I signed up with Skype a few months ago to give me another VoIP telephony option. Skype to Skype calls are free, so it seemed worth setting up. I originally got myself a Bluetooth headset. Initially, I had problems connecting … Continue reading
The Netgear FVS124G router has settings to allow it to pick up the time from NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers. I initally set this to my local NTP server with a backup on an online one. However, there is no … Continue reading
Tim at The Inflatable Soapbox blind sided me this with this post and tag on Tuesday night. I wasn’t able to reply on Tuesday as I was replacing a failing hard disc and reinstalling Windows XP on a laptop for … Continue reading
?The news today about the loss of Child Benefit data is astounding. The entire database of all families with children under 16 has been lost. The data at HMRC (HM Revenue and Customs) was saved to 2 discs and sent … Continue reading
Our internet connection has been extremely intermittant this evening. Pinging the next VirginMedia router on our route out has given awful results all evening. You get a batch of low latency 7ms pings then it goes up into the 200ms … Continue reading
At lunchtime today Jo mentioned she was having trouble connecting wirelessly to our network. This has happened a few of times in the last couple of weeks, but retrying or in one case restarting the router resolved the issue. Not … Continue reading
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