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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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?.
That building melted my car… Read More »
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
I wonder, is your PC Clean? Read More »
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
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.
I have spent a hot afternoon doing paperwork and writing emails – made tolerable by Sky Arts showing a Who Concert.
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
Search: But not Google! Read More »
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
Too little, too late – but don’t worry BT is in charge Read More »
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
Call centre menu options catalogued by a frustrated IT worker Read More »
