Octagon Technology is a member of The Business Network Lincoln and yesterday Clive and I went to the latest meeting at the Double Tree Hotel, on the Bradford in Lincoln. Clive used a shot from the restaurant as his “photo of the day” on his blog. The Business Network Lincoln It was a great meeting where we […]
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With the Microsoft XP “end of life” only days away Martin and Clive have been out helping people with swapping out XP PCs. However Clive visited one customer who asked what they should do about the Windows 95 PC they were still using? To see the photo follow this link. This machine is still giving
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In between meetings today, I am changing the operating system on an older XP laptop to a version of Linux. The client has been using this small laptop for when he is out of the office and has been very happy with it. Following a review of his system I had written for him, he
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Clive has recorded the latest edition of our podcast My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy. In the show Lizzie and he are discussing the problems that the Cryptolocker trojan poses for businesses. editing and mastering the the show The show is in post production today and will be available for listening to online or for download
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Yesterday Martin and I spent best part of the day helping a client who had Cryptolocker on one of their networked PCs – the problem did not develop into a disaster as they are using our secure data protection software. Below is a document that I have written which is being sent to all our
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The BBC has a great article describing the 12 Scams of Christmas. It is worth having a look as anyone could be caught by these and if you are aware of them you can be more careful. We are always discussing security issues with clients, passwords, staff internet use, company information etc and finding ways
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IT Support Lincolnshire I’m having a varied day. I have supplied and fitted a new PC and installed the software the client requires. I received a call from a client who had dropped off the network so I went out and fixed it. I had the usual call about a slow PC and I fixed
I had scheduled today to be the day I caught up with my paperwork, however it did not work out that way. Among a variety of support jobs, I had to go out to Gainsborough to sort some email issues and then follow up with an issue Guitar George was having. After I fixed his
I am looking for a new laptop but I don’t think I will be getting a Dell. BBC News – Dell users: Latitude 6430u laptops ‘smell of cat urine’. Notice they did not offer to take them back – only offering for you to send them back (who pays?) to replace the keyboards (and how
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