Windows 10 and the moving goalposts (or Start Menu)
zulfikar Microsoft have decided to create a new Operating System designed for users! Yup, plain old folk like you and me. Now that…
Eid and the Day of Arafat
OK, I’ve had plenty of banging my head on the wall time this week merely attempting to explain to people in Birmingham…
QNAPs and Virtualization Station(!)
While looking for some app packages for my TS-469 I was curious to read the ‘virtualization station’ blurb on the newly styled…
Phone security and tracking
Here in the good old UK we have a web service for registering our ‘goods’, so in the event they are lost/stolen…
Protected PDFs
An annoyance of mine, PDFs that you cannot print. OR ones that are locked to a timeframe, usually by embedded Javascript. I…
Magic a Fujitsu Celvin Q802 into a QNAP TS-469 Pro
Welcome fellow NAS enthusiasts. A Fujitsu Celvin Q802 (much like previous Celvin models) is simply a rebranded QNAP model with a firmware…
LIFe 2014
I don’t usually use the phrase ‘never again’ but LIFe 2014 was nothing like LI 2003, 05, 07, 09 or 2011! As…
The Prancing Horse plot – NHS Takedown
Dear Colleagues in another British City, IT is with
Google Wallet verification farce…
So, I get an e-mail from Google stating that my Google Wallet has been suspended as they cannot verify my identity. So…
World War Z…
World War Zulf. That’s what happened after I watched the movie that makes up the title of this post. I was angry.…
The snowball effect…
It’s those little problems at the beginnng, those minor workarounds or compromises made early on in the project. That’s what causes problems…
Speech!
I was asked last minute to do a ‘best mans’ speech the other day. The wedding was scheduled for the lunchtime, I…