Lexar Jumpdrive 16GB

Impulse buy - threw this into the basket while shopping at Woolies Brandon Park. Last year put a USB 3.0 PCI card into the Balcony computer and then got a Seagate Expansion Drive 3.0 for backups - this is my first USB 3.0 stick.

Nokia C2 phone - continued

Microsoft is providing pretty good Nokia support, downloaded the latest Nokia PC Suite offering and installed to check, cleanup and backup this important mobile device.

Nokia C2 phone

Nanna phones and the impending 2G shutdown.
What about ET's phone??? I can't remember (golly) so checked her Nokia C2-01:

GSM 850 MHz Yes
GSM 900 MHz Yes ...
GSM 1800 MHz Yes
GSM 1900 MHz Yes
GPRS Yes
EDGE (EGPRS) Yes
3G (UMTS) Yes
HSDPA (3.5G) No

 

Phew...that's a relief, it actually displays 3G in the top left hand corner of the screen which both of use could not read without the aid of a magnifying glass

Keys locked in car.

She hurried to the pharmacy to get medication, got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys inside. The woman found an old rusty coat hanger left on the ground. She looked at it and said, "I don't know how to use this." She bowed her head and asked God to send her some HELP.

Within 5 minutes, a beat-up old motorcycle pulled up, driven by a bearded man who was wearing an old biker skull rag. He got off of his cycle and asked if he could help.

She said: "Yes, my daughter is sick. I've locked my keys in my car. I must get home. Please, can you use this hanger to unlock my car?" He said, "Sure." He walked over to the car and in less than a minute the car was open.

She hugged the man and through tears said, "Thank You, God, for sending me such a very nice man." The man heard her little prayer and replied, "Lady, I am NOT a nice man. I just got out of prison yesterday; I was in prison for car theft."

The woman hugged the man again, sobbing, "Oh, thank you, God! You even sent me a Professional!"

Holly 10 this year

This year Holly will be 10 years old, here are a couple from October 2007.

Easter Sunday shopping

First to market where I came across a Lite-On DVD burner $15 to replace the faulty one (only yesterday) in the Dell TGX270 that will not eject discs. Then to Springvale with flowers to visit those that have already 'crossed over' and onto Waverley Gardens where I finally found a blue tooth mouse in Big W for the Lenovo 10" tablet.

Windows 7 GWX pest

On the right is my watch list TXT file. I have Windows Update (WUA) turned off and check manually weekly. Checking this morning the 'Virus' is back again being offered as KB3035583 so once hide it but it comes back!

Holly in trouble again

Holly does this on a regular basis, this time she went to town – LOL

Dell Optiplex GX270 update

The 2GB kit arrived in the mail today from the US. Just installed and working OK, for it's age the machine runs really well.

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.

What are they doing ?

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

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 system partitions etc. Did some cleanup in Disk Management to hide stuff (see picture) so we are tidy again. Next task was to cleanup the SSD as all the user data like docs, photos videos etc is already on (what is now) the F: storage drive - the Samsung 1TB. Note that all the apps including large ones like Office 2007 Pro will stay on the SSD and as you can see from the picture we have 145GB free.

Dell memory kit

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

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 cables.

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.

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 $9.99 to $12.99.

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.

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 grabbed it and went off to find a staff person to try and do a deal.  Nice staff person say’s it's a stuff up, two batteries and no charger I'll give you a big discount on that. I also wanted the grass trimmer so we got both for $110 instead of $150.

Pekins growing up

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

Solar Magic 1.6m Black Chelsea Solar Post Light

Don’t have a charger to charge the battery (see previous post) so may as well position to get the afternoon rays.

Return faulty Solar light

While at Bunnings getting a refund to buy another solar post light the front garden we ended up coming home with some other stuff.

Purchase new solar light

With the $40 refund money from the previous Solar Magic Post Light off to Bunnings to buy the latest offering, or replacement - for $25. As usual went to pull the batteries out to charge them so we could use the light for the first nightaway. Strange...there's only one battery ??? Pulled it out to discover it's a Li-ion 14500, 3.2V @ 600mA. Oh well...back to sun light, I’ll have to research buying a charger.

Holly...in trouble again

Someone in trouble - again

Balcony PC upgrade ?

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 Cache 1066 MHz FSB LGA 775 CPU Processor from a NSW eBay guy for $8.90. If this works out I'll get a 120/250GB SSD and maybe do another CPU upgrade.

Balcony PC - CPU upgrade

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.

Dusty – farrier appointment

Had to go out today past Pakenham to Nar Nar Goon to pick up our younger daughter Natalie who’s car is in for service and then back to Cranbourne for a farrier appointment. This gave us the opportunity to see our girl Dusty again, and ET to give her hugs and kisses. Then return trip to Gooney to drop off the kid and finally on the way home again.

It’s good to see her again.