Nearly everything you wanted to know about the Cloud but you didn’t know the questions to ask. There is nothing mysterious about the “cloud” it is simply something you want to do, but it happens on the internet. Explain more! Rather then you owning kit and software to do a job, someone else, for free […]
What is the Cloud – in 10 minutes Read More »
This is an obvious statement but our latest clients, who organise safaris to Africa, have a map painted on their office wall. Their office is a converted church so they had enough room for this huge mural. This client is new to Octagon so I have spent a couple of hours there today making sure
Africa is a big country… Read More »
OK I admit it, I was one of those people who was waiting to download iOS 7 for my iPhone as soon as it became available. I was lucky enough to be ahead of the crowd and downloaded and installed my copy of the software in well under and hour. (I used the upgrade function
24 hours with iOS7 Read More »
Today I was called out to a dead server. And whilst I was resolving the issue I was being attacked by a butterfly. Must have been there because of the warmth from the servers. Here is a pic of it sitting on the light.
Working in a server room Read More »
Today I have been to a variety of client sites and I have been helping others on the phone. I had one call today which was a little confusing at first, it started like this “we can’t access the shared drive”. A few minutes in to the conversation I had worked out the issue. It
Out and about and power cuts Read More »
One of the reasons we decided to set up an Octagon twitter account was to deal with the issue of “robots” joining our feed. Consequently Octagon, for the moment, has joined the TrueTwit (www.truetwit.com) service. Robots in the I.T world are computers that attempt to subscribe to services and can possibly send you loads of
Security on our new Twitter Feed Read More »
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
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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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.
UPS beep beep beep! Read More »
