Nearly everything you wanted to know about the Cloud but you didn’t know the questions to ask. There is nothing mysterious about the “cloud” it is simply something you want to do, but it happens on the internet. Explain more! Rather then you owning kit and software to do a job, someone else, for free …
This is an obvious statement but our latest clients, who organise safaris to Africa, have a map painted on their office wall. Their office is a converted church so they had enough room for this huge mural. This client is new to Octagon so I have spent a couple of hours there today making sure …
After the Apple iPhone 5S launch hype, now here come the thoughtful questions about, how, what and when. How does the Apple iPhone 5S really work? What happens to the identification data on the device? When will it and you get hacked? BBC News – Apple fingerprint tech raises ‘privacy questions’.
OK I admit it, I was one of those people who was waiting to download iOS 7 for my iPhone as soon as it became available. I was lucky enough to be ahead of the crowd and downloaded and installed my copy of the software in well under and hour. (I used the upgrade function …
I was going to call this post, “keep thing tidy”, but somewhere there is a “small god” of tangled cables, because it does not matter how carefully cables are arranged, when you turn your back on them they tangle up without any visible intervention. We took a new job over a couple of months back, …
There are some stories on the internet you just have to pass on – see below how a building melted a car! BBC News – How does a skyscraper melt a car?.
We have been doing a lot of work recently on Cloud technology and helping clients work away from their desks – emails in Spain, websites from canal boats, updated meeting notes whilst in London, backups alway available when needed etc. Once freed from their desk many people then look to be free of having to …
I should have been at Business Club tonight but we have been working on a network issue for a client today which has meant altering the DNS on their servers. To reduce the impact on the client we planned the changes during the day and are implementing and testing them tonight. Whilst I have been …
I have spent a hot afternoon doing paperwork and writing emails – made tolerable by Sky Arts showing a Who Concert.
