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Should you turn a Blind Eye to known activity?
The concept of a RAG status when monitoring systems and performance is well understood. As the analyst responsible for the system, you set a threshold against a performance metric; be it CPU utilisation, memory, file system, or anything else that … Continue reading
Fairness and Simplicity in the UK Tax System
Last week's Budget did nothing for freelancers. For many years we have been told by successive chancellors that they want to bring "fairness" into the tax system, but from a freelancer's point of view the changes have been anything but … Continue reading
Queuing Theory with Excel - extra
Only a few days ago, I blithly said The Excel formula of 1/(Poisson(,,false)*exp()/() + Poisson(,,true)*exp() - Poisson(,,false)*exp()) Is equal to Now you have the "tricky" value, all other values in the M/M/c queuing theory are MUCH easier to calculate. It … Continue reading