Author Archives: dbj

When your dedicated hard drive clone bay – genuine £13 bargain causes dedicated Windows only software to crash when 99% complete…. Following exhaustive tests it turns out its the bays implementation of usb to IDE / Sata chip at fault … Continue reading →

Well where do you start – check the bios … hmmm upgrade the bios to the latest version … notice while moving the unit that it rattles ( metal screw? on casing?). break down pc to empty shell remove flash … Continue reading →

Well I’ve had an odd time of it recently… I added another 4gb of ram to my pc. It may indeed be an ancient machine but it ticks along now even managing to run a vm! Then somewhere in the … Continue reading →

Well just a joke post really…. When is an update difficult to turn down? dual core to quad core = £9 including postage! Why wouldn’t you? Well it shows the tech that I’m running on but then hey return versus … Continue reading →

Are you Ready Windows 7 support ends on January 14, 2020….. ……Getting there moving pc’s over to Linux where possible, such a variety of installs 🙂 What’s your plan?

Just renewed .co.uk and taken decision to remove Windows from 1st PC. On balance the pc wasn’t worth the investment to make it suitable for Windows 10 and Linux XFCE runs fine on it. Microsoft just reminded me that their … Continue reading →

Just spent best part of a day trying to trace a router firewall error. It only seems to block certain sites and wont allow ssh on the local network. I’ve narrowed it down to an issue on the LAN ports … Continue reading →

Just added a 2015 dedicated graphics card to my main pc. I guess you can tell how old my tech is, needed dedicated graphics as the old card was becoming obselete. Moved the old card into the backup server as … Continue reading →

Ok so here is a wierd one for you … www.facebook.com suddenly failes to load? then you find other sites too fail to load – your browser points you to a TLS protocol failure or an SSL failure and the … Continue reading →

Slight error with one of our routers left us jumping onto the backup server… Well most of us. Sorry if we left you behind just a small glitch but it removed our second site from the internet – really must … Continue reading →