Hey. Thanks for checking out the site. You'll find posts on geek stuff, Howto's, reviews of stuff I get, as well as musings on things that happen in my life, which tend to be music related, or job related, so expect some stories of horror from the IT field!.
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I’ve recently finished working with one employer, and start a new job tomorrow. This job was my first step into IT and it was quite a eye opener, mainly in the way of how not to run your network.
My former employer was a public sector company, and foolishly I expected things to be a [...]
Tags: networking, security, vnc, work
I like linux. Its a fun platform to try out, and you can’t beat the price. It will run happily on low spec machines, and cos its a *nix OS, you can use it for a file server, web server, lots of stuff easily. But this is about one thing specifically.
I’m still running my MythTV [...]
Tags: hardware, linux, mythtv, wifi, wireless, xp
Don’t worry, its not actual Leopards. Monday was pay day and my treat for the month was to get Leopard. Obviously its been out since October 29th but I wanted to save getting it till later. I had two main reasons.
1. Save my money
2. Wait till I had an external drive (Christmas present) and could do a [...]
Tags: backup, leopard, macbook, macosx, migration assistant, mybook, superduper, upgrade
As per my previous post, I’m not a certified A+ IT Technician. And as a A+ Certified IT Technician I am now entitled to use the CompTIA A+ Certified IT Technician logo. It can be used on business cards, Resumes, CV’s, applications, letters, and some other stuff. Not a bad way to remind your clients [...]
Tags: a+, comptia, it technician
Ok, well I failed and didn’t do this over Christmas. Had too much to do giving advice to my parents about their own PC’s to worry about mine. But here it is, the fourth and final part of my Great Mac Apps segment.
GimmeSomeTune - This is the most useful iTunes plugin I use (and the [...]
Despite my avid Mac-love, I do listen to a few Windows podcasts, since I will be working with them soon (call it wishful thinking). These include Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott (I used to read the blog a long time ago, back when XP was in beta!)
Anyway, I recently discovered ITT (In The Trenches) which [...]
Tags: fit, friends in tech, georgestarcher, in the trenches, itt, kevindevin, podcasts, windows
Last year I signed up for courses with the Computer Training College (www.ctcollege.co.uk).
I signed up for the CompTIA A+, N+, Microsoft MCSA and Cisco CCNA. I have reached the stage where I am ready to take my A+ exams and contacted them about booking them. I was then told that the exam fees were not [...]
There’s been some talk recently of the BBC iPlayer service, which allows you to watch BBC TV programming on demand.
There has also been a lot of outcry as using this service seems to be difficult indeed.
The current requirements are as follows:
Windows XP operating system *
Minimum 500Mb (RAM) memory
Internet Explorer 6 browser (or later)
Windows Media Player [...]
I was just watching some TV and a PC World advert came on, advertising the latest cheap laptop.
Two things made me think. First, the man in the ad (selling to a woman…who obviously knows nothing about computers, I’m surprised she wasn’t scared to leave the kitchen(!) (please, lets break some stereotypes please?)) and stated how [...]
It arrived (and by that I mean I picked it up) yesterday. I have my new MacBook Pro. Its shiney and lovely.
Only problem now, and its a big one. I did a backup to DVD in May 07 (not really got any more robust backup facility) and had my discs sitting around for me, so [...]
