F5ykKZG4HaL6JklQXOwujIbapESWeF1-_VsYeH6K/s976/Covid+-+03+%252Bve+testing+results+%2528ignoring+false+positive%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="976" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRA_soTnsQCb9hpna0gJTXeblez9cshvPka-5suhvekDLL9fh3ySnNvXoBhBhKlooltHGdh4vstUGulgo7r76685Jx7W8F5ykKZG4HaL6JklQXOwujIbapESWeF1-_VsYeH6K/w400-h261/Covid+-+03+%252Bve+testing+results+%2528ignoring+false+positive%2529.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">Positive test percentage since Feb 1st, 2021 *AND* positive test percentage allowing for a 0.32% false positive rate on LTF</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0SUoTDdjCgh2rbw2jUYD9B3Z9T5PxncXHhmmFh0OamwKPwbRe4tp_sYWdm5trw9T-eLf-DWlc20V8m0s4n_stBCPI9s_0utc0aKniAMXTlUWtu9qzwwDN87Gi96HX4mJeiR_/s976/Covid+-+04+%252Bve+tests+since+Feb+1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="976" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0SUoTDdjCgh2rbw2jUYD9B3Z9T5PxncXHhmmFh0OamwKPwbRe4tp_sYWdm5trw9T-eLf-DWlc20V8m0s4n_stBCPI9s_0utc0aKniAMXTlUWtu9qzwwDN87Gi96HX4mJeiR_/w400-h261/Covid+-+04+%252Bve+tests+since+Feb+1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;">And finally, testing volumes and the +ve test rate.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImrswdflONzVgCSHmOCfvU8gES9lJOrpMQ0_T3dA3NLJN8E9NPfAP7cyntjHjU6oq3TnFRECTu5FFKOfvfMhyD-bYJj5dk7kfq1V3LZSjxV7jmpHhYF5xEbsmMRsh5-EeEc9e/s977/Covid+-+05+Testing+Volumes+and+%252Bve+rate.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="977" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImrswdflONzVgCSHmOCfvU8gES9lJOrpMQ0_T3dA3NLJN8E9NPfAP7cyntjHjU6oq3TnFRECTu5FFKOfvfMhyD-bYJj5dk7kfq1V3LZSjxV7jmpHhYF5xEbsmMRsh5-EeEc9e/w400-h261/Covid+-+05+Testing+Volumes+and+%252Bve+rate.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.61px;"><br /></span></div><p></p>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-50083049033463836462021-04-28T12:33:00.006+01:002021-11-24T17:16:28.296+00:00Covid Numbers to date<p><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">*Update - please see my post on </span><a href="https://corylus.blogspot.com/2021/11/update-on-covid-number-methods.html" style="font-size: 12.61px;" target="_blank">ICU or Mechanical Ventilation</a><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"> for clarification of numbers shown</span></p><p>Raw data taken from <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" target="_blank">UK Government Stats</a> these are the numbers with a rolling 7 day average to smooth out the weekends</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall Health Numbers (from positive tests to deaths)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7CoSPv8KCFk8E7-cMxzEyKTpKkzr2YVGLY_ceS2NkuvaZiYmZbwoMq0OWeXHR5QCzHL6PSjuezcmJ45o3UlGQ6i8vhLDPLZCpCDnU-vgxPUNO8-a-XIFEeB0PxifLduf0Z7M/s977/covid+3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="977" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7CoSPv8KCFk8E7-cMxzEyKTpKkzr2YVGLY_ceS2NkuvaZiYmZbwoMq0OWeXHR5QCzHL6PSjuezcmJ45o3UlGQ6i8vhLDPLZCpCDnU-vgxPUNO8-a-XIFEeB0PxifLduf0Z7M/w640-h418/covid+3.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Testing Numbers (performed and positive)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJJNXzZLHdCNiHA7KjAtNe9mfcBrBNrdELyurGSVeJkz8DKWgA5jJotLgJPSpk_bZRRHDQ5isi68DQ8CI97YJDrN6X3bFLHq4RudLSyr3GaqCgX-Fv3uU9NmjPC5vUno8pgNME/s977/covid+2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="977" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJJNXzZLHdCNiHA7KjAtNe9mfcBrBNrdELyurGSVeJkz8DKWgA5jJotLgJPSpk_bZRRHDQ5isi68DQ8CI97YJDrN6X3bFLHq4RudLSyr3GaqCgX-Fv3uU9NmjPC5vUno8pgNME/w640-h418/covid+2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Testing Volumes</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJxuxMGNGyhw7CKnsbff-E4eTWEJuYxL2r2SRk7SUV5AGcUFpBIK7NWq_OanHkciO6xQwglUbukYmkDYAUuYIk6We8b9iAk8rRRKoxQvLHdcGisSAVvx0ubBdL5a3_pCq84DX/s977/covid+1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="977" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJxuxMGNGyhw7CKnsbff-E4eTWEJuYxL2r2SRk7SUV5AGcUFpBIK7NWq_OanHkciO6xQwglUbukYmkDYAUuYIk6We8b9iAk8rRRKoxQvLHdcGisSAVvx0ubBdL5a3_pCq84DX/w640-h418/covid+1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-87184124156097542352021-03-17T14:50:00.007+00:002021-11-24T17:16:42.606+00:00Covid Numbers (again)<p><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">*Update - please see my post on </span><a href="https://corylus.blogspot.com/2021/11/update-on-covid-number-methods.html" style="font-size: 12.61px;" target="_blank">ICU or Mechanical Ventilation</a><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"> for clarification of numbers shown</span></p><p>Raw data taken from <a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/" target="_blank">UK Government Stats</a> these are the numbers with a rolling 7 day average to smooth out the weekends</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall Health Numbers (from positive tests to deaths)</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2G5cPv59iHQTG8scq925PrPoufNU9FFxah2yjpfG-QeUxV2txdciRn_ebnK6ankqsjEb-hgp5pqPSANweXSkSLUBtnsQV-jfL17ATNjPISbyf-IPzsskzvHDzCQU7qk2sXxO/s977/Health+Numbers.