Category Archives: Technology

What are they doing ?

Posted on 23/03/2016 by AlanM52

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

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Balcony PC update

Posted on 23/03/2016 by AlanM52

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

Posted on 23/03/2016 by AlanM52

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

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Balcony PC tower upgrades

Posted on 20/03/2016 by AlanM52

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

Posted on 19/03/2016 by AlanM52

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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Balcony PC upgrade ?

Posted on 05/03/2016 by AlanM52

Mulling over getting a new i7 tower to replace the Balcony PC which is a Scorptec E5200/G31M-SL2/4GB/GT210 about 8 years old. Meanwhile…we could jazz up the current one so ordered a Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz 3 MB … Continue reading →

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Balcony PC – CPU upgrade

Posted on 02/03/2016 by AlanM52

This is a Scorptec box about 7 years old with a E5200 and G31M-S2L motherboard. Purchased a E7400 off eBay for $8.90 free post from NSW – happy with that.

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Computers

Posted on 27/02/2016 by AlanM52

Mulling over getting a new i7 tower to replace the Balcony PC which is a Scorptec E5200/G31M-SL2/4GB/GT210 about 8 years old. Meanwhile…we could jazz up the current one so ordered a Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.8 GHz 3 MB … Continue reading →

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Computers continued

Posted on 27/02/2016 by AlanM52

Meanwhile in the workshop we are reviving a couple of Dell towers. One of them is a beautiful (but aging) Precision 670 workstation with dual Xeon processors but only 1GB RAM. Browsing eBay I can get typically get 4GB of … Continue reading →

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Upgrade Win7/32 to Win10/64

Posted on 26/02/2016 by AlanM52

Can I Upgrade To Windows 10 64-bit From Windows 7/8.1 32-bit

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