Category Archives for "Servers"

Byte Me Article 348 – Another Year Closes

16th December 2017 Looking Back at the Year in IT As we see yet another year rocket to a close it is interesting to look back at some of the newsworthy happenings in IT.  While we wonder where the time has gone I see quite a few IT trends either strengthening or weakening and we […]

Byte Me Article 343 – NBN Woes

11th November 2017 Don’t Blame Others for NBN In the last few weeks, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull labels the NBN rollout as a “Train Wreck” and surprisingly he blamed Labour!  NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow suggests that customers need to pay a new levy to help fund the NBN – he wants more money!  […]

Byte Me Article 339 – Dealing with Telcos

7th October 2017 Challenges Dealing With Telcos As an IT company, we often hear firsthand from customers about their worst phone experiences.  These range considerably from total disconnections when they simply requested a billing name change to existing services that are established – again just to get a billing name change. This week we had […]

Byte Me Article 337 – Data Backup 3

23rd September 2017 Save Yourself from IT Horror This week we have the last in our 3 week-long series on computer backup devices and software and we focus on backup software.  As mentioned last week there are literally dozens of different brands and titles of backup software which most would assume is much the same.  […]

Byte Me Article 336 – Data Backup 2

16th September 2017 Backup Device Protects Data Carrying on from last weeks’ article about backup systems, this week we look at what is a good backup system.  So firstly how often do you need to back up?  This will vary from customer to customer and it will depend on how much they are changing their […]

Byte Me Article 335 – Data Backup

9th September 2017 Don’t Overlook the Backup Technical systems such as IT will always have myths and urban legends surrounding its use so today we should look at one of the most important aspects of IT and discuss some of the misconceptions.  To have a copy or “backup” of user data is a hot topic […]

Byte Me Article 328 – Useful Internet for the Bush

22 July 2017 Latency Slows Bush Browsing One of the topics that I have covered in detail is that of Internet connections.  However I have mostly been focusing on ‘town’ type connections in the form of ADSL or the more recent NBN connections.  So where does this leave our brothers in the bush? Given the […]

Byte Me Article 325 – World Wide Web

1st July 2017 No Man is an Internet Island What is the price of being connected to the Web?  This is an interesting question.  The Internet is a resource but there is no way its use can ever be called free.  Some of us take advantage of free Wi-Fi at various locations but the majority […]

Byte Me Article 324 – Further NBN Woes

24th June 2017 Advice on NBN Connections This week we have been asked out to more customers than ever to try to help sort problems with the transition from ADSL Internet connections to NBN connections.  The number of problems here seems to be escalating rather than improving. If you are a homeowner and want to […]