Monthly Archives: March 2016

Dell Precision 670 dual Xeon workstation

Since the 4GB memory upgrade the beast is running very nicely. Lucky for me Microsoft extended Vista to 2017 which is what it’s running – Vista Business.

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What are they doing ?

Telstra workers across the road in ‘our’ pit, fingers crossed for cable & phone services.

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Balcony PC update

As posted last Sunday bought from the market, installed and cloned a Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB – all good. Anyway ended up with quite an array of drives (LOL) as Macrium Reflect just tagged every drive with a letter including … Continue reading

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Dell memory kit

Dell Optiplex GX270 – 2GB memory kit has arrived from the US.

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Balcony PC tower upgrades

Balcony desktop tower PC upgrade(s) – the CPU swap from E5200 to E7400 which cost $8.60 went well, now it’s time for a SSD so got a Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB from the market today along with SATA and power … Continue reading

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Foxtel Go on my phone

Foxtel Go on a older unsupported Samsung Galaxy Note GT-7000. Downloaded the Apk file and installed directly onto the phone – works well.

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ALDI – night lights

Already have two of the one on the right @ $9.99 each so this time around didn’t notice there was a second choice until browsing today – so got one to try. Note that the price has gone up from … Continue reading

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Hot day for the chooks

Current temperature from the remote sensor in the chook shed is 41.2°, of course they are not in there but over in the shade of the cottage garden.

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Bunnings XU1 garden tools

Blower, hedge trimmer and grass trimmer selling for $79 each. Need to replace my Robyi blower so went to grab one of those but there’s only one left and it’s been opened and looks like no charger – bugger. ET … Continue reading

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Pekins growing up

The little girls (Peaches, Bella & Honey) are not so little any more.

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