Yearly Archives: 2015

Gaming world Windows 10 usage is already ahead of competitors on steam

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Steam updated its Survey for last month, the good market share news seen by Microsoft this past month is all the more apparent in the world of gamers. Although Windows share overall dipped slightly on Steam, Windows 10 usage has exploded into double digits.

In fact, even though it has only been released for over a month, Windows 10 already has more share on Steam than Windows 8, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. It is also unsurprisingly ahead of Mac OS X and Linux, neither of which gets much attention from gamers. All Windows 10 has left to conquer is Windows 8.1 (which it will easily do by the end of the year) and Windows 7 (will probably take a while longer).

 

Breaking down the numbers even more, here is how each operating system version fared:

On the whole, Windows still dominates Steam over 95 percent share. Nonetheless, Mac and Linux saw minor gains in August, up 0.09 points and 0.07 points respectively.

The fact Windows 7 fell so quickly under the 50 percent mark perfectly illustrates how eager gamers are to adopt the latest and greatest from Microsoft. We can’t help but wonder how many of the 75 million PCs already on Windows 10 are Steam users, but it looks to be a significant number. It would appear that gamers like free upgrades just as much as anyone else.

Customer review – Advance Computer Solutions – Dr Kahn

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Customer review – Advance Computer Solutions – Dr Kahn

Customer review – Advance Computer Solutions – Dr Kahn – I had a good deal and the job was very good actually with Advance. Turnaround was pretty decent as well, about 3-4 days in total. If your computer is important to you I  suggest you do daily backups but if worst comes to worst I recommend you give these guys a call.

Customer review - Advance Computer Solutions - Dr Kahn

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Customer review – Advance Computer Solutions – David Richardson

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Customer review – Advance Computer Solutions – David Richardson

Customer review – Advance Computer Solutions – David Richardson – I managed to drop my external hard drive on the floor in the middle of a back up! I would not work from thereon. I tried one other place before I found Advance. He was very good. He was able to recover all of my images quickly and had a good customer service. I was extremely nervous to trust someone with this project but he exceeded my expectations. Highly recommended to anybody.

Customer review - Advance Computer Solutions - David Richardson

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SSH Connections

By IT SUPPORT - ASK THE COMMUNITY

SSH Connections

SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol. SSH was designed to replace Telnet is was a client-server protocol, based on a reliable connection-oriented transport. Typically, this protocol is used to establish a connection to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) port number 23. There are other insecure means of connecting to computers. Different versions of SSH exist. The major versions are SSH1 and SSH2. A good hosting companies require their users to use the SSH2 protocol as it provides the most up to date protection and security.SSH is most commonly used to set up secure connections to an SSH daemon running on a remote server. Common uses include securely transferring files, securely logging/remote administration of remote servers, and secure FTP.

How to connect via SSH in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux:

Windows – PuTTy

PuTTy is a free application that can be downloaded from the internet download available here

  1. In this application, under Session, enter your Domain Name as your Host Name
  2. Under SSH, choose 2 from Preferred SSH Protocol Version
  3. Under SSH -> Auth in PuTTY, you will need to tell it where your private key can be found.
  4. Save your settings to be used in future sessions – Under Sessions, type a name (such as “my site”) in the Saved Sessions box and click Save.

Mac – Terminal

Terminal is used with Apple Mac OS X

      1. Open the Applications => Utilities folder/
      2. Open Terminal
      3. Enter the following:
        ssh username@example-site.com

Note: You would enter your control panel username as the username for SSH. You can find the username in the statistics column on the left hand side of the control panel.

    1. Press Return

The first time you connect:

The first time you connect you will be prompted to verify the authenticity of the host:

The authenticity of host 'example-site.com' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is da:e5:96:49:99:75:d7:79:45:75:7d:62:0c:5a:1f:0d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

      1. Verify the domain name is correct.
      2. Type in Yes.
      3. Press Return
    1. Enter your cPanel password.
    2. Press Return

Note: You will not see any characters while entering your password.

