Ever wondered how you can control which websites your staff visit in office hours. I have recently installed this Watchguard device. It can control web site access and protect your systems from threats on unauthorised web pages. The device can also be configured to connect seamlessly to a satellite office, run a fall over dual […]
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My alarm went off at 3.30am to get to site and make sure everything is working, with the server swap, before the staff get in. There was not much traffic on the road when I drove in, but a guard dog at a next door factory did startle me when I got out of my
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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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
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
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Martin’s post about the new network infrastructure project he is working on, reminded me that I posted some photos on my blog of the job he and I did the weekend before last. We repatched the cabinets in client’s basement. The job is not yet complete as we are waiting on a delivery of cables
