http://www.freethecityone.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:51:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have just had the heads-up from a good friend of mine to let me know that he will be sending over my copy of Interguard software for home, laptop and corporate security.  All being well I should have the stuff over this evening and all things being equal will ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2009/01/05/security-via-interguard.html I wrote yesterday about doing something you normally do but different.  Well yesterday, as you may recall, I decided to walk to the shop which was very liberating however today I am regretting it.  For the last couple of months the car has been a little slow ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2009/01/04/ironic-is-the-only-word-for-it.html Like most people I spend almost every working day racing around seeing people, speaking with them on the phone, rushing home at night to see the wife and kids.  This I have done for many years so much so that it has become the normal speed of things and I ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2009/01/03/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off.html For those who have followed this blog in the past you will know and see that I have been very quite since summer.  The reasons for this are many but most of them are due to personal circumstances which have knocked my life completely off kilter and have no only ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2009/01/02/new-year-new-start.html As I said yesterday we recently came back from France and the crossing there was a little rough.  The first taste of this was when we arrived only to be told that the ferry had been delayed by 2 hours due to bad weather.  Now on-land the weather was ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2008/08/30/rough-rides.html As you will see things have been extreemly quiet of late.  Due to some personal stuff that was happening throughout May/June I had to focus my attention elsewhere for a while, then of course we have had the kids summer holidays which is always great.  You get to see the ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2008/08/29/silence-is-golden.html Recently we had some problems with our DNS provider for the business which caused us to look at moving the domain over to another more reliable provider.  In the end we decided to settle with hosting the DNS with pipex and while they may not have always had the best ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2008/04/28/spam-prevention.html As anyone in IT will tell you most of your time is spent in front of a computer and if you work in support then a whole heap of that is spent watching progress bars descend into the abyss of life.  I would estimate now that I have spent approximately ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2008/04/26/light-relief.html Over the weekend I was onsite finishing off and installation for a client of a VoIP PBX system that we had provided.  What they had got was one of IP PBX's with 4 Linksys SPA941 IP Phones connect to 2 ISDN2e lines so that they had 4 incoming calls.  Due ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2008/04/21/linksys-woes.html How many business do you either deal with directly or know that do backups? A large percentage I would say however how many individuals (home users) actually do backups?  Not so many.  If you ask a home user about backups then they will usually tell you on of two things: ... http://www.freethecityone.co.uk/2008/04/17/no-backups-disaster.html