Dual Monitors

I’ve always presumed that folks knew about using more than one monitor on their deskop, or indeed laptop setup. I’ve used a dual monitor setup at work for years and for even longer at home....
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Start With The Obvious

Today I got an email from a lady whom we are hoping will be our son’s landlady for the next year. In her eMail she asked if I had skype and if so could I contact her that way. Well of course I have...
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Network Troubleshooting

When I was a fledgling in the area of network support I was told many a time to base my troubleshooting on the OSI 7 layer model. Whilst I knew what the 7 layers were and had a rudimentary grasp of them...
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To Partition or Not

There are lots of arguments over why you should or shouldn’t partition your hard drive. I’ll give you the one argument I like …. in one word.ManageabilityForget the old arguments...
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Firefox4 Missing New Tab

It seems opinion is divided. If you’ve upgraded your firefox install from a 3.x to 4.x version then you may (or may not) be missing the “+” from the end of any open tab(s).The division...
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Church IT Need to Know

Our church secretary / personal assistant / odd job lady / etc has retired. She has obviously been replaced and the new incumbent has already realised the haphazard way that church IT support works (or...
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