2006 September 20

Have you ever run into a situation where a friend of yours is asking for advice on whether to go one way or another with a tech product and deciding on a definitive answer is next to impossible?

Often when faced with a complex puzzle or decision, one can simplify the situation by looking for and exploiting symmetries. Since a short column like this is insufficient to introduce the various types of symmetries and gush over the wonders of a symmetrical universe, I leave it to you to find a source. Here is [...]

I’m just over two weeks away until my ten-day vacation to Maui, Hawaii. As I’ve mentioned before, this is a “no laptop” vacation, although I will have my BlackBerry 8700c with me (I have to; it’s my cell phone). But my intent is to leave as much “work worry” behind as I can. I will [...]

By default, when you launch Excel, it opens with three worksheets. This is likely fine if you generally create workbooks with multiple worksheets. However, if this is not the case for you and you normally only work with one worksheet, you can change the default behavior. In other words, you can tell Excel to only [...]

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Fieldbus is a standard data communications protocol used in ERP [Enterprise Resource Planning] (manufacturing) and other industrial applications.
While Fieldbus can work with Ethernet, Fieldbus has its own data protocol format or it uses a number of OSI Layers to provide for data communications.