Windows Comes Of Age Most of us know the 33 year history of Microsoft Windows by now and with one or two forced errors down the years, in my opinion the launch of Windows 10 in 2015 became a defining moment for the world’s favourite computer operating system. “A computer on every desk and in […]
Released March 2018 Developer – Ubisoft Montreal Publisher – Ubisoft Review platform – PC Far Cry 5 – Not For Alt-Right Christian Snowflakes When the story line for Far Cry 5 was revealed more than 18 months ago, it sparked a huge debate in the gaming community, largely triggered by groups of moaners referred to as snowflakes, prompting […]
I took a year off and just hid in a locker I’ve been playing first person shooters for over twenty years and without doubt this is the scariest game I’ve ever played, now more so since I acquired a set of gaming headphones that bring the game to almost total immersion. Some may recall that […]
Digital Rights Management (DRM) – A Necessary Evil? In one form or another DRM has been around for decades and even predates Napster, which ironically was the company that really justified its existence and implementation in the first place. Today, DRM is all-pervasive, no more so than the multi-layer anti-piracy and anti-tamper software known as […]
When Things Go Wrong… …they generally go very wrong and when the cause of a website crash isn’t immediately apparent, putting things right can be a challenging exercise. The above image is what confronted me following an aborted forum software upgrade last week, indicating that the flux capacitors had blown somewhere along the line and […]
Limit Your Facebook Exposure In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica affair, many Facebook users are re-examining their privacy options, many don’t care and most of us haven’t a clue how to tweak the many settings in our Facebook accounts. It’s also fair so say that changing your Facebook settings now may be a case […]
It’s entirely possible that Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has taken a leaf from Napoleon’s crib sheet in the oft quoted, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” It seemed like that to me anyway as members of congress quite willingly exposed their tech ignorance as Zuckerberg appeared to look on in bemused […]
All things change, but sometimes these changes are forced upon us whether we like it or not. For me, this came about when the owner of the shop I’ve been renting for the last three years sold up and the new landlord immediately doubled the rent adding incremental increases every six months. This pretty much […]
My Website Was Hacked In January I wrote an article How To Set Up A Community Forum following the disastrous experience I had with a local Argentine hosting company and that my friends, is not the end of the story. When I set up my Compufix business in 2009 I struggled and sweated with Microsoft […]
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Developer: Kojima Productions Launch: September 2015 Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Android Review Platform: PC There are some games that grab your attention the moment you hit play and this is most definitely one of them. The Metal Gear series began in […]
You know what it’s like. You bought a new hard drive, likely an SSD, but you can’t bring yourself to nuke the old Windows installation because either you want to keep it in case the new install goes belly up, or worry that pressing the wrong button may cause irreparable damage, leaving you without a […]
Cancel All My Meetings – Someone Is Wrong On The Internet! The above image speaks volumes, although what used to be dubbed netiquette — that quaint phrase invented by silver surfers in the age of the information superhighway of the noughty nineties- – is observed a little more rigidly nowadays. Particularly since E V E […]
My front desk computer in the shop has an Athlon 64 x 2 fitted with a Radeon HD 4550 graphics card, which today is considered a legacy GPU and although drivers are available for Windows 7 and 8, an HDMI connection to the monitor will cause an underscan. That is to say, the desktop won’t […]
YouTube has just announced that their YouTube Partner Program (YPP) will change its eligibility for signing up as a result of too many bad actors spoiling the fun for the rest of us and boy are there a few bad actors out there, whose definition is: An ill-intentioned, mean or bad-tempered person So it looks […]