Posted on
Sep 6th, 2008 at
0:43 by
Simon
The name of a free replacement fr Internet Explorer - I read somewhere that it was “more popular”.
Not according to my web stats - they say 97% Internet explorer!
Maybe that’s not indicative of the rest of the web… 
Anyway…
My new style website is coming along nicely, the reason for the title, was that I spent AGES trying to get the new layout working in IE (Internet Explorer) as well as FF (FireFox). What joy! 
Hmm…
I did learn that IE is a LOT more tolerant than FF when it comes down to coding - I had to put everything in long hand to get things working properly in both browsers.
Needless to say, this wasn’t my most entertaining of days.
I’d go so far as saying it was pretty boring!
I guess I’m finally losing the plot! 
I did, however, succeed! 
I also got a call from an old client of ours, one who we no longer support but supply their Internet and email services.
One of the main guys there had a virus - their current support people had installed the free version of AVG Antivirus and it didn’t do as advertised (no surprise there)
What was quite bad was the support people didn’t backup any of his mails - nor are they stored on the server and backed up there.
Clean PC, at the cost of ALL 2 YEARS emails - gone for ever!
Idiots! 
F.Y.I. I have also added the comments pages back in so leave a message
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Posted on
Sep 4th, 2008 at
0:41 by
Simon
Sometimes I think people who supply us tend to forget what we do.
For instance, we have been/are looking to get some kind of air conditioning into our office (it gets hot sometimes) and so we asked a networking contact to come over and quote.
To and fro with diaries, eventually he comes over…
Days pass…
Quote comes through the post.
Out comes the Internet and we check the prices… He’s quoting about £2000 for a unit I can buy RETAIL for £550 (not trying too hard to search here, this was nearly the first price I found!) 
OK, so he’ll install it but at £1500, I might have a go myself!
Methinks he’s extracting urine…
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Posted on
Sep 3rd, 2008 at
0:13 by
Simon
Went to visit a new client today, to give him the news that his systems were in a poorly maintained state - also he’d need to replace a couple of them and upgrade the rest - also he’d need to buy legal copies of some of the software he was using. 
Arms, legs, and a couple of internal organs is about the approximate price!
Oh dear…
It’s the total cost of idiots in my industry - bad advice can (and does) cost mundo £££s
On the upside, Google have finally released their Internet browser - looks pretty good from here!
It’s MUCH faster than Internet Explorer and (hopefully, if you believe the bumph) more secure.
I’m writing this on it now
I was hoping for an early night - sigh…
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Posted on
Sep 2nd, 2008 at
0:35 by
Simon
All dead at the start of the day - no phones, no broadband. NO BUSINESS!!.
Well, not quite but it felt like it 
BT did well for once and fixed it fairly quickly!
Wow!
A client popped in to collect his PC, one which would only turn on if the lights in the room were also switched on!
Strange!
As it turns out, the front panel on the case wasn’t quite in the correct place and the power switch was just missing the contacts behind it. A quick adjustment of the front panel fixed the problem - only to have the shoddy plastic ’spring’ break!
Glue… waits to dry…
Glue… waits to dry…
Glue… waits to dry…
Client returns - rebuild the panels
FIXED
Sadly the lights bit was just a coincidence - pity really!
Another client’s kids have nuked his PC, it’s taken, so far, 3 days to diagnose the issue 
Still fighting…
(effin’ kids!)
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Posted on
Aug 28th, 2008 at
22:48 by
Simon
~ It’s been a while since I had a moan about BT - mainly ‘cos we’ve not had cause to have to use them for a bit. That changed recently…
Brand new line installation,
Brand new broadband installation,
Brand new hardware to make it all work.
53 minutes in and all goes to hell in a hand cart
The broadband drops about every 10 minutes, intolerable. A brief test shows that the line doesn’t work properly (no voice or dial tone)
Looks like BT have NO QA (Quality Assurance) - not too surprised really, just have an angry customer…
Also - probably of interest to a minor selection of my readers:
Captcha is broken - the security things where you type in a few distorted letters has been cracked.
“Spam, spam, spam, spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam.”
Oh dear
Got hurt by the physio too - now I have to exercise. Time to attend to that Greek godlike frame of mine
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