While providing IT support for a client in Stevenage, I was tasked with troubleshooting an Excel 2003 file which had for some reason grown beyond all reasonable size. It was a relatively simple 8 sheet workbook, with a few hundred lines on each sheet. It gets updated quite regularly and had grown to 18mb in…
Barracuda link balancer 330 install
This week I’ve been spending a bit of time installing a Barracuda link balancer 330 for a client for whom RSCC provide IT support in Stevenage, so I thought I’d share a few thoughts on it, as there doesnt seem to be a lot in the way of real-world reviews on the web. In this…
COD 7 Black ops sucks. Yes it does.
Well, I know this isn’t strictly IT, but as you may know, us techies need time off one in a while to play Xbox or watch Star Trek – and if I can’t rant here, I’ll only bore the folks down at the Commodore 64 club. I generally only get round to blogging when I’ve…
Cisco VPN Client not working with Vodafone 3g dongle?
We’ve recently been approached by a client to provide a remote access solution for travelling representatives. RSCC provide IT support for them in their office in Letchworth, but they needed to extend the reach of their network to travelling representatives. As they require access to a data-heavy database and had limited upstream bandwidth, VPN access…
‘B’ is for blackberry..
This one had two of us scratching our heads for a long time. Thanks for Rob for the screenshot.
Bad IT support?
Sometimes it’s amazing just how bad some IT support companies can be and still remain trading. I recently visited a new client. They had a support contract with a company that offered remote and phone assistance, and also a bi-monthly support visit to maintain the servers. This had been in place for a few years….
Thanks, Apple.
Anyone left wondering why their iphone has mysteriously stopped resolving names on their .local domain may find the following of interest. With the latest Iphone OS4 upgrade, Apple have implemented ‘bonjour’, an propriety apple network service, which apparently makes it easier for your growing collection of shiny apple widgets to find each other. Part of…
Blackberry to compete with Iphone & Windows Mobile
Good news at last for any Blackberry fans that may be a little fed-up with the high price of the service. Blackberry have been struggling of late in the SME marketplace, leaving companies using Microsoft Exchange with a thorny problem: The choice was to either settle for the cheap BIS service, which syncs only email,…