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When you connect 2 or more computers together, you are creating a Network. When you connect a computer to the Internet, you are joining a Wide Area Network! At one time, the only way to achieve connecting 2 or more computers together was by using an “Ethernet” cable. For the past 15+ years this cable …

I eat, breathe and sleep computers and technology and since about 1980 I’ve built, broke, fixed, used and played with computers as a way of life! I’m an MCP on several counts, I’m SCO Unix. Linux and COMPTIA A+ certified. I’m also well qualified in Mechanical and Electrical engineering and pride myself in being able …

Windows 10 will be here from July 29th, if you have had the “Windows” icon appear on your task bar (bottom right corner for most people) allowing you to reserve Windows 10; it will come as an update and shouldn’t need any help from you!  The Windows icon in the task bar has identified your …

This applies equally to any of the MS server OSs, in this case I was looking for an Open Source alternative for 2003 Server and decided on CentOS 7. If, like me, you are a CLI -tard (e.g. prefer GUI’s to the Command Line Interface) then you might find Open Source difficult to grasp. Most …

Email (Electronic Mail) has come a long way over the years and is used by private individuals and businesses alike, it has become the defacto method of communication for most businesses and a lot of private individuals. In it’s infancy, you could only send simple “plain text” messages but these days, you can get all …

The email client Thunderbird, from Mozilla, is awesome. I’ve used it for years and recommend it to anyone who doesn’t want to use “WebMail”. A very useful “add-on” to Thunderbird (T Bird) is the integrated calendar “Ligthtning” but if you have a gmail (googlemail) email address, you can use the additional add-on “Provider for Google …

Part 1 If you’re “computer savvy”, the above “Cloud services” will probably mean something to you so you might want to skip to Part 2. If you’re “not into computers” you might have heard of them but don’t really know what they are. Unfortunately going to the Microsoft Onedrive site or the Apple iCloud site …

Removing Malware from computers is one of my favourite jobs, guess I enjoy the challenge 🙂 I’m an advocate of the phrase “prevention is better than the cure” but when it comes to Malware, sometimes it doesn’t matter how careful you are; something slips past your defenses. If you keep your anti-virus/anti-malware software up-to-date and …

The past few weeks I’ve been monitoring brute force attacks on my sites, all attempts to access the WordPress admin have so far failed. I wasn’t too worried as I have several security measures in place such as very strong passwords, an amended .htaccess file and Wordfence. over the past couple of weeks, 2 of …

Since moving my sites to a new home at Pacwebhosting.co.uk a few weeks ago, I’ve had chance to get to know Litespeed (instead of Apache) and must say I’m impressed. I’ve cleared out the dross and now have more or less a clean slate, I’m now concentrating a lot more on keeping my sites secure …