Google didn’t always exist – I can remember magazine articles suggesting that geeky people try this “new” search engine, recently renamed from BackRub. They also had an exclamation mark in those days. But today Google has even become a verb – look here. But there are other search engines out there and the BBC has […]
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Rory Cellan-Jones has written an interesting article examining the state of the Government’s rural broadband plans. BBC News – Rural broadband verdict – too little, too late. For those of us who work in IT, I am sure we are pleased that BT has a government subsidised monopoly, with both local and national government paying
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This week has been a week of contrasting jobs. We were called out to Rand Farm Park earlier this week to fix the webcam for them. It required little time for us to diagnose the problem – the client was correct – the pig had eaten the webcam. No repair was attempted we simply bought
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At Octagon we spend a lot of time on support and help lines sorting problems for our clients. Some of which we find are neither “helpful” or “supportive” and you just feel their “press one for support etc” is put there just to annoy you. One of the funniest things we get when we call
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We knew our client had an issue with their server before they did – so I was onsite to help them as they opened their doors this morning. As part of the service we carry out for contracts clients we monitor their systems for any issues. This takes a variety of forms: Automated emails This
Is DropBox secure? There is a short story before I get to “Secure Cloud Storage”. Today my appointments did not join up, which meant a two hour gap around midday. I had the choice to go from the north of the city to Branston and then back to the north of the city or to
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We are all out representing Octagon this evening at the Branston and Mere Parish Council AGM as part of the Branston Business Network. the group’s new banner The AGM was well attended and our members had plenty of opportunities to talk about our services. The exhibition table full of leaflets, cards, various PowerPoint presentations and
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This is a test post as we are increasing the security of our WordPress website. We are testing the changes before rolling them out to our clients. If you would like to talk to us about WordPress or data protection and security then Octagon staff are attending the Branston and Mere Parish Council meeting at
I was at a client’s today to fix a network problem and saw the tidiest computer desktop I have ever seen. The network issue was a broken cable, causing an intermittent fault, disconnecting the wired devices from the internet, it took an hour or so of tracing and testing cables to find the faulty one
