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    KitKat breakfast cereal

    You may as well just buy 10kg sugar for R250 and use that for "breakfast"...
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    Motorola G14 64GB Dual Sim from PEP on MTN

    I also bought one a few months ago from them. It goes away after about a week. I can't remember if you need to manually uninstall Telecoms client thing manually or if it does it automatically. As ld13 said, it's management software they use for financed devices. For some reason it takes several...
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    Cheap phone until old one fixed

    If you're still looking at the R1500 price range: Moto G14 for R1699: https://pepcell.com/products/motorola-g14?_pos=1&_psq=g14&_ss=e&_v=1.0 1080x2400 screen, 4GB RAM, UFS storage instead of eMMC, fingerprint reader, NFC, Android 14. Battery is 5000mAh but the screen chows battery life.
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    budget phone - R2500 or less

    If you're set on buying new, Motorola G14 for R2199. 4GB RAM, 64GB UFS storage (rather than EMMC), has NFC, side mounted fingerprint reader, 1080x2400 screen. 5000mAh battery but it seems to run out faster than the competition, and good lucky finding any accessories...
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    Spreadsheets and disasters

    Excel is quick and powerful, and really lowers the barrier to entry for capturing data. You can sit in a meeting and throw a bunch of information at a brand new intern and have them copy paste it all into one pretty looking spreadsheet with the filename "Issue Tracking Database.xlsx" and you'll...
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    Spreadsheets and disasters

    This is my personal nightmare at work: the culture of using Excel as a database and even worse, of using Excel as an ERP when the rest of the business is using (and has been using for decades) an actual ERP.
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    Programming question regarding MS Word

    I'm surprised neither of the libraries implemented it. But yeah, I wouldn't get stuck on it either. You'd have to lookup the <w:numId/> tags from document.xml, then find the matching <w:num> tag in numbering.xml, which then points to a <w:abstractNum/>, which containers what kind of number...
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    Programming question regarding MS Word

    I haven't used Open XML or DOCX, but yes, the automatic numbering will be under List Formatting. From mucking around a bit with Word VBA, each cell in that table is going to have a Range object, and while the text you type in cell can be set/get from Range.Text, the automatic numbering as it...
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    TIL that Takealot uses Excel Spreadsheets for uploading merchant products.

    As much as I loathe Excel, using it for data capture makes sense if the next step in your pipeline is to sanitise, validate, review and approve the data before committing it to an actual database. The problem is when that backend database is also an Excel file.
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    'Knife-wielding robbers’ caught in Table Mountain National Park

    Good, string them up and feed them to the dassies.
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    Anyone know of a good duplicate FOLDER finder?

    Aren't you worried that your drives are going to eventually fail one day? Backups, backups, backups!
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    4-day workweek pilot in South Africa is ending – revealing some big issues

    How many companies out there still don't have proper systems in place for measuring output per employee? It was like this in ye olde days of cubicle life, it was like this in the days of open plan offices, it was like this during Work from Home during Covid, and it's still like this in the...
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    Adobe PDF to Word conversion software, which is very expensive

    If you don't want to (or aren't allowed to) use an online tool and you're using Microsoft Word, then you can open PDF files directly from the File > Open menu and it will make a decent attempt at converting it to Word format.
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    SA smart plugs that can be flashed with Tasmota

    Looks like Type 1:
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    Intel Kills the NUC, Will Stop Selling PCs

    As an alternative, the "Tiny Mini Micro" form factor models from HP, Lenovo and Dell are really great value for money if you get them second hand. You can pick up a 8th gen i5 with 8GB RAM and a SSD for R3000~3500 if you're patient. Not only are they small and quiet, they're really light on the...
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