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="977" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2G5cPv59iHQTG8scq925PrPoufNU9FFxah2yjpfG-QeUxV2txdciRn_ebnK6ankqsjEb-hgp5pqPSANweXSkSLUBtnsQV-jfL17ATNjPISbyf-IPzsskzvHDzCQU7qk2sXxO/s320/Health+Numbers.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>Testing Numbers (performed, and positive)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LTCvSMwrDC1KW6gcjBQelNRpZb6melFVVbtU9qEG7NQLnvhlGogY7bVwChcCtdAUwKg5d2QMBsS072uB6wCFQLfGVGWQ2p5TUKAv6dpu4wPsYf5Uvo-SE5uwjMoERRS-kp-O/s977/Testing+Numbers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="977" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LTCvSMwrDC1KW6gcjBQelNRpZb6melFVVbtU9qEG7NQLnvhlGogY7bVwChcCtdAUwKg5d2QMBsS072uB6wCFQLfGVGWQ2p5TUKAv6dpu4wPsYf5Uvo-SE5uwjMoERRS-kp-O/s320/Testing+Numbers.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Testing Volumes</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj44XYo749mlmdV7xLl-sQV48t3x7Kvub0uMHUcHneZfUPYA2kL4zLoD0wxvZKTxjiuABVT5dUkB4dWwyPG22ZMFdpSHWRmtlTWGZjYdtpQruRuzzOCjnomZy0-IwXMP3-owQsV/s977/Testing+Volumes.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="977" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj44XYo749mlmdV7xLl-sQV48t3x7Kvub0uMHUcHneZfUPYA2kL4zLoD0wxvZKTxjiuABVT5dUkB4dWwyPG22ZMFdpSHWRmtlTWGZjYdtpQruRuzzOCjnomZy0-IwXMP3-owQsV/s320/Testing+Volumes.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-116166922600770152020-11-12T17:22:00.007+00:002020-11-12T17:25:20.495+00:00Covid Numbers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have an enquiring mind. Which can be trouble. Tired of unsatisfactory reporting in the various media open to me, I decided to have a look myself, and came up with these. My data source was https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing - you can go there and download your own data. NB - the historical statistics change as information is updated, so you need to update more than just "today's" data to get an accurate image.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first tracks the daily health stats (hospitalisation, ICU admissions and deaths) against the number of positive tests reported. NOTE the red line is plotted against the right axis, all the others the left.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In red are the positive test numbers. As you no doubt are very aware, a lot of government and media communication has been based on how many positive tests have been reported. Setting aside arguments about how many false positives there are, and the accuracy of the tests being used; there is a clear message in the this graph. From about the beginning of September (when schools went back, and Universities started to go back) there has been a massive increase in positive tests, BUT the curves for admissions and ICU have matched it albeit less steeply. For me this means whilst the focus on raw positive test numbers was inappropriate - it did indicate an underlying increase in transmission that led to ill health. I think the language about tests means many infer that a positive test means someone is ill. That is clearly not the case.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The other thing you can see is that the hospitalisation, ICU and death statistics were tracking the spring numbers to some degree when tiering and then lockdown 2 came. It wasn't just positive test results that triggered government action.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgevZ_j003R-pJzI6Q4d6mZDNRAtFfgNGkyuSCLLzY0ORXzqOGHfVu-8nonMz-HuglKSpveUe9uOkbWE4eeLFMP8ENAxLyQ_lpno-Lb4ehrJVj71jsKhxnR5T2TgSgIP-DklFfU/s977/Covid+-+Health+against+Positive+Test.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="977" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgevZ_j003R-pJzI6Q4d6mZDNRAtFfgNGkyuSCLLzY0ORXzqOGHfVu-8nonMz-HuglKSpveUe9uOkbWE4eeLFMP8ENAxLyQ_lpno-Lb4ehrJVj71jsKhxnR5T2TgSgIP-DklFfU/w400-h261/Covid+-+Health+against+Positive+Test.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>The second chart plots just testing data - capacity, tests performed, and positive tests (with all the caveats above repeated on what is a "positive"). The red line is plotted against the right axis, the others the left.