Some of you may have read that latest news that Microsoft has put out a $250,000 reward to find who is behind the Conficker worm that is said to have infected as many as 12 million computers. They are doing this because it has taken the firm view that the creation of the Conficker worm [...]
Today I was called to a clients that had added some new RAM to a Windows XP pc but could not access the network any longer. What was happening was it showed a connection was in place but it would not obtain an IP address from the network nor would it workwith a fixed IP [...]
10 Feb
Posted by admin as Uncategorized
This is a repost from the Windows Blog here: I wanted to quickly remind everyone that this week general availability for the Windows 7 Beta will be ending: February 10th: Starting at 12am Pacific Time, no new downloads will be available. If you have already begun downloading the Windows 7 Beta, you have until Feb. [...]
04 Feb
Posted by admin as Business, insane stuff, life, Light relief, small business
This week has been an interesting week for UK business. We have discovered, surprise surprise, that as a country we are totally unable to cope with any kind of weather outside of the standard drizzle of rain or a sparkle of sunshine. As a Brit I am truly embarrassed to call myself a UK citizen [...]
This was the scene in Nottingham today. Not too bad considering how bad the weather gets in other countries but as true Brits we were totally ill-equipped to cope with the snow. Still it was fun and apparently there’s more snow on the way, lets hope so then the media can blame the recession on [...]
Over the weekend it was time to re-install the work laptop, which isn’t too much of an issue however the data need to be taken off first. So the first job was to try and find somewhere to dump about 40gb of data, nothing too major but the state of modern computing shows that your [...]