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QR Codes
QR Codes are becoming very popular, appearing in many places. A quick scan with your smartphone and you can collect (or give away) a variety of information, a web address, a phone number or plain text among other things. They are useful and many people are putting them on their business cards – I have…
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iPhone 4 catches fire on plane flight in Australia
iPhone 4 catches fire on plane flight in Australia Another problem with iPhone hardware! Although Clive is generally very pleased with his iPhone if there is one thing that really annoys him about it is the poor feedback and support from Apple, he is constantly having problems with the phone speaker – see here and…
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BBC News – Firms ‘ill prepared for IT failure’
BBC News – Firms ‘ill prepared for IT failure’. At Octagon Technology we have a wide range of practical experience in helping client’s be prepared for technology failiures. As part of our best practice we document how we and the clients will respomd to an issue with their systems, practice these proceedures with them and…
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Graphically challenging
Had an issue installing a graphic card the other day. One screen on a wall facing away from me and the computer screen. When the big screen was plugged in the pc screen just had the wallpaper. So I worked out that the desktop was extended and changed it to clone mode. This was difficult…
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Business Network event
Octagon technology and irun are exhibiting at the business show today, call Diana for details.
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BBC News – Essentials: Avoiding mobile roaming charges abroad
BBC News – Essentials: Avoiding mobile roaming charges abroad. The BBC News programme Click has posted a video on how to reduce mobile phone costs whilst travelling abroad.
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Saturday Support
It has been an early start today! A contract client called the office at 7am – their issue was that the the PC that runs the hotel booking and billing system was down. It took a short time to collect up some spares and tools but we turned out and had their system back up…
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The Dark Side of the Force
Darth Vader is the new customer service trainer for a national computer company. If you want technology support and supply from the “Dark Side of the Force” then you are in luck, if you see that latest TV advert from a national computer shop, that’s what they provide. However if you want good support and…
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MegaReader | Clive’s Blog
MegaReader | Clive’s Blog. The iOS 5 update on my iPhone killed the book reader I was using on my iPhone 4 – I think I have found a replacement, MegaReader. I have a number of posts outlining my hunt for a new app on my blog.
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Server Up!
Our plans worked – we fixed the client’s server – and as a result of the client following our advice, they lost about three hours working time but no data. The staff used this time to catch up with those “non-computer” jobs. We lost most of a nights sleep and the staff were able to just log…
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Server Down
We had to reboot a client’s server this lunchtime as part of a planned routine maintenance programme. Jokingly the engineer I sent asked “what happens if it does not restart?” Well we found out. The machine is new, having only been onsite since late spring this year, it has been rebooted a number of times…
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New Network
Over the last few days I have been installing a network from scratch in a building with 2 floors. The main challenge of all this was the trunking which was pre installed for the power sockets. To make the network sockets go in we had to source special boxes that would compliment the decor of…