<p></p><p>For me the interesting data is whilst testing has grown in September and October, and grown a lot - the increase in positive tests has increased much than in proportion to testing. Ignoring false positives, this shows that the infection (as measured by these tests) has dramatically increased in those months.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmveH2ztgkJSoj_6BfNykxEcgSd6Yjui_bGQW3kQyLZhmg34XPpjbXCq-xNEgPDkSdmR8cx2L84tIe8pLERhJ_x6ymFI9IWcbb8AhaoOHuHOthNewJqQHu0VHW5K6nGGvN_tW/s977/Covid+-+Testing+Numbers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="977" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmveH2ztgkJSoj_6BfNykxEcgSd6Yjui_bGQW3kQyLZhmg34XPpjbXCq-xNEgPDkSdmR8cx2L84tIe8pLERhJ_x6ymFI9IWcbb8AhaoOHuHOthNewJqQHu0VHW5K6nGGvN_tW/w400-h261/Covid+-+Testing+Numbers.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have few other conclusions I want to draw or investigate. But I'd add - I would to see false positives at least approximated in this data.</div> <p></p><p><br /></p>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-812519027404976362020-09-24T15:12:00.002+01:002020-11-12T17:25:31.611+00:00Covid Risk Factors and mitigation - an update<p>In <a href="https://corylus.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-risk-factors-and-face-coverings.html">https://corylus.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-risk-factors-and-face-coverings.html</a> I set out a bunch of assumptions and numbers for the risk of meeting someone with Covid.</p><p>With the area numbers for positive cases here announced as 6.9 (the number top right in the spreadsheet) per 100,000 I decided to revise it.</p><p>Same premises/assumptions, new numbers</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_8-p00RWrwvJTcnVUvJ70xpxhMbAQ0nx8OeO3IY0SFqQ9LAd2PEkUU9dRLjU2p4mJzYQdUmAEnL_6A0FCU3jQ4ljT_Py6x6hgL0QI41ehwuFVqDy6Me2mivjvdjn9mtYdqNU/s1051/Covid+Numbers+Sep+2020.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="1051" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_8-p00RWrwvJTcnVUvJ70xpxhMbAQ0nx8OeO3IY0SFqQ9LAd2PEkUU9dRLjU2p4mJzYQdUmAEnL_6A0FCU3jQ4ljT_Py6x6hgL0QI41ehwuFVqDy6Me2mivjvdjn9mtYdqNU/s16000/Covid+Numbers+Sep+2020.png" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p>P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-16535401023257350882020-07-11T15:34:00.001+01:002020-11-12T17:25:39.452+00:00Covid risk factors and face coverings<br />
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are detailed on the page. I don’t
declare any infallibility (papal or otherwise), but if you think I’ve made a
mistake contact me and I’ll upload a corrected version (if required).</div>
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drawing any specific conclusions on what <b>our</b> behaviour should now be, I
did this to consider my own risk level for venturing out so that I could do so
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<li>The
infection rate is 1 person in 3,900 (the last one i saw)</li>
<li>You need
face to face exposure of 15 minutes to risk transmission of the infection</li>
<li>Whilst the
face covering mitigation %'s that have been circulating for some time are not
proven, I have used heavily moderated values to explore the impact of face
coverings</li>
<li>I've ignored
the risks (and maths) of meeting more than 1 carrier of C-19 in any one day</li>
<li>I have
ignored the fact that infection is not evenly distributed around the country,
these numbers do not apply to hot spots.</li>
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these numbers overestimate the risk in cold spots (if that is the opposite of
hot spot!)</li>
<li>This does
not consider behaviour patterns whilst out – if you go to the pub and hug all
your mates, then your risk likely increases – the behaviour assumed is that social distancing is observed.</li>
<li>This ignores
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percentages shown don’t actually demonstrate the chance that you will get a C-19 infection,
they show the risk of you participating in a face to face meeting where the
risk of transmission can occur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So given
transmission is not certain, this means the risk % overstate the chance of you
(on average) catching C-19 from that contact.</b></li>
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even if the event does transmit C-19 to you, it says nothing about the risks of
you falling ill (seriously or not) with C-19</b></li>
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of any 1 person you meet being infection free is (1- X) which is
