Keeping Your PC’s in Check If we drove our trusty Aussie Ute without any maintenance and never removed all of the junk we threw in the back how do you think it would perform? It is not much different if we don’t properly maintain our PC and also remove the rubbish software & files that […]
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Six Years on For Columnist I am constantly amazed how many people come into the shop with one of these articles – asking us “Can you do this to my computer?” Originally when I started writing Byte Me articles around 6 years ago I think that my Mum & Dad were my only audience. In […]
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Alma St Medical Up and Running The last two weeks has seen us busy with helping a local business to get back onto their feet after a major incident. That business and incident was the fire that gutted one of our largest local medical practices – Alma Street Medical. The fire at 150 Alma Street […]
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IT Gifts: Proceed with Caution… Yesterday many pretty coloured boxes were unwrapped and a good percentage of them will have contained some IT gear. For many this will bring entertainment and satisfaction however for others it will be the source of frustration and wasted time. There are no guarantees that what someone has presumed would […]
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Fortune Spent on Bad Technology When a week passes at the shop it can often provide the basis for one of these articles and that has proved to be the case for today. We had a new customer come to us in dire straits with a PC that was giving all sorts of grief however […]
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Internet Times Speedily Changing We have had some good responses to the latest articles about NBN and ‘the Internet of things’ with several people asking for further explanation on why we need greater Internet speeds. This weeks’ article will attempt to answer that question in some more depth. At all times it needs to be […]
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Watch Out for Online Scammers For several weeks now I have been keen to report on regained Internet speed by changing back to Telstra from Optus. However, despite having several people from very high up in their chain of command calling me personally to offer any ‘assistance that I require’ I still have no home […]
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Deciding When to Replace Your PC For the last 2 Byte Me articles I have talked about Optus’ lack of Internet uplink bandwidth at my local (Frenchville) exchange. Despite the newspaper articles and the paper actually giving them all of my contact details, I am yet to hear from any of their representatives regarding this […]
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Costs Surge on Insurance Claims Two weeks ago we talked about PC’s and servers that had coped a power surge from Cyclone Marcia as well as a number of the same devices that were killed by generators in the following days. Last week we talked about the implications getting a power surge through your PC […]
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Power Surge Presents Problems Since last week all we are doing is going flat out as the dead PC’s keep coming in courtesy of Marcia. Possibly the most interesting point of the last week is that if you get a power surge in a desktop PC or a server then how far do you go […]
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