Forum: Technical

I use an email filtering service using IMAP and I have a well known antivirus software package. BUT I stupidly downloaded a package email "sorry we missed you etc" but I was waiting for an urgent package for my ill wife! so guard was down. A week later £1000 stolen out of Paypal. Ran another...

My other half and I use Google Calendars to share our social and work appointments. Her business partner uses Apple products to share her social and work appointments with her family. I am looking for suggestions for a shared calendar for business (for my other half and her business partner)...

Woo hoo. So we have done our 'encrypting data at rest' bit of work. And now we are being told to 'encrypt data in transit'. Unsurprisingly I am getting a lot of different answer non of which make sense. So lest assume we want to encrypt a web service - so it needs to be sent as an https...

This might be of use for those doing up their houses and needing a bit more coverage: https://www.electricaldirect.co.uk/product/bg-13a-2-gang-wi-fi-extender-socket-with-2xusb-21a-white-676085

My wife recently received an email with a link to a Google Form, from her employer's HR person. The form requests certain sensitive pieces of information. There's no particular issue with providing the data, as such, but the method doesn't seem quite right. (I'd prefer she receive a form by post...

I've got a fitbit and it's fine but the stats are a bit lacking. I'm getting back into my running and want something that gives me more information about my health, exercise etc. I've heard the Apple Watch 3 is quite good now and is particularly good for exercise and reporting on your stats. I...

I bought my amp in the early 90s from Richer Sounds. never felt the need to replace it. But now I'd like to be able to cast to it from my phone or other bluetooth device, or play directly to it from any device on my network. So, any suggestions for a new amp, or a device I can plug into my amp...

IWOOT I Turned IKEA Lamp Into A Death Star

Looking for sensible (or as best you lot can do!) comments, esp people who own or have owned one. Was at a Networking event and told a mini sales lady about having car nicked, would love another GTi but can risk the wife getting car jacked (The scum WILL NOT be getting in the house again!)....

Our application is out for limited beta testing (1 user) and the saved files are typically 2Gb. In case of problems we want to get them to upload the file but with files this large, a reliable background upload is preferred that will tolerate the user turning off their laptop, etc rather than...

A couple of months back ago I tidied up my favourites lists, removed all the old blogs etc. I haven't looked at in years. Yet every now and then they all come back! The list follows my current list just as if I've done an import from somewhere but I haven't. Can't think where it is getting them...

New gig, going to be a fair bit of Skype meetings so looking for some good recs on headsets, comfy, good for skype and noise cancelling would be nice. Cheers. qh

has anyone tried to embedded this in their own HTML/php forms. Can't seem to get it to work although I get no error messages. it just ignores it

I'm not sure if we have an Azure expert on here but here goes... I have an Azure Function, just runs a stored proc that doesnt return any data, see below. It uses a cron timer to schedule the job to run at a set time each day. The proc just does an update and the function is pretty simple. ...

I have an LG Smart TV (With LGWebOS). Recently I have noticed Netflix being veeeerrryy slow...to the point unwatchable as it buffers every 10 seconds. Ran a speed test via netflix and I get 0.5mbps!!! The netflix app on my phone (When standing next to the tv) gets 40mbps. Both are on the same...

(Not V important, I am a retired old fart after all) When I open Firefox the shortcut does not show in the taskbar, instead the eM client shortcut is highlighted. Left click maximises and minimises Firefox, right click shows only eM client tasks. No idea why, the shortcut properties are...

I have several copies of the same application, each with a MySQL database, each identical except for some random characters before each table name as below: db1 xxx_table1 xxxx_table2 xxxx_table3 xxxx_table4 db2

Amazon clearly sells everything but it is not always the best place to find things, especially if you're not sure what you need. I'm after some ethernet cables and fittings and would rather buy them somewhere I can phone and ask questions if needed - where would you recommend? Other than Amazon...

Hi guys, I have a mind of investing some time into Akka.Net. It looks interesting for building message-based distributed systems. But then again I think there are already cloud-based message buses all around. I understand they are not completely interchangeable and can work together but still...

Sadly the T450 is no more - it's the T470 or the T580.