0.99999743589744 or 99. 999743589744%, call this Y</li>
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of all the people you meet being infection free is therefore the value in Y multiplied
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<br />P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-82396444819685430412020-04-16T20:25:00.001+01:002020-04-16T20:25:34.519+01:00Advice on securing Zoom calls<div dir="ltr"> <div></div> <div data-ogsc="" style=""> <div> <div dir="ltr"></div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">a couple of friends have been worried about using Zoom.</span><br> </div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><br> </span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">This is the advice I'd seen and sent to them..</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><br> </span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">YMMV</span></div> </div> <div id="id-c2ee8d76-ce87-4524-bb0d-c358ea3602f7" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"> <div dir="ltr"> <div id="id-afb4b31a-012b-4d94-b85b-7461f18f1c5b" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"> <div dir="ltr"> <div id="id-47309a98-db98-4e36-aebf-dba87618565a" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"> <font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"> <div> </div> <div>Taken from <a href="https://twitter.com/FrameShiftLLC/"><font color="#0563C1" style="" data-ogsc=""><u>https://twitter.com/FrameShiftLLC/</u></font></a> - How to stop harassment on public Zoom calls</div> <div> </div> <div>Before meeting, host changes Zoom settings:</div> <ol style="margin:0; padding-left:36pt; list-style-type:decimal"> <font face="Calibri"> <li>Turn on "Waiting room"</li><li>Turn off "Allow removed participants to re-join", "Allow private chat", "File transfer", "Annotation", "Whiteboard"</li><li>Set "Screen sharing" to "Host only"</li><li>Schedule a meeting in Zoom with a random ID (do not use Personal Meeting ID)</li><li>Recommended: Do not share Zoom link publicly, instead make people register with email address and email them the Zoom link</li></font></ol> <div> </div> <div>During meeting:</div> <ol style="margin:0; padding-left:36pt; list-style-type:decimal"> <font face="Calibri"> <li>Host assigns "co-host" status to a trusted person</li><li>Co-host admits people from waiting room, removes harassers, does not admit suspicious people</li><li>Host transfers host status to people who need to share screen</li><li>Optional: Lock the meeting after 5 min</li></font></ol> <div> </div> <div>If you do all these things, you will have a Zoom meeting with a defensible boundary that you can eject people from if they behave badly. It's the virtual equivalent of a well-run conference with registration, name tags, physical security, and code of conduct enforcement.</div> <div> </div> <div>Links:</div> <ul style="margin:0; padding-left:36pt"> <font face="Calibri"> <li>Change Zoom settings: <a href="https://zoom.us/profile/setting"><font color="#0563C1" style="" data-ogsc=""><u>https://zoom.us/profile/setting</u></font></a> </li><li>Co-host information: <a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362603-Host-and-Co-Host-Controls-in-a-Meeting"> <font color="#0563C1" style="" data-ogsc=""><u>https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362603-Host-and-Co-Host-Controls-in-a-Meeting</u></font></a> </li><li>Waiting room, remove participants, lock meeting: <a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005759423-Managing-participants-in-a-meeting"> <font color="#0563C1" style="" data-ogsc=""><u>https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005759423-Managing-participants-in-a-meeting</u></font></a> </li><li>Blog version of this thread: <a href="https://frameshiftconsulting.com/2020/04/02/tips-for-safer-zoom-meetings/"> <font color="#0563C1" style="" data-ogsc=""><u>https://frameshiftconsulting.com/2020/04/02/tips-for-safer-zoom-meetings/</u></font></a> </li></font></ul> <div> </div> <div dir="ltr"><br> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </span></font></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-62640863468086184322020-04-08T14:56:00.003+01:002020-04-08T14:56:54.989+01:00Images for a wiki page...I updated the wiki page on crowdfunding, to correct some dates, and upload a couple of images. But wiki rejected them. So posting them here, and hoping I can connect to them here :-)<br />
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a) combatting the C-19 pandemic<br />
b) an Office 365 business or enterprise licence customer<br />
c) want to know staff status, where they are working, and what they are doing;<br />
