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Archive for February, 2007

Why I Hate Sony Laptops

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

So today was another busy day with a couple of jobs in the morning followed by a marathon in the afternoon evening, early hours Yes today I met a machine that was *nearly* my equal.. A Sony Viao Laptop to be precise and I have to say what a pile of complete and utter plop [...]

Quickbooks is…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Not a bad product but why does it insist on having you add the license key when you install and why can’t you just change the key on an installed version? I spent ages trying to get it working on a client machine this afternoon.. Mainly down to a number of other issues though such [...]

General waffle..

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Had a strange day today didn’t feel too well and managed to really do bugger all (well thats how it felt anyway). Finally went into town and managed to pay in a few cheques and some dosh, also had a couple of calls about jobs and bits and bobs towards the end of the week, [...]

Croydon again..

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Well popped the PC back to Croydon this afternoon, when we got back my PC decided it was going to have a fit every five minutes.. Finally tracked it down the the PSU and HSF (Heat Sink Fan) on the CPU, seems the fan had just stopped working.. The PSU was working overtime too and [...]

Resolving issues..

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

So today I started by clearing some of the junk into the office, which really is just moving it and not clearing it but you know what they say “out of sight out of mind” Then had some guy pop down from East Grinstead way for his Wii to get chipped, slapped it in (hey [...]

New gadgets..

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Well my new phone arrived this morning, along with a couple of new keyboards and dvd drives I ordered, I attempted to install the Wii modchip this morning too but I couldn’t find the decent soldering iron and instead ended up trying to shove a small chip in with a HUGE soldering iron.. Kinda like [...]

Wii will work you know..

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

My new phone should be with me tomorrow along with a lot of parts ordered for some other bits, the Tri-Wing turned up today but I shall wait until tomorrow to sort out the Wii.. Ended up speaking to a few more leads today and have a couple of jobs booked in for tomorrow morning, [...]

Websites and rushing around.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Had a quick meeting with a client this afternoon about their website and mentioned a few ideas to them they seem very happy with the general theme and just had a couple of things they wanted changed. Nice couple actually, had a call from two more potential clients and a request to go in and [...]

Heroes – A Must See.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

So anyway if you don’t know what heroes is then well shame on you.. Have to say it looks fantastic! Bubble or anyone else should shout if he wants to see Episodes 1-16 on the FTP Server.. Popped the Dell machine back today and the guy was very happy (so he should be too took [...]

Darn that other support company..

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I arrived at the site of last weeks carnage to find the new server off.. First thing that went through my mind was “NO A HARDWARE FAULT!” send thing that went through my mind was Windows update.. But I had never heard of it restarting a server before, or shutting one down. Anyway started it [...]