This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
In the words of a Modern day philosopher :- Mr. T “Got no time for the jibba jabba!” Well the Governor of the Insane Asylum has decided the Inmates need a new communication system, to cut down on the expense of plumbers to fix broken pipes from our...
Now as you are aware, I have not broken Busbys systems since going live with the project. I was thinking it was all flowing well and they had got “used” to me now, so the end of all my problems… Then came the Christmas shutdown period, and I came...
There should be a form of Caffeine-Breathalyser fitted to all computers that prevent incoming emails unless the operator has a sufficient amount of caffeine in their system to cope with lUsers. For my example I shall use my morning. 9am: Get into...
I thought I would just give you some update's on the fun of Busby's “Obscure Code”. AKA: The bane of the Internet.Update 1. After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by...
a.k.a Freelance Whoring A customer of where I work, who we will in the trend of this blog call “RedBack“, emailed me last night, unofficially and off the record. So its good I am protecting their identity :0) This customer has a server, but no...
One of our customers recently moved half their business away from us to a BIGGER networking company for added security, better service, and to prevent having all their eggs in one basket. They had been looking into disaster recovery for a while,...
So at the weekly “Blame & Shame” meeting, it was mentioned that the SMS notifications of Server problems were possibly a bit excessive. The monitoring system sends out a notification of a problem every hour. If you happen to have your phone...
I’ve just finished re-watching the 1st season of “The I.T. Crowd“. I was reconfiguring a Laptop and needed something playing in the background. Now one of the running jokes in the show is the answer-all response to all phone requests “Have you...
You have to love customers who think they are better, cleverer, more skillful than yourself. Although you do have to ask yourself the question “If they are better than me, why are they paying me to do this work?” I just had several emails from a...
You have probably seen the emails, web pages, blogs, cloud writings suggesting this new idea of storing a phone number in your mobile phone (Well it beats storing it in your fridge) with the name ICE “In Case of Emergency”, so that emergency...