then, I've this app that I'm able to deploy to your tenant pro-bono.<br />
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If you are not directly fighting C-19, but this app would do wonders for you, then I am willing to deploy it to you for a charitable donation to Help For Heroes.<br />
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YOU DONT NEED PREMIUM POWER APPS LICENCING FOR THIS<br />
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For data it uses standalone SharePoint lists, so there are no complex data setups. It can be running in an hour or two.<br />
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I've worked with an NHS trust recently to create a Power Apps app for them. They needed all staff to be able to self report in their status for 7 days (be that WFH, Ill, Self-Isolating, Covering a colleague or something else). In under 24 hours we had a second version from which the screen shots below are taken.<br />
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As a bonus, the data that this app uses can be managed centrally from a Microsoft Access database which I shall also supply.<br />
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<br />P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-21645059380362215122020-02-11T12:23:00.001+00:002020-02-11T12:23:29.999+00:00Rooftop Gormley... <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2XDdVy8SN2yCXYmjGD7dLDTckMmRqAAdl3z68prIl5enFFcFueo9vZGBuhxoQaMztzokGor5ACa3bsL8r5DD0iBmQtcsNYzTwnrpbojY7LSENZduvCWBbdkcAo7IBGB3KaT2X/s1600/Screenshot_20200211-122146%257E2-710037.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2XDdVy8SN2yCXYmjGD7dLDTckMmRqAAdl3z68prIl5enFFcFueo9vZGBuhxoQaMztzokGor5ACa3bsL8r5DD0iBmQtcsNYzTwnrpbojY7LSENZduvCWBbdkcAo7IBGB3KaT2X/s320/Screenshot_20200211-122146%257E2-710037.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6792163547506400082" /></a> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-418440203724670922019-04-11T13:08:00.001+01:002019-04-11T13:08:56.161+01:00Active Directory domain time settings (an unintended consequence of VMW - Hyper-V migration)<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>Over time my network had slipped a few minutes, but everything was synchronised, so there were no authentication problems. However it was becoming more annoying (especially when email replies appeared to land a minute or two before the original was sent!).</div> <div> </div> <div>So eventually I was persuaded to put time in to fix it, in the past I just fixed the clock on the master DC, and all was well. However this time…</div> <div> </div> <div>Everything I did had no effect, DC’s were changed to point to external NTP sources, but even with manual time changes at the command line they snapped back to the wrong time almost instantly.</div> <div> </div> <div>Then something twigged. My master time source DC was one of the last servers I moved off the old VMWare cluster into a new Hyper-V setup. And of course Time Synchronisation from host to guest was on by default. As soon as the DC changed time, Hyper-V tools snapped it right back. And as the host took it’s time from AD, it was always out. Before, when on vCentre, the host was synchronised to NTP servers, and the time sync worked.</div> <div> </div> <div>This morning I unchecked time sync as below, reset the DC’s clock, and all was well. I should have thought of this much earlier in the diagnostics. But I guess having moved away from infrastructure and back to dev, my mindset has changed a bit! These days I’m just a consumer of the network infrastructure (although I do have to be the admin too!). I suppose I could have just changed the time on the Hyper-V host, but this is a better answer, as the NTP usage means the network should remain on the correct time.</div> <div> </div> <div>TTFN</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GGU49y12VQ-V2SfAWPFiwFAv9apO9mbKI1Bw3U3XnVKv6lVOuNVQNo3VE6zxD0-e-UsxkTkBo7TxI6sBnVbH3z_n3BzmuAx20jAgknvvpBvSJZyVBFSxYHghyZrZkHhxrgxy/s1600/Picture+%2528Device+Independent+Bitmap%2529+1-736178.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GGU49y12VQ-V2SfAWPFiwFAv9apO9mbKI1Bw3U3XnVKv6lVOuNVQNo3VE6zxD0-e-UsxkTkBo7TxI6sBnVbH3z_n3BzmuAx20jAgknvvpBvSJZyVBFSxYHghyZrZkHhxrgxy/s320/Picture+%2528Device+Independent+Bitmap%2529+1-736178.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6678607735244548962" /></a> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-70041195367194103162019-03-06T10:49:00.001+00:002019-03-06T10:49:20.298+00:00The case of the Nokia 8 and the missing fingerprint data...