I’d successfully hidden ’em distracting grid lines in Excel via (Ribbon) > View > Gridlines, but then I wanted to hide (similarly distracting) page breaks. As it turns out, this option is pretty well hidden: File > Options > Advanced > Display options for this worksheet > Show page breaks Also note that this option is set on a per-worksheet basis, so you’ll have to uncheck once for every worksheet you may have.

I use my 23" monitor as the main display when paired with my 14" Windows laptop (HP EliteBook 840 G3). 150% display scaling is fine with 23" of glorious, screen real estate, but eye-achingly small on just 14"; i.e., when I go for meetings. As a result, I’d toggle between 100% and 150% display scaling, and there’s the added hassle of having to re-login for this change to take effect.

So I have this Ubuntu client connecting to Oracle Database (the server). Changed its host name late last week, and then the users realized that the app is no longer working correctly… Thankfully, it’s a configuration issue which I resolved with help from Stack Overflow (of course). Simply update /etc/hosts with the correct host name – in my case, the recently updated host name (e.g., hostname -A), problem solved!

Basically, the display is cut off! So if I were trying to install a new OS, it wouldn’t be very efficient since I’d have to guess what was on display; e.g. As it turns out, using the correct search phrase returns the answer. HINT: it’s a compatibility issue between the client and display scaling in Windows 10; e.g. mine was set to 150%. TLDR: The solution is to set display scaling to 100%, and then log out and in for the changes to take effect.

Excerpts from her recent post that resonates so well with me of late: Create clarity. To create the best working environment for your team, you must create clarity. Ensure psychological safety. Your success as a manager is contingent on how honest people are willing to be with you. Let go. When you’re an individual contributor, you’re used to doing everything yourself. The minute you become a manager, that changes. Well, easier said than done.

… but hey, better late than never! So I was just complaining about how PuTTY doesn’t seem to handle SSH keys (e.g. AWS, Azure) very well, and then I came to (belated) realization that because rsync can be used in Windows via Cygwin, so can ssh. Now I don’t waste time in a UI managing PuTTY profiles, generating PPKs, or fidding with regedit.exe to clean up cached host fingerprints. Try Cygwin, today.