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No dial tone, but broadband still works?

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It seems whenever I need to make a phone call on the landline, it's broken... (Continue reading)

New site using Hugo

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I've been looking for a while at various blogging engines for my website and came across Hugo which is a static page generator. (Continue reading)

Griddle - A Grid/Table Component for React

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We had a requirement at work to display some tabular data that is retrieved from a web service as a JSON object. As we have recently started using React, it made sense to find a decent component that suited what we needed and after a bit of browsing, we found Griddle. (Continue reading)

Getting Started with React.js

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I've recently reviewed some of my blog content and found that... (Continue reading)

heavy cpu usage svchost windows10

· Reading time: ~2 minute(s) (287 words) techsupport windows10 windowsupdate svchost

Google brings up a complete bag of results when you search for "svchost high cpu" as it's been a well documented issue with the Windows Update service across the last couple of Windows versions (way back to XP as it happens!) (Continue reading)

"Something went wrong" - Creating users on Windows 10

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On a fresh install of Windows 10, I found I was unable to add a second user to the system (via All Settings) and constantly got the "Something went wrong" screen. I tried a few reboots but to no avail. (Continue reading)

Sending email via SMTP on Outlook 2013

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Recently I've noticed that I've not been able to send emails in Outlook 2013 on the desktop computer. It's been working fine on my laptop, but the desktop no such luck. (Continue reading)

McAfee Mobile Security

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About a fortnight ago, I changed to an android handset after having iPhones for the last 4 years. I had decided on an LG G3 which turns out to come preinstalled with McAfee Mobile Security... Which is fine... Or would be if it worked properly. (Continue reading)