Over the last few weeks my landline broadband connection has been getting slower and slower, and dropping out occasionally, and causing modem issues, prompting some of the work mentioned below. Today it got beyond a joke, and I contacted Telecom. …
Following on from getting the Vodem working in Ubuntu, which was relatively easy, this morning I have been having fun getting the T-Stick working. There are many references on how to do this and I won’t bore you by going …
I was looking at my web stats, and noticed someone was doing searches on Vodems and T-Sticks in Ubuntu, and were getting to this blog. As I had not got the Vodem going in Ubuntu, I though I would give …
Just done a bit of sim swapping (sounds a bit rude!) and I am totally surprised. Firstly my unlocked VODEM could not see the telecom network to register on, so I could not use the Telecom SIM on the Vodem. …
Received an e-mail last night from Telecom NZ offering me a free T-Stick modem, so long as I bought 500 MB prepaid data for $29.95. The offer is only available to Xtra broadband customers. I already have a VODEM which …
It looks like a big part of my business is going to be virus and spy-ware removal. Although this is mainly a time consuming, tedious job, there is a certain element of risk of corrupting the data on the affected …
Continuing the development of my home pages, this time to make the main page into a family ‘message board’ I came across yet another Microsoft IE feature. I think it is safe to call this one a bug! The main …
I have just finished a new feature for my family homepages (www.glover.gen.nz) to allow members of the family to maintain their own set of links in a side bar off the main screen This involves them logging in, and seeing …
Had an interesting job this week, a customer got in touch with a story about her ‘Cyber Security’ system not letting her browse to any web pages. Nothing she did would get rid of the messages it kept throwing up. …
Signs of Success signed up for a free community website at ourporirua.com recently. Today I got a version of my printed flyer up as a simple place holder (at host.ourporirua.com/soscomputerrescue). I struggled with this site for a few days. The …