Rory Cellan-Jones has written an interesting article examining the state of the Government’s rural broadband plans. BBC News – Rural broadband verdict – too little, too late. For those of us who work in IT, I am sure we are pleased that BT has a government subsidised monopoly, with both local and national government paying […]
Too little, too late – but don’t worry BT is in charge Read More »
At Octagon we spend a lot of time on support and help lines sorting problems for our clients. Some of which we find are neither “helpful” or “supportive” and you just feel their “press one for support etc” is put there just to annoy you. One of the funniest things we get when we call
Call centre menu options catalogued by a frustrated IT worker Read More »
Is DropBox secure? There is a short story before I get to “Secure Cloud Storage”. Today my appointments did not join up, which meant a two hour gap around midday. I had the choice to go from the north of the city to Branston and then back to the north of the city or to
Secure Cloud Storage Read More »
We are all out representing Octagon this evening at the Branston and Mere Parish Council AGM as part of the Branston Business Network. the group’s new banner The AGM was well attended and our members had plenty of opportunities to talk about our services. The exhibition table full of leaflets, cards, various PowerPoint presentations and
Branston Business Network Read More »
This is a test post as we are increasing the security of our WordPress website. We are testing the changes before rolling them out to our clients. If you would like to talk to us about WordPress or data protection and security then Octagon staff are attending the Branston and Mere Parish Council meeting at
I was at a client’s today to fix a network problem and saw the tidiest computer desktop I have ever seen. The network issue was a broken cable, causing an intermittent fault, disconnecting the wired devices from the internet, it took an hour or so of tracing and testing cables to find the faulty one
A new colour scheme for WordPress Twenty Twelve A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post for my blog about editing the colour scheme in the WordPress Twenty Twelve theme – it has proved a popular post so Martin suggested I should post it here as well. Here is the link: WordPress Twenty Twelve
WordPress Twenty Twelve – Colour Scheme Read More »
Branston Church Yard – Clive’s Blog. No Martin, this was my “photo of the day”, see his comment here.
Branston Church Yard – Clive’s Blog Read More »
Hi all, Just completed another weekly server check before Easter. Making sure that when our client’s return from the long weekend their servers and devices are safely backed up. To some of our contact client’s we are on call for them throughout the break. Happy Easter everyone.
Weekly server check Read More »
