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Twitter
Today we have started a twitter feed for Octagon Technology. Up until now we had been using Clive and Diana’s personal accounts – now you can follow us @OctagonT
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Refurbishing a PC for Charity
Here at Octagon we have been asked by one of our client’s to see if we can refurbish a couple of PC’s for charity. I am currently doing the task and as they are being donated to charity Octagon will not be billing for the job as we are happy to donate our time for…
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UPS beep beep beep!
The other day we were called out to deal with a beeping UPS that’s Uninterrupted Power Supply. It turned out that due to the constant power fluctuations in the building the battery had failed. We were able to source a new battery and fit it for them. This is what a typical battery looks like.…
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Keep things organised
I was going to call this post, “keep thing tidy”, but somewhere there is a “small god” of tangled cables, because it does not matter how carefully cables are arranged, when you turn your back on them they tangle up without any visible intervention. We took a new job over a couple of months back,…
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That building melted my car…
There are some stories on the internet you just have to pass on – see below how a building melted a car! BBC News – How does a skyscraper melt a car?.
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I wonder, is your PC Clean?
Hi all, I am just writing this to let you all know that just because you may go over your PC with a duster doesn’t mean it won’t overheat. If your PC starts to behave strangely, maybe slowing down or just switching off by itself it maybe something as simple as fluff. In this pic…
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iPad Mini – screen protector
We have been doing a lot of work recently on Cloud technology and helping clients work away from their desks – emails in Spain, websites from canal boats, updated meeting notes whilst in London, backups alway available when needed etc. Once freed from their desk many people then look to be free of having to…
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CCTV on the web
This week I was asked to make a CCTV system accessible from the web. This basically allows you to view your business or home premises from your mobile or pc. Firstly I had to cable the unit to the Internet by putting in sockets as the network was in a separate building to the CCTV…
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Photo of the Day
Clive’s WordPress website, today features a “photo of the day” from one of our client’s sites – The Bell at Coleby, where we provide a variety of technical support services, including email support last weekend, when the business critical reservations email address was not working correctly.
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The customer’s needs first
I should have been at Business Club tonight but we have been working on a network issue for a client today which has meant altering the DNS on their servers. To reduce the impact on the client we planned the changes during the day and are implementing and testing them tonight. Whilst I have been…
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Who?
I have spent a hot afternoon doing paperwork and writing emails – made tolerable by Sky Arts showing a Who Concert.
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Search: But not Google!
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…
