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 […]
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
AnyTrans® Android Phone Manager One thing the mobile phone market isn’t short on is phone managers and iMobie is in a very crowded room, so it’s with a certain amount of trepidation that I began an albeit limited evaluation of their AnyTrans® Android phone
First off, the names given to graphics cards nowadays can be a tad confusing, if not extremely long, which may require some explanation. ROG (the Choice of Champions, no less) is a brand used by Asus since 2006, meaning Republic of Gamers and Strix, although being ancient Roman
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If you run a website that handles sensitive information such as email addresses, passwords and more importantly, personal financial information, you should consider converting your site to SSL (Secure Sockets layer, aka TLS) for the peace of mind of both you and your users. What
Ten years ago I was banned from an expats forum for belligerence in the face of Soviet style moderation and mercilessly left to wander the empty corridors of the internet without a community I could call my home. Fast forward five or six years and
