Available in and around Monto, QLD
Installing, maintaining and resolving issues for:
Workstations, servers, Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones, Modems & Routers,
Wireless/WiFi, Satellite, Broadband, CCTV, remote monitoring..
.. and redundancy for power and network resilience for all the above.
Whatever device or operating systems you may be running, I can help trouble shoot issues you may be dealing with. Or if you simply need advice about purchasing and running such systems for personal or business purposes, I'm happy to discuss such matters to help you decide.
I can carry out maintenance on most hardware, including data recovery and re-installation of operating systems and applications. I've worked on a wide variety of systems, both hardware and software, and keep abreast of developments in technology.
The Internet can be a terrifying experience if you or your business depends on it being available and resilient. I've helped design, build and troubleshoot networks connected to the internet, mostly in rural Papua New Guinea. I understand how critical communications can be for people off the grid with limited resources to be connected. I've installed and maintained satellite dishes and routers, long range wireless links, hot-spots, servers and workstations utilising such networks, for charities, government and business. I've dealt with jargon-spewing techies in order to simplify issues for clients who don't have the time to hear it all.. they just want things working without exorbitant costs involved. But they do want to understand things in simple terms.
Where licensing costs for operating systems and software can take a big toll on your budget, Open Source systems offer the same functionality and in most cases, better security, for a zero sum.. that's right. No licensing fees. We now live in a world of software upgrades which insist on upgrading your computing hardware and existing applications, exploding your outlay just to carry out the simplest of tasks for your personal needs and business. I can take you through the solutions available for your needs that can relieve you of the hair-pulling experience of computing today.
Whatever your platform for computing, whether you think you have anything worth stealing/exposing (or not) at some point we all have records held in online repositories out of our control and subject to hacking. That is the reality of society today. In many cases we transact with government and commercial entities that store data online (about us) and then this data is stolen from them. These entities promise us to protect what data we are forced (in many cases) to give and then suffer breaches because of lax security. It is a daily occurrence in the news these days, that we hear or read about some major entity losing our data to unknown hackers.
But we all have to maintain government records to remain "legal" for many reasons, in our personal and business lives. And for many reasons we have no choice but to interact with the internet, leaving digital "breadcrumbs" about our activities, identities, likes (and dislikes) or proclivities. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter/X, Apple and many others generate huge revenue by hoovering up these breadcrumbs or meta-data, analysing and selling this information.
In this context of online in-security, what can you do when you want to accomplish the simplest of tasks with your devices and not be subject to scamming, phishing, hacking, identity fraud or blackmail?