Linux – Terminal

Terminal: Both Gnome and KDE ship with a Terminal application.

      1. Open Terminal
      2. Enter the following:
        ssh username@example.com

Note: You would enter your cPanel username as the username for SSH. You can find the username in the Stats column on the left hand side of the cPanel.

    1. Press Enter

The first time you connect:

The first time you connect you will be prompted to verify the authenticity of the host:

The authenticity of host 'example.com' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is da:e5:96:49:99:75:d7:79:45:75:7d:62:0c:5a:1f:0d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

      1. Verify the domain name is correct.
      2. Type in Yes.
      3. Press Enter
    1. Enter your cPanel password.
    2. Press Enter

Note: You will not see any characters while entering your password.

My iMac has started to make a noise, is the fan the possible problem?

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My iMac has started to make a noise, is the fan the possible problem?

Mr Cleaver – Sale – iMac A1312 -My iMac has started to make a noise, is the fan the possible problem? 29/08/15

  • System taken into workshop 28/08/15
  • Take scale on these types of issues can not be determined at this stage
  • Extensive hardware tests on all hardware & software currently being carried out 6PM 28/08/15
  • 7PM 28/08/15 – Motherboard – OK
  • 7PM 28/08/15 – Memory – OK
  • 8PM 28/08/15 CPU – OK
  • 3PM 29/08/15 – Software corruption type is established – I still need to determine the cause if I am to carry this out correctly
  • 5PM 29/08/15 – Viruses found, Trojans found malware found…..
  • My iMac has started to make a noise, is the fan the possible problem?
  • 12PM 30/08/15 – Extensive Hard Drive tests have been carried out and corruption from the viruses is now apparent;

My iMac has started to make a noise, is the fan the possible problem?

  • The original issue of the abnormal noise coming from the cooling system has not been found

Summary

  • The issues above that we can find, is more than likely to be the cause of the system fan being noisy due to bad files over using the resources
  • It is now a case of whether you would like me to carry out this repair which I do regard as very urgent and have the system back either tonight or tomorrow and should the noisy fan return, I can take a visit at your home and carry out some additional work as there may be a certain program combination or other configurations variables which differ from being here at the workshop, but hardware wise the fans are stable and working efficiently
  • More than likely faults that have been found are related to this intermittent issue and resolving this will resolve your problem but if these are not looked into your system will sustain far more damage to its core software in the near future

Qutation

For the repair to be carried out, here is an itemised list of what needs to be done;

  • Manual removal of all damaging software – £65
  • Repair of the software already damaged – £20-£70 dependant on severity, I will not know the severity until this is started
  • Preventative action (not necessary for the actual repair but highly advised so it doesn’t end up in this situation again) £40

£30.00 Investigation Fee, should you not wish for us to carry out the repair

windows not booting, I cannot install sage accounts due to software corruption

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windows not booting, I cannot install sage accounts due to software corruption

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David Lomas – office computer – Sage & external hard drive repair 27/08/15

  1. System taken into workshop 6PM 27/08/15
  2. Time scale on these types of issues can not be determined at this stage
  3. Extensive hardware tests on all hardware currently being carried out 6PM 27/08/15
  4. 12PM 28/08/15 – Motherboard – OK
  5. 12PM 28/08/15 – Memory – OK
  6. 12PM 28/08/15 CPU – OK
  7. 3PM 29/08/15 – Software corruption type is established – I still need to determine the cause if I am to carry this out correctly
  8. 5PM 29/08/15 – Extensive Hard Drive tests are being carried out……
  9. 12PM 30/08/15 – Extensive Hard Drive tests are still being carried out……
  10. 4PM 31/08/15 – System up and running, I will request that the logs be checked for the next 3 months to check usage and find out what is causing this, it is down purely to software corruption
  11.  6PM 01/02/15 – System now in a stable state after further checks post repair
  12. 6PM 01/02/15 – I need the model number of the printer and your email login details please text these over to me in the morning and when i have configured these it will be ready for colection
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