• WCF Service user impersonation options in IIS7.0 +

    by  • October 3, 2011 • 0 Comments

    I recently had a problem where I wanted my WCF services to run under the context of a user with additional permissions over the standard ApplicationPoolIdentity user used when hosting WCF services under IIS, including opening named pipe clients. I got a little burnt, and thought I’d share a couple of options I explored. ASP.net [...]

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    Getting Matlab command window history in Windows

    by  • September 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

    A few months ago whilst writing up my thesis and doing some number crunching with Matlab, my machine died spectacularly, leaving the hard drive but not much else intact. Making good use of the command window in Matlab I wanted to recover this history – so armed with the hard drive and not much else [...]

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    Customising surface plots in Excel 2010

    by  • October 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

    I’ve got a bunch of data in three columns (x,y,z) which I put into a cross tab and output as a surface and contour plot in Excel 2010. I wanted to customise the colours used, remove the shading and filter labels in order to paste the graph into a document. Just a quick heads up [...]

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    What does Word 2010 offer for reference management?

    by  • June 5, 2010 • 0 Comments

    I’ve been having a bit of a play with Word 2010 since its release on MSDN to see if any improvements have been made in the area of reference management. Unfortunately it seems not a great deal has changed. So, instead, here’s a feature wish-list and how you can get by currently on some of the points [...]

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    And we’re back….

    by  • March 10, 2010 • 0 Comments

    Apologies for those of you trying to access my blog over the past couple of days: normal service has now resumed after getting severely let down by my old web host. Luckily I had some recent (but not fully up to date) backups so all bar a couple of the posts are intact. I’ll recreate [...]

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    Including Visio diagrams in LyX documents

    by  • March 3, 2010 • 1 Comment

    If you want to be able to include Visio drawings within your LyX documents, the process is relatively painless as you can export the drawing as a PDF and embed the PDF directly into the document. First, create your diagram in Visio as normal. Then, click File > Page Setup, select the Page Size tab [...]

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    Commenting on PDFs generated from LaTeX documents

    by  • March 2, 2010 • 0 Comments

    PDF’s generated with pdflatex, the pdf generator for LaTeX documents which is used by default in LyX, cannot be commented on directly through the use of Adobe Reader alone (currently as of version 9). See http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2008-August/007802.html for a good explanation for this. To enable this feature using only Adobe products you need to run the [...]

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