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  • WordCamp UK Edinburgh 2012 – bits and pieces

    Tony Smith making the opening address to the conference – and “discussing” hash tags! Here are some of the sessions I am attending today: eCommerce EU Cookie Law WordPress Mobile Security Kieran (below) gave a great presentation about security.

  • WordCamp UK Edinburgh 2012

    I have been posting on my site about the Conference – see the blog entry here.

  • The UK’s Largest WordPress Conference

    At Octagon we support a number of clients who operate WordPress websites – including donating time and resources to several local clubs to help them with their WordPress sites. I also run my own blog and website using WordPress. So this weekend I am going to attend the national WordPress conference – WordCamp Edinburgh 2012…

  • Broken Laptop

    Not only do we provide support for a range of clients across Lincolnshire but we provide support for our own office systems. I had a problem at the weekend – my laptop broke down. Although this has caused me some problems and rescheduling – it was not a huge problem. My backup and recovery plan…

  • Sunday Checks

    When we left yesterday afternoon we had set up and logged in all the user’s PCs – so this morning I have been running checks on the operation of the system. All is working as expected except for one small issue with BT Broadband but they have assured us that this will be fixed by…

  • Set up and Running

    We have the server, backup infra structure, network printers, secure and public wifi networks working and the reception PC logged in and running.

  • Office Move

    It was an early start today and the first job was to move the server to the new office. It was loaded into the backseat of my car, and with Martin sitting beside it and making sure it did not move, I carefully drove it across Horncastle to the new office. Here is the server…

  • Moving a client’s office

    Today is the day of the office move forLIVES – when I arrived this morning they gave me tea in the mug below! I have been involved with the project since the very early days to ensure that the new building was fitted out for the charity’s technology needs and that the move of the…

  • Patch Panel Cabling

    Here is a photograph of the cabling Martin did for the patch panels in the network cabinet as part of the office move project we are working on. Once all the equipment is in place this will be out of sight.

  • Office Move and Network Infrastructure Project

    We have been steadily working on the network infrastructure project in Horncastle all this week. This photo shows Martin tagging the cables the electrician installed, before fitting them into the cabinet. Octagon has been working closely with the client from the early days of this design and build project to ensure that the client’s current…

  • This cabinet arrived for my network job, 66kg

  • IBM supercomputer

    BBC News – IBM supercomputer overtakes Fujitsu as worlds fastest. I not sure we would support this – but I’d quote for it!