by Peter Connolly | Nov 11, 2012 | technology
A regular client brought in her laptop with regular problem – lines across the screen. Apparently her children had used it, and the lines had magically appeared – no-one would admit to any accidents with the machine. We connected the machine up to an...
by Peter Connolly | Sep 28, 2012 | technology
So a client rang up with a problem. Her laptop was showing strange lines on it. We called the machine in, and we had to agree – it had strange lines on it. Caused, we later found out, by the user leaving a pair of ear-buds on the top of the laptop and then...
by Peter Connolly | Oct 13, 2011 | clients, technology
First of all, you probably don’t need to. Google provides an incredibly massive amount of space; over 7Gb at the last count. That’s a lot of emails! However, be that as it may, some people still prefer to have email on their computer only, and not on...
by Peter Connolly | Sep 20, 2011 | technology
If you don’t understand the title of this post, it’s probably not of relevance to you! In August 2011, a vulnerability was discovered in Apache which would allow a DoS attack to succeed. Full details here (Summary: It’s bad. Really bad.) We’re...
by Peter Connolly | Aug 5, 2011 | slideshow, technology
How / Where and When should I buy a computer? How much should I pay? Frequently asked questions – certainly for us. When I started my Computer Science degree in 1984, one of our lecturers told us (even then!) that we’d be asked this question a lot. It...
