Life and Kraya by Stephen Ramsay
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Popularity vote
March 1, 2010 - 11:52 am
Tags: 7, anti, Apple, browers, browser, choice, Chrome, competition, deal, different, dominance, E, EU, European Commission, fines, Firefox, Google, I, IE, install, Internet Explorer, Kraya, micro, Microsoft, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, offered, Opera, pop-up, recommend, regulators, Safari, settlement, trust, update, Updates, Vista, window, Windows, XP
Posted in Random Rambelings, Security, Windows, Windows updates | No comments
All Windows 7, Vista and XP users who currently use internet explorer will be offered a choice as part of the deal Microsoft reached with European Commission.
A pop-up window will prompt people to choose and install one of 12 different browsers or let them stick with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Kraya recommends users choose anything but Internet explorer. Users are able to select any browser of their own choosing however we would strongly recommend users pick from our top picks:
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera
Safari
ACER Travelmate 6592 screen fault
February 23, 2010 - 8:27 pm
Tags: 6592, 7, acer, back, backlight, battery, black, blank, broken, charging, circut, display, fault, flicker, Kraya, KrayaTec, laptop, lcd, light, Linux, mains, monitor, power, powerboard, ramsay, screen, Stephen, Stephen ramsay, travel mate, travelmate, Ubuntu, Vista, Windows
Posted in Linux, Windows, hardware | No comments
I starting having issues with the back-light of the LCD display on my ACER Travelmate 6592, it would hiss and flicker before dieing completely.
Intermittent ADSL Internet Faults in Edinburgh
December 16, 2009 - 3:01 pm
Tags: 16 december, 17 december, ADSL, brittish telecom, broken, BT, bt openreach, bt wholesale, connectivity, december 2009, down, Edinburgh, fault, internet, Kraya, KrayaTec, limited, openreach, wholesale, zen, zen internet
Posted in Kraya, Rants | 2 comments
We are receiving reports of Intermittent Internet Faults from our clients in the Edinburgh area.
There Internet simply goes down for anything between 1 and 30 minutes.
As we suspected this morning this has now been confirmed as a BT Fault affecting all Customers on the BT Wholesale ADSL network.
Adobe update – excessive traffic to ardownload.adobe.com
December 16, 2009 - 1:22 am
Tags: abnormal, Adobe, Adobe products, Adobe update, Adobe Update client, Adobe Update manager, adobe updater, Adobe website, Adobe’s, ADSL, Apple, ardownload.adobe.com, automatic, bandwidth, bandwidth consumption, block, blocked, cache, caching, caching system, CentOS, CentOS 5, CentOS 5 servers, Clients, Computer, configure squid, conflict, connection, continuously, Cut off, data, download, exceeded, excessive, excessive bandwidth consumption, fail, failings, financially, fix resolve, GB, immediately, infinite loop, ISP, IT, Kraya, KrayaTec, loop, loop of requests, Mac, MSI binary files, PC, problems, resolved, retries, security issues, Server, serves, slow, Squid, Squid caching, Stephen, Stephen ramsay, suffered, support, timeout, to ardownload.adobe.com, traffic, update, update Adobe, update continuously, update MSI binary files, updater, updaters, Updates, URL, usage, users, web caching, Web Marshall, WebMarshall, Windows, Windows updates, XP
Posted in Rants, Security | No comments
One of our Clients had their ADSL Cut off this week as they had exceeded the usage policy. Why? Adobe Update manager on one Windows XP PC had decided to download over 70GB of data over the course of a 7 day period. It would appear that it was getting itself in a loop and just kept trying to update continuously, 70GB worth of continuously.
Its been a while………
December 15, 2009 - 4:31 pm
Tags: 15%, 17.5%, Andrei, Andrei Hogar, Angela, Blog, Canada, changes, Christmas, cliché, Clients, computers, David, David Forrest, Day, diet, end this month, exciting news, family, fortnight, grandfather, hardware purchases, hospital, illness, Kraya, KrayaTec, married, new year, new year’s, operation, recruiting, replacement, resolutions, sorry, Stephen, Stephen ramsay, toilet seat down, tweet, twitter, VAT, waiting, Wedding, work resolution
Posted in Journeys | No comments
It has been a while since I posted to my blog – sorry about that. There have been a number of reasons: Firstly, things have been very busy here at krayatec and more importantly, Angela and I got married. Thanks to all who came to our wedding and I do hope you all had a good time. We certainly enjoyed ourselves and I’m glad to report that after his wee trip to hospital my grandfather is well; one operation over and waiting on his second.
Day Spa Photos and Video
November 5, 2009 - 4:20 pm
Tags: kraya krayatec dayspa computer cleaning clean dirty dust pc compressor air dirt stephen ramsay, photo, video
Posted in Kraya, Security | 1 comment
When I meet new and existing clients one thing that always gets a Laugh is the Krayatec Day Spa. Everyone not only finds the whole description rather amusing, they love the effects it has on their PC’s.
You can read more about it here http://stephen.blog.kraya.co.uk/2009/03/13/computer-day-spa/ but one thing everyone wants to know is how dirty as [...]
Blog Blog Blog!
October 16, 2009 - 12:50 pm
Tags: blog wedding angela andrei dave email spam kerio stephen ramsay kraya krayatec krayanet
Posted in Journeys, Kraya, Random Rambelings, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Well I’ve been incredibly quiet (quite) on here for a while and whilst I would like to say its because I’ve been tweeting instead, it’s not, the simple truth is lack of time!
Krayatec & Krayanet Scheduled Maintenance
August 21, 2009 - 2:07 pm
Tags: apologies, caused, Clients, derived, email, Friday 28th August, Impact, inconvenience, internal, Kraya, krayanet, KrayaTec, Maintenance, off line, ramsay, receive, scheduled, send, Server, servers, Services, Stephen, testing, Thursday 27th August, unable, unavailable, Web Sites
Posted in Kraya | Comments Off
As Part of the Krayatec Scheduled Maintenance Program it is necessary to take every server off line for testing at least once a year.
All of our internal servers will therefore be unavailable between 23:00 BST on Thursday 27th August and 04:00 BST Friday 28th August.
reCAPTCHA fail!
October 16, 2009 - 3:26 pm
Tags: comment, comment spam, fail, fannie, gnash, reCAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA fail, spam
Posted in Kraya | 1 comment
We have been adding reCAPTCHA to the comment system on our blog in order to reduce the amount of comment spam we get.
During testing I came across this: