The Lucid Blog | The thoughts of them computer folks...
Kaspersky Pure V’s Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
I bet some of you reading this have immediately thought “Why 2009 and not 2010?!”. Well we found that 2009 runs much smoother and quicker, particularly on Windows XP computers than the 2010 version. With this in mind, unless the computer is running Windows 7, we stick to 2009. There is plenty of value in sticking to what you know works.
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A Russian Affair | How to stop all of that Russian Spam Email
Do a little digging and you might find there from Russia with love…..
If you're suffering from an abundance of spam emails, why not have a look at exactly where they're coming from? Recently we had a vast quantity of spam emails coming through to a particular generic email address. We suffered with it at first, moved on to using a desktop anti spam product which did filter them straight into the Junk email folder, but there was still a stupid amount of spam emails sat there.
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How Secure Is Your Computer Backup?
So you have a backup, that’s a great start, but how secure is that backup?
We like simple solutions. We like backup solutions.
We therefore like simple backup solutions, such
as having all of your company data, databases and email automatically
backed up at a given time of day. A nice touch would be to have an email
afterwards telling you that the backup worked or failed so you can take
appropriate action.
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Linked In | What's the purpose of it?
For sometime now something’s been bothering me. I have an account with the business networking website Linked In and I have done for some time. I’m connected to lots of people and when I meet someone for the first time, they often ask “Are you on Linked In?”. I politely respond with “Yes, of course I am”, but deep down inside I don’t know why.
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Kaspersky Anti Virus for Windows Workstations Causing Computers to Freeze and Lock Up
We’ve seen a number of cases where computers have completely frozen up, to the point where the only thing you can do is kill the power to the computer. This seems to happen most commonly when the computer has been left idle and the user is away from the computer. When they return to it, it’s frozen.
Dell PowerEdge R410 Noisy Fan - FIXED!
This is a very brief blog entry and is aimed at my fellow geeks out there on t'internet (Peter Kay reference).
Recently we have been working on a number of Dell PowerEdge r410 servers which had very noisy fans. The fans were so loud that it wasn't pleasant to be in the same office as them.
Something had to be done to fix this problem before they drove us all mad.
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