Information technology, computing and related
Dodging and navigating EE and Virgin broadband offers Fun times… As a reward for years of loyally, Virgin decided it was time take back the welcome mat and increase my monthly bill… by about 35% to £165 a month. Two minutes later I switched to EE. Normally I’d haggle with Virgin, but they are sods […]
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Wacom One: no display signal “No signal. Press the OSB button to switch the input source” Sorting this issue was a complete pain in the arse – and it was needlessly so! I’ve worked in IT since the early 80s, building PCs using barely legible instructions translated from Chinese to Tiawanese to English by people
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Discord friend gives you $50 steamcommunity card “$50! Hell yes” 🤑 *click* *login* “Gimme gemme gimme!” 🤑 “Huh? I’ve been hacked? How did that happen?” Obviousy it’s a scam! People, especially not strangers, or casuals haven’t spoken too in ten years don’t just pop up and give you $50! Apparently this has been around for
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Scary PayPal scam This turned up in an account today and was a tad alarming due to its nature and unexpected appearance. { Logging into PayPal and seeing “You have sent £877.77 to … ” } Well, if that doesn’t make your heart beat a little faster, eh? (We cancelled and reported it, of course).
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How transistor chips are made Via Interesting Engineering, on Facebook: Microchips are in nearly everything, and they power much of what makes the modern world possible. Here’s how they’re made
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This post: circa 1,750 words, estimated reading time: 9 minutes That time of year when… Actually it is more like “that time of year AGAIN”, as it feels to me like Virgin are putting their prices up twice a year now! They are about to up our bill another 5% – but offering new customers
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Intro BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), the infamous sight of windows crashing, perhaps taking your work with it, perhaps taking everything with it, as the crash corrupts the file allocation tables beyond repair! (This is why we do back-ups, people!) The problem with the BSOD, and Microsoft’s cryptic messages, is they can be a sod
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