I do miss the cinema. Having read the latest issue of Empire magazine and listened to their various (lengthy!) podcasts about memorable cinema moments recently it got me thinking about what’s going on with cinema at the moment. There is something about that big screen experience that can’t be matched at home. While a big
Author: Andy Parkes
Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.
Hello 2021 (18 days in..)
The less said about 2020 the better right? Well, not quite…it’s pretty obvious it’s a year we’ll be talking about for a LONG time in the future. When we suddenly found ourselves with a lot more time at home at the start of the year I thought getting back to blogging would be something I’d
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Failed to Convert the Virtual Disk
I was recently asked to look at a server where staff would often lose access to network resources. Wasn’t too difficult to track down, the resources were on virtual machines, the host was low on disk space so it was pausing them. The long term fix would be to add some more storage but since
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Tech Support Scam – McAfee Variant
There is a tech support scam that most people are familiar with You get a call out of the blue, person claims to be from Microsoft and they are calling as you have a problem with your computer. They talk you through running some remote support software where they find a problem of some sort
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OnePlus 6T No Internet Connection After Switching From Wireless
I wrote this a little while ago but after reading through I’m convinced I was just being an idiot so wasn’t going to post it. But if anyone is having the same problem then hopefully this will help! I had a bit of a weird problem with my phone that took me ages to track
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Running Gear – AfterShokz Trekz Titanium
As a rule I don’t usually run with headphones. I love listening to music and podcasts but there are a couple of reasons that until recently meant I didn’t usually bother. Races / Events Most races don’t allow you to run with headphones. Their reasoning for this is that you can’t hear the safety information
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Windows App Store – “Where do you want to install”
I don’t often install anything from the Windows App Store. I’m not a fan..the terribly unhelpful UI I’m about to moan about being one of those reasons. This morning there was something I wanted to try that was only available there. So I found the app in question. Tried to install it and was presented
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Amazon Fulfilment Centre Tour
It’s school holidays at the moment so we did something a little bit different on Monday. A tour of an Amazon warehouse! I’d seen them promoted on their website and via Facebook a few times but at that point the nearest centre was about an hour away in Rugeley. The Coventry centre opened in July
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The System Administrator Has Set Policies To Prevent This Installation
I saw this error message while trying to install Adobe Reader this week and was sure I’d written about it before. I clearly hadn’t as I found it in my “to blog” section in OneNote. First thing that sprang to mind was that it might be related to a Software Restriction Policy but I couldn’t
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Task Manager Closes Straight After Opening
I was trying to install a program on my laptop and was having some problems. It looked like the installer was stuck so I wanted to use task manager to kill the process. Unfortunately, as soon as I opened Task Manager it would immediately close. I had seen something like this a long time ago