<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>A funny thing happened the other day. I finally (and accidentally) let the phone fully run down to 0% battery. But it when it was charged again, something odd – I couldn’t use the fingerprint reader to unlock the phone or for anything else. On opening settings to investigate it even prompted me to register fingerprints. It appeared to have lost all fingerprint data.</div> <div> </div> <div>So I went to re-register the fingerprints I used before and was told to try another digit. A quick BING search confirmed that this can happen, but curiously there wasn’t much I could find on sorting it out.</div> <div> </div> <div>So, having tried all the digits I had previously registered I finally tried a new digit. It worked and was registered correctly. But I still couldn’t register or use the originals.</div> <div> </div> <div>Ten minutes later, thinking laterally, I deleted the new print. At which point the phone decided it didn’t know about of any of my prints and I could re-register the ones I normally use.</div> <div> </div> <div>I don’t know if this is an Android 9 issue, a Nokia 8 issue, or the combination. But as a heads up – leave at least one digit unregistered on your phone for when this happens to you!</div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-88789660418445210882019-01-24T16:07:00.001+00:002019-01-24T16:07:16.665+00:00Telling the time<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>I remember being almost unable to breathe when this was first broadcast. It’s still hilarious now.</div> <div> </div> <div>“The first hand is the hour hand, the second hand is the minute hand, and the third hand is the second hand”</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI&feature=youtu.be"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI&feature=youtu.be</u></font></a> </div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-78855046121910117382019-01-01T17:37:00.001+00:002019-01-01T17:43:45.887+00:00Desperate Remedies - a return to Victorian literature<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><br />
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I went for a kindle collection of all novels in publication date order. So have started with Desperate Remedies from 1872 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Remedies" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperate_Remedies</u></span></a>), although his second novel, the first was never published, so this is the correct starting point.</div>
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Hardy is noted for his lengthy, complex, punctuated sentence structure – and quite frankly it took a few chapters to get back into that style. But after a few late night reading sessions (a hot bath for my spine is always a good place!!) I’m there and really enjoying it again. The sentences just fall into place and the added bonus of reading on a kindle is the ability to highlight a word and get the dictionary definition (useful for writing that is nearly 200 years old).</div>
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The one thing I didn’t expect? After all the excitement today of the New Horizons fly by of Ultima Thule (<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46729898" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46729898</u></span></a>) I didn’t expect to read those words in the novel. I’ll let you read the novel to find out where and why.</div>
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</span></span> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-21364844536793828092018-08-07T18:46:00.000+01:002018-08-07T18:47:01.768+01:00If you see something like this. ITS A SCAM<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILRahcx7davcmjWT25D7-20VE0K-XW5Gr5R2GuI3NcZ0wWVNBTsJ-oGRtcrtN0F79n3KhPOfJh3Ugvpii-pwxIn9WJVsNTinF82sF4-IIjD0hPbHjZFcD17EY3qrXiQlX_z7K/s1600/Nice+try+guys-721851.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILRahcx7davcmjWT25D7-20VE0K-XW5Gr5R2GuI3NcZ0wWVNBTsJ-oGRtcrtN0F79n3KhPOfJh3Ugvpii-pwxIn9WJVsNTinF82sF4-IIjD0hPbHjZFcD17EY3qrXiQlX_z7K/s320/Nice+try+guys-721851.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6587036821132785458" /></a></p><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>I got an alert from Kaspersky that stopped me going to a site when I clicked on a music link. Curious I decided to find out what was there.</div> <div> </div> <div>It was this website, and is definitely not a Microsoft webpage, and definitely not a genuine issue. If you get something like this then:</div> <ol style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;list-style-type:lower-alpha;"> <li>Don’t do anything on that page, just close it and don’t answer any questions or enter any data until the page is gone</li><li>Update or install AV software. Any decent AV tool should have stopped you getting there</li><li>Don’t panic!