I'm not going to bang on about the old days. I'm just going to say that these days everybody needs at least 2 email addresses. I've...

Every so often the things designed to protect are the very things that kill us. I was reminded of that this week when an article about...

You know how every time you need to talk to call a company for service you have to do battle with automated systems designed to fob you...

I knew my 7 and a half year old laptop was on borrowed time. If you've asked me about how long your laptop would last I would have said...

Apple are quite ruthless with making their old tech obsolete and unsupported. I've even had trouble getting the SAME operating system...

Recently my wife and I noticed that we were getting scam phone calls from numbers that were only a digit or two away from our own...

In the past I have written about using Ubuntu and other Linux distributions to give old PCs new life and to replace Windows when a valid...

In the COVID / post-COVID world you'd think the businesses that survived would know how to handle online sales. But this obviously isn't...

...they keep calling back and pretending to be someone else. Recently a customer of mine was taken in by a scam caller. The scammers...

It seems every other post on social media is asking us to participate in some fun and seemingly innocent game. While this may, MAY, be...

When I first worked in an office I'd occasionally need to store something in the fridge. One day I saw a set of keys in the fridge....

In the late 80's I had a job where the company I worked for were so cheap they couldn't see how much money they were wasting. My job was...

When the pandemic struck a lot of people were suddenly out of work. Strangely, a lot of businesses actually did very well out of it. Some...

When I first started in computers as a young high school student, a big part of the attraction was the graphics and games. The first...

I bang on a lot about passwords. Just check this lot out here (all my previous blog posts on passwords): https://www.ihatemypc.com.au/blo...

You probably wouldn't be surprised by how often I arrive at a job only for there to be "nothing wrong". The reason I had been called has...

In this day and age having duplicates of files is not the disaster it used to be. In the old days memory / storage was so limited and...

..."a chain is only as strong as its weakest link"...and some other platitudes I can't be bothered retyping. Most people don't know it,...

NBN staff received $78 million in bonuses last year. That seems fair enough. These poor people have been dealing with the inadequacies of...

Here you see 5 laptops and one IT guy. The laptops were donated to me a few months back when I campaigned to get one or two for people in...