I read with interest a get together of the creators of the venerable BBC micro computer at the science museum. My first forays into computer network support would have been a part time job in a school which had a room of networked computers that all booted off a 10 MB hard drive (oh the [...]
I got out of working permanently in a company in an IT support role when it became clear that a significant number of people just used IT support as a crutch for not learning how to use computers (not always their fault as often no training was offered and ‘winging it’ was how many got [...]
There are faint rumblings in the UK techie-sphere concerning a handful of the larger UK Internet service provider’s (ISP’s) signing up to a service called Phorm which will sit between the user and their ISP , in this case BT, Talk Talk and Virgin Media customers.
All Your Data Belongs To Me
Basically the service (in this [...]
Owning a modern Intel based Mac allows a great degree of flexibility as you can run almost any operating system aside from OS X (I know, why would you want to? But some of us have such a need if only for support reasons). You can dual boot into Windows or run another OS [...]
Today is the 5th annual Safer Internet Day in which we highlight the dangers of sharing personal information on-line for both children and adults.The UK specific site can be found here.
Let’s be careful out there…
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