</li></ol> <div><img src="cid:B1AA2BA88063F441B52FD63142F1F7DD@GBRP123.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM"> </div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-91627326089579264152018-07-31T12:44:00.001+01:002018-07-31T12:44:41.133+01:00Microsoft Forefront TMG and Windows 10 1803<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>With the 1803 update I got a problem.</div> <div> </div> <div>I’ve used Forefront TMG2010 and it’s predecessors for over a decade. It generally sits there doing it’s job and provides me with the means to control access in and out of the network.</div> <div>The client has sat on the taskbar since XP days, without a problem. Until the 1803 upgrade.</div> <div> </div> <div>Microsoft don’t support TMG any more, so no joy looking on the forums for support, but I did find this: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/936773/yellow-exclamation-mark-appears-next-to-the-firewall-client-icon-on-a"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/936773/yellow-exclamation-mark-appears-next-to-the-firewall-client-icon-on-a</u></font></a>. Although I didn’t change the client (mine was v7.xxxx and 4 years younger), but the registry change had cleared the yellow marker on the TMG Taskbar icon.</div> <div> </div> <div>I hadn’t found any actual problem with TMG (yet) that this might have caused, but at least an error has been cleared.</div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-16710490785881372062018-07-03T12:35:00.001+01:002018-07-03T12:35:39.872+01:00OneDrive broken after update, yet again...<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>I was busy collecting money for Help For Heroes on Friday, but left the main desktop computer running. It seems that about 11:14am OneDrive was updated. I had previously been running 18.091.0506.007, but Microsoft delivered (on a rollout from Office 365) 18.111.0603.0004.</div> <div> </div> <div>The net result was that OneDrive stopped working, and wouldn't restart or re-install; or even uninstall. If I could get a "not logged in" grey OneDrive icon, the right click menu was just a white space. Not good when I was trying to do some quick work on Sunday night. A support call on Sunday evening to O365 tried all that I had tried, plus a few other things but left it broken. I ended the call past midnight, and was expecting a follow up from Microsoft on Monday, yesterday. Nope, nothing happened.</div> <div> </div> <div>Today I updated the call, asked for a call back, and got it quite quickly – but it was mostly more data collection and testing things. During which I was pointed to <a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0</u></font></a> which at least confirmed the build numbers involved. A quick Bing search and I found this: <a href="https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/112766-onedrive-semi-missing-again.html"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/112766-onedrive-semi-missing-again.html</u></font></a></div> <div> </div> <div>Checking my OneDrive folder, there was indeed no OneDrive.EXE file present, so I copied it from the 18.111 subfolder and tried again. Nothing.</div> <div>I then ran the OneDriveSetup.EXE from within the 18.111 folder and it seemed to work.</div> <div>Logging into OneDrive and it started the "new user" setup. TAKING CARE TO SELECT THE SAME FOLDER AS BEFORE (to avoid re-downloading everything <font face="Segoe UI Emoji">😊</font>) OneDrive for Business then decided there we more changes to the folder structure than there were files. But I let it proceed – it seems it was cross checking cloud and local copies and each file on either side created a "check".</div> <div> </div> <div>I had to open settings and add an account to get OneDrive consumer back up and running, and it went through the same painful checking process. Currently both are still checking, but hopefully within an hour or two all shall be well.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-48033332667367890992018-06-08T11:37:00.001+01:002018-06-08T11:37:33.744+01:00Well, another ride beckons<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>Tomorrow I set off for London, and then to France for my 7<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> battlefield bike ride.</div> <div> </div> <div>Help for Heroes have published the maps – so I thought I’d pass it on.