13th May 2017 Continuing on from last week where we saw a major Rockhampton Super Market having Telstra ADSL problems which stopped their EFTPOS machines working and lost them thousands of dollars of trade. We had gone on site and also called Telstra numerous times on their behalf. We even had a Telstra case number […]
Continue reading6th May 2017 Today we have an article that once again has sprung from one of our experiences at the shop during the last week. Last Saturday around 4pm while at the Caves Show I was called on our emergency number because a major Rockhampton Super Market had lost their Internet connection which also killed […]
Continue reading29th April 2017 I have missed the last 2 weeks of articles mostly due to the passing of my mother. She was a beautiful and kind person that never had a bad word to say about anyone. It was also a comforting thought that no matter what the problem she would lend a sympathetic ear […]
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10th December 2016 Getting Fed Up and Hanging Up How long has it been since you called a service provider such as a Telco, Insurance Company, Most Government Agencies, Health Care Company, Bank or software company? These are the sort of calls that we dread. And how many times have you pressed different numbers for […]
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3rd December 2016Keeping Your Business Safe This week has been highlighted with a lot of businesses getting the Cryptolocker virus. Previously this virus was spread near exclusively through emails however now we are seeing a large number of hacking attacks. This especially occurs when you are running a server but do not have adequate security. […]
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Plan Ahead For Business Needs For the last two weeks we have looked at the growing pains that small businesses face with their IT systems as they expand from smaller to larger operations. Next week I will get back to writing about IT topics that are more relevant to the average reader so bear with […]
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What Constitutes a Server Following on from last weeks’ article about the IT challenges that businesses go through as they grow from a one man band start up business to a larger entity, this week we look at what constitutes a ‘server’. There are many opinions as to what a server is or what it […]
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From One PC to a Network In Byte Me this week we are going to look at the IT growing pains that businesses face as they transition from a small one PC outfit to having multiple staff and 10 or more PC’s. In this instance there will be multiple points in time where complete systems […]
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Hard Disk Drives Can Often Die A new financial year is upon us and we are still completing all of the work and new equipment ordered by many of our business customers before June 30. It is always interesting the how varied the work is that we do and in the one week we can […]
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Networking PC’s Vital for Business As we approach the end of another financial year we are seeing lots of businesses wanting an invoice for computers or computer upgrades before June 30. It is a time of the year when we pick up many new business customers and I am often left aghast at how their […]
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