If you would like a free giffgaff SIM with £5 of extra credit when you top up then click this link.
http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/stadium
Hope it is of use.
If you do order and activate a SIM I also get a £5 bonus.
I'm quite a fan of giffgaff, other than for very light use it is a reasonable offer in the UK mobile market.
To price your usage on giffgaff try:
http://giffgaff.screet.co.uk
To see if giffgaff suits you see:
www.paygdeal.co.uk
Sunday 23 March 2014
Sunday 16 March 2014
Windows 8.1 and the Maplin LAN Disk
I have a couple of old IDE drives which were surplus from old computers in Maplin LAN Disk cases.
These make an IDE drive into a NAS device but don't play nicely with Windows 7 or, it seems Windows 8.
We have a new, rather plastic, Compaq laptop and after a degree of culture shock I've got the printers etc. working with only a bit of a tussle.
The Buffalo "herd" was found straight away (as curiously was the TV) but no sign of the LAN Disks.
My guess is that you have had a similar problem with these slightly anonymous devices.
Mine has firmware NAS-BASIC45, LOADER 67 and when you log in says "Network Storage Series".
Anyway, following the approach used for Windows 7, the way to deal with this seems to be to put the IP address of the device then the folder name so, if the unit has IP address 192.168.1.230 and the folder PUBLIC then open Windows Explorer (the file explorer not the browser) and enter \\192.168.1.230\PUBLIC the folder will open and you will see your files (I don't have passwords on the folders).
You can drag the shortcut from Windows Explorer to the desktop so you can get there again without further faff.
Hope this helps.
These make an IDE drive into a NAS device but don't play nicely with Windows 7 or, it seems Windows 8.
We have a new, rather plastic, Compaq laptop and after a degree of culture shock I've got the printers etc. working with only a bit of a tussle.
The Buffalo "herd" was found straight away (as curiously was the TV) but no sign of the LAN Disks.
My guess is that you have had a similar problem with these slightly anonymous devices.
Mine has firmware NAS-BASIC45, LOADER 67 and when you log in says "Network Storage Series".
Anyway, following the approach used for Windows 7, the way to deal with this seems to be to put the IP address of the device then the folder name so, if the unit has IP address 192.168.1.230 and the folder PUBLIC then open Windows Explorer (the file explorer not the browser) and enter \\192.168.1.230\PUBLIC the folder will open and you will see your files (I don't have passwords on the folders).
You can drag the shortcut from Windows Explorer to the desktop so you can get there again without further faff.
Hope this helps.
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