IT Support

We have all heard the popular buzz words that appear occasionally such as “Information Super Highway” or “Web 2.0”.  A Recent term that you may have come across is “The Cloud”.  In simple terms this is a way of having … Continue reading →

Today I’m going to talk a little bit about password security and suggest a few best practices that will help keep everybody’s systems just that little bit safer.  There are many different ways that IT systems can come under attack … Continue reading →

I think it’s fair to say that all of us, regardless of what type of work we may be doing, just want our IT systems to help us towards getting the job done. In an ideal world you would have … Continue reading →

Wireless networks are great but we all know when it comes down to the crunch the throughput is just not there – interference is a nightmare and coverage can be a pain. Many clever wireless networks like GSM perform hand-off … Continue reading →

Hello, I thought a little house keeping would be useful for some of you so I though I would try and do some blog posts covering common issues. One of these issues is the operating system partition or C drive … Continue reading →

The ever looming threat of PCI compliance seems to have come to fruition. For those of you who are thinking PCI compliance? PCI (Payment Card Industry) is a security standard to which your internet facing services must adhere to become … Continue reading →

Hi, Last week the Great Yorkshire Show took place and it was as it says on the tin GREAT. So I thought I would talk about some of the highlights and look at how the IT infrastructure allows the show … Continue reading →

Hello and welcome to blog No 3! I have fallen in love with Wiki. I recently spent some time trying to work out how we could collaborate more and streamline our documentation. The requirements were to make it easier and … Continue reading →

Hello again. This week I have been playing with network monitoring. We currently monitor all of our network infrastructure and our customers connections using nagios and cacti. These are both fantastic open source tools and serve well however we are … Continue reading →

Hello and welcome to theFirst4it blog. The blog is here to provide a small insight into day to day life here at First4it, technical tip bits and general drivel. This week we have had the opportunity to work with the … Continue reading →