Keep your Head Out of the Clouds Businesses should be going to cloud computing – what a load of glossy advertising! Businesses need to be well aware of the costs and limitations of cloud computing before jumping on this band wagon! Just because we have been logging into our Internet Banking sites (a cloud site) […]
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Power Doesn’t Mean Intelligence Last week we were looking at the workings of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) – the very brain of a computer. We showed that if buying a new desktop PC or laptop the power rating of its brain is not easily compared against other marketplace alternatives unless you look it up […]
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Crystal Ball on Computing in 2014 This being the last Byte Me Article for 2013 has me reflecting on the current direction of computing & where I think we will see it heading during the next 12 months. One of the big things that I see emerging is a greater gap between PC’s for business […]
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What Downloads Do You Need? Last week we wrote about the now happening NBN debacle and looked at exactly how inferior and redundant it is to be considering fibre to the node as opposed to the original NBN idea of fibre to the very doorstep of Australian premises. This week we expand on the subject […]
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NBN Rollout I have been asked to write an article about the state of the NBN rollout in Rockhampton, trying to put some perspective on the situation as well as keeping the article in layman’s terms. This task should prove to be only a little harder than splitting an atom – so here we go! […]
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Software, Not Data, Slow PC’s Every day of the week and now even Saturday’s we have people bringing in slow computers – yes it is unlikely that we are going to have someone bring us a fast pc, but the causes of slowness are usually the same. Many people worry about the data that they […]
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Cloud Computing Not Always Best Solution I have just finished attending the Festival of Innovation – a Thursday event hosted at the Rockhampton Leagues Club. Several guest speakers including the ‘Gadgetguy’ and local business presenters extolling the virtues of our technological age and all things that connect to the Internet. The advantage of these technologies […]
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Hurry, Society to Keep Youth Sane and Safe Where are we going with Information Technology in the next 10 years? Keeping pace with changes in IT is at its all-time hardest right now – there have never been so many new technologies being thrust upon the market. Will this pace of technological innovation slow down […]
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When the Expert Help Doesn’t Quite Work A day in IT can mean a big difference. This is certainly the case for a local mechanical business who first called us around 10am one morning with ‘computer problems’. An hour later I was onsite with Brad – one of our computer techs finding an absolute kaleidoscope […]
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Low Power Rating Will Slow Down Your PCCPU’s Matter 9 March, 2013 It’s happened again – my pet peeve! I was called to a new customers’ office because of a ‘few’ things going wrong. One of those things was a new PC which was reported to be running slow. I had a look at this […]
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