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Managing Information Technology for a UK based Small/Medium Enterprise - With a bit of real life thrown in for good measure.

Entries from November 2007

Gadget: SATA/IDE to USB

November 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This new gadget allows me to to connect pretty much any IDE or SATA hard drive externally to a USB port on my laptop or PC. The drives can be 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch IDE and SATA hard drives as the package comes with a 3.5 inch to 2.5 inch adaptor, SATA power and [...]

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Tags: Gadget Frenzy

Technology Blog of the Week, 30th Nov 2007: gizmosforgeeks.com

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Gizmos For Geeks started out as an experiment by two system administrators in 2004. The initial idea was to include a daily gizmo of the day and industry related news articles but the site has clearly expanded to be a broad technology review site. They also produce a weekly newsletter by email that can be [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Gadget Frenzy · Technology Blog of the Week

Now appearing in IT Pro magazine

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

I have recently joined the reader Blog panel over at IT Pro magazine. You can access my special IT Pro Blog where I aim to make postings a few times a week - although www.jasonslater.co.uk will remain as my primary daily Blog source.
Some great news is that special Monk and his IT Junk cartoons are [...]

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The Perils of Support Desks: GoDaddy

November 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

GoDaddy was recommended as a place to get SSL certificates so off I went through the strange process of having to register an account only to find I had to then register a second account in order to get an SSL certificate. There was a reasonable explanation of how to get a certificate and once [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Technical Support · Technology Management

Eek! My computer is frozen

November 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

You can find more Monk and his IT Junk over at http://www.monkandhisitjunk.com
Technorati Tags: monk and his it junk, support, helpdesk

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