SEO and Logos
Boy am I getting tired of people ringing me up and telling me I can’t design web sites. It may well be true, but it’s very rude! Just fielded a call from a total idiot (from a unknown company based …
Category: Computer Stuff
DPC Watchdog Violation blue screen
A customer (or rather their young son) had a blue screen with DPC Watchdog Violation error showing, and a request to scan the computer. This is normally something to do with an SSD in Windows 8, but sometimes just with …
Anatomy of an LCD screen
Have you always wondered what’s in an LCD screen? Reading on the web, there are a lot of different ideas on what it is made up of. As part of what I do I replace LCD screens in laptops, when …
Gallery formatting in responsive theme
If anyone actually looks at my site, they will have spotted that the galleries on 3 pages looked pretty bad there for a few weeks. I use the Responsive Child Theme from CyberChimps, and the latest update to 1.9.4.5 of …
Porting Lazarus development to Linux
This morning I downloaded and installed the Lazarus RAD IDE, Free pascal and its resources to my workshop PC Ubuntu 12.04 image. It all went very smoothly. I tried to run my project (Sudoku Solver) from a USB key, but …
Back to programming
Hi, I’m Dave and I am a programmer. It says so on my passport, and to save hastle, its what I give my job as whenever I have to put it on a form. In reality, I haven’t had the …
CryptoLocker – a Ransomware Trojan Horse Malware Infection!
Eh? What does that mean? You may have already heard about this, “the worst virus ever known”, “once it is on your PC you have lost the whole thing”, “10s of million PCs in the UK at risk” etc. The …
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Raspberry Pi at the shop
The Pi has been on hold for a while, while we get the shop up and running. I did some work on a slideshow so that I could connect it up to a flat screen TV and show pictures of …
svchost.exe at 100%
I have had a couple of computers lately, and many in the past, where Windows Updates, whether automatic or manual, cause svchost.exe to wind itself up to nearly 100% CPU usage and quite a lot of memory usage, effectively slowing …
Simple fix to silly problem
A client from whose desktop I was removing viruses was using his laptop while I had the computer in the shop. He decided to use a wireless keyboard and mouse that he has in his cupboard, and plugged it in, …