</div> <div>Day 1, Compiegne to Saint Quentin – <a href="https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27603968"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27603968</u></font></a> </div> <div>Day 2, Saint Quentin to Amiens – <a href="https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604005"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604005</u></font></a> </div> <div>Day 3, Amiens to Arras – <a href="https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604047"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604047</u></font></a> </div> <div>Day 4, Arras to Lille – <a href="https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604048"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604048</u></font></a> </div> <div>Day 5, Lille to Mons – <a href="https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604049"><font color="#0563C1"><u>https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27604049</u></font></a> </div> <div> </div> <div>Onwards!</div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-29733924175391116002018-05-08T14:42:00.000+01:002018-05-08T14:43:01.964+01:00The mother of all demos<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>If you work in IT, or just have an interest in how it works, and how it came about…</div> <div> </div> <div>Then this page details the 1968 (50 years ago!!!) demonstration by Doug Engelbart now known as “The mother of all demos”</div> <div> </div> <div>You really should have a look, even if you only watch the abbreviated 24 minute highlight version</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html"><font color="#0563C1"><u>http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html</u></font></a> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-47907620515821183442018-02-07T17:11:00.001+00:002018-02-07T17:11:35.778+00:00SMS corruptions, Windows Phone 10, Skype and Microsoft Messaging apps<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div>It’s been a while…</div> <div> </div> <div>I belong to the diminishing community of users of Windows Phone 10. I still like it and although I have both android and iOS devices (not phones), I still prefer the WP interface by far. But recently an update from Microsoft seemed to knacker the phone (well, specifically the Test Messaging database) and I was:</div> <ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;"> <li>no longer receiving incoming text notifications (and missing some important stuff)</li><li>seeing corruption in the list of names in the messaging app (the wrong name and avatar).</li><li>And a few other oddities that I’ve since forgotten.</li></ul> <div> </div> <div>It reached the point after a few days of this; knowing the phone was out of support (both hardware and software); and that reporting a bug to Microsoft was unlikely to yield results I started to look at replacement handsets.</div> <div> </div> <div>My initial thought was that the database of 2½ years of texts might have overloaded and set about deleting threads from unimportant sources (shipping confirmations I’d not deleted at the time, and that sort of thing). It held the visual corruptions back a little, but notifications were still screwed up.</div> <div> </div> <div>Then, I found it. At some point an update from Microsoft (they are still coming through now), had updated Skype. In hunting around through this path:</div> <ul style="margin:0;padding-left:36pt;"> <li>All settings</li><li>Messaging</li><li>Scroll down past SIM to Default Apps </li></ul> <div>Skype had installed itself as the default messaging app. Reverting to Microsoft Messaging fixed all the problems.</div> <div> </div> <div>It’s happened again since, but as I knew what to look for it took less time. As much here for me the next time this happens, but hopefully if you’ve had this problem you found this fix quicker than I did!</div> <div> </div> </span></font> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27541757.post-4416970538076700002017-09-13T21:36:00.000+01:002017-09-13T21:37:01.998+01:00#BBBR17<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11u-J8fDsUsFbvRrSM8hTI3vyyZBen-mptuwJGWjBsptMrJZ-FyFo964ElO-3UunOFMNLVSV2FVCheZcfHv2Fv_zGXOMF21B35O7mNiuFCWBzAjOChDGd1k8jcMFRSluIedJr/s1600/WP_20170913_09_56_28_Rich-721999.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11u-J8fDsUsFbvRrSM8hTI3vyyZBen-mptuwJGWjBsptMrJZ-FyFo964ElO-3UunOFMNLVSV2FVCheZcfHv2Fv_zGXOMF21B35O7mNiuFCWBzAjOChDGd1k8jcMFRSluIedJr/s320/WP_20170913_09_56_28_Rich-721999.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6465364694329682066" /></a></p><div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal">On the run up to Arnhem. A talk about these and then a lengthy description of the planning an lead up to Operation Market Garden</p> </div> P Bryanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02552899210893183381noreply@blogger.com0