Author: sroot

  • Google Chrome ” Failed – Network Error.” on downloading files greater than 5MB (ish) – solution for me = Disable QUIC

    For the last few weeks I’ve had trouble downloading from Google Photos files. It only happened on large files; videos & zip files of multiple images. The problem only affected Chrome – the files would download fine using Firefox. For single images the download would work so I decided it must be something related to…

  • Margins and Markups: how to handle multiple discounts/rebates

    Following on from an old blog post about Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know a reader posted this question in the comments If you’re not sure how to calculate margins, read that first. Hi, how do you do multiple rebates % to give a true value of what the total discount…

  • Blog traffic

    According to cloudflare, my blog traffic this month. According to google analytics, my blog traffic this month. The difference? a) Cloudflare is counting requests to my server (each image, each file, each style sheet) whereas Google Analytics is joining requests from the same visitor into a session. b) Hackers don’t always ask for a page,…