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News

More memory

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

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old tech vs new tech

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

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Are you Ready

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?

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fees etc

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

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Router

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

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Windows versus Linux

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

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Virginmedia SSL failure on certain websites

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

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Ooops

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

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Slightly Puzzled

Just updated a Microsoft product with their security update…. It removes the ability to connect to the product throught their remote connection application? No um this update will break our software or what or why just the remote machine restarts … Continue reading

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Oath taking over?

Just a quick note about Oath’s takeover of several internet companies….

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