Category: Rant

  • Phone phishing / fraud still going strong

    Well it seems that phone phishing is sadly alive and rampant in Australia. Yet another client reported they had been cold called by a company, name given as Global Computer Solutions, claiming their computer had errors. They mentioned that Microsoft had passed on information to them that this persons computer had errors on it along…

  • Dick Smith Electronics rant

    I’ve been at a client’s place doing software upgrades on all his pc’s. To make life easier, I thought I’d reconfigure a printer to use it’s network ability, but was short a network cable. The nearest place at 4:30 on a Saturday of course was DSE. $15 for a 1m network cable! Actually, I wasn’t…