Today I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8.1 Pro. By ‘upgrade’ I actually mean backed up, formatted & installed Windows cleanly. It went surprisingly well and was pretty fast. The only Microsoft glitch I had were some updated that failed to install until after I rebooted, then away they went (though they gave me no…
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When business & IT collide.
I had the pleasure of showing a team the features of their new CRM software. Have I lost you yet with how boring that sentence is? Fortunately the reality was far from boring. To me – the CRM system is a plugin to a Joomla website. There are some bits I can configure & some bits…
Vodafail by another name: 3 Mobile demands payment during overseas trip.
Brace yourselves – this is a rant. In my opinion, mobile phone companies are right down their with real estate agents and used car salesmen. But let me lay out the facts and you can decided for yourself. After receiving a wedding invitataion, we decided to pack up the kids and head to Wellington for…
When Breastfeeding becomes your PR disaster
OK, this one is a ‘mini-post’ to ‘get the subject off my chest’ – yes, pardon the pun. On the news yesterday we heard of a mother who was approached by a staff member at a council-run public swimming pool, because another swimmer was uncomfortable with this lady breastfeeding her baby at the poolside. The…
To the cloud .. or not? (A personal account)
This isn’t intended as a comprehensive argument on how to evaluate if Cloud Computing is right for you or not. I’ve written it to show where we use Cloud Computing in our own business, and where we don’t. As most of my readers aren’t IT Providers, you may find something relevant in this, or you…
Attention!!!! All your personal files were encrypted with a strong algorythm RSA-1024 …
.. and you can’t get an access to them without making of what we need! Read ‘How to decrypt’ txt-file on your desktop for details Just do it as fast as you can! Remember: Don’t try to tell someone about this message if you want to get your files back! Just do all we told.…