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Imagine this scenario, as an IT Pro of many years it is a scenario I have experienced many times 🙁 Your desktop / laptop won’t load Windows (or any other OS) and basically doesn’t do anything when you switch on the power button. Occasionally this can sometimes be fixed by repairing the “file system” but …

I was going to cobweb my sister site, pcjudo.co.uk but have decided to keep it up n running. I’ve done a major edit and hopefully people will find it more useful with all the new stuff.

Robustness & Redundancy with regard to computer kit is sometimes challenging! Recently I had a good slap in the face with a wet fish 🙁 When it comes to backing up my data, I’m a paranoid Pete and of course my kit is protected by UPS in case of power cuts. I make regular disk …

Much on MSM today covering the 75th anniversary of D-Day where the British Empire (at that time) and it’s allies united against a common enemy to preserve #Freedom #Independence and #Democracy. Thousands of people lost their lives on the Normandy beaches, a lot returned home on stretchers and most who returned would never be the …

Updated October 2021 Updated October 2019 December 2018 From a personal experience, OTM have tried making some pretty stupid changes over the past few months and the backlash from customers has caused U turns. About a month ago they introduced a change to the DD, where people pay a hiked up payment for the winter …

Mondo Rescue is free disaster recovery software. It supports Linux and FreeBSD. It’s packaged for multiple distributions. It also supports tapes, disks, USB devices, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware RAID. The beauty of Mondo Rescue is being able to create “live” disk images; without having to reboot your …

CentOs is the open source version of RHEL and it is ROCK SOLID. It should be the choice of server OS for a lot of people but because it’s open source, there is no “Customer support” as such so you need to know what you are doing. The CentOS Forum is a fantastic source of …

Todays world is 24/7, it doesn’t stop or rest! The invisible army of Engineers, Technicians, skilled and un-skilled workers all have to carry out maintenance work, to keep “the world” running! This is a bit of challenge because there isn’t really any “out of hours” periods but the maintenance still has to be done. For …

@Virginmedia @O2 @Galaxy Living. The first two are large “communications” companies that seem to find it difficult to communicate! The third is a lot smaller company but the biggest difference is that their customer support is unparalleled. If you phone them, a real person answers and if they can’t help they will  advise that someone …

OK, not really IT related but people who work in IT need to relax and forget about “the job” from time to time and getting into a tub full of hot water with optional bubbles is a brilliant way of relaxing. There are other ways that involve buying chocolates and flowers but the Tub is …