My name is Carl Farrington and I live in south Manchester Kelsall, England.
I work for myself as a general IT support person / technician, a.k.a dogsbody and helpline for small businesses. I have worked with most of my customers for 10+ years, and some for nearly 25 years.
I am of course interested in most IT stuff, but also electronics, microcontrollers, trying to repair things, R/C models (helicopters), listening to all sorts of mostly older pop/rock music and a little reggae, and trying to learn to play as many musical instruments as possible (but not being particularly good at any!). I can entertain myself on guitar anyway. Keys are a struggle but I have a collection of keyboard instruments now: digital piano, clonewheel Hammond organ (Mojo classic), multiple synthesisers, etc.
I’m also interested in metalwork and machining. I have a Churchill Cub lathe and a King Rich KR-V2000 milling machine (a Bridgeport clone with a vari-speed head).
I’m interested in programming, but I am a bit late to the game having turned 40 in 2021.
I like Python & Django, and have done some work with VueJS and Quasar UI Framework.
Although my life is spent mostly installing and supporting Windows systems, I do also work with Linux and am a keen fan of open source, and of the UNIX way in general. I don’t however have any Apple stuff and don’t intend to, although I may pick up one of the next (future, second generation) Apple Silicon based Minis if the price is OK just for a look and because I do, annoyingly, end up having to try to help people who have bought Macs from time to time.
The purpose of this blog is for me to write about things that occur in my technical work/play life. Often it’s just for my own recollection at a later date, in case I encounter the same problem again and can’t remember how I fixed it. A sort of public knowledgebase.
There are notes on computer problems and fixes that I have encountered and decided to share with the world, as well as occasional opinions and rants.
I used to allow comments on here, and it was nice to get positive feedback when something helped others, but I’m afraid the spammers have ruined that, so I disabled commenting years ago.